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 projects that directly engage with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. We will partner with Games for Health Finland and the International Game Developers Association, Kuopio Hub.

We are super excited about the coming year!

Tania El Khoury returns to Kuopio

Tania El Khoury, the 2017 winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art will return to Kuopio to create a new commissioned work for this year’s ANTI Festival.

Tania is currently working on the new piece and will make the first site visit in Kuopio in March.

Meanwhile at ANTI OFFICE

Our artistic directors Johanna Tuukkanen and Gregg Whelan and festival manager Elisa Itkonen got together for a team meeting in Kuopio right in the beginning of January. Brainstorm and discussion to make
the most out of the year 2018!

Johanna and Gregg are currently working on the festival programme and going through the 170 proposals we received in the open call, organised late last year.

Future DiverCities welcomes 2018

Future DiverCities project is a year-round project with activities both in Kuopio and in our partner cities across Europe and Canada. In Kuopio, we will arrange the next public programme as a part of Design Week Kuopio between 23rd and 29th April 2018. More about the coming DiverCities Kuopio workshop closer to the event!

The first publication on the Future DiverCities activities is now available online. You may find the Action Research booklet and other news in the
Future DiverCities newsletter!

Main photo by Pekka Mäkinen – Joseph O’Farrell (AU): 10 MINUTE DANCE PARTIES