PUBLICS Youth Advisory Board 2023 is happy to welcome you to their TAKEOVER, a day full of activities, conversations, and music at our space in Vallila!

Saturday 9 March, 1:30 – 7:30pm, at PUBLICS
Free and open to all!

PROGRAM

1:30-3:00pm
Silkscreen printing workshop with Robin Clifford Ellis (SIGN-UP NEEDED)

3:30pm
Food and open space

3:45pm
Welcome words

4:00-4:45pm
Aliina Kemppainen, Emmi Surwillo, Gabriella Presnal, and Stella Massa discuss the agency of young creatives in the local cultural scene. They present PUBLICS Youth Podcast (with Helsinki Open Waves, Caisa Kulttuurikeskus), The 1st Helsinki Youth & Early Career Networking Event, and an invitation to safer collective practices. Moderated by Lucas Jordi.

4:45-5:00pm
LOITERING: A sonic reading, led by PUBLICS Youth.

5:00-5:45pm
Aapo Kivivuori, Lucas Jordi, Yu Yue, and Vitoria Fiorella Freitas talk about learning by doing and advising. They present their printed message Dear Friend Letter for Nine Voices, the Nordic Youth Conference 2023, and their collaboration with Index Foundation (Stockholm) and PRAKSIS (Oslo). Moderated by Emmi Surwillo.

6:00-7:30pm
Ima Iduozee: artist talk, screening of short film ‘After We’re Gone’ Diaspora Mixtapes 2, and DJ set to close the day!

The event is held in English.

More information about the Silkscreen Workshop with Robin Clifford Ellis. Please read the Accessibility and Safer Space guidelines.

The event celebrates the year-long work of the nine engaged, caring and silver-quick smart members of our Youth Board. Aapo, Aliina, Emmi, Gaby, Lucas, Spencer, Stella, Yue, and Vitoria have worked with PUBLICS, experiencing the different ways in which contemporary arts and culture use collective platforms, public resources, and shared spaces. The Board has explored using arts, words, voices and sounds to send messages, reach out to one another, and collaborate.

PUBLICS Youth is a collective of creatives (18-21 y.o.) working together to implement, question and expand how young people and cultural organisations cooperate in the local and international art scene.

We are recruiting the Youth Advisory Board 2024! Are you interested in video and film? Are you curious about contemporary arts and hope to find a nice group of people to explore it with? Are you keen to engage with relevant social issues? This is for you! Read the OPEN CALL and apply by Sunday 17 March 2024.

BIOS

Robin Clifford Ellis is an artist and educator living in Helsinki. He co-runs the open-access screen printing studio Kalasataman Seripaja and is committed to developing printmaking as a tool for the dissemination of both artistic and political ideas.

Of Nigerian and Finnish descent, Ima Iduozee is a filmmaker, choreographer, DJ and multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki, Finland. In 2012, before enrolling to the the Arts University of Helsinki, he premiered his debut choreography, THIS IS THE TITLE, and went on to garner international acclaim, touring in 15 countries across Europe, North America and Asia. He has worked as the resident choreographer for several Scandinavian theatres including Stockholm City Theatre, Finnish National Opera and Finnish National Theatre. He is also the choreographer of the newly released series DANCE BROTHERS on NETFLIX.

Iduozee’s latest short film AFTER WE’RE GONE, a docufiction celebrating the history, present and future of the African Diaspora, had its international premier at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2023 and won the best experimental film award at the Cannes Indie Shorts Awards. Iduozee is the recipient of the Helsinki city Artist of The Year Award 2023. Diaspora Mixtapes in an on going series of works that celebrates the past, present and future of the African Diaspora and the people of the global majority. It opens a diverse range of societal, political and philosophical conversations through visual art, film and the written word.