Panel Session: Rebuilding Beyond Ruins
Navigating Post-War Recovery and Environmental Resilience
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Performative Session: Mars Frequencies
Musical frequencies of Earth and Mars and its moons
AGORA: Martial sounds and silences
The first AGORA session of 2024 is an assemblage performance by Susanna Hast and Noora Kotilainen.
Art Exhibition: Mars – War Gods and masculinity
Paul Krispijn’s and Nana Blomqvist's exhibition explores the connection between patriarchal cultural values, (patriarchal) masculinity, and war.
Science and art at the interface of war and peace – Mars-theme launches new Aboagora theme season
The three-day science and art event Aboagora will take place in the last week of August under the theme Mars, bringer of war. This year's headliners include Swedish writer-journalist Thella Johnson, known for her Finland-connections. The Mars -theme opens a new seven-year Planets theme season.
Aboagora Research Retreat VII: A De/Colonial Present
The ABOAGORA Retreat VII: De/Colonial Present invited MA Arts Students and Doctoral Candidates in the arts, humanities, and sciences to reflect together on how the living legacies of colonial histories play a role in the conflicts raging today and, on the other hand, how decolonial practices propose alternative ways out of these battles over territories and words, resources and rights.
Program change in ABOAGORA 2024
Due to a force majeure, Professor Manfred Nowak will be unable to attend ABOAGORA 2024. In his place, the Agora keynote on 29 August will be delivered by Professor KoenDe Feyter, Professor of Public International Law at the University of Antwerp.
Avant Aboagora: Rohkeutta, vastarintaa ja musiikillista aktivismia läpi vuosisatojen
Yhteistyössä Turun Musiikkijuhlien kanssa järjestetyssä Avant Aboagorassa paneuduttiin musiikilliseen aktivismiin.
Uusi tekijöitä ABOAGORAN tuotantotiimissä
Petra Piiroinen aloitti Aboagoran uutena projektitutkijana maaliskuussa. Tiimiä kesän aikana täydentää myös harjoittelija Sonja Korhonen. Tiivis työtahti huipentuu elokuussa uuden seitsenvuotisen ohjelmakauden aloitukseen.
Call for Event Assistants for ABOAGORA 28–30.8.2024
We are looking for Event Assistants to help with diverse tasks before and during the ABOAGORA event “Mars, the Bringer of War” on August 27–30 at the Sibelius Museum (Piispankatu 17, Turku).
The program of Aboagora: “Mars, the Bringer of War” 28–30.8.2024 explores war and the red planet through the means of science and art
The science and art event Aboagora's theme this year is Mars, the Bringer of War. The AGORA-speakers of the event this year are the writer-journalist Thella Johnson, the secretary-general of the Global Campus of Human Rights Manfred Nowak, and researcher-artist Susanna Hast and researcher Noora Kotilainen. The program's keynotes are free of charge and open to everyone. Mars, the Bringer of War is the first event of Aboagora's new seven-year The Planets -season.
Avant Aboagora: Gustav Holst, planeetat ja avaruudellinen populaarimusiikki
Vuoden 2024 Avant Aboagora syväluotaa avaruudellista musiikkikulttuuria. Aboagora-tapahtuman varaslähdössä Sibelius-museolla 17.5.2024 tutustutaan alkavaan Planeetat-ohjelmakauteen ja musiikin kosmisiin ulottuvuuksiin dosentti Kimi Kärjen johdolla. Ilta huipentuu maailmankaikkeusmusiikkiyhtye Astro Can Caravanin konserttiin.