Four world soloists in Handel's Messiah end the Baltic Sea Festival: Camilla Tilling, soprano, Andrew Staples, tenor, Matthew Rose, bass, Kristina Hammarström, mezzo-soprano. With The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Radio Choir led by Reinhard Goebel buff.ly/3xycUZO

Four world soloists in Handel's Messiah end the Baltic Sea Festival: Camilla Tilling, soprano, Andrew Staples, tenor, Matthew Rose, bass, Kristina Hammarström, mezzo-soprano. With The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Radio Choir led by Reinhard Goebel buff.ly/3xycUZO

OUR JOINT RESPONSIBILITY – The talk 17 September is broadcast from Voksenåsen Oslo with political scientist Jörgen Watne Frydnes and author Elisabeth Åsbrink. How do we take personal and collective responsibility for creating a society that we want? buff.ly/3740TRa

Congratulations to Tobias Rawet and Ahmed Abdirahman, recipients of the Raoul Wallenberg Prize 2021. We look forward to welcoming Abdirahman as one of the speakers at the Baltic Sea Festival 10 September in Kista Library in the "Nobody left behind" buff.ly/3dtJepw

What has young music to do with sustainability? This is something that pianist Marta Finkelštein and artist Sandra Galdikaite will discuss in the talk broadcast from the Modern Art Museum in Vilnius on 12 September buff.ly/3hz7etS

Meet the composers of the Baltic Sea Festival 2021: JAN SANDSTRÖM, born 1954 in Vilhelmina, Sweden. In the Baltic Sea Festival his new piece The Great Enigma, vill premiere on 16 September in the concert "The Baltic Seasons". buff.ly/3Bplc9B

THE BALTIC SEA FESTIVAL STUDIO – Interviews, comments and guests for our digital festival audience, daily broadcast in English, with journalists Erik Blix and Malin Jacobson Båth as hosts. View it on Berwaldhallen Play! buff.ly/3gMSXJh

BALTIC SEA FESTIVAL SPINOFF PROGRAMME: initiatives and partners aligning with the Festival's aim. The 1:st event is a talk about ecological cascade effects, at the Liepaja concert hall Great Amber, Latvia. Come back often to check for programme updates buff.ly/3kK9G16

The opening of the Baltic Sea Festival is celebrated with a great fanfare over Stockholm from the tower of Stockholm City Hall. The fanfare is one out of four during the festival. Here is Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman berwaldhallen.se/en/four-fanfar… buff.ly/3jBbZUA

17 September: The multi-award-winning Stenhammar Quartet performs Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ in a concert where the wondrously beautiful music is interwoven with words performed by representatives of different conceptions of life buff.ly/3740TRa

På fredag firar vi att Rinkeby fyller 50 år! Det gör vi med en storslagen fanfar på Rinkeby torg kl. 15, och med musik med El Sistema. Kl 18 blir det ett live-streamat samtal i Kista Bibliotek med Ahmed Abdirahman och Johanna Koljonen "Alla ska med!" buff.ly/3i6NVs1

The first film from Södertörn University about our sustainable future – "Destination: Future. The shipping industry's route to sustainability". Södertörn University has partnered with the Baltic Sea Festival since 2019. It's the first in a series of four films for the Festival

Follow the festival through the Baltic Sea Studio! Tonight’s guestsBerwaldhallen´s GM Staffan Becker, Head of Artistic planning Christian Thompson, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, psychiatrist Ullakarin Nyberg. Host Erik Blix. In English. Starts 17.45 CET: buff.ly/3w7Vbrx

A CHANGING SEA - The Baltic’s path to a sustainable future – what can the seabed tell us? For over 30 years, Thomas Andrén has studied the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Andrén is certain of one thing – climate change is the greatest danger to the future of the Baltic Sea

FESTIVAL SPIN-OFF PROGRAMME – MUSIC & TALK at the Liepaja concert hall “Great Amber” on ECOLOGICAL CASCADE EFFECT, followed by a concert with orthodox songs performed by the Latvian Radio Choir, conductor Sigvards Kļava. Listen to the music & talk here! buff.ly/3tEwmUh

BALTIC SEA FESTIVAL SPIN-OFF – SYNAESTHESIS ENSEMBLE- Listen to Synaethesis Ensemble, led by pianist Marta Finkelstein, participant of the Baltic Sea Festival talk from Vilnius 12 September. Works by four Lithuanian composers are performed: buff.ly/3lFJWDF

This year's Baltic Sea Festival is coming to an end, but we have THREE sparkling festival days left – with fantastic music, by both classical masters and contemporary composers, a world première, outstanding soloists, a world conductor, and much more! buff.ly/2XpPzxt

WHY SO DIFFICULT? A CONVERSATION ABOUT CHANGE, SHAME AND THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY. Talk about the gap between knowledge and action, with Maria Wolrath Söderberg, associate professor of rhetoric, and Isak Jarnehäll, journalist and formerly a student at Södertörn University

Watch the seminar "Culture & Democracy" from 12 Sep arranged by the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Swedish Institute, to inspire cultural actors to lead the way towards resilient democracies buff.ly/3Eo7o0K