The theme for this year's festival is “Coming Home”. Coming home can be very dramatic, involving hours of travel, endless logistical issues, and hopefully, a warm welcome by family and friends. It can also be a very abstract thing. Something that can happen internally even if one hasn't traveled, inspired by a sudden epiphany or an event. Art guides us to both of these roads, connecting us to each other and to a greater sense of ourselves. Welcome to Kristiansand, welcome to you.
Baraka de Soleil
Curator of D UNDERBELLY, award-winning Interdisciplinary Artist Baraka de Soleil currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. He has been involved in the experimental movement, music and performance art scene, throughout the country and internationally, for the past 15 years.
Eclectic Company Theatre
The Eclectic Company Theatre was founded as Theatre 6470 in February 1989 as an ensemble of performers, writers, directors, and producers united by their commitment to high quality, independent artistic expression.
www.eclecticcompanytheatre.org/
Gin Hammond
The Syringa Tree
By Pamela Gien - Apartheid South Africa, 1960's - 1990's. The Syringa Tree is about the abiding love between two families - one black, one white - trying to live ordinary lives under extraordinary circumstances, told through live music, original physical theatre, and classic storytelling.
Performed by Gin Hammond, Helen Hayes Award 2005 Outstanding Lead Actress
“Gin Hammond’s transcendent performance is miraculous” — The Washington Times
“Instantly engaging, exotic, complex, shocking” — New York Times
Winner of the Obie Award for Off-Broadway Best Play of 2001.