Helgøya Fortellerfestival 2025
From the Woods – 25.7.
Vindmantel – Ilman viitta 26.7.
Read more: https://www.helgoyafortellerfestival.no
Helgøya Fortellerfestival 2025
The Re-Invention of Self
Teatteri Venus’ Maskworks – ensemble dives into the wisdom of the body with the performance “The Re-Invention of Self”. The work is inspired by the psychiatrist and sociologist Wilheim Reich’s theories about the mind and body.
24.9. klo 19.00
1.10. klo 19.00
7.10. klo 19.00
12.10. klo 19.00
22.10. klo 19.00
Max Bremer, Paul Holländer, Sam Huber, Markus Luukkonen, Åsa Nybo, Rasmus Vuori
http://universum.fi/ohjelmisto_new/the-re-invention-of-self-antifascistic-bodybuilding/
Rest in Peace
Venus Theatre continues its series of trance mask performances with a new, participatory journey into other states of mind. Rest in Peace is a spiritual voyage of discovery, to explore rites, rituals and ceremonies, and to find ways to use them, in the mundane and the sacred, in the here, and in the hereafter.
Are you prepared to step into the past and the future, to let go of something you know and to pick up something new? Would you like to celebrate your divorce, or your children stepping out into the world? Maybe you would like to experience your own funeral?
The Masks are time travellers, healers, shamans, physicians, priests, therapists, masters of ceremony, confessors, mourners. They will lead us across to the other side, to an unknown future, or to an unfulfilled past. They are here to serve.
Rest in Peace is performed by Max Bremer, Paul Holländer, Sam Huber, Markus Luukkonen and Åsa Nybo. The masks have been crafted by Anna Uschanov, and the performance is visualized by Ada Halonen and Anttoni Halonen.
Rest in Peace is a mobile and multilingual performance.
Rest in Peace premieres on the 28th of September, and runs from 2. 10. through 2. 11. 2019.
There are few performances and the audience is strictly limited, so we recommend urgent action!
Tickets: https://www.tiketti.fi/teatteri-venus-rest-in-peace-universum-helsinki-lippuja/64075
Once upon a time VANTAA
In Vantaa Story Sharing Café celebrates local stories from history and present. Events are also a unique opportunity to contribute to local street art.
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. You can come alone or bring a friend and share stories and memories in small groups at coffee tables hosted by members of our Story Sharing group. We also have some special storytelling guests and an open story sharing mic. We speak at least English, Finnish, Arabic, Kurdish, Hindi, Farsi, Swedish, French and Russian.
During the event, participants can write their own local greetings to special made postcards from the area. From these cards Street Art Vantaa will make new local street art.
Event is free of charge. Reservations: universum@universum.fi
Länsimäki: Sunday 5.5. at 16–18.30,
Länsimäki Järjestötila (Kilpakuja 1)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/881394468858453/
Mikkola: Friday 10.5. at 18–20.30,
Mikkola school (Lyyra building) dining room (Lyyranpolku 2)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2308375746153807/
Havukoski/Koivukylä: Saturnday 11.5. at 16–18.30,
Habibi Café (Hakopolku 2)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/274207050197156/
Martinlaakso: Friday 7.6. klo 18–20.30,
Cultural House Martinus / Kulttuuritalo Martinus (Martinlaaksontie 36)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2255807034439992/
Hakunila: more information later
Organized by: City of Vantaa, Street Art VAntaa and the Story Sharing Universum.
Continue the Story
@ The National Museum of Finland
Mannerheimintie 34, Helsinki
Feb 27th at 16:00-19:30
Do you remember any ghost stories from your childhood? What stories do your clothes tell? What is your sauna biography like? Come and listen to stories and share your own with us!
The Continue the Story event centred around stories will be held for the first time at the National Museum of Finland on the eve of Kalevala Day, Wednesday, 27 February, from 4 pm to 7.30 pm.
The workshops start at 4 pm, and the event kicks off with a heart-warming opening ceremony under the frescoes in the central hall at 5 pm. The pop duo Ida Paul & Kalle Lindroth will perform at the opening ceremony, along with storyteller Wilson Kirwa, wailer Emmi Kuittinen and talented young people from the folk music department at Sibelius Academy, who will perform a polyphonic and multi-lingual piece.
The event will comprise storytelling in numerous story workshops around the museum, featuring stories about love, family, objects, skills and embarrassing situations – the entire spectrum of human life. The workshops will be hosted by experts who have their own stories on the theme up their sleeve.
Everyone is welcome to come and tell their story in the workshops! Admission to the event is free.
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Rakkaustarinat / Love stories
Stories of crushes large and small, tragic separations and surprising meetings. Do you remember your first kiss? Come to the workshop to listen and share stories about love. The workshop will be led by storyteller Markus Luukkonen. In cooperation with Samova Storytelling.
Restaurant hall Karhunpesä, ground floor, 5.45 pm and 6.30 pm.
The fascinating story workshops take over the museum
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https://www.kansallismuseo.fi/en/events/jatka-tarinaa
Roots – A Work in Progress
3Troubadours is a trio of performance storytellers from different countries: Tom Van Outryve (BE), Markus Luukkonen (FI) and Torgrim Mellum Stene (NO). In May 2015 they created and performed the show MOBILE DREAMS in Ghent. From then they have travelled all over Europe with that first creation to great acclaim from audiences.
The 18th of October 2018 they are returning to Ghent to perform a work in progress version of their upcoming show ROOTS! In the show all three performers have dug far back into their individual family histories, the legends of their cultures and even their own DNA to find forgotten tales and memories of who we are and where we come from. With their signature humour, energetic performance and deep sense of wonder, 3Troubadours will take you to places and times you’ve never been before.
The work in progress performance will be in English, spiced with the native tongues of the performers
ROOTS – a Work in Progress
Wasserij, Toekomstraat 38, Gent, Belgium
October 18th at 19:30
Thanks for supporting the development of ROOTS
Cloak of Air on Tour
VINDMANTEL – ILMAN VIITTA Autumn 2018
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22/9 Gävle City Library, Sweden
29/10–2/11 Svenska Nu School tour, Helsinki
21.11. Nordic Culture Point, Helsinki
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Cloak of Air (Vindmantel – Ilman viitta)
In a distant time, in a distant place, a powerful magician gives birth. Already the first night, the child is bathed in water from a holy well and dressed in magic spells. But will that be enough to protect it from all the dangers lying in wait?
A dreamlike journey from the cradle to the grave and further still. Mikael Öberg and Markus Luukkonen reimagines the world of the Finnish epic Kalevala.
Language on this tour: Swedish & Finnish
Production: Fabula Storytelling
Storytelling @ Sompasauna
STORYTELLING @ SOMPASAUNA
RUNOKUU 2018
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August 22nd at 7pm
Sompasaaren laituri, Helsinki
Sompasaaren laituri, Helsinki
Join us in sharing your stories by the open campfire of atmospheric Sompasauna! In accordance with Runokuu´s this year´s theme, the motif of our storytelling session will be roots. Storytellers of Samova ry, Markus Luukkonen and Ilkka Hautala, as well as musician Liila Jokelin will be pacing up the conversations by the fire.
Markus Luukkonen is a storyteller who combines folk lore, myths and personal stories in his performances. Markus tells his stories with a twinkle in his eye & in a down to earth kind of manner.
Ilkka Hautala is a teacher of eloquence (puhetaide) and storyteller, who wants to see the meaning in meaningless and legends as a pocket size property of everyone. Story is a tool, art and determinant of one´s humanity to him.
Singer-songwriter Liila Jokelin believes in a strong story. In Liila´s songs melancholic folk, old hit songs and punk-spirited ecstacy fuse into a tune with a core of raw joy and will to love.
In collaboration with Samova ry, Sompasauna, Runokuu
3Troubadours @ Helsinki
Wise Fools @ Ireland
World Storytelling Day @ Ireland! March 20th
Poetry Ireland, Dublin 1, at 7.30pm Storytellers Markus Luukkonen,Csenge Zalka (Hungary), Jack Lynch (Ireland) and three of Ireland’s greatest poets Theo Dorgan, Moya Cannon and Paual Meehan with Bean an Tí Nuala Hayes…
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Mermaid Arts Centre at 11.30am with Markus Luukkonen and Csenge Zalka (Hungary).
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Markus Luukkonen 