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    Karlsøy Yurt

      At this year's festival you are welcome to exciting talks, sessions and ceremonies for peace in the Karlsøy Festival's brand new building ~ Karlsøy Yurta!

      Karlsøy Yurta is an arctic arena of 50m2 which is intended to be a space for the exploration of physical performing practices such as dance, performance art and other performing performing art forms. As a participant, you are invited to three unique, inspiring and genre-free workshops where we explore different practices that can challenge, expand and develop new perspectives on themes such as artivism through the body, art and collective resistance. The artistic exploration process will culminate in a joint festival screening on Saturday 4 August. Karlsøy Yurta's artistic team consists of: Ingvild Sivertsen, Batoul Nemr, Biniam Abbai Gezai, Noah M Roble, Marius Kolbenstvedt and Loan TP Hoang in collaboration with students from The Freedom Theater and Nordic Black Xpress.

      Good for Kidza

        Pønk for kidza is a children's pønk concept by Dømt. Here you get good reasons not to go to bed, you get to know what ketchup is good for and the children get to know both a cool camel called Kåre Jonny and the sailor Selma better. In addition, you will find out who is really the boss at home and a song about all sorts of weird and nothing called the Pling plong ding dong song!

        Welcome to a green festival!

          Going forward, we want to become a greener festival, become increasingly zero-waste and that we can contribute to the circular cycle. 

          Very important message in that regard; We hope that everyone who comes to the Karlsøy Festival brings plates, cups and cutlery with them, so that we can use them at the communal meals instead of disposable products. There is, of course, a washing machine in the area. 

          We have a group travel channel on Facebook where YOU can let us know if you are traveling to or from the Karlsøy Festival and have room for more people in your car. And so you who need to sit on, can enter there. This reduces both the costs for people and we travel as environmentally friendly as possible. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1042009416783708/ Read more about our community garden and the compost we will make together here

          Om'playade for Fred and Arne

            Will create ESK, an After School CLUB for All Ages and all colors. For everyone who has more time than NOK. 

            Samha, Grevling, Tingeling or Britt Marryan Carlsson as her actual name is, is one of those who came to Karlsøya when there was a Rainbow gathering in 1989. She has been at the festival for many years, and has tried to make us Star-Aware. She wants to make a Courthouse. a Circus arena. For the playful person. The goal is Activity Houses and Landesteder for the entire C team, for everyone who has more time than NOK. Is her Desire' goal. Our Siida. This year she comes to Karlsøya, has an opening for OLi OOO and Etter Skoletid Klubben ESK with various activities.

            Karlsøy Peace Choir

              Choir singing is the biggest cultural activity in Norway. Around 5% of us sing in a vocal group or choir. Feeling together and feeling a common rhythm with other people through song releases the feeling of happiness in the body. It brings great joy and helps you to have a greater quality of life. Everyone can sing! Join us and we'll make a choir! You don't need to know anything beforehand. Bring yourself and sing along with us. Maybe there will be Northern Norwegian shows, pop ballads and Bob Dyland? Maybe we can sing in two parts? Welcome to choir practice two days during the festival. We practice in Karlsøy church during the festival week. This is for both adults, young people and children, and is supported by Frifond. The children involved should be able to read

              WAHA SOS – significance of spirit

                "WAHA SOS - significance of spirit" is a collective tribute to universal rhythms and rituals through boundless time and space - to universes of metamorphosis, transformation and transformation. When many come together about what matters most - the universe will respond. The project opens up a spiritual journey where past, present and future merge into a timeless fabric between individual freedom, creative interaction and collective counterforce.

                Freedom Theatre's visit to Norway is part of an artistic collaboration that focuses on art and cultural expression as part of freedom of expression and a peaceful contribution to the Palestinian resistance.

                THE FREEDOM THEATER is an internationally recognized theater located in the refugee camp in Jenin on the West Bank in Palestine.
                NORDIC BLACK XPRESS is Nordic Black Theatre's own theater school and theater development project with a focus on diversity and transcultural exchange
                CROTONICX is a project-based performance collective that works with dance, rhythms and rituals in collaboration with artists, actors and activists at the crossroads of artistic discipline, form and expression.

                Workshop for simple redesign, t-shirt printing and wool. 

                  Do you want to make your own clothes with your own statement and motif?
                  Perhaps you have a boring piece of clothing that needs a new design, or you want to fix something you find with us?

                  In this workshop for both children and adults, we make the coolest festival t-shirts of the year and give old clothes new meaning!

                  We have a lot of equipment and clothes available, but please also bring used clothing items, ribbons, buttons, fabrics that you have no use for, so that someone else can give them new life. 
                  Facilitated by Linn Kalseth, Sunniva Nyhamar, Ranja Haugen, Sofia Waara, Silja Haugen and more

                  The poster this year!

                    Here is our fantastic poster this year, marking 25 years since we started the festival. Print it out and hang it up!