News Archives – Borealis Festival

New Head of Production!

We are so happy to have Aistė Žumbakytė join our team as our new Head of Production!

Aistė comes from Lithuania, where she studied Art Management and worked with film, music and festivals. In Bergen, she started as an intern during Borealis 2013, and volunteered for BIT Teatergarasjen’s Oktoberdans. This was the start of her professional journey with experimental music and interdisciplinary stage production. She has worked as a freelance producer for Neither Nor, Ursus Produksjoner, Open Window Theatre, nyMusikk Bergen, Alwynne Pritchard and a number of other artists. Previously, she has been a Producer and Managing Director for the concert series Avgarde, and recently she has been substituting for the tour manager of Carte Blanche, as well as having been employed in project positions for Borealis. Now we are very happy that she is more permanently joining our team!

We’re looking for festival staff!

We have a team of six people working throughout the year, but as the festival approaches, we need more hands and energy to contribute to the realisation of the festival in March. Would you like to be part of our team? Apply by December 5!
We’re looking for:
🚗Transport & Logistics Coordinator
🎟️Ticket Coordinator
💪Event Managers

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Get your Early Bird Borealis Pass

It doesn’t get any cheaper than this! Get your Early Bird Borealis Pass now – limited amount. The Borealis Pass gives you access to all the concerts at the festival for only NOK 50,–. Like last year – our pricing system is scaled so you can choose the price that fits you and your life situation best.

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As a volunteer you get to see how the festival works from the inside, meet interesting new people, have great concert experiences and get certified work experience.

We need people to be Front of House, Drivers, Riggers, Poster and Programme Distributors, Runners and Artist Contacts.

Stories of Home in Bergen and Hong Kong

Connected to Tze Yeung Ho’s new opera Nara which will open Borealis 2025, Hong Kong based artists Dorothy and Benjamin join Borealis to research the wider stories of the Hong Kong diaspora in Bergen, and how tales of migration and the sea connect our two communities.

On Saturday 23 November they invite you to Northing Space, where they will present their previous work and the research they are doing in Bergen, and to sit down with them to listen to stories the way people used to sit around a fire listening to stories a long time ago.

Listening with Okkyung Lee

Join us for this exciting edition of Borealis Listening Club with our very special guest; exploratory cellist, composer and improviser Okkyung Lee – this time in meat factory turned culture house Bergen Kjøtt! Okkyung will join us in Bergen to share music that inspires and gives her joy. The bar in Bergen Kjøtt will be open.

Tuesday 26 November, 19.00–21.00, Bergen Kjøtt – Fabrikkhallen, free entrance

Listening Sauna at Laugaren

1-3 November Laugaren celebrate their birthday with a sauna marathon spanning three whole days! Day and night from Friday at 07:00 to Sunday at 23:00, Laugaren will be filled with rituals, concerts, lectures, courses, workshops and much more!

18:00–19:30 on Saturday, we take over the sauna with experimental music and sound for warm bodies! Join us when we press play, and take you through a listening session that awakens all the senses. Open your ears and experience the magical combination of Laugaren’s lovely open atmosphere, combined with our passion for explorative music.

Book a ticket (Saturday 2/11, 18:00–19:30)

BLC #51

In our next listening session, come hear what’s on the inspiration list of composer, viola player and music educator SIGURD FISCHER OLSEN! His projects range from sound installations and stage art to contemporary music and miniature forms. His works have been performed by ensembles and orchestras like Oslo Sinfonietta and KORK, and he is currently one of the mentors for the Borealis Ung Komponist programme. At BLC we get deeper insight into his composer practice by listening together to what inspires and occupies him.

22 october, 19:00–21:00 in Studio 207

A new Borealis face

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

BLC #50

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

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