Soup Talks is a series of informal conversations with the artists presenting their work during the festival. The talks form a discursive line that goes through the festival and brings people together. We want to welcome the audience and the artists around a big table with a bowl of warm soup. Everybody is invited to join in, to listen, to pose questions and to take part in the discussions. Each of the talks will be hosted by an artist based in the Helsinki area.

The Soup Talks are organized together in collaboration with Caisa. Read more about the Soup Talk Panel here.

7 November 2024
Performance Pancor Poetics
Guest: Pontus Pettersson
Host: Maija Hirvanen

8 November 2024
Goethe-Institut Finnland
Performance A Plot / A Scandal
Guest: Ligia Lewis and the working group
Host: Gesa Piper

9 November 2024
Performance LIVRE D’IMAGES SANS IMAGES
Guest: Mette Edvardsen & Iben Edvarsen
Host: Laura Cemin

10 November 2024
Performance The Second Body
Guest: Ola Maciejewska and the working group
Host: Tuuli Vahtola

11 November 2024 
Performance Soliloquio
Guest: Tiziano Cruz
Host: Eurídice Hernandes

12 November 2024
Performance Skvallret (The Gossip)
Guest: Stina Nyberg
Host: Chen Nadler & Tim Winter

13 November 2024
Performance Whitewashing
Guest: Rébecca Chaillon
Host: Kadence Neill & Pierre Piton

14 November 2024
Performance The Making of Pinocchio
Guest: The team behind The Making of Pinocchio
Host: Even Minn

15 November 2024
Soup Talk Panel
Guest: Rahalël Beau, Sara Grotenfelt, Milla Koistinen, Anne Naukkarinen, Lydia Touliatou
Host: Simo Kellokumpu

16 November 2024
Performance blackmilk
Guest: Tiran Willemse
Host: Geoffrey Erista

17 November 2024
Performance IL FAUX
Guest: Calixto Neto
Host: Patricia Scalco

Soup Talks are an invitation to come together and discuss. We invite you for a bowl of soup and to engage in informal discussions with the artists presenting their works in this year’s festival. You are also more than welcome to lean back and just listen in. The talks are taking place each day during the festival between 12:00–1:30 pm at Caisa and are hosted by an artist from the Helsinki area.

With one exception: we are extremely happy about this year’s collaboration with Goethe-Institute Finland. Inviting us for the Soup Talk with artists Lucy Wilke, Paweł Duduś & Kim Ramona Ranalter on 8 November to their facilities.

3 November 2023 
Performance Bacchae – prelude to a purge
Guest: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Host: Elina Pirinen

4 November 2023 
Performance Poet in my – my life as fabou
Guests: Ella Skoikka & working group
Host: Masi Tiitta

5 November 2023 
Performance Data Ocean Theatre/Tragedy and the Goddexxes  
Guest: Vincent Roumagnac
Host: Sara Grotenfelt

6 November 2023 
Performance MIKE 
Guest: Dana Michel
Host: Marika Peura

7 November 2023 
Performance Save the last dance for me 
Guest: Giovanfrancesco Giannini
Host: Nina Vurdelja

8 November 2023 
HUOM! @ Goethe-Institut
Performance SCORES THAT SHAPED OUR FRIENDSHIP 
Guests: Lucy Wilke, Paweł Duduś & Kim Ramona Ranalter
Host: Riina Hannuksela & Aku Merliläinen

9 November 2023 
Performance HORDE 
Guests: Solveig Styve Holte, Amie Mbye & Sofia Charifi
Host: Samuli Emery

10 November 2023 
Performance Submission Submission
Guest: Bryana Fritz
Host: Simo Kellokumpu

11 November 2023 
Performance Venus
Guest: Janina Rajakangas
Host: Joel Teixeira Neves

12 November 2023 
Performance DARKMATTER
Guests: Cheris Menzo & Camilo Mejía Cortés
Host: Edit Williams