Olli Huusko
Olli Huusko describes himself as a 29-year-old HFA (High Functioning Autism) young adult who is highly musically gifted and also excels at performing and voice acting. He makes music under the name Kantele Guy and has participated in the fan-dubbing YouTube channel Studio Fanitus. Huusko enjoys performing and entertaining people. He dreams of achieving celebrity […]
Juuso Juntunen
Juuso “Jube” Juntunen (b. 1991) is a Helsinki-based enthusiast of acting, singing, poetry, photography, and music. He serves as an expert by experience and a peer specialist, and he has studied at the Resonaari music school. Juntunen has acted in Theater Ilmiö and in numerous films. He has gained singing experience in four veterans’ homes, […]
Kaisa Leppikangas
Kaisa Leppikangas is a single mother and psychologist. She writes poems in a social services office for parents exhausted by the rough edges of everyday life and escapes the pressures of the everyday into wastelands. At the festival, excerpts will be heard from Leppikangas’s poetry collection Joutomaa (“Wasteland”), which came into being like barley growing […]
Veikko Pohjalainen
Veikko Pohjalainen describes himself as an “art eccentric” who began practicing living art as soon as he learned to walk. Over the years, he has gathered experience in acting, spoken word poetry, rap, dance, writing, and spontaneous performances. Pohjalainen resonates with both suburban streets and universal citizenship. At the Outsider Art Festival, Pohjalainen takes the […]
Hanna Heino & Nilas Lindell
Artists Nilas Lindell and Hanna Heino are professionally trained dancers who are currently working with literary arts. They previously collaborated on Nunatak – kokemuksellinen installaatio (OAF and Cultural Center Caisa 2024). Heino and Lindell create art so that someone else might feel less like an outsider. Lindell has a strong background in circus and is […]
Satu Kankaanpää
Satu Kankaanpää is a sign language poet from Seinäjoki. In recent years, she has performed at numerous poetry and culture festivals as well as sign-language poetry clubs. Her poems have been published in the Finnish Sign Language Library, and she won the grand prize for her “Kapinaruno” (“Rebellion Poem”) at the Deaf Culture Days in […]
Elisa Poutanen
Elisa Poutanen (b. 1989) has been writing since childhood, but has focused more intensively on writing over the past ten years. Apart from her blog Saa tuijottaa (2014–2018), Poutanen has never before published her texts. Some of the pieces presented at the festival date back about nine years, when Poutanen struggled for years with chronic […]
Suvi Miettinen
Suvi Miettinen is a self-taught visual and literary artist whose artistic awakening came in adulthood. In her art, Miettinen portrays the landscapes of her mind through both poetry and visual art. When she creates visual art, a poem is born — and vice versa: “When words fail to convey the message, the image continues the […]