”Poems, dance and songs help us balance all the traumas through hope.” Lölä Florina Vlasenko interviewed Iranian-born artist Shima Salehi.

What lies beneath the shiny surfaces of Capital of Culture project? Lölä Florina Vlasenko ruminates on the feelings of Oulu artists and cultural workers on the ground level. [The article is written in March 2026.]

During her Mustarinda residency, Riah Knight created strategies of survival. She writes about how we could learn from traditional Romani practices.
Artikkeli on julkaistu suomeksi printti-Kaltiossa.

Katariina Lillqvist has been directing her new animation at Liminka Art School, where her script was also turned into a graphic novel in 2024. Lölä Vlasenko talked to Lillqvist and artist–teacher Tessa Astre about Roma history and creating art.

Lölä Florina Vlasenko sat down with four people of different backrounds to discuss Oulu Theatre’s play Perillä – Destination – الوصول إلى. The article is published in Finnish in print version of Kaltio.

Ján Skaličan stayed in Mustarinda artist residency in March 2025. He ruminates how the experience affected his state of mind. The Finnish translation tof the column is published in the printed Kaltio.

Lölä Florina Vlasenko writes about TaideTurvapaikka, a community art project started at Oulu refugee center in 2023. The article is published in Finnish translation in the printed Kaltio 1–2/2025.

Artist and curator Cynthia Blanchette resided in Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, for one spring month in 2023, hunting for the bog eyes.
Julkaistu suomeksi painetussa lehdessä.

Kenneth Mikko visited Arkhangelsk in September, and happened upon an Arctic Art Forum. What goes on within contemporary art in North-Western Russia? Read and find out. (Suomenkielinen käännös valmistuu myöhemmin.)

Among different martial arts, Wing Chun is one of the less known ones, at least in Finland. Milla Koramo, who has been practising Wing Chun for a couple of years, wanted to find out more about her art.