The Weird Sisters: An afternoon of Fish // Oslo Drag Festival 2025

Name: The Weird Sisters: An afternoon of Fish // Oslo Drag Festival 2025
Start: 2025-05-31T14:00:00+02:00
Location: SALT art & music

Schedule

Sat, 31 May, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

SALT art & music | Oslo, OS

Bienvenue to an aquatic afternoon with your favourite french sisters!
For this special après-midi Éloïse et Louise have decided to delve into a topic they are curious about: what does it mean to be fish/poisson? After having been called fish queens one night out in their village (Paris), they became committed to solve the mystery of what lies behind this comment. To help them on their way, they have invited magnifique guests who will serve their own fish interpretations. Will they be able help the sisters understand what this is all about? Could anyone be or become fish?
But wait! While rehearsing her new routine for this show, Éloïse was caught in a fishnet, and had to leave Louise on her own. Will Louise be able to run this dragucational afternoon without her sister? Or will Éloïse detangle in time? 😳
Hold your breaths! It’s going to get fishy.
Les invités: Owl, Jelena Skankovic, Luna Palmer et Brødskive 🐬🐟🐠🐡
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Performers

The Weird Sisters
Bibby & Barth are a theatre-maker duo based in Oslo, with a love for absurd physical theatre. Both studied physical theatre in London, and between them they have further education in clowning, drag, butoh and opera singing. The realisation that they both speak fluent French and share appreciation and knowledge of French culture led to the development of the French characters ‘The Weird Sisters’ in 2020. These peculiar sisters, Eloise and Louise, most often appear in camp Coco Chanel-inspired style and inhabit a bizarre world of Beckettian references, where french songs, a nostalgic 60s aesthetic, and sumptuous glamour set the scene for their absurd antics. The sisters communicate in french and broken english, but the main focus is on the physical, the non text-based and the visually absurd. Bibby & Barth have created performances starring The Weird Sisters every year since 2020. Photo Credit: Karina Rønning
www.bibbyandbarth.com.

Owl
Birds of a feather or a murder of crows, this night creature can be your worst nightmare or your beautiful songbird. But can owls be fish too? Only one way to find out. Photo credit: Pernille Sommer.

Jelena Skankovic
"If I'm wearing a bikini ... where do I keep my [poke]balls? Teehee... woman's secret.” A wild JELENA appeared! Jelena burst onto the drag scene in 2022 as part of OsloMet’s Kunsten å dragge (where she befriended Barth), won the Eurovision Lipsync Contest in 2023 and has since then dazzled audiences at above and beyond. A trailblazer, and she produced the first-ever drag show at Oslo City Hall during Oslo Pride in 2023. By day, she’s a senior engineer and project manager for the City of Oslo, and in that sense a proud amateur in the field of drag. From Kragerø to the big stage, Jelena is proving it’s never too late to shine! Photo credit: Karina Rønning. Grapic design: Alvar Aronija.

Luna Palmer
Luna made her debut on the Norwegian drag scene in 2019 and has since left her mark on Norwegian drag through both solo performances and as one of the founders of the Bergen-based drag group Haus of Friele. Art mediation is her day job, and she often draws inspiration from her field of expertise, as well as everything else her passionate activist heart cares about. In Luna's universe, you’ll encounter everything from Caravaggio to Kesha, from religious rituals to Greta Thunberg, all presented with a distinctive perspective and a warm sense of humor. Photo credit: Pernille Sommer.

Brødskive
Brødskive aka Jens Martin Hartvedt Arvesen has worked with many different art media, most notably Drag, Dance and DJing. Jens Martin is currently working freelance as a performance artist. They started their Drag career in 2013 together with the others in Princessilicious. They have initiated and had a finger in many different concepts for the Queer and Drag community in Oslo. Current editions of collaborations for queer artistic infrastructure and accessibility of the arts include, but is not limited to, Karmaklubb*, Oslo Drag Festival and Queer Community Club (QCC). They are also continuously expanding and researching knowledge about drag through concepts like Draglaboratoriet and Oslo Drag Festival, and currently teaching Drag at OsloMet. Photo credit: Agata Wozniak (2025) "Kjærlighet, Strid og Stolthet". Oasis - Come and taste us. Open Drag Stage. SALT Art & Music.