Since 2016, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, ACCR has been coordinating the Nora residency programme for refugee artists, researchers and cultural professionals who have recently arrived in exile in France.
We are pleased to announce the 16 winners of the NORA 2025 residency programme and their projects:
Lagrasse Abbey
Alona OLASIUK with the project ‘Fragmented Identity’
Mina KHAZENI with the project to write a new novel
ARIA
Aman POYAMAK with a project to finalise a collection of poetry
Alireza SHARIFI with a theatre workshop project
Sylvanès Abbey and Goutelas Castle
Sadim ALZAFARI with a musical composition project
Sarah ABO ALJADAIL with a musical composition project
Chartreuse de Neuville sous Montreuil
Adel AL TAWEEL with a visual arts project entitled ‘I will travel with what remains of my destroyed home’
Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lez-Avignon
Hatem HADAWY with a playwriting project entitled ‘CEPENDANT … Between the immutable and the mutable’
Merdan EHETELI with the multidisciplinary project ‘Nightmare / Qoshmaq’
Cité du Mot
Thales ZOKENE with the project for a short story ‘The talking tree’
Dominicans de Haute-Alsace
Yierfanjiang TUOHULUO (Erpan HESHER) with the multidisciplinary project ‘Nightmare / Qoshmaq’
Saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans
Maykol MENDOZA (Michael DANTES) with a project to write a new novel
Ghazal SHOJAIE with the project ‘The forced migration of an Iranian woman in the body of a crow’
Maxim ZMEYEV with the visual arts project ‘Manual 4.10’
Tetiana CHEPRASOVA with the project ‘Love in times of war’
Saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans and Château Mercier
Hossein RAJABIEN with the multidisciplinary project ‘Those we cannot see’