call for artists & community groups

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We Restart Charity invites artists, creatives, and community groups to take part in the Human Rights Today Digital Exhibition, a collective exploration of what human rights mean in today’s world.

We are looking for creative responses that reflect your perspective, experiences, and ideas. Your submission can take any form:

• Artwork (painting, drawing, digital art) 
• Photography 
• Poetry or written pieces 
• Video or short film 

Theme:
What do human rights mean today?
This could relate to identity, freedom, equality, belonging, climate justice, or everyday lived experiences.

Selected works will be featured as part of the Human Rights Today Digital Exhibition, reaching a wide and diverse audience.

Exhibition context:
All selected works will also be showcased during the Human Rights Festival in London as part of Refugee Week. This offers contributors the opportunity to be part of a wider programme of events celebrating creativity, community, and human rights.

How to apply:
Please send your submission along with:

• Your name (or group name) 
• A short description of your work 
• A link to your website or Instagram (if available) 

Email: contact@werest.art
Subject line: Ref. Human Rights Today Digital Exhibition

This is an opportunity to share your voice, connect with a wider community, and contribute to an important collective conversation.

We look forward to seeing your work.

The Human Rights Today Exhibition is a multi-layered project developed by We Restart – Art Centre of Sanctuary to reflect on the meaning, fragility, and urgency of human rights today. The exhibition brings together different artistic languages and perspectives, creating a shared space where personal stories, cultural heritage, and contemporary concerns intersect. Through photography, calligraphy, and visual artworks, the exhibition invites visitors to slow down, reflect, and recognise human rights not as abstract principles, but as lived realities. 

To celebrate Refugee Week, we present a photographic project by Fuad Al Gaadi, documenting childhood in Yemen as a space where innocence and responsibility coexist under extreme conditions. Through collective and individual portraits, the images show children fetching water, caring for siblings, herding animals, and inventing play from scarcity. Smiles become acts of resistance, while silent faces carry exhaustion and maturity far beyond their years. Rather than portraying children as passive victims, the photographs highlight dignity, resilience, and quiet strength, reminding viewers that childhood is a universal right too often interrupted.