As Peace Studies Masters students, we have been exploring metaphors that can symbolise aspects of conflict engagement and/or peacebuilding. I chose play, and facilitated a 10 minute game for my...
In December 2021 during a French lesson at the Institut Français in Saint-Louis, I found myself sitting beside a Catholic nun recently arrived from India. Both J. and I were...
In early spring 2022, during her 'sabbatical' in Senegal, Arts Lab director, Sara Downham-Lotto, was given a studio space at Dakar’s Village des Arts, where over a period of a...
Matt O’Halloran & Sara Downham-Lotto with Significant Seams - Summer 2021
Arts-based holiday programme for vulnerable teenagers, inspired by nature and collaboration.
'Exploring making, ecology, and connections between individuals, community and...
Burn the Curtain & Sara Downham-Lotto - Spring-Autumn 2021
Community cohesion.
‘Celebrating the extraordinary and the everyday, the places we love, and our hopes and dreams'. Burn the Curtain
During the spring, summer and...
In early spring 2022, Arts Lab’s Sara Downham-Lotto, was given studio space at Dakar’s Village des Arts in Senegal. Over the course of a couple of months, she created her...
These Peace Buidlings were collaboratively-put-together by 2nd year students of Peace and Conflict studies in Huye (Butare), Rwanda in the summer of 2023. One of several activities Sara designed around...