Open call: Submit a program proposal for Aboagora 2025 – CLOSED
Aboagora is an international art and science event that takes place annually at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. In 2024–2030, Aboagora will realise a thematic entity titled The Planets, which draws its inspiration from Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite of the same name. The annual themes are based on the seven movements of the suite, providing inspiration and a thematic starting point for each year’s events:
- 2024: Mars, the Bringer of War
- 2025: Venus, the Bringer of Peace
- 2026: Mercury, the Winged Messenger
- 2027: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
- 2028: Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
- 2029: Uranus, the Magician
- 2030: Neptune, the Mystic
Next in the series we have Venus, the Bringer of Peace, on September 10–12, 2025, and now is the time to apply to be a part of the program! Submit your session proposal via Webropol latest by January 19 here.
You can submit your proposal in Finnish, Swedish or English. The main language of the event is English. Aboagora’s Curatorial Committee will be in touch directly to all proposals in spring 2025.
The sessions in Aboagora approach the annually changing themes both literally and metaphorically through various scholarly and artistic viewpoints. The program can include panel discussions, lectures, performances, excursions, concerts, workshops, and various combinations of these, and we are open to many kinds of proposals. In curating the program, we emphasise the variety of different artistic and scholarly viewpoints, as well as each session’s connection to the theme and the overall balance and diversity of the program.
Aboagora covers performers travel and accommodation costs for performance days as is mutually agreed, and pays all performers a small fee for the performance / session. Please note that we are unable to finance the work of a working group.
Read more about the theme Venus here.
For inspiration, you can get to know the previous years’ program here.
With any questions, please contact us at: aboagora@utu.fi
We’re looking forward to your proposals!
Aboagora is a meeting place for researchers and artists, an enabler of cooperation and a space for new creation. The project’s annual activities include an international three-day main event organized at the Sibelius Museum in Turku, a research retreat and open Avant Aboagora pre-events. The project launched in Turku’s capital of culture year 2011 is now a pioneer in the field of science and art cooperation. The event is based on the ethos that comprehensive problem solving requires not only interdisciplinary approach but also combining scientific and artistic perspectives. The organizers of Aboagora are the University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku Academy of Arts, Åbo Akademi Foundation and Turku University Foundation. Aboagora in 2024 is supported by the Kone Foundation, the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation, Svenska Kulturfonden, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, William Thurings Stiftelsen and Oskar Öflund Stiftelsen.