How do you rest?

The last person we present is Solange Borges, they will present some poems and reflections in space in a series called "R.I.P"

They are the curious spirit behind "How do you rest?" and the curator of the evening.

Solange Mariano dos Reis Borges is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural worker and art educator. Their work is oftentimes inspired by questioning alternative utopias and seeking for relatable ways to get people engaged in a philosophical conversation within themselves and in connection with the wider world.

Image by Thierry Soreze

Bolsje Radios second invitée for the evening is ✨Andrés Delgado✨, artist and co-founder of CŌHABIT, who will take us on a musical journey exploring his experiences growing up as an illegal immigrant and trying to stay connected to his roots to find peace. Expect to hear music from the Caribbean, South America and the UK mixed with stories. This musical talk marks the start of 'Tales From Yard', a new show about roots and culture by CŌHABIT.

Be rrready for a sonic journey!

Next up is ✨Ulla Eriksen who at Kulturnatten will present a videowork and one of her paper sculptures in rotation.

She works in mixed media, and in expressions ranging from site-specific installations to fragile and ephemeral textile and paper works. The works are often used performatively and as a way of highlighting the temporal and relational. The effects of displacement and repetition are often explored, to clarify the weight and significance of small differences.

Next up is ✨Bolsje Radio✨ Expect a full evening of live radio. Bolsjeradio has invited DJ Sakena Ali Beyer, among others, to take listeners on a journey from rave to baby-sitting, playing her favourite chillout and ambient stuff and talking about the music and culture around it.

Bolsje Radio is an online radio platform that started to give space and voice to the cultures and niches from the underground that otherwise don't get much voice. With a strong collective of talented curators representing everything from South American folk music to Spanish punk to Eastern European techno, you can find countless hours of music and talk about culture in their archives.

Pssst: Tomorrow we will reveal the second invitée from Bolsje Radio🤭

Next up is Pardis Pourahmad who will offer two sessions of what she calls a Nap Clinic during Kulturnatten.✨

Here you join others for an hour of guided meditation in the same room where you can lie down on comfortable mats with a blanket on and rest. After the meditation, Pardis will open up the healing channel and send healing to everyone in the group. The hour will end with clairvoyant messages from the spirit world that Pardis will pass on to everyone in the group.

Pardis Pourahmad is one of our local healers. As Guan Yin Acupuncturist&Healer - RAB she works with traditional Chinese medicine and the spiritual world.
She teaches and builds communities for witches and highly sensitive people.

You can read more about her work on her site www.GuanYin.dk

😏Insiders tip: For an even deeper experience, go get your NADA first and then join the Nap Clinic.

Be ready to travel in rest!

Today is World Mental Health day 🌱 Does peoples capacity to rest influence mental health? Or the other way around? What would society look like if everyone had more access to resting?

A big shout out and a lot of love to all whom are coping with a challenging mental health. I know we are warriors!🙏🏽 May we experience peace, lightness, and rest. Unapologetically.✨

And a big thanks to all those who support people in times of crisis. Your presence has saved lives. 💛 Keep checking in with people, and when needed just listen. Just hear someone out. As humans we have the need to be heard and feel seen, also in our pain. Someone acknowledging our experience can sometime already lighten a heavy heart.

How do you rest with a mental health that is challenging?

For me, one thing is seeing a natural landscape. Visually seeing an open space that allows me to create more air and space mentally. 🌿 If you ask me for a walk in nature. You can be pretty sure that I'd like to go with you.

Next up are Cosmo and Shifa who will host a NADA Café at Kulturnatten ✨

What is the NADA Protocol?

Ear acupuncture, beads and seeds for addictions, stress and trauma. The NADA Protocol is a non-verbal approach to healing.

NADA involves the gentle placement of up to five small, sterilized disposable needles into specific sites on each ear.

The recipients sit quietly in a group setting for 30-45 minutes allowing the treatment to take effect.

NADA ear acupuncture is an adjunct therapy which is clinically effective, cost-efficient, drug-free and compatible cross-culturally.

It can easily be established within behavioral health, addictions or disaster relief settings or in any location that a group of people can sit together.

Benefits of NADA

- Reduced cravings for alcohol and drugs, including ni****ne
- Minimized withdrawal symptoms
- Increased calmness, better sleep, and less agitation
- Relief from stress and emotional trauma
- An easier connection with counseling
- A discovery of inner quiet and strength

Info Source: https://acudetox.com/

Cosmo (he/they), is a diasporic Iranian/American trans healer living in Copenhagen, DK. Cosmo has been practicing acupuncture since 2017. They found this somatic practice deeply healing for themself and are committed to the well being of their communities by way of sharing their practice.

Cosmo has a clinic space every Friday at SPACE in NV, DK, and also collaborates with other practitioners in different healing spaces.


Shifa (she/they) works with different types of facilitation and somatic practices such as massage, sound and voice healing, ear acupuncture, and ritualized fasting; organizing as well workshops and intimate retreats. She has a background in dance and performing arts, and has been active for the few last years, among other groups, in a local network in Copenhagen working with conflict mediation and restorative justice. Shifa's touch
More info on physical practice: www.shifastouch.com

Be ear-ready!

Next up is Maria Nadia, 💫 At Kulturnatten she will perform a sound work in which ceramic bells are worn on the bodies of singers. The soundscape is put into play as the singers move around the room, song and bells weave into each other, and meanwhile you can indulge in the tranquillity and music.

Maria Nadia is an artist and composer who resident artist at Kommunal Kunst og Teknik. Her work revolves around themes of feminism, myths, post-colonialism, working life and psychoanalysis.

Be rrreeeaadyyy!

Next up is Louis André Haugaard Jørgensen ✨ for Kulturnatten they will seek interaction and conversation through their "Arbejdsbiblioteket" which translates to a "Work/Labour Library".

Arbejdsbiblioteket is a performance installation in the form of a temporary micro-library, where you can find books about work culture and anti-work culture, about sleep, illness, discipline and laziness. The collection is maintained by the working librarian Louis André Jørgensen, who reads aloud to the library's visitors. The working library contains fiction and non-fiction, poetry, children's books and non-fiction.

Be read-y!*

Next up is a sound sculpture concert by Barbara Amalie Skovmand Thomsen. 💫For the concert during Kulturnatten 2022, Barbara Skovmand is collaborating with VibroAcoustics , which amplifies the bodily experience of the sound's vibrations through, among other things, special bass modules on which you can sit or lie.

Barbara Skovmand plays on her sound sculpture, an acoustic synthesizer that builds on the legacy of the two French Baschet brothers.
Sound is created by rubbing glass rods with water-wet fingers. The vibrations are directed at a large screen of mirror-polished stainless steel plate, which amplifies and distorts the sound, making it appear almost otherworldly alien, similar to the sci-fi appearance of the sculpture. The sound sculpture was built in collaboration with Rafael Fernández and consultant Martí Ruiz.

Barbara Skovmand graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2009 and the Sandberg Institute in 2011, both in Amsterdam.

produce high quality vibroacoustic hardware technology, HiFi ambient sound journeys and guided content as a form of therapy - allowing minds and bodies to rest naturally.

About their mission:
"We are dedicated to producing HiFi vibroacoustic hardware technology, music journeys and guided content to allow human minds and bodies to rest naturally, and enhance experiences of art and music. We are centralising the effort from artists, scientists,
therapists and engineers, to offer a complete form of lifestyle that supports well-being."

Be rrrready for a unique vibrrrational experience!

Next up is fellow artist and resting advocate Ishtadi, who will perform a VibroAcoustics Nature Meditation at Kulturnatten 💫

❈ Ishtadi ❈
Ishtadi interweaves sounds of nature into immersive musical landscapes, combining field-recordings with electronic synthesis, organic rhythms and harmonies.
He awakens the genetically imprinted being inside, inviting the body and mind to slow down the brainwave frequencies, helping to dive deep - into the now.

Ishtadi is the founder of VibroAcoustics, Nature Tales, Cacao CPH and Ecstatic Dance CPH Communities, based in Copenhagen.
Ishtadi means purification of the senses in Sanskrit;
The prerequisite of being absorbed in presence.

Be ready to meltttt! 🙏🏽