This text is in Swedish, with an English translation available at the end.<\/i><\/p>\n
Idag firar vi i Finland svenska dagen, som \u00e4r en dag d\u00e5 vi uppm\u00e4rksammar den svenska spr\u00e5kminoriteten och spr\u00e5kkulturen i Finland. Den h\u00e4r dagen ber\u00f6r mig ocks\u00e5 personligen eftersom jag sj\u00e4lv \u00e4r finlandssvensk och jag ser det finlandssvenska kulturlivet som en viktig del av Finlands kulturf\u00e4lt.<\/strong><\/p>\n Som projektansvarig p\u00e5 Finlands Beneluxinstitut i Bryssel arbetar jag med m\u00e5ngsidiga projekt p\u00e5 ett flerspr\u00e5kigt plan. Spr\u00e5kpolitiken \u00e4r i Belgien ett dagligt samtals\u00e4mne och landets tre officiella spr\u00e5k lever inom sina tre olika kulturer, med undantag av Bryssel d\u00e4r man kan h\u00f6ra spr\u00e5k fr\u00e5n hela Europa och fr\u00e5n resten av v\u00e4rlden. F\u00f6r att inte gl\u00f6mma alla andra kulturer med sina spr\u00e5k och traditioner som blomstrar i Belgien (och i v\u00e5ra andra verksamhetsomr\u00e5den). Vi arbetar inom ett livligt kulturellt omr\u00e5de med en betydande spr\u00e5klig m\u00e5ngfald, vilket g\u00f6r kulturarbetet och kulturexporten p\u00e5 institutet v\u00e4ldigt intressant. Det \u00e4r ocks\u00e5 utmanande att jobba med flera spr\u00e5k, d\u00e5 vi inte alltid har resurser att bem\u00f6ta alla de spr\u00e5k vi kommer i kontakt med. P\u00e5 kontoret talas det engelska och finska, och ibland svenska, ibland flaml\u00e4ndska, samt d\u00e5 och d\u00e5 \u00e4ven franska. V\u00e5r externa kommunikation k\u00f6rs fr\u00e4mst p\u00e5 engelska, men med information \u00e4ven p\u00e5 nederl\u00e4ndska, franska och finska. Svenska syns inte lika mycket (och tyska inte alls) eftersom vi inte kan med v\u00e5ra begr\u00e4nsade resurser bem\u00f6ta alla spr\u00e5k som talas i v\u00e5ra verksamhetsomr\u00e5den. Ist\u00e4llet satsar vi p\u00e5 att skapa mera finlandssvenskt inneh\u00e5ll och vill uppm\u00e4rksamma Svenskfinland p\u00e5 det europeiska kulturf\u00e4ltet.<\/p>\n Det finlandssvenska samarbetet syns speciellt inom v\u00e5rt\u00a0RE\/defining Masculinities<\/a>-program under \u00e5ren 2019-2020. Som en del av programmet f\u00f6rst\u00e4rkte vi v\u00e5rt samarbete med finlandssvenska organisationer s\u00e5som Svenska litteraturs\u00e4llskapet i Finland och Ekvalita. I v\u00e5rt program h\u00f6rde vi ocks\u00e5 av flera finlandssvenska r\u00f6ster, som till exempel forskarna Nina Nyman, Ylva Perera och Jakob L\u00f6fgren i paneldiskussionen\u00a0Boys will be Boys\/#dammenbrister<\/a>, forskarna Nana Blomqvist och Harry Lunabba i panelen\u00a0Youth\/Masculinities<\/a>\u00a0samt ungdomsarbetaren Oscar Lehtinen i panelen\u00a0Crossing\/Masculinity<\/a>. D\u00e4rtill syntes \u00e4ven finlandssvenska kulturakt\u00f6rer och konstn\u00e4rer i v\u00e5r\u00a0RE\/defining Masculinities Monologues<\/a>, d\u00e4r vi h\u00f6rde av bland annat konstn\u00e4ren Sara Bjarland, f\u00f6rl\u00e4ggaren Pieter Claes, och f\u00f6rfattaren Adrian Perera.<\/p>\n Finlandssvenska konstn\u00e4rer har \u00e4ven f\u00e5tt utrymme i v\u00e5ra \u00f6vriga program. Adrian Pereras poesi har visats i Bryssels lokaltrafik samt i parken Parc du Cinquantenaire och Perera l\u00e4ste utvalda dikter p\u00e5 svenska under \u00e5rets\u00a0Transpoesie-festival<\/a>, som ordnades p\u00e5 distans. Institutet visade Rebecca Simons dokument\u00e4r Brev fr\u00e5n Morfar p\u00e5 KAAI teaterns\u00a0WoWmen-festival<\/a>\u00a0i Bryssel och h\u00e4mtade forskaren Minna Salami till festivalens avslutningsprogram. V\u00e5rt formgivningsprogram har ocks\u00e5 inkluderat finlandssvenska konstn\u00e4rer och akt\u00f6rer. Institutet samarbetade med galleristen Katja Hagelstam och galleriet Lokal samt konstn\u00e4rerna Jonas Lutz och Rasmus Palmgren p\u00e5\u00a0Collectible-m\u00e4ssan<\/a>\u00a0i Bryssel 2020, och h\u00e4mtade Kim Simonssons verk till\u00a0Call to the Wild-utst\u00e4llningen<\/a>\u00a0vid Maison Louis Carr\u00e9 i Frankrike.<\/p>\n Som finlandssvensk upplever jag det n\u00e4stan som min uppgift att fr\u00e4mja det finlandssvenska kulturarvet i mitt arbete p\u00e5 institutet och det \u00e4r n\u00e5got som jag g\u00f6r gladeligen. D\u00e4rtill arbetar vi med att utveckla v\u00e5r verksamhet och inkludera mera r\u00f6ster och perspektiv utanf\u00f6r det heteronormativa och hegemoniska patriarkatet. Vi vill \u00f6ppna upp f\u00f6r diskussion och vi vill unders\u00f6ka djupare, och vi vill utvecklas som ett kulturinstitut p\u00e5 ett alltmera organiskt och utbrett kulturf\u00e4lt. Det har varit en gl\u00e4dje f\u00f6r mig att arbeta med s\u00e5 m\u00e5nga fina och komplexa kulturfenomen \u2013 och jag ser framemot nya projekt och upplevelser, vare sig det g\u00e4ller virtuella program eller (eftersaknade) fysiska evenemang.<\/p>\n \/Malin Bergstr\u00f6m, Projektansvarig<\/p>\n ENG. As a Project Manager at The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, I have the pleasure of working as part of a multilingual and multicultural arts sector internationally. Language politics is part of daily life in Belgium, with three official languages living in their separate spheres united in one federal state, with Brussels as a multilingual city where languages from all around the European continent and the world can be heard. Least should we forget the additional languages and cultures thriving in Belgium (and in our other areas of operations). At the institute, we\u2019re working with a significant cultural and language diversity, which makes the work itself all the more interesting. It also presents a series of challenges, in particularly language-wise, as we cannot always cater for all of the languages in our areas of operation. At the office, we communicate mostly in English and Finnish, with the occasional conversation held in Swedish, along with some in Flemish, and on occasion, even a little bit of French. This is also mirrored in our external communication, where English is our main language of choice due to its wide reach, and is backed up by Dutch, French, and Finnish. Swedish rarely takes a stand in our communication (and German has not at all), mainly due to lack of resources. Instead we have instead steered our energies into creating more content and programming that raises the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland onto the European map.<\/p>\n This aim can be particularly noted in our\u00a0RE\/defining Masculinities<\/a>\u00a0programme 2019-2020, which featured several prominent Swedish-speaking Finnish actors. The institute strengthened collaborations with Swedish-speaking organisations, such as Svenska litteraturs\u00e4llskapet i Finland and Evkalita. Expertise from Swedish-speaking Finland was raised throughout the programme, through the researchers Nina Nyman, Ylva Perera, and Jakob L\u00f6fgren in our panel discussion\u00a0Boys will be Boys\/#dammenbrister<\/a>, the researchers Nana Blomqvist and Harry Lunabba in the panel discussion\u00a0Youth\/Masculinities<\/a>, and the youth worker Oscar Lehtinen in the panel discussion\u00a0Crossing\/Masculinity<\/a>.\u00a0 Additionally, we featured several Swedish-speaking voices in our\u00a0RE\/defining Masculinities Monologues<\/a>, such as the artist Sara Bjarland, the editor Pieter Claes, and the author Adrian Perera.<\/p>\n Asides from academics, Swedish-speaking Finnish creatives have also been featured in our programming. We included Adrian Perera in this year\u2019s edition of\u00a0Transpoesie<\/a>, and in addition to a poetry reading in one of the festival\u2019s online events, his poetry was also seen in public transport around Brussels, as well as in the park parc du Cinquantenaire. The institute also screened Rebecca Simons\u2019s documentary Letters from the Past at the\u00a0WoWmen festival<\/a>\u00a0at KAAI theatre in Brussels, and brought the researcher Minna Salami to the festival\u2019s final talk. Even our design programme has included perspectives from Swedish-speaking Finland, with the gallerist Katja Hagelstam and the gallery Lokal, and the designers Jonas Lutz and Rasmus Palmgren, included in this year\u2019s edition of\u00a0the Collectible fair<\/a>\u00a0in Brussels, and by bringing Kim Simonsson\u2019s sculptures to the\u00a0Call to the Wild exhibition<\/a>\u00a0at the Maison Louis Carr\u00e9 in France.<\/p>\n As a Swedish-speaking Finn, I almost see it as my duty to promote and nurture Swedish-speaking cultural heritage as part of my work at the institute, and it\u2019s a duty I gladly perform. We are also working to expand our programming into other language and cultural spheres, including more voices and perspectives outside of the heteronormative and hegemonic patriarchy. We want to converse openly and we want to examine deeper, and we wish to evolve as a cultural institute on a continuously expanding and organic cultural field. It has been a pleasure to work with so many wonderful and complex cultural phenomena \u2013 and I am looking forward to new projects and experiences, be they online programmes or (much missed) real life events.<\/p>\n \/Malin Bergstr\u00f6m, Project Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Idag firar vi i Finland svenska dagen, som \u00e4r en dag d\u00e5 vi uppm\u00e4rksammar den svenska spr\u00e5kminoriteten och spr\u00e5kkulturen i Finland. Institutets projektansvariga Malin Bergstr\u00f6m skriver om finlandssvenskhet och hur det ber\u00f6r institutets program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe first thing you\u2019ll notice when popping into this blogpost is that despite being promised an English text, you\u2019re challenged with the Swedish language instead. This is in honour of the Finnish Swedish Heritage Day, which we celebrate today on the 6th of November in Finland. As a Swedish-speaking Finn, I felt that it was time for a text on the institute\u2019s Swedish Finnish programming, and writing the text in Swedish seemed more than apt for the occasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n