Author: Helmi DeMaxi
Encounters With Resistance, the Senses, and Historic Reconciliation Defined the 2025 Baltic Circle Festival
The 22nd edition of the festival, held from November 21st to December 6th, convened nearly 3,600 unique visitors across the city's stages, streetscapes, and saunas. Despite nationwide cuts to cultural funding that impacted the festival and many of its peers, Baltic Circle delivered a rich and timely programme that centred experimental performance and cultural imagination.
The work of the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission culminates in the reading of its historic final report during Independence Day week
Towards Reconciliation – 4.-6.12.2025 / The Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Finland has heard nearly 400 personal accounts and […]
Baltic Circle 2025 – Free Events
A midnight walk, a visible mending workshop, and the three-day culmination of a historic Sámi report.
Bodies, the Senses, and Collective Movement Animate the Stage at the 2025 Baltic Circle Festival
The 22nd edition of the international theatre festival Baltic Circle will take place in Helsinki from November 21st to December 6th, 2025. This year’s programme presents an impressive mix of domestic and international premieres, participatory discussions and workshops, alongside nocturnal city walks and ceremonial readings.
The 2025 festival programme spotlights the body as a tool for resistance and self-expression, and asks us to consider how bodily perceptions shape our awareness of change, safety, and communality.
Invitation
It might be exciting, it might be overwhelming. For sure it’s uncomfortable at times but is it to provoke? To […]
When three festivals put their needs together, Kulkue was born
The COVID-19 pandemic challenged the performing arts thoroughly and relentlessly in the first years of the 2020s. The shortsightedness, ambiguity […]
Helmi DeMaxi and Sanna Ritvanen Join Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival
Baltic Circle is pleased to welcome two new members to its core team ahead of the festival’s next edition in November 2025. Helmi DeMaxi joins the festival as Marketing and Communications Lead, stepping into the role in August. Sanna Ritvanen continues in their recent position as Producer and Assistant Curator for the festival.
