Resisting Extinction

Ärjän Art Festival

24-26.7.2026

The sixth Ärjän Art Festival will offer international and domestic art from theater and dance to music and contemporary art. The theme of the festival this year is “Light and Resistance”.

The festival is organized by the Vaara collective from Kajaani.

Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged Earth.

Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis.  We must hone our skills, to be receptive, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to grieve, to metabolize, to be together in the unknown and trust we have resources in our bodies to negotiate, survive, and thrive.

We invite you into the forest for a weather walk, a search through deep time for disappearing beings, and a dying and decomposing practice to prepare for potential climate realities.