Vanaja Women’s Prison Dance Project
The dance project for women prisoners at Vanaja Open Prison, was created by MCDanze, filmed by Paola Suhonen and published on Youtube in 2018. The project highlights the importance of finding creative and various ways for female prisoners, often coming from traumatic experiences and backgrounds. This great project has challenged also other women’s prisons around […]
The Brandermen
The Brandermen is a punk blues band from Helsinki formed in 2007. Sami Brander plays the drums and his father, Petri Brander, plays the guitar and sings the vocals. The band was born when Sami was six years old and became interested in playing drums. Sami Brander is mentally disabled, and diagnosed with Fragile X […]
Suvi Mononen
Suvi Mononen uses video, photography, painting, dance, sound and poetry in her creative expression. Her short film ‘Six breaths to belonging’ deals with the feeling of belonging, the dissociation associated with trauma, and the experience of separation from body, identity, culture, community, time and place. In addition to self-expression, making art has therapeutic significance for […]
Satu Nekala
Satu Nekala is a self-taught visual artist and musician from Tampere. Satu’s works feature huge symbols. Satu herself is also a fan of big stars like Elvis and Samantha Fox. All of her artworks are made at home. Satu describes her work as follows: “I haven’t attended any art schools, I just decided to try […]
Riitta Talvio
The spark and inspiration of Riitta Talvio‘s lamentation poems comes from Karelian tradition of expressing emotion and words using voice. Riitta Talvio comes from Polvijärvi. In her perfomance, she expresses her own interpretations of a woman’s life cycle and the way the modern world goes. Talvio has performed lamentation poems at art exhibition openings, the […]
Pyrokratia
Pyrokratia (Pyrocracy) is a performing group of three young women from Tampere, as well as the Fire and Flow Arts Association, founded eight years ago. Pyrokratia has toured at festivals (Ilosaari, Ruisrock and Kosmos festival) and has also been successful in e.g. Fire Artist’s World Cup. At the event we will see a performance with […]
NEO OmaPolku team
The team from NEO Omapolku has made a film called Rauttis, a story of freedom. The team consists of Setlementti Tampere’s youth media workshop members. The idea for the film was born in Tampere’s Sorsa Park, when the group discussed about good and rich life while watching bird cages. “Do those birds know they’re in […]
Mika Ruohola
Mika Ruohola is a young film maker who works at KiviMedia, Lyhty Workshops, in Helsinki. Mika speaks openly about uncertainty, the difficulty of finding ones own place and about the tension of expressing himself. “It’s impossible to get rid of tension, what can you do, it comes unexpectedly.” Curators’ comment: The film is relatable. Overcoming […]
Markus Kristian Metsälä
Markus Kristian Metsälä is a war artist and a builder of war-themed scale models from Hämeenlinna. He is a mental health rehabilitator with photographic memory. Markus has never organized any exhibitions, even if there was a reason. Markus Metsälä draws strong and current works of art with virtuotic technical skill. He has about 100 A1-sized […]
Linnea Mettälä
Linnea Mettälä is an artist who works in the Aula-työkoti in Helsinki. Linnea presents a defined style and a strong vision that others follow. The star of the Linnea’s video installation is Linnea herself as she brings out her own way of being in this world. Linnea writes the right words and her own words. […]