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FRESH is back! Initiated in 2018, New Performance Turku Festival brings back FRESH programme – the artistic development and performing opportunity for emerging performance and live artists based and working in Finland. FRESH-project is targeting performance art professionals who have … Continued

mirko nikolicin at New Performance Turku Festival 2018. Photo: Jussi Virkkumaa New Performance Turku Festival 2019 presents artists and experts, various collaborators and fresh insights into performance art and the society. The festival will be organized October 18-20th in local performance … Continued

New Performance Turku Festival toteutettiin tänä vuonna 21.-23. syyskuuta 2018. Kansainvälisellä performanssitaiteen festivaalilla nähtiin yhteensä 18 taiteilijaa, taiteilijaryhmää, aktivistia ja asiantuntijaa ympäri maailmaa. Festivaalin linjauksen mukaan kaikki esitykset ja festivaaliosiot olivat ilmaisia ja kaikille avoimia. Festivaali keräsikin kiitosta yleisöltään sekä … Continued

Westernistion is becoming Africa’s reality. Increasingly, our elites tell us that the west’s way is “modern” and “civilised”, echoing the early colonialists who dismissed our civilisations as “barbaric”, “archaic”, and “uncivilised” to install theirs. They tell us that our institutions … Continued

(VERY) LATE FESTIVAL BRUNCH: 23.9. kl. 15-18 Vanha Viinatehdas Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64 The New Performance Turku Festival finishes on Sunday 23rd September with very late festival brunch between 15-18 by Gathering. Gluten free treats, mostly vegetarian, partly vegan. Coffee, … Continued

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Are you interested in performance art and other unusual experiences? New Performance Turku Festival is looking for volunteers! This year we need volunteers especially as artist’s assistants and also for info desks and as guides. For volunteers we offer something … Continued

The upcoming edition of the New Performance Turku Festival will present artists and experts, various collaborators and fresh insights into performance art and the society. Altoghether 18 artists, groups and activists have been invited to take part in the event … Continued

New Performance Turku Festival in collaboration with Arts Promotion Centre Finland presents FRESH programme – the artistic development and performing opportunity for emerging performance and live artists based and working in Finland. FRESH-project is targeting performance art professionals who have … Continued

Tomasz Szrama (2017) Kuva: Jussi Virkkumaa   The upcoming edition of the New Performance Turku Festival will be organized 21st-23rd September 2018. The international festival for performance art will present a collection of artists and experts, various collaborators and fresh … Continued

New Performance Turku Festival, organized last weekend for the sixth time, gathered almost 6000 people to experience performance art and live art around the city of Turku – in galleries, performance venues and the cityscape. New Performance Turku Festival brought … Continued

Workshop Oct 4th – 5th 2017 11 am – 4 pm Public protest Oct 7th 2017 at New Performance Turku Festival Club @ TEHDAS Teatteri / Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64, Turku Free admission Performance workshop with award winning British artist … Continued

New Performance Turku Festival is an international festival for performance art and live art. A range of international artists will take over the city space and contemporary art venues in Turku. The programme also includes discussions, artist talks and seminars. … Continued

Artists for New Performance Turku Festival 2017 are published! Including: Rachel Echenberg (CAN) Scottee (UK) Tomasz Szrama (FIN/PL) Kurt Johannessen (NO) Irma Optimist (FIN) John Court (FIN) Denis Romanovski (SWE) Hiroko Tsuchimoto (SWE/JP) Sandrina Lindgren & Antti Tolvi (SWE/FIN) AKU (FIN/GER) Fake is fabulous inc. (FIN/CH) Ignacio Pérez Pérez (FIN/VE) Maija Hirvanen (FIN) … Continued

New Performance Nights: POWER Saturday 6.5.2017 Programme starts at 8pm TEHDAS Teatteri, Itäinen Rantakatu 64 Tickets 5 € (from the door only, age limit 18) PANDA ERIKSSON: Decolonizing Knowledge (lecture, in English) HARRIE LIVEART: The Kiss FAKE IS FABULOUS INC.: Nausea + … Continued

New Performance Nights: WORK & MONEY Saturday 11th March 2017, doors 7pm, programme 8pm TEHDAS Teatteri, Manilla, Itäinen Rantakatu 64, Turku Tickets from the door, 7€ (age limit 18) Tero Nauha: Esitys fiktioimisesta Louna-Tuuli Luukka (Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskus): Erokirjeet (Teoksesta Työ 4.0: … Continued

Venla Luoma & Armas Suomi: Avajaiset (New Performance Turku Festival 2015). Photo: Jussi Virkkumaa Welcome to the 5th New Performance Turku Festival’s opening night on Wednesday 5.10.2016! The opening night follows the festival’s site-spesific theme and takes over the riverside … Continued

  New Approaches to Site-Specific Works and the City -seminar addresses the questions of performance art, public space and the city. The speakers will offer a range of insights into artistic practices in the public space, interventions in the city, the landscape and … Continued

New Performance Turku Festival organizes a festival yoga with Juha Valkeapää’s A Guy and a wooden guy -work, in collaboration with Pure Move yoga studio. The yoga will take place at Wäinö Aaltonen museum lobby, on Saturday 8th October, starting … Continued