The award-winning and esteemed writing school Qalam with the author Johannes Anyuru as a teacher has developed into a collective and an important platform in literary Sweden by getting unheard voices to write not yet told stories.

The collective is based on the idea that writing and language are important in the process of decolonizing the senses and society. Qalam focuses on personal deve­lopment and that one’s own writing allows participants to contribute to a common learning. A smaller group of the polyphonic collective Qalam will participate in Borås Art Biennial with newly written texts that enter into a dialogue with a selection of the sculptures that are placed in Borås public environment. Through the poet and the author’s gaze, new aspects and approaches are uncovered in the dialogue between text and sculpture. The people of Borås and visitors to the biennial will have an opportunity to rediscover Borås as the sculpture city when older sculptures once again are in the spot­light. By scanning a QR code placed at the sculptures you are invited to take part in Qalam’s (Sandy Harry Ceesay, Sanna Ghotbi, Nilofar Haghighi, Ismaila Jallow, Masoud Vatankhah and Maxine Victor) texts.