Friday 26.7.
Shows:
17.00-18.00 Three Men From The North
– The Nordic Council
Outdoor Show – in front of Circus Tent
[not ticketed, free admission]
Suitable for all ages
18.00-19.15 Work-in-Progress
– Arctic Ensemble
@AE Circus Tent
[tickets here]
Suitable for all ages
20.30-22.00+ Musine Cabaret Night:
Circus acts, short films, music
Featuring Amanda Virkkunen, Filip Jacobson and many more!
@Restaurant Musine
[tickets here]
Age restriction: 18+
Saturday 27.7.
Shows:
12.00-13.00 Three Men From The North
– The Nordic Council
13.15-13.30 Joutenlampi (WIP)
Outdoor Show – in front of Circus Tent
[not ticketed, free admission]
Suitable for all ages
14.00-14.45 Not To Be Mentioned
– Big Wolf Company
@AE Circus Tent
[tickets here]
Recommended age 10+
17.00-20.00+ Kiva Cabaret Night: Circus acts, artist talks, short films
Featuring Simon Granit, Amanda Virkkunen and many more!
@Culture House Kiva
[tickets here]
Age restriction: 10+
Sunday 28.7.
Workshops:
14.00-15.30 Ryhmäakrobatia-työpaja
– Arctic Ensemble
@AE Circus Tent
[tickets here]
Age restriction: 16+
This workshop is intended for those with prior experience in acrobatics.
Shows:
16.00-17.00 Häppy Hour
– The Nordic Council Finnish Premiere!
@AE Circus Tent
[tickets here]
Age restriction: 8v+
Arctic Ensemble:
Ensembled (WIP)
Saturday 29th at 11.30 @ Helenankatu 3, Salo
Circus has arrived! Who are building it? Who is performing? Who is watching who? And why? Glitter and Glamour is what you’d expect, but the reality is rubber boots and earmuffs.
Ensembled is the first performance created for the new circus tent of Arctic Ensemble. After perfoming hundreds of shows, this acclaimed circus troupe invites the audience to experience the full spectrum of circus life.
Step inside the circus and you will immideately realise that it’s universe doesn’t follow any rules known outside.
Support Arctic Ensemble:
mesenaatti.me
Crowdfunding
Arctic Ensemble are improving the accessibility and diversity of performing arts with their new circus tent. If you’d like to support their project and get cool merch and content in return:
Follow the link:
https://mesenaatti.me/3364/kiertava-nykysirkusteltta-suomeen/
Arctic Ensemble is a Finnish circus collective founded by ambitious acrobats in 2018. Since then they have been touring around the world performing together and separately for over a thousand times. This internationally awarded group is known for their compelling and highly acrobatic performances. The values Arctic Ensemble wants to bring everywhere they go are; teamwork, self-sufficiency, making art approachable and most importantly the quality of our work, on AND off the stage.
Big Wolf Company:
Not To Be Mentioned
Big Wolf Company website →
Ticket sales page →
Circus Tent at address:
Helenankatu 3, Salo.
Saturday 27.7. at 14.00
NOT TO BE MENTIONED is a performance exploring the topic of single parenthood through self-analysis, accessing our own memories (cognitive and material) of childhood and finding the ways to embody, transpose and communicate findings through our artistic practices and points of interaction. The show digs deeper into understanding the possible pair dynamics leading to a single parenthood, social constructs and stigmas, as well as how being a single son or a daughter of a single mother results in our habits, choices, actions and perception of the life, when we are already around the age of creating our own families.
What are we searching for in a partnership?
Why do we continue hanging on to a sinking ship or why do we quit so easily?
How does one show that the love that they once had for the other has disappeared? How does one show love?
length: ca 45 min
age: 10 +
Performers: ALEKSEY SMOLOV (LV), Lizeth Wolk (EST)
Nordic Council:
Three Men From The North
Free admission
Friday 26.7. 17.00-18.00
Saturday 27.7. 12.00-13.00
What does hard work, black coffee, woollen sweaters and Ikea all have in common?
They are all part of our everyday life in the North, and they are all part of this circus show.
Three circus artists from Finland, Sweden and Iceland share the stage to explore, reflect and celebrate their Northerness. Using live music, juggling, comedy and aerial acrobatics the artists bring the audience a show that is as awkward as it is unforgettable.
The show is blunt and to the point in a way that only Finnish humour can be, Swedishly self-aware and with a hint of Icelandic peculiarity.
The Nordic Council was founded in 2017 by Merri Heikkilä (Finland), Bjarni Árnason (Iceland) and Jakob Jacobsson (Sweden), whilst the three performers were still studying at Codarts Circus Arts in Rotterdam. In the fall of 2017 the trio applied for the circus creation support program Circunstruction, and under the supervision of Jördis Cordua and with the direction of Gerindo Kartadinata they created a draft version of their first show, `Three men from the North ́.
From early stages on, the material took form by working with visual ideas of framing and spacing the circus disciplines within both the scenography and music. The utilisation of live music played a key role in the creation process, and also extended into the use of pre-recorded tracks by having them played from a cassette player on stage. The live music being performed during the juggling acts goes beyond being a backing track, as the juggling often is dependent on actions that happen on the musician’s end of the routine.
After the brief initial creation phase, the company spent time in residencies in Finland, Latvia, Denmark and the Netherlands to finish the show which premiered in november 2019.
‘Three men from the North’ is suitable for all ages, and was created with support by Dynamo Workspace (DK), Sirkus Faktori (FI), Rigas Cirks (LV), and Circunstruction (NL).
The show is written and performed by Merri Heikkilä, Jakob Jacobsson and Bjarni Árnason.
In 2021 it won the Nordic Fringe Network award and the Reykjavik Grapevine award.
Free admission