Mika Ruohola
Mika Ruohola is a journalist and movie maker from Vantaa. Kylä (Town) is Ruohola’s second film. It tells the story of Puu-Vallila, the old part of the Vallila district of Helsinki that is still filled with wooden buildings. Kylä delves deep into Puu-Vallila’s rich history and it’s endangered condition. Curators comments: “Kylä, by Mika Ruohola, […]
Mika Leminen
Mika Leminen is a rapper and writer who has cerebral palsy. He comes from Tuusula and he is the leader of the rap group Cepan Maailma. Leminen has BBA in business economics and he has released two EP’s under the alias MC Cepa. Leminen has worked with several rap artists like Asa, Tiia Karoliina, Paleface, […]
Mika Hagman
Mika Hagman is a musician and visual artist who has been making music since the 80’s. He plays keyboard, makes his own songs and at the moment he practices in the band group of Resonaari. At the festival Hagman performs a collection of new and old songs. Hagman is a fan of music made with […]
MC Koo
MC Koo, whose real name is Kalle Havumäki, is a Finnish rap artist, a media persona and a radio journalist. He has made music as MC Koo with a big heart for fourteen years already. MC Koo’s gigs are full of energy and the fireworks of good vibes don’t end until the last song has […]
Mark & Potta
Mark & Potta are Tuija Markonsalo‘s alter ego. Mark & Potta were born from the inability to decide between making hilariously manic art full of bursting colours and art that wallows in deep dark waters and scowls in anxious thoughts. When one artist becomes two, one doesn’t have to decide: instead it becomes possible to […]
Maija Pilvikki Kimanen
Maija Pilvikki Kimanen has made installations, sculptures and machines for years, but now she has returned to her roots to painting. She has had schizophrenia for twenty years, which slows down her artistic work. Kimanen´s experience of the world is unlike anyone else, but the medication makes it difficult to enter flow-states when making art. […]
Loiriplukari
Loiriplukari is the alias of the artist Kalle Taivainen. Loiriplukari’s performances combine music, visuals, diary texts and stand-up. At the festival Loiriplukari will present a performance that is based on the diaries of Taivainen, that document the world of a teenage heavy metal fan from Rusko in the 1980’s. The diaries are illustrated with band […]
Liisa Marjatta Jokinen
Liisa Marjatta Jokinen is a great lover of literature and a long-term recoverer. She has written poems for ten years and published two collections as e-books. At the festival Jokinen will perform takes on her new unreleased collection called Suuri Galleria (Great Gallery). It’s a piece that conveys the human mind in the form of […]
Keuhkot
Keuhkot is a 1988 established project against dull and stale culture. Keuhkot doesn’t pretend, doesn’t expect awards and is ruthless for it’s creator, Kake Puhuu. Project itself is more important than it’s creator and sometimes it steamrolls over creator in order to be finished. Free art breathes and lives by its own. Artist is just […]
Kati Kallio & Dance Group Ihanat
The series of short dance movies called GEN-Z stars young disabled dance artists Sofia Johansson, Vappu Virkkula and Minttu Heinonen. The movie project is a joint-effort of Riina Hannuksela and Elisa Lejeune, who lead the dance ensemble Ihanat, and the dance artist and movie director Kati Kallio. At the center of the project is enabling […]