Three press conferences will be held at restaurant Klubi (Tullikamarin aukio 2) during the festival week as follows:
Monday, 5th of August at 13.00-14.15
Wednesday, 7th of August at 10.00-11.00
Friday, 9th of August at 10.00-11.00
The Tampere Theatre Festival’s artistic team Hilkka-Liisa Iivanainen, Aleksis Meaney and Tanjalotta Räikkä as well as the executive director Hanna Rosendahl will be present in all the press conferences.
The artists from Finland will present their work in Finnish, but international artists speak English.
This is the order of appearance, but please note that changes are possible.
Monday, 5th of August at 13.00-14.15
Tampere University, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Tampere Conservatoire: Hair
Director Pauliina Hulkko
Kinetic Orchestra: I’m Liquid
Choreographer Jarkko Mandelin
Circo Aereo: Lion –The Weird and Magical Abracadabra Circus Show
Performer, writer Marc Gassot
Dance Theatre MD: Sisters & The Field
Managing director Anniina Kumpuniemi
Programme Tent at Central Square of Tampere
Production coordinator Elina Valkama
Fringe programme OFF Tampere, Hotel Tammer Concerts & The Great Nocturnal Happening
Production coordinator Susanna Koskimaa
Wednesday, 7th of August at 10.00-11.00
Keisha Thompson: Man on the Moon
Performer, writer Keisha Thompson
IIPM (International Institute of Political Murder) & Création Studio Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles: La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre (I)
Production Manager of the IIPM Mascha Euchner-Martinez
Sofia Södergård: SLICK
Actor, choreographer, director Sofia Södergård
Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki: N.E.G.R.O. – Nhaga & Erista Growing ’n Reaching Out
Performer, director Geoffrey Erista
Friday, 9th of August at 10.00-11.00
Theater Jurkka: Nora
Director Alma Lehmuskallio, actors Rosanna Kemppi and Kreeta Salminen
Theater Basel: Medea
Director, writer Anne-Louise Sarks
Briefs Factory: Hot Brown Honey
Kim “Busty Beatz” Bowers (writer, composer, performer) & Lisa Fa’alafi (writer, director, choreographer, performer)
Nassim Soleimanpour & Bush Theatre: Nassim
Writer, performer Nassim Soleimanpour
Changes are possible.
