Year: 2020
Epilogue
The first day of Baltic Circle Festival began with a briefing on new Covid restrictions: we would get through the […]
Baltic Circle Festival Cancelled
Baltic Circle Festival will be cancelled from Thursday, November 26 onwards due to the current changes in the pandemic situation.
20-year-old festival Baltic Circle examines the possibilities of performance art and theatre in exceptional times
International theatre festival Baltic Circle celebrates its 20th anniversary during a year when gatherings and travel are restricted by a global pandemic. Such exceptional times have challenged the festival to seek and try out new ways of making and experiencing art. The festival, whose diverse programme was put together by over a hundred artists and professionals, commences on Friday, November 11th.
Niko Hallikainen’s Black Mercedes: An intriguing journey through the collective unconscious
While flicking through this year’s festival programme, the piece that first caught my eye was Black Mercedes by performance poet […]
Time, remembrance and nuclear waste
Ghost in the Atom is an exciting piece hosted by Baltic Circle 2020 that focuses on remembering and the passage […]
Follow-up VeiculoSUR residence at distance
VeiculoSUR 2020: Strange bodies and conflict of norms is the second edition of the biennial residency. It proposes displacement as a format, both in terms of artistic creation and ideological mobility. Due to the global pandemic, VeiculoSUR 2020 has transformed from an itinerary residency to a remote art/research laboratory taking place in the six locations simultaneously.
Looking close, but in the longer time frame
Life as we know it is a collaboration between two mid-career artists: Maija Hirvanen and Juha Valkeapää. It playfully and imaginatively ponders what the future has to offer, what kind of possible directions could life take? Nelly Hakkarainen, a communication intern of Baltic Circle, sat down with the artists to have a conversation about the backgrounds of Life as we know it, about change and making of art in times of uncertainty.
A Festival for Time for a Festival
Baltic Circle is celebrating its 20th anniversary under peculiar circumstances with the global pandemic forcing limits on travel and public […]
Baltic Circle to collaborate with the Landscape Rewilding programme
Baltic Circle has started a collaboration with the Landscape Rewilding programme, which is operated in Finland by the non-profit cooperative Snowchange. Through the collaboration, Baltic Circle has been granted its own dedicated nature restoration location in Ähtäri called Oravasuo. The festival follows and supports the protection and rewilding efforts of this location.
“It is finally time to stop, think and listen”
“What kind circulation between countries, let alone continents, is there after a pandemic? Who is involved, who is excluded? Can we slow down the pace, change direction, without cancelling?” Hanna Parry, artistic director of Baltic Circle Festival, reflects on the question of international exchange during the outbreak of the global pandemic. The article was originally published on the website of Goethe-Institut.
