A full day with Studio Funk - Final seminar

Siri Bertling Kara: studiofunk@tenstakonsthall.se

We’re wrapping up our Studio Funk project – Contemporary Art for All – and inviting you to a full day of activities: presentation, discussions, a workshop, a film screening and dance performance. Studio Funk has been made possible thanks to a two-year running grant from the General Inheritance Fund.

On 22 May, we're showcasing a mosaic of the project’s various components. The first part of the day will be devoted to a presentation of the project, a workshop with the Franstorp Verkstäder day centre, and a panel discussion. In the evening, we’ll set the stage for a film screening, a reading and a dance performance. Come and read, listen, hang out and celebrate with us!

You can come on your own or as part of a group.
Please register by 15 May at the latest. Register here.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
Price: Free of charge, including lunch and dinner.
Sign language interpreter: available on site throughout the day.
A photographer will be on hand to document the event.

About Studio Funk
Studio Funk is a participant-led arts initiative that was launched in 2024 with support from the General Inheritance Fund. The initiative is aimed at – and created in collaboration with – young people with cognitive and physical disabilities. Read more about the project here:

Program
Daytime 11:00–15:00

11:20 Presentation of the project

11:45 Lunch + mingle

12:30 Workshop with Franstorp Verkstäder
Participants and educators from Franstorp Verkstäder’s daily activities will lead a workshop on textile block printing.

14:10 Panel discussion
Studio Funk’s reference group Members of Studio Funk’s reference group will lead a discussion on inclusion in cultural life. The reference group consists of cultural workers from the target group who are tasked with evaluating and improving the konsthall's digital and physical accesibility. Discussion with Sofia Arblom Sundblad, Ashraf Frugh, Juan Borroye and Flora Durnez. The discussion will be moderated by Alba Lindblad, project manager at Studio Funk.

Evening session: 17:00–20:00

17:20 Short introduction to the project

17.45 Film screening, In the Pool, Twin Trees
In the Pool, Twin Trees centres on the artists and twin sisters Jamila and Amina Ouahid, who are internationally recognised for their work with art in sign language. Through documentary and staged scenes, the film offers an insight into the sisters’ creative process as they explore poetry as a space for storytelling, identity and resistance. The screening will be followed by a short discussion with the filmmakers Karin Keisu and Josse Thuresson.

18.15 Dinner and mingle

19.00 Reading: Two Cities, a story by Ashraf Frugh
Ashraf Frugh is a writer and works at Disabled Refugee Welcome. He is a member of Studio Funk’s reference group and was a participant in the ‘Become an Art Producer with Studio Funk’ course held in autumn 2025. Ashraf will read his text, which is also included in Studio Funk’s publication. It is about his experiences of weaving as a child in Afghanistan and then encountering weaving as art at Tensta Konsthall in 2025.

19.15 we.dodance company – dance performance
we.dodance company is a dance company. The company includes people with disabilities. There are also people without disabilities. They work together. Everyone should be able to take part. In our dance, different bodies come together.

20.00 The evening closes