Sisters Hope is an award-winning performance group and movement spearheading a new way of performance artwork. In their large-scale durational and immersive performances, they explore different aspects of what they call a Sensuous Society – A potential new world arising from the post-economic and ecological crisis. Framing the first day's main panel sessions at this year's Wellbeing Economy Conference, Sisters Hope will present a short version of their widely acclaimed Poetic Self Exercise, in which they take the audience-participants on a journey into their inner poetic landscapes. | Festsal 11C.0.08

May My is a Danish journalist and creative activist. After becoming one of Denmark's leading voices for a holistically sustainable lifestyle through her popular blog maymy.dk, she has since 2018 started organizing retreats and courses with her husband, giving talks all over the country and leading several family camps for hundreds of families in summer and winter. Since last year, the public can follow May My in her podcast The Life Manifesto and learn about her views on a modern emancipated life in her new book Ærø Manifestet. Experience Maj My in plenary session 2, Wellbeing Economy in practice May 30th 15.40-17.00 | Festsal 11C.0.08

Mette Riise is a Danish contemporary artist known for her unorthodox approach to contemporary social narratives and business aesthetics. Working in the intersection of film, performance art, serious satire, systems thinking and popular culture she has become a critical voice in Denmark’s public debate on the public fetishism of green transition, economic growth and everything in between. You can experience Riise’s piece ‘Denmark is a Corporation’ in the  3rd plenary sesssion  May 31st 9.00-10.30 | Festsal 11C.0.08

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Becoming Species is an activist collective focused on the exploration of more-than-human life forms through performance art. Although it is an artistic exploration, Becoming Species is above all a call to action and an opportunity to join a movement that is redefining the very position of our species in nature. From the moment you pass through the portal to this conference, you are inevitably part of this movement towards a deeply relational future of cross-species coexistence. You can experience Becoming Species when checking in to conference in Multisalen.

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Emilie Lykkegaard Schmidt is a Danish artist and climate activist who works at the intersection of sound and interaction design. Firmly focused on patient listening as an activist approach, she is convinced that we can only comprehend climate change if we accept the slowness of it. Through her sound performances, Emilie contributes to our understanding of the climate crisis as a slow matter of urgency, and the value of lingering in vulnerability. Experience Emilie's installation throughout the conference in Drømmerummet.

Photo: Kim Matthäi Leland