Category / Programme / Programme / Thursday 22nd February
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Film Screening: Liberation Day
Under the loving but firm guidance of an old fan turned director and cultural diplomat, and to the surprise of a whole world, the ex-Yugoslavian now Slovenian cult band Laibach becomes the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed to alternative rock’n’roll. Meanwhile, propaganda loudspeakers are being set up at the border between the two Koreas and a countdown to war is announced. The hills are alive… with the sound of music.
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KrasnoBAR – Night Shift
For football fans, it is often not the stadium but the bar that becomes the focal point for communication – a place to gather and drink, debate, sing and dance. Festival guests are invited to have hot debates in the sunny surroundings of KrasnoBAR – a space created by the art group ZIP from the city of Krasnodar in Russia’s’ south. The emblem for the bar, the REINBULL, is a symbolic hybridization of northern reindeer of Kirkenes and southern bull of Krasnodar.
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KrasnoBAR – Day Shift
For football fans, it is often not the stadium but the bar that becomes the focal point for communication – a place to gather and drink, debate, sing and dance. Festival guests are invited to have hot debates in the sunny surroundings of KrasnoBAR – a space created by the art group ZIP from the city of Krasnodar in Russia’s’ south. The emblem for the bar, the REINBULL, is a symbolic hybridization of northern reindeer of Kirkenes and southern bull of Krasnodar.
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The Barents Peoples’ Kitchen
How do we consume and what do we leave behind? On average, Norwegians throw away 46 kilos of food per person per year. We can all agree that this is too much. Now you have the opportunity to be involved in a small resistance against all this food waste!
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Three-Sided Football
Are your friends your enemies or your enemies your friends? In Three-Sided Football, it is sometimes hard to tell. For this form of the ‘beautiful game’ you need much more than just gazelle-like athletic prowess; shrewd diplomacy, compromise and the art of the deal all what matter more.
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Fizkultminutka
Do exhibitions, concerts, performances and clubs have a monopoly when it comes to the feel of a festival? Can mass exercises on the town square become a daily arena that will gather our local and visiting festival guests to tone body and mind and prepare them for the festival day ahead?