Temple of Godx FAQ

This document will be updated continuously. Do I need to read all this text before I can come to the play party? No : ) These are here to help if you feel you need more information. If you don’t, you can just come and enjoy. You will get most of the information also on […]

Sensory Jam (Berlin)

The next Sensory Jam in Berlin: Sat 18. 1. 2025, 19 – 22.00  Sensory Jam is life with all of your six senses. It’s  a jam with the senses including taste, smell, touch, movement in space and everything else you can possibly imagine. It’s a cocktail of immersive theatre and sensory play. It combines guided […]

Temple of Godx

This is a temple for tantrikas and kinksters and everyone else. This is a temple for all genders – also those that we haven’t yet been able to name. This is a temple for consent. This is a temple for sex and touch positivity. This is a temple for all bodies. This is a temple […]

Upotapia Personnel

PERSONNEL OF PREMIERE Artistic director: Samee Haapa Other members of the working group: Anna Wegelius, Krista-Julia Arppo, Jonna Eiskonen, Henna Mäki-Filppula, Joonas Outakoski, Jenni Räsänen, Tommi Uniluoto, Topias Toppinen, Inna Huttunen, Oscar Dempsey, Louis Crevier, Olga Kastemaa, Eero Tahkola, Marko Mäkinen, Sara-Maria Heinonen, Pinja Kokkonen, Siiri Seppelin, Iida Kukkonen, Mira Ihanus and Georgi Varavko. Production […]

Upotapia FAQ

Do I need to read all this text before I can come to the performance? No : ) These are here to help if you feel you need more information. If you don’t, you can just come and enjoy. You will also get all the necessary information on location. What kind of performance is this? […]

Upotapia

Kuvassa on käsivarsi  kuvattuna alhaalta teräksistä kaasukellon kattorakennetta kohti.

Energy flows from the world into a meter. It flows from crystals, workers, you, me, touch, carbon monoxide, hydrogen and power.  From the meter the energy flows back to the world transformed. In this moment of flow, the old, present and future gasometers blend. In this moment, the meters measure the energy of the dead, […]

Eco Village

There are green potatoes on a white background, edited so that they look a like cells under a microscope. Eco village is written on bold black font on top of the image.

Hydrid performance ‘Eco Village’ is a coproduction of Bombina Bombast and Sydhavn Teatern, premiering in May 2023 in Malmö in co-operation with The Center for Everything. Samee Haapa, the artistic director for Center for Everything, participated in the production as a researcher consulting especially in the questions regarding to consent in participatory performances. Eco Village […]

Critical Co-Creation

First presented in the Zip-Scene Conference in Budapest, Hungary 1. 10. 2021. Photo: Marko Mäkinen from ‘lim’. In the photo one audience member with a golden mask.  Grounding If we start by briefly looking at the situation where this paper is presented, it looks like a proscenium-arch theatre setting. There’s a presenter in front on […]

NI’JA WHITSON: UNDER THE WATER AND IN THE DARK

A person moving in a dim space with fluorescent light cable over their shoulder.

Theatre Academy Helsinki has organised a lecture series titled ‘Decolonising Embodiment’ held on Zoom during the autumn 2021. The last lecture on Wednesday 8.12.2021 at 18.00 (EET) is opened to the public in co-operation with the University of Huddersfield (UK) and The Center for Everything (FIN). The lecturer is Ni’Ja Whitson. Ni’Ja Whitson is a […]