EVENTS CALENDAR

Stockholm International Film Festival is about to blow its 29th candle with an edition that will feature 159 film premieres from 60 countries during 7-18 of November. Furthermore, 40 filmmakers, actors and actresses will participate in the festival activities.

The festival has more female directors than ever, in total 22 films from the ones that are included in the competition, have been directed by women. This means more women have the chance to win in the different categories of Stockholm’s International Film Festival than in any other internationally recognised film festival.

Find more info in our article about what would be this year’s festival highlights here. Take a look at our exclusive film recommendations with all the films that are a MUST this year here.

Full program:
www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

Buy your membership card at:
http://www.stockholmfilmfestival.se/en/festival/buy-membership-card

Activist and artist Maria Aljochina from Russian Pussy Riot, a new exhibition from Western Sahara by photographer Johan Persson and journalist Anna Roxvall, movies, talks and concerts are some of the events of the Free Speech Festival 13-15 November. The festival, which has as theme the Internet and the free word online, offers a full-featured program to celebrate Stockholm’s 20 years as a haven for threatened cultural practitioners.

What is your voice worth? In three days you will be able to dig into power and the freedom to self expression. In detail – what happens to your voice on the internet? And in the big picture – what are the key elements in the global arena who have the power to defend freedom of expression around the world? Meet prosecutors, journalists, artists, writers and activists who together form all the voices that shape freedom of speech today and beyond. The festival ends with the Writers in Prison Day, with the theme, Iran, organized by Svenska PEN. See the full program below!

Stockholm is part of the ICORN network, consisting of cities all over the world, offering a safe place for culturally vulnerable people who are subjected to censorship and persecution. More about this www.icorn.org Free Speech Festival is organized by the City of Stockholm together with International Cities of Refuge Network and Svenska PEN, supported by the Culture Council.

FOR THE FULL PROGRAM OF THE FESTIVAL – SEE HERE:
http://kulturhusetstadsteatern.se/ForumDebatt/Evenemang/2018/Free-Speech-Festival/

YYY4: HALLGERÐUR HALLGRÍMSDÓTTIR, KATRI NAUKKARINEN & LINN PHYLLIS SEEGER
16/11 – 15/12 2018

15/11, 6pm OPENING AND RELEASE EVENT OF YYY4
+Artist Talk
+Live music: Lau Nau

Finlandsinstitutets galleri, Snickarbacken 4, Stockholm
Opening hours: Tue 10–18, Wed-Thu 12–18, Fri-Sat 11–15
Free entry.

In collaboration with CFF – Centrum för fotografi, NKF – Nordic Art Association – Sweden and Photographic Gallery Hippolyte – Helsinki, Finland/Photographic Artists’ Association in Finland.

Is there a place for un-staged photography in art?

Katri Naukkarinen (b. 1984) is an artist working within the extended field of photography, exploring the world through the lens: a camera travels with her everywhere. The meaningful can be found in the surrounding reality, in vizualizing the invisible parts of the immediate environment, in one’s own reflections and examination of those. Seemingly light and easy snapshot method that Naukkarinen uses in her work is a result of years of learning and contemplating.
“Taking photographs should be meaningful here and now, not unlike existence”

YYY

YYY is an experimental zine and exhibition concept published and curated by Katri Naukkarinen. For each issue two photographic thinkers, besides Naukkarinen, are invited to have a conversation of sorts, within the pages of a tabloid magazine.

The fourth issue of YYY, YYY4, will be published at the Finlandsinstitutet’s Galleri November 15, 2018 at the opening of the exhibition with the same name. The participants for the 4th issue are, besides Katri Naukkarinen herself, Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir (www.hallgerdur.com) from Iceland and Linn Phyllis Seeger (www.linn-phyllis-seeger.com) from Germany. In addition to the zine, works from all the three artists will be displayed at the exhibition.

About collaboration

The process around YYY is a reminder about the power of collaboration. There are many forms of collaboration and creativity linked into the event in November: collaboration between the three artists in creating YYY4; Naukkarinen is artist-in-residency in Stockholm in November 2018 looking for new collaborative partners and working on her projects; the events and residency period are the result of the collaboration between CFF – Centrum för fotografi, Malongen / NKF – Nordic Art Association – Sweden, Photographic Gallery Hippolyte – Helsinki, Finland / Photographic Artists’ Association in Finland and Finlandsinstitutet Stockholm; the musician Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen, www.launau.com), who performs at the opening of the exhibition, represents the power of collaboration of sisterhood.