\nby the Nordic Women in Circus Network and CircusInfo Finland<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nby choreographer Iiro N\u00e4kki, the Uniarts Helsinki\u2019s Theatre Academy and Cirko – Center for New Circus<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\nby\u00a0 Pablo Alvarez and Globe Art Point\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The series of events is open for all. Registration is required. Places are limeted. *****<\/p>\n The programme is a mix of lectures, workshops and talks. You\u2019ll have access to lectures on gender and equity in the Performing arts sector, a lecture about gender bias by Chloe de Buyl-Pisco, a workshop on presence by performer and PhD candidate Stacey Sacks, discussions on pedagogy in our circus schools, discussion on our conditions in the fields and other networking activities!<\/span><\/p>\n All activities are open to people of all genders.<\/span><\/p>\n Schedule (subject to changes)<\/p>\n Friday November 1, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n PLEASE NOTE: the change of venue:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 10.00\u201316.15\u00a0 Venue: Nordic Culture Point, Kaisaniemenkatu 9, 00171 Helsinki (Kaisaniemi) <\/strong><\/p>\n 10.00 Morning coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n 10.15-10.30 Welcome to the Women in Circus Consortium\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Welcome by Lotta Vaulo (managing director, CircusInfo Finland) and Johanna M\u00e4kel\u00e4 (head of development, Finland at CircusInfo Finland) 10.30-11.00 Lecture: UN-conscious BIAS – How to un-know the unconscious No one can be objectively trusted to conduct decisions with zero bias, especially in the context of patriarchal biases in media and the world. This lecture will aim to: Chlo\u00e9 de Buyl-Pisco<\/strong> is a director, choreographer, dancer, Aerialist, theoretician and masters by research student at Stockholm University of the Arts in Sweden, where she also teaches.\u00a0 Her fields of interest include: neurochemistry, feminism, physics, social sciences and philosophy. As an artistic researcher she is currently conducting the “Oxytocin Project<\/a>“. Oxytocin is our empathy, compassion, love, connection, trust and bonding neurotransmitter. She is developing artwork based on the theories and data quoted in her paper: “The Oxytociniergic solutions for human systems and creative applicability”. Three years ago she also began tacit practice lead research with non-verbal ComMunication with other oxytocin making mammals, in her case underwater dancing with wild humpback whales.\u00a0<\/p>\n 11.00-12.00 Workshop 1: On the questions of equity, fair treatment, gender and bias: How are we doing in our circus schools? We will attend to discuss pedagogical methods, approaches, activities, courses, behaviours, moments and measures that would be good to avoid or implement in our circus schools program and also on the professional field.\u00a0<\/p>\n 12.00-13.00\u00a0 Lunch break (on own cost)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n 13.00\u201315.00\u00a0 Recent surveys and discussions on equity in the cultural sector and performing arts in Finland\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Marjo M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4\/ Cupore: Asiallista! Tasa-arvo ja ty\u00f6olot kulttuurin toimialalla (2018\u201319) by Cupore, center for cultural policy research. Publication Tytt\u00f6h\u00e4n soittaa kuin mies<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Mikko Karvinen\/ Theatre Info Finland (TINFO): Power, Responsibility and Equal Treatment \u2013 a survey on the achievement of equality and equal treatment in the field of performing arts (2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n Lotta Vaulo\/ CircusInfo Finland: Sexual harassment in the circus sector: Results of the Finnish survey (2017\u201318)\u00a0<\/p>\n Kaisa Paavolainen \/ Theatre Centre: A training for performing arts professionals on equity, equality and prevention of harassment\u00a0by the Finnish Performing Arts Federations in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n 15.00-15.15\u00a0 Coffee<\/p>\n 15.15\u201316.00 Workshop 2: Women in Circus Schools \u2013 Women in professional fields Let\u2019s round up: Summary of the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n 16.00-16.15\u00a0 Conclusions and goodbye<\/p>\n 18.00\u201320.00 Workshop: Impulsive Studio: spontaneous making, listening, seeing, thinking\u00a0by\u00a0Stacey Sacks<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue: Performance center ESKUS, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, 00540 Helsinki (Suvilahti, Puhdistamo building 6, 2nd floor)<\/p>\n \u201cIn my research I\u2019ve been experimenting with ways of giving attention in expanded forms of performance, wondering if attentiveness to the minutiae of the everyday can affect the way listening happens. With this specific aim of encouraging new ways of listening, \u2018impulsive studio\u2019 mixes theatre, clown and mask games with spontaneous creation in sculpture, drawing, writing and performance. This workshop could be perceived as a creative kick-starter, an attempt (which may just fail) to connect each participant with their own impulses at this current moment. It attempts to make community for a while, at least a short while.\u201d<\/p>\n Stacey Sacks<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in Performing Arts at Stockholm\u2019s University of the Arts. Her Doctoral Project Improvising Trickster<\/a> takes form as a suite of hyper-disciplinary experiments with mask, clown, stop-motion animation, film, photography, sculpture, text, drawing and performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n The workshop is organised by Nordic Women in Circus network in collaboration with the Uniarts Helsinki\u2019s Theatre Academy and Cirko \u2013 Center for New Circus.<\/p>\n About the Nordic Women in Circus Network (NWCN)<\/strong><\/p>\n Established in 2017, the NWCN wants to create a connection between the women in circus arts. The network aims to raise awareness on the challenges related to the status of women in circus extending to the role of women in society at large.<\/p>\n The network organizes activities in the Nordic countries, which give opportunities to female circus artists and peers to share, discuss, gain knowledge, develop and strengthen critical reflections on the agency of women in circus and related topics. The network has members in 23 countries. CircusInfo Finland co-operates in the activities organised in Finland.<\/p>\n The Nordic Women in Circus Network aims to: With the support of Nordic Culture fund and Nordic Culture Point.<\/p>\n In collaboration with Cirk\u00f6r LAB (SE), DYNAMO Workspace for circus & performing arts (DK) and CircusInfo Finland (FI). Produced by CirkusPerspektiv AB. The seminar brings two internationally well-known circus researchers to Helsinki. The event is comprised of a lecture-performance by Camilla Damkjaer (PhD, Assistant professor in Dance, University of Southern Denmark) and a performance essay by Stacey Sacks (PhD candidate, School of Dance and Circus, University of the Arts Stockholm), followed by a panel discussion. The language of the event will be English.<\/p>\n The seminar is organized by choreographer Iiro N\u00e4kki, Uniarts Helsinki\u2019s Theatre Academy, and Cirko – Center for New Circus, in collaboration with CircusInfo Finland, Nordic Women in Circus Network and Arts Management Helsinki.<\/p>\n Schedule<\/p>\n Saturday, November 2nd 2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00 – 13:30<\/strong> Venue: Performance center ESKUS, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, 00540 Helsinki (Suvilahti, Puhdistamo building 6, 2nd floor)<\/strong><\/p>\n 10.00 \u2013 10.15<\/strong>\u00a0 Opening words, Iiro N\u00e4kki<\/p>\n 10.15 \u2013 11.00<\/strong> Lecture-performance 11.15 \u2013 12.00<\/strong> Performance essay 12.15 \u2013 13.30<\/strong> Panel discussion with Stacey Sacks, Camilla Damkjaer, Chlo\u00e9 de Buyl-Pisco<\/p>\n 13.30<\/strong> Closing words, Iiro N\u00e4kki\u00a0 Note also: Stacey Sacks gives a workshop \u201cImpulsive Studio: spontaneous making, listening, seeing, thinking\u201d on Friday, November 1 at 18.00\u201320.00. For more information see above under Women in Circus Consortium. Saturday, November 2nd 2019\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Venue: Performance center ESKUS, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, 00540 Helsinki (Suvilahti, Puhdistamo building 6, 2nd floor)<\/strong><\/p>\n 13.35\u201314.00 Coffee \/tea and snacks\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n 14.00\u201315.00 Cultural diversity in Circus:\u00a0Mobilities, encounters and solidarities<\/strong><\/p>\n The last part of Equity – Highness – Cultural diversity: 3 seminars on the Circus Arts event program, is a panel discussion on Cultural Diversity, where an artist and a researcher are invited to discuss mobilities, encounters and solidarities in the circus arts inside and outside of the borders of European territory. Analyzing and establishing a dialogue between the past and the present that allows us to reflect on a more hopeful future.<\/p>\n Speakers:\u00a0<\/p>\n Malte Gasche\u00a0<\/strong>is a Ph.D. at Humboldt University of Berlin and Researcher and Project Manager at the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki and his last research project: Forgotten Cosmopolitans: Diverging Fates of Europe’s Circus People in the Wake of WWII.\u00a0 Amandine Doat<\/strong>, dancer and circus artist.\u00a0Amandine Doat is a French artist whose passion for adventure brought her all the way to Finland. She graduated as a contemporary dancer at the CNSMD Conservatory of Lyon in 2011. She got also a bachelor’s degree in dramaturgy from the University of Lyon. With an interest in multidisciplinary performances, including circus, she began studying at Lahti Circus School in Finland. At school, she majored in aerial acrobatics and juggling. She graduated in 2015. She is one of the founders of Cirque des Puces. In addition, she works as a freelancer with other dancers, circus artists and theater directors, including Satu Tuomisto, Hanna Brotherus, Nathan Thomson, Henna Kaikula, Greete Gross, Jean-Marie Doat, Willem Wilhelmus. cirquedespuces.wordpress.com\u00a0<\/a> A series of\u00a0talks, meetings and a physical workshop addressing the questions of equity, otherness and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circus-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nRegistration is now open and is closed latest on Oct 30.\u00a0
\nPlease registrate here >>><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n5th edition of Women in Circus Consortium: Towards Equity in Circus<\/h2>\n
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The Women in Circus Consortium is an International reunion inviting circus artists and other parties to a series of lectures, discussions, workshops and networking activities in relation to the agency of Women in Circus.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nWelcome by Chlo\u00e9 De Buyl-Pisco (representative Nordic Women in Circus Network, host of the Consortium)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Lecturer: Chlo\u00e9 de Buyl-Pisco<\/p>\n
\n– Factually get us on the same page and not assume we all know and have read the same studies on unconscious bias.
\n– To equip us with key stats and facts, to enable us developing discourses beyond the consortium with a wide range of people.
\n– Provide with an up to date of the latest discoveries on the subject and ways to combat the phenomenon.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Moderator: Chlo\u00e9 de Buyl-Pisco
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\n<\/strong>Moderator: Chlo\u00e9 De Buyl-Pisco
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\n-Unite the creative forces of women in circus
\n-Increase visibility of circus works directed and or performed by women
\n-Provoke dialogues on the topic of gender and norm-creativity in circus arts
\n-Contributes to the development of feminist strategies in the field of circus
\n-Share and transfer knowledge from existing feminist practice and research.
\n-Strengthen and develop collaborations in relation to the agency of women in circus\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n*****<\/p>\nWords & Acts: Otherness in Circus<\/h2>\n
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As part of the Equity \u2013 Otherness \u2013 Cultural diversity: 3 seminars on Circus Arts event program, the Words & Acts: Otherness in Circus -seminar invites artists and researchers in the performing arts to a discussion on circus arts. Revolving around thematics of i.e. privilege and practice in relation to the history of oppression, the seminar offers two propositions on how to work between practice and research in the circus field of today.<\/p>\n
\nCamilla Damkjaer \/ Woolly Yoga: Circus on the Mat<\/p>\n
\nStacey Sacks \/ : SATYRIC BODIES :<\/p>\n
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\n*****<\/p>\nCultural diversity in Circus:\u00a0Mobilities, encounters and solidarities<\/h2>\n
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\nThe aim of this project is to collaborate with members of the circus community to achieve new knowledge about the impact of WWII \u2013 the political climate leading to the war, the war itself and its aftermath \u2013 on the fates of Europe\u2019s circus people. These people who not only pursued an itinerant way of life but were also often members of a minority group, constantly experienced exclusion and racism and were subjected to various forms of oppression by the majority population, including state authorities. Nonetheless, circus people often showcased social and ethnic diversity. More information:\u00a0www.forgottencosmopolitans.eu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nModerator: Pablo Alvarez<\/strong> is a clown, director of Marino Clown Company and producer of International Clown Festival in Finland. His fields of interest include: clown-based research, rituals of transgression, theory of laughter, narratives of displacement and the new Museology. As an artistic researcher he is currently creating a new project called Magda, a new crip queer icon of our Neo Barroque Era. A monster turned from a freak into an almost supernaturally powerful assertion of individuality, who claims the memory of the others. A clown subverted the normative imaginary and criticism of totalizing discourses. More information: www.facebook.com\/marinoclown<\/a> ja payasomarcelino.com<\/a>
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\nThe panel discussion is organized by the clown Pablo Alvarez and Globe Art Point in collaboration with Uniarts Helsinki\u2019s Theatre Academy.
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\nGlobe Art Point is an independent information centre and meeting point aimed to promote equality and accessibility inside the Finnish art and culture sector. G.A.P is supported by Finnish Cultural Fondation, Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and City of Helsinki.\u00a0
\nwww.globeartpoint.fi<\/a>
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\n15.00 Closing words, Pablo Alvarez.<\/strong>
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