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2021 TOGETHER ELSEWHERE - Online – Performance Event

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2021 PAB Lokal: Break(ing) Habits

PAB Lokal: Break(ing) Habits 5. june in Bergen City centre

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2021 PAB LOKAL: OPENING UP / CLOSING IN

PAB LOKAL: OPENING UP / CLOSING IN 08-13 MARCH 2021 AT ROGALAND ART CENTER

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2020 PAB LOKAL - Everything has its time - Storetveit church

Saturday, October 17th, 2020 - A performance event in and around Storetveit church. On the occasion of Storetveit Church's 90th anniversary, the congregation together with PAB. We has the pleasure of inviting you to a unique art experience.

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2020 FINSE CAMP

FINSE CAMP 2020 PERFORMANCE MEETING BETWEEN PAB / PAO 22. - 23. august 2020

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2020 Hour - Bergen International Performance Festival (BIPF) Kunstgarasjen

HOUR is a performance art, collective encounter which 24 artists from Norway, Nordic and international countries migrated, interacted and shared time, space and materials over a 24 hours period followed by a one-day seminar.

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2019 PAB Lokal - The children's cultural weekend - Sept. 14 & 15

Sept. 14 & 15 - A friendly meeting with performance at Barnas kulturhus in Bergen. Interaktive performance for children

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2019 PAB LOCAL X BERGEN ASSEMBLY

PAB Local x Bergen Assembly 30th October, 19:00-21:00 Belgin (Rasmus Meyers allé 3, 5015 Bergen)

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2019 PAB LOKAL - Kulturnatt - IMAGINING FUTURES WITH WALK OF SHAME - 13. sept. 20:00-21:00 Torgallmenningen

WALK OF SHAME (WOS) is an artist collective based in Bergen, Norway. WOS explores the relation between performative and social spaces by means of visual landscapes and interactive meetings between performer and spectator.

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2019 PAB OPEN 2019 - Grand hotel Terminus - 5th & 6th oct.

PAB OPEN 2019 - 5th & 6th October 2019

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2019 PAB OPEN 19 - SEMINAR & DINNER: CARBON REFLECTIONS -Grand Hotel Terminus 5.oct. 19:00-21:00

PAB OPEN 19 - SEMINAR & DINNER CARBON REFLECTIONS - A unique seminar with a dinner and a talk combined - Price: 350 kr. includes vegan and vegetarian dinners and one drink.

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2019 PAB OS / Line / B-open

Friday, April 26th, 2022 - On the occasion of the art festival B-Open, PAB: Open Session invited members to open improvisation in the public space. PAB OS / Line was performed in a small park near the opening party at HKS.

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2019 - Spring Equinox - Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy

Sunday, March 24 th, 2019 - Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox is a celebration of the generosity of spirit that artists can bring to life and marked a specific time and connectivity through Performance Art.

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2019 PAB OS - Open Session - Inertia

Saturday, March 2nd, 2019 - An extraordinar Open Session with guest artist Jasper Llewellyn from PAGE: London Open Session. Feel free to join us for this wonderful event, either as a performer or as an audience.

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2019 PAB OS - Open Session - Parallell

Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 - We welcome you all to this years first Open Session. "PAB OS" is a free experimental art space, open to all artists, performers and the public who share our interest in Performance Art.

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2018 - Pab os -open session- rituals

Thursday, December 20th, 2018 - PAB OS welcome you all to this final Open Session of the year, at Bryggen with the theme: Rituals. "PAB OS" is a free experimental art space, open to all artists, performers and the public interested in performance.

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2018 PAB lokal - USF verftet family day

Sunday, December 9th , 2018 - Come and experience performance for children at PAB local – USF verftet family day. Performance Art Bergen invites this time to PAB lokal at the event USF verftet family day

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2018 PAB Open Session / AUTUMN EQUINOX

Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 - This will be PAB`s third equinox event after the start in 2016 with the worldwide event : Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox. The day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy.

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2018 - Performance Art Week - PAB OS - OPEN SESSION - COMMON GROUND

Friday, September 14th, 2018 - In conjunction with international performance week this PAB Open Session will therefore be a space for collaboration and experimentation for artist from all over the world. Festplassen will be our Common Ground.

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2018 - Performance Art Week - BIPF - History will be kind to Me for I Intend to Perform It?

Saturday & Sunday, February 15th - 16th, 2018 - Two international performance art tours will meet in Bergen & at BIPF - similar themes in both groups are how big, global social trends affect local environment and sphere of the individual.

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2018 - Performance art week - Thai & Talk - It´s Personal

Thursday, September 13th, 2018 - Thai & Talk bring artists and audience together to share a meal and conversations. It´s Personal, part III. Bringing together eight artists from Thailand and Norway to collaborate on personal issues.

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2018 - Performance Art Week - Seminar "History will be kind to me?

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - Two international performance art tours will meet in Bergen: "History will be kind to me, for I intend to perform it" & "It’s Personal". In collaboration with Department of Fine Art, KMD & PAB invites you to a seminar.

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2018 It`s Personal - Utne - Hardanger

Thursday, September 6th, 2018, It's Personal is a performance art project that brings together 8 artists from Thailand & Norway to collaborate with and around themes related to the personal & identity with the use of performance art as a platform.

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2018 - PAB & PAO Performance-camp Finse

August 25th, 2018 PAB &PAO having a event where the two organisations will meet at Finse, the mountain village train stop located at the highest altitude in between the two cities. The artists will create works and explore the landscape.

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2018 PAB OS open session - Island

Sunday, August 19th, 2018 - PAB OS Øy - open session is located at Herdla, Askøy and is our annual 3 hour long performance event in nature.

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2018 PAB OS – Open Session - transportation

Saturday, June 2 th, 2018 - In this event PAB OS - open session - transportation we will do a walking-performance ending at the top of the park. This time we explore the concept of Transportation.

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2018 PAB Lokal - Up In The Air - Kunsthall 3.14

Thursday, June 7, 2018 - An open call was sent out early May 2018 asking members of PAB to apply to curator Gitte Sætre challenge to enter Daniel Wurtzel installation 'SHITSTORM' at Kunsthall 3.14, and comment on the elements of the exhibition.

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2018 PAB OS/Bergen Akt & Croquis - DRAW

Friday, April 20th, 2018 - Welcome to PAB OS / BAC DRAW a collaboration between performance art and life drawing. Together with BAC we will for two hours investigate how performance can be seen, and then captured.

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2018 PAB Lokal: Majestic view in the mountain side

Thursday, March 15th, 2018 - This edition of PAB Lokal will use an airbnb apartment as a space for performance. We have chosen four artists who want to deal with apartment as a site for performance in different ways.

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2018 PAB OS - Open Session - acoustic

Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 - The first Open Session of 2018! This time it will be held at the underpass in Danmarksplass. In relevance to the space the theme is acoustic.

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2017 PAB OS - open session - Inside/Outside

Tuesday, December 19th, 2017 is closing in on an end, and for our last Open Session this year we will explore the simple but complex notion of the inside and the outside, at the gallery Bokboden in Marken.

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2017 PAB OS -at 1st Lanta Live Performance Art Festival - Thailand

Tuesday, November 21st, 2017 - Four members of Performance Art Bergen have travel to Thailand to join The 1st International Live Performance Art Festival at Koh Lanta, Krabi. Within this occasion we invited artists to an open session.

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2017 PAB OS International open session - PAB OPEN FESTIVAL

Friday, october 6 th, 2017 - In the spirit of the Pab Open festival, we invite all artists in PAB OPEN festival and anyone who wants to join in to an Open Session at Festplassen in Bergen.

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2017 PAB OPEN seminar - VIRKELIGHETEN I KUNSTEN - Do we want to Differentiate?

Friday, 6th of October, 2017 - A seminar on reality’s place in performance art and the performance artist: Our world creates art, but art also creates a world - a world coloured by fantasies, strategies, roles and dialects.

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2017 PAB OPEN FESTIVAL- Vaskerelven 8

6th – 8th October, 2017 - 3 intense days – 70 performance artists - PAB has the pleasure of inviting the public to an extraordinary art experience at Vaskerelven 8 - the former location Bergen Academy of Art & Design.

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2017 PAB OS - Open session - Autumn Equinox

September 22 nd, 2017 - Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy, is a project facilitated by Bbeyond in conjunction with performance artists worldwide on the 22nd September 2017, to celebrate Freedom and Democracy.

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2017 PAB OS - Open session - Sounding/Political

Friday, September 8 th, 2017 - Our next Open Session will be located outside Kode 1, next to and around Sæverudmonumentet. The theme is Sounding, with relevance to the performancefestival "Stemmer" at Kode 1.

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2017 Performance weekend "Voices" - KODE 1

8.-10. September - 2017, In connection with this year’s parliamentary election, KODE invited to the performance weekend "Voices" 8-10 September, at KODE 1. Curated by PAB & Kode.

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2017 - PAErsche - Interval eXtended-B network-meeting - Germany

August 18 - 20, 2017 - For Interval eXtended-B, representatives of network-knots like Accion! MAD from Madrid, Bbeyond from Belfast and PAB from Bergen are coming together with PAErsche Aktionslabor.

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2017 PAB OS - Forest - Flørli - Sarta Palestine - Blåmannsvannet

Saturday, august 17 th, 2017 - In participation to Pab OS the artists Agnes Btffn & Nemer will create a three hours long Performance impro in each place, Flørli in the Lysefjord, Nemer in Sarta Palestine, PAB joined at Blåmannsvannet in Bergen.

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2017 Between Sky & Sea: Tourist 2

9th -19th of July, 2017 - The aim of the fifth "Between Sky & Sea" was to provide professional performance artists with a production frame, in which they could challenge our perceptions of geography, identity and politics, in a broader sense.

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2017 PAB OS - Open session - Navigation

Sunday, June 11, 2017 - This is a PAB OS event open for anyone who wants to join in. In a period of time, surrounded by water and mountains we will walk and perform. Defining a starting point and an end point. Everything in between is navigation.

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2017 B-Open / PAB Open Session /Conspicuous

Friday, April 21st, 2017 - This event is a performance art open session, open for anyone who wants to join in. "B- open PAB OS: Conspicuous" its part of the B-Open program.

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2017 PAB: OS & BIT20 Ensemble at PAPAY GYRO NIGHTS ART FESTIVAL

February 11th, 2016 - When artists and a musician come together in a space and create a performance, where improvisation and the storytelling have no preset rules. The form and the meaning of the performance are born unexpectedly in the now.

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2016 - Its Personal - Exchange Norway- Thailand

December 7th- 22nd, 2016 - A Norway-Thailand Performance Art Exchange. It`s Personal aims to facilitate a collaboration between 4 artists from Norway and 4 artists from Thailand. The artists will work with the theme of personal issues.

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2016 - BIPF Soundpainting - Bit 20 Ensemble & PAB

Sunday, October 16 th, 2016 - BIT 20 ensemble will be using Finnissy’s Alongside, one of his most virtuosic ensemble pieces as the musical starting point for the Soundpainting performance in collaboration with artists from Performance Art Bergen.

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2016 - Bergen International Performancefestival

Friday, October 14 - Sunday, October 16, 2016 - PAB has invited ten local & international performance artists for BIPF. This years festival will be located in Bergen Kunsthall.

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2016 - Workshop Álvaro Terrones & Santiago López

Tuesday & wedensda, October 11 & 12, 2016 - PAB is organizing a workshop with Álvaro Terrones & Santiago López ahead of the Bergen International Performance Festival 2016. A workshop in graphical planning and creation of sound objects in action art.

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2016 PAB OS - SAME DIFFERENT: EQUINOX TO EQUINOX

Thursday, September 22, 2016 - An improvisation performance event; Belfast-based performance group Bbeyond has initiated a global performance art day, where performance artists from across the world will perform in their local public spaces.

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2016 PAB lokal 2 - Performance/Leprosy museum

Saturday, September 17th, 2016. We would like to invite you to an afternoon of performance art, where new members of Performance Art Bergen will present their work at the Leprosy museum .

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2016 - Kunstgarasjen PAB mini & seasonopening

Friday, August 19, 2016 - Welcome to the season opening of Kunstgarasjen. A weekend with performance , film, graphic works and an memberexhibition with artist who are members in Kunstgarasjen.

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2016 Performance camp Finse - PAB & PAO

Saturday, August 13 - 2016 Saturday, August 13 - 2016 - PAB & PAO arrange a performance event where the two organisations will meet at Finse a location between the two cities. The artists will explore the landscape using their bodies and materials.

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2016 PAB OS - Sverresborg

Saturday, August 6, 2016 This event is a performance art open session open for anyone who want to join in. "PAB OS" is a free experimental art space which open to artists, performers and public who share our interest in Performance Art.

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2016 PAB OS - TOOLS

Friday, June 17th, 2016 - The theme for this Session will be "TOOLS": -If we go back far enough, we find that the first acts of civilization were the use of tools, the gaining of power over fire, and the construction of dwellings.

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2016 PAB OS - B-OPEN

Friday, April 22nd, 2016 - In the occation B-Open, members of Performance Art Bergen will have a performance meeting at Festplassen. Thinking high, thinking low, thinking wide, thinking narrow. Quiet, together, through their work.

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2016 PAB OS - SMALL MOVES - Torgallmenningen

Saturday, February 6 th, 2016 - A free experimental art space in public space which open to artists, performers and public who share our interest in Performance Art. This time at Torgallmenningen in Bergen.

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2015 PAB OS - LIGHTS

Friday, December 4th, 2015 - Medlemmer av Performance Art Bergen møtes på Vågsallmenningen for å tenke høyt, tenke lavt, tenke vidt, tenke smalt, tenke stille, tenke sammen, gjennom sine arbeider.

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2015 PAB OS - Open session - voices

September 11, 2015 - PAB invites to performative impro - voices. Monday 14 Sept. is the parliamentary elections and in our democracy everyone is encouraged to participate with their opinion, their voice.

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2015 PAB OS - open session - PAB OPEN 15 - Festplassen

Friday, September 4, 2015 - PAB arrange a Performance improvisation with local and international artists at Festplassen in connection with PAB OPEN 15.

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2015 PAB OPEN - Old prison of Bergen

September 5&6 th, 2015 - PAB Open is a festival that gives space for experimentation and testing of new performance work. An extraordinary art experience in the old district prison with 100 local, national and international artists.

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2015 - PAB OPEN - Seminar Building Audiences

Friday, September 4 th, 2015 , PAB OPEN seminar 8 event organisers and curators from home and abroad have been invited to share their experiences and strategies for showing work and creating public engagement, with a focus on performance & live art.

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2015 Performance Nå 7 - Dimanche Rouge

April 26, 2015, At Performance Nå 7, Victor Charlie explores the Charlie Hebdo events, reflecting upon freedom of expression and curtailed civil liberties in Europe.

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2015 PAB NÅ

Saturday, March 14th, 2014 - Performance Art Bergen presents PAB NÅ - an event where members of Performance Art Bergen show work in different locations in Bergen.

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2014 Performance Nå 6

Wedensday, November 12, 2014 - PAB presenterer PAB NÅ 6 ...när du vaknat har vi kommit fram till Köpenhamn an evening with performance art from Copenhagen.

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2014 Bergen culture night -

Friday, September 12, 2014 PAB presents a event with performance by Simon Bedas Kolstad, and Mia Øquist. Later in the evening a group from PAB will do a performance improvisation meeting during the twilight of a September night.

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2014 Between Sky & Sea

Saturday 30 th August, 2014 - The festival is based outdoor, meaning the artworks of 13 artists will be presented to the audience in the landscape of Herdla. This year they are located in the former military area above Valen.

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2014 Performancecamp Finse - PAB & PAO

Saturday august 2, 2014 - The artists will work in different locations in the local surroundings and explore the landscape using their bodies and materials.

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2014 Bergen International Performance festival (BIPF)

April 26 - 27, 2014 - PAB has invited ten local & international performance artists for BIPF in the old prison of Bergen. The program will take place in the prison's cells and the open space, each artist will show one longer & one shorter performance

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2014 Workshop - Helge Meyer - “My body my studio”

April 23 - 25, 2014 - Prior to Bergen International Performance Festival 2014, Performance Art Bergen and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design are organizing a workshop with Helge Meyer

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2014 Performance Nå 5

March 6, 2014 - Performance Art Bergen presents Performance Nå 5 curated by Terese Longva (NO)

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2014 PAB Open session - Bontelabo

March 5, 2014 - PAB OS - Bontelabo - performance improvisation was arranged the day before the event PAB NÅ 5, the improvisation was located at Bergenhus fortress.

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2013 Performance Nå 4 - PAB & BEK

November 23, 2013 - Performance Art Bergen & Bergen centre for electronic art - presents Performance Nå 4, with artists who work in between performance and electronic art.

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2013 - Performancebad 2 - Stiftelsen 3.14

October 21, 2013 Performance Art Bergen (PAB) presents the second event Performance Bad 2, with the work of the Spanish artist duo Los Torreznos.

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2013 PAB - Kalfarlien 18

Saturday 5 October 2013, Performance Art Bergen arranges the event PAB in Kalfarlien 18, in the villa with the same address. The artists will perform in the layers and traces of history and histories at a place like Kalfarlien 18.

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2013 Performance Nå 3 - Fensal

October 20, 2013 Performance Art Bergen invites to Performance Nå 3, the third event in a serie of performance events in different locations in Bergen.

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2013 PAB OPEN - Old prison of Bergen

8 th.- 9 th. of September - PAB OPEN will be arranged in Bergen Old Prison, with 36 participants, the biggest performance event that has taken place in the city of Bergen.

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2013 Performance Nå 2 - Leprosy Museum - St Jørgen Hospitale

2 th June -2013 Performance Art Bergen invites to Performance Nå 2, the second in a series of shorter performance events with international/national artists

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2013 - Performance meeting 2

Saturday April 6 - 2013 - PAB organized the second performance meeting in 2013, this time at the Mon Plaisir - in Sandviken.

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2013 Performance meeting - Nordnesparken

Saturday 2th March - 2013 - Performance Art Bergen members were invited to perform freely in the Nordnesparken - the area around the two-temple.

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2013 Performance Nå 1

January 23, 2013 Kl 1900 - Performance Art Bergen invites Performance NÅ 1, the first in a series of performance events in different locations in Bergen.

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2012 Performancemeeting - The Leprosy Museum - St. Jørgen Hospital

PAB members met at the Lepro Museum in the center of Bergen, to explore new performative expressions through improvisation.

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2012 - MEETING PONT - BERGEN, BEIJING, New York

PAB and Kunsthall 3.14 will on 17 & 18 August organic a meeting point for a performance exchange between Bergen, Beijing and New York. The "Meeting point" is the second part of an international exchange.

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2012 - Bergen International Performancefestival (BIPF)

Bergen international performancefestival 21.april 2012 in Bergen old prison

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2012 Workshop - Performanceartist Alastair MacLennan!

Workshop with performanceartist Alastair MacLennan!

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2012 Launch of Performance Art Bergen

Launch of Performance Art Bergen 28 march 2012.