{"id":49696,"date":"2020-09-30T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/?p=49696"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:35:29","slug":"samtaler-rundt-brev-fra-elmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/samtaler-rundt-brev-fra-elmine\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations around the Letter from Elmine"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to make theatre at a time when we can't really meet? Who are we and what is Kven identity? Tonight you can have a conversation with Ida L\u00f8ken Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 about these questions. She directed the performance Letter from Elmine<\/em>, which is shown on the Centre for Northern People tonight at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torun Olsen Wernberg Avenue<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What<\/strong>: Musical performance: Letters from Elmine
Where<\/strong>: Davvi \u00e1lbmogiid guovdd\u00e1\u0161 \/ Centre for Northern Peoples
When<\/strong>30 September at 18:00
Ticket price<\/strong>: 100,-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy a ticket<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

- I'm really looking forward to coming to Manndalen with the performance, says director Ida L\u00f8ken Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the musical performance Letter from Elmine<\/em> At the Centre for Northern Peoples this evening, she will open a discussion with the public about both the work behind and the plot of the performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brev fra Elmine was originally supposed to premiere during the Kven Festival in Vads\u00f8 in June, but like everything else, it was stopped by the corona epidemic. This, of course, created some challenges for the production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 We invite you to an open and informal conversation with the audience about making theatre at a time when we cannot meet physically, and about the work and thoughts behind the performance, says Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the performance is primarily about Kven immigration to Norway in the 19th century, seen from Elmine's perspective, the play encompasses many stories and reflections on identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Many find it thought-provoking that we circle around many identities in the play. Seen from the outside, people often seem to be of one piece. In the midst of all this, one is a mosaic of stories, impressions and identities to a greater or lesser extent, says Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inger Birkelund. The performance Letter from Elmine. Photo: Vegard Eriksen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Fictional letters from Elmine<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Elmine was 20 years old when she, like many others, came from Tornedalen to Vads\u00f8 at the end of the 1800s. The performance is based on fictional letters she might have sent home to Pello in Tornedalen. Trygg Jakola wrote the letters on behalf of his grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cast and crew of the performance include Inger Birkelund, Nikolai \u00c4yst\u00f6 Lindholm, Eili Br\u00e5stad Johannessen from KultNett, Ida L\u00f8ken Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 (director), Lina Killingdalen (dramaturgist), and Tove Raappana Reibo (technician).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event is part of Paaskiviikko 2020 and is a collaboration between Halti Kven Culture Centre IKS and the Centre for Northern Peoples. Paaskiviikko 2020 is supported by Troms and Finnmark County Council and the Arts Council Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the performance:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Fictional letters from grandmother Elmine home to Finland become a performance, NRK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The performance \u00abLetters from Elmine\u00bb evoked strong emotions in the descendants, NRK<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hvordan lage teater i en tid da man ikke egentlig kan m\u00f8tes? Hvem er vi og hva er kvensk identitet? I kveld kan du samtale med Ida L\u00f8ken Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4 omkring disse sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5lene. Hun har hatt regien i forestillingen\u00a0Brev fra Elmine, som vises p\u00e5 Senter p\u00e5 nordlige folk i kveld kl. 18.00. Continue reading Conversations around the Letter from Elmine<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrangementer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49698,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49696\/revisions\/49698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/senterfornordligefolk.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}