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Vem är rädd för finlandssvensk dramatik?
03/03/2010 | Dan Henriksson
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När kritiker påstår att det saknas nyskriven finlandssvensk dramatik talar de egentligen om Svenska Teatern. I själva verket bubblar det av nyskrivet på annat håll.

I medeltal nästan tjugo premi [ ... ]


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Eino Saari palkittiin Vuoden teatteriteosta
10/02/2010 | Sini-Maria Tuomivaara
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Teatterikeskus on palkinnut käsikirjoittaja, ohjaaja ja esiintyjä Eino Saaren Vuoden 2009 teatteriteosta. Eino Saari sai palkinnon merkittävästä, yhteiskunnallisesti kantaaottavasta ja osallistuv [ ... ]


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Työryhmä pohtimaan taiteen vapaan kentän ammattilaisryhmien toimintaedellytysten parantamista
03/02/2010 | Maaria Rantanen
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tiedote / pressmeddelande 26-01-2010 Kulttuuri- ja urheiluministeri Stefan Wallin on asettanut työryhmän pohtimaan näyttämö-, sävel-, tanssi- ja sirkustaiteen vapaan kentän ammattilaisryh [ ... ]


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Theatre Posse

Finnish Theatre Centre has a renewed website and the Theatre Posse (Teatterijoukko) magazine’s online service www.teatterijoukko.fi is now open. On www.teatterijoukko.fi you’ll find information about our member theatres, their performances and a lot more...

Theatre Posse – what is it?

You’ll get the answer by visiting the website www.teatterijoukko.fi or reading the Teatterijoukko magazine which is available at our member theatres. Information on the theatres is found under the menu Theatres.

Teatterikeskus
Theatre Centre
Theatre Centre’s core purpose is to facilitate the work of professional theatre companies and to raise their profile in Finland. Theatre Centre works as a cooperation forum for its member theatres and represents their interests by taking actively part in the Finnish cultural political discussion. The Theatre Centre strives for promoting equality in the performing arts. Its social aim is to make the reality of the theatres meet with the theatre law i.e. the structure of public subsidy.

The work of Theatre Centre and professional theatre companies has a long history. Theatre Centre association was registered in Helsinki on January 24th in 1971. Professional theatre companies were born in the 1970’s from the performing arts’ practitioners’ will to establish communities concentrating on artistic work. The early stage of the companies was based on the performing arts’ practitioners’ desire to develop theatre as an art form free of the burden of a heavy institutional structure. Nowadays these companies work actively both in the cultural life of their home towns as well as on tours throughout Finland. Theatre Centre’s objective is to strengthen the status of professional theatre and dance companies in the Finnish society: these companies create locally valuable and human scale culture taking it also to places where such culture would otherwise not be available.

In some cases the artistic work of the companies lies on a solid economic foundation, although the staff’s workload is huge considering the structure of the companies. The economic situation of the oldest member companies is rather stable, but the new companies established in the 1990’s and after, i.e. The Outlaws, have financing that depends mainly on the absolutely insufficient discretionary public subsidy targeted for companies functioning outside the theatre and orchestra law. In the Outlaw companies the share of unpaid work can be as high as 60 %.

Theatre Centre strives for promoting cooperation between structurally different theatres in order to help solve problems regarding their premises and resources. It also supports the development of theatre and dance on a national level. Theatre Centre’s purpose is to promote and equalize the visibility, marketing and informing in the field of group theatres; to enhance the accessibility of the services regarding this art form as well as to increase cultural equality and the interest in performing arts; to reinforce recycling and ecological awareness and to further the possibilities to work in the field of group theatres. Theatre Centre also publishes the biannual magazine Teatterijoukko (Theatre Posse) that shares information about the professional theatre companies’ performances.

In 2010, Theatre Centre has 28 member groups, of which six function within the theatre and orchestra law and 22 represent the outlaw theatre field. 18 of the outlaw theatres receive their funding from the discretionary subsidy that is given to practitioners outside the law.

In 2006 the member groups of Theatre Centre received 3,1 % of the state’s total subsidy targeted to theatre, dance and opera. The share of member groups of all the spoken theatre performances held in Finland that year was 11,4 %. Altogether the member theatres organized 11,2 % of the country’s theatre, dance and opera performances in 2006.
 
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Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region
City of Helsinki
Ministry of Education

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