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.
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 inspiring program of participatory performances, sensory experiences, film screening, workshops, concerts, and rituals.
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, 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. I hope you will join us.
Liene
The first edition of ROOTED offers a full-day journey - from intimate daytime sessions to collective evening celebration. Throughout the day, you'll find workshops, sensory experiences, film screening, sound ceremonies, and a ROOTED arts and plants market. In the evening the festival transforms into a shared space of concerts and ritual-performances, honoring the connections between humans and plants.
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
14.00-16.00 Seed Soup. Cauldron of Care. co-creative cooking
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 bath. ritual
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