BEARS INTERNATIONAL
CULTURE DAYS
AND TRAVELLING
BEAR ART EXHIBITION
STOCKHOLM

Of the works of the winners of the Bears International Art Diplomas (2016/2017)

• Mike Wyeld and Charlie Hunter, Canada/UK;
• Luke Darko, France;
• Luis Loras, Spain;
• Christophe Jannine-Powelle,
• France/New Zealand

STAGE 1:
Wednesday, September 6, 2017: (19.00)

• SLM Locale (Wollmar Yxkulls gatan 18 T-ban Mariatorget)
• Bears International Travelling Art Exhibit
• Film – art, career, interview with Tom of Finland 

STAGE 2:

Thursday, September 7, 2017: (times, locales to be confirmed)

• Bears International Travelling Art Exhibit 
• Bears Poetry -- Tupilak 
• CD music of "Daddy and the Muscle Academy" -- Finland
• Bear oral and written presentations: 
• "Bear Art in the Making" -- report from Charlie Hunter, Canada/UK 
• "Icelandic Bears -- report from Frosti Jonsson, Bears-on-Ice
• "Why Do We Need Bears on the Barricades...?" -- Bill Schiller, Bears International 
• "Bears Surviving in a Dictatorship" -- report from Lokys-Bears of Belarus
• "Co-operation with Bears in Eastern Europe" -- report from John Earhart, Bamse-Norway
• "Bear Culture – pioneers in Estonia -- report from Alvar  Ameljushenko, Bearty-Tallinn
• "Bears in the East" -- report from Ukrainian Bears, (Eastern partner with Bears International) 
• “The Magic and Power of Leather” – Jan Kopriwa, Läderverkstad, Stockholm 
• Bear video clips: "Bears on Ice" -- Reykjavik, “Bearserk"—Copenhagen, "Land of the Midnight Fun" -- Helsinki 

Supported by Tupilak (Nordic rainbow culture workers),
Nordic Rainbow Network, Viking Bears-Sweden 

Drawing by Luis Loras

​Photo of Touko Laasksonen
(Tom of Finland)