NOBELFESTIVALEN

- a series of literary evenings
 

Together with Svenska folkskolans vänner, Klockriketeatern introduces a completely new concept: a series of new texts written for the stage. During the season 2024-25 we presented ten new short works inspired by female Nobel writers.

For the first season of Nobelfestivalen we commisioned works from female and non-binary writers, chosen by a jury through an open call.

We arranged five different events, each one focusing on one nobel writer and two new texts inspired by her. The program each evening consisted of an introduction, stage readings of the new texts and discussion and analysis.

The five first Nobel writers are Svetlana Aleksijevitj, Annie Ernaux, Herta Müller, Toni Morrison and Selma Lagerlöf.

Read more about the past events in swedish here!

Nobelfestivalen – Toni Morrison

May 6th at 6 pm
at G18, Yrjönkatu 18, Helsinki

An introduction to Toni Morrison: Minna Salami

Our Own Best Thing
Text: Pamela Cohn

The Haunting Dance
Text: Isha Lucas

Actors: Antonia Atarah & Tuuli Heinonen

Discussion moderated by Mirva Helenius

Music:
Duo Rhosia - Alina Sorjonen (piano), Matti Lindholm (alto violin)
- The Deserted Garden, Florence B. Price
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, trad. 
- Troubled Water from Spiritual Suite No.3, Margaret Bonds

Director: Carl Alm
The room: Ksenia Peretrukhina, Ida Rosenblad, Irina Duskova
Translations into Swedish: Carl Alm, Ida Rosenblad
Communication: Ida Rosenblad, Kristina Gröqvist von Bonsdorff, Ella Slunga
Head of production: Irina Duskova
Artistic director, Klockriketeatern: Dan Henriksson

The evening is in English and Swedish; The readings in Swedish and the discussions in English
The theater will provide English versions of the texts

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Minna Salami, a Finnish-Nigerian author and social critic is one of the leading voices of contemporary afrofeminism. In her works Salami challenges the dominance of Western, Europatriarchal knowledge, and proposes other, African and black feminist ways to perceive the world. Her internationally acclaimed book Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone was published in 2020 and has been translated into several languages including Swedish and Finnish. Her new book Can Feminism be African: A Most Paradoxical Question came out in 2025.