The Festival
In First Person – The Festival is the first transgender curated and performed 3 day festival in Norway. The goal is to disseminate and expand the knowledge about the transgender community from an academic and theoretical perspective, with the hope to enrich and generate other narratives in our structural imaginarium about gender and especially the transgender spectrum. We gather around important ideas and celebrate the idea of transgender as a changing force in society.
The Festival includes lectures, performance lectures and panel discussions with professor and activist Susan Stryker, LGBTQIA+ family rights lawyer Erik Mägi, physicist and data researcher charlie negri, teacher and LGBTIQI activist Stein Wolff Frydenlund, artist and activist Mathilde Decaen and artist and filmmaker Kaeto Sweeney, among others.
This is a free event, hosted by Litteraturhuset i Bergen, Kunsthall 3.14 and KRAFT.

PROGRAMME
17 September, 20.00–22.00
Litteraturhuset i Bergen
20.00–20.30 Introduction to In First Person
Daniel Mariblanca
20.30–21.30 Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
Susan Stryker (lecture via live stream)
21.30–22.00 Presentation of a chapter from
In First Person – the House [digital]
Susan Stryker, Daniel Mariblanca and Isak Bradley
18 September, 17.00–21.00
Kunsthall 3.14 and KRAFT
17.00–17.30 Introduction and welcome
Daniel Mariblanca
17.30–18.15 Transgendered parenthood
challenging legal and social norms
Erik Mägi (lecture via live stream)
18.15–19.00 Transcending sexuality
Mathilde Decaen (performance lecture)
19.00–19.15 Break
19.15–20.00 Being vocal and trans
Stein Wolff Frydenlund (lecture)
20.00–21.00 Presentation of a chapter from
In First Person – the House [digital]
Daniel Mariblanca and Joakim Eide
21.00–21.30 Open conversation about In First Person
Daniel Mariblanca and contributors
19 September, 17.00–21.00
Kunsthall 3.14 and KRAFT
17.00–17.15 Welcome
Daniel Mariblanca
17.15–18.00 Transcending sexuality
Mathilde Decaen (performance lecture)
18.00–19.00 My Window: The Transgender Lens
Susan Stryker (lecture via live stream)
19.00–19.15 Break
19.15–20.00 Computation and Gender
charlie negri (lecture)
20.00–21.00 Searching for freedom: On reclaimed spaces, projected
fantasies and wet looks.
Martine (Kaeto Sweeney, 2017, 16 min)
Kaeto Sweeney in conversation with Maria Rusinovskaya
21.00–21.30 Open conversation about In First Person
Daniel Mariblanca and contributors
INVITED GUESTS
Isak Bradley and Joakim Eide will join in on a panel discussion during In First Person – The Festival to reflect on their experiences and growth while working on In First Person – The House [digital] and the upcoming theatre performance, In First Person: The Dance
in October 2020.