Using arts and storytelling

as a tool for social change

Walk with us – apply today

Art & Nature Walks Together – Apply Now for a free Erasmus experience! What’s this about? Art and Nature Walks Together” is an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange project that aims to reconnect young people with the natural world through the power of artistic expression. We will host 25 youth and 5 group leaders over one week […]

Art and Nature Walks receives the greenlight

X-arts will be hosting 25 youth from across Europe in November! We’re beyond excited about the “Art and Nature Walks Together” project.  In a world that’s becoming increasingly fast-paced and digitally connected, many young people are ironically growing more disconnected from the natural environment. “Art and Nature Walks Together” is an Erasmus+ youth exchange project […]

Exhibition: A living archive of the stories of Sandleitenhof

Naheliegende Geschichte(n): A Resonant Finale to the CHAC Project As the final milestone of our work within the CHAC project, Naheliegende Geschichte(n) marked the powerful culmination of months of field research, storytelling, and community engagement. We believe that gathering and preserving oral histories is essential for capturing the lived experiences, memories, and perspectives that often […]

Bioyoutoon event at Kunsttankstelle

Local multiplier event in Vienna The Bioyoutoon project has been hard at work, devising new ways of promoting biodiversity conservation awareness with toolkits, comics and e-manuals. We wanted to promote the project, our resources and the outputs to a wider audience. The resources are available to be used for further workshops and education efforts, and […]

Bioyoutoon toolkits

We’ve been busy The Bioyoutoon project has been active for close to two years now, and what a journey it’s been. Project partners have been hard at work producing resources that can help raise awareness on biodiversity conservation and inspire you to create your own stories as well.  You’ll find a list of the online […]

CHAC exhibition in SOHO

Researching the oral history of Sandleiten! Together with our participants, we’ve been researching and compiling the local history of Sandleitenhof -a municipal housing complex with originally 1,587 apartments, built in five stages between 1924 and 1928 as part of the housing policy of “Red Vienna”  Today, it houses a vibrant and diverse community, with residents […]

Bioyoutoon event in Ottakring!

Comic book launch! As the bioyoutoon Ersamus project nears completion, we’d like to celebrate our achievements and share what we’ve accomplished so far with you, the public! Facts: Conserving Biodiversity through storytelling Location: Kunsttankstelle Ottakring (Brunnenmarkt) Grundsteingasse 45-47 | 1160 Wien Time: 19:00 – 21:00 Date: Wednesday, February 12th, 2025  Register here and join: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1234708900559 […]

webtoons live

All roads lead to comics What a journey it’s been! We’ve developed training modules that raise awareness on biodiversity conservation among youth, held numerous workshops to train our trainers, as well as create stories for the webtoons, worked with our amazing illustrators to develop webtoon story concepts, and it’s all culminated in the release of […]

The story of the Vienna Biodiversity Corridor

The story of the biodiversity corridor As X-arts, we combine research methods with artistic practice, capacity building and exchange to activate and promote social change, sustainability, inclusion and well-being – in our built environment as well as within ourselves and amongst each other. We enjoy gathering the stories of initiatives and communities that impact society: […]

Story development workshop in Vienna

Vienna Story development workshop Following the local Bioyoutoon workshop in Meidling and the subsequent Bio-diversity corridor walk, we had quite the task on our hands. The workshop in Vienna was quite fruitful, and we had quite a few entertaining and exciting concepts on our hands. Add in the stories that came in from the workshops […]