Magnolia Art Residency, Houle Program 2026, hosted six artists and activists from diverse backgrounds, presenting a multidisciplinary artistic program featuring film screenings, workshops, exhibition, and discussions. Rooted in memory, identity, Indigenous heritage, and creative resistance, the program explored art as a means of reclaiming narratives, challenging erasure, and resisting systems of oppression.  

 Wednesday September 23, 2026
6pm: Self- defense workshop
8pm: blending electro Libyan rhythms and Islamic spiritual sounds

Building on our exploration of memory and the body, we invite you for an evening of physical empowerment, boundary setting, and collective sound at Magnolia Art Residency. We will begin with a practical self-defense seminar led by Muay Thai instructor and yoga teacher Dimitra Xypolia to build spatial awareness, stress management, and trust in our body’s strength.
 

Afterward, Taziri El-Omrani artist in residence at MAR will experiment music as a new form of expression. Taziri started exploring different forms during her stay in Eresos.

 

Saturday September 12, 2026
7:30pm: film by Taziri El-Omrani followed by a Q&A session @OM Eresos- Scala

Tuesday, August 25th
8:30 pm: Walking exhibition including sketches alongside Amazigh calligraphy work, bridging visual lines with living memory.
9:30 pm: Screening of a short video created during the residency, followed by a talk on Amazigh culture and other oppressed identities.

You are warmly invited to join our artists in residence : @thatsme_inthecorner and @taziri.elomrani for an evening of multilingual readings in Amazigh, Farsi, Modern Greek, a forgotten Greek dialect, French, and Arabic, alongside multidisciplinary artistic interventions that introduce and celebrate Indigenous heritage, creativity, and resistance. This gathering is an act of solidarity against the ongoing, violent, and systematic campaigns to erase Amazigh culture across North Africa.

Reclaiming our art, languages, and histories is our ultimate act of resistance. ⵣ

 

Thursday, July 30th
You’re warmly invited to an evening with our artists in residence @thatsme_inthecorner(Tunisian curator and artist) and @cindychehab(Lebanese filmmaker and film curator), for an evening of a zine-making workshop, film screenings, discussion, and a Cameroonian dinner.

5:30 PM: Zine Workshop
8:00 PM: Public Event
A heartwarming Cameroonian dinner prepared by Lucie, from LGBTQ+ Lesvos Solidarity.

9:00 PM: Film Screening
Three short films from Tunisia and Albania:

I Hate Taxis (Bachir Tayachi) @bachir_tayachi
We Are All Mad Here (Bochra Triki)
A Game of Chess (Enxhi Noni) @enxhinoni

 

Friday, July 10
An evening of films exploring the fragile relationship between memory and the archive. These works explore the marks of erasure, displacement, and loss through the history of the Chouf Villages massacres in Lebanon. The films investigate how we remember what has been erased, what memories and traces remain after violence, and how images attempt to preserve the lives that history threatens to forget.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with the Artist in residence Cindy Chehab (@cindychehab )

 

Saturday June 13
To RESIST AND CREATE In times of genocide
A conversation with Palestinian visual artists Reem and Majd Masri @reemmasri @majd_masri3

11AM @ the Municipal event space, Scala Eresos

Magnolia Art Residency (MAR) & Theros Academy @theroseacademy2026 invite you into a space of dialogue with Reem and Majd Masri @dama_space, visual artists from Palestine and currently residents at MAR, whose work is rooted in the lived realities of occupation, displacement, belonging and resilience. Through stories, artworks, and personal reflections, they will share experiences shaped by decades of occupation.

Born in Jerusalem in 1991, Reem and Majd Masri were until the age of ten prohibited from traveling beyond the territory imposed by the israeli occupation. Their artistic practices explore the relationship between landscape, memory, and self-perception, revealing tensions between the visible and the invisible, the permanence and the fluid. Alongside their artistic work, both sisters teach art in institutions across Palestine.

Last year, Reem and Majd were unable to attend Magnolia Art residency after being denied visas. Their presence in Eresos this year is a statement of persistence and collective resistance.