A MATTER OF HEART

OFFICIAL OPENING EVENT

TALK (Free Entry)

To open the festival, Basel personalities from medicine, dance, music and sports talk about heart affairs. They discuss where they are with their whole hearts, what makes their heart beat faster and what makes it freeze. And they reveal when they listen to their heart and when not.

The guests are as follows:

Otmar Pfister, PD and Head of Outpatient Cardiology at the University of Basel
Elia Rediger, singer, songwriter, lyricist
Richard Wherlock, Director Ballet Theater Basel
Permi Jhooti, Curator and Director of HeartBasel’17, Multimedia Artist

Host: Rolf Probala, journalist