Wednesday
04. February
Lunch Concert
Kirkenes Church
13.30
Lunch Concert
Kirkenes Church
Wednesday 13.30

Rejuvenate at the daily church concert.

Concert with Henning Holm (organ).

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Opening Show
Area below the separation plant, Sydvaranger gruve
18:15
Photo: Beau Geste
Opening Show
Transports Exceptionnels
Area below the separation plant, Sydvaranger gruve
Wednesday 18:15

Welcoming by Mayor Cecilie Hansen.

Opening of the festival by Anne Karin Olli,                                                                             Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, Norway.

 

Beau Geste (FR)

Brigitte Heuser (NZ)

Fadi Gaziri (RU)

Superlys (NO)

 

The dancer’s body moves through the cold night. His arms waving, grabbing, pushing - cutting through the air like a knife. He kneels in front of the digger. His head facing the ground. Is he surrendering, or is he asking for a dance?

Despite its gigantic size a machine is somehow connected with the human body. Is Transports Exceptionnels a child`s dream, an adult`s illusion or just fantasy inspired by an industrial surrounding?   

In times when companies in the High North suffer from the results of high politics and low iron price, Barents Spektakel reflects on the vulnerable relation between man and machine with an intense and poetic opening show of dirt and dance.

Barents Spektakel presents a spectacular and site-specific adapted performance by the French artist group Beau Geste, a non-verbal dialog between a digger and a dancer, accompanied by newly arranged music, placed under the ever noisy, always steamy separation plant of Kirkenes.

The mezzo-soprano, Brigitte Heuser, appears as a soloist during the Opening Show. Heuser is a versatile singer, classically trained in opera. She was born in New Zealand and began her classical vocal training there and has since performed in Germany, Norway, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, England and Wales. Heuser is currently based between Norway, Kirkenes to be specific, and Germany. 

brigitte heuser opening show web

Fadi Gaziri has composed and arranged works for the Opening Show. He appears live on piano, electronics and violin performing with Brigitte Heuser during the show. Gaziri is born in Moscow and lives and works as a piano entertainer, cabarettist, and composer in Hamburg. He has performed around the world, and has written music for TV adverts, short films, image films, online games, etc

fadi gaziri credit lisa drewes webPhoto: Lisa Drewes

 

Artistic supervision: Anders Eriksson, Mansard Management.

Sound: Lydteamet.

Technical production: Pikene på Broen and Lydteamet.

 

Production: Pikene på Broen
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Opening Concert
Samfundshuset
19:00
Photo: Pikene på Broen
Opening Concert
A Barents Rhapsody
Samfundshuset
Wednesday 19:00 - 20:00

Does the Barents region have its own sound?

Øystein Blix (NO)

Aleksander Gureev (RU)

Nadezhda Moskaleva (RU)

Aleksander Kostopoulos (NO)

Alexander Aarøen Pedersen (NO)

Asketics (RU)

Musicians from Scene Finnmark (NO)

 

Two professional jazz composers from the Barents region, Øystein Blix and Aleksander Gureev, are on the search for a contemporary acoustic expression of a common cultural heritage. Blix and Gureev include sounds of the region and folk music instruments aiming to find a common musical language based on jazz and improvisation.

A Barents Rhapsody is a sound map of a common ground, and becomes much more than just music or a new contribution to the world of contemporary jazz. Music has no borders and speaks in a language that is both longing for traditional background and at the same time opening the view into a future of understanding and collaboration.

Øystein Blix is a jazz musician and sound designer, central to the Tromsø jazz scene and Head of Tromsø Jazzklubb from 2001. Blix works as lecturer at the University of Tromsø, Department of Music, Dance and Drama, where he lectures in acoustics.

Aleksander Gureev is a saxophone player and composer, with roots in Arkhangelsk. Gureev is currently sax chair at the Moscow Arts and Culture University's Jazz department, has toured all over Europe and is presented on a huge number of recordings for radio, TV and CD.

The folk singer, Nadezhda Moskaleva, the percussionist, Aleksander Kostopoulos, and the keyboard player, Alexander Aarøen Pedersen, are all musicians from the Barents region and handpicked for this production.

The Asketics are a Karelian trio with a varied mucial expression; from atmospheric ambient and cool jazz to dynamic drum'n'bass and hard core.

Scene Finnmark is a unit under Finnmark County Municipality and consists of professional regional musicians trained within different instruments and genres.

 

For a taste of the Asketics, here's their video Atlantis from 2014.

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 350,- + ticket fee
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Thursday
05. February
Lunch Concert
Kirkenes Church
13.30
Lunch Concert
Kirkenes Church
Thursday 13.30

Take a break from the busy festival program and rejuvenate at the daily church concert.

Concert with Alla Sukhomlina (organ).

Price (Kr): 0
Transborder Café
Ofelaš
18:00
Transborder Café
Ofelaš
Thursday 18:00 - 20:00

Talking Barents - on the edge of Sanctions!

The EU sanctions – consequences for the border area between Norway and Russia and the Barents Cooperation. How can it be that trade and business are blooming between EU Poland and Kaliningrad Russia? Representatives from Kaliningrad and Poland working with cross-border cooperation will be present at Talking Barents Transborder Café.

This Transborder Café is made in cooperation with the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.

Moderator:

Trude Pettersen and Atle Staalesen (BarentsObserver)

 

Panel: 

Cecilie Hansen/Tove Alstadsæther (Mayor/deputy of Sør-Varanger Municpality)

Pia Svensgaard (Secretary General at the Norwegian Barents Secretariat)

Geir Thorbjørnsen (Barel AS)

Mikahail Noskov (Russian General Consul Kirkenes)

Aleksei Ignatev (Program and Development Director Kaliningrad Regional Economic Development Agency)

 

Music:

The Asketics

The Asketics are a Karelian trio with a varied mucial expression; from atmospheric ambient and cool jazz to dynamic drum'n'bass and hard core.

 

Transborder Café (TC) is an informal concept, a theme based think tank which brings together experts by involving the audience in an open discussion related to current political and cultural issues enriched with contributions by artists, politicians and researchers.

 

Price (Kr): 75,- + ticket fee
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Double concert
Ritz
21:00
Double concert
Mikhail Rodionov/The Retuses (RU) - Comet Kid (NO)
Ritz
Thursday 21:00 - 01:00

Mikhail Rodionov/The Retuses

the retuses web webPhoto: Andrey Shurpenkov 

We are not for the vast majority, but for those who listen attentively, Mikhail Rodionov from the popular Russian band, The Retuses, says. The musician is 23 years old, and plays a romantic and poetic indie folk inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut or early Aquarium. The Retuses perform melancholic and expressive texts in English and Russian, such as poetry of Sergey Esenin, one of the most popular Russian poets in the 20th century.

The Retuses had been one of the most visible projects at the Russian folk scene until September 2014, when in the middle of the booking process for Barents Spektakel, the band stopped existing. Mikhail Rodionov, the frontman, announced that he continues solo keeping the underground vibe and the experimental attitude.

Here's, Шаганэ, by The Retuses! 

 

Comet Kid

cometkid øyvindlunde webPhoto: Øyvind Lunde

Comet Kid is an Oslo based band started in 2013. In short time Comet Kid has manifested themselves as a solid live band, performed in Crown Prince Haakon of Norway’s 40th birthday party and at the Scandinavian music convention by:Larm 2014 in Oslo. The special Comet Kid sound is described as a mix of roots, pop, folk and rock; performed with passion and true-to-life feelings.

Comet Kid released their first album, Roots, which received excellent reviews, in 2014. The band members are: Alexander Hoddevik (guitar), Andreas Kjøll (vocal), Svein Inge Bjørkedal (drums), Hogne Aasjord (keyboard) and Theodor Peterson (bass). Their new album Forces of Nature is released the 16th of February, whichs makes 2015 another busy Comet Kid year filled with releases and touring.

Enjoy Diamonds from Comet Kid's first album, Roots.

 

The St Petersburg based DJ Boogie Fek finalizes the night! DJ Boogie Fek plays a mix of hip-hop, funk, disco funk, freestyle electro, Miami bass, breakbeat and soul, and is one of founder and resident of the first underground night club Lets meet in the Place, Murmansk.

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 225,- + ticket fee
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Friday
06. February
Lunch Concert
Kirkenes Church
13.30
Lunch Concert
Kirkenes Church
Friday 13.30

Take a break from the busy festival program and rejuvenate at the daily church concert.

Concert with Henning Holm (organ).

Price (Kr): 0
Transborder Café
Ofelaš
18:00
Transborder Café
China, our new neighbour
Ofelaš
Friday 18:00 - 20:00

The Northeast Passage is open; the ice is melting, faster and shorter is our way to China. But what do we know about our new neighbour?

Martial arts, rice, totalitarianism, one-child-families? Something more? China's art market has become one of the world's most important in the past decade and shows how business accompanies cultural development. The future of the North-West passage with vessels, but also cruise liners going from China to Europe might also offer new possibilities for tourism and investments in Kirkenes, combined with environmental challenges.

What challenges does China bring for our border area? Does Russia, as China`s neighbouring country, have more in common with China than Norway, and can we learn from this? Can the local tourism industry on both sides of the border profit?

Many of the well-known exhibition spaces around the world are presenting Chinese contemporary art. Chinese art could be a tool to develop our knowledge and understanding of the new neighbor since the expression tools of Chinese art are deeply grounded in the tradition and develop this approach in a very distinct way.

Moderator:

Trine Hamran (journalist and documentarist)

 

Panel:

Lise Yuen (artist)

Arild Vollan (specialist on Chinese-Russian relations)

Kåre Tannvik (Kirkenes snowhotel)

Li Xiaofei (artist)

Sergey Balmasov (Head of the Centre for High North Logistics)

Rune Rafaelsen (Senior advisor at the Norwegian Barents Secretariat)

 

Music:

Sturle Dagsland

The musical input of the Transborder Café is a performance by Sturle Dagsland, an experimental musician who presents an innovative musical approach. Qurious about Sturle Dagsland? Here's a taste of his live performance in Stavanger Concert Hall.

 

Transborder Café (TC) is an informal concept, a theme based think tank which brings together experts by involving the audience in an open discussion related to current political and cultural issues enriched with contributions by artists, politicians and researchers.

 

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 75,- + ticket fee
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Leaves fall from the Tree of my Dream
Sør-Varanger Culture Hall
20:30
Photo: Anne Margrethe Nyby
Leaves fall from the Tree of my Dream
Performance by Synnøve Persen (NO), Roger Ludvigsen (NO), Jenny-Marie Johnsen (NO) & Anne Berit Anti (NO)
Sør-Varanger Culture Hall
Friday 20:30 - 21:00

A performance addressing all senses.

Niegu muoras gahččet lasttat/Leaves fall from the Tree of my Dream is a gesamtkunstwerk where poetry, music and visual elements are joint together. The performance is build around Synnøve Persen´s poetry, which - strongly rooted in Sámi traditions - takes us on a journey through an Artic landscape, filled with inner life and hidden dramas. Roger Ludvigsen’s music interacts with the words of Persen and a visual background made of Jenny-Marie Johnsen´s Eclipse-series of moving shapes and colours.

As a contrast to the light and airy colours of Johnsen`s Eclipse-series, the designer Anne Berit Anti has created a costume for Persen, that emphasize the darkness and drama that builds up through out the performance.

During Barents Spektakel 2015 the world premier of Leaves fall from the Tree of my Dream will be held on Samefolkets Dag, The Sámi People’s Day, to mark and celebrate the occasion.

Synnøve Persen is a Norwegian Sámi artist and poet. She has published several collections of poetry and has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize twice. As an artist, Persen is known for being part of the establishing of the Sámi progressive and politically radical artist collective Mázejoavku (Masi group), and her work is shown in both group and solo exhibitions in Norway.

Roger Ludvigsen is a guitarist, percussionist and composer. During the 1970`s, Ludvigsen was part of Ivnniguin, Norway’s first Sámi rock band. He has played and collaborated with many famous artists, including Mari Boine, Steinar Albrigtsen and Nils Petter Molvær.

Jenny-Marie Johnsen is an artist working with nature and the area between painting and photography.  Her photos are processed digitally, often with an accompanying video.  Based in Tromsø, her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, among others at Gallery Artifact, New York, Albertslund Rådhus, Copenhagen and Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær.

Anne Berit Anti is educated as a designer from the Art Academy in Oslo and today she runs her own clothes design company, Abanti Design. Considered an innovative and exciting designer, the inspiration from the Sámi culture has been with her all the way, making jackets inspired by a Sámi coffee pouch in leather or trousers with patterns from the traditional Sámi broche.

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 125,- (+ ticket fee)
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Double concert
Ritz
22:00
Double concert
Lars Vaular (NO) - Noize MC (RU)
Ritz
Friday 22:00 - 01:00

 Lars Vaular

larsvaular webPhoto: Erik Five

Since his solo debut in 2007, Lars Vaular has established himself as one of the most popular rappers in Norway. Vaular was repeatedly nominated to the Norwegian music award, Spellemannprisen, and won the hip hop category, third time in a row, with the album, Du betyr meg, in 2011. The same year he also won the Copywriter of the year award. His textual universe contains politics, sex, and existential questions. Vaular often addresses young people’s failing search for identity. His lyrics are characterized as rap and poetry intertwined. In 2013 he released 1001 hjem, which received great reviews.

Check out Vaular's improvised video, Blås, shot under the midnight sun in Skippagurra!

 

Noize MC

noize mc1 webPhoto: Noize MC

The rapper, Noize MC, started his career as a noisy performer at school discos in his hometown. Schooled in classical guitar, he gathered his first band, inspired by Nirvana and Prodigy, when he was thirteen. In 2007 he got signed by the multinational music corporation, Universal Music Group, and left a year later stating that no great artist could collaborate with major labels. His debut album was titled The Greatest Hits Vol.1, nothing less, and in September 2014 MTV Russia included Noize MC into their list over the five best musicians in the country. Noize MC’s in your face lyrics reflect Russian youths hopes and dreams, disappointments and confusions. When in Russia, chances are you could pop into Noize MC performing either at Arbat pedestrian street in Moscow, or at the largest stadiums.

Enjoy Noize MC's, Из окна, where he raps about bad TV channels..and how he eventually throws the TV out of the window.

 

The St Petersburg based DJ Boogie Fek finalizes the night! DJ Boogie Fek plays a mix of hip-hop, funk, disco funk, freestyle electro, Miami bass, breakbeat and soul, and is one of founder and resident of the first underground night club Lets meet in the Place, Murmansk.

 

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 390,- + ticket fee
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Concert Sami People's Day
Samfundshuset
22:00
Concert Sami People's Day
Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman with band
Samfundshuset
Friday 22:00

Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman is a leading Sámi artist, known for her distinctive voice and for her breath-taking music, based on the Sámi vocal tradition of yoik. She returns to Kirkenes to celebrate the Sámi National Day (February 6th 2015). The audience has never forgotten her previous concerts in this city, and together with her band, Ulda, she will make sure to refresh memories, and create new ones, with accoustic instruments surrounding her rich sound palette.

Bring everyone you know!

Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman: vocals, percussion.
Marko Jouste: string-instruments, vocals, percussion.
Mikko Vanhasalo: wind-instruments, vocals, percussion

Price (Kr): 200,- Tickets sold at the entrance.
Saturday
07. February
Chaos Spektakel
Barentshallen
15:00
Photo: Cir.Cuz
Chaos Spektakel
Barentshallen
Saturday 15:00 - 24:00

Chaos Spektakel proudly presents the Norwegian rap duo, Cir.Cuz!

Cir.Cuz was establised three years ago and their debut single, Radio, peaked to number 2 on the Norwegian Singles Chart. Their hit single, Supernova, was the most played song with Norwegian lyrics on Norwegian radio in 2013. Cir.Cuz is a popular live band and has toured all over Norway the last years.

The duo recently released their new single, Original, already added to NRK mP3!

Chaos Spektakel also offers: Ung Artist from Scene Finnmark, hair and fashion show organized by Kirkenes highschool and a Norwegian-Russian dance project organized by th art school and Flavia Devon Hoffmann.

Activities on the grass mat: Paintball by Kirkenes Paintballklubb, climbing on soda boxes by Kirkenes klatreklubb, table tennis, sumo wrestling, ball games, youth cafe.

Free transport from the districts to Chaos Spektakel.

No age limit!

 

Production: Barents Days, Basen
Price (Kr): 100,- Tickets sold at the entrance. Cash only!
Transborder Café
Ofelaš
18:00
Transborder Café
How much is the fish?
Ofelaš
Saturday 18:00 - 20:00

Fish farming is controversial. It engages us, because fishing is part of our national heritage. Norway is built along our extensive coastline and our rich sea. Since the late 1970s, aquaculture has grown dramatically, and Norway is currently the world's largest exporter of farmed salmon. Aquaculture creates jobs, especially important for small communities along the coast, and at the same time, fish farming is a primary resource, a natural resource that should be never-ending, as opposed to oil and gas.

Both the government and the fish industry agree that farming should be maintained and further developed as a sustainable industry. Still critics are afraid resources will end and that today we deplete the fish resources. Concerns around the waste from fish farms, sea lice, escaped farmed salmon, the challenges linked to aquaculture are numerous. Meanwhile the health question concerning farmed fish appears more often. Salmon is a strong historical symbol of Norway and symbolizes the free, strong and healthy fish. Is farmed fish as healthy as wild fish? How much do we know? How should you deal with this? What is correct? Is there a solution here? We invite you to the debate!

During the Transborder Café, the artists Bo Wallström, Trine Falch and Mona Solhaug will comment on the discussion with Laksespelet, a visual audio drama of tragic self-examination. When the salmon is not a salmon, what do we become when eating it? Satisfied? Unsatisfied? Inhuman?

 

laksespelet mindre web

Moderator:

Thomas Nilsen (BarentsObserver)

 

Panel:

Oddbjørn Jerijervi (general manager Finnmarksrøya/Kirkenes Charr)

Morten Strøksnes (journalist and writer)

Mikhail Kuznetsov (Russian Salmon)

TBA

 

Music: Ailu Valle

The Sami rapper Ailu Valle is the musical input of the Transborder Café. Valle is a poet and musician and reflects on the relationship between modern economy models and the traditional way of life up North, human impact on nature and landscape and offers thereby another and Sami voice for the discussion.

ailu photo 1 c saga skiftesvik webPhoto: Saga Skiftesvik

 

Transborder Café (TC) is an informal concept, a theme based think tank which brings together experts by involving the audience in an open discussion related to current political and cultural issues enriched with contributions by artists, politicians and researchers.

 

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 75,- + ticket fee
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Double concert
Ritz
22:00
Double concert
Obe Dve (RU) - Katzenjammer (NO)
Ritz
Saturday 22:00 - 01:00

Obe Dve

obe dve webPhoto: Obe Dve

Obe Dve plays charismatic indie pop about empathy and the longing for freedom. Obe Dve means the two girls and was started in 2006 by two sisters and their friends from the Ural mountain city, Ekaterinburg. Today the sensual Ekaterina Pavlova is the lead singer. The band has been nominated for the prestigious Steppenwolf Prize, and in 2012 their music was entitled breakthrough of the year by MUZ-TV. During Barents Spektakel 2015 Obe Dve presents brand new material.

Obe DVe's Милый!

 

 

Katzenjammer

katz3x web webPhoto: Katzenjammer

Katzenjammer performed at Barents Spektakel in 2009, then as an up-and-coming band of vigorous ladies playing all sorts of intriguing instruments, fifteen in total, from harmonica to balalaika!  Their musical style is described as a mixture of pop, cabaret, country and bluegrass. Katzenjammer gained national exposure after performing at the Scandinavian music convention by:Larm in Oslo and was nominated to the Norwegian music award, Spellemannprisen, for their debut album, Le Pop, the same year.

The band has toured widely and reached the European album charts. Their new album, Rockland, is out the 16th of January, which makes Barents Spektakel one of the first stops for their 2015 tour. Come dance in the Arctic night together with one of Norway’s most energetic bands!

While waing for Katzenjammer's new album, enjoy this classic, Rock, paper, scissors.

The St Petersburg based DJ Boogie Fek finalizes the night! DJ Boogie Fek plays a mix of hip-hop, funk, disco funk, freestyle electro, Miami bass, breakbeat and soul, and is one of founder and resident of the first underground night club Lets meet in the Place, Murmansk.

Production: Pikene på Broen
Price (Kr): 425,- + ticket fee
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Sunday
08. February
Church Concert
Kirkenes Church
18:00
Church Concert
Messiah by G.F. Händel
Kirkenes Church
Sunday 18:00

The concerts consists of parts of the oraorio, Messiah, by G.F. Händel.

Performed by Kirkenes church choir, Murmansk Classic Quintet and soprano soloist, Antonina Panchenko.

Violin: Dmitry Gilev                          

Violin: Evgeny Popov

Viola: Marina Pismenskaya

Cello: Ekaterina Okhraminskaya

Piano/organ: Elena Lebedeva 

 

Buy tickets at the door!

 

 

Price (Kr): 150/100,-