Join us for an exciting year of activities, as we celebrate AELA’s 2026 Earth Arts Program: ‘Kinship’.
Kinship 2026 is an invitation for all creatives to celebrate, create works and events, and learn more about our deep interconnection and entanglement with all of life on earth.
We’ll be hosting creative conversations, arts workshops and other events in the lead up to – and during! – ‘Earth Arts Week’ from 16-20 November 2026.
WHY KINSHIP?
Human beings are just one member of the wider Earth community, and we are all connected and interdependent with all other species and ecosystems. ‘Kinship’ invites us to reflect, celebrate and be inspired by the creative, cultural, bioregional, spiritual and practical ways that humans relate to, and are part of, nature. ‘Kinship’ aims to enable us to enrich our understanding of what it means to be part of the Earth community.
Our 2026 Kinship Earth Arts Program will see AELA host arts projects, workshops, creative exhibitions, writing programs and more – to stimulate reflection, conversations and cultural shifts that acknowledge the wonder, beauty and our reliance on, the more-than-human world.
How you can join ‘Kinship 2026’
Call for Participation
If you’re interested in being part of Kinship 2026, there are a number of ways to get involved.
Our ‘Expression of Interest’ Form will be available in early March, so you can register your interest in one or more of the following ‘Kinship’ activities:-
1. Earth Arts Virtual Gallery
In 2026, AELA will be promoting the work of Earth Artists and creatives, via our Virtual Gallery. The Kinship Virtual Gallery will showcase selected works by all program participants.
If you’d like to participate and showcase your artworks in our ‘Kinship’ Virtual Gallery, please fill out our EOI (Expression of Interest) form, which will be available by early March.
You’ll be able to view the ‘Kinship’ Virtual Gallery soon!
Visit AELA’s previous Virtual Galleries here
2. Nature Writing Scholarship
AELA will be announcing a process to apply for a Nature Writing Scholarship very soon. Please sign up to our mailing list to stay informed!
3. Earthwords & Artlings Anthology #3
AELA’s Earthwords & Artlings Anthology, Volume 3, will soon be inviting submissions under the theme of “Kinship”. All accepted submissions will be published in an online volume, which will be launched in Earth Arts Week, 16-20 November 2026.
More details about the submission invitation will be available in early March.
You will be able to submit your creative writing, poetry, photography or images of other art works via our EOI (Expression of Interest) form, between March and September 2026.
Visit AELA’s Earthwords & Artlings Anthology 1 & 2 here.
4. Kinship Webinars
AELA invites interested artists and creatives to join us as a guest speaker in one of our Earth Arts Webinars – ‘Creative Conversations’.
If you’d like to submit a proposal for a topic, or nominate yourself or another artist/creative to join our webinar series, you’ll be able to fill out the EOI (Expression of Interest) form from early March.
We aim to host webinars in the months leading up to ‘Earth Arts Week’ (16-20 November) as well as during the week itself. During Earth Arts Week, we will be holding online panel discussions and presentations for artists and creatives to share the work that they have been engaged with, works they are planning, or just the ideas that spark and drive their creative processes.
5. Host in-person activities during Earth Arts Week (16-20 November 2026)
Everyone is invited to host local activities celebrating ‘Kinship’ during Earth Arts Week, 16-20 November 2026.
These activities might include:
- Local art exhibitions
- Local art workshops that share, teach or encourage engagement with the them of ‘Kinship’
- Deep ecology workshops or retreats, that invite people to engage with the topic of ‘Kinship’
- Dinners, picnics or other celebrations of the living world
People will be able to get more information, and register their event with AELA’s Kinship events register, via our EOI (Expression of Interest) form, which will be available in early March.