UrbanApa continues with the platform for feminist leadership.
In spring 2026, UrbanApa produces the eight edition of the platform for feminist leadership. The platform is based on peer learning, and it aims to support participants in their own work and attempts to practice feminist leadership. The frame for learning consists of seven meetings that intend to allow broader contemplation on feminist tools, leadership, and structures. The goal is to summon artists to share and discuss, to empower, to increase understanding of structures and their limitations, and to provide tools for more feminist and inclusive practices, as well as to collectively dream about potential futures. We all have know-how to share. By gathering, and bringing that know-how forth, we create the platform for feminist leadership together.
The workshops will be held once every three weeks or once a month (March– June and August – October 2027, one two-day residency in Fall 2027). The duration of each session is five hours (incl. lunch break), which consists of a lecture, a primer or introduction of the topic, and the follow-up exercises and discussions.
The platform is facilitated by Sonya Lindfors and Olga Palo and the lecturers are experts from the fields of art, leadership, and feminism. The participants shall also reserve some time for independent work outside the workshops (reading articles and reflecting); either individually, or together with other participants.
The working language on the platform is English.
Tentative topics
- What is feminist leadership?
- How to redefine leadership?
- Frictions and fictions – How to work in more feminist ways within hierarchical structures?
- Power and responsibility – influence and wellbeing
- Sustainability – ethical, social, and environmental
- Conflicts and solving them
- Taste and vision – whose vision guides collective work?
- Facilitation – how to create circumstances for learning and collaboration?
- Inclusivity and diversity – safer spaces
- Leadership and dreaming – what could the future art field be like?
- Communication as leadership – what could feminist communication culture be like?
We are searching for a diverse group of artists or professionals working in the sector of arts and culture, who work with directing, facilitating, curating or leadership in one way or another, and are interested in feminist ways of working. We are mainly looking for people who work or live in Finland, but other applications are also taken into account.
In case we receive loads of applications, we aim to choose participants who form a diverse, multivoiced group and prioritize applicants who don’t have access to similar content at the moment.
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