Image: Essi Maria Orpana
We Should All Be Dreaming
We Should All Be Dreaming is a long-term ongoing project that focuses on the radical potential of decolonial dreaming as a restorative and subversive practice. The project comes with a straightforward proposal: we should all be dreaming of decolonial and collective futures.
Situating itself somewhere between a workshop, a choreographed gathering and a performance, We Should All Be Dreaming gently invites you to spend time together, listen together and dream together. What could our common futures look like? What becomes possible when we give ourselves permission to dream of the impossible?
Date: 11 November 2026
Time: 17:00 –19:30
Place: Museum of Impossible Forms, Aallonhalkoja 9 L1, 00540 Helsinki, Finland
Duration: 2.5 hours
Language: English
Age: 16+
Free of charge but requires RSVP.
The world around us is plagued by fear, anger and hatred, but We Should All Be Dreaming offers a different path. This restorative and subversive gathering proposes dreaming as an act of soft resistance. You do not need to arrive with answers. We invite you to bring your curiosity and imagination as we collectively dream of possible and impossible futures.
We Should All Be Dreaming is a long time collaboration between choreographer Sonya Lindfors (she/her) and writer and activist Maryan Abdulkarim (she/her), who both are interested in radical collective and decolonial practices.
“The possible has been tried and failed. Now it’s time to try the impossible!”
Sun Ra
Radical dreaming is how we get there.
Concept: Sonya Lindfors and Maryan Abdulkarim
Working group: Sonya Lindfors, Maryan Abdulkarim, Roy Boswell, Danai Anagnostou
Supported by: Perform Europe, Rosendal International Theatre (Norway), CODA Oslo International Dance Festival (Norway), Oyoun Kultur NeuDenken gUG (Germany), LIFT (UK), Independent Dance (UK), Urban Apa (Finland) and H2DANCE/Fest en Fest (UK).
Co-produced by: Spring Utrecht – festival, Baltic Circle – festival and Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. Supported by the Black Cultural Archives, 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland.
-
Sonya Lindfors
Sonya Lindfors is a Cameroonian - Finnish choreographer and artistic director that also works with facilitating, community organizing and education. In 2013 she received a MA in choreography from the University of the Arts Helsinki. She is the founding member and Artistic Director of UrbanApa, an inter-disciplinary and counter hegemonic arts community that offers a platform for new discourses and feminist art practices. UrbanApa facilitates workshops, festivals, labs, mentoring and publications among other things.
-
Maryan Abdulkarim
Maryan Abdulkarim is a public speaker, writer, and activist interested in themes relating to freedom. She participates actively in public discussion as a political commentator and a columnist. She collaborates regularly with choreographer Sonya Lindfors and is a member of Miracle Workers Collective that represented Finland at the 58th Venice Biennale. Abdulkarim is also a founding member of the Nordic Feminist Network, including community organisers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sami regions. Abdulkarim’s and Eeva Talvitie’s book, About ten myths on feminism was published in Finnish in 2018.