Newsletter 2/2017

Newsletter 3.3.2017

Finnish Cultural Foundation supports ANTI Festival

in Future DiverCities project

The Finnish Cultural Foundation has awarded €85 000 to ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival for implementation of the Future DiverCities – Creativity in an Urban Context project in Kuopio, Finland. Thank you for the investment in international mobility of art and artists!

Future DiverCities is a four-year project between June 2016 and May 2020. It is an initiative of 10 cultural partners in Europe and Canada and a part of the Creative Europe programme of European Commission. The Commission funds 50% of the total budget, and each project partner is responsible of the other half. ANTI Festival has a project budget of €520 000 for the four years. The support of the Finnish Cultural Foundation will be used to cover the €260 000 self-finance share.

The project is counting on a strong international partnership and aims at increasing artists’ mobility to internationalise their careers, supporting artists’ work in the digital era and developement of diverse and multicultural cities. In Kuopio, ANTI Festival wants to create a deeper connection between the local audience and artists but also new, virtual and live audiences and communities across the world.

For more information, contact Elisa Itkonen: elisa@antifestival.com
or go to our website!

Ernest Truely met with asylum seekers in Kuopio

The Helsinki based, American artist Ernest Truely visited Kuopio for the first time between 21st and 23rd February 2017. Truely has been chosen to direct ANTI Festival’s community arts project for asylum seekers in the year 2017.

In Kuopio, Truely will direct workshops for a group of young people, both those who have recently been granted with asylum in Finland and Finns. The workshops will be arranged throughout the year 2017, and the artistic content will be presented in the programme of ANTI – Contemporary Festival in September 2017.

More information on the project on our website!