Our team is constantly developing! This autumn we celebrate one year together with Agnes Hvizdalek as Managing Director, and that we have gained a wonderful new employee: Güliz Portakaloğlu!
Güliz will work as a Project Manager and Administration Assistant through the aspirant programme by Arts and Culture Norway, and has main responsibilities for Borealis Ung Komponist and Borealis Listening Club.
Photo: Eleni Ieremia
Welcome to the 50th edition, and a brand new season of Borealis Listening Club on 10 September, 19:00–21:00 in Studio 207!
For the first BLC gathering of the season, we invite the four exciting young voices selected for this year’s mentor programme Borealis Ung Komponist! Daiyen Jone Castro, Eira Sjaastad Huse, Evelin Lindberg and Jakob Thonander Glans will each present music and sound that inspires or occupies them, drawing on punk rock, opera, latin jazz and futuristic technology in their music-making. We’ll get to know the four participants through the sound and music they share with us, and together reflect around the inner workings and various stages of creating music.
Photo: Magnus Trevisan, Astrid Solberg, Jonas Gren & Jin Kazama
We’re thrilled to invite you to a brand new season of Borealis Listening Club! This season, we’ll get the unique chance to get deeper insight into the process of creating music by reflecting with and listening to inspiration from the participants and mentors of this year’s Borealis Ung Komponist!
Awaiting you as always is tons of popcorn on the tables, exciting juice and topp stemning! See you at 19:00–21:00 in Studio 207 (Strandgaten 207) on these dates: 10 September, 22 October, 26 November & 21 January!
Listen to the reflections of Liisa-Rávná Finbog that was recorded by Radio Web MACBA at Borealis 2024
In this podcast, Radio Web MACBA talks with indigenous Sámi researcher, curator and artist Liisa-Rávná Finbog about museums, collections, and colonialism, to challenge hierarchies, cultural extractives, and the hidden violence in any process of cultural assimilation.
At Borealis 2024 she was part of Borealis Conversation: Sámi Listening
Co-produced by Radio Web MACBA and Borealis – a festival for experimental music. Made possible by Borealis’ delegate program and New Perspectives for Action – a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.
Abigael Asgedom aka DJ Joy has worked with us since 2019, and has given the festival and us in the administration a lot of joy and learning.
We thank her for five wonderful years together and wish her the best of luck in the future with all her projects and endeavours!
You can now become a part of the core team in Borealis!
We’re looking for a new Head of Production in a permanent position. Up for planning and executing all events in the festival and events throughout the year?
Application deadline August 1.
After a record high number of applicants for our mentor programme Borealis Ung Komponist, it is with great pleasure that we announce the selected music creators, who until March 2025 will research their way to new music for Ensemble Obsidian, with guidance from three solid mentors with expertise in the creation of experimental music.
Congratulations to Daiyen Jone Castro, Eira Sjaastad Huse, Evelin Lindberg and Jakob Thonander Glans! We are excited to follow them towards the next festival, and the premiere of their works!
Borealis Ung Komponist is back! We are looking for four versatile music creators who are in the early stages of developing as composers or who wish to further develop their skills in creating music for others. This year’s mentors are three amazing and very different composers who are also musicians: Okkyung Lee (KR), Camille Norment (US/NO), and Sigurd Fischer-Olsen (NO).
“Borealis 2024 brilliantly elucidates the ways in which territorial, political and social practices preserved in the sonic and temporal traditions of the Sámi people are increasingly relevant to a world that calls for connection and reconciliation with the land.”
– Xenia Benivolski, The Wire Magazine.
“The program’s – sometimes strictly artistic, sometimes focused on discussions – engaged the audience in a non-artistic theme, showing how they treat art to talk about identity, here about the Sámi culture. Festivals do this very shallowly, Borealis decided to go deeper. This reflection on locality, identity, and how to fight for it was my best lesson for this year’s edition.” – Jakub Knera
Jakub Knera from the polish online magazine Nowe idzie od morza has written some beautiful reflections about Borealis 2024.