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Theatremaker undertakes 600km ‘slow’ journey across Arctic
A performer and climate activist will be undertaking a 600km journey to highlight human impact on climate change.
Tom Bailey will travel by ski, sled, foot and boat, moving through remote regions between Norway, Finland and Sweden highlighting the climate implications of travel.
Bailey’s slow moving journey, beginning on March 10, will become a new performance piece that will debut in 2027.
Bailey’s journey will span remote regions in several countries – photo: Tom Bailey
The journey will include talks, workshops and performance at international festivals in Norway and Denmark, sharing Bailey’s experience during the journey.
He will advocate for influencing new and creative ways of approaching sustainable touring practices.
Threshold – A Wild New Border Journey represents the next stage in Bailey’s ongoing artistic investigation into how performance is made, toured and shared in a climate-changed world.
This includes his Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025 show ‘Wild Thing!’, which featured research from a previous journey across Scotland, Denmark and Norway in 2024.
Along the way, he’ll meet local communities, artists and researchers, documenting how environmental change and geopolitical tensions are reshaping life in the Arctic.
Bailey has explored the theme of humans interacting with nature in varying forms throughout his work.
The trip begins with following festival workshops taking place from Thursday to Sunday alongside Barents Spektakel, an international contemporary arts festival in Kirkenes, Norway.
With climate change in the Arctic accelerating faster than anywhere else on Earth, Bailey aims to highlight the alarming consequences for nature and local communities.
The project will explore new possibilities of how international performance touring might happen in a changing world.
Main photo: Tom Bailey
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