Everyday utopias, a revolutionary drama reading, a workshop and a seminar, and clubbing in November’s embrace.
As in previous years, this year too you can enjoy free performances and events at the Baltic Circle festival. Our festival’s opening piece Hibernation by the m2f2m collective offers its visitors an opportunity to travel through archives, time loops, and dreams, or, alternatively, to do nothing. Guests may enter and leave the space as they please.
Mar Fjell & Elis Hannikainen’s workshop This is Not a Love Song will delve deep into collective grief exercises and means of expression. You can participate the workshop in different ways; by signing up for the workshop itself and the participatory performance at the end of the workshop, by participating only in the workshop or by coming to the participatory performance either as a participant or a spectator. Register for the workshop via the link on the workshop’s program page on our website.
Remember Play Rape, a performance by Anna Paavilainen that shook the stage and the industry at the National Theater in 2014? Play Rape is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, in honor of which the Baltic Circle festival will present a Play Rape 2.0 drama reading, updated to today, followed by a discussion that dives into the themes of the play and how the world has or has not changed due to #metoo. Play Rape 2.0 will be held only once during the festival week, and you don’t want to miss it!
How could hope function as a strategic tool in environmental work? In the particularly topical seminar “Speeches on power and hope”, speakers and experts in their field Saara Alakorva (Piera-Jovnna-Leena Saara), Sini Harkki, Tero Mustonen and Kaisa Rönkkö will open up perspectives on the intersections of the climate debate, environmental work and art, among other things. Sign up for the seminar on November 25th by 16:00. The seminar is organized by Baltic Circle and the Art Promotion Centre Finland’s Creative Net project.
As usual, the 2024 festival will be closed by our Love Me in November Club, where DJs Trabelsi and Miša Skalskis will entertain festival-goers until the wee hours of the evening. This year, the club will take place in the Energy hall in the Museum of Technology, an environment rich in history. We will also build our main festival merch shop in Energy hall, where you can find our As Slow As Possible socks, 2023 festival shirts, and a silk-screen printing station for your own textiles, which we will reveal more about closer to the festival week.
On top of our free events, note that there are only pay-what-you-wish tickets sold for Hildá Länsman and Tuomas Norvio’s Vuosttaš álbmogat -klubba and Kai Syng Tan’s performative lecture “For Dare-Devils, Dreamers and Do-ers”.
Welcome to the festival!
Free program at the festival:
m2f2m: Hibernation
22.11. at 16, 23.11. at 16 and 24.11. at 12, Trans Library Helsinki
Mar Fjell & Elis Hannikainen: Workshop – This is Not a Love Song
26.11. at 13 and 18, 27.11. at 14, Lou Gallery
Anna Paavilainen: Drama Reading – Play Rape 2.0
28.11. at 17, Bar Tÿpo. After the reading there will be a discussion.
Seminar: Notes on Power and Hope
29.11. at 15, Kiasma Theatre
Love me in November Club
30.11. at 22, Energy Hall, Museum of Technology