Newsletter 3/2017
Saastamoinen Foundation continues funding the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art
The Finnish Saastamoinen Foundation has granted ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival with €300 000 to award the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art during the next four years (2017-2020). The future of the Prize is secured with this generous support.
ANTI Festival and Saastamoinen Foundation have awarded the world’s only live art prize since the year 2014. The €30 000 Prize is one of the richest in the arts. The support of the Foundation also enables ANTI Festival to develop the process of the Prize and promote the art and artists.
ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will be awarded again during the ANTI Festival in September 2017. The last year’s winner, Terike Haapoja (in the picture) will bring a new commissioned work to the festival.
For more information, go to the website of ANTI Festival or Saastamoinen Foundation!
Kuopio maps Future discussions
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Future DiverCities and Design Week Kuopio will host a discussion meeting on urban culture and environment and co-design in April, in Kuopio.
The organisers welcome local creatives, entrepreneurs, city officers, politicians and citizens of Kuopio to discuss on creative and participatory development and how to create a more vital, communal, open and diverse city. What is the Kuopio of your dreams?
The meeting will take place on Thursday 27th April 2017 at 7pm. and discussion will be in Finnish. Free entrance. For more information, elisa@antifestival.com and the Facebook event (in Finnish)!
Alien Encounters in Kuopio
Alien Encounters, a pilot project by artist Ernest Truely, ANTI Festival and the New Start Finland! research project will start in May in Kuopio. Alien Encounters is a community arts project, a series of workshops for a group of youngsters, both men who have recently been granted with asylum in Finland and Finnish men. The outcomes of the project will be presented in the programme of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
between 18th and 24th September 2017.
If you are a guy who is local, a newcomer or an immigrant
between the ages of 18-29, join free for workshops!
Learn techniques for image and video production and editing.
Discover new possibilities for creating content with your mobile device.
Explore ways of using social media to be creative and to learn.
The workshops, May through October 2017, at VAMOS! Kuopio (Sepänkatu 9).
For more information, contact Producer Jyri Väisänen, jyri@antifestival.com!