Photo: Mihail Novakov
We ended May with a bang with our second edition of SPRINTS, a weekend-long creative bootcamp exploring the intersection of human rights and visual arts. It’s part of our Fine Acts Laboratories where we play and experiment with how we can improve our human rights talk.
SPRINTS 2.0 focused on LGBT+ rights, specifically exploring issues around homophobia and coming out (see exhibition gallery). We will hold more thematic events by the end of 2019 on issues covering freedom of speech and more.
Photo: Yana Lozeva
Photo: Mihail Novakov
Powerful visual content not only drives coverage but also fosters empathy and pushes engagement. But NGOs and activists often lack the capacity and resources to make their work or campaigns visible. SPRINTS supports campaigners across the world with compelling visual works that can be used and adapted.
In SPRINTS, visual artists have just 48 hours to produce artworks that range from posters and postcards to GIFs and videos. The works are then presented at a pop-up exhibition and made available online on The Ammo, our free vault with carefully curated socially engaged visual content, open to anyone to use or adapt non commercially.
Participants in SPRINTS 2.0:
Radina Gancheva, Vesselina Nikolaeva – photographers; Sevda Semer – visual artist; Aglika Spassova, Yasen Zgurovski, Teo Georgiev, Teodor Genov – illustrators; Ilian Iliev, Viktoria Nesheva – graphic designers; Elizaveta Angelova – typographer; Zhelez Atanasov and Vladi Gerasimov – videomakers.
The second edition of Fine Acts Sprints would not be possible without our partners Friedrich Naumann Foundation Southeast Europe and the general support of Open Society Foundations. The event was also supported by GLAS Foundation, Cosmos Coworking Camp, TimeHeroes, Trastena Wines, Finlandia Vodka, Ailyak Beer.