THE VOX PACIS MINI FESTIVAL 2009
PROGRAMME
AUGUST 13th, Thursday
OPENING DAY OF THE VOX PACIS MINI FESTIVAL
IN THE SOFIA CHURCH, STOCKHOLM
3 pm OPENING OF THE PHOTO EXHIBITION ”PAX AUREA”
VOX PACIS -– PEOPLE FROM 15 CULTURES MEETING IN WORK AND JOY
Photographer Ammi Schilling
Artists performing songs in Jewish, Hindi and Swedish.
Opening addresses: Gunilla Nordlund, Artist Director/ Vox Pacis,
The Rev. Hans Ulfvebrand/Sofia Church, Annika Wirén/Diocese of Stockholm Centre for Inter Faith Dialogue
6.30 pm AN INTER-RELIGIOUS PRAYER led by The Rev. Anders
Hedman (Fryshuset Youth Center, Stockholm) together with representatives of the Jewish and the Muslim congregations in Stockholm.
Musicians: Arne Johansson (organ), Insula Magica ensemble (see below) and Debasis Mukherjee Master of tabla/drums, India.
8 pm CONCERT. Insula Magica, an ensemble from Novosibirsk, Siberia/Russia, together with Virpi Pahkinen, solo dancer from Finland/Sweden.
AUGUST 15th, Saturday
SOFIA CHURCH
3 pm CONCERT. A Coptic choir from Stockholm together with members of the Jewish ensemble Kvannanahe.
AUGUST 16th, Sunday
HÖGALID CHURCH
11 am MASS with soloist singers Anna-Lena Engström (”Ave Maria” by Verdi) and Gunnel Mauritzson, folksongs.
4 pm CONCERT. Insula Magica - the Siberian ensemble together with the Indian tabla player Debasis Mukherjee followed by Hindu/Sanskrit hymns and dances from India performed by Veronica Tjerned and sung by soloists Chime Arkhang from Tibet and Shipra Nandy from India.
AUGUST 17th, Monday
SOFIA CHURCH
5 pm MUSIC WORKSHOP. A workshop led by Dafna Dori from Israel and with participants from the Vox Pacis ensemble.
AUGUST 19th, Wednesday
SOFIA PARISH APARTMENT
BORGMÄSTARGATAN 11.
2 pm CAFETERIA, organized by Sofia Parish together with Vox Pacis.
The Israeli singer Dafna Dori will sing in Hebrew and in Arabic together with a Greek-Byzantine-Orthodox choir and Sami jojk singers Marie Kvernmo Valkeapää and Berit Alette Mienna.
AUGUST 20th, Thursday
SOFIA CHURCH
8 pm THE 2009 OPENING NIGHT OF THE VOX PACIS CANTATA
”A CHALLENGE TO HUMANITY”
Choirs, soloists, dancers, musicians, actors – from 15 different
countries/cultures representing also the great religions of the world.
Composer: Ylva Q. Arkvik
Texts: Sigrid Kahle
Director: Jonas Dominique
Artistic/Stage Director: Gunilla Nordlund
Orchestra: Swedish Wind Blowers, Stockholm
Opening address: Olof Buckard, Artists for Peace
Ticket price: 100 SEK
AUGUST 21st, Friday
SOFIA CHURCH
4 - 8 pm SEMINAR. ”CAN CULTURE BUILD BRIDGES BETWEEN RELIGIONS/CULTURES AND SERVE AS AN INSTRUMENT IN A PEACE PROCESS?”
Speakers from all the great – and some small – religions of the world
Moderator: Gunilla Nordlund
Host: Hans Ulfvebrand
Sami jojk by Marie Kvernmo Valkeapää and Berit Alette Mienna.
8 pm ROUNDING UP WITH A SMALL VOX PACIS CONCERT,
where you will find many of the artists and groups from the opening the night before,
Price for seminar + concert: 60 SEK
AUGUST 22nd, Saturday
SOFIA PARISH APARTMENT
BONDEGATAN 66
1 pm LECTURE. ”POLTAVA 200 YEARS”
Anna Nedospasova, Novosibirsk, will lecture on the Swedish musician Gustav Blidström, a prisoner-of-war after the battle of Poltava, who wrote music during his imprisonment in Siberia.
3 pm CONCERT. ”ECHOES FROM POLTAVA”
performed by the ensemble Insula Magica and the duo Laude Novella.
8 pm CONCERT WITH THE GREEK-BYZANTINE-ORTHODOX
CHOIR AND SOLOIST DAFNA DORI FROM ISRAEL
AUGUST 23rd, Sunday
SOFIA CHURCH
4 pm LECTURE. ”THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF DALAI LAMA”
A comparison between Buddhism in Tibet and Christianity in Europewith a focus on the Buddhist and the Christian theatre and opera respectively.
Lecturer Gunilla Nordlund with performing artist.
6 pm TREQ-GNAWA, sufi ensemble from Marocco together El-Tanora dance by Haitham El-Shewihi from Egypt and dervisch-dance by Osama Elias from Sudan.
Tickets for the grand performance of Vox Pacis in Sofia Church on August 20th (100 SEK) and for the combined seminar and concert on August 21st (60 SEK) can be bought in advance via Sofia Parish, tel. +46 (0)8 555 913 00 (office hours)
The 2009 Vox Pacis Minifestival is a joint event between ”Vox Pacis - Voice of Peace” and the parishes of Sofia and Högalid in Stockholm. The project is supported by the Stockholm County Council, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Vera Sager Foundation, the adult educational organisations Bilda, Sensus and Diocese of Stockholm Center for Inter Faith Dialogue, the Stockholm Diocese and the Swedish Wind Blowers.
or Inter Faith Dialogue, the Stockholm Diocese and the Swedish Wind Blowers.
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