an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Finland. She has worked with and on islands for over two decades. She is co- founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, a curatorial collective supporting site-sensitive work. She has been leading a multidisciplinary collaborative research project Själö Poeisis on the island of Seili for almost a decade. The works include a feature length film, a radio essay, lecture performances, a choir work, an apothecary and visual texts. She is currently writing a larger body of work - Själö Herbarium, a critical study of power structures through plants as a performance, a lecture, a prayer, a poem, a cry. Petronella is also  a devoted medicine and flower essence maker and a tarot scholar.

https://lottapetronella.com/

At ROOTED Lotta will offer a performance, lecture, a poem, a cry “Själö Herbarium”  and collective tarot reading performance.

as an independent music artist, singer, songwriter, electronic composer, spoken word artist, music producer, and bandleader, Josephin has contributed to productions and critically acclaimed concert experiences of a particularly vulnerable, experimental and ethereal nerve.

Today, her musical service centers on ceremonial performance art and improvisation of what she humbly defines as universal folk music. With electronic nature soundscapes, organic percussion instruments, and improvised songs, she lets her passion for embodying the playful and vulnerable authenticity of the present propagate itself in our collective body. Josephin Bovién invites us to merge with the pulsating soil of Mother Earth, where the biodiverse life around and above can be inhaled, time spirals, and where spiritual surrender equals collective liberation.

At ROOTED Josephin will hold the opening ceremony and offer a musical storytelling performance

a multidisciplinary artist from Denmark. A singer, composer, storyteller, actress, physical performer, theatre director, and psychotherapist. She is artistic director of Teater Viva, expanding the perception of theatre into an artistic space, where we can meet our selves, each other and our living environment in an extended resonance. Since 2015 with Singing Our Place: a cross art project exploring the voices of human beings, the voices of our living surroundings and our common future. Singing Our Place has created performances, concerts, workshops, talks, sound installations and festivals in Denmark, England, Iceland, Germany, Finland Norway, Sweden and Greenland. 

www.teaterviva.dk

At ROOTED Katrine will offer performance walk “Songs From Our Bodies” and concert “Songs From My Body”

An artist, activist, space holder, and facilitator whose practice interweaves transdisciplinary and intersectional approaches. Her work centers on sensing, feeling, and deepening connections - to oneself, to others, and to the wider metabolism of planet Earth. Though initially educated in visual arts, she has evolved to work primarily with sound and performance, exploring voice as a medium for expression and healing.

Her performance portfolio includes projects such as "Who would have thought that the snow falls," "Treehumana," "Wandering Voices," and "Murmuring through." She previously contributed to Dear Home Collective, examining the concept of home in our migrating world through participatory performances, workshops, and exhibitions.

At ROOTED Agnieszka is part of the collective sound ceremony / performance “murmuring through”.

a Stockholm-based artist, explores the connection between inner and outer worlds through interdisciplinary and site-specific performances. Utilizing song, spoken word, violin, and movement, her solo projects, such as “Owl Woman,” “Dream of the dream,” “Ofelia Reversed,” and “Dadaistic Diva,” delve into transformative power via feminine archetypes.  She frequently collaborates with artist Valeria Montti Colque and musician David Heikkinen, and has recently been seen at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, and the Venice Biennale, among other venues.  Separately, as an educator and holistic voice therapist, Ida Lod guides individuals to connect with their creative voice through embodied practices. Educated at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, her work blends artistic exploration with holistic and healing guidance.

https://idalod.com/

At ROOTED Ida will offer a performance-ritual “Owl Woman”.

Wild Anima (Alex Alexopoulos) is a French-Greek sound artist who fuses ancient melodies reminiscent of mermaid-like choirs through live looping tapestries to create tender and organic ethereal music. Her work, imbued with mysticism and eco-feminism, is also embodied in artistic and therapeutic experiments, such as the Supernatural project, blending plant music, ecology of emotions and collective re-enchantment. 

On her latest album “Phytosynthesis,” Wild Anima has harnessed the essence of plants, capturing their secret symphonies through bio electric signal and translating them into music. “Phytosynthesis” is a sensory exploration of the interconnectedness between humans and nature. It’s a reminder that the world around us is alive with its own unique rhythms and melodies, waiting to be discovered through music.

https://www.wildanimamusic.com/

At ROOTED Wild Anima will offer a concert.

I would describe myself as an alchemist (and mother), as it embraces all aspects of my work. My approach to the sensory universe of the medicinal plant queendom is based on smells, flavours, touch, cultivation, preparation and treatment as medicine. I use various methods to extract, ferment, distil and transform plants, with the aim of helping people rediscover their inherent power.

I have established my own herbal farm, where I teach plant medicine and human health, and harvest herbs for products. My life follows a seasonal rhythm. In spring, I plant seeds. In summer, I harvest and teach. In autumn, I make extracts and products from the harvest. In winter, I sell all the herbal gifts to you at markets.

https://www.laerkelyhne.com/

At ROOTED festival Lærke will offer a herbal wellness station and a ritual, as well as a station with her herbal products.

A relational designer, researcher, and educator. At the festival, Tīna is representing Fabula, a Latvia-based creative collective she co-founded. Rooted in creativity, Fabula explores regenerative and relational approaches to change, fostering new ways of thinking, making, and connecting with more-than-human. Their practice includes publishing, organizing educational & transformative workshops, conducting ecology-oriented research, and more.

https://www.instagram.com/collective_fabula/

At ROOTED festival Tīna will hold a meadow quilt workshop

With a deep-rooted curiosity about what it means to be alive,Vivian Vesterager works with the experience both of the vibrancy of life and the stillness of numbness. Vivian explores the pendulum between these states in a way that invites audiences to question their own perceptions of the world; lately through immersive theatre, naturvejledning and ritualistic practices

Drawing inspiration from a various beautiful mentors, projects, and collaborative experiences, Vivian’s artistic journey has been shaped by encounters with Roy Hart Theatre, Sisters Hope, Metropolis, as well as by her own self-taught exploration. 

Based in Djursland, Denmark, she draws inspiration from nature and the intricate systems that sustain life.

At ROOTED Vivian is part of the collective sound ceremony / performance “murmuring through”.

a poet, writer, researcher, translator and communication consultant from the north of Germany (the land between the seas) based in Aarhus, Denmark. 

Her work invites a space of curiosity, intimate encounters and conspiratorial visioning with the land and beings through writings based on experimental text and visual formats, stream-of-consciousness, carrier-bag-like foraging and assembling, multispecies perspectives and observations. She explores the inner and outer landscapes in the current state of planetary collapse, connecting themes of solastalgia, (un)seasonality, ritual, wilderness, and the possibilities and pains of love in the Capitalocene and late modernity.

Her writing is inspired by Ursula le Guin, Mary Oliver and Rainer Maria Rilke, among others, and the seemingly small encounters of everyday life.

At ROOTED festival Anika will hold a speculative plant poetry workshop “Entangled Visioning”

I work with the body and senses, movement, and relational knowledges. One of my most important collaborations is my movement practice by Utterslev marsh, an ecology in Copenhagen close to where I live: polluted and protected, a site of liveliness and slow death, great beauty and ongoing violence. Dancing with these paradoxes (in a literal way!) teaches me a lot about the dilemmas, frictions and inequalities in more-than-human relationships- and about love. This movement practice also (re-)connects me to my Baltic lineage and the heritage I carry, such as time spent with plants in Latvia when I was a child, and the cosmologies and intergenerational knowledges underlying these experiences.

https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/llapina

At ROOTED Linda will offer a sensory anchoring ritual as part of the screening of “Wild Relatives”

a Palestinian visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism, and histories of place.  Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration. 

https://www.jumanamanna.com/

ROOTED festival will screen Manna’s documentary “Wild Relatives”

A muralist, designer and interdisciplinary artist. Edda uses her art to influence social debate and works across mediums to create art that dives into contemporary issues, exploring and explaining as she takes the viewer on a journey through her mind. 

Edda work is based on extensive research and explaining complex processes in a fun and accessible way. She applies the same approach when she does design or wall work, every mural has to fit into its environment and please those who live in its vicinity.

At ROOTED Edda is part of the collective sound ceremony / performance “murmuring through”.

a French documentary photographer and filmmaker. After growing up in Luxembourg, she studied communication and journalism in Brussels before her passion for photography led her to follow a program in photojournalism and visual storytelling at the Danish school of Media and Journalism (DMJX). Her graduation short documentary film “Take me as I am” received an award of excellence at Pictures of the Year International (POYi). For her documentary photography project “Biophilia, a natural life” she lived in immersion with the family she photographed, and used analogue cameras to observe and work at a slow pace. Inspired by her travels and encounters, her projects recount stories of freedom, feminism, creative expression and (re)connection with the natural world.

ROOTED festival will exhibit some of Capucine’s photography from “Biophilia” series.

I am photographer, videographer and web developer. I love anything analogue and being a fly on the wall at beautiful events like Rooted Festival and sharing my work from it. Whenever I’m not working with film and photos, I’m either trying to learn French at night school or trying to find the cute kittens at (X) to cuddle with.

https://moodycreatives.com/

Inge will be capturing ROOTED festival in still and moving images. 

What brings me the biggest joy is creating spaces that gather people and open a space for connection. With oneself, others, Earth, music, art. Life. This is my work of love for this world.

This work has taken many shapes. Festivals, workshops, courses, sensory walks, performances, rituals, gardens, herbal tea library, dj sets, and more. And there have been many more shapes before this.

For some years now creating these spaces has been in close collaboration with plants and trees and ROOTED is one such collaboration. While I am doing the human work of curating and producing this beautiful festival, it is the plants bringing us all together and I am so humbled and excited.

Apart from curating and producing the festival, Liene will also be part of a pop-up concert with the singing collective, a sound ceremony and journey “murmuring through”,, and the sensory movie screening of “Wild Relatives”.

“singing circle” is an informal group of female and non-binary people that gather once a week in a circle at Institut for (X) to collectively learn and sing folksongs in various languages. It started in 2024 with the intention to create a safe space for singing as a joyful and collective practice, for exploring and using our voices in an authentic and non-perfectionist way, for expanding both our song library and ability to improvise.

At ROOTED festival the singing circle will offer a pop-up concert singing plant-related folksongs from various places in Europe.