Public access
Yes
Tickets
Free (no booking required)
Venue
Blaagaard Teater, Copenhagen, Denmark
Date
21 March, 2024
Each city partner across its 16 European countries hosted a cross-sectoral symposium exploring the relationship between the city and its Ulysses inspired ARTS & SOCIETY theme – migration, democracy, mental health, environmental pollution, social co-existence, sexual equality and freedom of speech, amongst others. In June 2024 all partners gathered in Dublin to discuss the outcomes of the city symposia and the resulting pamphlet, Will You Answer? 309 Questions from Europe, will be published in late 2024, structured in the form of 309 questions (as inspired by episode 17 of Ulysses) as an inspiration for artists and policy makers alike.
Our symposium was a communal meal and collective reading about the minority body in society. It was facilitated by Ida Maria Forster Kristensen. An intimate meal for 20 people intended to last 2 hours, the discussion lasted for three hours!
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Audience feedback
“Thank you so much for bringing up this topic and actually taking people with disabilities seriously. It was a really interesting evening, and it was valuable to gain perspective on my life experiences, particularly in comparison to, for example, those of someone non-binary.” Woman, aged 40, performer, lecturer, and body activist (disabled, attended with assistance). She offered for us to call or write if we need a consultant to make our theater even better, which we have already done.
Emailed received after the event from a male, 73, retired bricklayer, musician: Subject: Thank you for yesterday: “Hello, It was a wonderful evening. Thank you so much for that. Speaking of humanity—normality—abnormality, I was reminded of this poem by Gustaf Munch-Petersen. I composed music for it myself.
human —
whether you are strong, and your voice is heard by many,
or you are small and weak,
whether you are foolish or wise,
what is that against everything else
in the world —
nothing —
the mountains are high and low,
the roses are red and fragrant,
but also withered and yellow —
that’s not it —
but
that you can revel in pleasures
and in the midst of the ecstasy shed tears,
but
that you can suffer
and from your pain create an ode to life.”