Obama Victory Speech Project
What is the secret behind Barack Obama’s captivating rhetoric, and what kind of tools does he employ to persuade the world? These are some of the issues that actors and directors from leading theatres across the world will be exploring in the Obama Victory Speech Project, held in conjunction with Dramaten’s Ingmar Bergman International Theatre Festival.

Open rehearsals- Scener ur ett äktenskap (Scenes from a Marriage)
Dramaten invites you to a series of open rehearsals of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage with Jonas Karlsson and Livia Millhagen.

Meet the artists 
In direct connection to some of the performances the audience has the opportunity to meet and ask questions to the visiting theatre.

Restructuring of the hirarkiers of the theatre
Hiener Goebbels located in a historic theatre context - a lecture by Danjel Andersson editor and artistic director of Perfect Performance.

Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave 
A lecture by Heiner Goebbels - working on Eraritjaritjaka with texts by Elias Canetti

What Future for Non-Commercial Theatre?
A seminar with dr Dragan Klaic (Amsterdam). This seminar will explore the future scenarios for the non-commercial theatre, supported by public subsidy, and  options how to create valid societal benefits (artistic and cultural) and thus justify the investment of public means.

Breakfast with ...
There is a host for each day of the Festival. The hosts are some of Ingmar Bergman’s best known actors in Sweden and abroad. They invite the public to a discussion over breakfast at Restaurant Pauli where they speak about their memories, tell anecdotes and share their thoughts about their art yesterday, today and tomorrow.

The Great Circus: Open up! It’s the dawn of a new era! Come forward!
We will need to work together if we are to survive the great market circus of 2009! We are all competitors – why should we compete with each other?

The Artistic Legacy of Ingmar Bergman–Past, Present and Future
The Ingmar Bergman Foundation hosts an international seminar on Ingmar Bergman’s artistic influence on various art forms. What constitutes Bergman’s heritage? What is it that constantly attracts new artists to explore his work?

The Unknown Bergman
The Ingmar Bergman Foundation hosts a one day symposium with leading Bergman scholars.

Bergman´s Fårö
Screening of the 1969 documentary Fårö Document is followed by a panel discussion.

Théâtre Vidy - Prototype for the future
A seminar with Barbara Suthoff about new ways to produce theatre.

The Ingmar Bergman Archives
Meet photographer and writer Bengt Wanselius in a seminar about his work with the book The Ingmar Bergman archives and cooperation with Ingmar Bergman for almost 20 years.

C:ntact
About Betty Nansen's successful multiplexity project for youths. Meet Henrik Hartmann and two young actors from the project.

Lava: I Can´t Believe it´s Bergman
During the spring, young people from the Lava culture centre at Kulturhuset will be making film, drama, music and artworks inspired by Ingmar Bergman.