Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday at Roskilde Festival 2024, we open the doors to Re:Act, located in Camping West. Re:Act is a vibrant and experimental platform where you can experience eye-opening impressions and human rights battles that resonate in both body and soul. Under the themes Re:Claim Your Body, Re:Claim Your Voice, and Re:Claim Your Home, you can hear inspiring voices from across the globe, each conveying essential messages from today's world.
Re:Act is a partnership between Rapolitics, Roskilde Festival, and the Danish Institute of Human Rights. ReAct is supported by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affair’s OpEn-funding pool and Tuborg Fondet.
Under the theme Re:Claim Your Body, on Sunday, 30 June, you can join in as rappers, poets, and dancers from various continents focus on gender equality, sexuality, and body positivity. You can witness a unique performance by Mare Advertencia, who reclaims her own (and everyone else's) rights to their bodies. The Mexican rapper and feminist uses her body, her lyrical universe, and her music to highlight the sexism, racism, and patriarchal culture she believes pervades the Mexican society.
Monday, 1 July, is dedicated to the theme Re:Claim Your Voice, where activists, rappers, and debaters focus on the right to express oneself - and the lack thereof. You can experience the Iranian artist AYIRA, who performs, raps, and talks about how music can be used as a tool to create change.
The theme Re:Claim Your Home unfolds on Tuesday, 2 July. Here, you can experience artists from global hotspots who highlight the right to nationality, a homeland, and the right to feel safe in one’s own home. Among the performances, you'll hear Ukrainian soldier and rapper OTOY, who uses music to process his experiences of war and destruction, and Khaled Harara, born and raised in Gaza, who has used music as his refuge and lifeline from an early age.
You can also join the show when Klaskefar, Fabeldyret and Ham Den Lange mix political debate with humor, rhymes, and rhythm in a freestyle rap battle. The rappers will take on the roles of popular politicians and opinion leaders, with the audience deciding whom they should parody and what topics they should rap about.
At the Re:Act area, you'll also find the container “Room of Raptivism”, where you can experience video installation art featuring rappers who describe how they use voices, rhymes, and rhythms as activist tools. Step into the container and immerse yourself in a universe of political rap and hip-hop that pushes boundaries.
It all takes place from 30 June to 2 July in Camping West. Come and join as the artists bring sound, words, and movement to your rights - and equip you to defend others’!
Here are all the artists you can meet at Re:Act:
Ahmad Shukri, Aysha Amin, Nadeen Aiche, Rahim Abdullah (DK)
AYIRA (IR)
Elbanovic, Elias Ben Afia, Den Lette Gade, Conradi, Flammen, Akapelle (DK)
Glenn Bech (DK)
Gry Stokkendahl Dalgas (DK)
Haidar Ansari (DK)
Kaka, Funch & Silhouette (DK)
Khaled Harara (PLE)
Klaskefar, Fabeldyret & Ham Den Lange (DK)
Mare Advertencia (MEX)
Mino Danmark (DK)
OTOY (UKR)
Peimi, Amro, Semphiz (DK)
Queer Music Agency, Elijah Kashmir, Tandem (DK)
Rebecca Kjerstad (DK)
Street Studies (DK)
Strictly Silk, KFP, Sabaah (DK, KEN)
Szim, IRIS & Josie Amadonna (DK)