What becomes possible when we meet plants as kin and allies?

This is the question that guides ROOTED.

ROOTED is a gathering of artists, practitioners, and anyone who has felt the pull of the living world. A festival and a ritual.

We believe that in times of crisis, imagination is a strategy of survival and how we find our way towards worlds that are more livable to all. ROOTED is a space where we can collectively nourish this imagination - through art, encounter, through the sensory and the embodied.

This is repair work and it is also celebration. Both feel necessary right now.

2026 is our second edition - over 30 artists and practitioners, two days, performances, rituals, workshops, sound installations and more. Will you join us?

Want to join? Get your ticket here.

View fullsize ROOTED is a festival about paying attention – to plants, to each other, and to the world we share. Through performances, sound, workshops, installations, and rituals, we gather a community of ecologically curious people for two days of celebrat
View fullsize “I’m bringing the willow and the waters of the Rhine and Scheldt watershed as the willow’s more-than-human companion. There is a magnificent willow tree on my paternal grandparents’ land, and it has quietly accompanied my life
View fullsize Let’s welcome Dorota Michalak and Borys Slowikowski to ROOTED, with their Phytosomatic Dance Party πŸͺ© Dorota Michalak is a choreographer, dancer, somatic educator and organizer of Polish origins. In her choreographic, communal and pedagogic pr
View fullsize “I’m inviting the Elderflower, as it reminds me of my own roots from back home in Thy” - @rafael_hendriks There’s never too much of Elderflower, we would say... Welcome to ROOTED! πŸ“Έ @rafael_hendriks Stay tuned for more RO
View fullsize We are so happy to have Anja Perl at ROOTED this year! Together, we’ll dive into her workshop “Humans and Plants in Dialogue - How would my way of living change if I developed a deeper connection and understanding of edible plants?”
View fullsize “I will be bringing dry stems of Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), and they will be part of my performative reading.” - Alaa Abu Asad We just can’t wait. Welcome to the circle, Japanese knotweed! 🌱 πŸ“Έ Taylor Friehl on Unspla
View fullsize Wendy Wuyts is joining ROOTED this year! We’re so so happy to have her with us, offering a 2-hour workshop Writing (with) Plants about Homecoming in Times of Ecological Exile 🌿 Wendy Wuyts is a Belgian ecofeminist scholar, writer, and facilit
View fullsize “I’m inviting the cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis; pl. rzeΕΌucha Ε‚Δ…kowa): from/of the meadow, harbinger of spring, a perennial pale pink companion, unassuming yet unmissable; and the swift (Apus apus; pl. jerzyk zwyczajny): a sky-bound p
View fullsize Anika and Monika are joining ROOTED this year with their project Baltic Correspondences - eco-poetics and multispecies co-writing. An experiment. A practice. A meditation with inner and outer land(capes) ✍🏽 Anika is a poet, writer & artist, in
View fullsize “I will bring to ROOTED the dandelion for abundance, cycles and audacity. And salt for her slowness and protection in my work - together with water, she creates the boundaries which allow microbes to do the work of fermentation safely”- @
View fullsize Clare Archibald is joining this year’s edition of ROOTED, with a sound installation 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like', part of her project Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness 🌬 Clare Archibald is a Scottish multidisciplina
View fullsize “The friend and collaborator I am bringing is soil from my indoor compost. We are doing the workshop together, soil and I.” - @planetsilje Soil, you’re so welcome in the ROOTED circle 🌱 πŸ“Έ @planetsilje Stay tuned for more ROOTED
View fullsize Alaa Abu Asad is coming to ROOTED this year! We’re so happy to be sharing the floor with this artist and photographer whose work takes the form of images and writing. Language and plants are central themes through which he develops alternative
View fullsize “Here’s a litte story about ivy: Ivy (Hedera helix) teaches us about the politics of growing, attachment, and letting go. As an evergreen creeper, in its juvenile phase it grows across surfaces and up into space, gripping tightly with st
View fullsize Silje Erøy Sollien is joining ROOTED this year, with WHAT IS SOIL?, a sensory exploration of soil from an apartment in Copenhagen and from the compost of (X). We’ll create SOIL STORIES together, how lucky are we? 🌱 Silje Erøy So
View fullsize “I am bringing Bee balm (Monarda) this year. I love the vibrant, bold and healing presence of this plant and seeing how her energy and guidance is supporting ROOTED to shine in its authentic expression.” - @liene.jurgelane Monarda plants
View fullsize We are so happy to have Sarafina McPherson Kimø with us this year, with the Story Kitchen workshop! Sarafina facilitates co-creative communities for growing pleasurable, just and sustainable lives. Their work focuses on building local commun
View fullsize “I would like to bring a magpie to the ROOTED circle. This is a friend that has been following me in the last couple of years while I have been working with birds.” - @wunschmachine Magpies often sit on the highest branch of the highest
View fullsize We are truly honoured to be able to screen Taming the Garden, a film by Salomé Jashi. A short synopsis: A powerful and anonymous man has developed an unusual hobby. He buys century-old trees, some as tall as 15-story buildings, from communit
View fullsize "I am calling the spiders into the circle as my co/weavers and companions. The spider has crawled into my life and she inspires me to be patient, to honour my craft and to keep spinning new stories.” - @anice.in.wonderland With deep appre