BTO: Thinking laboratory with Heidi Backström

Name: BTO: Thinking laboratory with Heidi Backström
Start: 2025-04-12T12:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-04-12T14:00:00+03:00
Location: Tehdas Teatteri

Schedule

Sat Apr 12 2025 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Tehdas Teatteri | Turku, LS

On the last day of Baltic Take Over, Heidi Backström will facilitate a thinking laboratory focused on cultural collaboration and ways of relying on each other in a time of arts funding cuts across Europe. The laboratory aims to initiate active discussions among cultural professionals, creating a rich space for sharing experiences, life hacks, and envisioning multiple ways to navigate the cultural ecosystem.
The event will be guided by questions such as:
- “How is knowledge about funding distributed?”
- “In what ways can we sustain long-term creative dialogues with each other despite limited financial means?”
- “What kinds of institutional collaborations can we imagine?”
- “How do the working methods of institutions and freelancers intertwine?”
- “What possibilities do curators have in negotiating between rigid funding structures and the practices of freelance artists?”
And many more…
Heidi Backström is a writer, editor, and producer working in the fields of performing arts. Heidi believes in radical sharing – sharing of thoughts, dreams, needs, boundaries, frustrations, skills, and experiences. Heidi used to work as a curator at Tehdas Teatteri’s Jokistudio, and it might be that she was the first person to dream of getting Baltic Take Over to Turku.
The event is co-organized with ESKUS, TINFO, and Circus & Dance Info Finland.
Please register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekGxtNZOAKjCpbtGyq_Cii-ELmr0b2h6D1CDXH6r-kYmA0-Q/viewform.
More information about the event: https://baltictakeover.com/performance/thinking-laboratory/
Baltic Take Over (https://baltictakeover.com/) is a performing arts festival co-curated by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, and the Lithuanian Dance Information Center, this time in collaboration with Tehdas Teatteri and the New Performance Turku Biennale.