DANCING METEORITE BIENNIAL 2025
A Forum for Art, Science and Societal Discussion

6.9. – 15.11.2025
Fiskars, Raseborg, Finland

Theme for 2025:
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, WAR AND PEACE

In relation to the themes of the biennial, ART Matters – discussions and events will be held incorporating views from the fields of history, philosophy, social and public policy as well as art and literature.

The biennale will begin on 6th September 2025 with the first ART Matters discussion, ’Peace Work NOW’ and the opening of the international exhibition #With Love To Ukraine at the The Fiskars Granary/Makasiini, running from 6th September to 30th September.

The second ART Matters – event, ’Dialogue, Appeal and Spoken Word Poetry’, will take place on 27th September, also coinciding with the exhibition at the Fiskars Granary.

The Dancing Meteorite Biennale will conclude in November with the third ART Matters event on 15th November at Fiskars’ Lukaali/Assembly Hall.
The theme will be the history of civil disobedience, and the programme will consist of lectures, discussions, theatre performances, music, and dance.

Peace Work NOW – 6.9.2025 at 3 pm Makasiini/Old Granary

Discussions and expert speeches on the theme of peace and conflict studies: How can we promote peaceful transformations of conflicts within society? How can we perceive the world as a global community? What drives people to confrontation and war? What is academic activism? The ways to planetary peace and the significance of peace education in our time. The mechanisms of slow and structural violence as obstacles to peace work.

Participants from peace research institute, NGOs, peace work professionals, researchers and civil activists will be invited to join the discussion.

Dialogue, Appeal, and Spoken Word Poetry – 30.9.2025 at 3 pm Makasiini/Old Granary

How to think together? How to write a good speech? What does psychological safety mean during group discussion? What is the importance of empathy in argumentation?
The event will address famous speeches in history, and the power of political rhetoric. What does totalitarian speech look like? How do classics such as Cicero and Seneca define political speech and rhetoric?

The program includes a discussion with speech and written communication professionals, political essays, a performance by the TAUKO poetry collective, and a version of the Vagabond – performance adapted for the Makasiini/Old Granary space and event.

Civil Disobedience and the History of Resistance
WORKER CABARET Performance – 15.11.2025 at 7 pm Lukaali/ Fiskars Assembly Hall

How did global movements reach Finland 150 years ago? How did these movements influence the emergence of the Finnish and Swedish-speaking labor movements in the early 20th century?

From the politics of patrons to the politics of citizens: the early stages of the local labor movement. Matias Kaihovirta, Title of Docent, Åbo Akademi
Worker Cabaret performance explores the events of 1918 in a Finnish industrial town in current-day Raasepori in Uusimaa, as well as the societal development and events of the post-war decades from the perspective of the residents and workers of the Fiskars and Billnäs.