Natura MusArte is introducing its new
Rewilding the Artist Program
this summer from 23–31 July 2026
"Rewilding the Artist
"Rewilding the Artist
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Rewilding the Artist is a 9-day immersive program to (re)discover the wild heartbeat of your creativity.
Set inside a forested ravine with a river and thermal springs - nature will be your collaborator as you observe and challenge the way you work, uncover dormant potential, disrupt your familiar processes and find new pathways into your imagination and creative instincts.
This is a space for exploration, cross-fertilization, and innovation rather than training of discipline specific skills.
The program will take place in the unique natural landscape of Aridea Springs, Northern Greece,
and is organized by its artistic team.
We welcome artists and creatives of diverse practices and disciplines.
Natura MusArte 2026
WORKFLOW & PRACTICES
WORKFLOW & PRACTICES
Guided by experienced facilitators and invited guests, you will engage in daily hands-on exercises, creative explorations, challenges, and reflective practices.
You’ll work individually and collaboratively, sometimes within your own creative medium and other times experimenting with an unfamiliar one.
The emphasis is on process, on allowing uncertainty, exchange, playfulness and the more than human world to lead you on a discovery path, to ask:
Where does my work become most alive—and most daring?
What remains when I strip my practice of expectation?
What shifts when I create with the intention to fail rather than to succeed?
What happens if I disrupt my preferred working processes?
How can immersion in nature enhance my instincts and intuition?
How does experimenting in a different medium reflect on my own craft/discipline
MANIFESTING INTENTION
On the first day of the program, you will be invited to set a personal intention, which can be re-shaped whenever necessary.
Alongside the main program you will also have the time and opportunity to manifest this intention through a piece of work in progress, either within your own creative medium or in a new one, alone or with fellow participants.
Meet the Team
FACILITATORS
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Evangelia Velli-Kosma
FOUNDER
Evangelia is the founder of Natura MusArte and an accomplished composer and conductor, with awards from Greece and the United States. She is currently the director of the Municipal Conservatories in Edessa and Aridea, where she also teaches.In 2017, she completed her research developing a prototype method she named the Nuclear System. It is based on the principles of nature and the physics of sound, and has applications in composition, musical installations, and teaching.
In her youth, she was a Chief Air Scout.
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Marlene Kaminsky
Marlene is a creative conceptor and award-winning theatre maker with extensive experience in diverse forms of live performance.
While living in London she founded International Theatre Cross Roads which facilitated international artist exchanges.
She is also certified in Wilderness Pedagogy and has completed level 1 in Animal Communication. She has lived and worked in four countries and speaks German, English and Greek.
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Thalia-Mari Papadopoulou
Thalia-Mari is a choreographer, musician, and pianist trained in musical and physical theatre.
She is also a yoga instructor and performer of classical Indian dance theatre and Sufi whirling and has founded Musical Arts on Stage (MAS), in collaboration with Trinity University in England.
Alongside her artistic work, she is a mountain guide who integrates art education, hiking, and nature-based learning in outdoor settings. She is the founder of Drys and is certified in first aid.
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Paris Chatzigiannis
Paris is a visual artist and multidisciplinary creator whose work bridges fine arts, theatre, and moving image. His work has been presented in exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Working across painting, encaustic art and audiovisual media, he explores storytelling through lighting design, theatre-scenography, sound and cinematography-documentary filmmaking, combines visual aesthetics with narrative expression.
Alongside his visual arts practice, Paris has worked for many years as an art educator, fostering creativity through teaching, workshops, and public presentations.
INVITED GUESTS
PARTICIPATION DETAILS
you have either at least two years of professional experience (no age limit)
you have completed your studies, or are in your final year of studies (at least 20 years old)
Amateurs who have been active for the last five years are also welcome (at least 23 years old)
You can book a place if:
Maximum of 16 participants
In order to create a multidisciplinary environment, we will accept participants from creative or artistic mediums, such as music, theatre, film, photography, dance, sculpture, writers, fine arts, but also architecture, fashion and advertisement.
The program will be held in Greek and English.
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