Music as a space for dialogue.
A seven-day international residency in Klaipėda bringing together musicians from Belarus, Lithuania and Sweden to explore music as a tool for community building, resilience and democratic expression.
Music that frees your mind and soul.
The seven-day Music Camp brought together 10 participants from Belarus, Lithuania and Sweden for an intensive creative exchange focused on exploring music as a tool for community building, resilience, and democratic expression.
The program combined learning and practice — jam sessions, collaborative ideation, and the creation of 11 new music tracks in international teams.
Participants worked across languages, genres and backgrounds, turning very different musical traditions into a shared language over the course of the week.
The camp concluded with a public concert at Herkus Kantas in Klaipėda on 16 August attended by around 100 viewers.
Participants of Music Camp.
Saule is a Vilnius-based musician, singer and facilitator with a background in musical theatre and classical music. A recording artist for six years, she is currently studying music therapy and sound healing.
Aliaksei Silenka is a Belarusian drummer, arranger and sound engineer based in Vilnius, with over 20 years on stage and in the studio. He runs his own recording studio and has worked across a wide range of musical genres and events.
Siarzhuk Douhushau is a Belarusian singer, musician and researcher of traditional music, based in Poland. He collects and performs Belarusian folklore — ritual, men's and lyrical songs — on the hurdy-gurdy and traditional wind instruments, and leads singing workshops and cultural projects.
Nurlana is a composer, songwriter and vocalist based in Vilnius, classically trained in piano and voice. Formerly a singer in the indie-rock band WAITBI, she is now studying Music Production at Vytautas Magnus University and handles the full production cycle, from writing to final mix.
Soroor Notash performs Iranian classical music on the Tar and sings, and has been based in Stockholm since 2009, appearing as a soloist and in cross-cultural collaborations spanning India, the Balkans and Sweden. She is currently pursuing a master's in artistic music at KMH, Stockholm.
Elias Shapiro is a Stockholm-based sound artist, producer and composer finishing his BA in Sound Design at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH). His work lives at the intersection of music, sound art, theatre and immersive performance.
Mamadou Sene is a composer, singer and musician with 60 years of experience bridging the musical traditions of Africa and Europe. A graduate of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, he has been a composer and singer with the Ale Möller Band for over 20 years.
Mentors & guest artists.
Gleb Divov is a creative technologist, composer, and curator, and a pioneer of Creative AI and NFT art. He coined the term "audioNFT" (2018), minted Lithuania's first NFT (2019). He is Founder and Visionary of the FAYR Ecosystem, a leading private CultureTech ecosystem in the Baltics/EU, and holds the state-granted status of Artistic Creator of the Republic of Lithuania. He also serves as Minister of Culture & Innovations of the Republic of Užupis, mentors and lectures across European universities, and is a regular speaker at conferences including Ars Electronica, Vancouver Biennale, ETHDenver, and LOGIN.
www.fayr.org/gleb-divov
Rikard Borggård has earned international success through composing for theatre, TV, film and ballet with commissions from The Cullberg Ballet, Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, Det Konglige Teater in Copenhagen, Bern Stadt Teater, Stockholm City Theatre, the Swedish National Television, Grand Theatre in Groningen, Sophiensaele in Berlin, Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus and Compagnie Karina Holla in Amsterdam. Besides writing the music for the European TV-success "Real Humans" (Äkta Människor), he co-founded the artistic platform Sahajo Production Group, after over twenty years being the co-director of Teater Giljotin in Stockholm.
www.rikardborggard.comPhotos from the camp.
Photos by Anton Turkou and Bart Kuraga