Newsletter 8/2018
ANTI Festival starts in a month
Sign up for “behind the scenes” festival experiences
Book your seats
ANTIZINE vol. 6
ANTI Festival, Kuopio, Finland starts in a month
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2018 is getting closer and we enjoy the festival opening after a month, on 25th September. 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 at the heart of our approach to bringing vital, exciting and surprising contemporary art to this inquisitive community. For 2018 we’re focusing our attentions properly on play and gaming.
On 29th September, we award ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, one of world’s most exciting cultural prizes. We’ll also host the third Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio between 21st and 27th September.
Updated festival programme and schedule on our website!
Join our 2018 Facebook event to follow the festival news!
Time to sign up for “behind the scenes” festival experiences:
Volunteer staff
We are looking for volunteers to help us in the production of ANTI Festival. Various tasks are available between 19th September and 1st October and especially during the festival between 25th and 30th September 2018.
We need many helping hands, for example, in assisting and hosting the festival artists, transportation,
roadie and audience work.
If you are planning to visit the festival, join our volunteer staff to network and experience the “behind the scenes”! READ MORE
Wrestling Club
Wrestling Club is a workshop and performance by Anna Maria Häkkinen, Lotta Suomi ja Emil Uuttu, presented at ANTI Festival 2018. The Wrestling Club workshop aims at preparing participants’ bodies for the performance.
The workshop centres around consent, safety, power relations and contact. Anyone, regardless of age, size and gender may participate in the workshop! The workshop will be directed by the Wrestling Club artists and is free to attend.
Wrestling Club
Wed 26th Sep. at 5 – 8 pm.
Thu 27th Sep at 5 – 8 pm.
Fri 28th Sep at 7 – 9 pm.
Sat 29th Sep at 6 – 8 pm.
For more information and sign ups to volunteer staff and Wrestling Club contact Elisa Itkonen: elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005!
Book your seats to these performances!
All festival events are free to attend but we require seat reservations to some performances.
Book seats by emailing to: booking@antifestival.com !
Tania El Khoury (LB): As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Book your individual 10 minute performance!
Wed 26.9. 15.00 – 17.00 &
18.00 – 20.00
Thu 27.9. 15.00 – 17.00 &
18.00 – 20.00
Fri 28.9. 13.00 – 15.00 &
16.00 – 18.00
M/S Queen R | Kuopio Harbour | Kauppakatu Street 1
Tania El Khoury (LB): The Search for Power
Limited number of audience seats, book your seat!
Fri 28.9. 19.00
Sat 29.9. 19.00
Railway workshop | Pohjolankatu Street 1
ANTIZINE vol. 6 / 2018
ANTI Festival releases an annual publication, ANTIZINE – both as a printed and online version. ANTIZINE gives voice to people who have been creating the festival; curators, producers as well as artists, partners and participants are given columns to express their thoughts about the upcoming festival and its themes.
As ANTI 2018 is inspired by ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming, ANTIZINE vol. 6 / 2018 is responding to the same themes. We wanted to find a way to not only talk about games but talk about games through a game. Yet, ANTI Festival’s programme offers much more diverse perspectives to games, it was both the festival themes and the idea of co-creation that lead us as we decided to use a video game as a tool of text creation. This year, we wanted the zine to BE a discussion.
Visit ANTI Festival 25.-30.9.2018 and Kuopio to pick up the printed version!
