Panel discussion
Gratis
18.februar
18:00
The Transborder Café returns during Barents Spektakel 2021 to bring the most important cross-border debate and discussion to the eyes and ears of the Barents Region and beyond.
Using digital solutions, Saturday’s edition of the Transborder Café builds on the symposium topic of the festival, focusing on ‘det gode liv’ as an urgent cultural question, and what this topic means among the border communities in the North. “Det gode liv” is often described through ideas of living simply, and of living well – a form of being in the world without the need for unnecessary complications, excesses, or commercial luxuries, as a connection to nature and the outdoors and perhaps a key ingredient within the larger ideas concerning what is happiness, and how do we all gain access to it?
As an attitude that promotes the absence of worry for trivial things, and an attention to life itself, we can ask the question, is this something we do well in the North? What exactly does ‘det gode liv’ represent? How do our attitudes differ on this topic among our border communities?
Has this been a form of resistance and resilience during the pandemic? Should it be seen as a societal goal for living, or is it in itself a luxury that only a privileged few have access to? What are the benefits and the consequences if we encourage and pursue ‘det gode liv’?
Panelists:
– Martin J. Nygaard, author
– Auri Ahola, sámi dancer and choreographer
– Tatjana Schnell, professor of existential psychology
– Katya Korableva, social researcher
– Evgeny Goman, director of Arctic Theatre
Moderator: Anki Gerhardsen
Host in Murmansk: Maria Matveeva
Cultural contributions by Kvae & Bark and Irina Volkova