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Hanna Parry awarded Client of the Year at the Vuoden Huiput competition
Baltic Circle festival’s Artistic Director Hanna Parry has been awarded Client of the Year (Asiakashuippu) at the Vuoden Huiput 2020 creative design competition. The award is given annually to a person for commissioning good marketing and design.
Asta Teräväinen Appointed Managing Director of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival
The board of Q-teatteri has appointed Asta Teräväinen as Managing Director of Baltic Circle Festival. Most recently she worked as Communications Designer at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art.
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 […]
