Chosen Families

🧡 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐎𝐮𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 - 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 🧡

September 13th – 20th
Stay tuned for the final program!

How do we choose family, and get chosen back? What have we been taught to expect from family, and what do we actually need? To choose to stay, or to choose to walk away. To trust that others will be there. Growing up surrounded by people who didn’t know how to find the words to describe, to explain or understand. Meeting and hearing about the people who tried, who found words, changed words, made new ones, in an attempt to speak the unspeakable.

Where and how do you make your home with those you choose to stay in relation with? Lovers, friends, animals, allies, plants, art, acquaintances, neighbors, many more? Who are the beings that populate your life, and in which living situations are you with them?


// 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐋 //

Open Out Festival is a queer art festival taking place in Tromsø, Norway since 2017. We are dedicated to hosting and showing queer artists, aiming to create a sense of community. Coming together with a shared responsibility of taking care of the queer, the alive, each other and the works and inputs we bring. We like to think of Open Out as a temporary collective and a shared experience created by everyone who participates. Together aim to create a space for the queer, the unlimited, the funny, the sad, the birds and the eggs, the brave, the safer.