ONGOING & UPCOMING EVENTS

Events 14th-16th Nov: updates coming soon!

Thu 15 August 7-10 pm: TkuÖpenMic (TÖM) club in Bar Ö, Linnankatu 7 Turku.
Special Guest Poets Katariina Vuorinen ja Ahmed Zaidan. After them there’s an open mic, you can sign up on the spot!
The August TÖM has for years now been a distinct, special and exceptional event, and so it is this year, too! Both the Guest Poets and the Open Mic -performers can use the house musicians who will improvise live music, either with the actual reading (you can wish for whatever you want, blues, noise, dewdrop chimes) or as their musical response to the poems right after each performance.
Note: Because of the music, there may not be so many slots in the open mic session as usually, so it’s best to arrive and sign up as soon as the event begins!
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Sat 10 August 2-10 pm: Littoisten riimijuhla
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Thu 9 May 7-10 pm: TkuÖpenMic (TÖM) club in Bar Ö, Linnankatu 7 Turku.
Special Guest Poets Pälvi Puro Rantala and Nóra Ugron.  After them there’s an open mic, you can sign up on the spot!

Nóra Ugron (she/they): Nóra is a poet, queer-feminist anarchist and anti-speciesist activist and a member of several radical left collectives in Romania and transnationally. They are a member of the queer–feminist literary circle Cenaclul X. She is the network coordinator at ELMO – Eastern European Left Media Outlet and a contributing editor at LeftEast. She has been involved in radical housing justice organising in the Social Housing NOW! movement in Cluj-Napoca. Their debut poetry collection in Romanian, ‘Orlando Postuman’ was published at Fractalia in 2022. She is a Doctoral Researcher in Gender Studies at the University of Turku, Finland starting in January 2022.

Pälvi Puro Rantala: “I’m a writer. I’m a thawer of frost. I am a snow clearer. I am a round ball of a reindeer wandering towards mystery. As darkness falls, I light up.”

Note: before TÖM, 6-6:45 pm, there is a poetic memorial event for the recently departed poet Kimmo Leijala (1984-2024). It’s also an open event. Welcome.

TÖM open mic clubs 2024:
Thu 6 June (in Villa Promenade in Ruissalo; more info coming later)
Thu 15 August in Bar Ö
Thu 12 September in Bar Ö
Thu 10 October in Bar Ö
Thu 14 November in Bar Ö
Thu 12 December in Bar Ö
(Dates and places may still change.)

Sat 11 May at 1-2 pm Hanami Poetry Workshop

Hanami Poetry Worskhop for you who like cherry blossoms and haiku poetry!
We will meet in front of the Turku Cathedral /  Tuomiokirkko at 1 pm and sit by the river, where one of our poets will tell you about the history and technique of haiku, the history of cherry trees in Japanese poetry, and will give you guidance and support to write your own haiku for the occasion. Don’t forget to bring something to write in!
In case of bad weather, the event will be moved to Kirjan talo, Nunnankatu, 4.
Your guide to Hanami and haiku will be Pan Tomé Hamilton.
Please sign up here
or contact us at runoviikko.ry@gmail.com if you have any questions!
Poems may be shared with your consent on online material and social media.
This event will take place in English.