26–27/11/2025 | 13:00-17:00 @ MDT, Slupskjulsvägen 30, 111 49 Stockholm
We are living through overlapping crises, which are social, ecological, political, and institutional in nature. This makes questions of responsibility, care, and resistance in the arts feel more urgent than ever.
Complex Complicities is a two-day symposium that brings together artists, cultural workers, educators, and institutions from across the Nordic region. Through keynotes, conversations, and workshops, we explore how to work through love and rage, solidarity and community in times of multiple intersecting crises and how to share and imagine new tools, structures and forms of solidarity for survival and transformation.
The two-day symposium consists of keynotes, panel discussions and workshops that approach these topics and more.
Collaboratively organised by UrbanApa, a Helsinki-based antiracist and feminist arts community, and MDT Moderna Dansteatern.
Please sign up until 24/11/2025 to secure your spot!
PROGRAMDAY 1: 26 November 2025
13:00: Welcome
13:15 – 14:00: DDE – Diversity in Dance Education
A presentation by Zoë Poluch
14:00 – 14:15 BREAK
14:15 – 15:30 WORKING THROUGH LOVE AND RAGE – Navigating the times of polycrises
A panel discussion with My Wild Flag, Niki Awandee and Ofelia Jarl Ortega moderated by Liz Kinoshita
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45 – 16:45 TOOLBOX Part I - sharing survival strategies for striving artists
A workshop facilitated by Sonya Lindfors and Julian Owusu
16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye.
DAY 2: 27 November 2025
13:00: Welcome
13:15 – 14:00: HOW TO START A FIRE –
A keynote given by Alex Blum
14:00 – 14:15 BREAK
14:15 – 15:30 Letters to The Future
Letters read by Luusi Kateme, Ar Utke Ács, Rossana Mercado-Rojas
15:30 – 15:45 BREAK
15:45 – 16:45 TOOLBOX Part II - DREAMING AND SCHEMING – building alternative structures, through institutional allies & micro-resistance
A workshop facilitated by Sonya Lindfors and Julian Owusu16:45 – 17:00 Wrap up and goodbye.
17:00 – 19:00 BIPOC HANG
Separatist dinner and hangout for BIPOC cultural practitioners. Please only sign up for this if you identity with this term. Register for the dinner here.
REGISTRATION DEADLINERegistration will close on the 24th of November. This is a 2-day symposium and there are 50 available places for each day.
NB. Please note that you will receive confirmation of a successful registration on a rolling basis and at the latest after registration has closed. We would kindly ask you to let us know if you have to cancel. You can email us at tickets@mdtsthlm.se. Thank you in advance!
ACCESSIBILITYAll of our toilets are gender neutral. We have accessible toilets on floors one and two, and a lift to all floors. We operate a policy of reasonable adjustment and will endeavour to meet any access requirements communicated to us within a reasonable timeframe, just email us:
safety@mdtsthlm.se.
Complex Complicities is a part of BRIDGES, a project designed to strengthen sustainable and long term Nordic collaboration in the realms of antiracist and intersectional feminist practices. The project is funded by Nordic Culture Point and is produced by UrbanApa arts platform based in Helsinki. The project is initiated by Sonya Lindfors, Cameroonian-Finnish choreographer and founder of UrbanApa.
