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Are you our new Managing Director?
Borealis is looking for a strategic, committed and creative manager who wants to lead a forward-looking and ambitious cultural organisation.
The Managing Director is the heart of our organisation. The role connects practical overview, financial management and strategic development to deliver an annual music and art festival, and to build competence and audience throughout the year.
Application deadline 16 June!
BLC in June – Summer Edition
We always need some new sounds and a little reunion with you all before the summer takes over and invite you to a summer edition of Borealis Listening Club in Studio 207, Wednesday 28 June 19.00–21.00!
We’ll listen to music, and as always pop some golden corn and serve something delicious to drink. More info coming soon – save the date in the meantime!
50 guitars to Borealis 2024
Kim Myhr does special things with guitars and brings his visionary approach to the instrument to Borealis 2024. For his Borealis commission he will create dynamic physical sound worlds with the help of 50 12 string guitars engaging everyone from rusty guitar heroes, eager high school students and enthusiastic camp fire musicians in Bergen and surrounding area. Kim Myhr is among Norway’s most productive and innovative musicians and composers. His music is based on an orchestral exploration of the guitar and has been nominated for both the Nordic Music Prize and the Norwegian Grammys. Do you like to play the guitar?
Reviews and praise
This year’s festival attracted attention both locally and internationally. Read the exciting observations about the festival in everything from Bergens Tidene to The New York Times – and dream back!
YrrY to Gloppen Musikkfest
We are very proud to announce that the four works from our new music creators in this year’s Borealis Ung Komponist are continuing their journey!
Ensemble YrrY, together with Carmen Bóvida, has been invited to Gloppen Musikkfest on 9 June to perform the new works of Luke Drozd, Eline Rafteseth, Susanne Xin and Guoste Tamulynaite!
We stand with Papillon
As independent cultural workers and art organisations in Bergen and Norway, we express our public support to Papillon and our trans and queer colleagues, collaborators and audiences. This is in light of the recent verdict from Bergen District Court regarding Papillon. The statement is already signed by 250 cultural workers and 40 culture organisations.
Anniversary publication
We celebrated 20 years of experimental music and genre-crossing fun during this year’s festival. On that occasion, we created an anniversary publication with reflections from old trotters, thoughts about the future, photos and memories.
The book was printed by Pamphlett, and feels lovely in your hand, but if you don’t have a physical copy you can now read it online!
Survey 2023
We need your feedback!
Were you at Borealis this year? It only takes five minutes to tell us how it was. Everyone who answers the survey is in the draw for a Borealis Pass for Borealis 2024 and a pair of Borealis socks!
Radio Space 2023
In 2023 Radio Space returns in a special collaboration with Danish radio station The Lake, to stream new commissioned Works for Radio, 24/7 between 15–31 March. Initiated by The Lake, Works for Radio is a commissioning project that since 2016 has facilitated new art being made for radio. For this project Borealis joined like minded radio broadcasters The Lake Radio, Radiophrenia (Glasgow, UK) and colaboradio (Berlin, DE) in selecting five new art works for broadcast from artists Kari Robertson, Nicole L’Huillier, Jenny Hval, Asmaa Jama and Linda Lamignan.