OAF Talks: OAF Academy
Pertti’s Choice, 22.8.2025 OAF ACADEMY Talks about PowerPlace: Pertti’s Choice Gallery Schedule 15.00:Musical welcome by hammond artist Kalle Salonen and Fionn Angus from IrelandOpening wordsJohanna Freundlich, artistic director of Helsinki Festival15.30:Performance by Ton Melnyk. Melnyk together with the mentors of the project Mariam Agamian and Johanna Rojola will read chapters of Granny’s Story comic book in […]
Satu & Maima Tani: Breathing Reef
14.8.-15.9.2025 Breathing Reef extends across several locations in Espoo. In the lobby of the Espoo Cultural Centre, Maima Tani presents colourful textile works inspired by the underwater world. At Länsimetro stations, a print and digital exhibition features imaginative characters from the short films of the artists sisters Satu and Maima Tani. Kino Tapiola will also […]
OAF X Runokuu Talks: Aatos Ketvel & Minna-Kaisa Kallinen
Outsider Art Festival and Runokuu (Poetry Moon Festival) will hold a joint discussion in Tekstin talo’s (House of Text) Permantosali on Friday, 15 August, 17:30–18:30. The distinctive singer-songwriter and spoken-word poet Aatos Ketvel, who records with the band Kirsikkapuu for Minna Records, will publish a debut poetry collection with Puoliuni Publishing in autumn 2025. How […]
True Equality party
True Equality -party: The Night of the Arts 14.8.2025 klo 16:00 – 17:30 The pre-party of Outsider Art Festival, the True Equality party will take place in the Caisa Hall at the Caisa Cultural Centre from 16:00 to 17:30. Invited guests will include OAF artists and partners. The event is also open to the public: […]
OAF X Pertti’s Choice Gallery: From Senses to Sensations
Pertti’s Choice Gallery 15.8.-23.8.2025 What does the world look like from the perspective of an outsider artist? And what could it look like? OAF’s visual arts programme will answer these questions by spreading out to Pertti’s Choice Gallery and the gallery of the Cultural Centre Caisa from 14 to 23 August 2024. The group exhibitions […]
OAF Poetry Stage
Permantosali, the House of Text, 14.8.2025 at 20:15-22:00 OAF Poetry Stage asks the question: what kind of literature could exist outside the known literature? The poets of the OAF Literature Programme will take over the stage of Permantosali, together with a guest poet from the publisher WSOY. The evening will feature a diverse array of […]
OAF X Caisa: Pekka Luodeslampi
Cultural Centre Caisa, courtyard. 14th of August 5.30 PM – 5.45 PM Pekka Luodeslampi’s performance challenges traditional ideas of being a superhero. Luodeslampi’s superhero repertoire includes blowing up terracotta pots with explosive punching power, bending one-centimeter-thick steel bars, popping the bottoms off unopened drink cans, and destroying coconuts. In these thrilling stunts, Luodeslampi utilizes the […]
LIPGLOSSBOY – RAT CITY
RAT CITY: Cultural Centre Caisa, lobby. 14th of August. 5.40 PM – 6.02 PMRAT CITY: Espoo Cultural Centre, lobby. 21st of August. 6.30 PM – 6.52 PM LIPGLOSSBOY: RAT CITY LIPGLOSSBOY ’s performance RAT CITY conveys a scenario where hyper metropolitan traits of rats have become a desired commodity. The once impure and diseased city rat […]
OAF X Caisa: Kaaos Company – Katras
Katras: Cultural Centre Caisa, Lobby. 16.8. 3 PM – 3.45 PMDiscussion: Cultural Centre Caisa, Lobby. 16th of August 3.45 PM Kaaos Company: Katras Kaaos Company will present a dance performance titled Katras (2021). Katras is a movement-based conversation with others and the surrounding environment, while playing with what emerges from togetherness. An urban flock of four dancers […]
OAF X WeeGee Reads: The Big Lie About Disability
We consider Finland as a model country for disability rights, even though we do not understand even the principles, like how accessibility is a basic human right. Why did the book Suuri valhe vammaisuudesta (the Big Lie About Disability) bring us the first “openly disabled” Finlandia winner? Who are the ones that can and are […]