DRÖMMARNAS AKADEMI

THE ACADEMY OF DREAMERS

In The Academy of Dreamers you are invited on my journey through a fantasy about the classical world, with recitals, songs, music and film. You will meet the poet Pindar, the philosopher Aristotle, Queen Christina, the incredible polymath Olaus Rudbeckius, architect Carl August Ehrensvärd, composer Ture Rangström, king Gustaf VI Adolf, poet Jesper Svenbro and my father, the archeologist Carl Eric Östenberg, among many others who have dreamed about the antiquity and left footprints for us to follow. You will meet my memories from the classical world, from my childhood in Rome, retold memories from my family at excavations on Sicily in the sixties, memories passed on from nameless senders, meandering throughout history, altered, cast in new shapes, lost until they unexpectedly resurface in a new guise, as a Theseus temple with wooden ceiling at the shores of the Dalecarlian river.