Bring your bat mask or finest solstice clothing!
Together, we celebrate our longest day followed by our shortest night with a walk around Damhussøen while we marvel at one of the most fascinating nocturnal creatures, the bats.
Performance artist and bat ambassador, Linh Le invites you for a performative walk around Damhussøen where we will be attentive to the nocturnal bat species. Linh will make a few stops during the walk and share methods of attentiveness and calm breathing and movement exercises. Together, we will explore the transition from light to darkness.
Who can participate?
All ages and capabilities. We do ask that children are accompanied by an carer.
capacity will be set at 20 participants. Participation is free. First come, First serve basis.
Meeting place:
We will email you the meeting place after signing up.
Please arrive 10 minutes before the event start time.
Access Information:
The walk is a total of 3,6 km.
Public toilets are located on the lake route. The walking route surface is mostly even consisting of asphalt and shorter sections are packed with gravel.
Language:
English or Danish, depending on the needs of the group.
About the Artist:
Performance artist and ambassador of brown long-eared bat, Linh Le promotes knowledge of bats through sensory experiences and has developed performative workshops since she had the opportunity to be an artist-in-residency in Austin, Texas through Warehouse9’s and MoHA’s UnlistedProjects residency program. During the residency, Linh developed bat meditation, an interactive scream performance inspired by bat screams, and volunteered at the Austin Bat Refuge, where she helped with bat rehabilitation.
Linh is co-founder of performance climate activist collective Becoming Species and a board member of the nationwide association Species’ Ambassadors.
https://linhle.dk/
Jasmin has a master’s degree in English and cultural communications from the University of Copenhagen and has worked with several fields within the cultural sphere. She has worked with executing and communicating films, festivals, art fairs, and literature, and has now embarked upon queer performance art at Warehouse9.
Emma (they/she) has been a core member since 2012 and a leading effort in driving organisational development. They have helped shape WH9’s artistic profile, initiated national and international collaborations and consolidated WH9 through fundraising strategies, and insisting on production methods centering care and accessiblility.
In addition, Emma works as an independent curator, e.g. through the curatorial duo osborn&møller, where they have acted as guest curator at the Wellcome Collection (UK) and curated part of City of Women’s 25 year anniversary festival in 2019 (SL). Emma has experience as a freelance producer in the UK, where they worked with artists such as Poppy Jackson, Manuel Vason and SPILL Festival. Emma holds a MA in Theater and Performance from Queen Mary, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre & Education from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Jørgen Callesen (They/He) is co-founder and co-director of Warehouse9.
For the past 17 years, they have been an integral part of developing Warehouse9 to become a leading organisation for cross-aesthetic queer art, including international festivals and socially engaged projects. He holds a Ph.D. in information & media science from Aarhus University (2005) and has an artistic practice with the performance figure “miss fish”. They have presented solo work in Denmark and internationally since 2002 and work in collaboration with numerous queer artists as well as in lager scale productions.
