Preliminary programme (continuously updated):
Welcome to the K3 Monster Month! The topic is Foul Play and for four weeks we’ll explore the interconnections between monsters and (foul) play through game nights, film nights, seminars, readings, performances, exhibitions and much more. Come join the games!
Monster Melody Crossword Quiz!
Tuesday 11 November
Time: 16:00 – 17:00
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Quizmasters/monsters: Fredrik Linander and Josefin Waldenström
Dare to solve the spookiest and most monstrous crossword of the year!
Join us in K3 Open Space for a music-based crossword puzzle where you’ll be given clues in forms of pieces of music. Come, form a team, listen to some monstrous music, and start quizzing!
Live reading – Venomous Lumpsucker
Thursday 20 November
Time: 16:00 – 16:30
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizers: Anna Bruun Månsson and Martin Cathcart Frödén
Who can save the Venomous Lumpsucker?
Join us for a captivating live reading by Martin Cathcart Frödén from Ned Beauman’s darkly satirical eco-thriller Venomous Lumpsucker — a novel that explores extinction and moral complexity in a near-future world where biodiversity is traded like currency. Who can save the Venomous Lumpsucker?
No registration needed — just drop by for a coffee and listen to the beginning of this fascinating story.
About Venomous Lumpsucker
”A novel about grief, specifically the grief we feel for animals, and for ourselves, as we live through the Holocene extinction – the mass vanishing of species caused by human activity, when every encounter with an animal, as the novel puts it, “is soaked through with horror and loss” Review, the Guardian
This event is a collaboration between the K3 Monster Month and the Climate Action Weeks.
Monsters at (foul) play: stories by writers from the MaU Creative Writing courses
Monday 10 November – 20 November
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizers: Martin Cathcart Frödén, Line Henriksen and writers from the MaU Creative Writing courses
Monsters are typically depicted as horrifying, powerful and evil, but are there other ways to approach the figure of the monster? Taking their point of departure in the prompt ‘monsters at (foul) play’, writers from the MaU Creative Writing courses explore the risks and promises of monsters, as well as the pleasures and dangers of play.
Comics exhibition (”how the dead might speak”)
Wednesday 29 October – 20 November
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizers: Oskar Aspman and students on the Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative course
This exhibition presents group-made zines created by the students on the Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative course (30hp) at Malmö University. Each student adapts a text from Spoon River Anthology (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, a book of collected monologues from the dead, speaking from their graves.
By translating these poems, or voices, to comics, the students explore how narrative, emotion, and detail shift across media. The zines invite the reader to consider how the dead might speak through image and sequence.
There will be snacks and cider at the launch.
Previous events:
Monster workshop – Climate Action Week Special
Tuesday 11 November
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Place: Niagara, atrium entrance level
Organizers: Anna Bruun Månsson, Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt, Linda Paxling and Fenix.
Join us for a creative and collaborative workshop where we explore monsters. Together with the Monster Lab at K3 and the student environmental association Fenix, we invite you to imagine, build, and communicate with your very own monster(s).
Bring a group of friends or colleagues or join a group on-site.
Let’s make monsters that help us face our hopes and fears – together.
Monster Stories!
Monday 10 November
Time: 15:00 – 16:00
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizers: Elin-Maria Evangelista, Åsa Harvard Maare, Line Henriksen
Come listen to monster stories by staff as well as students and write or/and read your own!
• Author and creative writing lecturer Elin-Maria Evangelista will read from her work in progress The Art of Being Christina: The stage is set for Småland in the early 70’s, where the young Christina is eagerly attending the early morning Christmas service. The new charismatic pastor Herring is holding the sermon when the Devil makes an unannounced visit. But who is the real monster?
• Comics artist Åsa Harvard Maare will tell the story of the The Substitute: a person being recruited against her will to a scary identity with a scary mission.
• Creative writing lecturer Line Henriksen will offer some brief writing exercises to get your own monsters on to the page and
• the mic is open to anyone who wants to read a monster story they’ve brought aloud or share the one they’ve just written.
The event forms part of the launch of the Monsters at (Foul) Play exhibition by writers from the MaU Creative Writing courses.
Welcome!
Monster Movie Night! & monster talk
Friday 7 November
Time: 17:00 – 19:00
Place: TV studio (OR:C323)
Organizers: Anna Arnman, Oskar Aspman and Line Henriksen
Come be nerdy about movie monsters and horror films! Horror and monster researchers Anna Arnman, Oskar Aspman, and Line Henriksen play some film snippets and short films featuring their favourite monsters and discuss what makes them so special. Afterwards there’ll be a general conversation about horror films and film monsters as well as, of course, snacks and drinks.
The event is free, but please sign up by contacting Line at line.henriksen@mau.se by 6 November at the latest.
Archaeopoetry – Writing the Haunted Past of Sandby borg
Photo by Carolina Jonsson-Malm.
Wednesday 5 November
Time: 15:00 – 16:00
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizer: Carolina Jonsson-Malm
Step into the shadows of Sandby borg, a 1,500-year-old Iron Age ring fort on the island of Öland, where a brutal massacre left traces that still echo through time. In this workshop, we will explore how poetry can serve as a vessel for memory, trauma, and transformation. Using archaeological images and texts as our starting point, we’ll examine how violence and monstrous acts shape our understanding of the past. Participants will be guided in crafting their own archaeopoems—creative responses that give voice to the silenced, the spectral, and the uncanny.
Friday 24 October
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizers: Linda Paxling and Josefin Waldenström
Death Café
A Death Cafe is an event where we — often strangers — meet to eat cake, drink tea and coffee, and talk about death in a safe space. The goal is to breathe life into conversations about death in order to help people live more fully. (The event is not intended to be morbid or depressing and it is not a grief support group or a counseling session)
”We live knowing that everything dies. Like the sun, it’s a fact of life. And like the sun, we tend not to look right at it. Unless you’ve experienced a recent death, it’s probably not something you discuss. But a new movement is trying to change that, with a serving of tea and cake” – Deena Prichep
For more information about what a Death Cafe is: https://deathcafe.com/what/
Monday 20 October
Time: 14:00 – 15:00
Place: K3 Open Space (NI: B0E22)
Organizer: Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt
Monster Lab Halloween event: Monsters in Museums
As the Monster Lab is gearing up to this year’s spooky season Monster exhibition at K3 Open Studio (Niagara Foyer) themed “Foul Play” we join the forces with K3 Heritage Research group. You are all invited for a monstrous hour between 14-15 where I share the monsters I have encountered in the museums.
The session gives a brief overview of the 3-4 years of monster method experimentations in different museums, where I have been looking for digitalisation monsters in Tartu, democracy monsters in Warsaw, data work monsters in Falun, sustainability monsters in Malmö and the Flower Monster of LAMs across the Öresund area. Using the treasure-bringer Kratt from Estonian folklore, the monster methods that I have used in these explorations have been primarily focused on co-creation and collage making. Talking about these monsters has allowed the participants to explore the borders of desirable, understand the boundaries of being human in the face of challenging societal changes, and become a way to talk about future and look towards future in a creative way. This seminar will be in person only and you are welcome to drop by even if you can’t spare the whole hour to be around.