Voices of Women in the Arctic and Beyond - Listening to the unknown

ERASMUS+ konsortiumet inviterer til Voices of Women Festival i Tromsø. Målet å gi musikk komponert av kvinner den anerkjennelse og oppmerksomhet den fortjener. Les mer her.

ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women brings its festival to Tromsø. The aim is to give music composed by women the recognition and attention it deserves. Read more.

The event is a combination of a national conference and digital training activities, mainly targeting students, artists, gender researchers, higher education educators, and stakeholder institutions at various levels (municipality, province, region, and ministry). The festival will allow the VOW project consortium to reach out and engage participants in the project’s activities in years to come. 

The program is free and open to everyone. 

In collaboration with the ERASMUS+ prosjektet Voices of Women, Musikkonservatoriet, Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning, Polarmuseet, Perspektivet Museum, Nordnorsk Kunsmuseum, Filosofiske Samtaler, ConGender, FemPhil, Environmental Humanities at UiT m.m.

Program

Sunday  19. November

14:00 Konsert i Rødbankens Festsal med Friederike Bischoff (piano) & Karen Aukner (bratsj) og musikk komponert av Fernande Decruck (1896-1954) og Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)

Monday  20. November

13:00 Mini-symposium: Art | Gender | Nature organized by the Environmental Humanities Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (hybrid at the Academy of Music)

Tuesday  21. November

15:00 Curator-led tour in 28% – exhibition at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum with Jarl Riskjell Gjerde & Charis Gullickson

18:00 Voices of Women in the Arctic and Beyond med Wanny Woldstad, Christiane Ritter & Sara Fabricius ved Polarmuseet

Wednesday  22. November

10:00 Welcome & Knowledge base: How (and why) to find unknown repertoire? with Maren Bagge & Lilli Mittner (streaming via Youtube)

Tasting session artistic research at the Academy of Music, Konsertsalen 

• Women as artists, with Giovanna Alves Dos Santos
• Composition as a creative practice, with Svenja Reis
• About Sami identity and tonality when working creatively, with Herborg Rundberg

13:00 Huskonsert ved Musikkonservatoriet

14:00 Masterclass with Bettina Smith at the Academy of Music, Konsertsalen (streaming via Youtube)

16: 30 Masterclass with Lena Haselmann-Kränzle at the Academy of Music, Konsertsalen (streaming via Youtube)

Thursday 23. November

9:00 Tasting lectures: Sharing knowledge at the Academy of Music, Konsertsalen (zoom)

• Decolonizing Higher Education: Rationales and Implementations from the Subject of Music History with Lise Karin Meling
• Women and Gender Expansive Jazz Artists find their Voice in Digital Platforms with Kristin McGee
• A meta-historical reading of Pauline Viardot's image in Orland Figes' The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture (2019) with Petra Broomans

11:15 Digital masterclass with Anne-Lise Sollied at the Academy of Music, Konsertsalen (streaming via Youtube)

16:00 Konsert i Rødbankens Festsal (streaming via Youtube)

Friday 24. November

16:30 Høytlesing av Cora Sandels novelle «En Gåte» på Perspektivet Museum ved formidlingsleder Camilla Erenius

19:00 Salong ved Bryggejentene

11:00 Hvordan lytte til de(t) ukjente? Filosofisk Samtale ved Skarven Bar med Janke Klok, Fredrik Nilsen og Lilli Mittner