Ac/kademie is a new discussion series that is broadcast alternately from the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Rijksakademie. Ac/kademie is a new series of conversations about art and artistic work. In the series, international artists discuss their own artistic processes, thinking and starting points as artists with students of the Academy of Fine Arts. Ac/kademie creates an informal setting for peer-to-peer exchange and community building among visual artists at different stages of their careers as well as art enthusiast around the world. The discussions will be broadcast as webinars alternately from two renowned post-academies in the Netherlands, the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Rijksakademie. The conversations artists-in-residence of these academies. Ac/kademie is organized in cooperation with Uniarts Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts and the Saastamoinen Foundation. Anyone interested in art is welcome to follow the discussions online or at the Academy of Fine Arts main building, Sörnäisten rantatie 19. The discussions are in English, and the event will be recorded. Ac/kademie conversations in Autumn 2021 Wednesday 22.9. at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 1: Xigagueta: Rituals for the New Moon Read more and follow the Webinar Wednesday 27.10. at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 2: North Sea Tales Read more and follow the Webinar Wednesday 17.11. at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 3: Place/s of Return Read more and follow the Webinar Ac/kademie conversations in Spring 2021: 9.2., 16.3., 6.4., and 4.5. Wednesday 9.2. at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 4: Art as Social Practice Read more and follow the Webinar Wednesday 16.3.2022 at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 5: The Tree That Grew Out of My Womb Read more and follow the Webinar Wednesday 6.4.2022 at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 6: From the Global South with Love Read more and follow the Webinar Wednesday 4.5.2022 at 5 p.m. Ac/kademie 7: Long Hanging Fruits: Myths and Matter of the Oil Palm Complex For more information: https://www.uniarts.fi/en/events/online-ac-kademie-conversation-series/ Photo by: Sean Kuhnke http://www.seankuhnke.com/