When children and teachers come to school this Monday, they will come across a strange sight in the school yard: a horse and other theatre figures, accompanied by Eastern European melodies.

The Centaur Village can be visited every morning. Centaurs have to be washed and combed, trained and aired. This morning children from the Ellebæk School drop by for coffee and to show a small scene. You are welcome to join the Centaurs at home!

Exhibition with artist Dorthe Kærgaard in Holstebro Library.

The exhibition is open during the opening hours of the library: Monday – Friday: 10.00 – 18.00 and Saturday: 10.00 – 14.00.

The paintings making up ColourRide are part of a larger series, where the artist Dorthe Kærgaard experiments with people and horse figures. In Dorthe Kærgaard’s paintings, humanity plays the main role. She attempts to portray our search through life with all its dilemmas and choices. The ideas derive from experiences, poetry, literature, the course of the world and by antique myths reflecting life today. Everyone will be able to see what the paintings represent. The motives contain many possibilities for interpretation. Dorthe Kærgaard paints recognisable figures and objects, but the viewer will in many cases probably wonder what is going on in the motif. Facing a work of art that wakes one’s wonder and curiosity is important to Dorthe Kærgard. The questions are often more fruitful and meaningful than the answers.

“Dorthe Kærgaard’s paintings are a reference to the inhumane. In style and choice of colour, a manifestation of geometry and harmony, but with motifs as almost chaotic balances, surreal combinations making the paintings stand still, offering a timeless experience and reflection.
The paintings are so saturated with impressions and plans that you feel the moment intensely, as if the moment is both now and always. They become myths. “(Torben Tangsig, 2010)

www.dorthe-kaergaard.dk

The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone has a unique experience and no performances are alike. Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro

The Centaur Village can be visited every morning. Centaurs have to be washed and combed, trained and aired. This morning children from the Ellebæk School drop by for coffee and to show a small scene. You are welcome to join the Centaurs at home!

The international workshop team Horseplay Everyday presents itself as a mad horse-headed businessperson chorus and as a herd of hobby horses making chaos in the carpark behind Nørreport Centret.

The many artists of the Festuge take turns in paying homage to the sculpture “Maren o æ woun” (Woman on Cart), by sculptor Alberto Giacometti from Switzerland, which has been the symbol of Holstebro’s foreseeing cultural policy. Today’s homage is paid by SLASH.

The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone have a unique experience and no performances are alike.

Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen

Supported by STS Biler, Holstebro

The international workshop team Horseplay Everyday presents itself as a mad horse-headed businessperson chorus and as a herd of hobby horses making chaos at the train station.

The international workshop team Horseplay Everyday presents itself as a mad horse-headed chorus of businessmen and as a herd of hobby horses shovelling horse droppings at the Town Hall.

The wild, affectionate and playful animals fill the surroundings like an anarchistic storm until the Baron calls them back with a single sound of the whistle – and they are gone. A dynamic and unpredictable performance filled with energy, surprises, music and life. The street performance will be shown in schools, kindergartens, museums, parks, the train station, the walking street and other places. The project is the result of three years of workshops led by the actress Roberta Carreri with participants from different countries. Together they have worked with dances, different martial arts techniques and choreographies that can adjust to the audience so that everyone has a unique experience and no performances are alike.

Organised by Roberta Carreri and Carolina Pizarro from Odin Teatret- Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Project facilitator: Line Nordentoft Pedersen

Supported by: STS Biler, Holstebro

Time is suspended. Where are we? In Holstebro or in the land of the camels? Two tall black Centaurs, two long animal silhouettes, glide along in a labyrinth of books and shelves, to the sound of whispering voices reading out aloud words from books. The Centaurs circle round each other allowing themselves to be intertwined and then they separate: it is as if they float over the books.

Supported by Beckett-Fonden and Brødrene Hartmanns Fond

Ten real ‘læse-heste’ (‘bookworms’ in the shape of horses) can be found among the books at Holstebro Library.

In order to dance the Argentine tango, the couple must learn some basic steps and figures which form the basis for their tango. The man always lead the woman while dancing the tango, and she must follow the man’s impulse.

Price: 75 kr per person – cash or mobilpay. In order to reserve a space: register by phone or mail to Svenning Hoffmann: 00 45 2127 3842 svenhoff@mail.tele.dk

If you look out of the windows of the residential home this Monday, you will be met by a strange sight: a horse and other theatrical figures, accompanied by Eastern European melodies, are visiting.

Visitors and employees of the Library and Town Hall are joined by ten selected Icelandic horses.

Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actress at Odin Teatret, talks about her father, Halfdan Rasmussen; a wild story about the skinny working class boy, who became all Danes’ Halfdan. With poetry reading, songs, photos and fragments of films, Iben Nagel Rasmussen will create a collage depicting the more unknown side of Halfdan: his childhood, being one of many children, living with his family in a two-bedroom apartment in Christianshavn, the early youth with unemployment, political engagement of the 30s, a stay in a “højskole”, a travel on bicycle to Spain, at a time when the Civil War was raging, his encounter with other young aspiring poets at the Young Artists’ Club during the German occupation, and onward to the road of recognition and fame.

HALFDANSK RAPSODI is not a children’s performance, but rather a journey into the sometimes bleak background from which Halfdan’s grown-up poems grew out of, richly peppered with peculiar, fun, off centre and characteristic rhymes, which came to be his signature as a poet.

Director and performer: Iben Nagel Rasmussen, actress, Odin Teatret

***CLOSED EVENT***

THE CONCERT HAS BEEN MOVED TO NØRREGADE 14.

Home# is an electronic music project where composer Niels Bjerg creates a piece for each four different homes, two in Copenhagen and two in West Jutland. On account of sudden circumstances the concert of the third home in the project, Holstebro Asylcenter has had to move in exile to the former bank franchise at Nørregade 14. Three residents from the center will act as hosts for the event. Niels Bjerg has recorded every day sounds in collaboration with the residents and the music is based on tonal and rhythmical material found in these recordings which will be electronically processed as sound material for the music.

Composer Niels Bjerg:

www.wego.dk

Fotograf Frida Nygaard Gregersen

http://fridagregersen.com

We will plant a wood in the Walking Street and invite passers-by to listen to stories about the life of trees and the magic of the woods. A short and atmospheric event with tales, Greek songs and hymns.

Sponsered by:

Holstebro Municipality

Holstebro Centre for the Socially Deprived

The Wild Island is an art installation built on a platform-stage made by local scout groups in Holstebro. The platform will host works of local artists and involves citizens, local associations, schools and scout groups as well as local and international artistic groups. The theme is the “Wild Man” – the wild side present in each of us, linked to instinct, to the totemic animal and to the wild human being still present in the pagan rituals of the rural communities all over the world.

Every day different guests will populate the island from 17:00 to 18:00. On 17 June we will create the final feast event in collaboration with Holstebro Regatta // Reb & Ror, which will bring life to the whole river.

The performance Festjyllandia is performed in the gigantic Circus Maximus built by 65.000 kilos of hay in Nr. Felding. In the performance you will find the world famous Italian theatre group Teatro Tascabile 23 musicians, a telescopic loader, folk dancers, a senior citizen theatre group, a tractor, Icelandic horses and a long line of local talents. Together they tell the story about how Vestjylland (the West of Jutland) turned into Festjylland (the “festive Jutland”) accompanied by Vestjysk Koncert Band which premieres composer Frans Winther’s new orchestral work Festjyllandia.

Director: Kai Bredholt, Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium. Composition: Frans Winther, composer, Odin Teatret – Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium.

Size doesn’t matter! A short movie night with young film makers and old ones from the beginning period of film. The Animation Workshop in Viborg offers an exciting selection of their best films. Wheelchair skaters Street on Wheels hit the skate park with a performance and a workshop.

16.00-20.00 Concert Hall and Shady Exhibition Room Opens
A robotic orchestra creates a massive cathedral of sound with kaleidoscopes and shadows of light. The exhibition room is loaded with art installations, balloons, moving shadows and video art.

18.00 Shady Town Opens
Shady Town opens it’s gates, bars and spaces from 18.00. You are welcome as fellow citizens, friends, visitors, audiences, strangers, creatures, robots, freaks… Together we experiment with co-creation and village-building, offering a thoughtful and wild vision of the art of recycling, rebuilding delapitated things but as new creations based on crazy ideas and visions for the future. Drop in for a chat, play, dance, sing and enjoy spending time together.

19.00 Street on Wheels
Welcome to the show Street on Wheels, an energetic wheelchair skating performance. See some of Denmark’s few wheel chair skaters, when they show their skills on the Slaughterhouse Hall 19 ramps. It will be possible to try out the ramps yourself after the performance! Street on Wheels will bring a couple of extra wheelchairs for anyone who dare to take on the challenge.

20.00 – 22.00 Shady Short film Night
How is it possible to watch 20 films in one night? Tonight Shady Town presents a wild collection of films which are based on the theme of deconstruction and rebuilding, combining new animation films and old experimental films. Enjoy the art of film in an inspiring atmosphere and spice up the experience with popcorn à la Slaughterhouse. The program is co-created with the Viborg Animation Workshop.

22.30 – 01.00 Late Night Festuge Cabaret
The Late Night Festuge Cabaret at the Slaughterhouse is where Festuge artists and audience can meet in the evening. Drink, talk and enjoy late night performances by Holstebro and Festuge artists.

More information:
SLASH facebookpage
or contact us at shadytown2017@gmail.com

We will light a campfire, for people to gather round, while drinking campfire coffee and tea of the woods. We will hear stories and fairytales of the woods, told by the storytellers. Plain and simple.

Sponsered by:

Holstebro Municipality

Holstebro Centre for the Socially Deprived

The international workshop team Horseplay Everyday presents itself as a mad horse-headed chorus of businessmen and as a herd of hobby horses on Pub Crawl starting outside Kielgasten , Østergade 16

End the day with a late walk in the woods and experience the birds singing  for the sun going down. We will meet at the viewpoint by “Vegen Å”, from where we will enjoy the sunset, listen to bird songs and sense how the city and the woods go to rest. With an evening song and a brief story about the birds, we hear singing at the edge of the woods.

Sponsered by:

Holstebro Municipality

Holstebro Centre for the Socially Deprived

At the Late Night Cabaret all Festuge audience and artists end the night in a comfortable and lively atmosphere to talk, meet each other and enjoy spontaneous performances by Holstebro and international Festuge artists. Anything might happen here; a spontaneous choir singing exotic drinking songs, a jazz singer whispering in your ear, acrobats flying through the air, dancing to live music or simply experiencing good vibes with old and new friends. The Late Night Cabaret is open every evening at the Slaughterhouse and features different artists every night.

OPEN WORKSHOP: OMMA Studio Theatre invites novices and experienced singers to sing traditional Greek songs and hymns. The workshop will take place among the trees in the woods after sunset. Enjoy this opportunity to spend time together round a campfire after the workshop.

Sponsered by:

Holstebro Municipality

Holstebro Centre for the Socially Deprived

Birds do it. People do it. Oceangoing seals do it: orient themselves along the Milky Way’s faint band of stars. Even the tiniest insects can find their way by the stripe of light generated by our galaxy, and every night during the Festuge all kinds of nocturnal beings move by the light of this highway in the sky, the Milky Way, on their way to the Midnight Ritual at the park.

Holstebro Church inside and outside. A video mapping installation to celebrate the 500^th anniversary of the Reformation. 

With performative events every hour, 23.30, 00.30, 01.30 and 02.30, and the presence of a priest from the church.

Designed by Stefano di Buduo (Aesop Studio)

www.aesopstudio.com 

At midnight mythological figures, centaurs and ghosts appear to meet up with real and fictitious characters under the glow of the Milky Way. They remind us of stories that belong to a poetic part of ourselves which lives in the shadows. In broad day-light it disappears. But at midnight time stops and a gentle wildness takes control of our imagination.

Supported by Beckett-Fonden and Brødrene Hartmanns Fond