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Taiteilijoiden toimeentuloon esitetään parannuksia
25/08/2010 | Maaria Rantanen
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tiedote / pressmeddelande 25-08-2010 Tohtori Tarja Cronberg on selvittänyt opetus-ja kulttuuriministeriön kutsumana luovan työn tekijöiden toimeentuloedellytysten parantamista. Selvitys luov [ ... ]


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21/06/2010 | Maaria Rantanen
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10/06/2010 | Maaria Rantanen
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Teatterikeskus toimii normaalisti vielä kesäkuun ajan. Heinäkuussa vetäydymme lepoon ja rauhaan. Toimistoon palaamme taas 30.7.   Toivotamme kaikille erittäin rentouttavaa ja onnellista kesà[ ... ]


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Theatre Posse

The Finnish Theatre Centre has renewed its website while the online magazine for the Theatre Posse (Teatterijoukko) www.teatterijoukko.fi is now available. There you’ll find information about our member theatres, their performances and lots more...

Theatre Posse – what is it?

For the low down on the Theatre Posse, visit the website at www.teatterijoukko.fi or check out the Teatterijoukko magazine which is available from our member theatres. On the website, information about the theatres can be found under Theatres on the menu.



Teatterikeskus
Theatre Centre
The Theatre Centre’s key purpose is to facilitate the work of professional theatre companies and to raise their profile in Finland. The 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 the Theatre Centre and professional theatre companies have a long history. The Centre was founded in Helsinki on 24th January 1971. Throughout the 1970s, professional theatre companies were born of a will by performance artists to establish communities concentrating on artistic work. The early momentum of the companies was fuelled by the performing artists’ 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. The Theatre Centre’s objective is to strengthen the status of professional theatre and dance companies throughout Finnish society: these companies create locally valuable and human-scale culture, taking it to places where it would otherwise be unavailable.

In some cases the artistic work of the companies rests on a solid economic foundation, although the workload for the staff is huge considering the structure of the companies. The economic situation for the oldest member companies is fairly stable, but the new companies established in the 1990s and later, i.e. the so-called ‘Outlaws’, have financing that is dependent on discretionary public subsidies targeted at companies that function outside the theatre and orchestra law (hence known as the Outlaws), although this funding is grossly inadequate. In the case of the Outlaw, the share of unpaid work can be as high as 60%.

The Theatre Centre strives to promote 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 at the national level. The Centre’s purpose is to promote and equalize the visibility, marketing and communications of members in the context of group theatres; to enhance the accessibility of the services regarding this art form as well as to increase cultural equality and interest in the performing arts; to reinforce recycling and ecological awareness and to further the possibilities to work in the field of group theatres. The Theatre Centre also publishes a biannual magazine, the Theatre Posse (Teatterijoukko), which shares information about the performances of the  professional theatre companies.

In 2009, The Theatre Centre had 27 member groups, of which six function within the theatre and orchestra law and 21 operate in the ‘outlaw’ theatre field. A total of 18 of the outlaw theatres receive their funding from the discretionary subsidy that is given those practicing their art outside the law.

In 2006 the member groups of the 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.
 
www.teatterikeskus.fi is supported by:
Arts Council of Helsinki Metropolitan Region
City of Helsinki
Ministry of Education

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