Newsletter 05/2020

After 8 with @antifestival : Kalle Pulkkinen, Eevi Tolvanen & Marika Räty

ANTI Festival will join the global online cultural community regenerated in social media this spring. As we can’t gather together on the ground we have invited our fascinating friends and colleagues to meet and talk with us online. These informal encounters and discussions will be shared with you – our friends, colleagues and audiences on social media.

After 8 with @antifestival is a series of discussion events on Instagram Live!

Our guests will discuss topics that are important for them at this unprecedented time. The series is also inspired by the 2020 festival theme, food.

After 8 with @antifestival #2 will take place on Thursday June 4th at 8 pm. with Kalle Pulkkinen, Eevi Tolvanen and Marika Räty.

Kalle Pulkkinen and Eevi Tolvanen are artists based in the Eastern Finland. Marika Räty is the Regional Artist of Performance Arts in the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.

The event is organised in cooperation with The Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland and Performance Days supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland. The After 8 series is organised in the framework of Future DiverCities project, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

The discussion will be in Finnish. Stay tuned for English discussions later in the year!

Future DiverCities – Building a future city where all voices are heard

This year is the final activity year of the Future DiverCities – Creativity in an Urban Context project (2016-2020). Future DiverCities is an initiative of 9 cultural partners in Europe and Canada funded by the Creative Europe Programme. ANTI Festival and Savonia University of Applied Sciences are the Finnish partners in the project. The project is coordinated by Savonia.

During the Future DiverCities project ANTI Festival has realised, among other events and projects, experimental artist laboratories, Labs. For ANTI, developing artists, art and the city are indeed the most important objectives of the project. At the core of the project is urban city space, its cultural diversity and all the voices in the city.

Through the Labs and other project activities, we want to bring art close to the people of Kuopio and invite them to join together in making the city an even more vibrant European city where all voices are heard.

ANTI Festival hosted the fourth Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio between 2nd and 15th September 2019. The Lab was based in an urban room – a pop-up space in the centre of the town – which was open to all people to meet, make and discuss.

The 2019 Lab artists were Kattrin Deufert (DE), Kim Modig (FI), Lara Thoms (AU), Martin Finnland (AT) and Sven Kerck (AT). The Lab was hosted by ANTI in partnership with creative facilitators of The Map Consortium (UK) and artists local to Kuopio; Veera Launonen and Lauri Hei.

Best moments of the Lab 2019 in this short video: