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International theatre festival Baltic Circle celebrates its 20th anniversary
Baltic Circle is an international festival for contemporary theatre and performance organised annually in November in Helsinki. The festival celebrates its 20th anniversary from November 20–28, 2020 in Helsinki and online.
“Time spent with others feels very special and fortunate during Baltic Circle's anniversary year. Organising an international festival when getting together and travelling are restricted has challenged us to seek and try new ways of making and experiencing art. It has also compressed the festival to its most essential parts: facilitating shared experiences, interaction and togetherness,” says the festival's artistic director
Hanna Parry.
The festival's works examine time, the environment and change, and focus their gaze on resplendent shades of darkness.
Socially and ecologically sustainable ways of doing are examined by
VeiculoSUR, a residency and artistic group that unites artists, activists, students and researchers and moves virtually in six countries and on two continents. Working in South America and Europe, the group questions and re-negotiates social norms and makes space for alternatives. Finland's contribution to the group includes artist, architect and researcher
David Muñoz Alcántara, writer and researcher
Maryan Abdulkarim, choreographer
Mario Lopes and artist
Fjolla Hoxha.
Baltic Circle's anniversary programme also includes stories, sounds and images from throughout the years. The festival’s and Goethe Institute’s Festival Library introduces current texts by international thinkers, writers and artists as well as
Pohjat / Grounds, a self-contained sound piece on the 20-year-old festival, its phases and works. The festival will also release a publication that discusses current topics relating to the festival programme.
The full programme and information on the festival as a whole are available on Baltic Circle's homepage.
Baltic Circle is an international theatre festival that creates intensities in the city, takes stands on current questions and ignites dialogue. The festival offers its artists space to imagine and explore what theatre and performing arts could be, and to its audience, it offers an opportunity to experience the newest trends in performing arts. Q-teatteri acts as the main organiser of the festival, which was founded in 2000.
Baltic Circle's tickets are now available at Tiketti and Q-teatteri.
The Goethe-Institut's Festival Library
Books selected and provided by the Goethe-Institut Finnland for the Baltic Circle Festival
Media about diversity, racism, postcolonialism and feminism is available via this link (a big selection of these books is available to have a look at and read at the festival):
Media of the festival library
The books can be borrowed again on the 1st of December in the Goethe-Institut.
Supported by Goethe-Institut Finnland and German Federal Foreign Office.
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