ROOTED is an interdisciplinary festival and an emerging cultural platform that connects plants, people, and art. It is an invitation to collectively explore the power of the arts in times of ecological crisis and to reconnect with plants as medicine, wisdom-keepers, and allies in shaping more livable futures for all.

The first edition of ROOTED festival will take place on June 14, 2025, at Institut for (X) in Aarhus, and will bring together artists and plant practitioners from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, France, and Latvia, offering an engaging and inspiring program of participatory performances, sensory walks, film screenings, workshops, and concerts.

Through these formats, the festival aims to create space for deepening our relationships with the rest of the living world, rethinking our place within ecological systems, and imagining a planet that could be livable for all.

The full list of participating artists and the detailed day program will be revealed throughout March and April—stay tuned!

why ROOTED?

ROOTED is both a response and an offering. A response to the urgency I have felt from plants themselves - to bring plants and people together this way, to engage with the world in a way that is sensorial, collective, and transformative. An offering to gather, listen, and co-create what wants to be created . An offering to the city I live in to experience the richness of art and processes that already exists in co-creation with plants. This is just the beginning, a seed. May it grow and flourish in its own unique way. I hope you will join us.

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Welcoming ROOTED artists 2025 Ida Lod, a Stockholm-based artist, explores the connection between inner and outer worlds through interdisciplinary and site-specific performances. Utilizing song, spoken word, violin, and movement, her solo projects, s
Welcoming ROOTED artists 2025 Wild Anima (Alex Alexopoulos) is a French-Greek sound artist who fuses ancient melodies reminiscent of mermaid-like choirs through live looping tapestries to create tender and organic ethereal music. Her work, imbued wi
Welcoming ROOTED artists 2025 Linda Lapiņa: “I work with the body and senses, movement, and relational knowledges. One of my most important collaborations is my movement practice by Utterslev marsh, an ecology in Copenhagen close to where I li
Welcoming ROOTED artists 2025 Lotta Petronella is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Finland. She has worked with and on islands for over two decades. She is co- founder of CAA Contemporary Art Archipelago, a curatorial collective supporting s
Welcoming ROOTED artists 2025 Katrine Faber is a multidisciplinary artist from Denmark. A singer, composer, storyteller, actress, physical performer, theatre director, and psychotherapist. She is artistic director of Teater Viva, expanding the perce
Welcoming ROOTED artists 2025 Josephin Bovién (DK/GH/UK) is based in Århus and is the visual front woman for the feminist portrait series “50/50” about gender equality in the Danish music industry. At the age of 18, Josephin
So excited to give a huge warm welcome to all the artists that will contribute to the first edition of ROOTED festival in different ways. We will spotlilgth one artist per day, so stayed tuned for the introductions, as they will unfold for the next f
We breathe, eat, exist thanks to plants. And plants do more than sustain our lives. They are present in most moments of our human lives, whether we notice it or not. They guide, support, inspire. Take care of one another and us, humans. Many of us a
In the closing post in the ROOTED plant series we are welcoming dandelion The dandelion is such an underrated plant; its beauty and service to the world are completely underestimated. Many people see it as a weed, when it actually is crucial to soil
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming lilac I absolutely adore lilacs. They remind me of childhood and make me feel safe and at home. @ingemoody #ROOTEDPlantKin #ROOTEDFestival2025 #ROOTEDAarhus
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming woodruff Woodruff for me it symbolizes sweet, feminine elegance. it blossoms in May month. They grow in dense clusters and create green carpets amongst trees. Sensory explosion! The scent makes me oh so tende
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming oak Wherever I live I connect with an oak and I dream of living in a house with lots of oak trees around. The Oak is like a mother to me. She is comfort and strength, she is my role model and my guide. @ida_lo
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming cinnamon I’ve felt a deep-rooted connection with the cinnamon plant. Its fiercely spicy and sweet aroma continuously grounds and awakens my inherent caring and powerful femininity. It reminds me of how d
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming yarrow The Yarrows and I have been following each other for some years. Yarrow has helped me see more and wider, helped to heal old wounds, to build community, root in a new place, play, live life fuller. They
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming linden Linden were caretakers and guides for me and my sisters when we were kids. We spent hours under the linden trees, playing with their leaves, and shadows, listening to their songs and climbing up. 
Today in ROOTED plant series: welcoming rhubarb I feel curious about and connected to rhubarb, as the first heads are slowly popping up in my garden, thriving in the frost, gifting a touch of red. Rhubarb is fascinating to me as it mostly resists th