ANTI Festival 2018 – First programme release!

Media release 12.4.2018 The 17th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018. Internationally celebrated, award-winning artists from around the world will present projects engaged with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. A playful engagement with the spaces of Kuopio, ANTI Festival’s host city, has been […]


Newsletter 3/2018

Welcome to our audience panel! Divercities Kuopio workshop Finland’s most satisfied residents live in Kuopio! Welcome to our audience panel! Wednesday 25th April 2018 at 5 pm. ANTI OFFICE (Nahkurinkatu 1, Kuopio, Finland) What have you always wanted to say to the organisers of ANTI Festival? What kind of thoughts our coming festival programme brings […]


Revealing the creative face of Kuopio in Divercities workshop

Thursday 26th April 2018 from 3 pm. ANTI OFFICE | Nahkurinkatu 1, Kuopio, Finland Design Week Kuopio 2018 programme! Divercities app is a transnational digital tool that associates European cities: Kuopio, Brussels, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Developed by the French cooperative 1D Lab, the app aims at representing a city through creative content. Divercities […]


Newsletter 2/2018

Art with and for immigrants 19.3.2018 Join us in Nordic Urban Lab 22.-24.3.2018 Art with and for immigrants Discussion meeting on Monday 19th March 2018 at 4 pm. ANTI OFFICE, Nahkurinkatu 1, Kuopio, Finland ANTI Festival invites artists and art organisations, based in the Kuopio region, to discuss how to engage immigrants in art projects […]


Newsletter 1/2018

New Year NOW! ANTI Festival’s winter is, usually, peaceful compared to the busy autumn but we never pause since now it’s time to update our plans for the new year! The next edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018, and we will create a programme of […]


Thank you for 2017 and Happy New Year!

Newsletter 12/2017 ANTI Festival sends a big warm thank you for the year 2017 to all our partners, artists, team members, voluntary assistants and audiences! We wish you Happy Holidays and all the best for the year 2018! During the past year, ANTI Festival worked in several multidisciplinary projects, both local and international, and organised […]


ANTI Festival gathered proposals from around the world

Media release 14.12.2017 The 17th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018. We invited artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. The open call was organised between 16th November and 12th December 2017. We received […]


One week left to submit: Open Call for Proposals 2018

Newsletter 5.12.2017 The 17th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018. We now invite artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. A playful engagement with the spaces of Kuopio, ANTI Festival’s host city, has been at the heart […]


Newsletter 11/2017

ANTI taking part in multidisciplinary discussions ANTI Festival is a part of several multidisciplinary networks and projects, both international and national. One of our most important international collaboration projects is Future DiverCities – an initiative of 10 cultural partners in Europe and Canada funded by Creative Europe programme. ANTI is also contributing to the New […]


Play, games and gaming driving ANTI Festival 2018 – Open Call for Proposals

Media release 16.11.2017 The 17th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018. We now invite artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. A playful engagement with the spaces of Kuopio, ANTI Festival’s host city, has […]