ROOTED is a new interdisciplinary festival in Aarhus that brings together plants, people, and art. Through performances, workshops, and rituals, we explore the role of arts in times of ecological crises. We explore how artistic practice can deepen our relationship with the living world. We reconnect with plants as medicine, wisdom-keepers, and allies in dreaming more livable futures for all into being.
Next festival - 13 June, 2026
The first edition of ROOTED festival took place on June 14, 2025, at Institut for (X) in Aarhus, bringing together artists and plant practitioners from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, France, and Latvia, offering a thirteen hour program of participatory performances, sensory experiences, film screening, workshops, concerts, and rituals.
Here is a video documentation of the first festival seen and edited by Nóra Heves.
ROOTED is both a response and an offering. A response to the urgency I have felt from plants - to bring plants and people together, to engage with the world in a way that is sensorial, collective, and transformative. An offering to gather, listen, and co-create. An offering to the city I live in to experience the richness of art and processes that exist in co-creation with plants. This is just the beginning, a seed. May it grow and flourish in its own unique way.
Liene