FESTIVAL FOR URBAN ART
URB10 30.7.-8.8.2010
Kiasma-teatteri's URB10 festival examines urban art from various angles.
Festival opens with FML, a theatre play that bursts with teenage energy. Domini Públic is a theatre performance and fun social game in the heart of Helsinki, at Narinkkatori in Kamppi. A cooperation between Gallery Huuto and URB festival, "Grand Urban Dream" is a set of visual art exhibitions and performances happening in Gallery Huuto, Kiasma, Stoa, Dubrovnik and in city space. United Snakes -group brings together statistics, breakdancing, documentary war-videos, rap and disco dancing from the 70s. Satu Tuomisto humoristic and touching play processes tricky relationships through contemporary and street dance, and by accompaniment of a samba orchestra. Stoa stages an evening for international street dance, with Finnish groups Urban Movements Company and Badass Crew, Korean Monster Woo Fam and French Cie Sébastien Ramirez. URB movies this year are fictional. The Taqwacores deals with the complexities of being young and Muslim in modern-day America. Paranoid Park is a visually immense drama from a young skateboarder's quilty-conscious and disconnected point of view. Ground Tactics in Kamppi's Narinkkatori is an international bmx flatland competition judged by world renowned bmx professionals. Bmx is present also in mbar, where photographer Kai Kuusisto exhibits his skillful bmx photographs. URB programme also includes workshops in theatre, dance and visual arts + more!
