Open Call for BrUNIMA Creatives - Fragments of Becoming

Submissions open now · Deadline: December 31, 2025 · Selections announced: January 15, 2026

A Virtual Exhibition by Cultural Alleys

Submissions open now · Deadline: December 31, 2025 · Selections announced: January 15, 2026

Our friends at Cultural Alleys have extended a warm invitation to creatives across the world—including our members—to contribute to their upcoming virtual exhibition, Fragments of Becoming. This open call centres on three interconnected themes: Perspectives, Understanding, and Empathy.

This is a wonderful opportunity for BrUNIMA artists, performers, storytellers, and cultural practitioners to share work that reflects deep cultural knowledge, lived experience, and creative expression—especially from Indigenous, local, and multilingual traditions.

There is no submission or participation fee, and the exhibition embraces a broad range of digital and virtual art forms.

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About the Open Call: “Fragments of Becoming”

Cultural Alleys welcomes submissions from all artistic disciplines, as long as the work can be experienced online. You may submit up to three original works, individually or collaboratively.
AI-generated or AI-assisted works are not permitted.

What You Can Submit

• Writing: essays, short stories, scripts, reflections

• Poetry: text, audio, or video

• Photography: single images or series

• Digital illustration, painting, collage, graphic design

• Short video or film (up to 5 minutes)

• Music, song, or sound art

• Animation, motion graphics

• Performance art (recorded)

• Interactive or web-based digital art

• Any format that can be shared or experienced virtually

Language & Cultural Context

Works may be submitted in any language, script, or dialect.
For accessibility and accurate representation, please also include:

• an English translation or

• a short cultural context note

If your work represents Indigenous identity, complex identities, or specific cultural traditions, you may indicate this in your submission so it can be acknowledged respectfully.

Access & Inclusivity

Cultural Alleys welcomes alternative or accessible formats, and can assist with:

• captioning

• alternative file formats

• large-text materials

• support with uploads
  If needed, reach out to: contact@culturalalleys.org

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Submit Your Work

🔗 Application Form: https://forms.gle/xqgArSSb5J6XyXtR9
🔗 More Information: https://culturalalleys.org/ideaspace

Deadline: December 31, 2025
Selection Announcements: January 15, 2026

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About Cultural Alleys

Cultural Alleys is a non-profit organisation based in Lithuania, founded in 2025. Their work sits at the intersection of:

• artistic practice

• academic research

• community engagement

They view culture as a dynamic, relational process shaped by history, lived experience, and shared meaning. Through this lens, they develop collaborative projects that explore contemporary social, cultural, individual, and environmental challenges.

Their initiatives bring together artists, researchers, educators, and cultural practitioners from across disciplines—making this open call especially resonant for the BrUNIMA community.

Team

• Martina Vyšniauskaitė (she/her) – Co-founder

• Povilas Mikalauskas (he/him) – Co-founder

• Saulė Pranculytė (she/her) – Lead Designer

• Abhishek Chauhan (he/him) – Founder & Director

Board Members

• Viktoria Kostova (she/her) – Project manager & fundraising specialist

• Shant Bayramian (he/him) – Lecturer, researcher, audiovisual essayist

• Shabnam Seyf Aghayi (she/her) – Teacher & science communicator

• Martina Vyšniauskaitė (she/her) – Primary education & linguistics specialist

• Povilas Mikalauskas (he/him) – Historian, PhD researcher

• Abhishek Chauhan (he/him) – Researcher & cultural practitioner

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