Experience conversations, film screenings, and a musical lecture at Oslo World — completely free!
Oslo World is more then music. Explore the program!
Every year, Oslo World curates a program featuring activists, artists, musicians, and voices from different parts of the world. This year, we shine a spotlight on cultural and civil life in Palestine, African heavy metal, sound system culture in Colombia, and artists’ dreams of the future. Most of the program is free, and new events are added continuously.
Explore Oslo World's non-musical program here!
Filmscreening & Comversation: Sonido Amazónico
The legendary band Los Wembler’s is coming to town during Oslo World and will be performing at Goldie on October 29 at 9:30 PM. In collaboration with Vega Scene, we’re screening the documentary Sonido Amazónico about the band before the concert. The screening will be introduced by a conversation with members of the band.
Read more here!
Sonic Lecture: Edna Martinez - Picós & Champeta: Sonic Encounters from the Colombian Caribbean
DJ, curator, producer, and artist Edna Martínez presents a lecture performance focused on the history and practice of picó culture. Through a combination of archival research, music, and storytelling, the performance highlights creativity and resilience, while addressing historical erasure. The audience is invited to listen, reflect, and engage with a vibrant cultural history, and to experience the interplay between global and local influences in these extraordinary sound systems.
Later that evening, Edna Martínez will also be playing at Becco!
Read more about the sonic lecture here!
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is one of the greatest crises of our time, both on a political and a humanitarian level. Images of dead people, destroyed homes and crying children circulate on social media. People affected by such cruel acts are also robbed of their former identity. Where they were once doctors, musicians, entrepreneurs and hairdressers, they are now seen through one lens, all over the world: As victims. The unending stream pictures don’t show us everyone who works to help, educate, heal and report what is happening. But civil and cultural life, environments for art and music, still exist. And much of the spirit required to stand up, comes from a shared identity. What happens to the idea of a people when all one sees are images of destruction and the dead? What characterizes the music and art environments in Palestine and why is it important that we get to know their work, right now?
In collaboration with the Palestine Committee in Norway, we have invited a panel that provides perspectives on these issues. The discussion will be moderated by Line Khateeb from the Palestine Committee, and two short films made by filmmakers in Gaza will also be shown; "NIGHT" by Ahmad Saleh and "Grandmother wore us out" by Haneen Koraz, in addition to two short films made by Palestinian children.
At the end of the conversation, rapper Mohammed Elsusi from Gaza performs. He will soon release his album "Living with Dignity" – a title that has inspired this panel.
Read more here!
Talk: A new Wave of African heavy metal
Since its inception, heavy metal has been the subject of moral panic all over the world – from parents, teachers, religious groups and authorities, who have interpreted the genre's symbols, sounds and visual identity in the worst, and most literal, senses possible. Some might argue that the shock value is intrinsic to the music’s image, but as decades have passed, metal culture in all its different facets have also come to stand for something different: A communal spirit which eventually stretches across several generations, a tight bond between artists and performers, and a deep concern with musical craft, storytelling and visual culture. In western cultures, “metal” might just as easily conjure up an image of a tightly knit cultural scene in which people still commit and care deeply, even in the way they dress.
The panel will discuss the new wave of African heavy metal and the joy connected to this genre that has cause controversy across the globe.
Artist Talk and Seminar at Dansens Hus
In connection with the performance Umuko by Dorothée Munyaneza, presented at Dansens Hus during this year’s festival, Oslo World and Dansens Hus invite you to an artist talk with the dance company, as well as a full-day seminar as part of the Nordic Bridges series.
Read more about the seminar here!
Read more about the artist talk here!
