Arts to Disarm
Arts to Disarm: Imagining a Nuclear Free World
80,000 Voices and Butoh Encounters present a three-day multidisciplinary arts event hosted at Atelier Gardens, Berlin in 2026 to imagine a nuclear free world, debunking and moving beyond the myth of nuclear disarmament, and asking: how do we get there?
The Team
Gina Langton
Combining her background in the music industry (witnessing its disruption from the old traditional territory by-territory value chain to the new global and borderless digital music industry) with her studies in peacekeeping, Gina is a thought leader in how the arts can open up the discourse about global defence and its direction, as well as one of society's most pressing yet taboo issues: nuclear disarmament.
Gina’s work - currently spearheaded by the critically acclaimed exhibition ‘Portraits of the Hibakusha’, survivors of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings - strives towards an alternative, sustainable future that brings communities together rather than pulls them apart.
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Karolina Bieszczad-Stie
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Karolina is the founder of Butoh Encounters, a dynamic and innovative creative platform that fuses art, science and technology to investigate the future of the human condition. The platform creates performative and collaborative projects that examine the body in a variety of forms, ranging from non-biological to hybrid to non-permanent, connecting previously isolated ways of thinking and working.
Lily Wakeley
Lily is a multimedia storyteller with a background in journalism and communications. Her credits as a film producer include Heart Valley, winner of the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Short Film, Tribeca Film Festival for Best Documentary Short and one of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top 23 Short Documentaries of 2022. Her journalism features in national tabloids like the Financial Times to critically acclaimed design magazines like Disegno. Lily provides editorial, digital and production support to 80,000 Voices. She believes in the power of storytelling to create change and give a platform for marginalised voices.