Thank you for 2017 and Happy New Year!
Newsletter 12/2017
ANTI Festival sends a big warm thank you for the year 2017 to all our partners, artists, team members, voluntary assistants and audiences! We wish you Happy Holidays and all the best for the year 2018!
During the past year, ANTI Festival worked in several multidisciplinary projects, both local and international, and organised public events in Kuopio throughout the year:
In April, ANTI and Future DiverCities project contributed to Design Week Kuopio by organising a discussion meeting on co-design, in collaboration with the Design Week.
In the end of August, Kuopio is traditionally full of events, and ANTI took part in the season celebration with 14th PechaKucha Kuopio and open doors event.
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2017 took place between 19th and 24th September in Kuopio. The festival brought together artists and audience from across Finland and almost 10 different countries. The festival programme was inspired by the theme of water.
One of the highlights of the festival was the awarding of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. The 2017 winner of the Prize is Lebanese Tania El Khoury who will return to Kuopio and present a new commissioned work at ANTI Festival 2018.
We also hosted the second Future DiverCities Lab in Kuopio between 14th and 20th September.
Photo: Pekka Mäkinen – Tomi Paasonen: World Cup Bling Troopers 2016
ANTI Festival 2018
The 17th edition of ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will take place between 25th and 30th September 2018.
We invited artists, working in any field, to propose projects that directly engage with ideas of play, playfulness, games and gaming. The open call was organised between 16th November and 12th December 2017, and we received 170 proposals from 35 different countries.
For our 2018 festival ANTI is thrilled to announce partnerships with Games for Health Finland and the International Game Developers Association, Kuopio Hub.
Photo: Pekka Mäkinen – Maria Kärkkäinen: Take me into your arms 2012