Hosted Events
Museum of Impossible Forms is a space that is open. Being open means to be able to be a space and provide a platform to encourage and host a plethora of activities in Helsinki.
2020
Other Comics Workshop (Helsinki PRIDE WEEK) | by Heidi Lunaba
Peer Group for Trans and Binary Artists | facilitated by artist Ana Teo Ala-Ruon, supported by Feminist Culture House
POC Open Mic #11 | Open Mic Helsinki
Meeting on Radical Care | by Radical Care Collective
POC Open Mic #10 | Open Mic Helsinki
Curatorial activism as a form of resistance and meaningful existence | by Maria Veits and Anna Bitkina from TOK curators.
2019
Meeting on Radical Care | by Radical Care Collective
Meeting on Radical Care | by Radical Care Collective
Open Stage [larp] : Live Action Role Play | by Myrtti Lehtinen
POC Open Mic #7 | Open Mic Helsinki
In conversation: Houria Bouteldja | in collaboration with Center for Ethnic Research and nationalism (CEREN), Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
POC Open Mic #5 | Open Mic Helsinki
Peer Group for Trans and Binary Artists | facilitated by artist Ana Teo Ala-Ruon, supported by Support Structures Collective
Unicorn Season: Live Action Role Play | by Myrtti Lehtinen
Fermenting The Change | by Eva Bakkesle
Strange Bodies and norms of Conflict | organised by veiculoSUR
Peer Group for Trans and Binary Artists | facilitated by artist Ana Teo Ala-Ruon, supported by Support Structures Collective
Anti-Racism Film Night
Join Other-comics Workshops for LQBTQIA+ people in Museum of Impossible Forms during Helsinki Pride week.
forms of a Film club, to host screenings and discussions centered around Latin American films, shorts, and documentaries that highlight the socio-political landscapes of Latin America.
Chicago Boys is the story of a group of Milton Friedman's disciples that, backed by a military dictatorship, turned Chile into the first and most extreme neoliberal country in the world. Unseen images and testimonies build this powerful documentary, that allows us to understand the historic process that transformed the Chilean people and Chile into the country that it is today; an image of success and discontent.
This peer group is for trans-, non-binary, gender non-conforming and other non-cis-gendered people working in the arts. Also artists and other art workers questioning their gender are welcome! The group is organised due to a need for safer and non-cis-centered spaces for supporting each other; for sharing discussions around the struggles we face in the Finnish art field; and for finding ways to collectively affect these issues.
In the event we want to bring together those interested in radical care politics, with the possible aim of forming an independent network of care.
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day, or Friendship Day as it is called in Finland, than by enjoying an evening of togetherness and community, brought to you by two of Helsinki's favourite events!
Ubuntu Film Club and PoC Open Mic come together for the first time in Helsinki history to present a movie plus open mic extravanganza.
Everyone's beloved PoC Open Mic is turning a year old!
Join us at Museum of Impossible Forms to Celebrate with some biting Stand up.
Join us on for a talk by Maria Veits and Anna Bitkina from TOK Curators on the topic of "Curatorial activism as a form of resistance and meaningful existence". Part of Father Frost Against cultural and political festival.
In the event we want to bring together those interested in radical care politics, with the possible aim of forming an independent network of care.
In the event we want to bring together those interested in radical care politics, with the possible aim of forming an independent network of care.
Open Stage is a larp about queer voices, identities and communities. The game follows the lives of participants of a small queer spoken word workshop and their friends for a few days.
Museum of Impossible Forms is excited to host and present Open Mic Helsinki and POC Open Mic #7
“This time, we privilege younger performers, especially those who have not had a chance to take the stage with us before. All you need to do is turn up, tell us you want to go on, and the stage is yours!
Houria Bouteldja will read excerpts of her most recent book Whites, Jews and Us – Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (Semiotext, 2017). She will also engage in conversation with the audience in a Q&A session.
In the event we want to bring together those interested in radical care politics, with the possible aim of forming an independent network of care.
Museum of Impossible Forms is excited to host and present Open Mic Helsinki and POC Open Mic #5
“This time, we privilege younger performers, especially those who have not had a chance to take the stage with us before. All you need to do is turn up, tell us you want to go on, and the stage is yours!
A peer group for trans-, non-binary, gender-non-conforming and other non-cis-gendered people working in the arts. Also artists who are questioning their gender are welcome.
Unicorn Season is a tragicomedy about how heteronormativity ruins everything – including polyamorous dating.
Join us for this hands on workshop exploring the world from the perspective of the micro organic. Through multisensory and ritualised artistic practice we will deepen our collective understanding of the entangled nature of existence.
How do "strange bodies" move in Helsinki ? The curatorial team of veiculoSUR invites to an open conversation. Within the curatorial process for 2020 we reflect on bodies that question the norms, though their social construction as a strange body
This peer group is for trans-, non-binary, gender-non-conforming and other non-cis-gendered people working in the arts.
Join Women of Colour Index Reading Group with Michelle Williams Gamaker and Samia Malik; looking at an unique archive that charts the emergence of women of colour artists working in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s.
Writing as a Means of Struggle / Writing as an Archive of the Unthinkable (Workshop)
What is memory? What is art? What is struggle? What is trauma? What wounds dwell in the subconscious, how is the subconscious structured as language and how do we write, if writing is a game of darts, where the arrows are boomerangs? What does it mean to use writing as an archive of the unthinkable, both in the past and the future? Why do we keep decorating the dinner table of the power which holds us hostage? What are the implications of mobilizing the necessary strength in order to fight for vulnerability?
In this workshop, we collectively explore how writing can be used as a way of transforming subjects and societies.
Photo: Khashayar Naderehvandi
Exhibition opening of photographic and documentary work of Ksenia Yurkova.
In our first FAR night school learning session of the fall 2018 semester, we will engage with social class, a concept that is often ignored in discussions of structural inequality in contemporary society. How do institutional settings (such as health care, school, work places) privilege and reward behaviour associated with certain class groups? How does class intersect with identity categories such as race, gender and sexuality? How can we question class-based barriers in our everyday lives (as a friend, family member, student, employee, consumer etc.)?
Ruskeat Tytöt Median RT LIT AKATEMIA -kirjoittajakoulu tarjoaa yhden päivän mittaisen, maksuttoman, kaikille avoimen journalistisen kirjoittamisen työpajan.
Our friends Efe and Warda are hosting a FREE DRAWING SESSION on Sunday 4th of February At Museum of Impossible Forms m{if}.
Everyone interested in drawing, painting or anything creative is welcome. Bring your own materials and come as you are. M{IF} will serve the facilities and some small drinks and snacks.
No previous experience is required and M{IF} will also have some drawing supplies available.
Reading and talk with editors of No play and Karolina Kucia and Minna Henriksson
The No play Feminist Training Camp took place in May and June 2016 at the nGbk in Berlin. The publication is an outcome of a collective process of editing and writing done by the working group; Annika Högner, Clara López Menéndez, Elis Hannikainen, Enna Gerin, Freja Bäckman, Vappu Jalonen, together with Bogg Johanna Karlsson through transcribing audio recordings, remembering, negotiating and storytelling. It is an assembly of materials from the No play Feminist Training Camp.