As part of the Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, KAVILIA hosted an educational cyanotype workshop at the Xystri Park, led by instructor Liliana Aretaion. Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that doesn’t require a darkroom and served as the perfect entry point for children aged 8 to 15 to explore the interplay of light, matter, and image. Using photosensitive paper, natural objects, and UV light from the sun, participants created unique photograms while gaining a hands-on understanding of visual composition and light sensitivity.
The workshop extended beyond technical skill-building. While their works dried, participants engaged in a discussion about the history of light-sensitive materials and how photography evolved into cinema. This layered experience empowered children to see image-making as both artistic expression and documentation, fostering their awareness of visual media as a tool for storytelling, memory, and creativity.
The significance of this workshop lies in its ability to blend creativity with environmental awareness and group learning. KAVILIA successfully delivered a participatory educational experience that bridged science and art, individual exploration and collective effort—demonstrating how culture and hands-on learning can inspire new ways of seeing, understanding, and interacting with the world.
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.