All events take place at Tromsø Kunstforening.

15:00 - Performance "Les Solaires" and artist talk by Léuli Eshrāghi

17:00 - Community dinner (free of charge)

19:00 - 22:00 Screenings

Each screening is different. There is a 15-minute pause between screenings.

Some films contain explicit sexual content and/or nudity.

Click here to reserve screening tickets (donation/pay-what-you-want).

The traveling festival Qaleidoscope presents an expanded cinema performance, community supper, and two screening programs.

15:00 Performance "Les Solaires" by Léuli Eshrāghi, followed by artist talk (ca: 15:45)

Akin to the ula, shell necklaces gathered along the coasts, and ʻafa, robust coconut husk strands braided together to lash and strengthen vessels and architectures conceived as renewable in the absolute humidity of warm contexts, th hub is new performance work considers queer Indigenous lives and afterlives at home and at sea. Les solaires dissects Norwegian voyager Thor Heyerdahl’s contributions to colonial understandings of Indigenous historicity and futurity in the Great Ocean and the Americas, as ostensibly unable to recognize or accept gender, kinship, pleasure, knowledge, and society structured beyond binaries and race hierarchies.

Through this work that humbly seeks to string Romssa/Tromsø, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, and ʻUpolu islands, Léuli shares a prayer to ancestors known and floating through colonial archives just beyond the veil of remembrance while processing dried and roasted cacao from their homelands; and an offering to precolonial spirits too-long forsaken at home through unwrapping and rewrapping dried fish in pāreu made of mylar. A rehearsal imagining ancestral ceremonial-political practice across thousands of years prior to forced christianization, monotheization, monogamization and capitalist accumulation from 1830 in the Sāmoan archipelago, Les solaires is equally a future-focused consideration of cumlines, ancestral epics, and spiritual practices that imbue the present with possibility and wonder.

17:00 Community dinner (free of charge)

19:00 - 20:15 Screening 1

Ten short films by Léuli Eshrāghi, Evelyn Pakinewatik, Sarah Bliss, June Jung, Daniel Barrow, Lucie Babayan & La Fille Renne, kimura byol lemoine, Ezri Appel, Anne Golden, Vika Kirchenbauer. Runtime 64 minutes.

See the full program of Screening 1 here

20:30 - 21:40 Screening 2

Eight short films by Elian Mikkola, Frédéric Moffet, Jard Lerebours, Matt McKinzie, Grace Mitchell & Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh, Martí Madaula Esquirol, Dorian Wood. Runtime 69 minutes.

See the full program of Screening 2 here

About Qaleidoscope: Qaleidoscope Tour – Nordic 2026 – will present film and performance art by Queer and QTIBPOC artists that explore, question and play with notions of identity and utilize queer artistic expression to propose and investigate diverse ways of looking at sexuality, gender, race and film and performance art itself.

Some films will focus on image, sound and abstract narratives; others present information, facts, and queerforward realities; while others share the pleasure and pain of individual and collective identities. Refractive content includes experimental and artistically rigorous films as well as heavy-hitting and thoughtful topics such as feminism, race, racism, fat activism, class, colonization, crip arts, politics, religion, violence, HIV/AIDS, gender and of course sexuality – all provided for their role in engendering awareness and insight on many levels.

The Qaleidoscope Tours were conceived to promote the artistic vision of Queer and QTBIPOC filmmakers and performance artists whose work might not otherwise be shown in these parts of Europe.

These works, though falling under the banner of ‘queer’, remain relevant to the broader artistic communities in each of the locations, not only because of the subject matter broached but because many of the artists represented float amongst multiple disciplines within the context of film, visual and performance art. In this sense, artistic rigour and fluidity of experience are paramount in the programming for the tour.