CULTURE WEEK AT BIRCA FROM 13-21/9-25 BIRCA kicks off this year’s Bornholm Culture Week with 6 theatrical performances plus a new documentary about the fishermen of Bornholm. All are results of research and development at BIRCA, inspired by the natural environment and identity of Bornholm. We will present 2 premiere shows from international […]
BIRCA ECO MATTER PRESENTATION 10/5 AT BIRCA 16-17.30 BIRCA eco MATTER is a joint residency done with co-curator Tora Balslev. The residency is 2 weeks long and we have chosen 6 international performing artists to create new solo, shared and collaborative performance works. The 6 artists we selected to be working at BIRCA 28/4-11/5 […]
We have been incredibly busy processing all this year’s applications – we received approximately 260 applications in total! The vast majority, 207 to be exact, were for BIRCA Eco MATTER, and they truly came from all over the world. BIRCA Kids and Senior, which were only open to Denmark-based performing artists, also received a significant […]
We are super happy that we have the opportunity again in 25 to give a lot of performing artists space to do artistic research and development on Bornholm. Again this year with a focus on being a laboratory for the new ecological performing arts. We can only do that because we continue to develop formats […]
2024 has again been an exciting year for BIRCA. It was the year, where we took a breather after the large Metropolis Landscapes year as well as reduced the number of residencies in order to be able to keep up. We once again received support from the Danish Arts Foundation for this year’s residencies under […]
BIRCA is hosting a seminar on archiving based on our new circular performance archive. It takes place at the Development Platform in Baldersgade in Copenhagen on Monday 2/12 at 10-18 with dinner afterwards. We know there is great interest in archiving and thus also documentation in these years, and we look forward to engaging in […]
BIRCA has been working for a while with a vision of collecting and sharing the knowledge and experience that is created in the artistic research that precedes finished works and productions. Knowledge that is all too often lost because it is difficult to collect and describe and therefore also difficult to archive and pass on. […]
Selection of Island Connect artists is complicated because we have so many partners involved, and it is only now that the last participants have fallen into place. We have 3 sub-programmes this year – Artistic residency, Co-creation and Islander Focus. For the Artistic Residency, actor/dancer Nanna Finding Koppel has been chosen together with […]
We are happy to announce the results of the BIRCA Women call, that will be hosted at BIRCA 29/4-12/5 and is facilitated by Nana-Francisca Schottländer, who has also taken part in selecting the participating artists. We received 115 very exciting applications from all over the world and had a very hard time choosing who to […]
We are happy to announce the 6 artists we have selected for the BIRCA Baltic Sea residency this year. The program is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Program for Culture funding for residential visits and is focused on artists in Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who work with ecological performing arts. Selection has been […]