Tampere Region festivals 2013 by Pirfest ry

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tampere region festivals 2013

Circus Ruska Festival

25–26 January 2013, Tampere www.circusruska.com

Tampere Film Festival

7–11 March 2013, Tampere www.tamperefilmfestival.fi

The oldest and grandest short-film festival of Northern Europe was already on the map in 1969, but still offers something new annually in Tampere. Both international and domestic competitions present the crème de la crème of short films. Special programmes screen the highlights of all genres. Seminars, exhibitions and clubs bring together the professionals, students, enthusiasts and bypassers of the industry for five memorable days.

Circus Ruska Festival is the oldest contemporary circus festival in Finland arranged yearly. In January 2013, it will celebrate its 9th anniversary. The festival brings together new contemporary circus acts for your enjoyment. The programme focuses on the most recent domestic and international acts, in which circus techniques blend with other means of expressions in various ensembles. Circus Ruska welcomes all to experience contemporary circus!

Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Stand up Comedy Festival 13–16 March 2013, Tampere www.tomaattejatomaatteja.com

Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Stand up Comedy Festival takes place in Tampere for the 5th time. The venues include the Old Tampere Customs House of Pakkahuone, Ilves Bar&Night, TTT-Klubi and Teerenpeli. The programme showcases names of Finnish Stand Up such as Ismo Leikola, Ilari Johansson, Anitta Ahonen and Arimo Mustonen.

Tampere Kuplii Comics Festival

20–24 March 2013, Tampere 2013.tamperekuplii.fi

Tampere Kuplii Comics Festival is a five-day comics merryment in central Tampere – bringing together comic makers and enthusiasts from around Finland. The festival hosts sales tables, comics magazines, talk shows, Cosplay-competition and comics signings. Every year, Tampere Kuplii awards the Comic-Finlandia prize to the most commendable domestic comic album. The festival is free for all.

Tampere Dance Current Contemporary Dance Festival 16–21 April 2013, Tampere www.tanssivirtaa.net

Tampere Dance Current Contemporary Dance Festival brings the most captivating performers and productions to town. In addition to powerful contemporary dance productions the six-day festival offers dance videos, club nights and city performances. Public discussions and special guest events of the festival open the door further into the world of contemporary dance. Dance Theatre MD is arranging the festival for the 16th time.

Exploring Art © Riikka Herrala

20–21 April 2013, Tampere Region www.taidesuunnistus.net

Exploring Art is an art event that reaches the whole of the Tampere Region. It is being held for the 9th time. The purpose of the event is to bring the work of visual artists, designers and artisans closer to a large audience and make both experiencing and purchasing art more accessible. All attractions of the festival are free of charge. Exploring Art is arranged by Taidesuunnistus association.

Orivesi Summer Festivals

18 May – 8 September 2013, Orivesi www.orivedensuvi.fi

Orivesi Summer Festivals is an annual celebration encompassing a variety of happenings, with concerts and literary events at the Orivesi College of Arts, an exhibition at the Purnu Art Centre and SuviDesign, the Rönni Open Air Theatre programme, and regular open-air dances from May to September at the Rönni Entertainment Centre. Reikäreuna Film Festival offers cinematic experiences in early September.

IX Tampere Guitar Festival © Paavo Pykäläinen

1–9 June 2013, Tampere www.tampereguitarfestival.com

A celebration of guitar in Tampere by the brightest of guitar stars. In addition to concerts all around Tampere Region, the festival showcases various workshops, seminars, master courses of guitar play and a guitar camp. Come and hear the guitar play!

Annikki Poetry Festival 5–8 June 2013, Tampere

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Annikki Poetry Festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary, has grown to be one of the most significant poetry events in Finland. With the focus remaining on poetry, the festival also reaches towards music and the arts. Significant foreign poets are also always heard at the event. The theme for 2013 is ‘the World beneath our Feet’. The festival is held in the wooden quarters of Annikki. Annikki OFF fills Tampere with cultural events for three days before the festival.

Tampere Vocal Music Festival

5–9 June 2013, Tampere www.tamperemusicfestivals.fi/vocal

A feast of choirs and vocal ensembles takes place every second year in Tampere for five days with the international festival attracting around two thousand performers from all around the world. In addition to a diverse range of concerts, music is in the air with a broad choral review and an astounding contest for vocal ensembles. Courses of the highest quality provide opportunities to explore the secrets of making music. The series of free concerts entitled “Feel the Festival” takes the performances from the concert halls to the streets.

Sauna Open Air Metal Festival 8–9 June 2013, Tampere www.sauna-open-air.fi

The highly revered heavy and hard rock festival Sauna Open Air is back – returning to the venue where it all began, in the festival park of Ratina Stadium. The twoday festival is being held 8th – 9th of June. This year the festival brings the Danish group Volbeat, with their one and only concert in Finland this summer. The stage is also heated by Nightwish, Opeth, Sabaton and Children of Bodom.

Mänttä Art Festival

9 June – 31 August 2013, Mänttä www.mantankuvataideviikot.fi

Mänttä Art Festival celebrates its two decades in 2013. Curator Jyrki Siukonen is putting up an exhibition of both clarity and surprise. The whole of the exhibition speaks for itself, also giving voice to single pieces. The curator aims at getting close to the audience, who bring the exhibition alive with experience. Pekilo is once more set for the viewer, so come along!

XV Mänttä Music Festival 25 June – 2 July 2013, Mänttä www.mantanmusiikkijuhlat.fi

Musiikkia! Ruovesi Chamber Music Festival 26–30 June 2013, Ruovesi www.musiikkiaruovesi.fi

The 8th Musiikkia! Ruovesi Chamber Music Festival takes place from 26th until 30th June with conductor-violinist Okko Kamu taking the artistic lead. The concerts of 2013 are themed with Bach and Russian music. The venues of the concerts are the picturesque churches of Ruovesi, Virrat and Kuru as well as the Pekkala Manor former stable. The first ever symphony concert in the history of Ruovesi Church takes place on 8th July, with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Okko Kamu, playing the music of Sibelius.

Mänttä Music Festival celebrates its fifteen years of international star pianists, young promising performers and top pedagogues. The theme of the year takes the audience through the history of piano music with Jerome Rosen, Henri Sigfridson and the hugely popular performer Severin von Eckardstein of last year among others. The setting of this artistic town creates a fine stage for the concerts, lectures and master classes at local churches and the historical Mänttä Club.

The Days of Old Literature 28–29 June 2013, Sastamala www.vanhankirjallisuudenpaivat.com

The Days of Old Literature has the theme of Morale in 2013. This literary event, traditionally taking place on the Friday and Saturday after Midsummer, provides a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the offerings of about 60 booksellers and over 40 displays, in addition to the interesting and contemporary theme seminars, exhibitions, an auction and events for children. The festival is free of charge.

Tammerkosken Sillalla

28 June – 6 July 2013, Tampere www.sillalla.net

A city festival for everyone in Tampere. This city festival, more than a decade old, will be held on 28th June – 6th July 2013. The festival tent in the Central Square and clubs around the city centre offer more than 30 events, more than half of which are free of charge. The programme consists of concerts for children and young people, events for seniors, performances by choirs and dance groups, popular music and rock evenings, and entertaining singalongs.

Sata-Häme Soi International Accordion Festival 2–7 July 2013, Ikaalinen www.satahamesoi.fi

Tammerfest

17–20 July 2013, Tampere www.tammerfest.fi

Tammerfest fills the streets, clubs, restaurants and venues of Tampere in the middle of the most glorious summer. This four-day festival offers the highlights of domestic music, stand-up comedians and the most up-and-coming names of Finnish music in an enjoyable urban environment, all within walking distance. Tammerfest can be heard both indoors as well as out. It will bring over 200 shows to over 15 clubs of various sizes, as well as the Ratina Stadium – with the festival atmosphere reaching the skies!

Become engrossed in the international music experience created by the accordion in Ikaalinen, Finland. The Sata-Häme Soi International Accordion Festival not only embraces traditional accordion music, but also welcomes jazz, classical and world music as well as rock. The music ranges from traditional accordion pieces to classical and world music, as well as jazz and rock. This festival offers unforgettable concerts, the thrill of competitions, an atmosphere of dance and merriment – with something new every year!

Sastamala Gregoriana – Early Music Festival

20–27 July 2013, Sastamala www.sastamalagregoriana.fi

Let early music take hold of you in the enchanting concerts of Sastamala Gregoriana. The tunes of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque fill Sastamala at the end of July for the 18th time. The front-row artists of both domestic and international arenas give concerts in the medieval stone churches, renowned for their atmosphere and acoustics, surrounded by a national cultural landscape. The theme of the summer is the Mesenates of Music – the Popes, Princes and Patrons. The concert series will be completed by an international master course.

Tampere Flamenco Festival

22–27 July 2013, Tampere www.tampereflamenco.com

Tampere Flamenco Festival is the largest and oldest flamenco festival in the Nordic region. It is internationally acknowledged and well regarded in the homeland of flamenco, Spain. Tampere Flamenco Festival has a well-established tradition among the summer cultural events of both Tampere as well as Finland. Most rising and shining stars of the world flamenco scene have performed here, as have important Finnish flamenco artists.

25–28 July, Valkeakoski

Workers’ Music Festival www.valmu.com

Tampere Floral Festival

26 July – 3 August 2013, Tampere www.kukkaisviikot.fi

Experience nine days of floral splendour and free events in central Tampere between June and August. This merry family carnival is turning 30 and the festive programme offers something for everyone – the Frenckell Wine Village, Floral Rock, the Samba Carnival, floral terraces and café, a giant ferris wheel, and lots more. Admission is free and there is no age limit! Join the fun – why not wear your favourite floral dress!

The radiant and modern four-day Workers’ Music Festival in Valkeakoski showcases top performers and interesting novelties, exhibitions, programmes for children and the young, nightly sing-alongs, open-air dances and highlights of workers’ music. The festival is being arranged for the 42nd time in the summer of 2013. This mature festival takes place in the historical atmosphere of Myllysaari Museum and Tervasaari Mill.

Pentinkulma Literature Festival

28 July – 5 August 2013, Urjala www.pentinkulmanpaivat.fi

This year’s theme of Pentinkulma Literature Festival is the Outcasts and the In Crowd. This traditional event brings together thousands of literary lovers. Focus of the festival is whether authors are more attuned to the plight of the disregarded than the officials and media are. Or are the authors themselves being pushed to the margins of society? Current speakers, authors and readers meet in seminars, courses, discussions, poetry gatherings and children’s events. Welcome to Pentinkulma!

Tampere Theatre Festival 5–11 August 2013, Tampere www.teatterikesa.fi

The annual Tampere Theatre Festival is a major European theatre event presenting the best of Finnish and international theatre. The forte of this festival is in the original 20th century dramas, renewed classics, dance theatre, contemporary circus and street theatre. The festival is composed of five extravagant programmes of the Main Programme, the Programme Tent, Club Festival Encorebaana, OFF Tampere, and a special event night called the Nocturnal Happening.

Blockfest

23–24 August 2013, Tampere www.blockfest.fi

Blockfest is an urban festival geared toward hip-hop music. In 2013, the festival is celebrating its 6th anniversary. Blockfest delivers the hottest urban artists of the year and plenty of exclusive and unprecedented gigs, not to mention dance events and a street market. Since its beginning, Blockfest has been sold out every year.

World of Tango

Main Programme 13–15 September 2013, Tampere www.maailmantango.net

World of Tango festival is the international event of the autumn, embracing many walks of the artistic realm. At the heart of the event is the art of tango and sustaining it – the concerts present top-quality domestic and international artists. Also other genres of urban folk music are represented, such as jazz, chanson and fado. In addition to the concerts, the programme offers art exhibitions, poetry recitals, dance courses, film screenings, lectures… Pre-programme is 6th – 12th, Art Exhibitions 1st – 30th and Wine and Beer Fiesta 6th – 15th September.

Monsters of Pop

19–22 September 2013, Tampere www.monstersofpop.net

Monsters of Pop is an indie music festival that showcases the freshest, trendiest and most interesting Finnish indie groups, as well as top international names. The musical content of the programme tends to lean toward electronic music and more artistic pop music. Recently the festival has also included supplementary programmes from, for example, the world of cinema.

Pispala Schottische Dance Mania

26–29 September 2013, Tampere www.sottiisi.net

Dance Mania delights the senses! Expert folk dancers meet young performers at Tampere’s Dance Mania. Mania presents the most delightful treats of folk dancing with performers coming from all over Finland and the Nordic countries. Stages are filled with both professional dance theatres as well as amateur ensembles with tasty morsels of current folk dance. The open discussion forum of the Dance Mania takes a close look at the evaluation of dance and choreographers will compete in their own dance events.

Lost In Music

16–19 October 2013, Tampere www.lostinmusic.fi

Lost In Music is an annual urban festival held in downtown Tampere, where approximately 100 artists perform for an audience of nearly 15,000 in the best clubs and other venues. The festival showcases up-and-coming pop, rock, indie, metal bands, hip-hop vibes and world music, not forgetting the more experimental groups. Lost In Music is a unique live event, serving a broader selection of today’s music than any other festival in Finland.

Tampere Jazz Happening

31 October – 3 November 2013, Tampere www.tamperemusicfestivals.fi/jazz

The international programme of Tampere Jazz Happening brings together top performers of modern jazz, as well as trend-setters of the future of modern jazz. The festival is known for its warm atmosphere and unconventional views on jazz. Both Finnish and international top artists play both in concert halls and intimate club sessions into the small hours of the night.

Youth Theatre Festival MURROS

22–24 November 2013, Tampere www.tnl.fi

The objective of MURROS is to create a venue of high-quality theatre, including national and international youth productions that are open to all. The event showcases mainly theatre produced by theatre-makers of ages ranging from 13 to 20 years. We wish to offer the audience interesting and high-quality performances, create a forum through which young theatre activists can connect, provide training, and promote international communication through an exchange of productions, directors and trainers.

2014–2015 Tampere Biennale

9–13 April 2014, Tampere www.tamperemusicfestivals.fi/biennale

Tampere Biennale introduces the most essential phenomena of contemporary Finnish music as well as the most current composers and compositions. For five days, curious ears will be taken by surprise and captured by previously unheard premières. In addition to concerts and club nights, the festival offers events for families, as well as art exhibitions and discussions about music.

Mukamas 2014 – International Puppet Theatre Festival 12–17 May 2014, Tampere www.teatterimukamas.com

Pispala Schottische

– International Folklore Festival 11–15 June 2014, Tampere www.sottiisi.net

The international folk dancing festival Pispala Schottische gathers together folk dancers and players from all over the world to Tampere. International and domestic folklore groups perform in various parts of the city. The Handicraft Market at the Central Square, with its programme, offers extra flare to Schottische atmosphere. The event culminates with thousands of dancers bringing colour to Pyynikki as they celebrate folk dancing. Pispala Schottische is arranged by Nuorisoseurajärjestö and Tampere City Council.

Mukamas Theatre will host the 9th International Puppet Theatre Festival on 12th – 17th of May in 2014, in Tampere. During the festival week, puppetry takes over the stages of Tampere, offering performances for children, the young and the young at heart. In addition to national highlights, the festival showcases interesting guests from the puppetry traditions of Central Europe and the other Nordic countries, for example.

Backlight

Autumn 2014, Tampere www.backlight.fi

Teos © Anna Alapuro

Backlight Photo Festival is an international triennial photographic event that focuses on issues of the society both with documentary photography and more experimental approaches. The festival seeks to promote intercultural dialogue through the visual arts. The theme and guides for applying for 2014 will be announced later. The Tampere-based Photographic Centre Nykyaika has organised the event since 1987.

Triennial of Pirkanmaa

Spring–Summer 2015, Tampere www.pirkanmaantriennaali.fi

Triennial of Pirkanmaa is a showcase of contemporary art in the Tampere Region, held every three years. The 6th Triennial of Pirkanmaa will take place in 2015. Its theme, date and curator will be announced at the end of 2014.

Akseli Gallen-Kallela, portrait of Gustaf Adolf Serlachius, 1887. Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation.

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Much the same way as Charlie’s Angels, detective agency Gustaf ’s Angels investigates secrets of the thriving creativity of an art town.

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1. Tampere • Annikki Poetry Festival • Backlight Photo Festival • Blockfest • Circus Ruska Festival • Exploring Art • Lost In Music • Monsters of Pop • Mukamas 2014 – International Puppet Theatre Festival • Pispala Schottische Dance Mania • Pispala Schottische – International Folklore Festival • Sauna Open Air Metal Festival • Tammerfest • Tammerkosken Sillalla • Tampere Biennale • Tampere Dance Current Contemporary Dance Festival

tampere region festivals 2013 • Tampere Film Festival • Tampere Flamenco Festival • Tampere Floral Festival • Tampere Guitar Festival • Tampere Jazz Happening • Tampere Kuplii Comics Festival • Tampere Vocal Music Festival • Tomatoes! Tomatoes! Stand up Comedy Festival • Triennial of Pirkanmaa • World of Tango • Youth Theatre Festival Murros 2. Ruovesi • Musiikkia! Ruovesi Chamber Music Festival 3. Orivesi • Orivesi Summer Festivals

4. Mänttä-Vilppula • Mänttä Art Festival • Mänttä Music Festival 5. Valkeakoski • Workers’ Music Festival 6. Urjala • Pentinkulma Literature Festival 7. Sastamala • The Days of Old Literature • Sastamala Gregoriana – Early Music Festival 8. Ikaalinen • Sata-Häme Soi International Accordion Festival