IKFKOS returns to the Motherland

IKFKOS will carry out a workshop on a burial mound outside Krokvik, close to Kiruna August 13-18, 2025. The work will focus on examining mankind's connection to nature: to nature that is pulsating inside us and to nature which is sprawling and sprouting around us. Special attention will be paid to reflections about how contemporary Western civilisation breeds insensitivity to the natural vibrations within us and around us. We will reflect on how we, through rationality, have lost the connection to the outside world which is instead shaped by ideas and ideologies. This world view makes us focus on regrets about the past and the future and takes focus from life here and now. In the workshop we will investigate how, through traditional Sami and Kven knowledge and the arts, can reconnect to life in new and inspiring ways.

The group is made up of representatives from traditional Sami and Kven communities as well as practitioners in theatre, dance, music and visual art. The group will also be joined by an experienced medium. They will organise a public event at 15.00 on August 16. Please drop a line to info [at] visionforum.eu if you want to join the group.

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New Movement Workshop in Bergslagen

Jonas Engman who has worked in Sami shamanic traditions all his adult life will lead a workshop at Teatermaskinen June 14-17, 2025. During the workshop the group will focus on how contemporary sound and music can be incorporated into traditional Sami and Kven traditions and ceremonies, as well as how contemporary stage performers can learn from Sami and Kven practices. In the process the team (which include practitioners from theatre, dance, music and visual art) will use new technology that measure the bodily processes of the participants as well as the movements of the surrounding nature.) The workshop will be held in a traditional Sami Kåta. The workshop will include public performance in on June 15 and offers a unique opportunity to experience traditional animism in dialogue with cutting edge performative expressions. If you want to experience the performance, please write us on info [at] visionforum.eu.

New Technology and Sami Culture

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