Amalia Fonfara - Animist artist & Shamanic practitioner, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Mellomila 3, Trondheim (2026)

My name is Amalia Fonfara, I was born and raised in Greenland and Denmark, and have lived in Norway since 2010. I work as a visual artist and shamanic practitioner in Trondheim. I am co-founder of the platform Invisibledrum, an international and interdisciplinary research platform that investigates animism and spiritual technologies within art and social-ecological systems. Both as an artist and a

shamanic practitioner, my heartfelt wish is to enliven and raise awareness of the connection within ourselves and to all Life we are surrounded by. Through the deep soul work of shamanic practice, I experience how we, in cooperation with the invisible world, can heal traumas and wounds that we carry individually and collectively, so that we can feel our deep connection to Mother Earth and the cosmos.

04/06/2026

I am starting to feel home in this realm, after a week of journeying into the Norse magic tradition of Seidr together with a group of powerful women who came all the way from California and Canada, to connect with our ancestral shamanic tradition. 🔥

One of the women with Scottish ancestry brought her kilt to the circle. A kilt that was recently created by Witches of Scotland as a tribute to the victims of the witch trials and persecution, designed to keep their stories alive and honor them.

Having worked intensively with the witch trials here in Norway in my artistic practice and learning that I have Scottish/Irish ancestry myself, I became very silent when I stood in front of the woven tartan of this kilt.

Seeing this piece of carefully, intentionally woven fabric reminded me of the cruel horrors of our history. And at the same time, it reminded me of something the ancestors told me about working with Seidr. The love and gratefulness they hold for us for the work we are doing by bringing our ancestors’ sacred traditions back into our human world. 🤍

It is really beyond words to speak about the ritual Seidr, but one thing I continuously experience is the opening of dimensions beyond time and space, where we become one with our ancestral memory.

The unseen becomes visible and tangible as the veil of magic surrounds us in the trance, and the presence of ancestral energy and the ancient gods is silent and clear.

As we weave the threads in the Seid, we heal ourselves, our community, and our history. May it continue to grow and bloom. 🤍🙏

21/05/2026

A new season has startet in the forest 🌲🏕️🌲🌲

We are looking forward to share many magic moments here with you all!

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17/05/2026

Coming to Norway 14 years ago it was a bit of a culture shock to experience 17th of May. Now many years later I find myself with my own little family walking the parade and celebrating. And eventhough I will probably never be 100% comfortable with the big crowds, all the noise, and the drinking, I feel full of joy and love in my heart for being here with family and friends on this joyous day celebrating Norway 🇳🇴

May we pass on a culture of equality, inclusion and respect for all beings and natural sources. There is no future without.

All is alive and all has life 🙏🤍

Gratulerer med dagen til alle venner og familie 🇳🇴🥁❤️

05/05/2026

Today I gave a talk about animism and the old Norse magic practice of Seidr in a local church here in Trondheim.

It is the first time I have talked about my work within a Christian community and space. I was greeted with an engaged audience and a lot of questions about the old ways, what christianity is to a heathern today, and whether it is possible to be connected to both. Many questions that I do not have the answers to, but that I am sure many of you all have answers to.

Afterwards, I went to sit with an old rooted friend in the forest to process.

It is strange to experience how history has changed. Some few hundred years ago I would have been burned or hanged for standing in a church and talking about being a Vølve and Åndemaner with my drum and staff. Singing and playing the drum calling to the land spirits to come forth.

Knowing how my ancestors, and my brothers and sisters from indigenous cultures here in the North and Arctic, have been persecuted and killed for our beliefs and sacred knowledge traditions, I feel so deeply grateful and humble for being able to live in a world where I am free to practice what spirit teaches me. It is not given and many places in the world today it is certainly still not possible.

To me and many other deeply committed practitioners I know, it is with great respect and honour that we carry the traditions our ancestors have kept hidden and sacred, because their lives were taken for it.

May we always remember to honor this when we walk in the footsteps of our ancestral traditions with the Land 🤍

03/05/2026

Sitting here by the sea, contemplating on the deep and transformative work we did in the circle of Årshjulet today, and under the full moon on Friday as we crossed the threshold of summer.

Valborg/Beltane is one of my favorite thresholds in the Wheel of the Year - if you can have one ☺️.
The magical power in nature that is available to us, that we can borrow from and lean on, is so incredibly potent and transformative at this time.

From this point in the Great Wheel until the Summer Solstice, it is a time when the sun infuses all living beings and bodies with its most intense megin.

I know what awaits in the plant world, and the energy just makes me shiver with anticipation and eager to greet all my plant relatives and ancestors again. There is much to learn and much to do 🌱🙏

To all of you wonderful people who took part over these days, I am very grateful. I feel very inspired by the deep soul work that each person has brought to the circles. For the space and presence we can give to each other and the spirit world, when we open our heart feeling our soulconnection with Life🙏

It is deeply meaningful to learn together with the unseen world and our human community in this way. 🤍

May the summertimes ahead bless every being with joy, lightness and abundance 🙏🌸

21/04/2026

These days I am enjoying the soft spring. I am laying in the new grass feeling the earth, smelling the sweet scent of newly sprouted poplar trees, feeling the warm sun on my skin, listening to the birds and the small creek behind our house, whispering about all that is to come🙏✨💚

Adresse

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Mellomila 3
Trondheim

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+4740747723

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http://www.amaliafonfara.com/, https://amaliafonfara.simplero.com/page/682056

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