The 7th edition of Grand Nordic Festival · VITALIS welcomes audiences from Copenhagen and Danish regions, as well as expats, to join in as we stage dialogues between the voice of classical music and the sound of poetry readings.
This year’s theme is VITALIS · Seeds of Thought
We welcome the audience to become a part of direct trans-genre interactions between diverse art forms to enforce the idea of dialogue as an instrument of resistance to seek solutions for the conflicts contemporary society faces. To do so, the festival has the Parisian salon as inspiration and quotes the historical relationship between poetry reading and the sound of the lyre in antiquity.
The festival is an activity arranged by OrdSelskabet · Society of the Word. The organisation will offer a wide array of cultural activities during the autumn and winter stressing on community, dialogue and humanism. You may become member of OrdSelskabet by sending an email to: info@ordselskabet.dk
PRICE 150 DKK: membership from October 2025 until December 2026 – including free events and up to 50% discount on other activities.
You may read the bylaws here.
This year’s theme is VITALIS ·Seeds of Thought – tones and words about human experience through the exploration of mental health.
In times of crisis and general uncertainty, we seek to reinforce the idea of dialogue and direct human contact.
Thus, we invite the audience to a joint journey where dialogue is the epicentre of the stage performances across art forms.
The festival is staged as a series of dialogues between classical music and poetry readings. Each single performance is unique and attained via a direct confluence between poet(s) and musician(s). This joint expression explores an experimental trans-aesthetic study on mental health via artistic interaction.
Founder Martha Elias Reflects on the Vision, Inspiration, and Driving Force Behind the Festival
Dear Festival Guest,
SEVEN YEARS HAVE FLOWN!
This year’s theme, VITALIS · Seeds of Thought, grows out of the recognition that, in times of crisis, mental health is as vital as breath itself. Art offers more than mere aesthetics: it provides shelter, perspective, and renewal when the world feels fractured.
Our Lyrical Salons and talks bring together scholars, researchers, poets, and musicians to explore how words and music can become sources of vitality—small seeds of thought that help us to endure, to recover, and to grow.
In times marked by conflict, unrest, and inner strain, the festival offers audiences a space to pause, to reflect, and to experience how art strengthens the human journey, resilience, and sense of community.
Grand Nordic Festival 2025 is a celebration of vitality in dark times—an affirmation that poetry and classical music can foster unity, balance, and hope.
We invite you to take part, to listen, and to let these seeds of thought take root within you.
Welcome to VITALIS · Seeds of Thought.
Martha Elias
Art Director
15 September 2025
During the breaks – as well as every evening – after the programme ends – everyone can join the Salon Time and mingle with the the artists. It remains paramount to nurture the creation of new dialogue groups.
This is an opportunity to interact with everyone straightforwardly. Visitors can freely take the stage and present poetry, music, or something interrelated.
Please check out the programme, and contact us via mail if you wish to participate: me@ordselskabet.dk
The audience and participating artists have the opportunity to freely contribute to compose a festival product written in community during this year’s festival. This is done by writing 1-2 lines of verse, a word, or a thought related to the theme LIBERTAS—Freedom Awaits.
After the festival, the joint salon poem will be edited and shared via the festival’s social media channels.
READ previous joint community poems here.
Our own Salon Academy offers the following activity:
1) Writing workshop IN ENGLISH for youth from 10-25 years in Byens Hus Hellerup on 1/11 from 15:30-16:30.
Price: 200 DKK
2) 1) Writing workshop IN DANISH for youth from 10-25 years-old in Byens Hus Hellerup on 31/10 from 16:30-17:30.
Price: 200 DKK
JOIN THE ACTIVITIES BY sending an email to me@ordselskabet.dk
Everyone can join via our payment page
If you have any questions about the program or workshops, please send an email to: info@ordselskabet.dk
The festival aims at nurturing a free space for art encounters between poetry and classical music, and has the audience as a central part of the art dialogues on stage.
We thank for the interest to everyone and inform that the organisation has decided to forward 10% af all ticket sales to UNICEF’s support for the CHILDREN IN GAZA
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Copenhagen, 25 September 2019
The festival is arranged by OrdSelskabet · THE SOCIETY OF THE WORD
Concept & Art Direction by Martha Elias
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