Full program release - EARTHBOUND Symposium

19 & 20 August, 2025  

Himmelbjerggården // 8680 Ry, Denmark

21 August, 2025 

Moesgaard Campus – Aarhus University // 8270 Højbjerg, Denmark 

 

Secret Hotel invites you to EARTHBOUND Symposium: An interdisciplinary symposium that weaves together art and science to reimagine how we human beings relate to the living world.

This year, we investigate soil and water. In the face of climate emergency, we create an immersive framework to co-explore and co-reflect on our sensuous and deep-rooted relationships with these ancient elements.

This 2025 edition is organised in collaboration with Himmelbjerggården and Aarhus University, and we’re excited to present a program of inspiring talks, workshops, art, debates, a staged dinner, rituals and sharing sessions.

 

Explore the program and sign up here

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

How can we reimagine knowledge in a time of ecological and epistemic crisis? 

Minna Salami (FI/NG/SE) presents the keynote, where she will introduce The Kaleidoscopic Method: a way of thinking that embraces multiplicity and interconnectedness. Here, knowledge is not treated as a fixed destination, but as a patterned unfolding like the turn of a kaleidoscope. 

Her session invites participants to attune to the elemental intelligences of soil and water, weaving intellectual reflection with participatory and sensory inquiry. 

Minna Salami is an author, social critic, and senior fellow and research chair at The New Institute. Minna’s publications ‘Sensuous Knowledge’, ‘Can Feminism Be African?’, and award-winning MsAfropolitan blog champion emancipatory and rooted approaches to knowledge that expand and challenge dominant and conventional prisms. 

 

INVITED SPEAKERS 

Charlotte Du Cann (UK) Writer, editor, and co-director of the Dark Mountain Project. Author of After Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time and 52 Flowers That Shook My World. She has co-created many immersive, dramaturgical events and teachings, based on reconnection with the more-than-human world and mythology of place. 

Venus Jasper (NL) Queer visual artist, storyteller, world builder, researcher and singer-priestess. With works such as EARTHSHRINE – Sensing Sacred Soils and OAKBaLLZ and EELSkin, Venus Jasper explores their own relation to sacred swamps, ancestry and trauma, based on queer ecology and land-based ways of knowing. 

 

WORKSHOPS  

The workshop program of EARTHBOUND 2025 offers six parallel workshops that invite participants into immersive, sensorial encounters with soil, water, microbes, and mud – exploring themes of interdependence, grief, ritual, and more-than-human storytelling. 

You can meet these international artists and researchers

• Katrine Faber (DK) 

• Dorthe Refslund Christensen (DK)  

• Bethany Copsey (NZ/NL) 

• Moss Berke (US/IT) 

• Dovilė Railaitė (LT) 

• Eglė Pundzevičiūtė (LT) 

• Ingrid Tranum Velásquez (DK) 

• Anja Mølle Lindelof (DK) 

 

PROGRAM

See the program and all practical info on the website 

https://www.secrethotel.dk/en/earthbound-25/  

 

DO I HAVE TO PARTICIPATE ALL 3 DAYS?

No, you can buy a ticket for the full 3-days experience, but it’s also possible to choose between attending the symposium only at Himmelbjerggården (2 days) or Moesgaard Campus (1 day). 

 

ACCOMMODATION   

You can book your accommodation at Himmelbjerggården, or Aarhus and use our free shuttle bus that drives daily between Aarhus and Himmelbjerggården.

 

TICKETS 

Register for EARTHBOUND 2025 through our website here 

https://www.secrethotel.dk/en/earthbound-25/ 

 

EARTHBOUND is organised, since 2018, by the performance theatre Secret Hotel. The 2025 edition is organised in collaboration with Himmelbjerggården and Aarhus University