Events
Seen and Heard was established in 2024. Since then we have continued to organise a wide range of events and workshops in schools, colleges and universities in Germany, Malta and Poland.
Below you will find details of our forthcoming events. Scroll down further for information on events which have already occurred. You can also learn more about past events in our blog or on our gallery page.
coming events
Amnesty International Human Rights Education Teacher Training Programme
This interactive workshop will support teachers in introducing children’s rights in the classroom in a way that is creative, age-appropriate and empowering.
The workshop will focus on how to engage children and youth in topics such as freedom of expression, the right to protest, and youth participation, using literature and storytelling as key tools.
Through practical exercises and shared experiences, participants will explore how to foster spaces where children can express themselves, organize around issues they care about, and take meaningful action. You’ll leave the workshop with ready-to-use methods and educational resources for developing students’ rights awareness and supporting their voices.
23 October 2025
Audience: Educators
ONLINE
annual conference: Young People’s Voices and Freedom of Expression
The conference will reflect academic diversity and host studies from across different fields of research and practice, academic methods, and cultural backgrounds.
We welcome proposals for individual papers as well as panels.
We particularly encourage graduate students, early-career scholars, artists, activists, educators, and practitioners to apply.
5-7 February 2026
Audience: Academics, Educators, Activists, Artists, Students
VALLETTA, MALTA
Watch this space to keep up to date with our events programme as it unfolds in the coming months
past events
Storytelling Workshop, In Our Hands: How to Find Your Voice through Creativity, with Sita Brahmachari
Sita Brahmachari shared her experiences from working in youth theatre, literature and communities with young people and families to find their voices as writers, artists, activists and creatives.
The characters in Sita’s children and Young Adult novels struggle to make themselves seen and heard in real or imagined worlds, but through individual or communal efforts, do eventually discover the power that is in their hands to make small and big changes for the better.
Workshop participants were invited to step into these characters’ shoes, discuss their child rights and consider connections to their own lives. Participants were invited to write, sketch and create banners and ‘In our Hands’ artwork about the child rights they felt passionate about protecting.
9-12 October 2024
VALLETTA, MALTA
Workshops: Illustrating Protest, with Chris Riddell
These workshops were led by Chris Riddell, a multi-award winning artist and one of the UK’s top contemporary illustrators and cartoonists. He is often celebrated for his inclusion of themes of ‘otherness’ and tolerance in books for young audiences without ever becoming didactic or pedantic.
His own books include the highly-acclaimed Ottoline titles and the 2013 Costa Children’s Book Award-winning Goth Girl.
Chris was appointed the UK Children’s Laureate in 2015 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in children’s literature.
July-December 2024
Audience: Project participants aged 12-14
ONLINE: MALTA, GERMANY AND POLAND
Launch of Seen and Heard
What is creative protest and how can it, as a genre, make young people’s voices heard?
During this transnational meeting, we explored creative protests, young people’s rights, and their understanding of freedom of expression through various artistic media, including docuseries production, comic book illustration, slam poetry, and community theatre.
Participating artists included: Kate Coleman, Charlie Cauchi, Uli Decker, Ed Dingli, Grips Theatre, and Hamburger Bahnhof.
12-15 February 2024
Audience: Project consortium
BERLIN, GERMANY
