Season 26 has just started, and we’re thrilled to invite you to our first showing.

Meet Island Connect artists from Sardinia, Corsica, and Denmark

Saturday 23 May, 4–5.30 pm

BIRCA opens its doors for the year’s first showing, where you can meet the first group of Island Connect artists from Sardinia, Corsica, and Denmark/Norway. They have been working at BIRCA for two weeks on their various projects exploring island identity and will now present their work and reflections. As always, it’s surprising, vulnerable, and up close with the artists. And it’s free.

Elise Bjerkelund Reine – ARTISTIC RESIDENCY IN BORNHOLM AND SARDINIA

Elise is a circus performer and performance maker born in Norway and based in Copenhagen. She works with experimental and political circus to push boundaries and norms, seeking to evoke and provoke emotions through performative risk. After 23 years on the trapeze and as a contortionist in every imaginable position, she uses her equilibristic circus language to explore subjects often aimed at adult audiences. She is the founder of Feral Festival.

Flora Pesenti – ISLANDER FOCUS FROM CORSICA

Flora is an Italian-French writer and documentary director based in Corsica. Her work draws on studies in literature, philosophy, and film, as well as extensive travel experience. Her work revolves around questions of unity and blends reality with fictional elements.

Simone Azzu/SHIP – ARTISTIC RESIDENCY FROM SARDINIA

SHIP, founded by Simone Azzu and Martino Corrias, works across theatre, music, audiovisual installations, and ritual performances. Their work addresses historical memory, power, colonialism, and the relationships between community, territory, and capitalism.

The residencies on Bornholm take place 11–24 May – read more about Island Connect here

BIRCA Ritual

In June we will have a very special BIRCA Ritual residency, and we think you should mark your calendar for Midsummer Sunday, 21 June, when we will create a ritual entrance into the new solar year in the evening, starting at the Hammer lighthouse, with the option of joining us for an overnight outdoor vigil.

We will also show our work at BIRCA on 27 June at 4 pm.

More info coming soon.