Green Tales Final Event: Forum & Concert
The International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation (IYMF), in partnership with the ethical literary social network Panodyssey, is pleased to invite you to an event hosted by Instituto Cervantes of Brussels, with the support of the European Union.
Date & time: 9 February 2026 at 18:00 (Door opening at 17:30)
Venue: Instituto Cervantes, 140 Avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels
The forum will be held in French and English.
To join us, please register here: Green Tales Forum & Concert
The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube channel: GreenTalesProject
About the Green Tales Project
The Green Tales project enhances green awareness education for underprivileged children in Europe through arts and digital tools. It involves more than 100 primary school children and 11 artists from Spain, Germany, Iceland, and Turkey creating 4 short stories with drawings, sounds, and music on the four elements (earth, air, water, fire) and one final animated film. The project includes a capacity-building residency for artists, teachers’ training on green awareness and digital skills, a collection of artistic and green practices, guidelines for artists, a toolkit for teachers and recommendations.
Programme
The forum brings together educators, artists, cultural institutions and European partners who took part in the journey, to present the work and share its key learnings. The evening moves between speeches, discussion and the screening of the film created by the children, artists and teachers, around themes of creativity, education and environment. The evening will conclude with a string trio concert, featuring a musical programme inspired by nature, childhood and transmission.
18:00 – Welcome speech
Teresa Iniesta, Instituto Cervantes, Belgium
Alexandre Leforestier & Imane Tamli, Panodyssey, France
18:10 – The Green Tales project
Marianne Poncelet & Bianca Rubino, International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation
18:20 – Keynote
Lodovico Folin Calabi, UNESCO, Representative to the European Union.
18:35 – Round table discussion
Moderated by Bianca Rubino
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Sophia Queckenberg, European Commission (DG EAC), Belgium
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Myrto Vounatsou, World Human Forum, Greece
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Jenny Schmiedel, MUS-E, Germany
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Markus Hermann Meckl, University of Akureyri, Iceland
19:05 – Screening of the Green Tales short film
19:20 – A creative and digital life that takes its time
Alexandre Leforestier, Panodyssey
19:35 – Three-part concert — String Trio Concert Programme
Les Trois Cordes
Aina Martí Soler (violin), Ismael Hamido Ortega (viola), Blanca Sánchez Guillén (cello)
20:00 – Normandy cider tasting
To join us, please register here: Green Tales Forum & Concert
The event will also be live-streamed here
Funded by the European Union. The views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
