Winter festival 2020 – Programme

Headstart: 8th-12th February

• Ski-making: Practical and historical introduction to the ski-making tradition. Course in making your own wooden skis using simple tools. Thomas Aslaksby (Woodwork Workshop)
• Read more here (visitrauland.com)
• Organizer: Raulandsakademiet

Monday 10th February

• Tanning Fish Skins: Sidsel Sæterhaug (Olavskjellaren) Introductory course in tanning fish skins using bark and fat.
• Wire sculpting and microwelding: Johannes Vemren Rygh (Metal Workshop). The course will be an introduction to microwelding steel to create a piece of jewellery.
• Forging: Martine Johannesen (Forge) Basic course in forging techniques, simple exercises (hook, latch, clasp)
• Ski-making: Thomas Aslaksby (Woodwork Workshop) (Started on Saturday 8 February)

Tuesday 11th February 

• 12.00 Lecture:Traditional leather tanning with Sidsel Sæterhaug (Myllarsalen)
• 14.30 Open workshops: samples from across the different academic disciplines

Wednesday 12th February

• 09.00-15.00 Courses continue (last day of ski-making, forging and wire sculpting)
• 09.00-10.00 Workshop: Partnering, contact and improvisation (Vinjesalen) with Lia Fernandes Meirelles (BRA) and Mónica Alejandra (CO) Choreomundus – Int. master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage
• 10.00 – 11.00 Workshop: Speed and dance relationship in Butoh and Tutting (Vinjesalen) with Abdullah Ghazanfar (PK) and Alexandar Isailovic (SRB), Choreomundus – Int. master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage
• Lunch
• 12.00-13:00 Lecture: Keening, Irish songs of grief with Michelle Collins (Myllarsalen)
• 13.30-15.00 Workshop: Body percussion to interpret African rhythms (Vinjesalen) with Emmanuel Mujuru (ZIM) –  with Choreomundus – Int. master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage
• Dinner break
• 19:00 Workshop: Telespringar with two followers with Birgit Haukås, Even Westeng and Unni Boksasp (Vinjesalen)
• 20:00 Dance, jam and pub (Gardsjordstoga)

Thursday 13th February

• 09.30-11.30 Workshop: Wool and spinning using a drop spindle with Marianne Telle.
• 10.00-11.00  Lecture: Haltdalen Village of Dance – Knowledge-in-dancing in a Rural Community in Norway. Triangular interaction between dance, music and partnering with Siri Mæland from the Norwegian Centre for Folk Music and Folk Dance.
• Lunch
• 12.00 – 13.45 Workshop: Ensemble Playing, Teacher: Mikael Marin (Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Stockholm)
• 13.00 Lecture: Patterns and Motifs in Art and Design (Myllarsalen) with Hedvig Harmati and Balázs Vargha from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (HU)
• 14.00 – 15.30 Workshop: French fiddle music/Dancing Bourrées, Marchoises and Bretagne. Philippe Compagnon of Pôle Aliénor, Poitiers, France.
• 15.45 – 16.45 Workshop: African dance from Uganda and Guinea (Vinjesalen) with Betty Nalubega (UG) and Brenda Leticia Mayr Villalobos (MEX) from Choreomundus – Int. master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage
• Dinner break

Exhibition at Skinnarlandsamlinga:

• 18.30 Exhibition opening and concert: with Tellef Kvifte and Ånon Egeland (Skinnarlandsamlinga)
• Student work from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (HU)

Evening at Telemarkstunet:

• 20.00 – 21.00 Concert: with folk music students from Rauland (Årestoga)
• 21.00 – 21.30 Concert: Chaotic Neutral, A creative voice experiment, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa and Zimbabwe in resonance.
• 21.30 Dance, jam and pub (Gardsjordstoga)

Friday 14th February

• 10.00-11:30 Workshop: Argentine Tango (Vinjesalen) with Lia Tsnobiladze (GEO) Choreomundus – Int. master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage
• 10.00 Presentation of the international programme of study in folk art/craft:(Myllarsalen)

1. University of Tartu, Viljandi Culture Academy, Estonian Native Crafts Department (EE)/ Uppsala University
2. Department of Art History (SE)/ University of Gothenburg, Department of Conservation(SE)/ University of Helsinki, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education (FI)

• Lunch
• 12.00-17.00: The exhibition at Skinnarlandsamlinga is open
• 12.00-12.30 Lecture and workshop: An encounter with the bridal spoon tradition in Hallingdal by Ulf Arne Johannessen. Language: English (Woodwork Workshop). From around 12.45 Ulf Arne will continue with a workshop where he gives a simple introduction to bridal spoon making.
• 12:30-13:30 Workshop: Couple dances from Smolensk district, Russia (Vinjesalen) with Maria Sivkova Choreomundus – Int. master in Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage
• 15.00 – 16.30 Samples from the dance archive at the Norwegian Centre for Folk Music and Folk Dance: Norwegian dancing traditions (Myllarsalen) with Siri Mæland 

Friday Night Festivities 

Evening ticket kr. 300/ 150 (student)  

• 17.00 Concert: Sing Along! (Grotten) In autumn 2019 Frode Nyvold released his album of songs from the Norwegian tradition, Soldater og redelig sjømenn. Together with Richard Burgess he will present the album, encouraging the audience to sing along to some of the songs. 
• Dinner break
• 19.00 Concert: Ånon Egeland og Mikael Marin present Teasers from an exciting new album project (Vinjesalen)
• 20.00 Concert: Robert Burns in Dialect (Vinjesalen) with Ingebjørg Lognvik Reinholt, Aasmund Nordstoga, Sarah-Jane Summers. Robert Burns (1759-1796) was a Scottish poet, viewed by the Scots as their national poet. During the Winter Festival, songs by Robert Burns, translated into West Telemark dialect by Peter Fjågesund, will be performed with their original traditional Scottish melodies. Organiser: Folkemusikkscena i Rauland More info (Facebook)
• 21.00 Dance: Falkeriset fiddlers’ group will get the dancing started (Vinjesalen)
• 22.00 Dance concert: Ulf Arne Johannessen (Vinjesalen)
• 23.00 Dance concert: Lars Erik Øygarden (Vinjesalen)              

Saturday 15th February

• 10.00-14.30: Registration for the kappleik / traditional music and dance competition (Corridor outside Myllarsalen)
• 10.30-17.00 Kappleik (Vinjesalen, Raulandsakademiet) 

Saturday Night Festivities

• 19.30 Festival concert: samples from a varied festival programme (Vinjesalen)Richard Burgess/ Pôle Aliénor, Poitiers, France/Choreomundus/Anne Gravir Klykken/ Unni Boksasp MC: Richard Burgess (UK/NO)
• 21.00 Dance concert: with Anders Røine
• 22.00 Kappleik Prizegiving (Vinjesalen)
• 22.00 Concert: Norwegian Folk Music and Friends – a student concert (Midtstoga)
• 23.00 Dance Concert: with Per Åsmund Omholt

Sunday 16th February

Tickets: kr. 200/100 (student)

• 12.00-17.00 The exhibition at Skinnarlandsamlinga is open
• 19.00 Concert: BLÅMYRA with Richard Burgess (Årestoga) a one-man cabaret and homage to the people of Østfold County in the age of sailing ships. During the cabaret, we hear from the sailors themselves, through authentic local sailors’ songs, shanties and excerpts from letters and memoirs.