Below we list all the individuals and organisations that have been, are or will be cocreating and hosting a Silent Lecture. At the global level, the Silent Lecture Series is coordinated by the Democracy School. Anyone interested in hosting a Silent Lecture, please contact us via the contact form provided here.

The Berlin Lecture on Silence

19 Juni 2022 | On Silence, Stelenfeld, Holochaust Memorial, Berlin-MItte, Germany
​Convened by Nicodemus, hosted by the Democracy School

Democracy School gUG (Germany) positions itself at the intersection of politics and culture to inspire, develop and work with individuals, initiatives, movements and organisations looking to bring about fundamental and lasting change peacefully.

Nicodemus, aka Nico Andreas Heller (Germany), is an established theatre director, producer and artist. He also runs the Democracy School and is an experienced strategist, moderator and coach. In his work as a theatre director and artist, he is primarily interested in collaborative practices that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

The Belfast Lecture on Compassion

01 October 2022 | Belfast Lecture Workshop at the Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
​Convened by Chérie Driver & Frank Liddy, hosted by Bbeyond in partnership with Compassion City Belfast
​​15 October 2022 | Belfast Lecture – site and topic to be established as part of the workshop​

​​Bbeyond (Ireland) is committed to promoting the practice of performance art and artists in Northern Ireland and further afield. Their aim is to raise people’s consciousness of live or performance art as being integral to the world in and around us, inspiring reflection and enriching lived experience.

Compassion City Belfast (Ireland) aims to cultivate an informed empathy and sees as its purpose to seed and nurture (a) an improved health and sense of well-being among the public, (b) a heightened empathy among the public with the suffering of all human beings leading to greater tolerance in society, reduced aggression, strengthened social cohesion and the elimination of injustice, and (c) a fairer and more humane treatment of all people.

Chérie Driver (Ireland) is an artist, anthropologist, lecturer in art theory and, since 2020, associate Head of Belfast School of Art. She is also the chair of Bbeyond, a performance art organisation in Northern Ireland, and a board member of Compassion City Belfast. Key projects include, several collaborative research projects in ‘art and its locations’, specializing in ‘art in contested spaces’.

​Frank Liddy (Ireland) has worked in the community care voluntary mental health sector for some twenty-five years and was the co-founding Director of the Belfast Mindfulness Centre. As an indigenous Belfast born practitioner he has been at the forefront of developing creative cross community mindfulness-based initiatives to communities / groups traumatised by the Northern Ireland troubles.

The Climate Lectures

2023/24 | Subject to funding
​​Currently seeking partners across Africa
​Pan-African series of simultaneous Silent Lectures on the theme of climate migration to coincide with COP29 in the fall of 2024.
Co-Convened by Maxwel Okuto (​Amani Peoples Theatre, Nairobi) and Nicodemus (Democracy School, Berlin)

Amani Peoples Theatre (Kenya), is an initiative of African artist-peace-builders, based in Nairobi. Founded in 1994, they employ an interactive multi-arts approach both in their cultural (theatrical etc) productions, and their peace building and conflict transformation training.

Maxwel Okuto (Kenya) is the director of Amani Peoples Theatre. He has over 10 years of experience both locally and globally as a practitioner of Theatre of the Oppressed arts-based conflict transformation, trauma healing, and creative storytelling.

We are at various stages of discussion with a growing number of potential hosts and partners and will add them to this page as and when they come on board.