The Institute for Multi-Species-Singing is a temporary, moist gathering where participants create singable patterns from the sounds and stories of wetlands, guided by ornithologist Vytautas Eigirdas and poet Yasmeen Al-Qaisi, who invite deep listening, vocal experimentation, and sensorial connection with the bog and its beings.

At the Aukštumala workshop, participants explored 9,000 years of peatland history—tracing its transformation from post-glacial wetland to raised bog, uncovering ecological layers and human impact through peat stratigraphy, vegetation, and archaeology.

At Aukštumala peatbog, where humans settled over 12,000 years ago, archaeological discoveries reveal how early communities adapted to a shifting landscape at the dawn of the Holocene.

The workshop Mapping Multi-Species Peatland Perspectives invited participants to explore a drained wetland through the senses and perspectives of non-human beings, creating ephemeral, living maps that challenged human-centered ways of seeing and knowing the landscape.

Through collage-making as time archaeology, we begin by listening to the quiet voice of the Baltoji Vokė peat bog, layering memory and imagination to ask: what would it mean if the swamps came back?

In a field workshop blending acoustic ecology, speculative research, and participatory ritual, Kim Bode and Dr. Dr. Kallia Kefala invited participants to attune to the raised bog of Aukštumala as a living archive—listening for the presence of Dainėja through shifting signals, crafting symbolic offerings, and returning gesture and voice to the wetland in a shared act of attention and reciprocity.

The Venice Agreement, translated through the making of reed hanging gardens, becomes a living manifesto that grounds global peatland protection in the local knowledge and ancestral relations of the Aukštumala Raised Bog.

The four artistic workshops from the series PEAToresk: Artistic Perspectives on the Drained Peatland Meadows near Greifswald are related to peatlands and landscapes. The en plein air workshops will take place in the Polder Steinbeckervorstadt from May 25 to September 8, 2024.

Lene Schwarz invites her participants to explore the “quiet greatness” of nature and the traces of its human shaping. The watercolor painting workshop with Lene Schwarz will take place on May 25, 2024, from 2 - 6 pm.

What is the relationship between the peatland landscape, nature, and humans? The en plein air workshop with Anett Simon on May 26, 2024, from 11 am to 6 pm invites interested participants to develop individual answers.

Juliane Tübke and Alison Darby explore ways to transform the vegetation of the Steinbecker Vorstadt Polder into sustainable materials. An experimental peatland workshop with the artists on June 22, 2024 from 1 to 6 pm.

What can we learn from landscapes and bodies of water? A creative writing workshop in the peatland with the poet Siljarosa Schletterer on June 23, 2024, from 2 pm to 6 pm will look into answers to this question.