Where’s Rut Elliot

—– PAST EVENTS —–

2020

January 19, all day: Storytelling performance/discussion:
Utopi: En brinnande längtan till andra världar
(‘Utopia: A burning desire for other worlds”)

As part of “Drama on sustainable city development”, Act II: Fire
“Medan jorden värms upp börjar planetens elit tänka om sina sätt att leva. Men de här nya sätten verkat inte alls vara så annorlunda. Och de är bara tillgängliga för vissa.”
(Program på svenska finns här.)
Strömsparterren, Stockholm, Sweden.

2018

June 30, 1 pm: Music performance at “Ekodagar vid Grimsbyvattnet
”Sånger om den här och andra världar”
(“Songs of this and other worlds”)

Många vänder sig till musik och berättelser för att få tröst eller drömma sig bort när saker känns svåra. I en tid av globala miljöproblem och orättvisor kan vi mer än någonsin behöva historier som hjälper oss att tolka vår värld – och drömma om andra världar.

August 24: Music performance at the Degrowth conference in Malmö, Sweden.

October 19, 1 pm: Music performance at the environmental humanities event “(Um)Weltschmerz. An Exercise in Humility and Melancholia”
Deutsches Museum. Munich, Germany.

November 17, 3 pm: The Epimetheans at No 1 Guitar Shop, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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2017

April 7, 7 pm (doors at 6): Kvartersscenen 2lång, RELEASE CONCERT!!!

August 16, 6 pm (doors): Release party for the Uneven Earth magazine. Rue Van Horne 185, Montreal, Quebec/Canada. (Unceded Kanien’kehá:ka – Mohawk – territory.)
(Link to the facebook event.)

August 23, 5-7 pm: Guest appearance at “Decolonize – A rhyme-liberating workshop” with Rap Battles for Social Justice, Montreal, Quebec/Canada.
(Link to the facebook event.)

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2016

April 16 15.00: Invigningsceremoni, Hållbarhetsveckan i Mölndal (På scen prick kl. 15!). Mölndal, Sweden. | Fri entré

July 30 1 pm and 3 pm: Karesuando market, Karesuando, Sápmi/Sweden. (With Dear Planet, i. e. Rut and Simon/Reverend Ellis.)

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Performing “The Paradox of the Anthropocene: A Songwriter-Critic-Activist Perspective”:

1 September 3:30-5 pm: In a panel at the A change of (s)cene conference, organised by ASLE-UKI (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment – UK and Ireland). Lincoln, UK.

4 September: At the Radical Technology 2.0 conference. Bristol, UK.

6 September 7 pm: Longer version with more music! At The Forest Café, Edinburgh, UK.

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22 November 12-13David Jonstad: Ett enklare liv i kollapsens skugga“: I’m part of a group organising a lecture and discussion at Göteborgs Universitet with the environmentalist writer David Jonstad. I’ll participate in the discussion and play a song that was inspired by Jonstad’s latest book.

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2015

April 18: JAK members bank’s annual meeting (with Miguel Ganzo), Skövde, SWE.

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Tour with Humble Stumble (All gigs in Sweden)

April 27, 7 pm: Fjärås Asylboende, Fjärås | Free entry

April 28, 7 pm: Hyresgästföreningen Hemtrevnaden, Gregorianska gatan 67, Göteborg | Free “fika” + Voluntary donation

April 30, 10 pm: Party at a housing collective, Stuvsta, Stockholm (contact me if you want the address!)

May 1, 12 noon: International Workers’ Day celebration, Tyresö Centrum, Tyresö | Free entry

May 2, 7 pm: House concert, Tyresö (contact me if you want the address!)

May 4, 6.30-8 pm: Café String, Stockholm

May 5, 6.30-8.30: Grand, Uppsala

May 7, 3.30-4 pm: Gig in connection to the workshop Gemensam Sak, Sofielund Folketshus, Malmö | Voluntary donation

May 7, 7.45 pm: Gig in connection to the screening of Freedom from Money, Tryckeriet, Malmö | Voluntary donation (in money or in something more useful, like fruit or cookies)

May 9, 2 pm: Gig with Solkatt, Ekolivs, Malmö | Free entry

May 9, 8-11 pm: Café & Le, Lund | Free entry

May 10, 5 pm: House concert, Halmstad (contact me if you want the address!)

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June 26, 7 pm: MusicMakes, Linnégatan 5, Göteborg, SWE. (Support: Siri Holm). Entry 50 SEK.

With Dear Planet (Rut Blomqvist and Simon Larsson):
August 8, 4-7 pm: Gårdsfest (garden party!) med Hyresgästföreningen, Julianska gatan, Göteborg, SWE.

September 13, sometime between 11 am and 3 pm: Gårdsloppis (garden flee market), Gårda, Göteborg, SWE. | Free entry

With Humble Stumble:
October 10, 7 pm: Världens Största Musikfestival + talk on music and politics, Bengans, Stigbergstorget, Göteborg, SWE. | Free entry
7.30 pm: Rut and Miguel from the band talk about interesting things.
8.30 pm: Humble Stumble on stage

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2014

March 6: Café Hängmattan, Göteborg, SWE.

April 10: Support for Lapis Lazuli and Rumble Pack. Mr. Wolf’s, Bristol, UK.

April 17: Face11, Cardiff, UK.

May 9: Café Santo Domingo/Dirty Records, Göteborg, SWE.

Musician, writer, researcher