Aarhus Festival 2017 highlights

25.08. — 03.09.2017

Bridging

Aarhus Festival

24 pages of Festival highlights. Visit aarhusfestival.com to see the full programme

Colophon CONTENTS 3 Preface 4 Opening Party – the New Harbour Area 5 Harbour Magnets 6 Vesterbro Falls 7 The Blue Bridge, M32 Series Scandinavia Race 8 Flower Power 2017, All This Coming and Going 9 Aarhus Streetart Festival 10 The City Park 11 Wonderwool, Geese Parade, Slow Park 12 Complexity of Belonging 13 20 Years of Cabaret 14 Future Feminism, Prefecture 15 Ujazz 16 Understrøm 17 Start Studying Aarhus 2017, The City Stage 18 Rooms that Speak: Hauschka and Kenton Slash Demon 19 Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Shiva Feshareki: ’O’, DPA Stafetten: Minh Le Shingara 20 Food Festival 21 Food Tasting at Street Level, Festival Restaurant ’Lækkerbisken’ 22 Reception for Expats 23 Thanks to our Sponsors 24 Map PUBLISHER Aarhus Festival, Vester Allé 3 DK – 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark aarhusfestival.com Tel. (+45) 87 30 83 00 PROGRAMME SPONSOR This programme is made possible by Aarhus University, Danske Commodities and International Community

PRINT Johnsen Graphic Solutions Circulation: 5,000 PHOTO CREDITS 3 Kissen Møller Hansen 5 LIST 6 The Blue Bridge: Martin Dam Kristensen 8 All This Coming and Going: Randi Schmidt / Lars K. Olesen 10 Martin Dam Kristensen 11 Geese Parade: Totaal Theater 12 Jeff Busby 16 Martin Dam Kristensen 17 Martin Dam Kristensen 18 Kenton Slash Demon: Lasse Dearman 20 Per Bille 21 Martin Dam Kristensen TICKETS See ticket information for each of the events in this programme. If an event is not sold out, the remaining tickets will be on sale at the entrance. Ticket prices do not include handling fee.

TICKET VENDORS Billetten: (+45) 70 20 20 96 aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Billetlugen: (+45) 70 26 32 67 billetlugen.dk DISABLED GUESTS Call the ticket vendor listed by each event to buy tickets for disabled guests and visitors. For events arranged

by Aarhus Festival, disabled guests and visitors who need to be accompanied by a helper to attend an event can buy two tickets for the price of one.

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Information on accessibility for wheelchair users is given at each event and further details may be found at each organiser’s own website.

TOURIST IN AARHUS Find information and inspiration for your stay in Aarhus at visitaarhus.dk. Read about accommodation, attractions, shopping, restaurants, etc.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAMME This highlight programme comprises a small selection of the 1,000 events taking place during the Festival. Events arranged or co-arranged by Aarhus Festival of particular interest to a non-Danish ­speaking audience are ­primarily included here.

Editing of the highlight programme was completed on 31 July 2017. Latest updates and additions can be found at aarhusfestival.com and in the Festival app. Aarhus ­Festival reserves the right to make changes or corrections.

FESTIVAL INFO BOOTHS Find information about the Festival’s events and get inspiring tips from our friendly guides at the Festival info booths. Learn more about the European Capital of Culture­­ Aarhus 2017 in the City Park or get the lowdown of the city from VisitAarhus at ­Lilletorv (see map on p. 24).

Opening hours: 24 August 25-26 August 27-31 August 1-2 September 3 September

3pm-7pm 11am-10pm 11am-7pm 11am-7pm 11am-4pm

Preface AARHUS FESTIVAL 2017 — BRIDGING We’re getting close. For a long time, we’ve been running around like industrious ants trying to get everything in place. Lately, the Festival headquarters have become a central hub for passionate people who, with great dedication, have given birth out of apparent chaos to the dancing star of experiences that makes up this year’s Festival that we’re about to let loose.

This year we build bridges. The variety of events is itself a bridge. Between internationally acclaimed artists on the big stage and brutally honest stories at the local pub.

Between song tradition and modern electronic sound at our beautiful theatre and the musical underground in the public space.

And the public space is particularly in focus this year, with bridges from the old, wellknown Aarhus to where the city is heading.

With Harbour Magnets, Flower Power 2017, Vesterbro Falls and The Blue Bridge, we move the relationship between nature and ­construction up the agenda: water and city, bricks and greenery.

Bridges connect people and cultures and offer explorations of new paths. But bridges do more than that. They don’t just connect the dots from A to B. As soon as the connection is made, something happens. It starts with a curiosity for what’s on the other side and, as with two magnets, a special attraction takes place: a yearning to cross over and get close.

So let’s use the Festival to build bridges ­between all the great things we have in Aarhus. Surrender yourself to the attraction towards the other side and find joy in how hard it is to break off that connection later.

Luckily, not all connections will break: some of them last.

Rikke Øxner, Aarhus Festival

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Opening of the Harbour Front

Opening Party – the New Harbour Area There is a new meeting place in Aarhus. The new harbour area stretching from Europaplads to the public space at Dokk1 and further along to Navitas is a lively and active area for the city to use. The opening is celebrated with an event that showcases the area’s wide variety of uses and will bring citizens and visitors together with sports, music, community and a great atmosphere throughout the day.

The new area is part of the project Urban Mediaspace, which also includes Dokk1, climate protection of the city and the last stages of opening up the city’s canal. It is also the biggest ­municipal project of its kind in the city’s history. So come on down and join the celebration of the new area bridging bay and city.

See the programme for the day at aarhusfestival.com

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The Harbour Area around Dokk1, Hack Kampmanns Plads 2 24 August Free of charge Aarhus Kommune in colla­ boration with Aarhus Festival and Realdania. Thanks to: ProShop Europe Yes

The Harbour Then and Now

Harbour Magnets Have a seat by the old lighthouse, at the terrace of visions, or visit the end of a floating dock and take a second to notice how everything is changing.

The area around the harbour is developing rapidly from an industrial space to an energetic zone with residential, cultural and commercial potential. With this development comes a responsibility to tie the new and the old together and create connections between sea and sky, city and citizens.

‘Harbour Magnets’ takes place at specific sites by the h ­ arbour and transforms them into unusual public spaces that o ­ ffer ­contemplation and thoughtfulness. By interacting with machines and objects from the harbour, the magnets build a bridge to the future of the area and in the process open it up to the public.

The installations are created by French LIST Architecture-­ Urbanism in collaboration with Japanese Hideyuki Nakayama and Italian Matilde Cassani and underline the interrelations between the old harbour on the new plans for the area. During the Festival there will be a programme of short performances and activities near the installations.

‘Harbour Magnets’ is the first stage of the architecture b ­ iennale 1:1 Bridge, which will focus on the current challenges and ­potentials of the city.

Read more and see the programme at aarhusfestival.com/harbourmagnets

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Various places at the harbour 25 August-3 September Free of charge Aarhus Festival in colla-­ boration with European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017. Supported by: Danish Arts Foundation, ­

Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond, EU Japan Fest Japan Committee, INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Danemark, the Dreyer Foundation, Projektudviklere på ­ Aarhus Ø, Børn og Unge, Aarhus ­Kommune and Teknik og Miljø, Aarhus Kommune. Thanks to: NIRAS, Ambiente, Dan Container and Aarhus

Cement­varefabrik Partially

The City Space in Flux

Vesterbro Falls

Vesterbro Square in its current shape is a traffic junction ruled by confusion and restlessness. Together, SLA and Aarhus Festival explore the unrealised potential of the central square and use it as a physical talking point in a debate about green city development. A massive scaffold shaped as a stairway with a tree-covered garden at the top is erected in the square. From the top, a waterfall drops with soothing sounds of surging water, in stark contrast to the noise of the passing cars. The square is transformed into a peaceful oasis in the middle of the city.

A place to relax, rest, revitalise and rejuvenate, alone or with friends, without having to leave the city centre, and a place where the natural and the constructed meet and create a new attractive urban space that speaks to all the senses.

ARCHITECT TALKS How do you combine nature and culture, city and harbour in architecture? Aarhus Festival invites you to a debate about the topic where various architects and other relevant people will give their point of view.

See further information at aarhusfestival.com

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Vesterbro Torv 25 August-3 September Free of charge Aarhus Festival in collaboration with SLA. ­ Thanks to: NIRAS, Grundfos and Aarhus Vand Yes

Free of charge Aarhus Festival in colla­bo­ration with European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, SLA and LIST. Supported by Danish Arts Foundation, the Dreyer Foundation EU-Japan Fest Japan, Committee and Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond Partially

The City Space in Flux

THE BLUE BRIDGE Aarhus Å is a central part of the city’s DNA. However, it is probably only a select few who have experienced it like on The Blue Bridge.

The small river connects the old streets in the city centre to the wild nature at its source in Brabrand, and the solar-powered boats offer a rare opportunity to experience this shift in a different way. Peacefully, the boats glide through the water on two different routes that allow the passengers to see Aarhus from a different angle. Route 1 goes through the ­heart of the city from Mølleparken to the city’s new gathering point, Dokk1, at the harbour. Route 2 will transport you from Ceres Byen in the centre, to the quiet and scenic area at Brabrandsøen at the edge of the city.

M32 SERIES SCANDINAVIA RACE Three days of explosive sailing with some of the world’s best sailors and the world’s fastest catamarans in the centre of Aarhus – this is what Sailing Aarhus and Swedish Aston Harald AB are welcoming everyone to see from August 31st until September 2nd at Aarhus ­Festival. In the heart of the city outside of Dokk1, sailors will compete in the extreme catamaran M32, which has taken the sailing world by storm. There’ll be three days of action-packed sail racing when, for the second year, the prestigious international M32 Series Battle of Aarhus visits the waters in front of Dokk1 and allows the audience to get up close with the fascinating catamarans.

Schedule, stops and FAQ is available at aarhusfestival.com/thebluebridge

The harbour area at Dokk1 and Toldboden 31 August-2 September 8.00am-8.00pm Free of charge Sailing Aarhus No

Aarhus Å. Route 1: Mølleparken – Dokk1.

Route 2: Ceres Byen – Brabrand Sø.

25 August 1.00 pm-10.00pm 26 August-2 September 10.00am-10.00pm 3 September 10.00am-4.00pm Route 1: 20 DKK, paid on-site, cash or via MobilePay. Route 2: 40 DKK via

aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Aarhus Festival in collaboration with Solbaaden.dk. Supported by: Nordea fonden, European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 and Danish Arts Foundation.

Thanks to: A. Enggaard No

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New Art Forms Move In

FLOWER POWER 2017 After the sun goes down, a virtual flower garden sprouts up on Bispetorvet and decorates the central square in an array of colours.

Three luminous flower beds with projections of Danish flora grow, sprout, wither and make way for new life in a natural cycle. But human intervention is inevitable and, as the audience moves around on the installation, the flowers interact and diminish the gap between nature and the man-made.

ALL THIS COMING AND GOING In collaboration with Swiss TricksterP and Tasmanian Terrapin Puppet Theatre, Teatret Gruppe 38 inaugurates the new harbour area Aarhus Ø. With a great theatre installation by the waterfront on Pier 3, Teatret Gruppe 38 invites the audience to experience how a new city district comes alive when art moves in. Mobiles, projections, shadows and moving pictures will depict what was – and what is to come.

‘Flower Power 2017’ is created especially for the city and Aarhus Festival by Mexican-­ born Miguel Chevalier, who since 1978 has ­established himself as one of the pioneers in virtual art, and with this inclusive and inter­ active piece he invites the audience to explore and connect the digital and the organic.

Pier 3 30 August-2 September 9.00pm, 9.30pm, 10.00pm, 10.30pm, 11.00pm and 11.30pm Duration: Approx. 30 min.

60 DKK via gruppe38.dk or phone 86 13 53 11 Teatret Gruppe 38 in collaboration with TricksterP and Terrapin Puppet Theatre Yes

Bispetorvet 25-26 August and 31 August-2 September 8.30pm-3.00am, 27-30 August 8.30pm-1.00am Free of charge Aarhus Festival. Supported by: European ­ Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017, Vilhelm Kiers Fond, Salling Fondene and Børn og Unge, Aarhus ­Kommune. Thanks to: NIRAS Yes

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New Art Forms Move In

Aarhus Streetart Festival

Street art is found all over the world, from rundown buildings to expensive auctions in art-lover society. But it is also a genre that is difficult to define. What does the term ‘street art’ actually cover? Aarhus Festival will try to answer that when, alongside local urban art gallery Galleri Grisk, we present one of the biggest street art happenings in Northern Europe. Some of the most exciting and renowned international street artists will be in town, where during the Festival they will each paint new pieces. You are invited to watch the process, from early ideas to final results, as the park area surrounding the City Hall is filled with street art. Guided walks and debates during the event will bring you closer to the artists and the street art environment. Some call it art, some call it vandalism – we call it Aarhus Streetart Festival.

The City Park at Rådhusparken and Musikhusparken 25 August-2 September 11.00am-8.00pm 3 September 11.00am-4.00pm Free of charge Aarhus Festival in collaboration with Galleri Grisk and We Make Space Architects. Thanks to: FO-Aarhus, Flügger farver and Europcar Yes

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Parks and Squares

The City Park

There is no better place to start your Festival experience than the family-friendly City Park, where the Festival’s info booth resides.

Play, education and relaxation sit side by side in the green City Park between Concert Hall Aarhus and the City Hall. Throughout the Festival you will find a wide array of activities, shows and performances for audiences of all ages. Children may take a ride on the mini train, visit the circus or learn about fencing, and the rest of us can join in song, go visit the street art exhibition or take a look inside Det Turkise Telt. And that’s just a fraction of the many events taking place in the City Park. See you there!

THE MESS HALL The scent of delicious food starts to spread and mix with the vibrant sound and feel of The City Park. You’ve been out exploring the different activities and need a place to quench that peckish feeling. But where to go? The Mess Hall is the answer! A selection of stands from local restaurants are ready to serve you small dishes to go or to enjoy in a cosy setting.

The City Park at Rådhusparken and Musikhusparken 25 August-3 September Free of charge Aarhus Festival. Supported by: Børn og Unge, Aarhus Kommune Yes

Ridehuset, Vester Allé 1 25 August 3.00pm-9.00pm, 26 August-2 September 10.00am 9.00pm and 3 September 10.00am 4.00pm Various dishes from approx. 45 DKK Aarhus Festival Yes

Sate your hunger at Chez Michel, Sårt, ­ Unico, Mefisto, Restaurant AU, Thai&Sushi and ­Spiselauget.

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Fun for the Whole Family

WONDERWOOL Two cats work at a wool factory where they have to look after mischievous and ­naughty balls of yarn that keep trying to run away.

When that happens, there is nothing else to do but to go out, find them and bring them back. But it is not that easy when you are a cat, because cats would much rather play, run, sleep, jump and investigate everything and everyone on their way.

The Catalan Bigolis Teatre is behind the two characters in cat costumes that do acrobatics, play tag, and interact with the people in the city when they combine circus with elements of street theatre. One second they behave like people and the next like cats.

The City Park at Rådhusparken and Musikhusparken, Bruun’s Galleri or Strøget 26-30 August 10.30am, 2.30pm and 4.00pm Duration: 20-25 min.

Free of charge Aarhus Festival.

Supported by: Børn og Unge, Aarhus Kommune Yes

GEESE PARADE A drum major, 12 adoring Toulouse geese and a drummer swagger around town to amuse and excite the guests visiting the Festival. We are dealing with the Netherlands-originated tradition of ganzenfanfare, where a flock of geese, chattering and waddling, march through the city to the beat of the drums, to the bystanders’ great amusement. The parade originates from the tradition of herding geese to and from the fields and is a different, quaint and animal-friendly performance. You can get close to the cute and funny birds when they trudge about in a well-mannered way and entertain guests of all ages, or when they rest between their walks in their enclosure in The City Park.

The City Park at Rådhusparken and Musikhusparken 29-31 August 10.00am, 11.00am, 2.00pm and 3.00pm Duration: 20 min.

Free of charge Aarhus Festival.

Supported by: Børn og Unge, Aarhus Kommune Yes

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SLOW PARK In the City Park, you will find a somewhat different version of wonderland. Let yourself fall down into our quaint micro­ cosm that consists of two live installations inhabited by real snails. The playful universe invites the audience to slow down to a snail’s pace and visit the petite world that stages the interaction between city and nature. Inside this tiny world, there is a yurt, a small tent, which accommodates a miniature amusement park for snails. Lose yourself in the small homemade circus where the lazy yet skilled snail artists use the rollercoaster, trapeze, tightrope and not forgetting the Ferris wheel. Slow down and disappear into the ­wonderland of the snails.

The City Park at Rådhusparken and Musikhusparken 29 August 4.00pm 7.00pm, 30 August 2 September 9.00am 12.00 and 4.00pm-7.00 pm, 3 September 9.00 am-12.00pm and 1.00 pm-4.00pm Free of charge Aarhus Festival.

Supported by: Børn og Unge, Aarhus Kommune Yes

Performing Arts

Complexity of Belonging In a time where everything seems to be going faster and ­faster, self-realisation and constantly looking forward are major priorities. But at the same time, the world becomes smaller and smaller and the means of reaching each other increasingly digital. Emotions are communicated via a ­questionable Skype link or a half-hearted status update.

But who are we really and where do we come from?

‘Complexity of Belonging’ asks ­exactly that question at its Danish ­premiere at Aarhus Festival 2017.

The story revolves around a young woman who, driven by her own curiosity and identity crisis, decides to investigate what kind of impact our roots and background have on our lives. In her search for answers she comes across a group of people whose stories are smoothly intertwined in a dynamic ­performance that touches upon race, sexuality and career.

A show for, by, and of its time.

The combination of humorous and sharp monologues alongside explosive and heartfelt dance sequences creates a synergy effect where speech and movement become one and where dancers and actors become an extension of each other’s art forms.

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Concert Hall Aarhus, Large Hall, Thomas Jensens Allé 2 1-2 September 8.00pm 9.40pm 180-290 DKK (Students, children and individuals younger than 25 100 210 DKK) via billetlugen.dk Age limit: 15+ English Aarhus Festival in colla boration with European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017. Supported by: Formidlingsordningen, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen.

Thanks to: Concert Hall Aarhus Yes

International Night Cabaret

Exceptional show with international comedians, magicians and artists

One of the Festival’s annual highlights turns 20 this year, and this will be celebrated with a grand anniversary show. The culture and theatre house Hermans in Tivoli Friheden will provide the setting for the Night Cabaret with a custom-designed scenography with the right nightclub and variety show atmosphere.

Experience completely new acts that have never participated in the Cabaret before and be happily reunited with some of the best artists through the years. The Festival’s International Night Cabaret is a seductive, magical, humorous, grotesque and surprising show, so there really is something to look forward to.

THREE COURSE NIGHT CABARET MENU Restaurant Terrassen is ready to serve a delicious three-course dinner that can be savoured in the theatre before the show. You can complete the pampering and experience the perfect cabaret-feel with a wine menu created specially for the occasion.

——Appetiser: Gazpacho Andaluz with Parma ham ——First course: Smoked salmon tartar – pickled onions – capers – salad of herbs ——Main course: Medium rare fillet of veal – sour maize – truffle – Portobello mushrooms ——Dessert: Dark and white chocolate – strawberry/rhubarb – almond

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Hermans, Tivoli Friheden, Skovbrynet 5 25 August-2 September 9.00pm-approx. 11.00 pm Dining from 6.30 pm (doors at 6.00pm and 8.45pm for nondining guests). The bar is also open after the show.

Weekdays and Sunday incl. menu and aperitif: Category A: 705 DKK Category B: 670 DKK Category C: 635 DKK Category D: 305 DKK* (* excl. menu) via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Fridays and Saturdays incl. menu and aperitif: Category A: 735 DKK Category B: 705 DKK Category C: 680 DKK Category D: 355 DKK* (* excl. menu) via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk

Aarhus Festival in collaboration with Hermans.

Thanks to: Tivoli Friheden and Montra Hotel Sabro Kro Yes

Challenging Arts...

FUTURE FEMINISM “The future is female”, reads one of the ­statements in the exhibition at O Space, a modern manifesto of future feminism linked with ­climate, society and culture. Thirteen statements on massive pink marble plates are meant to provoke and unite in a stronger collective female consciousness. The exhibition is created by artists Kembra Pfahler, Johanna Constantine and Aarhus 2017 artist in residence Anohni. The three have been discussing feminism and its place in the world over several years, and they will all be present at the exhibition and participate in talks, workshops and events.

PREFECTURE ‘Prefecture’ is a utopia, with alien creatures and new hybrids in the space between you, the moment and the darkness – and movement unfolding in emptiness. You are a visitor at a natural museum of history of a different civilisation. The room exists purely in the ­imagination you use when you cannot see.

There is only rope, sheet glass, temperature and smell. Even though dance is for the eye to behold, ‘Prefecture’ seeks to construct new emotions. Dexterity, darkness, wet and close emotions. Darkness, lust, laughter and ­intimacy are reinvented in this exposed performance driven by time, place and the sound of white noise.

O Space, Mindet 6 11 August-3 September Free of charge Future Feminism in collaboration with Aarhus Festival and European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 No

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Teatret Svalegangen, Ny sal, Rosenkrantzgade 21 30-31 August 5.00pm and 1 September 1.00pm and 5.00pm Duration: 90 min.

195 DKK via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Aarhus Festival in collaboration with The Royal Danish Theatre. Supported by: Augustinus Fonden and Formidlingsordningen, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen.

Thanks to: Teatret ­Svalegangen Yes

... and Challenging Music

Ujazz

It’s unruly, unpredictable and uneasy listening. But above everything else, it’s just Ujazz. Ujazz celebrates music and musicians who diverge from the well-known path to search for new musical territories. Ujazz is a festival for experimenting across different genres where jazz is explored as a phenomenon and not a musical category. Ujazz is a boundary-pushing journey into a musical universe where little is known, much is improvised, nothing is prohibited and everything is possible.

It’s temporary music pulled apart and put back together in a Festival form. Ujazz is for you if you like to be challenged. If you don’t want to know the chorus before you hear it – you might not even want a chorus. Ujazz is for you if you want an alternative, unique and bountiful musical experience you cannot find anywhere else.

Programme: 2.00pm: Papir (outdoor stage) 3.15pm: Selvhenter (outdoor stage) 4.15pm: Atomic (Atlas) 5.30pm: Nils Gröndahl (Atlas) 6.00pm: Tau (outdoor stage)

6.45pm: Colin Stetson (Atlas) 7.45pm: Causa Sui (VoxHall) 8.00pm: Abekejser (outdoor stage) 8.30pm: The Dwarfs of East Agouza (Atlas)

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VoxHall/Atlas 2 September 2.00pm-1.00am 295 DKK (250 DKK with student discount) for a partout ticket valid for both Atlas and VoxHall concerts 225 DKK (200 DKK with student discount) for the VoxHall concerts alone via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Aarhus Festival. Supported by: Danish Songwriters Guild, Danish Arts Foundation and Fonden VoxHall Yes 9.30pm: Deerhoof (VoxHall) 10.45pm: The Necks (Atlas) 12.00am: Xiu Xiu (VoxHall)

New Musical Currents

Understrøm

Aarhus Festival celebrates the flourishing music environment in Aarhus with the free music festival Understrøm. The city’s hardworking and talented music organisers choose the line-up in three venues along the small river flowing through the centre of Aarhus, and for three days it will be teeming with new and exciting acts. SPOT Festival, Studenterhus Aarhus and Aarhus Festival have handpicked local organisers who deserve a bigger platform and given them responsibility for the programme at one of the venues. Take a walk along Aarhus Å and discover the changing musical atmosphere of the city.

Mølleparken, Immervad and under Sankt Clemens Bridge 31 August-2 September Free of charge Aarhus Festival, Studenterhus Aarhus and SPOT Festival. Supported by: Spar Nord Fonden Thanks to: ProShop Europe and HARMAN Yes

Thursday 31 August Mølleparken: Studiestart 2017

Friday 1 September Mølleparken: Dagens Lyd

Saturday 2 September Mølleparken: Mono Goes Metal

Immervad: LARUS

Immervad: SPARK* Festival

Immervad: Oppenheimer

Under Sankt Clemens Bridge: Sofar Sounds Aarhus

Under Sankt Clemens Bridge: Limbo Collective

Under Sankt Clemens Bridge: few of us

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New Musical Currents

START STUDYING AARHUS 2017 We welcome both new and existing students (back) to Aarhus with a joyful day at Mølleparken.

THE CITY STAGE Mølleparken is transformed during the Festival as some of Aarhus’ music institutions put the city’s musical talent on display at The City Stage. During the week, newcomers will play alongside established professionals at free concerts and shows. There will be experiences and events for all ages and through many genres, so a visit to Mølleparken during the Festival won’t disappoint.

Start Studying Aarhus 2017 offers you lots of activities all day for and by students from higher education in Aarhus.

You can hang out with your fellow students and experience happenings and entertainment during the day. At 7pm the mayor will stop by to chat about Aarhus as an university city, and the night closes with four great names from the Newbees Festival’s roster, including Chinah and Sekuoia.

Experience a selection of highlights from the Royal Academy of Music, hip hop from Aarhus er Fresh!, concerts with Katedralskolens Big Band, kids’ show with Skrallebang and rock music with URO – Ung Rock i Aarhus.

Info about concert, events and competitions will be posted at studenterhusaarhus.dk

Mølleparken 25-30 August and 3 September Free of charge Aarhus Festival in collaboration with Studenterhus Aarhus. Supported by: Spar Nord Fonden. Thanks to: ProShop Europe and HARMAN Yes

Mølleparken 31 August 12.00pm-11.00pm Free of charge Studenterhus Aarhus in collaboration with Borger­service, Borgmesterens afdeling and Aarhus Festival. Supported by: Spar Nord Fonden Yes

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New Musical Settings

Rooms that Speak

HAUSCHKA in Sankt Lukas Church German pianist Volker Bertelmann has been pushing the boundaries of extracting non-traditional music from the traditional instrument for several years. The concept is called prepared piano and covers the addition of alien objects on, under and between the strings, hammers and dampers of the piano, giving him a whole new set of sounds as a result.

At this concert he will be accompanied by… himself. With two self-playing pianos, so-called pianolas, his already extensive sound palette is broadened even further and, in co-creation with the church room itself, he takes the audience on a journey to the innermost part of the piano and back again.

Hauschka has devoted himself totally to exploring every nook and cranny of the piano, so he can now without hesitation be named alongside greats like Erik Satie, John Cage and Steve Reich.

KENTON SLASH DEMON in the Langenæs Church Besides making up half of the electropop act When Saints Go Machine, childhood friends ­Silas Moldenhawer and Jonas Kenton have been working with their electro-trance duo Kenton Slash Demon since 2006. Heavy and hypnotic beats manage to find their way to uplifting moods in the music that willingly or unwillingly takes hold of your body. Their live performances use no computers, and all sounds are created by drum machines, sound modules and synthesisers, allowing the two musicians to pour emotions into the machines. The concert in Langenæskirken will have an extra dimension with a stage design by architects Lenschow & Pihlmann. A giant flexible steel wall is suspended in the church room behind the duo, vibrating with the heavy bass and distorting the reflection of lights, musicians and audience.

The Langenæs Church, Kirkedammen 2 28 August 9.00pm-10.00pm (doors at 8.30pm) 120 DKK (80 DKK with student discount) via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Aarhus Festival. Thanks to: The Langenæs Church Yes

Sankt Lukas Church, Sankt Lucas Kirkeplads 1 29 August 9.00pm-10.15pm (doors at 8.00pm) 140 DKK via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Aarhus Festival. Thanks to: Sankt Lukas Church Yes

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New Musical Collaborations

AARHUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND SHIVA FESHAREKI: ’O’ The innovative young composer Shiva Feshareki visits Aarhus Festival, where she will be playing in Concert Hall Aarhus with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. It’s a concert that includes not only a national premiere but also a world premiere. Shiva Feshareki’s unorthodox orchestral piece ‘O’ is combined with an improvisational piece for organ and record players in an exploration of sound as a ­physical matter interacting with space, movement, gravity and architecture.

DPA-STAFETTEN: MINH LE SHINGARA Danish Songwriters Guild continues the tradition of letting musicians hand over the baton with the task of creating new music or a new musical collaboration and premiering it during Aarhus Festival. This year the baton is received by ­electronic artist Minh Le Shingara, who has decided to team up with Stine Hjelm ­Jacobsen (Nu, Electric Lady Lab) and create new music. Minh Le Shingara won Karriere­ Kanonen in 2010 with Ignug and today he is one third of techno-bitrock act ThrKngs.

Minh Le Shingara met Stine Hjelm somewhere between light and darkness. Together they travelled to the most ominous parts of music.

Here, in the middle of the darkness, they saw the light. The light led them into the future where they found trance and monks from Mount Hiei who had started to dance.

The concert combines futurism, trance and electronica and includes stroboscopic lights.

Shiva Feshareki is centred on stage with the orchestra in a circle around her, allowing her to control the music and sounds like a record spinning around. The result is a vertiginous and modern piece that charts the absolute pinnacle of new classical music. ‘O’ will be premiered in London shortly before the concert in Aarhus, where, in turn, it will be performed for the first time ever with an organ ­improvisation.

Radar, Skovgaardsgade 3 30 August 8.00pm (doors at 7.30pm) 60 DKK via aarhusfestuge.billetten.dk Aarhus Festival in collaboration with DPA – Danish Songwriters Guild.

Thanks to: Radar Yes

Concert Hall Aarhus, Symphonic Hall, Thomas Jensens Allé 2 31 August 7.30pm-8.30pm 200-285 DKK (100 DKK with student discount) via billetlugen.dk Aarhus Festival in collaboration with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra.

Supported by: Wilhelm Hansen Fonden and Knud Højgaards Fond ­ Yes

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Food

Food Festival

September 1st to 3rd brings the biggest food event in Scandinavia to the green areas of Tangkrogen. Food Festival invites you and everyone you know to a weekend of culinary ­experiences.

It’s a popular event focusing on gastronomy and Nordic food culture where famous chefs, manufacturers and foodies gather, debate and create inspiration. Following the theme of European Capital Aarhus 2017, this year the Food Festival is re-thinking Food Festival’s Nordic foundation and opening it up to international cuisine. Come by for a taste, smell and feel of not just the Nordic but the international food scene.

What’s on the menu?

The famous national hot dog championship is where some of the best chefs in the country go head to head and try to create the best hot dog. Last year Michelin-honoured chef Paul Cunningham won the title in a thrilling competition. You can meet famous and renowned chefs including food-enthusiast Timm Vladimir who drops by with his soup kitchen. Slap on the wetsuit and learn to dive and hunt underwater with Dykkerbutikken. Afterwards it is time to challenge your taste buds and transform mealworms into delicious snacks. We look forward to seeing you!

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Tangkrogen 1 September 1.00pm-7.00pm, 2 September 10.00am 7.00pm and 3 September 10.00am 5.00pm 60-160 DKK via safeticket.dk The NGO Food Organi sation of Denmark (FOOD) in collaboration with Aarhus Festival and a.o. Arla, Danish Crown, Ministry of Business and Growth, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries of Denmark, Aarhus Kommune, Region Midtjylland, Team Gastronomi Danmark and FFI Yes

Food

FOOD TASTING AT STREET LEVEL Take a culinary roundtrip when seven of the city’s eateries open the doors to big taste experiences at low prices. Each restaurant presents a dish including a drink of the restaurant’s choosing for only DKK 100. You decide which restaurants to visit, how many and in what order.

FESTIVAL RESTAURANT ’LÆKKERBISKEN’ One of the top restaurants in town, Mefisto, moves into the courtyard at FO-byen and opens The Festival Restaurant. This year it focusses on the classics and pays its re­ spects to culinary traditions. Sink your teeth into a delicious plate of moules frites with tomato aioli, a classic Danish bøfsandwich or ­Hungarian goulash with mashed potatoes and beetroot, all cooked to perfection and made with the passion and dedication of a former Michelin-star chef. The restaurant will also serve coffee and cake and a variety of beers from Jacobsen.

Reservations are not possible and each restaurant will offer its dish only for as long as it is in stock.

The participating restaurants are: — GÄST (Banegårdspladsen 14) — Le Pagnol (Sønder Allé 29) — Pop op-restaurant i Salling (Søndergade 27) — Foodfein (Sønder Allé 6) — Grill ’n Bar (Sankt Clemens Stræde 7) — Festugerestaurant Lækkerbisken v.

Mefisto (Vester Allé 8) — Le Basilic (Mejlgade 85)

FO-gården, Vester Allé 8 26 August-2 September 12.00pm-9.00pm Dishes from 75 DKK and up Aarhus Festival in collaboration with FO-Aarhus, ­Mefisto and IKEA. Yes

28-30 August 5.00pm-10.00pm 100 DKK per dish incl. beverage. Bought on site at the participating restaurants Aarhus Festival in collaboration with the participating restaurants Yes

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Invitation

Reception for Expats

Aarhus Festival, International Community and partners invite expats and their families to a special reception in the Festival restaurant on Saturday 26 August from 3.00 to 5.00pm The reception for expats is an annual tradition, ­attracting ­500-800 people. At the reception, you can relax with your family and make friends with other expats, while enjoying some light refreshments prepared by chef Lars Kyllesbech, the founder of restaurant Mefisto in the old Latin Quarter. You will be welcomed by the Mayor of Aarhus, Jacob Bundsgaard, and Ken Cordes from Erhverv Aarhus will also say a few words.

Taking place in the heart of Aarhus, the reception is just a stone’s throw from a number of other entertaining and engaging festival activities for the whole family, making the reception the perfect excuse for a day of fun.

We look forward to seeing you.

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The Festival restaurant, FO Aarhus, Vester Allé 8, 8000 Aarhus C Saturday 26 August from 3.00 to 5.00pm Free of charge.

Registration necessary via aarhusfestival.com Aarhus Festival and International Community. Supported

by Danske Commodities and Aarhus University Yes

Sponsorer Sponsors/Info

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Grundfos, Handelsbanken, Meyerdonationen, Nordea, and Aarhus Cementvarefabrik. ÅRETS PLAKATKUNSTNER THE FESTIVAL POSTER Aarhus Festuge harposter tradition hvert by år at This year’s festival wasfor created lade en ny kunstner stå Kilpeläinen. bag Festugeplakaten, the Finnish artist Annu Read og i årabout er valget påprocess Annu Kilpeläinen. more her faldet and the behind the Plakaten indeholder den finske kunstners artwork at aarhusfestival.com.

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