Sketch Evening
Sketch evenings offer a space for sharing unfinished performance-based ideas, experiments, and work-in-progress sketches. The aim of the evenings is to spark dialogue and collective thinking through artistic practice, experimentation, and shared experience. Artists and participants meet as equals, and dialogue is understood as an integral part of the artistic process.
Artists are invited to sign up to share their work in these laboratory-like events with low threshold for participation. What matter most is a willingness to share emerging artistic ideas, work-in-progress sketches, or unfinished lines of thought. During each evening, three artists will present their work and invite participants into a shared conversations around it.
The discussions are facilitated by Sonjis Laine and Emmi Max Pennanen.
The event is inteded for professionals working in the performing arts.
Places for sharing work are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Priority is given to artists who have not previously shared their work at Sketch evenings.
Sonjis Laine is a Helsinki-based dance and performance artist who works as a dancer, performer, facilitator, and choreographer. She graduated from Bachelors program in Dance at Stockholm University of the Arts (2019) and attained a masters degree in Anthropology at the University of Helsinki (2022).
Emmi Max Pennanen is a dance artist based in Helsinki. They work as a dancer at Tero Saarinen Company and also works as a choreographer and teacher in the freelance field. Pennanen is a graduate of the Masters program of Visual Cultures, Curating and Contemporary Art at Aalto University (2023).
The event is produced in collaboration with RRC, Mad House, and Tero Saarinen Company.
