Children’s Theatre Festival

The idea behind the festival is very simple: to offer the best possible professional performances for children in Oulu. For us, a child is valuable not only as a future audience member, but also here and now, at their current age.

We ourselves are so excited about the potential of theatre to influence thinking, one’s experience of oneself and others, one’s notion of beauty and the connection between people that we want people of all ages to be part of this magic circle. A capacity for imagination, empathy and broader thinking is something all people of all ages need.

Curiosity is what unites the festival’s creators and attendees: what wondrous and weird things can we create together today? We want to feed this curiosity, to celebrate imagination and to remind us all what a miracle every human being is. A miracle can be a flower pot that magically disappears on stage, but it can also be a very ordinary thing: people’s experience of not being alone.

At best, during and after a theatre performance, it feels as if you are not the only one who has this specific experience or thought, which allows you to perceive something shared, and this is a source of comfort and relief.

A play may ask you to watch quietly, or loudly ask you to participate at every turn so that your participation will affect the course of the performance.

It can make you cry or laugh, or make you amazed, astonished or silent. In any case, it will not be finished until you have experienced it: when it has been combined with your unique thoughts, emotions and experiences of the world. Without you, there is no performance. You matter.

Artistic director
Alma Lehmuskallio
044 703 7011

Production manager
Sari Tanner
044 703 7113

Group reservations
Kristiina Vaali 
050 389 1340