’O’ is just now creating buzz while rolling around the streets of Tallinn and has already travelled to Russia. At the end of August the large black ball will pay a visit to Helsinki.

„Installation festival LIFT11 has been on for a few months now, ‘O’ has been measuring a range of places in Tallinn and few out. If looking close enough one can see the traces of wounds cut in by the sharp corners of cityscape meticulously taped from inside. And the canvas getting all frangible from the different asphalts and grasses, cobblestones and metals rubbed over the time,“ explains one of the creators, Flo Kasearu.

„But ‘O’ still keeps on surprising with its obstinate wish of doing things as it wants to. If we say stay, it flies, if we expect nothing any more, it still shows us something new. Teen spirit. ‘O’: a dot, plug, toy, joy, a black balloon, hole, a sphere with 65 m3 of pink emptiness inside, is coming over the gulf now. Russian hearts and grounds embraced it fondly - St. Petersburg, Moscow. Now Helsinki to feel. Summer is, autumn is near.“
The big black ball created by Aet Ader, Andra Aaloe, Kaarel Künnap, Grete Soosalu and Flo Kasearu can be met in Helsinki on 26 August at 15:00 at Kasarmitori, at 18:00 in Suvilahti and at 21:00 at Esplanade and Senate Square. ’O’ in vimeo: http://vimeo.com/27288764

Straw Theatre goes overseas

In the evening of 26 August at 19:00 the premiere of „sugrierror.com“ from NO99 Straw Theatre will be shown live on a big screen in Estonian House in Suvilahti. The play by Anne Türnpu, Eva Klemets and Mart Koldits will be performed by Finno-Ugric actors, who still speak their mother tongue and know their traditional culture. The question today is not any more in which way the languages and cultures will survive. The question is: how much longer?

„We are trying to find theatre language from still existing rituals: ’Seto saajad’, Hanty-Mansi bear funeral, Mari grove prayers, Udmurtian funerals. The form of the performance is like a shiny brooch of a Finno-Ugric witch-smith forged from marsh iron – moving, swinging, playing in light, mood and wind, perplexing fairies and gods, a fusion of hard iron, light mind, white hand and good heart,“ the directors explain.

More info: http://www.viro-instituutti.fi/,  http://www.facebook.com/viroinstituutti
LIFT11: www.lift11.ee
http://pohuteater.no99.ee/home#/programm/teater/sugri-errorcom-66