Divjakë–Karavasta · 13–17 October 2025
Open Call for Artists
The Bird Ringing & Art Residency Camp is the first ecology and art field residency in Albania, bringing together bird ringers, ecologists, anthropologists, artists, and nature observers to explore autumn migration at Divjakë–Karavasta National Park. This residency aims to promote environmental justice, weaving together sustainability, socio-biodiversity, innovation, and climate awareness. Within the vast landscapes of Divjakë–Karavasta, diverse voices will resound, to connect art and conservation, linking sustainability, socio-biodiversity, innovation, and climate awareness, across the park’s forests, lagoon, coastal dunes, and nearby agro-landscapes. Each dawn is devoted to mist-netting and ringing migratory birds (following EURING standards), while afternoons open space for cross-disciplinary exploration through drawing, photography, sound, and natural materials gathered in the field. The emphasis is on seeing, noting, and translating field experience into clear visual or narrative forms.
This camp is a collaborative and immersive program for artists and researchers working on ecology-related. It is grounded in hands-on field experience, sensitive listening to environments, and research on oral culture, folklore, and traditional knowledge. Participants will engage in creative work across ecological disciplines, including ornithology, plants, insects, amphibians, bats, small mammals, as well as bioacoustics and field recording. A group of scientists, artists, musicians, curators, ecologists, anthropologists, activists, and non-human entities will be encouraged to create together, offering new perspectives on Albania’s national parks, Protected Areas, Important Bird Areas (IBAs), Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs), candidate Emerald sites, and future Natura 2000 sites.
The program includes, field expeditions led by AOS ornithologists plenty of hours or bird ringing and guest specialists, compact workshops and discussions.
There is no participation fee. All costs related to the 5-day Bird Ringing & Art Residency Camp, including field expeditions, bird-ringing sessions, ecological activities, accommodation, meals, local transport, transfers from Tirana to Divjaka and visa -versa, and contributions from invited scientists and facilitators, are fully covered by the organizers.
To apply, please register here by 3 October.
