OPEN UP HDK-Valand FESTIVAL Gothenburg Sweden
HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg is pleased to announce the OPEN UP HDK-Valand FESTIVAL 2023, a series of exhibitions, performances, screenings and workshops featuring the work of participants in the EACEA funded OPEN UP project (2019-2023).
PROGRAM
Saturday 17 June
The festival begins with a series of exhibitions at the HDK-Valand building Vasagatan 50, Gothenburg. There will be exhibitions of art and design works across a range of media by new and established practitioners, including a special section devoted to profiling emerging young artists.
Time:
June 17 - 1 pm to 4 pm
June 18 - 1 pm to 4 pm
June 19 - 1 pm to 6 pm
June 20 - 1 pm to 6 pm
June 21 - 1 pm to 6 pm
June 22 - 1 pm to 4 pm
June 27 - 1 pm to 4 pm
June 28 - 1 pm to 4 pm
June 29 - 1 pm to 4 pm
June 30 - 1 pm to 6 pm
July 1 - 1 pm to 4 pm
Venue: Vasagatan 50
Registration: No registration is required
Monday 19 June
from 6 pm to 8 pm we have a screening of video and film works at the Academy’s cinema Bio Valand. Attendance is free, but spaces are limited so pre-booking is highly recommended: link to event brite #1
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm
Venue: Bio Valand, Storgatan 43 (entrance through the courtyard)
Registration: Attendance is free, but spaces are limited.
Wednesday 21 June
this evening we offer a programme of performance and music featuring the Kurdish dance group Jin, Jiyan, Azadî and the music duo Per and Nada (Nada Alichiah and Per Ohlson) with special guests.
Time: 6 pm onward
Venue: Glashuset, Storgatan 43 (entrance through the courtyard)
Registration: Attendance is free, but spaces are limited.
Saturday 1 July
The festival concludes with a launch event for the OPEN UP HDK-Valand FESTIVAL 2023 publication that documents the festival and profiles the artists contributing to the festival. This publication will then accompany the works when they travel for the International OPEN UP Festival in Nicosia, Cyprus in October 2023.
Time: 2 pm
Venue: Vasagatan 50
Registration: No registration is required
Contributors to the festival include: Aladdin Mofakheri, Annika Wennberg, Azad Larki, Azadeh E Zaghi, Behjat Omer Abdulla, Bereen Darwish, Branka Vidovic-Butler*, Catalina Fuentes Arayal, Chro Seyedi, Eldin Smajlović, Elin Wennberg, Fatemeh Salehi, Gunilla Gränsbo, Hamidreza Jahantighl, Heba Alakkad, Helaleh Ghaderi, Ingrid Lindberg, Kamaran Seydiyan, Kamyan Seydiyan, Kavian Seydiyan, Marie Bergqvist, Masoud Yousefi, Mick Wilson, Negar Latifian, Nora Ordenes Söderbergh, Nada Alichiah, Olof Nilsson, Paul Butler*, Per Ohlson, Rezgar Alipanah, Ronak Rabiee, Roya Charehtalab, Saga Bjarnason, Sara Khayat, Shenyan Yousefi, Tara Talebsafa, Tayebeh (Roz) Madadi, Ward Zaraa and the Kurdish dance group Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.
OPEN UP is a four year cultural project (2019-2023) funded by Creative Europe and aims to build visibility and experience for artists, designers, craftspeople and performers. We work to support creative makers and performers who face different kinds of obstacles in building the visibility of their arts practice or who are seeking access to further education or support networks. OPEN UP HDK-Valand works not on the basis of identity categories, but rather on the basis of an open invitation to collectively work to build visibility for arts practices that face different challenges in building public visibility.
Reed more about the project here
HDK-Valand is one of the seven partners in the OPEN UP network that also includes:
- Pierides Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
- PUBLICS, Helsinki, Finland
- Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), Amiens, France
- University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece
- New Hand Lab (Enterprise for Traditional Techniques), Covilhã, Portugal
- Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
