Workshops

Collage Workshop with Zane Shumeiko
Thursday, 5 November · 18:00–20:30 · EKA Lab of Taste, B407, Põhja puiestee 7, 10412 Tallinn, Estonia.

Artist Zane Shumeiko will lead a collage workshop exploring the idea of repair, in collaboration with members of Haabersti Klubimaja, a community space that offers connection and support to people living with mental health challenges.

Through collage and interventions on photographs, we will reflect on what repair can mean. You are welcome to bring personal photographs to work with, or use the materials provided. There will be tea and cake.

Limited spots – Materials included – The event is free, but there will be a donation box at the event in case you want to leave a donation. All donations will revert to the members of Haabersti Klubimaja

ART, LOVE & REPAIR  initiatives are part of an ongoing PhD research of Lígia Fernandes, examining artists working within mental healthcare organizations. Beyond asking how art can support well-being, the project opens to a broader question: what can we all—artists, participants, and the public—learn about repair through artistic collaboration with mental healthcare spaces?

The events are organised in collaboration with Laura Liventaal and Mari-Liis Kupri.

If you you you are curious, you are very welcome to join the last two events of the series!

About Haabersti Klubimaja (Clubhouse): A Clubhouse is a community-based space where people with mental illness come together through shared activities, work, and social life—supporting a sense of belonging, dignity, and mutual support.

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On 16–17 October, MängudeÖÖ Conference 2026 will bring together game developers, designers, composers, VR/AR enthusiasts, marketers, and other creative industry professionals from Estonia and abroad.

On Friday, 16 October, the conference takes over the stages at T1 Venue, featuring more than 20 game industry experts and creative professionals across two parallel stages.

This year’s speakers include internationally renowned game industry expert Rami Ismail (Nuclear Throne, Ridiculous Fishing), Mike Klubnika, creator of Buckshot Roulette, and Simon Landry, Grammy Award-winning Music Supervisor at Ubisoft.

On Saturday, you can explore the domestic games competing for the “Estonian Game of the Year 2026” title, and on October 17, workshops and masterclasses await, organized in collaboration with the EKA New Media Department. You can find more information about the conference at https://mangudeoo.ee/konverents

Use the code ARTUN20 to get a 20% discount on the MängudeÖÖ conference student ticket!

Saturday Workshops and Masterclasses

Saturday’s programme offers opportunities to gain practical skills, develop your own game projects, and explore different aspects of game creation. All workshops are held in English. A MängudeÖÖ Conference ticket is required to participate. Places are limited, and advance registration is required.

Rami Ismail Masterclass

17 October, 11:00–16:00 | Estonian Academy of Arts, Room A-302

Internationally recognised independent game developer and industry ambassador Rami Ismail invites participants to bring their finished game, prototype, or game pitch for an in-depth workshop.

Together, participants will analyse their projects, identify their strengths, explore opportunities for improvement, and discuss how to communicate their ideas more clearly while highlighting what makes their games unique.

Participants will receive tailored feedback and practical suggestions for their next development steps.

• Facilitator: Rami Ismail
• Duration: 5 hours
• Places: 40

Please bring your laptop and game project if possible.

Godot Game Engine for Beginners

17 October, 11:00–16:00 | Estonian Academy of Arts, Room B-313

Interested in making games but not sure where to start? This hands-on workshop introduces the Godot game engine and its core mechanics.

Designed for participants with little or no previous experience, the workshop provides the foundational knowledge needed to continue experimenting with Godot independently and begin developing more complex game concepts.

• Workshop facilitator: Filemon Aufort
• Duration: 5 hours
• Places: 9

The Art of the Pitch: Best Practices and Insights into the Creative Brief with Simon Landry (Ubisoft)

17 October, 12:00–16:00 | Music Estonia, Telliskivi 60a/1

How does music shape the atmosphere, emotion, and storytelling of a video game? And how can you present your musical ideas in a way that responds to a game’s creative vision?

Ubisoft Music Supervisor Simon Landry will introduce key music theory concepts and share insights from his experience working on major video game projects at Ubisoft. The workshop explores how a creative brief informs a composer’s decisions and how musical ideas can be presented effectively.

Participants will also have the opportunity to share their own game music, receive feedback, and exchange ideas with others.

• Facilitator: Simon Landry
• In collaboration with: Tier Music

Bring your own game music and join an open discussion about what makes musical ideas work!

From Idea to VR Game World in Three Hours

17 October, 13:00–16:00 | Estonian Academy of Arts, Room A-403

Curious about how virtual reality game worlds are created? In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore i-Game’s new World Builder tool for creating VR game environments.

In addition to learning how to use the tool, participants will have the opportunity to share feedback and contribute to the platform’s development.

The workshop is suitable for beginners as well as experienced VR developers interested in exploring a new tool and comparing it with other platforms they have used.

• Workshop facilitator: Piibe Nõmm, Estonian National Museum
• Duration: 3 hours
• Places: 40

Please bring your laptop if possible.

20% Discount for Students!

MängudeÖÖ Conference offers students the opportunity to attend at a discounted rate. Use the discount code ARTUN20 when purchasing your student conference ticket to receive 20% off.

Conference Information and Registration

MängudeÖÖ Conference 2026

16–17 October 2026
Tallinn, Estonia

Friday’s conference programme takes place at T1 Venue, while Saturday’s workshops are held at the Estonian Academy of Arts and Music Estonia.

Explore the full programme, ticket options, and registration details:

https://mangudeoo.ee/konverents

Conference event and workshop registration

See you at MängudeÖÖ Conference!

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On September 10, the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) will host a spectacular finale of the iron casting course at the Raja Street outdoor studio, where metal will be cast and creative and technological experiments completed during the course will be presented. Over 40 students and professionals from Estonia and abroad will participate in the international course.

Iron casting is primarily common in heavy industry, but despite its complexity, artists and designers are also involved in it. In the pursuit of efficiency and clear definitions, such areas between the highly standardized and the creative-experimental tend to disappear, but in order to maintain cultural integrity, it is important to keep these spaces – to maintain existing competencies and at the same time strengthen diversity.

The course, which will take place from August 31 to September 11, will explore iron casting technologies at different levels – starting with learning about iron casting as a basic metalworking technology and its various processes, and moving on to metal alloys, technological possibilities and creative experiments on different scales.

The course is attended by students from EKA and other higher education institutions, as well as professionals from Estonia and abroad. Among the participants are students from Germany, Sweden, Norway and Japan, as well as students from EKA’s jewellery and blacksmithing, craft studies and contemporary art departments, and Erasmus students. Professionals have come to the course from, among others, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Germany and the United States.

The course is supervised by Nils Hint (EKA) and David Snoo Wilson (UK). The technological research is being conducted by lecturers from Ostrova University of Technology and Riga Academy of Arts, artist Peter Bauhuis from Germany and members of the international iron casting organization ICCCIA.

On Thursday, September 10 at 6:00 PM, the public final of the course will take place at the EKA’s Raja Street outdoor studio.

The iron casting course has been held at EKA since 2016. Over the past ten years, Estonian iron casting practice has become increasingly visible in Estonia, Europe and internationally. As a next important step, the EKA Department of Jewelry and Blacksmithing, in cooperation with ICCCIA, will organize an international iron casting symposium in Tallinn in 2028.

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On 2 October from 13.00–15.00, the Disainiöö programme at Põhjala Factory will host “Sustainable Textile Counselor: A New Learning Opportunity in the Textile Sector”, introducing a new international educational initiative focused on supporting sustainable transformation in the textile sector.

The textile industry faces an urgent need for new knowledge, skills and approaches to make production and consumption more sustainable. The Sustainable Textile Counselor (STC) project offers a practical learning pathway for professionals who want to support companies and organisations in developing more sustainable textile practices.

The event will introduce the STC project and its independent learning opportunities, while also exploring what it means to work as a sustainable textile counselor. The event will also celebrate the completion of Estonia’s first STC pilot programme, with diplomas presented to the newly trained counselors.

The programme will conclude with a hands-on workshop led by the new sustainable textile counselors. Participants will have the opportunity to explore practical approaches, knowledge and methods developed during the pilot programme.

The event is free and open to everyone interested in sustainable textiles.

Põhjala Factory
2 October
13.00–15.00

More information: https://www.sustainabletextilecounselor.com/

The event is organised by DiMa, EKA’s Circular Design and Materials Research Group.

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As part of the exhibition “Mythbústers”, a comic-themed workshop for students will be held on Friday, September 4 from 2 to 4 pm, led by Emmi Valve. The workshop will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but places are limited (up to 20 participants). Please register here.

More information about the exhibition “Mythbústers”.

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Join the NART resident artists for an evening dedicated to the artistic side/perspectives of Narva. The event is held at Narva Artist Residency (Joala 18, 20103, Narva, Estonia).

Programme all evening:

⎆ Installation “Firewall” – Vitalli Shupliak
⎆ Virtual installation “If These Walls Could Speak” – Bart Kuipers

17:00 Welcome with soup, bread, and snacks!

17:15 Tour of the installation “Firewall” by Vitalii Shupliak
Vitalli Shupliak works primarily with video installation, painting, and performance and will present video work and an installation based on his modular spatial installation “Firewall”, that is scheduled to be built in Narva later this year.

Liso Stec (BY) is a curator and researcher exploring the context of Narva and the artistic potential of NART.

18:00 Workshop “Writing the Poetry of Narva” by Bart Kuipers
Bart Kuipers is a poet and multimedia artist and is looking to write the poetry of Narva together with people who know Narva the best!

19:00: Artist talk “Artistic Unlearning in Narva” and discussion by Yulia Krivich
Yulia Krivich is a visual artist and scholar. In her artist talk, she will present her research on how visual culture shapes identity, memory, and belonging in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union space, inviting us to unlearn inherited ways of seeing and imagine different futures.

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You are invited to listen to how The Circular Design and Materials Research Group (DiMa) got its start, what we are working on today, what projects are currently underway and what the future holds.

Let’s see what impact DiMa’s research and development work has created over the years, both in Estonia and internationally. We will also take a closer look at the journey of the UPMADE platform, which grew out of DiMa’s activities, and its first major steps in the international market.

Margaret Aus, senior researcher at DiMa, and Triin Siimer, project manager, and Jeanine Ballone, founder of World Collective and UPMADE’s business model advisor, will talk about the work and experiences of the research group.

The event will be held in English.

Schedule:

15:00 Welcome
15:05 DiMa – who are we, what have we done so far and where are we going?
15.30 Introduction to the UPMADE platform and plans
16.00 Discussion and questions
16.30 Closing

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On Wednesday, September 2 at 4–6 pm, as part of the exhibition “The Island of Girls” at EKA Gallery, artist and designer Katya Lesiv (@katya.lesiv) will share her practice and work over tea. During the conversation, we will drink tea together, sit around the table, and talk.

The event is free, but places are limited (up to 20 participants). Please register in advance here.

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Katya Lesiv currently lives and works between Ukraine and Finland. Her practice explores cyclicality, physicality, emotional and sensitive experience, and motherhood. She works across photography, artist books, installation, objects, text, graphics, and moving image. Performative methods, often rooted in everyday rituals, allow her to encapsulate and share intimate experiences while safeguarding personal space. The body of the book often serves as the final form of her work.

Lesiv’s work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Ukraine, Finland, and the Netherlands, as well as in curated group exhibitions internationally. Her photobook Lullaby 1 was included among the top 100 photobooks in How We See: Photobooks by Women, selected by 10×10 Photobooks. Her book I Love You was shortlisted for the Aperture PhotoBook Awards in 2022. In 2024, she was nominated by ISSP to join the FUTURES Photography Platform. Lesiv is a member of the Association of Photographic Artists in Finland and the Finnish Darkroom Association.

Read more about the exhibition here.

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On August 22 and 24 at 6pm, a communal dinner and embroidery workshop will take place part of the exhibition “The Island of Girls”.

Food will be prepared using recipes created by Aly Sparkling Beveridge (@alysparklingbeveridge). The food is prepared and the workshop is led by Helena Atkin, Mariia Chudna and Daria Titova.

The table will become a place to share food, recipes, stories, and fairy tales about resistance, survival, home, and escape. Guests will also contribute to a shared embroidered tablecloth, stitching onto it the things they wish to leave behind. As the dinners continue, the tablecloth will grow with the stories of the people who gathered around it.

You don’t need to bring a story or know what you want to say. You can come to share, listen, eat, embroid, or simply sit at the table.

The dinners are free, but places are limited (up to 10 participants). Please register for one of the two evenings in advance here.

Read more about the exhibition here.

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EKA students, staff, alumni and friends; join us for (re)building EKA aed behind K10 building under the oak tree. We will work to initiate the beginnings of a new garden site, this one-day event (with some additional preparation days if you feel like it!) will be a starting point, somewhere to lay down our roots, take up space within the institution’s expanding campus, and dream of ways the garden can unfold and grow. 

Throughout the day we’ll spend time building a garden; practically, poetically and politically.. 

Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Materials and plants will also be provided, but if there is anything specific that you want to plant we welcome you to bring seeds/plants. 

You are welcome to join whether you would like to be involved in the garden’s future, have been involved in its past, or if you just want to spend a mid-summers Sunday under the oak tree; the garden will be passed between hands year after year.

All welcome, no experience necessary. 

Please sign up for the garden day here: https://tally.so/r/PdrNYP

Day content:

• 10-10.30: Arriving, simple breakfast and introductions 
• 10.30-11.45: reading together (excerpts of texts that cover various garden-foundations: compost, seeds, the commons, poetics/politics of community gardens)
• 11.45-13.00: filling raised beds with compost, mulch
• 13:00-14.00: lunch
• 14:00-14:45: A notion to the future gardeners (yourselves or others) – manifesto, a list, a promise, an intention, a hope, 
• 14:45-15.15: planting plants/seeds
• 15:15-16:15: A holding space (rug decoration, from the previous activity)
• 16:15-1700: final reflections, tidying up, ending.

One-day workshop is led by Jake Shepherd and Yvette Bathgate and funded by Transform4Europe.

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