a circus artist hangs upside down from the roof of a abandoned store space, a woman dressed as a cleaning person holds a red bucket

Flow Productions

26.8. – 12.12.2026

Flow Productions is a long-standing partner of Oulu August Festival, bringing both domestic and foreign top contemporary circus performances as well as its own productions to the Festival’s program.

In the European Capital of Culture year, Flow Productions together with Oulu Theatre creates a new immersive piece, Faravid’s Land. Premiere is in 27 August 2026.

Faravid's Land takes place in the mythical Kvenland. Through its mix of fantasy and imagined realities the work takes on such themes as stories and storytelling, roots, identity, and locality. It tells the tale of ruthless and at times desperate survival. What bargains are we willing to strike with ourselves and our environment to find and keep happiness? Do we not miss a ruler to reign over us? Or, in their absence, do we not want at least some comforting or amusing tale that would explain our world and make it all right?

In the world of myths, the boroughs of Oulu, well-worn sayings, the spirits and giants of a lost place as well as the local fauna – humans included – are all searching for their origins. To escape Kalevala only to end up in Shit Towne. How? The immersive form gives every viewer the chance to create their own origin myth by following the paths of their choosing. The way is paved in turn by an all-encompassing Darkness and unruly laughter which dispels it.

A myth is a story or a belief that explains things we have no first-hand knowledge of, or which we have no way of verifying.

Faravid’s Land is a work that combines theatre, dance, and contemporary circus to create a semi-fictional, mythical past for Oulu and Northern Finland. It is written by Eira Virekoski and directed by Alma Lehmuskallio and Pirjo Yli-Maunula. It is an immersive performance (ie. the audience is an active participant in a performance that unfolds all around them) that will not be performed in the theatre, but instead in a previously unseen performance space within the city.

Faravid’s Land is a large-scale, site-specific immersive performance that is created in cooperation between Oulu Theatre, Flow Productions, and Finnish and international collaborators.

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Flow Productions' trademarks are new circus performances and immersive, multidisciplinary artworks. The artistic director of Flow Productions, Pirjo Yli-Maunula, aims to create meaningful and shared experiences for the audience that resonate with the viewer personally.