June 25. – 26. Museum of Contemporary Art /
June 26. – July 2. Roskilde Festival

Welcome to An Age of Our Own Making - Museum of Contemporary Arts performance festival, ACTS, which takes place for the fifth time in the public spaces of Roskilde: the museum garden, its court yard and at Byens Hus. 

During the two-day festival a wide range of international renowned artists from Asia, Africa and the Middle East will be performing at the museum before relocating to Roskilde Festival.

OPENING Saturday June 25. at 3 p.m.

• Speech by Museum Director Birgitte Kirkhoff Eriksen & curators Solvej Helweg Ovesen & Bonaventure Ndikung 
• Performances from 3.30 p.m.
• Food, wine & drinks (free beer until 6 p.m.)

concert at 8 p.m. (Stændertorvet)
OBS: Change of programme: Dawda Jobarthe plays in stead of Konono Nº1 
Link: http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/news/2016/konono-n-1-cancel-images-16-pe...

Participating artists: Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Amy Lee Sanford, Athi Patra Ruga, Natalie Mba Bikoro, Moe Satt, Harold Offeh, Ali Al-Fatlawi feat. Wathiq Al-Ameri, Michéle Magema, Mwangi Hutter* & Aman Mojadidi*.
(* Only performs at Roskilde Festival) 

Read more about the festival, the artists and their performances here. 

View the full programme here.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1582679552032282/ 

ACTS performance festival is part of IMAGES 16.

The exhibition is curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen (Artistic Director of Galerie Wedding and GROSSES TREFFEN, Berlin) and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Curator at Large, documenta 14 and Artistic Director of Savvy Contemporary, Berlin). 

The Images 16 exhibition An Age of Our Own Making is comprised of three parts, presented from May 14 2016 to January 8 2017: first in Holbæk, then in Roskilde and finally at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen. 

The second part of the exhibition, subtitled The Route that Tempts the Traveler to Test Gravity, Notes on the Paradigm of Immunisation has been developed and realised by the Municipality of Holbæk Kommune in co-operation with the Museum of Contemporary Art and Roskilde Festival.