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SAMPO Festival 2023 was magnificent!

The seventh SAMPO Festival was organized on August 22-27. and featured an extensive collection of brilliant international puppetry from across Europe. Many thanks to all the performers, other participants and the audience – you made our event a party!

The next SAMPO Festival will take place August 28-September 1, 2024!

 

The patron for SAMPO Festival 2023 was president Tarja Halonen. We were very glad to welcome president Halonen as a part of our festival community and thank her for her support.

“Sampo festival is here again and offers an overview of the year’s domestic and international puppet theatre events. Puppets and puppet theatre are often children’s first contact with the fascinating world of theatre. It is still a powerful means of influence in the world of adults.

This year’s performances offer us all unique experiences of journeys of the mind and imagination into ourselves and the world around us.

Hoping for enjoyable theatre moments

Tarja Halonen

 

SAMPO Festival offers memorable, touching and entertaining performances for children and adults. One of the biggest puppetry festivals in Finland, SAMPO Festival showcases artists from across the field, different styles of puppetry and visual theatre, and crosses borders between different fields of art. In addition to performances, the program also features films, workshops, outdoor performances, discussions and diverse artist meetings.

SAMPO Festival gives a place for encountering, also for professional puppeteers.

The festival is organized by Puppet Theatre Sampo.

Stay tuned and follow us on Facebook! Events and moments from the festival will also be posted on Puppet Theatre Sampo´s Instagram.

SAMPO Festival is a curated festival and we invite performing groups from around the world.

 

SAMPO Festivals:

SAMPO 2017 – 29.8-3.9.2017

SAMPO 2018 – 22.-26.8.2018

SAMPO 2019 – 28.8.-1.9.2019

SAMPO XX – 26.-30.8.2020

SAMPO 2021 – 25.-29.8.2021

SAMPO 2022 – 24.-28.8.2022

SAMPO 2023 – 22.-27.8.2023

The program books of the earlier festivals can be looked at at the bottom of the page.

Jenni Haukio was the patron of the 2022 SAMPO Festival. You can read here greeting to the festival here.

WELCOME TO A WORLD OF STORIES!

The Festival is organized by Puppet Theatre Sampo, that was founded in 1977 and has its premises in the center of Helsinki.

We invite people of all ages, shapes and sizes to enjoy the cosy atmosphere of our Puppet Theatre Centre and see puppetry performances for children and adults. We offer also art education: workshops and theme days. Sampo´s Fairytale Café is also open to the public at the theatre.

We are driven by imagination, humor and music. Welcome to be inspired by them! You may find some happiness, the treasure of friendship, a sparkle of joy in the middle of a busy day.

https://nukketeatterisampo.fi

PROGRAM

    2024 program will be announced in the spring 2024!

Movie: Labyrinth (1986)

Sampo Stage Tue 22.8.2023 at 7 pm
K12
102 min
Tickets 7€

Movie: Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986)

 

Sarah is forced to babysit her baby stepbrother, Toby, who does not stop crying and she wishes that he would disappear. Toby stops crying and when Sarah looks for him in his crib, she learns that her wish was granted, and the Goblin King Jareth has taken Toby to his castle in the Goblin City in the middle of a labyrinth. Jareth tells Sarah that she has to rescue Toby before midnight or Toby will be gone for good. This acclaimed fantasy film includes many scenes realized with puppets.

Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie depict the main characters.

Directed by Jim Henson

Screenplay by Terry Jones

Story by Dennis Lee, Jim Henson

Produced by Eric Rattray

Starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly

Cinematography Alex Thomson

Edited by John Grover

Music by Trevor Jones

Production companies Henson Associates, Inc. & Lucasfilm Ltd.

Distributed by Tri-Star Pictures (United States), Columbia–EMI–Warner Distributors[1] (United Kingdom)

Release dates June 27, 1986 (United States), December 2, 1986 (United Kingdom), December 19, 1986 (Finland)

Sixth Sense (Ukraine): Who grows in the park

Theatre ILMI Ö. Tue 22.8.2023 at 10 am
Theatre ILMI Ö. Tue 22.8.2023 at 5 pm

Age recommendation 10+
1h
Tickets 16€

“The performance you will feel”

This is an inclusive performance based on the perception of blind and partially sighted viewers. In our sensory system, 5 senses are considered the main ones - hearing, taste, sight, smell, tactile sensations. we invite you to experience a new feeling. The feeling that only you have…

A plant was born in the park in spring.  But it does not know which plant it will become. It walks around the park and searches for the plants that look like it.  It meets different trees, but none of them looks alike. In the evening the sad sprout is caught in the rain.  But maybe it is special one and not like everyone else?

Part of the audience will get eyemasks.

The performance is suitable also for people with impaired vision.

The venue is not accessible for all: it is on the second floor and can only be reached by stairs. Please contact us in advance, if you need help getting to the venue.

 

SAMPO Festival is involved in an international co-operation that will bring the young Ukrainian researcher and director Kateryna Lukianenko to Helsinki. The project, called “The Sixth Sense” explores the sensory theater format to develop inclusive performances where everything can be understood by sighted and blind spectators, adults and children.

The project was initiated by Lukianenko in Kyiv as a part of her research and teaching at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko – Kary University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. The performances are open to all types of spectators,  adults and children, who are blindfolded so that everyone can enjoy the show in the same way. Spectators are invited to use all five senses (a 5D theater, as children in Ukraine called it) to discover a “sixth sense” capable of making people equal as spectators despite their disabilities. Taste, smell, tactile, auditory and visual sensations are involved in the representations: it is a performance of sensations.

Thanks to this project, many people have had the opportunity to access the theater for the first time. Furthermore, this project shows acting from a completely different perspective where the actor is no longer someone to be observed, but has to strive to find new tools and strategies to communicate and connect with the audience.

Sixth Sense Theater starts from this research project and is structured as an international collaboration between SAMPO Festival, the Arrivano dal Mare! Festival in Ravenna, Italy, and Summer Puppet Pier in Maribor, Slovenia, under the supervision of Daria Ivanova (UNIMA Union Internationale de la Marionnette). The project involves the creation, in the three Festivals, of a professional masterclass curated by Lukianenko which will be followed by three outcomes open to the public, specifically to the blind and visually impaired. Furthermore, the translation and publication of Lukianenko’s research in English, Italian, Finnish and Slovenian will be carried out. The project is winner of EFFEA European Fund for Emerging Artists.

Read more about Kateryna Lukianenkos residency: EFFEA Residencies Generation #1

EFFEA – European Fund for Emerging Artists 

 

Teksti/Author: Kateryna Michalicyna

Director: Kateryna Lukianenko

Set: Daria Volokushyna

Music: Volodymyr Shikalo

Producer: Daria Ivanova - Hololobova

Ornan Braier (Israel): Little Love Machine

Sampo Stage Wed 23.8.2023 at 10 am
Sampo Stage Wed 23.8.2023 at 6 pm

Sampo Stage Thu 24.8.2023 at 10 am

Age recommendation 4+
40 min
Tickets 16€

Ornan Braier (Israel): Little Love Machine

 

A magical machine serves as home for a lonely man, opens a secret door to the world of magic, rhythm, and love. This morning began with a great misunderstanding, and everything went wrong.

 

 

 

Ornan Braier is a puppeteer, actor, and musician from Israel

Ornan combines a wide variety of performing arts in his shows and thus he became a unique and original artist in Israel and around the world. His stage language is based on powerful visual images combined with distinctive music and sweeps all the senses of the audience.

Script, direction, design, music and performance: Ornan Braier

Animation: Hadar Landesberg

Costumes and accessories: Wally Mintzi

Artistic Advisors: Naomi Yoeli & Marit Benisrael

 

Language: nonverbal

 

Esitys on saanut tukea Israelin suurlähetystöltä.

Studio Damúza (Czech Rep.): Me, You and That

Annantalo Wed 23.8.2023 at 9.30 am
Annantalo Wed 23.8.2023 at 1.30 pm

Lilla Villan Thu 24.8.2023 at 10 am

10 months - 3 years
30 min
Tickets Annantalo 16€ / Lilla Villan 12€

Me, You and That

(Já, ty a to)

An abstract exploration of the roundness of the world for our little ones.

A dance-movement show for toddlers aged 10 months to 3 years.

 

The world is round, the world spins around. Come spin too! Join the astronauts on an adventure through the galaxy, see a glowing planet or a planet made of soft plush! The dancers will take the children on a journey around the world.

This play gives children their first contact with theatre – it respects their needs and carefully introduces them to the world of movement, sounds, and touches. Even babies only 10 months old already start to remember things and events around them and parts of the world that they can’t see directly start to form for them.

 

 

www.damuza.cz

Studio DAMÚZA

Studio DAMÚZA has been founded in 1999 by the students of DAMU – Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Now DAMÚZA is a production unit supporting fresh theater performers and ambitious projects of students as well as professionals seeking for independent work, creative freedom and the possibility of experimentation and self-realization. In our work we focus original productions, especially on puppet and object theater for children and adults.

Director: Karolína Křížková

Music: Jůlie Lupáčová

Scenography: Karolína Jansová

Cast: Andrej Lyga, Karolína Křížková

 

Nonverbal

Zsombor Barna (Hungary): László Vitéz in Ingland

Unkarin kulttuurikeskus / Lizst-institute Wed 23.8.2023 at 5 pm
Age recommendation: 3+
45 min
Tickets free of charge

Hey, lads and lasses! The little son of Vitéz László and Vas Juliska has been born. But what should his name be? Juliska insists that such a tough child should be named Henrik, but László would rather name the little one after himself. Since they cannot agree, László decides to visit his Inglish friend, Mr. Punch, who lives across the La Manchee Channel to ask for advice and, killing two birds with one stone, ask him to be the child's godfather. However, on the way he meets an old acquaintance, who is none other than The Death himself who wants to take revenge on László by kidnapping the child. Thus, our resourceful hero must once again prove his smartness.

https://barnazsombor.hu

Hungarian puppeteer Zsombor Barna graduated from the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest in 2017 as a student of János Meczner and Gábor Tengely. During his university studies, he attended a master course in Siena with an Erasmus scholarship and he also studied in Canterbury (University of Kent, School of Arts). Since 2017, he has been a member of the Budapest Puppet Theatre (https://budapestbabszinhaz.hu/en), where he also spent his university internship. He also has a strong acting background in television.

Written by: Róbert Markó

Puppet and visual designer: Márk Horváth

Puppet maker: Éva Kiscsák

Consultant: Zsolt Tatai

Composer: László Nyitrai

Scenography: Márta Barnáné Varga

Directed and performed by: Zsombor Barna

 

Special thanks to Mancsi Fabók for creating Juliska Vas!

The participation at SAMPO Festival of Zsombor Barna is made possible by the Liszt Institute - Hungarian Cultural Centre, Helsinki.

 

Lutkovno Gledalisce Ljubljana (Slovenia): Darkroom

Theatre Union Wed 23.8.2023 at 7.30 pm
Theatre Union Thu 24.8.2023 at 7.30 pm

Age recommendation: 15+
75 min
Tickets 22€/16€

Lutkovno Gledalisce Ljubljana (Slovenia): Darkroom

Darkroom is an object-music cabaret based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier, which is considered one of his most famous stories, but also the first one not based on a literary source or a folk tale. It thus marks the beginning of the author's original creative period. It was written almost 200 years ago and has been adapted numerous times, including for ballet performances and films.

In his imagination, Andersen animates flowers, cups and statuettes by attributing a primordial trait to them. If a flower flourishes, it is conceited. In this respect, Andersen's expression is distinctly puppet-like, since his objects always act as subjects. If a soldier falls off a shelf, he fell because he wanted to escape.

In the same way, Darkroom explores the traits of objects from their perspective and brings them to life in a primal way. The rhythmical text and expressive musical passages and phrases are then woven into an active relationship with them, creating a relationship between minimalism and cacophony, and contrasts between the atmosphere of the tea ceremony and the live animation of the material. And like Andersen, the performance exposes its soldier-viewer to the elements of earth, air, water and fire, but places them in a photography studio, a darkroom.

In this darkroom, objects, animators and spectators leave memory imprints of events from their city and those from Andersen's stories. The imprints then literally evolve before our eyes and enter into new relationships. They manifest themselves between granite paving stones, lead spoons, discarded cans and screws. See the world from the perspective of tin soldiers who never wanted to be soldiers.

 

The performance uses excerpts from Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier, translated by Janez Gradišnik and published by Epta (1997).

 

 

www.lgl.si

Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana (LGL) is the main Slovenian puppet theatre staging puppet and drama performances for children, youngsters and adults. Its predominant target audiences are children and young people. The public institution was established in 1948 (as the City Puppet Theatre) and has been based in Mestni dom in Krekov Square since 1984. In its work, the theatre builds on the hundred-year tradition of Slovenian puppetry. With the establishment of the Museum of Puppetry at the Ljubljana Castle, the LGL officially became the caretaker of this precious, century-old heritage. The theatre manages five regular and several smaller, occasional venues. At these venues, which offer seating for approximately a thousand people, it produces fifteen premieres a year and is visited by around 110,000 spectators.

 

Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana also pays special attention to cultural and artistic education in all its dimensions and at the national level cooperates in the endeavours to strengthen the standards and systemically place quality cultural content in the programmes of educational institutions.

 

We organise International Puppet Festival LUTKE, which takes place every even-numbered year. This festival brings to Slovenia the best foreign puppet productions and promotes all kinds of contemporary interdisciplinary and genre developments. In addition to its regular programme, the LGL has in recent years developed a special programme profile for emerging artists and forms named BiTeater. This programme includes experimental productions that enrich the medium of puppet theatre with other artistic registers. BiTeater traces the limits of LPT’s performative variety, which ranges from cultivating the marionette tradition to contemporary problem plays for youth.

Author: Matija Solce

Director, adaptation, music: Matija Solce

Art: Tomáš Žižka, Nerea Cuesta Garcia

Dramaturgy: Jelena Sitar, Benjamin Zajc

Co-writer of music: Filip Šebšajevič

Assistant director: Tončica Knez

Set design assistant: Katarina Planinc

Lighting design: Kristjan Vidner

Props Technologists: Zoran Srdić, Olga Milić

Cast: Asja Kahrimanović Babnik, Gašper Malnar, Miha Arh, Filip Šebšajevič g.a.

Stage manager and Sound designer: Aleš Erjavec

Producer: Alja Cerar Mihajlović

Lights: Kristjan Vidner

Set technician: Sašo Kitič

Puppets, set and costume production: Olga Milić, Iztok Bobić, David Klemenčič, Sandra Birjukov, Marjetka Valjavec, Nerea Cuesta Garcia, Blaž Vrhovec, Uroš Mehle, Zoran Srdić

 

Age recommendation: 15+

 

 

Alfa Divadlo (Czech Rep.): Mr. Kaspar and his Goofy Family

Sampo Stage Thu 24.8.2023 at 6 pm
Sampo Stage Fri 25.8.2023 at 10 am

Age recommendation: 6+
35 min
Tickets 16€

 

(Pan Kašpar a jeho povedená rodinka)

Welcome to the original traditional Czech puppet theatre - with minimum text and with maximum action. The cast includes Mr. Kaspar, Mrs. Kalupinka, The Grim Reaper, The Baby, The Dog and lots of props and folk music instruments. The simple plot is divided into individually little stories and anecdotes. Mr. Kaspar and Mrs. Kalupinka have a baby and Mr. Kaspar must be the nanny. That's not easy when the hungry and gluttonous Grim Reaper is wandering around the house.

Everywhere in European countries (and not only) we can find a unique kind of traditional puppet theatre – glove puppets. This kind of theatre is called puppet slapstick - or, in the Czech old-fashioned way, "coffin theatre". Why "coffin theatre"? Because Kaspar, to defend his rights, took a stick and beat sometimes devils, sometimes policemen, sometimes even the grim reaper himself. But everyone knew it was just fun. That's also why all those jesters are wearing a crazy straitjacket with bells on it.

 

www.divadloalfa.cz

Alfa Theatre / Divadlo Alfa

Alfa Theatre’s direct forerunner, the Children’s Theatre, opened in September 1966 in the ALFA premises on Americká street. In 1992 it moved to a modern building at Rokycanská 7 and changed to its current title. Since 1970 the theatre has undertaken over 100 foreign tours. Since 1967 the theatre has been the joint organiser of the SKUPA'S PILSEN festival. Since the beginning of 2015 its managing director has been MgA Jakub Hora. The theatre’s current creative team together with external colleagues and the ten-member company of actors, favours a comedic concept of theatre, continuing to view the puppet as a dominant and unusually attractive stage phenomenon.

Actor, director: Blanka Josephová-Luňáková

Co-director: Petr Borovský

Designer: Ivan Nesveda

Composer: Michal Vaniš

Actor, co-director: Martina J. Hartmannová

Actor: Tomáš Jereš

Sound and music instruments: Jakub Hora

 

Language: nonverbal

 

Sixth Sense -project - presentation and demos

Annantalo, dance class Thu 24.8.2023 at 4 pm (presentation)
Annantalo, dance class Thu 24.8.2023 at 4.30 pm & 5.30 pm

Central library Oodi, Kuutio Fri 25.8.2023 at 5.30 pm & 6.30 pm

Central library Oodi, Kuutio Sat 26.8.2023 at 11 am & 12 pm

for all ages

Tickets free of charge

SAMPO Festival is involved in an international co-operation that will bring the young Ukrainian researcher and director Kateryna Lukianenko to Helsinki. This project, called “The Sixth Sense” explores the sensory theater format to develop inclusive performances where everything can be understood by sighted and blind spectators, adults and children.

The project was initiated by Lukianenko in Kyiv as a part of her research and teaching at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko – Kary University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. The performances are open to all types of spectators,  adults and children, who are blindfolded so that everyone can enjoy the show in the same way. Spectators are invited to use all five senses (a 5D theater, as children in Ukraine called it) to discover a “sixth sense” capable of making people equal as spectators despite their disabilities. Taste, smell, tactile, auditory and visual sensations are involved in the representations: it is a performance of sensations.

Thanks to this project, many people have had the opportunity to access the theater for the first time. Furthermore, this project shows acting from a completely different perspective where the actor is no longer someone to be observed, but has to strive to find new tools and strategies to communicate and connect with the audience.

Lukianenko will curate a professional masterclass on SAMPO Festival which will be followed by outcomes open to the public, specifically to the blind and visually impaired.

The project will be presented at Annantalo on Thursday 24.8.2023 at 4 pm.

As a conclusion of the masterclass we invite the public to see these short demo performances, made during the masterclass:

Annantalo Thu 24.8.2023 at 4.30 pm

Oodi / Kuutio Fri 25.8.2023 at 5.30 pm & 6.30 pm, Sat 26.8.2023 at 11 am & 12 pm

Free of charge

 

Kateryna Lukianenko - professor of the Department of Art of Puppet Theater at Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Karyi University of Theatre, Cinema and Television, playwriter, puppet theatre director, author of the "Sixth Sense" project, scientist. Directed plays in Ukraine (Kherson, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv) and abroad (Lithuania). She constantly improves her skills at workshops and all-Ukrainian and international festivals (Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Italia, Slovenia).

Sixth Sense Theater starts from this research project and is structured as an international collaboration between SAMPO Festival, the Arrivano dal Mare! Festival in Ravenna, Italy, and Summer Puppet Pier in Maribor, Slovenia, under the supervision of Daria Ivanova (UNIMA Union Internationale de la Marionnette). The project involves the creation, in the three Festivals, of a professional masterclass curated by Lukianenko which will be followed by three outcomes open to the public, specifically to the blind and visually impaired.

Furthermore, the translation and publication of Lukianenko’s research in English, Italian, Finnish and Slovenian will be carried out. The project is winner of EFFEA European Fund for Emerging Artists.

Lutkovno Gledalisce Ljubljana (Slovenia): Somewhere Else

Annantalo Fri 25.8.2023 at 9.30 am (for school groups, full)
Annantalo Fri 25.8.2023 at 12.30 pm (for school groups, full)

Annantalo Sat 26.8.2023 at 12 pm

Annantalo Sat 26.8.2023 at 3 pm

Age recommendation: 7+
45 min
Tickets 16€

Lutkovno Gledalisce Ljubljana (Slovenia): Jossain muualla / Somewhere Else

(Nekje drugje)

Somewhere Else is a performance with a difficult subject. It is a story about a little Girl, who finds herself in the heart of war. Threatening planes are flying over the city, the streets are empty and there is no food left on the store shelves. The school is closed. And every now and then gunshots are heard nearby. Her environment has gradually changed. It has become intolerable. The Girl dreams of escaping to the countryside, where she could have a better life. She wants to go somewhere else, far away from the horrors of war. “I woke up this morning, brushed my teeth as usual, had my breakfast and went to school. Everything was as usual. Only yesterday I was playing in the yard with my friends. Everything is different now. I can't go to the yard anymore. It is too dangerous. And when I hear the thunder, my mommy and I must run to the basement. I don't even see my friends anymore. The school is over. They shut it down.”

How do the horrors of war look like through the eyes of a child? Only through this perspective can we fully understand the absurdity of the violence of war and the vulnerability of every individual. Somewhere Else is a deeply moving story about mindless war and the cruelty of it and it is quite essential to tell our youngest viewers all about it. Since the topic of the absurdity of war is quite delicate and painful, it often remains untold.

The staging of Somewhere Else will be unusual in its means of expression as well. The actress and puppeteer in the same person, will create on her own the environment in which the little Girl is walking. She will depict with her brushes and paint the hilly landscape, high skyscrapers, and the creepy soldiers, inevitably approaching the city. Video projections will absorb the viewer into the heart of this exciting story about the horrors of war, which are – fortunately enough – happening somewhere else. Or are they?

 

www.lgl.si

Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana (LGL) - Ljubljana Puppet Theatre

Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana (LGL) is the main Slovenian puppet theatre staging puppet and drama performances for children, youngsters and adults. Its predominant target audiences are children and young people. The public institution was established in 1948 (as the City Puppet Theatre) and has been based in Mestni dom in Krekov Square since 1984. In its work, the theatre builds on the hundred-year tradition of Slovenian puppetry. With the establishment of the Museum of Puppetry at the Ljubljana Castle, the LGL officially became the caretaker of this precious, century-old heritage. The theatre manages five regular and several smaller, occasional venues. At these venues, which offer seating for approximately a thousand people, it produces fifteen premieres a year and is visited by around 110,000 spectators.

Lutkovno gledališče Ljubljana also pays special attention to cultural and artistic education in all its dimensions and at the national level cooperates in the endeavours to strengthen the standards and systemically place quality cultural content in the programmes of educational institutions.

We organise International Puppet Festival LUTKE, which takes place every even-numbered year. This festival brings to Slovenia the best foreign puppet productions and promotes all kinds of contemporary interdisciplinary and genre developments. In addition to its regular programme, the LGL has in recent years developed a special programme profile for emerging artists and forms named BiTeater. This programme includes experimental productions that enrich the medium of puppet theatre with other artistic registers. BiTeater traces the limits of LPT’s performative variety, which ranges from cultivating the marionette tradition to contemporary problem plays for youth.

 

Director: Tin Grabnar

Author: Zala Dobovšek, Nina Šorak, Tin Grabnar, Asja Kahrimanović Babnik

Cast: Asja Kahrimanović Babnik

Art design: Matija Medved

Stop-motion animation: Matija Medved & Lea Vučko

Dramaturgy: Zala Dobovšek

Assistant Director: Nina Šorak

Costumography: Sara Smrajc Žnidaršič

Music: Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar

Video Mapping: Boštjan Čadež

Video Editing and Assistance: Lea Vučko

Animation: Kolja Saksida

Sound Effects: Mateja Starič

Language Coaching: Metka Damjan

Lighting Design: Kristjan Vidner

Stage Manager and Sound Designer: Aleš Erjavec

Video Technicians: Erik Krkač, Vid Kozelj (assistance)

Color Correction: Miran Bratuš

Set Technician: Andrej Slinkar

Set Production: Sandra Birjukov, Marjetka Valjavec, Iztok Bobić, Zoran Srdić, Polona Černe, Uroš Mehle s. p., Matija Medved, Boštjan Čade

 

Language: Slovenian, with Finnish and English surtitles

 

Singe Diesel (Ranska): Kazu pimeässä

Sampo Stage Fri 25.8.2023 at 7.30 pm
Sampo Stage Sat 26.8.2023 at 2 pm

Age recommendation: 8+
1h
Tickets 16€

Singe Diesel (Ranska): Kazu pimeässä

(Kazu dans la nuit)

 

This show is a dive into the puppet workshop of Juan Perez Escala and into the world of magical realism and micro fiction, an artistic trend originating from South America.

The stories Juan tells us are really not stories. Nor poems. Definitely not haikus.

Not jokes or little tales either. He gave them a name: they are “kazus”.

Juan takes us gently into his world where love, life and death intertwine. It sublimates everyday life, trivializes madness and melancholy. And as the kazus follow one another, we realize that we are also talking about something more intimate and profound:

Kazu is madly in love with Lou, but Lou is no longer there. Yet love is still alive and joyful...

Puppets, music, and live drawings collide in this performance to create moving and philosophical poetry.

 

https://www.singediesel.org

Concept, director: Juan Perez Escala

Artistic advisors: Antonin Lebrun, Kristina Dementeva, Ricardo Montserrat

Esittää: Juan Perez Escala

Music and lights: Vincent Roudaut

 

Language: French

 

The visit is supported by the French Institute in Helsinki / Institut Francaise.

SAMPOsium: Accessibility in Puppet Theatre

Annantalo, auditorio Fri 25.8.2023 from 12 pm to 3 pm

3h (coffee break included)
Tickets free of charge

Friday's SAMPOsium examines the accessibility of the puppet theatre and stops to think about what the word "accessibility" means. Are the theatre facilities and the theatre performance itself accessible, on the other hand, is culture and art really accessible in Finland, and is the artist or the participant accessible to experiencing and creating art. Why is accessibility important? What kind of obstacles stand in the way of accessibility and how do we deal with them. What makes puppetry accessible or inaccessible. The conversation takes place in two parts, coffee break in between. The discussion will be moderated by puppet theatre artist and director Elina Lajunen.
The panelists on the SAMPOsium are:

Tatiana Solovieva, Globe Art point, artistic leader, flamenco dancer, diversity agent

Maija Karhunen, Kulttuuria kaikille palvelu, Culture for All, Project leader and dancer

Mikael Kinanen, executive director, artist in visual art & performance art, Teatterikeskus ry/Theatre Centre

Kateryna Lukianenko, Puppet theatre director and researcher from Ukraine

Daria Ivanova, Professor, puppeteer, director, and manager, researcher from Ukraine

Teatro Matita (Slovenia): Kuharicka Micka

Sampo Stage Fri 25.8.2023 at 10 pm
for adults
15 min
Tickets 7€

Teatro Matita (Slovenia): Kuharicka Micka

A puppet sketch from a post box

Kuharica Micka is a scene taken from performance Kabaret Luknja (Cabaret Hole), based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in wonderland. In 2008 this show was the debut of Matija Solce as a director in Ljubljana puppet theatre. 10 years after putting it off the repertory, Kuharica Micka returns with the animator Miha Arh as a mini puppet show of Teatro Matita. On a beautiful summer day Mitzie le chef is baking cookies for the queen of hearts. There is also a child she is babysitting who makes her job even more interesting.

https://www.matijasolce.com

Teatro Matita (Slovenia)

Teatro Matita was founded in 2002 and in the last years has grown into a theatre that involves actors with different theatrical and musical backgrounds, capable of performing cabaret or children´s shows, but always has its specific characteristics that can be recognized from afar.

Teatro Matita focuses on expressive, original puppets as well as exploring the theatre of material and objects, ranging from the use of everyday objects as far as bones. All solo shows fit in one suitcase, on the other hand, more complex performances use the stage in an innovative way – a firetruck can become an instrument, etc. Each of these shows uses its own theatrical technique and its own theatrical language. Teatro Matita´s productions have toured internationally and have been performed at many important festivals.

Concept and direction, puppets: Matija Solce

On stage: Miha Arh

Duration: 15 min

Age recommendation: for adults

Language: nonverbal

Puppet Theatre Sampo: Da Da Sur

Teatteri Avoimet Ovet Sat 26.8.2023 at 1 pm
Age recommendation: 2+
40 min
Tickets 16€

Puppet Theatre Sampo: Da Da Sur

 

A joyous, nonverbal dive into the world of imagination, surrealism and dadaism. Can a peg become a bird? How many boxes fit on the stage? Fantastic things come out of them!

Da Da Sur is a vitamin injection that, with its inventive visuals and charming sound world, grounds even the most restless soul. This amazing dive into the world of imagination makes reality and logic lose their meaning. The stage is filled with boxes of all sizes, from which the most unusual structures are created.

Da Da Sur is a peak into the world of Dadaism and Surrealism through object theatre, aimed at toddlers. At the end of the show, the audience gets to get to know the sets and objects of the show in more detail and try them out for themselves!

 

https://nukketeatterisampo.fi/ohjelmisto

Puppet Theatre Sampos production was seen as work-in-progress on SAMPO 2022 Festival. Now you can come see the production in its finished form!

Concept, visual design, director: Iivo Barić

Dramaturgy: Elina Vehkaoja, Iivo Barić

On stage: Elina Vehkaoja, Satu Lankinen, Antero Reinistö

Music: Susan Aho & Antero Reinistö

Costumes: Kristiina Jokinen

Light and sound design: Jere Kouhia

Sets, props and puppets: Tape Komulainen, Iivo Barić, Jere Kouhia, Kristiina Jokinen

Set painting: Anna Platonova

Stage assistant: Leevi Salmijärvi

La Mue/tte (Ranska): Faux Orchestre / False Orchestra

Espan lava Sat 26.8.2023 at 3.30 pm
VENUE CHANGE >>> Teatteri Avoimet Ovet, Erottajankatu 5 Sun 27.8.2023 at 4 pm

Age recommendation 5+
25 min
Tickets free of charge

La Mue/tte (Ranska): Faux Orchestre / False Orchestra

 

A virtuoso one-man orchestra attempts an impossible encounter between the original and the copy. In the end, reality and imagination can no longer be separated. We disappear into a world where everything has merged into one eye-popping dance of music and illusion.

Two musicians sitting back to back: one is a true musician and the other false. On one side is a musician with a stringed instrument, a Ronroco. On the other is a percussionist flanked by a drum and a cymbal with spoons on his knees. One of them is a faker, faking the other...In a turning set-up offering a vision of over 180° degrees, the two alter egos attempt an impossible encounter. They follow each other, evade, and tease each other before finally losing themselves and merging in a circular dance. The False-Orchestra plays between original and copy, reality and illusion, a fake Milonga with real Russian spoons. A fused puppet, a deported mask and music with a South American air, the False-Orchestra of this virtuoso musician is to be listened to with your eyes wide open!

 

NOTE!!! Due to rain on Sunday, the outdoor performance on 27.8. at 4 pm has been moved inside! The new venue is Teatteri Avoimet Ovet, Erottajankatu 5!

 

 

The Lorraine company La Mue/tte is a partnership between actress and puppeteer Delphine Bardot and Argentinian musician and puppeteer Santiago Moreno. They have created seven shows since 2014, inventing a visual and musical form of theatre that allowsboth bodies and objects to speak, questioning relationships between men and women, power, and violence.While Delphine Bardot creates a puppeteering language of her own, using the concept of the puppet theatre woman, Santiago Moreno responds by developing variations around the figure of the one-man-band and the idea of the body as a musical instrument.La Mue/tte is associated with Le Mouffetard, puppet theater in Paris from 2022 to 2025 and with Le LEM, Place of Puppetry Experimentation in Nancy from 2022 to 2024. The artistic team is supported by the Grand Est Regional Authority.

Conception and performing: Santiago Moreno

Visual design: Delphine Bardot & Juan Perez Escala

Artistic collaboration: Benoit Dattez

Puvustus: Daniel Trento

Supported by: Le Sablier, Normandy, Centre for Puppetry Arts; Le Carreau, National Theatre of Forbach and Est mosellan; Le Mémô, artistic factory in Nancy.

 

Language: nonverbal

 

The visit to SAMPO Festival is supported by The French Institute in Helsinki - Institut française.

Plata Company & mir.theatre (Czech Rep.): Prefaby

Theatre ILMI Ö. Sat 26.8.2023 at 12.30 pm & 1.30 pm & 3.30 pm & 4.30 pm & 5.30 pm & 6.30 pm
Theatre ILMI Ö. Sun 27.8.2023 at 11 am & 12 pm & 1 pm & 3 pm & 4 pm & 5 pm

Age recommendation: 12+
30 min
Tickets 22€ - direct link to ticket page >

Plata Company & mir.theatre: Prefaby

 

Prefaby is an original visual and sound project, set on a formic table, freely varying motifs of everyday life in a block of flats (prefabricated concrete houses) - a symbol of a fulfilled dream of modern living in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. It is also pre-apocalyptic concrete idyll based on the stories of three nameless neighbours. This project talks about their fragile ordinariness by extraordinary means.

 

The performance is very intimate and there is place only for 7 people at a time.

The venue is not accessible for all: it is on the second floor and can only be reached by stairs.

 

https://www.facebook.com/micromikro

Dominik Migač is an actor and experimenter in the field of object and material theatre. As a creator and performer, he has already drawn attention to several projects, such as µSputnik. His specialty is small puppets. Jakub Maksymov is a freelance theatre director. He is keen on puppet and object theatre. He regularly cooperates with several theatres in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Serbia. Together with Dominik they are founding members of the independent theatre group Plata Company, within which the productions Thousand Dozens were created. Prefaby is the fourth project they did together.

 

 

Concept, stage design, technical realization: Dominik Migač

Dramaturge: Jakub Maksymov

Performing: Dominik Migač / Jakub Maksymov

Sound design: Mr. Wombat Studio

Voice acting: Štěpán Lustyk, Eva Hacurová, Milan Vedral, Jakub Vaverka

 

Language: nonverbal

La Mue/tte (France): Cozy One-Man Band

Sampo Stage Sat 26.8.2023 at 8 pm
Sampo Stage Sun 27.8.2023 at 11 am

Age recommendation 5+
35 min
Tickets 22€/16€

La Mue/tte (France): Cozy One-Man Band

(Les Intimités de l´Homme-Orchestre)

 

Poetic tutorial for an apprentice one-(wo)man band

Table puppet, objects and music

From the fragile and careful preambles of human-musicality (the one-man-hand) to the strong and rough character of the one-man-band, we are shown the different facets and many talents of the musician Santiago Moreno. 
Small inventions and musical assemblies build up, piece by piece, the complex one man band, for the rapture of a fascinated audience.

A playful and poetic moment where music and movement are inseparable.

 

The Lorraine company La Mue/tte is a partnership between actress and puppeteer Delphine Bardot and Argentinian musician and puppeteer Santiago Moreno. They have created seven shows since 2014, inventing a visual and musical form of theatre that allowsboth bodies and objects to speak, questioning relationships between men and women, power, and violence.While Delphine Bardot creates a puppeteering language of her own, using the concept of the puppet theatre woman, Santiago Moreno responds by developing variations around the figure of the one-man-band and the idea of the body as a musical instrument.La Mue/tte is associated with Le Mouffetard, puppet theater in Paris from 2022 to 2025 and with Le LEM, Place of Puppetry Experimentation in Nancy from 2022 to 2024. The artistic team is supported by the Grand Est Regional Authority.

Concept, director, on stage: Santiago Moreno

Staging consultant: Delphine Bardot

 

Language: nonverbal

 

The productions visit to Helsinki is supported by The French Institute in Helsinki / Institut française.

Ariel Doron (Israel/Germany): Plastic Heroes

Teatteri Union, Siltavuorenranta 18 Sat 26.8.2023 klo 18
Age recommendation: 12+
45 min
Tickets 22/16€

Plastic Heroes

Plastic Heroes is a witty and absurd collage of a war where soldiers are tiny plastic doll´s and a table acts as the battlefield. In a war where there is no clear enemy or goal, the boundaries between reality and imagination are blurred. Does this really happen or is everything just children’s play? Plastic Heroes manages to deal with difficult topics in an emotional and fun way at the same time.

 

Ariel is a puppeteer, director and performer, originally from Israel and currently living and working in Germany.

In his work, he uses very little text and a lot of playfulness in order to deal with hard social and political subjects.

Each project is created with a the puppetry or performance discipline that best suits it, with the hope to always expand and question the media in which its created in, and with a desire to inspire viewers to feel, think and react.

His shows have won international prizes and are regularly invited to festivals and theatres around the world.

Directed and performed by: Ariel Doron

Artistic consultant: Shahar Marom

Co-directors: Rotem Elroy, David Lockard

Language: almost wordless/English

Recommended for ages 12 and up. Duration 45 minutes.

Ariel Doron (Israel/Germany): Boxed

Sampo Stage Sat 26.8.2023 at 10 pm
VENUE CHANGE >>> Teatteri Avoimet Ovet, Erottajankatu 5 Sun 27.8.2023 at 5 pm

Age recommendation: adults and 10+
25 min
Tickets 7€ / outdoor performance free of charge

Ariel Doron (Israel/Germany): Boxed

What´s that?

Is it me?

Is it a you?

Is this real?

Or just a joke?

It´s time we open the box!

Please close it.

I´m scared.

 

A minimalistic piece without words for a person with a box.

Ariel Doron goes another step into minimalism and creates a fascinating short story using only a shoebox.

A funny, sensitive and scary fantasy about a lonely man, trying to get in touch with himself and the world.

 

NOTE!!! Due to rain on Sunday, the venue has been changed on 27.8. at 5 pm to Teatteri Avoimet Ovet, Erottajankatu 5!

 

https://www.arieldoron.com/

Ariel is a puppeteer, director and performer, originally from Israel and currently living and working in Germany.

In his work, he uses very little text and a lot of playfulness in order to deal with hard social and political subjects.

Each project is created with a the puppetry or performance discipline that best suits it, with the hope to always expand and question the media in which its created in, and with a desire to inspire viewers to feel, think and react.

His shows have won international prizes and are regularly invited to festivals and theatres around the world.

Created and Performed by: Ariel Doron

Dramaturgie: Tobias Tönjes

Artistic Consultation: Shahar Marom , Florian Feisel, Roni Nelken Mosenson

Co-Produced with the generous support of Erlangen Figurentheater Festival, Hanut 31 Theatre Gallery, Tel Aviv and FITZ! Figurentheater Zentrum, Stuttgart.

 

Exterior Eyes and Good Advice:

Clara Pallau Herrero, Aurélie Strohmaier, Sanni Lotzch, Mai Aylon, Sharon Gabay, Joachim Fleischer, Jan Jedenak, Frederike Miller, Sarah Chaudon, Gerda Knoche, Gildas Coustier, Marius Moses, Ari Teperberg, Inbal Yomtovian, Charlotte Wilde, Michael Vogel, Laila Betterman, Christiane Guhr, Nane Rotfuchs, Sabine Köhler, Heiki Ikkola.

 

Performance on Saturday as part of the Festival Club. Outdoor performance on Sunday in the park free of charge.

Nukketeatteri Ofelia & co (Finland): Hetkiä! Moments! Stunder!

Annantalo Sun 27.8.2023 at 12 pm
Annantalo Sun 27.8.2023 at 12 pm

Age recommendation: 2-13 months
30-40 min
Tickets Free of charge - booking necessary

Nukketeatteri Ofelia & co

Hetkiä!

Moments!

Stunder!

Welcome to the magical world of mellow moods with your toddler - to be, sense and participate. Together, we create moments where sounds, tones, objects and instruments combined with movement will lead us from one mood to the next. In a flash, familiar objects can turn into beings that wonder the surrounding world together with the audience.

The performance doesn't use any spoken language.

 

http://www.nukketeatteriofelia.fi

Performers: puppeteers Anne Lihavainen and Milla Risku, musician Saaga Sihvola.

 

The performance is nonverbal.

Christiane Vulpius

VENUE CHANGE >>> Teatteri Avoimet Ovet - Erottajankatu 5 Sun 27.8.2023 at 4.40 pm
VENUE CHANGE >>> Teatteri Avoimet Ovet - Erottajankatu 5 Sun 27.8.2023 at 5.40 pm

for all ages
20 min
Tickets free

Writer, poet Johann Wolfgang Goethe's wife, Christiane (née Vulpius) loved the theater, dancing, good food and drink (preferably champagne). Christiane took care of two households in a versatile way, knew how to drive a sleigh and when traveling alone, Christiane carried two pistols with her. Left in the shadow of her husband during her life, Rva Goethe plays the main role in this performance and gets to dance as a three-meter rod puppet with her "walkers" to the rhythm of live music.

Tiina Kolehmainen has built Christiane from the frame of an old puppet received as a donation.

Implementation of the show Anne Lihavainen and Tiina Kolehmainen & co.

Dirty Duckling (FI): Ariadne - A mess

Sampo Stage Sun 27.8. at 7 pm
Age recommendation: 14+
1h
Tickets 22€/16€

On SAMPO 2022 Festival as a work-in-progress, Ariadne now returns!

A multi-emotional solo show woven of cultural identities, antique myths and magnificent art of puppet manipulation.

It’s not easy to be a Finn. The one without a decent history or self-esteem who looks like a potato. The one who can’t open their mouth and is better with moose than with people. I would change all my great genetic nature-relationships for even a little bit of Mediterranean cultural heritage and social skills.  And I would sacrifice all that is or has ever been mine, if somebody like that, not like me, loved me back.

Ariadne - A Mess is a multi-emotional tragicomedy and a one woman puppetry show made out of identity questions,  ugly woven puppets with very big eyes and hearts and the antique myth of Ariadne (you know, the one with the ball of yarn, and the labyrinth, and the Minotaur…). The surrealistic text weaves together the stories from Minoan culture to Finnish quasi folklore and as a result we end up in the  labyrinth of roots and loves and most embarrassing holiday memories. This show is also its creator Merja Pöyhönens’ personal quest to learn ventriloquism and speak with as many voices as possible.

This long-awaited  premiere is about the thirtieth attempt of the trailblazer new-wave puppetry collective Kuuma Ankanpoikanen (Dirty Duckling) to make a perfect show in the magnificent field of puppetry art.

 

“And then it’s emptiness. It’s the moment I have been dreaming about, but never believed it would actually

come. The horizon doesn’t change even when I close my eyes as tight as a bottle before opening them

again. Again. And again. Nothing appears. He is not here.”

 

Langoista tehty nukke ja nukeillanäyttelijä

https://www.facebook.com/kuuma.ankanpoikanen

https://auraofpuppets.com/esitys/kuuma-ankanpoikanen-ariadne/

Dirty Duckling

The Puppet Theatre Dirty Duckling was formed in 2008 in Turku by five freshly graduated and over enthusiastic puppeteers. During its pioneering existence it has become one of the most acknowledged collectives in Finnish new-wave puppet theatre field. The group is known for their fresh and a bit anarchistic style combined with ambitious puppetry. Dirty Duckling’s performances are based on keen and devoted manipulation, spiced up with a comical twist and often leaning the means of expressions rom different art

forms. All together this hyperactive group has created almost 30 performances, for both adult and young audiences and their performances have visited several national events and festivals. Dirty Duckling's working style reflects the collective spirit of their hometown and they often use visiting artist in their shows. The members of the group are also part of the bigger puppet theatre artists’ network Aura of Puppets.

 

MERJA PÖYHÖNEN

Merja Pöyhönen is a puppeteer and director living in Turku, Finland. She is one of the trailblazers in modern Finnish puppet theater, who loves to work with movement, emotions and manipulation. Pöyhönen has a degree in puppetry from Turku Arts Academy (2001-05), completed with studies in physical theater in École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris (2007-08). During her professional career, Pöyhönen has taken part in over 40 performances. Her main works include John-Eleanor, 2011, Missing Amelia Earhart, 2016, and a megalomanic Shakespeare trilogy, 2013, 2015, 2017, which include the biggest professional puppet theatre shows ever made in Finland. Pöyhönen is a founding and active member of puppet theater company Dirty Duckling and puppetry art network Aura of Puppets. Pöyhönen has mostly worked in Finland, but in  2019 she directed her first shows abroad at Theater Chemnitz, Germany and at Nuku Teater, Estonia. Pöyhönen might be the first Finnish puppeteer to have received a five-year governmental grant for her artistic work (2020-24).

WORKING GROUP

Concept, script, performing: Merja Pöyhönen

Puppets: Merja Pöyhönen, Eve Mäkitalo, Hanne Lammi, Helena Markku

Light design: Essi Santala

Sound dramaturgy: Antti-Juhani Manninen, Merja Pöyhönen

Music: Antti-Juhani Manninen

Assistant of everything: Eve Mäkitalo

Produced by: Kuuma Ankanpoikanen

Photos: Jesper Dolgov

 

PERFORMANCES AT PUPPET THEATRE SAMPO ALSO AFTER THE FESTIVAL:

1.9. klo 19
2.9. klo 19 
3.9. klo 15
8.9. klo 19
9.9. klo 19

The Sixth Sense

A joint international project as a part of SAMPO Festival 2023

SAMPO Festival was involved in an international co-operation that brought the young Ukrainian researcher and director Kateryna Lukianenko to Helsinki for SAMPO Festival. The project, called “The Sixth Sense” explores the sensory theater format to develop inclusive performances where everything can be understood by sighted and blind spectators, adults and children.

The project was initiated by Lukianenko in Kyiv as a part of her research and teaching at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko – Kary University of Theatre, Cinema and Television. The performances are open to all types of spectators,  adults and children, who are blindfolded so that everyone can enjoy the show in the same way. Spectators are invited to use all five senses (a 5D theater, as children in Ukraine called it) to discover a “sixth sense” capable of making people equal as spectators despite their disabilities. Taste, smell, tactile, auditory and visual sensations are involved in the representations: it is a performance of sensations.

Thanks to this project, many people have had the opportunity to access the theater for the first time. Furthermore, this project shows acting from a completely different perspective where the actor is no longer someone to be observed, but has to strive to find new tools and strategies to communicate and connect with the audience.

Sixth Sense Theater starts from this research project and is structured as an international collaboration between SAMPO Festival, the Arrivano dal Mare! Festival in Ravenna, Italy, and Summer Puppet Pier in Maribor, Slovenia, under the supervision of Daria Ivanova (UNIMA Union Internationale de la Marionnette). The project involved the creation, in the three Festivals, of a professional masterclass curated by Lukianenko which was followed by three outcomes open to the public, specifically to the blind and visually impaired. Furthermore, the translation and publication of Lukianenko’s research in English, Italian, Finnish and Slovenian will be carried out. The project is winner of EFFEA European Fund for Emerging Artists.

Kateryna Lukianenko held the master class in Helsinki during the festival. As its result, six open demo presentations took place at Annantalo and Oodi before an enthusiastic audience.

 

Read more about Kateryna Lukianenkos residency: EFFEA Residencies Generation #1

EFFEA – European Fund for Emerging Artists 

Homepage of the project (in Ukrainian): Sixth Sense Theatre

 

Pictures from the Sixth Sense Theatres production “Who Grows In The Park?”

 

FESTIVAL CLUB

The SAMPO Festival Club provides a meeting place for artists and the public at the festival. Memorable conversations about the performances and everything else, exhilarating meetings, serious and less serious subjects, laughter and relaxing!

Elina’s Living Room

Elina’s Living Room took place on two nights in the auditorium of Puppet Theatre Sampo. Discussions about the performances of the festival, the life of a puppet artist, art, miracles and mysteries of everyday life. The evenings were hosted by puppet theater artist and director Elina Lajunen.

 

EXHIBITIONS

There are exhibitions on the festival, giving you a chance to get to know more about puppetry.

Puppets From Around the World

This exhibition about the wonderful world of theatre puppets is a permanent exhibition at Puppet Theatre Sampo. The visitor can explore puppet traditions of different cultures and see puppets from around the globe from the 19th century to the present.

Puppet Theatre Sampo Gallery

Free Admission

 

Camilla Mickwitz – illustrations, art education equipment and theatre puppets

Camilla Mickwitz (1937–1989) graduated in 1958 as a graphic artist from the University of Arts and Design and first took on the advertising industry. However, ads were soon forgotten as the interest in children’s culture won out.

During her career, Mickwitz illustrated more than twenty picture books and nearly as many animated films. Her recognizable and distinctive style can be seen in visual arts, literature and in the film industry. With good reason, she can be called a key influencer of Finnish children’s culture in the 1970s and 1980s.

Camilla Mickwitz’s collaboration with Puppet Theatre Sampo began when Camilla illustrated the table theatre equipment designed by Maija Barić for art education. Camilla had previously made numerous animations, so puppetry was easy to adapt. Soon Camilla was already designing puppets for the plays Little Harlequin (1982) and King Oscar (1988). The table theatre equuipment became popular, and Camilla, together with Maija, continued into making paper hand puppets as an art education tool.

Camilla also made posters for Puppet Theatre Sampo. Her luscious, joyous, and humorous illustration style has delighted countless children and adults in the puppet theater as well.

Some of the works in the exhibition are on loan from the Children´s Book Institute.

 

Blue Gallery (Puppet Theatre Sampo)

Free admission

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TICKETS

Ticket prices: €22 / €16 / €7

The ticket price varies depending on the performance: there are two-price tickets for adults’ performances (discounted tickets: students, seniors, etc.), tickets for children’s performances cost €16. €7 tickets are on sale for club performances in the evening. The ticket price is mentioned in the show information. There is also a direct link to every performance tickets there.

Group tickets for morning shows: €12, child group instructors €1/€0 (employees of the city of Helsinki). Group tickets only by reservation.

Tickets are sold on Puppet Theatre Sampo´s website: https://nukketeatterisampo.fi/esityskalenteri. There is also a link in each performances details, that leads directly to the ticket sales page of that performance.

Reservations can be made by phone or email or at the ticket office.

Tickets can also be obtained at the door if the show is not full. Tickets for SAMPO Festival can only be obtained from Puppet Theatre Sampo.

Reservations: 020 735 2235, toimisto@nukketeatterisampo.fi

Ticket office: Puppet Theatre Sampo / Nukketeatteri Sampo, Erottajankatu 7, Helsinki.

Note: tickets purchased before for performances of Puppet Theatre Sampo and postponed, are not valid on the festival.

 

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