Southnord is an artist-run platform dedicated to the vast and varied artistic expressions, approaches and narratives the Afro-Nordic experience gives birth to.
Current and Upcoming
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Southnord Artfest 2026
14 October 2026 – 21 March 2027
We are excited to announce that the next edition of Southnord Artfest lands in Helsinki in 2026. While the full programme is still under development, plans are already underway for a headline exhibition and a dynamic series of events in collaboration with one of the city’s leading art institutions.
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Migratory Notes
10 November 2026
Migratory Notes – Helsinki Edition explores migration, memory and belonging through taste. Artist Emeka Ogboh, whose work can be seen in The Other Side of the Mountain, has developed a gin with Nordic Premium Beverages that serves as a kind of sensory map. The gin combines Finnish botanicals with ingredients that have travelled here along migration routes.
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Panel: Who Owns Black Nordic History?
12 November 2026
Who decides what stories from the Black Nordic experience are worth preserving? Who has the authority to collect, interpret and narrate Black Nordic history? This panel brings together Black archivists, scholars and community organisers from Sweden and Norway who are actively constructing new infrastructures for Black Nordic memory.
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Performance: Lullabies and SPELLS
13 November 2026
Lullabies and SPELLS is a performance by Amina Seid Tahir, staged for a reclined audience. In a dark, misty room, she moves to the rhythm of bells braided into her hair, then sits before her krar, an Eritrean lyre, and plays. Its strings carry songs of resistance alongside soft, lulling melodies
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Explore our growing directory of black and Afro-Nordic artists, literature, works and performances. This content is made available to inspire and enrich new works and research projects.