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Nukketeatteri 1/2010
Barents festival 2009:
Finnish UNIMA and Finnish puppet theatre celebrates anniversary It has been a good year for Finnish puppet theatre. Unima Finland has among other things been organizing two big festivals in the anniversary year, and an anthology of the history of Finnish puppet theatre has been published. The seventh Barents region puppet theatre festival was organized in Oulu and Rovaniemi 21.-26. 2010. In addition to many Finnish shows, we also got to experience a program of great variation with shows from Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Russia, Netherlands, USA and Norway. The Akseli Klonk-theatre in Oulu, where Janne Kuustie, leader of UNIMA Finland, is the director, was technical organizer of the festival. The theatre was themselves represented with many shows at the festival. I rarely have experienced a festival that showed so much consideration to the audience. In addition to skilled technical organizers, this was also due to very appropriate spaces in Valve culture centre. Valve culture centre is placed in the old police station in Oulu. To this old building, which now includes for example three big dance studios, they have made an extra room in the building which give space to one big and one small theatre stage. The old back yard has been given a
Steven Luca Groenen performed on the streets of Rovaniemi. Artist Francois Blanc got lot of friens from all ages.
Puppet shows on hands. Train between Oulu and Rovaniemi was also a place for performances.
Puppets of Timo Nyyssönen were presentes in Valve. Beside the characters Päivi Soini.
