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Ruusu Open Mic #43 and other dates in spring…

24. 01. 202321. 02. 2023

We warmly invite you to join us for Ruusu Open Mic 29.1.2023 at 17-20! Other dates for Ruusu Open Mic in spring 2023: 26.2,
Warm-up performers this time are Mäen Anna and Tuukka Liukkonen.
After these performers, is the time for Open Mic as usual. You can sign up for Open Mic after warm-up performances. You are welcome to perform your text in any of your chosen language but we kindly ask you to keep it under 4 minutes, that all the willing performers have the opportunity to perform. It’s possible to connect your phone or guitar to the sound system if needed. At the end of the evening, glorious
flowers from flower shop Lutukka will be drawn among the open micers.
The event is produced and hosted by Katja Korhonen and Tiina Jokelainen. Tea Tauriainen has designed the poster.
We thank our long lasting partner Restaurant Sörkan Ruusu!

Ruusu Open Mic is free from any discrimination. We don’t accept any racist or hateful content or behaviour. Please also note that we advise performers to state content warnings regarding their poems. Our event adheres to Safer Space Guidelines as found here.
Please only attend if you have no symptoms of Covid. Unfortunately, Sörkan Ruusu is non-accessible. At the main entrance ~ 20cm step and door ~ 60cm wide, side door ~ 20cm step and door ~ 55cm wide, no ramps. There is an induction loop available at the venue.

Warmly welcome, everybody!

Poetry Jam 25.11.2022

11. 11. 2022

Welcome to this year’s last Poetry Jam 25.11. staring at 19 ! We are looking ahead an all-round evening of poetry: we will witness singer-songwriting, mix of word and video art, multilingual poetry and poems of destruction of nature. Location is Kvääristö, Kolmas Linja 17, Helsinki.

The line-up:
– Diliana Stoyanova
– Mikko Räty
– Institute of Queer Mutations
– Karkki

There will be a short open mic to which the performers will be chosen with weird motives from the willing. So, send sample of your poetry in video, sound or text format by 18th of November to juhokuusi@hotmail.com, name your e-mail “Poetry Jam Open Mic ”.

After the event the DJ will play music until 2 o’clock, so you can also prepare yourself to move your dancing feet.

The event is produced and hosted by Jarkko Jokinen and Juho Kuusi, and is made possible with the help of Nuoren Voiman Liitto, City of Helsinki and Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation.

We follow our safer space guidelines at our events, so please do respect others and behave.

The event is photographed by HPC, do tell the organizers if you wish not to be seen.

Free entry – warmly welcome!

(Poster: Jirko Viljanen)

Ruusu Open Mic #42

11. 11. 202211. 11. 2022

We warmly invite you to join us for Ruusu Open Mic 20.11. 17-20!

Warm-up performers this time are Pauli Pietilä and Inari Mykkänen.

After these performers, is the time for Open Mic as usual. You can sign up for Open Mic after warm-up performances. You are welcome to perform your text in any of your chosen language but we kindly ask you to keep it under 4 minutes, that all the willing performers have the opportunity to perform. It’s possible to connect your phone or guitar to the sound system if needed. At the end of the evening, glorious Ruusu
Open Mic-tote bags designed by Milla Paloniemi will be drawn among the open micers.

The event is produced by Helsinki Poetry Connection, Jarkko Jokinen and Katja Korhonen and hosted by Jamie Simone. Tea Tauriainen has designed the poster.We thank our long lasting partner Restaurant Sörkan Ruusu!

Ruusu Open Mic is free from any discrimination. We don’t accept any racist or hateful content or behaviour. Please also note that we advise performers to state content warnings regarding their poems. Our event adheres to Safer Space Guidelines.Please only attend if you have no symptoms of Covid. Unfortunately, Sörkan Ruusu is non-accessible. At the main entrance ~ 20cm step and door ~ 60cm wide, side door ~ 20cm step and door ~ 55cm wide, no ramps.

There is an induction loop available at the venue.

Welcome, everybody!

HPC Empty space writing workshop – Nadaism and the…

01. 11. 202202. 11. 2022

HPC Empty space writing workshop – Nadaism and the creative power of inactivity

When? Tuesday 15.11. at 6 – 8 pm

Where? Mielenlento, Otavantie 5 (Lauttasaari)

Welcome to getting familiarized with emptiness; your personal space of play and imagination, where lyrical revenue is derived from stopping by your inner space and stillness. Workshop is meant for the members of Helsinki Poetry Connection. It starts with short presentation about Colombian nadaism poetry. Nadaism is philosophical and artistic movement from the 1950s-60s characterized by counterculture, the everyday and existential nothingness (nada = nothing) that revolutionised Colombian art scene – especially that of poetry – to this date. After the presentation new texts from the void will be created with the help of writing tasks. Texts written in the workshop will be presented and commented on together in a supportive manner adhering to HPC’s safer space principles.

The workshop will be conducted multilingually by nadaism poetry translator and poet Ainokaisa ”Aika” Huusko and poet-producer Tania Nathan. There are 30 workshop places available and please, sing up by sending e-mail to ainokaisa.huusko@gmail.com or nathan.tania@gmail.com along with your preferred workshop language (fin/eng) by 14.11.2022. Free entrance for HPC members and there will also be snacks & drinks available. If you are not a member of HPC and would like to join, you can do so during your workshop registration (15 eur / year).

Poetry Pop-up: Evening of Ukrainan Poetry

22. 10. 202222. 10. 2022

Warmly welcome to poetry night on 28.10. at 18-20 in Encanto Art Cafe.

There will be three great performers on stage! Rarely heard Ukrainan poetry will be read by:

Anna Telnova
Anna Zaluzhna
Nadiia Fedorova

Poems will be performed mainly in English.

After that, there will be Open mic session, everyone is welcomed! Open mic performers have 5 min slots. Just talk to the host of the evening if you wish to perform.

Event is hosted by Helsinki Poetry Connection, Ukrainian Association in Finland and Henri Hirvenoja, who will perform a poem for Ukraine.

Location is atmospheric Cafe Encanto at Maneesikatu 3, Helsinki.

Please read our safer space guidelines and come only if you are healthy.

Poster: Sirja Moberg

Ruusu Open Mic #41

15. 10. 202215. 10. 2022

Welcome to Ruusu Open Mic, Sunday 23.10!

Performing this time is Ulv Janger and Nelli Ruotsalainen.

Ulv Janger is inspired by honesty, embarrassing moments, the Laserskater, Spiderman, and optimistically seeing poetry as an artform capable of dispersing the class structures.Veikka Kalavainen is an actor-musician-poet who identifies Ulv Janger as his Alter ego. Veikka is inspired by the first memories, play, traditions of sung poetry in Karelia as well as that done in the continent of Africa, and by the weird moments when you can’t stop laughing even though the moment doesn’t call for it.

Nelli Ruotsalainen’s newly published second book of poetry Jälkivuoto is about the poetic description of late pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. Nelli’s strongly physical poetry is dedicated to those that are pregnant. At Ruusu we will listen to Nelli’s written prose set to Amanda Martikainen’s soundscapes set to Jälkivuoto’s poetry.

As usual, after the performances, there´s the Open Mic! We welcome performances in any languages, as long as it takes apparently 4 minutes.

This event is produced by HPC, Tania Nathan and Kris Puukari. Poster is made by Tea Tauriainen.

And special thanks to our longtime sponsors, Rautakukka and venue Sörkän Ruusu.

Please only attend if you have no symptoms of Covid. Unfortunately, Sörkan Ruusu is non-accessible. At the main entrance ~ 20cm step and door ~ 60cm wide, side door ~ 20cm step and door ~ 55cm wide, no ramps. There is an induction loop available at the venue.

Ruusu Open Mic #40 25.9.2022

11. 09. 202215. 10. 2022

Helsinki Poetry Connection brings poetry to warm up chilling evenings, and the first Ruusu Open Mic of fall season 2022 will be organized live in restaurant Sörkan Ruusu (Pääskylänrinne 3, Helsinki) on Sunday, September 24th at 17-20.

As accustomed, Sunday’s stage poetry club kicks off with two warm-up poets. This time we will get to enjoy performances by poets Piki Rantanen and Lari Alanko. After the warm-up acts, it’s time for the main event – that being the open mic itself and all of your performances!

Just raise your hand if you want to perform, or ask for a spot from a host. Please note that the open mic slots are max 4 minutes long each so that as many people as possible have time to perform.

At the end of the evening, lovely prizes from HPC and our partners Sörkan Ruusu and Rautakukka will be drawn among the open-micers, so we do recommend sticking around until the end!

Each performer will be carefully listened to and cheered on – especially, if it’s your first time! Your performance can be a song or a poem, rap, spoken word or anything you can think of, as long as the text is your own! We welcome performances in any and all languages.

Ruusu Open Mic is free from any discrimination. We don’t accept any racist or hateful content or behaviour. Please also note that we advise performers to state content warnings regarding their poems. Our event adheres to Safer Space Guidelines as found on HPC’s website: https://www.helsinkipoetryconnection.fi/en/about-us/safer-space-guidelines-of-hpc/

Producers and hosts: Elina Ortamo ja Tiina Jokelainen
Poster: Tea Tauriainen

Runokuu Poetry Jam: Rajat / Borders

17. 08. 202217. 08. 2022

Runokuu’s Poetry Jam in Tiivistämö brings together amazing performances featuring spoken word acts combined with music, visual art and dance. This year’s Runokuu has the theme ‘Borders’ and this will be explored through different languages and performances.

This year’s performers are Rosanna Fellman and Sophia Mitiku, as well as Shanna Miruna and Wilma-Emilia Kuosa that were chosen via open call. Music will be provided by DJ Juanes Soyagua. This event is produced by HPC Board members Tania Nathan and Kirsi-Marja Moberg, and they will be hosting the evening together as well.

Poetry Jam also will have a Borders themed Open Mic segment, and 5 poets will be chosen to perform. If you would like to be one of them, apply through helsinkipoetryconnection(at)gmail(dot)com and tell us what sort of piece you would like to perform. The Open Mic segments spots are max 4 minutes long, and will be held after the main performances.

Tiivistamö’s accessibility information can be found here.

The event is free of charge, and observes safer spaces principles which you can read more about here.

HPC Goes Puisto 2022

02. 08. 202202. 08. 2022

The Helsinki Poetry Connection once again invites you and your friends to join us in a unique, lyrical outdoor summertime experience!

HPC Goes Puisto is an open mic club, organized since 2011, where spoken word meets Helsinki’s public parks. The only instalment of the event this year will be held on Saturday, 13 August, 2022 from 6 pm — ~9 pm in Matti Helenius Park, behind the Kallio library.

The evening and the microphone will both be warmed up by the voices of spectacular writer-performers Hanna Rentola, Ansa Kurola, Aaro Peltonen, and Tuula Maria Rauma.

After this initial taste it’s time for the most important portion of the festivities, namely the open mic! All audience members are welcome to perform their own verbal artistry in the grassy environs for 5 minutes apiece, for the edification of the humans, birds, bees, and other spirits in attendance. All languages and forms of expression are welcome!

This year Goes Puisto will feature its first ever pre-show event, as the Runosvengi collective will organize a poetry showcase of their own that very same afternoon, in café Taikalamppu next door (Torkkelinkatu 21) starting at 3 pm! Reading their original work are Leena Sainio, Riika Helle-Kotka, and Ursula Anttila-Halinen from Runosvengi, along with Jussi Kiova, Meri-Sofia Lakos, Kasper Salonen, and special guests. You are welcome to join in both events or just either one! (Please note that the open mic takes place in the park, not the café).

HPCGP will be MC’d by the club’s founder, park poet Kasper Salonen together with stage veteran Jussi Kiova. A heartfelt welcome to you all, as we embark on this poetic highlight of the summer!

Note on weather: if it appears to be a wet day, the club will remain inside the wonderful Taikalamppu café for the duration of the evening (or the rain).

No form of discrimination or harassment is tolerated in the Helsinki Poetry Connection’s events. We are gathering together with peace, creativity, and compassion. Please familiarize yourself with our safer space guidelines on our website.

Poetry Jam x Runokuu

07. 06. 2022

Open call

Open call for performance slot in Runokuu Poetry Jam on Monday 29.8.2022 at 18-21, Tiivistämö, Suvilahti. Your performance can be a poem, spoken word, video plus poem combination, music with spoken word, media with poetry. The theme is BORDERS. Suggested duration of the performance is 15-20 min. Send your applications by the 10th of July 4 pm, 2022. The performance can be in any language!
Send your application here.