Pepp March For Art 29th May kl.16 @Nytorget

Pepp-March For Art is an annual event that was initiated in 2009 as a reaction to the so called "Konstfack scandal" and the debate that tried to criminalize the freedom of artistic activity. The event is public and everybody is invited to be apart of it. This year the event will be something different: we will give meaning for art, that is to say the space of activities related to creativity. It is going to be a day to celebrate all the people that work with creativity and culture and to remind our city how important for Stockholm these people are. The march will be preceded by a meeting / seminar about the role of creativity in society and will retain the same form as last year: an urban happening that consist of a walk through the city, performances and dances. This year is organized by a network of dancers, free lance workers in the field of communication, researchers, musicians, and artists. ART IS WORKING AND SO ARE YOU
~ Wednesday, May 19 ~
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The March

This is a call to arts, join the annual celebration of art on may 29th at
16.00.

This year we will start at Nytorget the heart and soul of the creative
capital of scandinavia.

We will stumble over and unplug macbooks as we go, passing the latte-mamas
and the surdegs-papas,

At Nytorget we will start with pepp speeches to affirm the value of creative
activity, in opposition to the commonly mediated image of art as something
outside of “useful labour”. We will do this to claim art as a necessity in
any society.

We will then march out of sofo through the highly hip and attractive parts of
Södermalm, which we nowadays only can visit, since no one can afford living
there.

During the march we will walk backwards, wave the immaterial flag and
close our eyes to make visible the invisible production of the immaterial
worker.

The march travels over the top of Götgatan and down Hornsgatan to
Mariatoget where we will perform a baptism of the children of last year’s
marriage between art and life; the artisan of the sensuous - all-inclusive!