Maailman kodikkain kansainvälinen runofestivaali. // Annikki Poetry Festival in Tampere next in June 2028. *Please, scroll down for information in English* Yksi maamme suurimmista ja kansainvälisimmistä runoustapahtumista ja omaleimaisimmista kulttuurifestivaaleista. Vuonna 2003 tamperelaisen Annikin puukorttelin asukkaat perustivat runotapahtuman kotipihalleen. Sittemmin Annikin Runofestivaalista on kehittynyt yksi Suomen suurimmista & kansainvälisimmistä runoustapahtumista ja omaleimaisimmista kulttuurifestivaaleista. Sen ympärille on myös syntynyt kolmipäiväinen kaupunkifestivaali Annikki OFF. Annikin Runofestivaali järjestetään talkoovoimin joka toinen vuosi - seuraavan kerran 8.6.2024. IN ENGLISH
The Annikki Poetry Festival (est. 2003) has grown to be one of Finland’s foremost poetry events. The festival’s focus is still on poetry, although it has expanded to also include prose, music and the visual arts. The Annikki Poetry Festival aims to vitalize contemporary poetics and to put together surprising combinations of performers, as well as redefine the very boundaries of what poetry events can be. The Annikki Poetry Festival has gathered around it a three-day off-tier event cycle called Annikki OFF. The Annikki Poetry Festival is a non-profit event organized by volunteers. The next Annikki Poetry Festival will be organized on 8 June 2024. In addition to Finnish performers, the festival also regularly features high profile international luminaries. Performance poets to have partaken in the festival in recent years include Joelle Taylor (UK), Gregory Pardlo (USA), Yumi Fuzuki & Hikaru Cho (JP), Mutabaruka (Jamaica), Anne Waldman (USA), Kido Shuri (JP), Nikky Finney (USA), John Cooper Clarke (UK), John Giorno (USA), Jaan Kaplinski (EE), Henry Bowers (SE), Gerður Kristný (IS) et al. – many of whom had never been previously featured in Finland. Our Finnish performers always represent both more established authors and more recent contemporary voices. The venue of the Annikki Poetry Festival is a 100-year-old wooden town quarter in the centre of Tampere city, which has served as a very special, warm and welcoming milieu for poets and audience to meet and mingle. Read more: https://annikinrunofestivaali.net/en
FESTIVAL OFF
The Annikki Poetry Festival has gathered around it a three-day off-tier event cycle called Annikki OFF. This was the fifht year in a row that the off-festival program and its dozens of literary events; the next Annikki OFF will be organized on 5-7 June 2022.
