Complex Complicities is a two-day symposium that brings together artists, cultural workers, educators, and institutions from across the Nordic region.
Through keynotes, conversations, and workshops, we explore how to work through love and rage, solidarity and community in times of multiple intersecting crises and how to share and imagine new tools, structures and forms of solidarity for survival and transformation.
🔖 FREE ENTRY. Register here to join the event:
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Registration closes on 24/11/25
🗓️ SCHEDULE
DAY 1 | Wednesday, 26 November 2025
13:00 Welcoming remarks
13:15 – 14:00: DDE – Diversity in Dance Education – A presentation by Zoë Poluch
14:00 – 14:15 BREAK
14:15 – 15:30 WORKING THROUGH LOVE AND RAGE – Navigating the times of polycrises – A panel discussion with My Wild Flag, Niki Awandee and Ofelia Jarl Ortega moderated by Liz Kinoshita
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45 – 16:45 TOOLBOX Part I - sharing survival strategies for striving artists – A workshop facilitated by Sonya Lindfors and Julian Owusu
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye
DAY 2 | Thursday, 27 November 2025
13:00 Welcoming remarks
13:15 – 14:00: Title TBC – A keynote given by Alex Blum
14:00 – 14:15 BREAK
14:15 – 15:30 Letters to The Future – Letters read by Luusi Kateme, Ar Utke Ács, Rossana Mercado-Rojas
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45 – 16:45 TOOLBOX Part II - DREAMING AND SCHEMING – building alternative structures, through institutional allies & micro-resistance – A workshop facilitated by Sonya Lindfors and Julian Owusu
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye.
17:00 – 19:00 BIPOC HANG – Separatist dinner and hangout for BIPOC cultural practitioners. Please only sign up for this if you identity with this term. Free registration here:
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The symposium is organised by MDT Moderna Dansteatern in collaboration with the Helsinki-based UrbanApa.
This collaboration is part of BRIDGES, a Nordic initiative that aims to strengthen long-term and sustainable Nordic collaborations and foster critical discourse around anti-racist and intersectional feminist practices in the performing arts. The current BRIDGES partners are UrbanApa (FI), MDT (SWE), HAUT (DEN), Reykjavik Dance Festival (IS) and Dansens Hus Oslo (NOR). BRIDGES is supported by Nordic Culture Point and Nordic Culture Fund.
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