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Arts &
Culture
Concept Note
Version : 09–02–2021
Introduction
Copenhagen 2021
Copenhagen 2021 is taking place from Friday 12 until
Arts & Culture
Sunday 22 August in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö,
Sweden. The events taking place during Copenhagen Culture reflects all
our lives, our differ-
2021 are organised within four interconnected pillars :
ences and what we
share, and celebrat-
ing art and culture is
an essential part of
Human Rights Copenhagen 2021.
Human rights are
the cornerstone of LGBTI+ has its own
Copenhagen 2021 cultural landscape
and intrinsically with a history and
Sports linked with Pride, expression of its
Sport can be a Sports and Arts & own, which is too
hostile and unsafe Culture. often misrepre-
environment for sented, misunder-
WorldPride LGBTI+ people, who With our Human stood, or overlooked
are often discrimi- Rights Forum con- in the mainstream
Pride is a celebra- sisting of six main cultural arena.
nated against. This
tion and a constant events we are aim-
is problematic not
reminder of our vic- ing for global impact With the Copenha-
only for the athletes,
tories and ongoing and change for sexu- gen 2021 Culture
but also for clubs
battles as people not al and gender identi- Program consisting
who essentially risk
afforded the same ty minorities. of theme-based ven-
losing talent due to
rights as others ues across Copen-
their often hostile
due to our sexual The diversity and hagen and extensive
environment.
orientation or gen- aim of our events collaboration with
der identity. Dating create opportunities both established
In Copenhagen 2021
back to 1969 and the to target different and experimental
we will create the
Stonewall uprising groups within and culture partners, we
world’s safest place
in New York City, the outside our commu- will make everybody
to participate in
Pride movement has nity and bring them learn, hear, see or
sports while inviting
walked the streets together to create feel the multiple
major sports fed-
for equal rights for awareness, under- shades of the world
erations to join us
over five decades standing and give of LGBTI+ culture.
in the global fight
growing stronger everybody the pos-
against homophobia,
every year. We will sibility to broaden
biphobia and trans-
continue to do so their horisons and
phobia in sports
until we have the take action.
with EuroGames as
same rights as any
our backbone.
other human being. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 002
Patron of
Copenhagen 2021
Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess of
Denmark is the Patron of Copenhagen 2021,
the greatest and most inclusive LGBTI+
event ever held in Denmark, celebrating
WorldPride and EuroGames simultaneously
for the first time.
WATCH VIDEO HERE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 003
Arts & Culture :
Aims & impact
Our Arts & Culture programming is
never without agenda or intention.
We want to surprise, provoke and
embrace, to generate and enthuse
passion and to create physical plat-
forms for LGBTI+ lives and challenges
in new and daring ways.
Working across both Copenhagen
and Malmö with established cultural
institutions, grassroots movements,
independent artists and everything
in-between, we strive to create a pro-
gram that is both socially and cultur-
ally sustainable.
We’ve built an Arts & Culture program
with space for both seriousness and
shine, that sets the stage for rep-
resentation on international and local
scope, embodying both structural and
personal experiences.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 004
Copenhagen 2021
is a global event Leaving
and a natural partner
in reaching the UN’s
17 Sustainable
no-one
Development Goals behind
In 2015, the United Nations launched the range of allies and guests, and for the citi-
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to zens of the two cities in which Copenhagen
end poverty and inequality by 2030. TheSDGs 2021 takes place.
were ratified by 193 governments on the
basis that they apply to everyone, every- Our venues are determined to give focus,
where and that they will ‘leave no one behind’. voice and space to often under-heard
groups, specifically women, non-binary
Equality groups strongly pushed for the identities, LGBT+ youth and rainbow chil-
rights and needs of LGBTI+ individuals to be dren.
taken into account. Although LGBTI+ people
are not specifically mentioned in the SDGs, To create equal access, all culture venues
the Arts and Culture program of Copenha- are free to enter and will not charge for con-
gen 2021 integrate them in our planning and certs, entertainment, talks or debates.
delivery of events.
We also urge our culture partners including
We are committed to and focused on leaving theatres, museums and galleries to ensure
no one behind. Our theme for the event is reasonable entrance fee during Copenhagen
#YouAreIncluded and it applies to all mem- 2021, and thereby open their doors to as
bers of the LGBTI+ community, for our wide many of our guests as possible.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 005
Our programme
The Culture Programme will play out
across cultural institutions, cultural
houses, educational institutions, and
several theme-based outdoor venues
scattered over central Copenhagen.
Own venues External collaborators
Arcadia : AKS International Minorities
Fluid
The Meeting Festival, Cinemateket,
Festival
Place Copenhagen Contemporary,
CPH :DOX, Den Hirschsprungske
Samling, Den Sorte Diamant,
Det Kongelige Teater, Folketeatret,
Rainbow Huset 2021 HamletScenen, Kulturhuset Indre
Children Main House & By, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge,
@BLOX Front Yard Kunstforeningen GL STRAND,
Life Exhibitions, Mix-Copenhagen,
Nationalmuseet, Nikolaj Kunsthal,
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,
Queer Theatre Festival, Union KBH
and many more …
EuroGames, Human Rights Forum & WorldPride
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 006
Venue descriptions
Our
Culture venues
Several theme-based venues in central
Copenhagen are ready to welcome you.
Huset 2021
HusetKBH and Nybrogade Fluid Festival
Where LGBTI+ young people
are the centre of attention
Gammel Strand
A space to celebrate women
Main House: A five-story ‘homey’ venue and non-binary identities
The Front Yard: The adjoining outdoor space
Arcadia:
The Meeting Space Rainbow Children
Rådhushaven @Blox
A garden to relax, to play and A space for breaking the binary
to meet new and old friends in the most playful way for children
from around the world and their families.
Venue
Opening days
Friday 13 Saturday 14 Sunday 15 Monday 16 Tuesday 17 Wednesday 18 Thursday 19 Friday 20 Saturday 21 Sunday 22
Fluid Festival
Gammel Strand
Arcadia
Rådhushaven
Huset2021
Main House
Huset2021
Front Yard
Rainbow Children
@BLOX
CULTURAL COLLABORATORS 009
Arcadia
The Meeting Place
Date & time : Saturday 14–Sunday 22 1000–2000
(Saturday 21 closed) · Sunday 22 1000–1600 August 2021
Venue : Rådhushaven
Target group : Those who wish to relax and enjoy the peaceful environment
Arcadia is a calm and friendly meeting place, This is a space where you can withdraw with
centrally located around the corner from friends new and old, family or alone. Bring
WorldPride Square. Nestled in the garden of your own brunch, lunch or snack and grab a
the town hall, it is green and airy, providing cup of coffee from the coffee cart.
space to breathe and take sanctuary from
the hustle and bustle of energetic city life, The green lawns and peddle stones give
and Copenhagen 2021 activities. space for a game of croquet or boule, big
parasols offer shade from the August sun
At Arcadia #YouAreIncuded and we intend to and lounge furniture, board games and ham-
leave no one behind. mocks invite you to rest, plan the day and
connect with others.
Daily friendship speed-dating sessions for
people to meet and mingle with like-minded Arcadia offers good vibes and tranquil mo-
others. There is always someone who wants ments between diving into Copenhagen 2021
to meet you ! activities and parties all over the city.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 010Huset 2021
Main House
Where LGBTI+ youth is
the center of attention
Date & time : Saturday 14–Friday 20 August 2021
Weekdays : 1000–2200 · Weekends : 1200–2230
Venue : HusetKBH
Target group : 13–18 years, LGBTI+ and their allies.
18+ only by invitation.
The more than 50-year-old cultural institu-
tion, Huset, situated in downtown Copen-
hagen draws on the homely and welcoming
atmosphere that already exists there.
Huset 2021 Main House is a space to explore
and develop, and perhaps celebrate, what it
means to be a young LGBTI+ person, ac-
knowledging the opportunities as well as the
challenges.
During the entire event ‘House Parents’ will
be present and ready to talk and to create a
sense of safety that ideally makes a home.
The House also evokes the feeling of a Dan-
ish ‘højskole’, where self-reflection and im-
provement is at the core of the experience.
Here, the volunteers are not much older
than the guests, and make sure to work on
an even plane with the visitors.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 011The entire Huset 2021 Main House will have five
individual stages including a cinema. Every stage
area will be transformed into a room of the house,
each with its own theme and gravity. In The Foyer
we welcome with introductory talks and 1 :1’s, we
are creative in The Garage and eat together in The
Dining Room.
Your Room at the top floor is reserved for the most
sensitive discussions and performances, whilst
there will be movie screenings in the Living Room.
The movie program is created by the Danish LGBTI+
film festival MIX Copenhagen and shows cinematic
representations of the acronym, bending gender and
showcasing diversity.
We are setting up communal dining every night free
for young guests (limited availability).
Huset 2021 Main House is alcohol and smoke free.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 012Huset 2021
Front Yard
Where LGBTI+ youth is
the center of attention
Date & time : Saturday 14–Saturday 21 August 2021
Weekdays : 1400–2200 · Weekends : 1200–2300
Venue : Nybrogade
Target group : 13–21 years LGBTI+ and their allies.
+21 only by invitation.
Just around the corner from Huset 2021
Main House you will find the Huset 2021
Front Yard. The outdoor area at the end of
Nybrogade opens to a green, welcoming
space right along the canal, facing the par-
liament.
Front Yard is a place for LGBTI+ young peo-
ple to spread their wings in all their colors.
It is an active space for recognition and
empowerment, where voices are given the
opportunity to be heard – loud and clear.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 013All young LGBTI+ identities and allies alike
will feel included and free to engage in talks,
networking, friendship-speed dating. Front
Yard will set the stage for programming
created by a wide range of LGBTI+ and other
political and humanitarian youth organisa-
tions, who will get the opportunity to take
the stage, create dialogue and share their
activism and agenda.
In the evenings, DJ-sets, occasional guest
appearances and live musicians will take the
stage and turn Front Yard into a festive cele-
bration of diversity.
On the day leading up to the WorldPride
Parade on Saturday 21 August we’ll host a
Parade Preparation Workshop with an out-
door clothing-swap station, created by Low
Impact Posse, makeup from M.A.C. Cosmet-
ics and workstations for making posters,
banners, slogans and badges.
In the afternoon of the WorldPride Parade,
Front Yard will be transformed into a chill-
zone to cool down and take it all in.
Front Yard will be decorated in true gar-
den-party fashion with lush, green hedges
and lounge furniture to soak up the August
sun.
The program at Front Yard is constantly
evolving in collaboration with LGBTI+ youth
organisations.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 014Fluid Festival
A space to celebrate women
and non-binary Identities
Date & time : Friday 13–Sunday 22 August 2021
Friday 13 : 1400–0000, Saturday 14 : 1000–0100,
Sunday 15–Thursday 19 : 1000–0000, Friday 20 : 1000–0100,
Saturday 21 : 1800–0100, Sunday 22 : 1200–1600
Venue : Gammel Strand Torv and Nybrogade
Target group : Women, female-identified, non-conforming
and non-binary identities
Focusing in on the fluidity of gender expres-
sion, sexual orientation, and gender identity,
Fluid Festival offers up an inclusive space
for women, female-identified, non-conform-
ing and non-binary identities.
Fluid Festival is Copenhagen 2021’s second
largest venue. With space for 5000 guests,
we will proudly move through a colourful
nine-day program of concerts, debates,
speeches, performances, and installations.
The program will be a representation of
women and non-binary identities, all em-
bracing, respecting and challenging the
understanding of gender expression.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 015Fluid Festival is located along the canal on
Gammel Strand, one of the most beautiful
places in the center of Copenhagen. Gam-
mel Strand has a rich history of the noncon-
forming : from women claiming their inde-
pendence by selling fish along the shore and
to Natalie Zahle moving her expanding and
revolutionary girls school into the building
that now houses a modern art institution.
Gammel Strand can also boast itself with
being one of – if not the – the sunniest pla-
zas in Copenhagen, perfect for enjoying in
the August sun.
With two stages (one large concert stage
and one smaller open stage), three large
lounge areas, dining areas, drinks bars, a
wide ramp along the canal and rafts floating
in it, Fluid Festival will be an opportunity for
experiences, meetings, presence, love, cele-
bration – a unique opportunity to be exactly
who you are in the safe understanding that
You Are Included.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 016Rainbow
Children
@BLOX
Date & time : Saturday 14–Friday 20 August 2021 · 0900–1900
Venue : Bryghuspladsen
Target group : 4–12 year with their families, schools and after-school
For the children’s area at Copenhagen 2021 The programming at Rainbow Children will
focus will be on creating a loving, caring, be created by the artist collective De Sce-
and playful area where all children will feel neste, who have a background in the world
welcome and at ease. An area where we of performing arts for children. The square
break the binary and invite for play and ex- will feature installations, workshops and
ploration on gender and pronouns. events that are all in some sense a reflec-
Situated at BLOX, Copenhagen 2021’s Rain- tion on the word interactive. During school
bow Children will play with the square and hours there will be programming that is
boxy look of the Danish Architecture Center connected to learning, knowledge and com-
that the square adjoins. At Rainbow Children petency-targets.
we play outside the box, next to it and on it.
At Rainbow Children we are proud to be who The adults will not be left out at Rainbow
we are, and we practice saying this aloud. Children @ BLOX. They can network with
Here, you can expect Drag Story Hour, tiny other rainbow parents and their allies while
concerts, workshops, dancing and so much enjoying the moment and lounging at the
more. adjoining café.
EVENT DESCRIPTION 017Cultural Collaborators
External
Culture Collaborators
In our culture program we are happy to Among our many partners are :
include a great variety of cultural institu- AKS International Minorities Festival, Cinemateket,
tions from all over Copenhagen and the Copenhagen Contemporary, CPH :DOX, Den
region. Working closely with curators, Hirschsprungske Samling, Den Sorte Diamant,
stage artists, musicians, organisers, Det Kongelige Teater, Folketeatret, HamletScenen,
producers, and directors etc. to ensure a Kulturhuset Indre By, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge,
balanced representation, we encourage Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Life Exhibitions,
museums, theaters, and culture hous- Mix-Copenhagen, Nationalmuseet, Nikolaj Kunsthal,
es to invite everyone into an audacious Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Queer Theatre Festival,
world of art, activism, and inclusion. Union KBH and many more …
CULTURAL COLLABORATORS 019External
Culture venues
Several theme-based venues in central
Copenhagen are ready to welcome you.
EmilieThe Hirschsprung
Marie
Collection
Sports
Exhibition
Copenhagen
Film Festival
Contemporary
Cinemateket
Literature Festival
Arnold Busck Pride
The Royal Theater
Queer Theater Festival
Folketeatret Contemporary
Art Exhibition
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center
Pride Night
The National Museum
Live
Royal Library Garden
Sapho
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
And many more …Event
Collaborations
Asylum, Art and Action
The cultural event Asylum, Art and Action is
a celebration of LGBTI Refugees. The event
is hosted and curated by Danish refugee
organisation LGBT Asylum and Freemuse
in collaboration with the renowned cultural
house Union in Nørrebro, the creative and
intercultural heart of Copenhagen.
The Tuesday 17 August evening program
offers a diverse and engaging artistic pro-
gramme, featuring both local and interna-
tional artists and speakers aimed at the
visibility of LGBTI+ Refugees. The central
focus is to build community and support for
LGBTI asylum seekers and refugees, and to
strongly underline their right of free expres-
sion in a political setting where it is all too
often denied and overlooked.
With a focus on cultural hybridity, the event
will invite guests to explore the evening’s
theme as an essential element in a living,
breathing Copenhagen, and to gain both
international and local insights through en-
gaging experiences in the field between cul-
ture and knowledge.
The evening will include an optional dinner
catered by Send Flere Krydderier, a socioec-
onomic restaurant located inside Union.
CULTURAL COLLABORATORS 021Partnerships & People
Venue
Partnerships
At our venues we work closely with var-
ying cultural institutions, private funds,
companies and communities – everybody
contributes with what they do best.
Low Impact Posse Salon 7
Huset KBH, De Sceneste, Spar Nord Fonden,
Hotel- og restaurantskolen i København, Flügger,
bObles, M·A·C Cosmetics, FSTB – Foreningen til støtte af
transkønnede børn, MIX Copenhagen, Low Impact Posse,
Østjysk Vinforsyning, LGBT+ Ungdom, Salon 7, DGI, Freemuse
PARTNERSHIPS & PEOPLE 023Project
Management
Arts & Culture
Happy Copenhagen’s administration is responsible for the
execution of the events taking place during Copenhagen 2021,
closely collaborating with Malmö Pride. Eva Bøggild is Director
of Culture & Identity and is heading the Arts & Culture team in
Copenhagen. Below you will find more information about the
individuals organising the program.
Eva Bøggild
She | Her | Hers – Director of Culture and Identity
With an expertise from a long-last- journalism, academia, communications,
ing practice and study of minorities, project management and partnership
human rights, identities and inclusion, building, Eva brings in clarity and ambi-
Eva directs the message and aims of tion to the Culture Program, whilst also
the Cultural Program. With an exten- focusing on securing the financial basis
sive and wide-ranging background in for the event.
Janne Juul
She | Her | Hers – Venue Manager Fluid Festival
Janne holds a master in Dramaturgy to the fight for equality and has pas-
and Film Studies and with an extensive sionately worked purposefully to imple-
background in development and reali- ment that agenda, both in her work as
sation of cultural projects. She will lead a moviemaker, researcher, teacher, and
the processes in the creation of Fluid project developer.
Festival. Janne is strongly committed
PARTNERSHIPS & PEOPLE 024Karen Widding
She | Her | Hers – Cultural Coordinator for External Partnerships
Karen holds a master’s degree in ability to realise a project through her
cultural studies and has combined her experience as a producer and editor.
academic work with filmmaking and Her approach is structured and crea-
journalism, focused on the dissemina- tive in the development of a compre-
tion of culture and the tension between hensive and inclusive cultural program
ethics, art, culture, and society. Her for Copenhagen 2021.
strength is concept development and
Camilla Asra Engelby
She | Her | Hers – Graphic Designer
Camilla has studied media graphic B2C marketing. She’s previously done
design, project management and online volunteer work for international con-
marketing. She has over 10 years’ expe- ferences and is passionate about the
rience in her field primarily in B2B and environment, equality and typography.
Our Malmö team
Anna Tenfält
She | Her | Hers – Project Manager Malmö Pride
Anna has close to 20 years of working human rights, inclusion and diversity.
experience in the music and event As a manager for artists/bands she
industry. She holds a bachelor’s degree brings knowledge about the event- and
in leadership and organisation as well music industry. She is also the founder
as Music & Event management from and owner of the artist management
the Linné University in Sweden and has company Amplify Management.
a background in festival management,
Yahia Saleh
He | Him | They | Them – Culture Producer, Malmö
Having worked within the intersection means that she holds a broad under-
of digital marketing and communica- standing of platform- and publishing
tions, Iben brings both strategic and strategies of both commercial and
hands-on experience to the table. Her cultural content.
extensive experience with both prod-
uct marketing, events and publishing
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