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Saraab – We Are Stories
@ Kulttuuritila Merirasti
EVERY SECOND FRIDAY at 19:00
10.1. / 24.1. / 7.2. / 21.2. / 7.3. / 21.3. / 4.4. / 18.4. / 2.5. / 16.5. / 30.5. / 13.6.
East Helsinki should be an independent country. Where people stand for things. Empathy, compassion, gratitude and everything good and left. Where everyone would make a lot of sense, love and tell so many stories. This evening is about the story part. The stories of sandwiches, liberty, chai, fishing, relocation, resistance, and whatever. Come and listen to some of them with us, have a cup of tea or soup of the day.
WELCOME!
ROOTS – Tour 2023
6th Sept * Content Verhalen, Duffel, Belgium
7th Sept * Mezrab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
8th Sept * Op De Wolken, Ghent, Belgium
3rd Nov * The Cube, Crick Crack Club, Bristol UK
4th Nov * The Earthouse, Crick Crack Club, Cranborne, UK
ROOTS By 3Troubadours: Markus Luukkonen, Tom Van Outryve, Torgrim Mellum Stene
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Each and every one of our ancestors has left a trace in us. To understand who we are and where we are going, we need to understand where we’ve come from. To dive into the lake, to climb the tree, to enter the cave. To look for the ROOTS of it all.
3Troubadours have dug far back into their individual family histories, the legends of their cultures and even their own DNA to find tales and memories of who we are and what we carry. With their signature humour, energetic performance and deep sense of wonder, the three performers will take you to places and times you’ve never been before.
ROOTS was developed throughout 2018 in a string of European residencies supported by Federation for European Storytelling / The Creative Europe Programme of the EU and The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme. The performance premiered the 24th of October that year at the Warsaw International Storytelling Festival. ROOTS lasts for 75 minutes without break.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
3Troubadours is a trilateral trio of performance storytellers consisting of Markus Luukkonen (FI), Tom van Outryve (BE) and Torgrim Mellum Stene (NO). The group was officially formed in Ghent in Belgium in May 2015.
They toured Europe and the UK with their first show, Mobile Dreams, performing it at almost 40 venues from 2015 – 2018. ROOTS is their second show. ROOTS has been performed at storytelling festivals in Warsaw (PL), Zwolle (NL), Skelleftea and Ljungby (SE) and as stand alone shows in Oslo (NO) and Helsinki (FI).
Photo by Aleksandra Rózga.
I’m So Here PART III
Story Sharing Universum presents:
I’m So Here part III – A crazy and diverse performance about identity
15 – 20 February, Theatre House Universum, Helsinki
In this strange place I ended up in…
do I look the same?
do I feel the same?
do I think the same?
do I act the same?
is this still me?
I´m So Here is a series of performances whose main themes are the individual and cultural identity from the perspective of the newcomer. How have I been received in the country and society where I moved or fled, and how has it affected me? What do I carry with me from my background and how do I and my identity change in the new culture and who then have I become? The texts of the performances are based on the life stories of the working group.
In this the third and last part of I´m So Here we invite you to the Universum Theatre to experience a variety of stories and scenes like… The Iraqi Panther- Hunter meets the Finnish-Bolivian gringo… the best home-made Yugoslavian pop-music … the Bollywood diary… Pakistani street theater style agitation and many other inspiring and unlikely numbers in this heartwarming event.
Performance language: English
Directed by Max Bremer, Markus Luukkonen and Åsa Nybo
Music director Salla Markkanen
Light design Tuomas Honkanen
Graphic design Juha Mustanoja
Stage tech and engineering: Sisu Nojonen and Aleksi Karjalainen
The I´m So Here PART III crew:
Alaa Altamimi, Ahmed Fahady, Amjad Sher, Anthony Van Cleave, Diego James, Ekaterina Meriläinen, Maria Kramar Von Numers, Markus Luukkonen, Max Bremer, Namrata Sethi, Åsa Nybo
TICKETS: TIKETTI.FI
I’m So Here – A Storywalk Performance
Story Sharing Universum presents
I’m So Here – A Storywalk performance about identity
In this strange place I ended up in…
do I look the same?
do I feel the same?
do I think the same?
do I act the same?
is this still me?
I´m So Here is a series of performances whose main themes are the individual and cultural identities from the perspective of the newcomer. How have I been received in the country and society where I moved or fled, and how has it affected me? What do I carry with me from my background and how do I and my identity change in the new culture and who then have I become?
I´m So Here invites to an immersive experience outside the walls of a traditional theater. The performances consist of site-specific story walks in which viewers get to experience the stories of the performers in different outdoor locations around Helsinki. The different environments influence the mood of the performances and takes the audience on a journey of discovery. As with all Story Sharing Universum performances, here too the audience has the opportunity to participate.
Part 1: Särkiniemi, Lauttasaari. Performances 14.8, 15.8, 22.8 at 4 PM
Directed by Max Bremer, Markus Luukkonen and Åsa Nybo.
Free entrance / Limited audience capacity / Obligatory pre-booking
https://www.storysharinguniversum.fi/registration-form/
Performance language: English
Please note that the route of the performance is easy to walk but has restricted accessibility
Produced by: Story Sharing Universum & Theatre House Universum
Supported by: Svenska Kulturfonden, Art Promotion Centre Finland, Svenska Teaterföreningen i Finland, Samuel Huberin taidesäätiö, Stiftelsen Emilie och Rudolf Gesellius fond, Helsinki City and William Thurings stiftelse.
MORE INFO / PRE -BOOKING:
The Naked Sorcerer – Teaser
COMING 2021
The Naked Sorcerer- Tales of the Tietäjä
Mikael Öberg & Markus Luukkonen
Support: Federation for European Storytelling
Timezone Story Sharing Café
Welcome to the Global Timezone Story Sharing Café!
In these times of isolation we want to reach out to the world and meet people living in different timezones to share stories together and get connected.
Story Sharing Café is an easy and fun event where people from all over the world, with diverse backgrounds and realities can meet and share everyday stories. So grab your coffee or tea and come and share stories and memories in small groups at our virtual coffee tables hosted by members of our Story Sharing group. We also have live music and an open storysharing mic!
Event’s language is English.
STARTING TIMES:
Oct 2nd 2020 at 7pm (UCT: +3:00)
Nov 7th 2020 at 8pm (UCT: +5:30)
Dec 5th 2020 at 6pm (UCT: -4:00)
Jan 15 2021 at 7pm (UCT: +1:00)
Of course everybody from everywhere else are also welcome join – Just check your local time!
There is limited space in this café so please register in advance:
http://www.storysharinguniversum.fi
We would be hosting the event on ZOOM for the best experience please download the ZOOM App. Since this is an interactive event participants are required to have the camera and video on for the event.
Organized by Story Sharing Universum project in cooperation with Theatre House Universum from Helsinki, Finland. Event is supported by Svenska Kulturfonden and Helsinki City.
More info
www.storysharinguniversum.fi
info@storysharinguniversum.fi
Creation
Origin of Pain
Kalevala Heritage 360 is a project that explores the combination of oral storytelling with the latest 360 degree technology. Storytellers Markus Luukkonen and Mikael Öberg have collaborated with filmmaker Andrew Macdonald from Exhibit Scotland and created two short films where fragments of the traditional Kalevala source material is told in Finnish locations relevant to the stories. Read more…
Hot Dance and Story Party
Story Sharing Café @ Lapinlahti
Welcome to a hot night of stories and dancing in Lapinlahti Friday 17.8 at 18:00!
Free entry, live music, Dj and Dancing
The Dance-Up RefuGee and Story Sharing Universum communities join forces together with Lapinlahden Lähde for a great outdoor story sharing and dance party in the middle of August. Great stories will be told. Groovy music will be played. And then we dance!
Dance-Up RefuGee creates cross cultural meetings through the joy of dancing together in the name of mutual equality and respect. We believe that Dancing together creates a common language even where there isn’t one!
Story Sharing Café is an easy and fun event where asylum seekers, immigrants and native Finns can meet and share stories together. Come and listen to stories at the coffee tables! If you wish you may freely share your everyday stories and memories in small groups led by our Story Sharing group. We will create a heartwarming and enjoyable event!
We speak at least English, Finnish, Swedish, Arabic, Dari, French, Pashto, Farsi, Russian and Dance!
The evening is hosted by Pro Lapinlahti, an open meeting point for culture and spirit.
Markus Luukkonen 