Each year November brings excitement, new experiences and intensities, accompanying the Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival taking place in Helsinki, FI. This year’s edition is quite special: the festival is organised for the 20th time. As the organisers write about the event:

Baltic Circle is an international festival for contemporary theatre and performance organised annually in November in Helsinki. Next edition is the 20th and it takes place in Helsinki from 17 to 25 November 2023.

The festival brings intensities into the city, takes stands on current questions, and ignites dialogue. Baltic Circle believes in the aesthetic and affective powers of the arts, and in the potential of social and political agency of performance. The works seen at the festival search for new forms of performing arts and revised modes of production.

Baltic Circle participates actively in both Finnish and international performing arts networks, takes part in multi-level development and education initiatives, makes publications, organizes residencies and artistic exchanges, helps build up and shape the independent performing arts scene, and influences local cultural policy.

Baltic Circle is based on a firm belief in the opportunities of arts to bring people together and to participate in societal change. Art can grant a space to imagine what does not yet exist, to re-organize our way of understanding reality, and to find forms to share it.

To learn more, click HERE. We also strongly encourage you to check out this year’s PROGRAMME and the SCHEDULE of the festival. If you are in Helsinki at the time, taking part in some of the festival activities is a must!

Now, we at The Eco- and Bioart Lab are also involved this year’s edition of the Baltic Circle – on 24th November EBL’s director dr Marietta Radomska will be giving a talk “Queer/ing Imaginaries and Arts of Eco-Grief”, included in the series of Late Night Lectures.