

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Opening: Slow is a Verb + Book Launch: Reaching Out
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 11:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Please join us at Nitja Center for Contemporary Art for the opening of Slow is a Verb — The Young Curators’ Reading Room, alongside the book launch of Reaching Out.

Exhibition open: Tue – Sun, 11:00 – 17:00, until Sunday 5 April
Free to attend | Step free access | Held in Norwegian and English

Curated by the nine participants in the Young Curators Mentorship, Slow is a Verb — The Young Curators’ Reading Room invites audiences into a space for reflection on interpersonal relationships. The reading room presents nineteen books that approach such relationships in different ways. Visitors are welcome to browse the selection in a relaxed setting whether alone or in company. Music playlists on CD and a choice of herbal teas, both put together by the curators, will be available during the opening and at later events.

This opening event includes the launch of Reaching Out: A Book about Agency, Care, Identity, and…. A collaborative project by the PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board (Oslo), Index Teen Advisory Board (Stockholm), and PUBLICS Youth (Helsinki), which includes interviews, self-produced texts, and artistic contributions. Together, these offer insight into young people’s reflections on the role of print publications today, and what their role may look like in the future. The publication will be available in the exhibition’s reading room and for sale in Nitja’s shop.

Opening Programme

18:00 Doors open, welcome!

18:15 Introduction by the young curators, with insight into a few of the selected books.

18:30 Book launch: Reaching Out: A Book About Agency, Care, Identity, and …
Introduction by the PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board with contributions from the youth boards in Stockholm and Helsinki.

Throughout the opening, audiences are invited to participate in a drop-in workshop with graphic designer João Doria de Souza, who has previously developed ‘utility posters’ together with the young curators as a support tool when in collaboration and asking for help.

The exhibition will be open throughout the evening until 23:30 as part of Nitja Natt.

Those Involved

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board/The Young Curators 2025-2026: Anahita Mollazehi, Assol Sokolova, Auguste Karsokaite, Bror Høgåsen-Hallesby, Helen Ibrahimian, Hibo Nora Abbi, Ingrid Bjermeland Hesledalen, Noah Visted, Sofia Orellana Gamboa. 

PRAKSIS Teen Advisory Board aims to increase access to art by giving voice to young people with limited prior experience in the field. It supports young people to shape cultural activity through dialogue, curatorial practice and collective learning.

Young Curators Mentorship is a three-year collaboration between Nitja and PRAKSIS. Building on a shared youth curatorial initiative first established in 2019, the programme works with the PRAKSIS Teen Advisory board to realise an exhibition at Nitja. 

The project is supported by the Erasmus+ Youth Programme of the European Union, Sparebankstiftelsen DNB and Akershus County Municipality. Reaching Out is edited by Gerrie van Noord, designed by Tuukka Kaila and published by Rooftop Press.
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- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, workshops, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 49

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lillestrøm
- **state**: AK
- **country**: Norway
- **location**: Nitja senter for samtidskunst
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- **full address**: Nitja senter for samtidskunst, Kirkegata 10A,Lillestrøm, Norway

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- **organizer**: PRAKSIS (https://allevents.in/org/praksis/12527918)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Nitja senter for samtidskunst, Kirkegata 10A,Lillestrøm, Norway
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** PRAKSIS
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, exhibitions, workshops, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Opening: Slow is a Verb + Book Launch: Reaching Out ?
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