Future Kin
LADA is partnering with ANTI Festival, My Wild Flag, Theater Rosendal and Warehouse9 to create a network dedicated to nurturing queer interdisciplinary performance practice across borders.
Programme
- Monday 15 – Wednesday 17 June, 2026: 3 day gathering in London focused on archiving queer performance.
- Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 September, 2026: 3 day gathering in Stockholm focused on grassroots queer community building during My Wild Flag.
- Wednesday 16 – Sunday 20 September, 2026: 3 day gathering in Kuopio for ANTI Festival, using the festival’s projects as a case study to explore queering public spaces.
Partners will develop collective tools and strategies for supporting marginalised practices through co-learning programmes focused on sustaining queer practice, community, public space and legacy. The network aims to build a transnational model for co-learning and cooperation, grounded in the cultural and political significance of queer performance practice. Across developing, platforming, and archiving queer practice, the network members will share tools for preserving marginalised histories, challenging dominant narratives, and enabling social transformation through cultural programming.
Future Kin is funded by Nordic Culture Point.
ANTI Festival
ANTI Festival, Kuopio, Finland, is an international contemporary art festival held annually in September. The festival has been organised for 25 years and is Finland’s leading live art event. ANTI will work as the project lead, taking care of the overall project coordination and financial management. It will utilise its wide photo and video archives and experiences in working with queer artists and local communities to support the project objectives. Through its 25-year history, the festival has not only supported queer live art strongly but also worked for queering the mindset and spaces of its hometown, for more equal and safer public spaces. ANTI will host the third and final network meeting at the ANTI Festival in late September 2026 in Kuopio.
More informationMy Wild Flag
My Wild Flag, Stockholm, Sweden, is an annual dance and choreography festival happening in early September since 2017. The festival offers international and local acts working with experimental formats and intersectional perspectives. MWF can be seen as a choreography in itself, where different communities engage in social choreographies as well as works made for the stage. The festival wants to expose and address urgent themes: bodies, thinking and beings that disturb and embrace the ways in which we perceive the world. MWF will bring their experience of artist-led curation and grassroots activism to the network, and host the second network meeting at the festival in early September 2026.
More informationRosendal Teater
Rosendal Teater, Trondheim, Norway, is an inviting, curious, super international and hyper local house of performance, theatre, dance, music and debate. Their vision is to transform the performing arts – towards a bold, inclusive and sustainable future. RT is deeply embedded in queer art locally, nationally and internationally, with a significant proportion of its programme given to queer focusses and audiences that are twice as likely to be queer as national averages. RT will contribute its curatorial, and socially engaged expertise to support the project’s goals.
More informationWarehouse9
Warehouse9, Copenhagen, Denmark, brings nearly 20 years of community-rooted queer arts practice in Denmark, where queer performance has historically been underrepresented and under-documented. We are committed to supporting marginalised practices, reimagining the politics of space, and creating artist-centred opportunities. As we approach our 20th anniversary, this network will be instrumental in guiding how we engage with and activate our archive. WH9 will contribute its curatorial, archival, and socially engaged expertise to support the project’s goals.
More informationBanner image credit:
River Lin, My Body is Queer Library, ANTI Festival 2022. Image Akseli Muraja
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