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Kehä Festival 2025
Kehä Festival 2024 at Valve, Photographer Anniina Kettunen
Kehä is an annual festival, where all the works are produced for one experiencer at a time. The works take in viewers in care institutions and at an open event at the Culture Centre Valve in Oulu.
Festival open to the public
16. – 18.10.2025
Culture Centre Valve, Oulu
ILME has been organising Kehä Festival since 2015. In most years, the Kehä Festival has had a theme that challenges us to explore one-to-one art from a certain angle. In 2025, the theme will be Travel.The cultural cooperative ILME has been organising Kehä Festival since 2015.
In 2025, the Kehä Festival will celebrate its tenth anniversary!
Sharing experiences between artists is an essential part of the festival.
Kehä Festival 2025, orientation day, Photographer Anniina Kettunen. We will have a joint orientation day on 14.10.2025 in Oulu. Artists will also be able to experience other artists’ works as part of the festival.
ARTWORKS IN CARE COMMUNITIES
ILME’s aim is to promote accessibility to art and culture and the realisation of cultural rights. The Kehä Festival brings art to communities that are easily excluded from arts and cultural services or face challenges in accessing the arts. Kehä’s works will embark on a care institutions tour on 15.10.2025.
Maima Tani: Merivuokko at care institution tour. Photographer Anniina Kettunen
Symposium: One-to-One Art in care communities
What does one-to-one art have to offer in care environments — now and in the future? A meeting for professionals and students from the art world and social and health sector. Anyone interested is welcome.
Symposium at Cultural Centre Valve at 16.10.2025.
We invite artists from all over Europe who work from a one-to-one art perspective, social and health workers who believe in the potential of art, and all those interested to join us in the Kehä.
Kehä Festival goes international
In 2024 and 2025, Kehä-Festival will be organised as a part of the One-to-One Art project, which has been awarded Creative Europe funding for the period 1.11.2023 – 30.4.2026. The City of Oulu will also support the project. ILME’s partners in the project are the theatre group Gato Escaldado from Lisbon, Portugal, and the residency operator House collective from Klanjec, Croatia. In each country, different ways of bringing one-to-one art to the public will be developed during the project.
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A European portal for one-to-one art is now open!
The portal will gather in one place the relevant information of organisations, collectives, artists, residencies and festivals focusing on one-on-one artworks around Europe. On the notice board you will find information of upcoming open calls, events and other initiatives.
You can find the portal from here
Kehä Festival takes place in Oulu, Culture Centre Valve
Address
Hallituskatu 7
90100 Oulu
