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ARTIVAL is a multilingual cultural festival which takes place across the Nordic region in 2023. ARTIVAL brings artists, cultural workers and organisations together in a sustainable manner to co-create and reflect on issues of inclusion and belonging through exhibitions, performances, talks, workshops and recitals.
ARTIVAL reimagines the boundaries of the classic arts festival by placing artists, the artistic process and advocacy at the center: it is about bringing people and places together, creating meaningful and enriching experiences; and about gaining a clearer understanding of different processes, perspectives and viewpoints that exist in local artscapes. While maintaining relevance and high quality standards, the artworks, materials produced and the audiences who bear witness are secondary.
ARTIVAL 2023 takes place in Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Bornholm, Malmö and Copenhagen.
We are living in fractured times, in which people feel increasingly disconnected, not only from those immediately around them – friends, family and neighbours, – but also from their fellow citizens, especially those they deem different to themselves.
This crisis of loneliness is harming us at an individual level, loneliness is as damaging to our health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It is also threatening our societies: The link between loneliness, disconnection and political extremism is all too real.
Inspired by Noreena’ Hertz’s bestselling book The Lonely Century: A Call to Reconnect, ARTIVAL RE:CONNECT is a unique cultural festival taking place across the whole of Scandinavia this spring and summer that deploys poetry, music, theatre, art, performance and dance, with the dual goal of shedding light on these important themes, and of playing a part in the solution.
By exposing attendees to difference – different people, different approaches, different attitudes and perspectives – and by providing them with new ways to connect and reconnect (with themselves, their local community and the wider world) ARTIVAL will not only inspire, it will actively help its audiences to come together, co-create and unite.
ARTIVAL RE:CONNECT comprises virtual and in person art-centred happenings. Events will take place in the public space, museums, galleries, cultural centers and hotspots in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark.
The program also includes the ARTIVAL Talks series – a collection of live-streamed and virtual discussions, debates and conversations on the themes of ARTIVAL which places artists, the artistic process and advocacy at the center.
The main aim of ARTIVAL Talks, which began in May 2023, is to facilitate gaining a clearer understanding of different processes, perspectives and viewpoints that exist in Nordic artscapes, by bringing artists, cultural workers, activists, human rights experts, public officials and civil society together to exchange ideas and share experiences of their successes (and failures), good (and bad) practices, and the opportunities (and challenges) present in the broad landscape of the Nordic arts and cultural sector.
Click here for full information about ARTIVAL including our approach to monitoring and evaluating sustainability and accountability.
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