This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.

Sometimes you get a second chance. Or, some of you do. If you are a dancer and/or choreographer with decidedly professional ambitions, either based in Rumania or in Finland you get a second chance to apply for danceWEB 2024! Because two of our Life Long Burning partner – 4Culture and Moving in November – are each covering the fee for and nominating one participant for this year’s scholarship programme.

Finnish artist, choreographer and performer Lin Da was on an Artistic Exchange Residency at Uferstudios Berlin this summer. On 20 December they share their experience, research and insights regarding the residency, in the frame of an Open House shaped as a Soup Talk. Like the other Soup Talks of Moving in November Festival it will start midday, Laura Pietiläinen will be the host.

Cherish Menzo will show DARKMATTER at the Moving in November festival in Helsinki. The Distorted Rap Choir was founded for and is expanded with every showing of this performance. Therefore Cherish Menzo is giving a choir workshop in Helsinki, inviting people from the African diaspora to take part in the workshop and possibly also in the performance.

At Moving in November festival visitors and artists can mingle daily over a bowl of hot soup. The Soup Talks are a series of informal conversations with the artists presenting their work during the festival. Everybody is invited to join in, to listen, to pose questions and to take part in the discussions. Each of the talks is hosted by an artist based in the Helsinki area.

Our Bulgarian network partner Brain Store Project nominated Angelina Georgieva to visit Moving in November in Helsinki.

Dominique Tegho is selected by Moving in November Festival for an Artistic Exchange Research Residency. She works in the studio of choreographer Liisa Pentti + Co and experiences the whole festival in Helsinki.

Katharina George started working at Moving in November Festival in Helsinki in the frame of On The Outset.

The Finnish non-binary artist, choregrapher and performer is also holding a workshop lab within the frame of their 2-week Artistic Exchange Residency at Uferstudios.

The Antistatic Festival welcomes Mikko Hyvönen, within the frame of the Life Long Burning Capacity Grid. He has been selected to participate in the educational platform Without Distance. His participation takes place as an exchange between Brain Store Project and the contemporary dance festival Moving in November, Helsinki.