June 2025: Warjakka Bio #5

13.06.2025 18:00

SOUL SCAPES

A selection of art films and poetry by Andrea Hackl

inviting the viewer on a journey where the border between inner emotional & outer natural landscapes dissolves.

(and meet the artist)

ANDREA HACKL is based in Amsterdam. She works internationally as independent multidisciplinary artist, choreographer, performer and film maker. Having a background in the dance world her work is overall sensorial & visceral, with a keen eye for visual composition. Central themes of her work: transformational processes of empowerment and liberation.

She’s participated in artistic residencies and has presented her performative as well as visual work in festivals world wide. She loves to travel, meet and share with local communities and also teaches her own movement research.

In her filmic work she loves to explore the sensorial power of the image and multi-channel installations. Her latest work THE DISAPPEARANCE OF TIME has recently been awarded the PRIX DE ANGEL ARONSANZ by Angel Orensanz Foundation at AVIFF Festival Cannes / Marseille. Her short films – e.g. BELE BELTZA, Silent Fragments & Light Rising – are being presented at festivals world wide and have won multiple awards for BEST FILM, BEST VIDEO POETRY.

September 2024: Radharani Pernarcic

Radharani’s Sound Oven – infusing small clay feathers with the energy of Bach

7th – 13th September 2024

“In the wider frame of a participatory project – Pavilion of Embraces, dedicated to human relations and our shared human story – I carry out a participatory practice with movement and clay. Various groups of people – families, couples, friends, schoolmates, coworkers etc – are invited to participate. I lead them into a playful, 30-60 min long session where they collectively create their own clay sculpture: a relationship materialised in clay. The practice is above all designed and meant to celebrate or explore our relations through a shared and heart-warming experience of being-together… and if some participants may lack another hand to dance with – there is mine for them.

Since the sculpture grows as a spontaneous result of the movement dialogue between hands, no fine art or dancing skills are needed: open hearts have all that is necessary. The practice is suitable for everyone.

The project is also designed as a gift-exchange, so that each participant creates a tiny imprint, given further to an unknown person in another country, and equally receives one. 

In the long-term picture of the project every participant contributes one clay feather into an eagle wing installation and becomes a part of a garden of relationships.” 

Whilst traveling around Finland by campervan, Radharani connected with communities in various ways. Whilst in Varjakka, she worked with local schoolchildren, running workshops that resulted in small clay objects imbued with the impressions of group movement.
Her international travels have lead to a collection of small clay feathers created and shared with the people she has met. She created nests for some of these feathers in various locations around Varjakka and Hailuoto.

PAVILION OF EMBRACES // EMBRACES TO GO – Finland // 

“This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.”

The two-year project – PAVILION OF EMBRACES – is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

July 2024: Warjakka Bio #4

25.07.2024

Peppifest

6 hours of the television adaptation of Pippi Longstocking that was first shown on Swedish TV in 1969. It was directed by Olle Hellbom, with screenplay by Astrid Lindgren herself. Inger Nilsson starred as Pippi with co-stars Pär Sundberg and Maria Persson, who played Tommy and Annika.

July 2024: Warjakka Bio #3

18.7.2024

Finnish Blood Swedish Heart

Finnish Blood Swedish Heart is a 2013 documentary film by Mika Ronkainen about a Finnish father and son revisiting their former home in Sweden. The film won two Jussi Awards (Finnish Oscars) in 2014: Best Documentary and Best Music, and the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Documentary Film at the Göteborg Film Festival in February 2013.

The film was released theatrically in Sweden with the title Ingen riktig finne and in Finland titled Laulu koti-ikävästä.

July 2024: Carina Ahlskog & Nea Landin

15.7.2024 – 26.7.2024

Two artists come to Varjakka for a 2-week collaborative research residency. Carina Ahlskog is a dancer/film-maker/visual artist from Nykarlby and Nea Landin is a dancer/media artist from Stockholm.

KALAMAJA will function as their base, and there is a special meet-the-artist fika party on Tuesday 2rd July at midday.

This residency is supported by Svenska Kulturfonden.

mo(ve)ment by Nea Landin (2021) – 3D printed traces of motion captured dance

July 2024: Warjakka Bio #2

11.7.2024

Auringon Polttama / Sun Touched

A short dance film by Silja Tuovinen that explores the effects of sunlight. The 8-minute duration reflects the time it takes for light to travel from the Sun to Earth.

Screenings are at 12:00, 14:00, 16:00 and 18:00

Free entry. Capacity is very limited. Special cinema snacks are available from Cafe Hulina.

Heinäkuu 2024: CROWD – ajatuksia prosessista

8-12.7.2024

Tämä installaatio on kolmen nuoren taiteilijan: Pontus Linderin, Silja Tuovisen ja Anni Puuperän, heidän kanssa työskennelleen oululaisen mentorin Julian Owusun sekä TaikaBox ry:n taiteellisten johtajien Tanja Råmanin ja John Collingswoodin suunnittelema kooste taiteellisen työskentelyn prosesseista CROWD -hankkeessa vuosina 2021-2023

TaikaBox ry osallistui kansainväliseen CROWD – International Dance Exchange -ohjelmaan yhdessä 9 muun kansainvälisen residenssitoimijan kanssa vuosina 2021-2023. Hanke keskittyi yhteisötanssiin perustuvien työskentelymetodien ja prosessien kehittämiseen. Sen tavoitteena oli hankkeeseen osallistuneiden taiteilijoiden ammattitaidon syventäminen ja verkostojen laajentaminen. Kukin residenssitoimija valitsi yhden paikallisen taiteilijan, joka työskenteli yhdessä jonkin toisen hankkeeseen valitun kansainvälisen taiteilijan kanssa. Hankkeen aikana TaikaBox ry toteutti kolme kahden viikon mittaista taiteilijaresidenssiä Varjakassa. Kukin TaikaBox ry:n valitsema taiteilija vieraili myös yhdessä tai kahdessa muussa kansainvälisen yhteistyökumppanin tarjoamassa taiteilijaresidenssissä.

Taiteilijat saivat inspiraatiota työskentelyyn Varjakassa alueen historiasta ja perimätietoon perustuvista tarinoista, luonnosta ja paikallisen yhteisön kanssa toimimisesta.

2021 – Pontus Linder työskenteli Varjakassa, Nottinghamissa Isossa-Britanniassa ja Colognessa Saksassa yhdessä Emma Lewis-Jones ja Hannah Sampé.
2022 – Silja Tuovinen työskenteli Varjakassa ja Limerickissä Irlannissa yhdessä Rita Marcalo.
2023 – Anni Puuperä työskenteli Varjakassa, Edinbughissa ja Glasgowssa Skotlannissa ja Natalia Barua.

July 2024: Warjakka Bio #1

Thursday 4 July 2024

Jukka Takalo: Merikosken Paluu
&
Varjakansaaren Poluilla Tapio Moilasen Matkassa

Back in the days of the sawmill, the Fish House became a temporary cinema, showing movies for the local community. Here at KALAMAJA, we have revived this tradition and are showing a programme of movies every Thursday in July.

On 4th July, Warjakka Bio opens with a special double bill. Jukka Takalo’s new single Merikosken Paluu, will be released in mid July, but we have a preview of the video, which tells about the history of the riverbanks of Oulu.
Alongside that, we are showing sections from a documentary made a few years ago on Varjakka Island. TaikaBox and Kulttuurivoimala followed Tapio Moilanen on a walk around the island, delving into stories from its history and examining the traces left behind by previous inhabitants.

Screenings are at 12:00, 14:00, 16:00 and 18:00

Free entry. Capacity is very limited. Special cinema snacks are available from Cafe Hulina.