Newsletter 08/2021
Welcome to celebrate the 20 years of ANTI!
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 14th and 19th September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland. As we approach our 20th festival, amid these challenging times, we turn to an idea that sits at the heart of ANTI Festival’s mission – free to attend for audiences, the festival is framed from within an idea of a gift.
We have designed the festival to take into account everything needed for us all to be safe. Several artworks can be experienced alone or in small groups. See our guidelines for a COVID safe festival experience here: antifestival.com/en/covid-19
This newsletter covers also:
Workshops at ANTI Festival
Volunteer for the festival
Read ANTIZINE to dive in!
Workshops at ANTI Festival
Besides performances and exhibitions, our festival programme includes workshops that allow you to express yourself and go deeper into the festival themes. See the workshop programme below:
Spectacle Academy workshops – in Finnish!
Spectacle Academy combines an art exhibition with teaching. It uses subvertising to create a seamless combination or art, activism and teaching.
During the ANTI Festival, we will teach advertising literacy in workshops, discuss issues that are never addressed in adverts, and intertwine the languages of advertising and poetry.
HUUMA LÄBI
TUE 14.9.2021 / 16.00-18.00
WED 15.9.2021 / 14.30-16.30
THU 16.9.2021 / 16.00-18.00
@ KULTTUURIAREENA 44
address: Kauppakatu 44
Accessible event
No bookings needed in advance.
The HUUMA workshops in Kuopio (2019-) focus on examining bodily work through contemporary dance and improvised movement. Various techniques from theatre expression are used to examine and practise interaction and emotional skills. The project involves young participants as active agents engaged in creating content together with artists.
The HUUMA LÄBI workshops, open to all festival visitors, continue this practice together with wider participant groups.
The workshops will be directed by Kaisa Ritola and Anna-Maria Väisänen.
You got to give what you take?
FRI 17.9.2021 / 12.00 – 16.00
SAT 18.9.2021 / 10.00 – 15.00
@ KANTTI, MUSEUM WORKSHOP ROOM
address: Museokatu 1
No bookings needed in advance.
The students of Aalto University will host a participatory event – a set of gifts to the visiting creatures. Together with the participating audiences (people, other living beings, organisms and/or biological/technological processes) the students will organise series of art projects in the space. The themes of the projects are giving, receiving and gift.
The event is open to all and suitable for people of all ages.
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Volunteer for the festival
We are looking for voluntary festival assistants to help us with the festival production! Welcome to join our team between 6th and 20th September and especially during the festival week, between 14th and 19th September 2021.
We need helping hands, for example, to:
oversee exhibitions and guide audiences at the venues
transport guests and equipment
roudie work
work at the festival info desk
assist our artists
You may volunteer on one day or for a week, for example. Please let us know when you are available between 6th and 20th September and which tasks you would prefer!
The volunteer work will take place in Kuopio, Finland, at different festival venues.
Sign up to elisa@antifestival.com / +358 50 305 2005!
Read ANTIZINE to dive in!
ANTIZINE vol. 9 / 2021 is a festival catalogue + much more!
Part 1 presents the 2021 festival programme, including the Shortlist LIVE! Programme; performances by artists shortlisted for ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art 2021. Part 2 celebrates the 20th anniversary of ANTI Festival through a series of mini essays by our friends – artists, partners and audience members!
Get your printed copy at our Festival Info in Kuopio 14-19 September 2021. Available also online, see above!