2025 in person FAIRE gathering

Thursday 25 – Friday 26 September 2025

We’re looking forward to seeing you for the annual in person FAIRE Members Meeting. This year held in collaboration with Life on a Leaf Residency and the Turku Residency Network.

Event programme

25 September 2025
Location: Taiteen Talo, Turku (access information here)
Start Time: 11:00
End Time: 18:00

Join us for a day of workshops, talks and networking with fellow residency organisers and stakeholders. There will be updates on FAIRE’s activities, as well as opportunity to feed in to the network’s future direction and activities. The day will also include presentations from regional residency networks, and training on Cultural Safety for Artist Residencies (see below). We hope the day will be useful and inspiring!

Coffee and lunch will be provided. A joint dinner location will be organised in the evening for those staying overnight in Turku for the following days’ programme.

26 September 2025
Location: Various – meet at Taiteen Talo at 12:00
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 17:30

Visit residency centres in the area: including Life on a Leaf, Taattinen Artist Residency and Titanik. The bus will pick us up from central Turku to visit 3 residencies in the region and drop us back off in the centre of Turku by 17:30pm

You can choose to participate in one or both days when you register. The language of the meeting will be English. If this is a barrier for you, please let us know.

Should you have any questions in advance of the event, please contact Emma on emma@hiap.fi

We look forward to seeing you in Turku!

Cultural Safety for Artist Residencies Workshop

Led by Kemê Pellicer

“Cultural Safety for Artist Residencies” is an introductory session aimed to spark curiosity, build a foundational understanding of cultural safety, and inspire residency organisers to view their work through a new lens, equipping them with immediate, practical first steps to create residencies where all artists, from Finland and abroad, feel respected, valued, and empowered.
Kemê Pellicer (She/Her/Kemê) is a polydisciplinary artist, poet, parent, and facilitator based in Helsinki, striving for an antiracist and intersectional feminist praxis. She has collaborated with numerous Nordic art and culture organisations to build and implement DEIB practices, broadening understandings of migration, multiple identities, and norm-critical thinking through education, advisory work, and artistic processes.