Event info

How to build a raised bed? How many carrots grow from a carrot seed? Dear Carrot, how do you feel?

We are creating an Urban Garden in Skeljanes to find answers to those questions and to prepare a personalised dinner where the vegetable is given back its personality and treated with respect and honour: Dear Carrot, I'm sorry I forgot you in the cold.

4th september at 19:00-23:00 in tóma rýmið in Skeljanes.

Performance is in English.

About the artists:

Jakub Ziemann is a chef and loves to cook dinners for others. He has experience with using sustainable, local produce and exploring new dinner experiences. He is educated in biomedical engineering and is interested in combining his knowledge into time traveling beetroots.

Yelena Arakelow is a contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Reykjavik. She is into experimental performance art and is part of the tóma rýmið collective. As an amateur gardening enthusiast she loves to dance with Icelandic kale.

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Plöntutíð is a new theater- and performance arts festival that will be held for the second time during the 3rd - 5th September. The festival is a platform for artists who work with nature and strive to move beyond anthropocentric performing arts. The performance pieces on the festival are made for plants, in collaboration with plants and even performed by plants.

During Plöntutíð, workshops and a number of stage works will be shown in unconventional spaces around Reykjavík and Kópavogur. The program will be formally launched with a streamed performance called "Thank You for Keeping Me Alive" by Wiola Ujazdowska. The second day, Saturday, is dedicated to the youngsters and family time. The BRUM soundwalk by the performing arts group Trigger Warning takes off in Heiðmörk, then a Plant Theater workshop in Gerðarsafn with Lóa Björk Björnsdóttir is from one to three and the happening The Youth in the Woods will be performed by teenagers led by Ásrún Magnúsdóttir in Öskjuhlíð at four o'clock. In the evening, Jakub Ziemann and Yelena Arakelow receive people in a food experience called Dear Carrot, sorry I forgot you out in the cold. Eva Halldóra Guðmundsdóttir and Vigfús Karl Sigfússon will premiere the soundscape Plöntusnúður for party-thirsty plants in the empty space in Skeljanes. On the last day of the festival, The Plant Becoming Project offers a bus trip around Kleifarvatn in Reykjanes and there will be a Plant Theater in The Botanical Garden in Reykjavík. Finally, there will be an opportunity for the curious to go on a sensational journey in Ecosexuality with Íris Stefanía Skúladóttir and experience the earth as a lover.

Plöntutíð is funded by the Bank of Iceland Entrepreneurship Fund, the Reykjavík Arts and Culture Council, the Kópavogur Arts and Culture Council and the Children's Culture Fund of Iceland. Thank you!!!

You can read more about Plöntutíð at plontutid.com.

COVID-19 information

The festival will be held in one way or another and follows all the regulations on restrictions on gatherings due to the pandemic. Most events take place outdoors and in small groups of people that are closely linked. At the few indoor events and where it is more difficult to maintain the one-metre proximity limit, masks will be required. For more information, contact plontutid@gmail.com.