HOW TO PUT YOUR MONEY IN A TAX SHELTER

In Denmark, approximately 6.5 billion DKK are transferred to tax havens each year. This is roughly equivalent to the annual operation of 125 public schools. Still, 9 out of 10 Danes say they are happy to pay their taxes. When so few protest a structural problem that significantly affects our lives, is it because most people deep down sympathize with those who choose tax havens? Is it possible to have a democratic tax system when power and wealth are so enticing?

The two performing artists, Thomas Hwan and Lea Burrows, decide to combat inequality in the Danish tax system by democratizing access to tax optimization. Together with the assistant Dennis, they develop a series of courses on tax havens and seek advice from lawyers, economists, politicians, and journalists. But it’s hard not to get lost in morality, corporate law, and their own ideals.

Experience a film that follows the project’s ups and downs.

ABOUT SIR GRAND LEAR

Sir Grand Lear is a producing theater company with a social commitment. Their performances materialize as ceremonial social gatherings, in which current affairs is thrown dramatically into the air, landing in the form of spirited dialogues. They look at it as a contribution to public health.

COLLECTIVE MANIFESTATION: SENSITIVE EMBROIDERY

In addition to the performance, there will subsequently be a collective manifestation with invited guests, who focus on the audience’s thoughts and room for action in relation to the theme of the performance.

This evening, Kris Jensen, who embroiders freehand under the name Følsomt Broderi/Sensitive Embroidery, will invite the audience to embroider about care and finances. Følsomt Broderi is known from Instagram, where he creates a physical diary with texts about hope, insecurities and development. The embroidery is never according to a template, but always directly from the heart. Kris regularly holds workshops with a focus on community and immersion and has, among other things, held embroidery workshops at the Statens Museum for Kunst, Roskilde Festival, at Bogforum and a number of other cultural institutions and associations. While we embroider, there will be a reading aloud from Emma Holten’s book “Underskud – om værdien af omsorg”, which was published in 2024. Together we will talk about the meaning of finances and value.

The collective manifestations are organized in collaboration with Ph.D. Storm Møller Madsen from the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

ABOUT ACTING IN & OUT – PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVISM

Acting In & Out is an interdisciplinary program with artists from both the performing arts world and the visual arts world, who over four weeks at Husets Teater examine the framework for staging contemporary narratives.

Toaster presents four Danish groups/artists who all challenge the status quo and are concerned with socio-political issues both on the external and internal level. Nature and bodies, stretched out and up against economy, climate, gender and other power structures.

Each evening, in addition to the performance, there will be a collective manifestation with invited guests, who focus on the audience’s thoughts and room for action in relation to the theme of the performance. There will be reading aloud, embroidery, acupuncture, dragon building and choral singing in a safe space, where the audience is guided and met in a common conversation about what concerns us and where there is room for difference, doubt, hope and action!

Toaster sends a big thank you to OPE-N, S/H, and Greenpeace for the collaboration on Shout and Efter Festen, which have been instrumental and invaluable projects in the creation of Acting In & Out.