ROOTED is an interdisciplinary festival and an emerging cultural platform that connects plants, people, and art. It is an invitation to collectively explore the power of the arts in times of ecological crisis and to reconnect with plants as medicine, wisdom-keepers, and allies in shaping more livable futures for all.
The first edition of ROOTED festival will take place on June 14, 2025, at Institut for (X) in Aarhus, and will bring together artists and plant practitioners from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, France, and Latvia, offering an engaging and inspiring program of participatory performances, sensory walks, film screenings, workshops, and concerts.
With the help of these formats the festival creates space for exploring and deepening the relationships between plants and people through interdisciplinary artistic practices.
ROOTED is both a response and an offering. A response to the urgency I have felt from plants themselves - to bring plants and people together this way, to engage with the world in a way that is sensorial, collective, and transformative. An offering to gather, listen, and co-create what wants to be created . An offering to the city I live in to experience the richness of art and processes that already exists in co-creation with plants. This is just the beginning, a seed. May it grow and flourish in its own unique way. I hope you will join us.
Liene
First festival edition offers fourteen different ways to get rooted and the program is altogether twelve hours long and in two blocks.
DAY program invites for small and intimate formats - workshops, performance walk, film screening, tarot reading performance, sound ceremony, herbal wellness station. There will also be a ROOTED arts and plants market during the day.
EVENING program is a collective celebration of plant and human relations through concerts and ritual-performances.
Tickets are offered on a sliding scale to make ROOTED accessible.
DAY Program
11.00 - 13.00 Wild Relatives. movie screening, seed exchange & sensory experience
11.30 - 13.00 Entangled Visioning. a speculative plant poetry workshop
13.00 - 15.00 Meadow Quilt. eco-social engagement workshop
13.30 - 15.00 Songs from our Bodies. performance walk
15.00 - 17.00 Reading with plants. collective tarot reading performance
16.00 - 17.00 murmuring through. silence came in pulsing ripples.
sound ceremony - performance
17.30 herbal ritual before transitioning into the evening program
EVENING Program
18.00 - 19.00 Owl Woman. performance
19.30 - 20.15 Musical Storytelling. performance
20.30 - 21.15 Songs from My Body. concert
21.30 - 22.15 Själö Herbarium. a performance, a lecture, a prayer, a poem, a cry
22.30 - 23.15 Wild Anima. concert
throughout the day and as pop-up happenings:
concert by the singing circle, herbal wellness station by Lærke Lyhne; photo exhibition by Capucine Chandon; ROOTED market