Save The Date – Together Again Festival this September at Helsinki Central Library Oodi

kesä 12, 2023 | News

A one-day multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival in Helsinki and online.

 

The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes are pleased to invite you to Together Again. The festival is the culmination of a two year-long project with Finland-based artists and their work with communities in Amsterdam, Helsinki, London, Madrid, New York, Oslo, Paris, and Porto.

Presenting:

Matti Aikio | Minna Henriksson | Uwa Iduozee | Kairos collective | Aapo Nikkanen & Léa Domingues | Post Theatre Collective | Pehmee-kollektiivi

Together Again is organised by the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux, the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, the Finnish Cultural Institute in Madrid, the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, the Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute and Institut finlandais, and supported by the Finnish Institute in Germany, the Finnish Institute in Japan and the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes (SKTI).

Practical Information:

Date: Friday, 8 September 2023

Location: Helsinki Central Library Oodi & Online

Programme to be announced this summer on togetheragain.fi

Together Again is made possible thanks to the Art² Grant of the Finnish Cultural Foundation and supported by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.

Read more about the festival in our previous article The Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes present Together Again and about the Safer Spaces For Unhad Conversations workshop by Pehmee aka The Soft Collective (Caroline Suinner and Meriam Trabelsi) implemented in Amsterdam in cooperation with the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux as part of the project Together Again.

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