Grønlands Maidan: Home Not for Sale.

We are concerned about the real estate interest in Grønland and what it will mean in terms of higher rents, the exclusion of Grønland's current population through unstable leases, and the general gentrification of the area that will drive away families, businesses, and organizations that have traditionally formed the heart of our neighborhood.

Artist Waldane Walker Artist Waldane will lead us through a MAS (masquerade), performing a processional cleansing from the greedy real estate developers and urban city planners who seek to displace us by building homes for the few who can pay. March with us, add your voice to the chants, and help protect our neighbourhood’s spirit from gentrification. Come show your love for Grønland.

Local activists and politicians from Grønland and Gamle Oslo will give speeches

The Solidarity Patchwork is an ongoing collective art-political project initiated in 2020 by The Norwegian Solidarity Committee for Latin America (LAG Norge). It is a big quilt, consisting of multiple patches, that conveys stories of solidarity. Collectively, the patches form a larger narrative, composed of all the small narratives of solidarity. Everywhere it has gone, people have been invited to share their stories through needle and thread, or other materials, which have then been sewn into the Solidarity Patchwork. In Grønland, the community is invited to add their own stories, stitched into the quilt.

Using spoiled fruits and vegetables from Grønland's beloved markets, Aleksander Varadian will create a visual representation of gentrification statistics in Oslo by nailing individual fruits and vegetables to a large panel, each one representing a different community, showing the scale and numbers of those affected by the government's development policies.

This project began as an initiative by artist Stefanie Reinhart. Hundreds of people – artists, activists, and "ordinary people" from all over the world – have submitted art and to date, there are over 700 small artworks! All works share a common format: 12 x 12 cm on paper/cardboard and use the 4 Palestinian colors as a code (red / white / black and green) to express solidarity, grief, hope, and resistance.This diverse and global engagement forms the foundation for this unique art exhibition in Oslo.

The full exhibition can be viewd at Mama’s Café / Frivillighetens hus at Grønland until october 11th. 

Flashmob with Nordic Black Theatre!

This audio-narrative is woven from three strands: the immediacy of being, the ache of absence, and the memory of a place, all intersecting at the crossroads of what we perceive as a present. We will dive with Asem's and Bisan's intimate journey searching for their friends, Dr. Rifaat al-Areer and Muhammad Sami Qariqa.

Asem finds Rifaat’s final resting place; Bisan’s search ends in silence, with Muhammad Sami disappearing. One of many who vanished in the Baptist Hospital massacre of October 17, 2023. Amidst these absences, we will sit with Fidaa’s reflections, offering a haunting vision of life beneath the ruins, of existence outside the boundaries of the visible, tangible world.

This narrative flows horizontally across stories and memories, and vertically through layers of sounds recorded from Gaza. Guests: Bisan Nateel, Asem Nabih, and Fidaa Al-Hasanat - Majdal Nateel.

Artistic Production: Dahleez Collective

The recorded sound credit: 

Editing: Mahmoud Abu Warda 

Sound Design & Direction: Carmel Abbasi, Majdal Nateel, Mahmoud Abu Warda.

Kurak is a conscious and environmentally friendly art. Since ancient times, Kyrgyz women created it from the remains of fabrics, giving a second life to each patch. It's not just a decor - it's the embodiment of respect for material and nature. At our workshop you can not only get acquainted with the technique, but also create your own small masterpiece - a brooch, filled with warmth, symbols and unique beauty and memory of the festival!

There will be fabric available but you can also bring some leftover fabric. Come. learn how to make your own Kurak. Drop in with limited space. Behind the kurak hides history, care for ecology and cultural memory of the people.

The art collective Tenthaus has been commissioned by the Oslo Municipality Art Collection to create a new artwork for the Grønland-Tøyen area. The project will run from 2024 to 2026. Stedsveven takes its starting point in three public spaces within a short walking distance in Grønland-Tøyen: Gartnerløkka, Kolstadgata, and Rudolf Nilsen plass. Tenthaus is exploring the identity of these places and their (possible) connections with each other. The artwork will have several temporary dimensions and will culminate in a physical, permanent piece for the area. In collaboration with those who live in and use these places, as well as local actors over time, the project involves multiple artists, art historians, and artistic expressions.

For the Masahat festival, Tenthaus's Stedsveven has invited three artists—Helen Eriksen, Samira Jamouchi, and Ebba Moi—to create a textile work that invites participation and weaving.

We want to think the ongoing genocide against Palestinians as part of this war against hospitalities. And not just poetically but politically to understand the systematic obliteration of hospitals in Gaza as the most extreme expression of this ongoing centuries long colonial war of annihilation against communities structured by a basic ethics of hospitality.

Hospitality is at the basis of many cultures on our shared planet. It has been also the basis of conviviality, of communality, while maintaining the openness to the other, the stranger, the unknown. It is in many ways also a technology of friendship, of comradery, of building relations which can endure, which are neither hierarchical nor exchange based, since hosting, sharing meals or time or place together is often a precondition for opening this other space of relating, of communing and sharing being, becoming. If practices of hospitality are often bound up with centuries of accumulated political intelligence and knowledge of communities maintained as customs and ethics rather than codes or laws, then can we begin to understand the colonial experience as an ongoing war against these cultures of hospitality and their vernacular polities? What if coloniality is and has always been bound up with this war on hospitality? 

We will share texts and zines with participants and create room for dialogue and discussion.

Kawaakibi Foundation and Masahat are proud to present Ramy Essam in concert at Nordic Black Theatre, as part of Gatefest mot gentrifisering av Grønland.

Ramy has brought the sound of freedom and resistance from Tahrir Square to international stages. His music carries the call for justice, dignity and solidarity.

This special Oslo concert is free and open to all, presented by Kawaakibi Foundation with support from Fritt Ord, in collaboration with Masahat and Nordic Black Theatre.

Creole performance artist Waldane Walker explores the intersections of ancestry, ritual,revelry and traditional practices that engage discourse on identity, racial inequality, and decoloniality. Their artistry provokes reflection, challenges societal structures and facilitates healing. Walker invites audiences to actively engage, confront their truths, and question the systems of power shaping their lives in their work.

The Norwegian Solidarity Committee for Latin America (LAG Norge) is a solidarity organization with more than forty years of history. We work in collaboration with social movements in Latin America, such as the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico; the Landless Workers’ Movement in Brazil (MST); the peasant movement CNA in Colombia; and the peasant and indigenous organization Conavigua in Guatemala. LAG’s work in Norway is carried out by activists across the country, and every year we organize solidarity brigades to Latin America, where supporting struggles is central, alongside political training.

Dahaleez is a research art collective founded in 2021 by Gaza-based artists and researchers Khaled Jarada, Rahaf Batniji, Salman Nawati, Majdal Nateel, Carmel Al-Abbasi, Mahmoud Abu Wardeh, and Mahmoud Al-Shaer. It began with the collaborative project “Geography of Divine Magic” at the Beit Al-Ghussein Cultural and Heritage House in Gaza, exploring Palestinians' temporal and spatial realities under siege. Dahaleez develops analytical and exploratory tools to examine the social and political forces shaping visions of liberation and reconstruction of Palestine. The collective encourages collaboration with artists and cultural workers in Gaza through workshops, reflective meetings, and co-production exercises.

Nurperi is an artist and curator of contemporary art exhibitions in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. In her conceptual creativity, she acts on a large scale. She skillfully transfers her insanely bold and deep ideas to any surface. Her works center justice for women's rights, the history of her people and culture. She believes that forgetting roots is losing veins. Her work involves historical narrations from the most terrible days of kyrgyz people which she translates through installation and visual media. Her work has been exhibited in contemporary art exhibitions. Nurperi (Peri) Orunbaeva @peri_orunbaeva

Samira Jamouchi is a visual artist and associate professor in visual arts. She holds a master’s degree from the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, a master’s in textile art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and a PhD in art from the University of Agder. Her current artistic and arts-based research integrates performative and post-qualitative approaches within post-structuralist and neo-materialist landscapes.

Helen Eriksen (b. 1964, Liverpool) lives in Oslo. She studied sculpture and installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (1994–2000), public art at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (2004–2007), and holds a PhD in Art in Context from the University of Agder (2017–2023). She most often works in public spaces on collaborative, community-based art projects.

Ebba Moi is an artist educated at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and a member of the Tenthaus art collective. Her artistic practice engages with public space, society, and its complexities, with a deep understanding of the challenges and nuances involved in working in this field.

Ramy Essam is a rock artist and human rights defender Ramy Essam is considered to be one of the loudest voices of today. His resilient journey from the hub of the Egyptian revolution to the international stages has included viral hits and awards as well as moments of struggle. With his background in being the voice of the streets of his country, Ramy today stands for social justice and human rights worldwide. Ramy’s music is rock with Egyptian flavor and hiphop influences, inspired by hard rock and grunge. He sings in both Egyptian Arabic and English.

Aleksander Varadian  is an Armenian-American and Norwegian multidisciplinary artist based between Oslo, London and New York, working with stage, film and performance to explore the absurdities of contemporary globalized society, often through satire and allegory.

Ayreen Anastas was born in occupied Palestine. She makes films and videos, writes, often in fragments, is interested in many things, and does not like to separate the deed from the doing.

Rene Gabri was born in Tehran, Iran and lives in New York. He distrusts biographies. He is interested in the complex mechanisms which constitute the world around us. His works employ a wide array of means, often loitering at the thresholds of cultural practice, social thought and politics. Although his works have been shown internationally, his inhibited or unfinished projects far outnumber his exhibited ones.