Contemporary craft is changing rapidly. Today, being a crafter is no longer only about creating beautiful objects — it is also about sustainability, storytelling, circular practices, and the ability to connect creativity with new international opportunities. That is exactly the idea behind the upcoming Craft Academy in Greece, organized by CUBE NGO within the framework of the European project CraftWork4All, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme. The academy invites craft

Some conflicts do not end when the violence stops.They continue quietly — inside families, cities, classrooms, communities, and memory itself. The Erasmus+project Roots & Routes was born from this difficult space: the question of how dialogue can exist in societies marked by fear, polarization, silence, or inherited trauma. Not dialogue as a political slogan, but as something fragile, human, and deeply uncomfortable. How do people begin speaking again after years of division?

At ARTE.M, we contributed by integrating art therapy approaches, particularly in the context of working with refugees, migrants, and people who have experienced displacement.

Within the framework of the CraftWork4All project, we continue exploring what a craft happening can really be — not just a workshop, but a living process of collaboration, experimentation, and shared learning between artists and the public. This edition — Madeira Viva: Sustainable Mosaic — brought together two very different yet deeply connected practices. Nataliia Delibazoglo (Portugal), a crafter and art therapist, works at the intersection of creativity and psychology — us