Festival 2021
GRIEF – five musical stages
from denial to action
July 2-10
For every day that goes by we reduce our chances of an environmentally sustainable future.
Why do we deny this fact? What are the forces holding us back? Can we blame the politicians and the global corporations for their lack of action? Or is it possible that we are not even capable of creating change within ourselves?
When Järna Festival Academy focuses on the climate crisis, it is humankind and her inability to help herself that is at the center. Within the field of psychiatry the five phases of grief is a model for understanding the grieving process. It is through processing the stages of denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance that one learns to live with the new reality. Grief is not the end of the road, but an absolutely necessary process if we are to be able to create a better future.
During this festival the music serves as a portal into the emotions associated with the stages of grief and we are given the opportunity to reflect on our personal relationship to the reality of the climate crisis.
Friday July 2 19.00
Denial
Elgar: Adagio from piano quintet, Williams: Schindler’s list, Wagner: Siegfried idyll, André, Peyron & Munktell: Romances, Saint-Saëns: piano quartet
Saturday July 3 19.00
Lecture: Sara Dahlberg Eriksson
The five stages of grief – after the intermission Malena Ernman & Mats Bergström
Sunday July 4 19.00
Anger
Gudnadottir: from Joker, Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Beethoven: string trio in c-minor, Schubert: Death and the Maiden
Monday July 5 19.00
Lecture: Björn Wiman
– after the intermission Earth Call with VoNo
Tuesday July 6 19.00
Bargaining
Franz Schubert: Winterreise
Wednesday July 7 19.00
Lecture: Birger Schlaug
– after the intermission Schostakovich Symphony no 15 for piano trio and percussion
Thursday July 8 19.00
Depression
Barber: Adagio, Aulin&Kapralova: Elegies, Saariaho: Terra Memoria, Wagner: Isoldes Liebestod, Brahms: c-minor quartet
Friday July 9 19.00
Lecture: Pella Thiel
Active hope – after the intermission Grieg string quartet in g-minor
Saturday July 10 19.00
Acceptance
Schubert&Liszt: Wandrers Nachtlied, Milhaud: la Creation du Monde, Pärt: Summa, Schubert: f-moll phantasy, Mendelssohn: Octet
Artists
Voice:
Malena Ernman
Jakob Högström
Vokalensemblen VoNo
Lecturers:
Sara Dahlberg Eriksson
Birger Schlaug
Pella Thiel
Björn Wiman
Violin:
Liza Ferschtman
Jannica Gustafsson
Ylva Larsdotter
Öyvor Volle
Viola:
Lars-Anders Tomter
Emma Nyman
Vicky Powell
Cello:
Jakob Koranyi
Torleif Thedéen
Kristina Winiarski
Piano:
Peter Friis Johansson
Daniel Hormazábal
Asuka Nakamura
Juho Pohjonen
Guitar:
Mats Bergström
Percussion:
Joakim Anterot
Anders Holdar
Ulrich Nilsson
During this year’s festival, we mourn the reality of climate change and the environment that humanity has destroyed for future generations. Coral reefs, glaciers, rainforests and a host of other biotopes are disappearing at a horrifying pace and as a direct result of our actions. We have also caused suffering for millions of people who in the future will have to live with the consequences of the last century’s naive and careless behavior. It is not easy to take in. But it is very easy to deny.
This festival welcomes grief as a necessary process. Without accepting what is happening, we can not find the solutions and imagine what a possible future might look like. Turning to music for emotional support, we process the five stages; denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance. In addition, four lectures help to illuminate different aspects of the grief process, environmental work and much more.
Hope also plays an important role when grieving and we end the festival in major. We want to look to the future and the festival of 2022 where visions of a sustainable world are flourishing, visions that are well worth the effort!
– Jakob Koranyi & Peter Friis Johansson
artistic directors of JFA
Festival 2021
July 2-10
For every day that goes by we reduce our chances of an environmentally sustainable future.
Why do we deny this fact? What are the forces holding us back? Should we blame the politicians or the global corporations for their lack of action? Maybe we are not even capable of creating change within ourselves?
When Järna Festival Academy focuses on the climate crisis, it is humankind and her inability to help herself that is at the center. The crisis is an open wound, a shared trauma that we are only beginning to understand. Within the psychiatric field we find the Kübler-Ross model, or the five phases of grief. It is through processing the stages of denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance that one learns to live with the new reality. Grief is not the end of the road, but an absolutely necessary process if we are to be able to create a better future.
During this festival the music serves as a portal into the emotions associated with the stages of grief and we are given the opportunity to reflect on our personal relationship to the reality of the climate crisis.
Friday July 2 19.00
Denial
Elgar: Adagio from piano quintet, Williams: Schindler’s list, Wagner: Siegfried idyll, André, Peyron & Munktell: Romances, Saint-Saëns: piano quartet
Saturday July 3 19.00
Lecture: Sara Dahlberg Eriksson
The five stages of grief – after the intermission Malena Ernman & Mats Bergström
Sunday July 4 19.00
Anger
Gudnadottir: from Joker, Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Beethoven: string trio in c-minor, Schubert: Death and the Maiden
Monday July 5 19.00
Lecture: Björn Wiman
– after the intermission Earth Call with VoNo
Tuesday July 6 19.00
Bargaining
Franz Schubert: Winterreise
Wednesday July 7 19.00
Lecture: Birger Schlaug
– after the intermission Schostakovich Symphony no 15 for piano trio and percussion
Thursday July 8 19.00
Depression
Barber: Adagio, Aulin&Kapralova: Elegies, Saariaho: Terra Memoria, Wagner: Isoldes Liebestod, Brahms: c-minor quartet
Friday July 9 19.00
Lecture: Pella Thiel
Active hope – after the intermission Grieg string quartet in g-minor
Saturday July 10 19.00
Acceptance
Schubert&Liszt: Wandrers Nachtlied, Milhaud: la Creation du Monde, Pärt: Summa, Schubert: f-moll phantasy, Mendelssohn: Octet
During this year’s festival, we mourn the reality of climate change and the environment that humanity has destroyed for future generations. Coral reefs, glaciers, rainforests and a host of other biotopes are disappearing at a horrifying pace and as a direct result of our actions. We have also caused suffering for millions of people who in the future will have to live with the consequences of the last century’s naive and careless behavior. It is not easy to take in. But it is very easy to deny.
This festival welcomes grief as a necessary process. Without accepting what is happening, we can not find the solutions and imagine what a possible future might look like. Turning to music for emotional support, we process the five stages; denial, anger, negotiation, depression and acceptance. In addition, four lectures help to illuminate different aspects of the grief process, environmental work and much more.
Hope also plays an important role when grieving and we end the festival in major. We want to look to the future and the festival of 2022 where visions of a sustainable world are flourishing, visions that are well worth the effort!
– Jakob Koranyi & Peter Friis Johansson
artistic directors of JFA