The 18th annual Ice Music Festival takes place 1100 metres above sea level, and under a full moon. Ice music, art, literature, dance and climate science is merged together in a sensational arena in snow and ice.
This year Professor Petter Bergerud from KMD brings an international team. Students and professionals from Uganda, Iran, Australia, China, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Germany and Norway will be part of an international conversation with a focus on the global situation we are now a part of. They will work together to stage a conversation with experiments and forms that will create a common arena, the Ice Castle. The international team of 20 students will stay and work for a week to create the Ice Castle out of ice and snow, and they will be directly guided by how the local climate in Bergsjø decides to behaviour in January.
PROGRAM:
Wednesday Feb 1st.
Open 19:30 - 23:00
21:00: Terje Isungset - Ice only // Igloo
Thursday Feb 2nd
Open 16:00 - 23:00
18:00: Toivo Fjose - Ice Bass // Igloo
21:00: Bodil Lunde Rørtveit - Birds & nature // Igloo
Friday Feb 3rd
Open 12:00 - 24:00
13:00: Ice bathing! - Hallingdal Vinterlaugarlag (FREE - bring a towel & swimwear)
13:00: Sleigh rides - Gjeldokk hestesenter
16:00 - 20:00: Jon McLeod, Alison Piper, David Allen - Art Installation Opening // Boat house (FREE)
18:00 - 20:00: Opening of the Ice Castle (FREE)
18:30: Karoline Wallace - Songs for winter & nature // Igloo
22:00: Anna-Maria Hefele - Ice harp & over tone vocals // Igloo
Saturday Feb 4th
Open 10:00 - 01:00
10:00: Amalie Holt Kleive - Morning meditation concert: Water // Igloo
13:00: Ice bathing! - Hallingdal Vinterlaugarlag (FREE - bring a towel & swimwear)
13:00: Sleigh rides - Gjeldokk hestesenter
16:00: Family concert - ice skating, climate facts, science, nature, art and ice music all merge! // Ice Castle
19:00: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research presentation // Igloo (FREE)
20:00: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard and Kristin Bolstad - Art Installation Opening // Igloo (FREE)
21:00: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research / Igloo. (FREE)
22:00: Signe Fuglesteg Luksengard and Kristin Bolstad - Art Installation // Igloo (FREE)
23:00: Ivan Ave, Lyder Øverås Røed, Elias Tafjord, Anna Maria Hefele, Bardur Reinert Paulsen - Frozen Beats - Midnight and full moon concert // Ice Castle.
24:00: The Full Moon Experience! Listen to Nature - We will walk up to the magic place where one can view in scilence both Reineskarvet and Hallingskarvet (FREE)
The Ice Music Festival Norway is a collaboration between the Berknes Centre for Climate Research and the Faculty of Fine Art, Music & Design
Photography by Emile Holba