• MAY SINGING

    Join our online talk about the tradition of Maysinging by the Baltic Sea.

    30 Aug 17.00 CET

  • A talk about the tradition of May singing

    As a final event in the second round of Kuldrum (there willbe more), we will have an online conversation about May singing on both sides of the Baltic Sea. We will compare Blekinge and Scanian May singing tradition and May celebration in Suiti (Curland, Latvia).

    With us we have Lidija Jansone, 82 years old, who teachesolder traditions and crafts from her family farm in the Catholic enclave of Suiti.

    How can I participate?

    Welcome to participate in zoom. Just click on the LINK>>

    In what language?

    The talk will be in English, with translation from Latvian.

    When will we meet?

    Wednesday, August 30.
    At 17.00 CET. We open the zoom about 10 minutes before thestart of the meeting.

    What can I expect?

    Astrid Selling, Ina Celitane and Lidija Jansone will tellabout when, where and how they celebrated in Sweden and Latvia, show pictures and films and also give examples of May songs and ”pievisor”. And for the first time we will have the chance to compare the texts with each other.

    There will also be time for questions from the participants.

    May singing; short background info

    A custom dating back to the Middle Ages. In southern Sweden,it has been a tradition that starts off the summer, when on Valborg night, people sing and beg for eggs and money. But there are traces that indicate aconnection with the Middle Ages and Catholicism.

    What is KULDRUM?

    KULDRUM - storytelling around the Baltic Sea, is a projectstarted in 2021 by Astrid Selling (SE), Ina Celitane (LV) and Kairi Leivo (EE) and aims to create a network for practitioners of traditional storytelling through songs, crafts, dance, play and oral storytelling around the Baltic Sea.
    Read more here: www.kuldrum.com

     

    WELCOME!
    /Astrid, Ina and Kairi

  • WE MET IN BLEKINGE!

    19-23 of April 2023

    Storytelling and folksinging days in Blekinge, Sweden.

    Estonian, Latvian and Swedish storytellers and folksingers will show and learn!

  • Join the storytelling network!

    Open to professionals as well as people with a passionate interest
    for storytelling and traditional singing

    What is the KULDRUM project?

    a storytelling project

    KULDRUM is Livonian, Estonian and Swedish. Guld/Kuld Rum/Ruum. A golden room - the golden place, physical and spiritual, where people connect and create belonging and identity through storytelling. KULDRUM wants to create a long term network where storytellers and folksingers can share storytelling practices on how to bring in people into creativity, and how to weave culture and identity into the fabric of society and everyday life.

    Join the project!

    share and learn storytelling practices

    The project aims to create activities - physical and online - for storytellers and folksingers. The project is open both to professionals who use storytelling in their performances through playing music, singing songs, lecturing knowledge, or telling stories, and people who have a passionate interest.

    Today, the network is active through our facebook page >>

  • The KULDRUM festival in Blekinge

    See pictures and films from the festival 10-14 nov 2021

  • The KULDRUM festival in Kurzeme Latvia

    See pictures and films from the event 8-12  jun 2022

  • KULDRUM visits Viljandi Folk Festival

    See pictures and films from the event 27-31  july 2022

  • KULDRUM - a storytelling project

    JOIN THE KULDRUM NETWORK!

    KULDRUM aims to activate and inspire

    storytellers and folksingers around

    the Baltic Sea, to meet, talk and

    learn from each other's practices.

  • Lähme seda teeda mööda,

    seda teeda tipulist,

    ja tehtud teeda mööda,

    velle raiutud radasi,

    kust on enne orjad käinud,

    orjad käinud härjad läinud,

    mis on jäänud jälgedelle,

    mis on sammuli sadanud

    kulda jaanud jalgadelle,

    hõbe sammule sadanud,

    kes oli hullu noppis kulda,

    ma põlnd hullu nopsin kulda,

    kulda sain ma kuuetäie,

    hõbedat sain hõlmatäie,

    vaske vana vaka täie

    viisin ma kulla kodoje,

    viisin kulla memme näha

    hõbedase õe näha,

    vase vana naeste näha

    memm panni kulla kuivamaie,

    alla kaane kasvamaie

    kuivis kuu kuivis kaks,

    kuivis kuu kolmandalle,

    natukese neljandalle,

    veidikese viiendalle,

    mõne pääva pealekauba

    Kullast sündis neitsikene

    Let's go walking together
    Walking on the forest road
    The road where the slaves have walked
    The road where forefathers went
    What is left in the footsteps?
    Gold is left in the footsteps
    Who was the crazy one to pick up the gold?
    I was the one, who picked up the gold
    I put it to grow
    It grew a month and it grew two
    And grew a day or two
    And then it became a woman

    (traditional song from Estonia)

  • PROJECT SCHEDULE 2023

    Online meetings

    We meet to discuss how to find new ways to continue our project

    ONLINE
     

    19-23 april
    Open session

    Storytelling days in Blekinge. With support from The Swedish Arts Council

    19-23 April

    Spring of 2023
    Yxna Saga

    Bring to life the viking myth of Yxna (most likely created in the 17th century). Storytellers and folksinging choir, Blaustjyng.

    Performance in May and June

    Medieval Ballad Festivla
    FATTIG punkt ELAK

    Swedish and Latvian partivipants attend Sweden's first medievla ballad festival. Created and managed by Marie Länne Persson

    Borghamn 17-20 August

    Maysinging
    Open session

    Maysinging in Järnavik Blekinge.

    30 April

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  • PROJECT SCHEDULE 2021-2022

    15 Oct - 13.00-16.00 (CET time)
    Closed session

    Professional storytellers and folksingers from Estonia, Sweden and Latvia share knowledge and experiences.
    ONLINE
     

    15 Oct - 17.00-20.00 (CET time)
    Open session

    Meet the storyteller and tradition carrier Lidija Jansone from Kuldiga, Latvia, who will present the tradition of singing dainas in connection with rituals and ceremonies. ONLINE

    11-14 Nov
    Blekinge, Sweden
    Storytelling meetup

    Join in a four day long conference in Blekinge, Sweden, where storytellers and folksingers from Estonia, Sweden and Latvia meet to share practices.

    11 Feb - 13.00-16.00 (CET time)
    Closed session

    Professional storytellers and folksingers from Estonia, Sweden and Latvia share knowledge and experiences.
    ONLINE

    11 Feb - 13.00-16.00 (CET time)
    Open session

    Meet Estonian storytellers and folksingers on the theme "Every thing has a story". About the different "languages" of storytelling.
    ONLINE

    22 Apr - 16.00-18.00 (CET time)
    Closed session

    Professional storytellers and folksingers from Estonia, Sweden and Latvia share knowledge and experiences.
    ONLINE

    22 Apr - 18.30-21.00 (CET time)
    Open session

    Meet Swedish storytellers and folksingers on the theme "drama in storytelling and singing". With the tradition of May singing as a living example.
    ONLINE

    8-12 Jun
    Kuldiga, Latvia
    Storytelling meetup

    Join in a four day long conference in Kuldiga, Latvia, where storytellers and folksingers from Estonia, Sweden and Latvia meet to share practices.

    27-31 Jul
    Viljandi, Estonia
    Storytelling meetup

    The final session will be held as a festival in the festival of Viljandi Folk Music Festival. Workshops in regilaul, dainas, medieval ballads. Singing games, concerts, singer and storytelling meetings. Launching of the network platform.
     

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  • Our hearts stand with Ukraine!

    The aggression on Ukraine has created worries for friends in Ukraine, but also worries for the risk of being countries with borders towards Russia. Having a history of being locked into the Soviet Union, fighting for freedom and sovereignty as countries, but most of all the freedom of speech and interactivity as people and cultures.

    The Kuldrum project is about how cultures in countries around the Baltic Sea connect through traditional storytelling, through common story themes that have been built and evolved through centuries, even millenaries, in people's lives. Russia is of course also a part of this culture evolvement, as the folk tradition goes beyond national borders and men in power. 

  • Funded by Nordic Culture Point

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  • A Baltic Sea Project

    Through funding from Nordic Culture Point the project will run

    between 1 of August 2021 and 31 of August 2022

    Contact us to discuss storytelling! kuldrum.project@gmail.com

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