New directors have been appointed for Tampere Työväen Theatre. The theater's previous director, Otso Kautto, was fired last November.
To Tampere The new artistic director of Toyoväen Teatteri is Miko Jaakkola, 55 . He is currently the director of the Kotka City Theatre.
To start as the new managing director of the theater Janne Auvinen58. Auvinen comes to Tampere from Hämeenlinna, where he worked for five years as the CEO of the Verkatehdas event hall.
Last November redundant Take Kautto served as both artistic director and CEO.
In Kotka currently premiering in the fall Big Fish -musical director Miko Jaakkola says that he is deeply grateful for the choice.
“Yes, this feels good. This is a great opportunity to design software for such a prestigious house.”
Miko Jaakkola graduated from Teatterikorkeakoulu as a director in 2000 and, in addition to Kotka, has managed, for example, Takomo and Kajaani City Theatre. He worked in the management team of Tampere Teatterikesä from 2015 to 2018.
in TTT one of the biggest challenges is certainly finding a balance in software design, Jaakkola estimates. Työväen Teatteri has the status of a national stage, which obligates domestic first performances and a special artistic ambition.
At the same time, however, the stands should be filled. One of the reasons for Kauto's dismissal was the chairmanship of TTT's board Kai Hintsanen according to the fact that Kauto's software did not interest the public in the provinces enough.
How does this sound about a future artistic director?
“Finding the right balance in the software is the most important thing.”
Jaakkola says that he also wants to clarify the topics and contents of the performances so that the theater is a party in the dialogue that takes place in the surrounding world.
The upcoming cuts to cultural funds are worrying, but Jaakkola is nevertheless confident.
“I have more than twenty years of experience in management and I have been in a situation before where state contributions are reduced or the municipality cuts appropriations.”
It is also the case that culture must be defended. “Its importance and value must be brought out.”
The same Janne Auvinen, who was elected as the theater's managing director, agrees.
“Now we are making a lot of savings, which in the end will create more negatives than positives,” says Auvinen.
According to him, saving too much can lead to a fatal mistake.
“Here, this own domestic culture and its possibilities can be lost. The idea that culture is some kind of luxury product is really dangerous. When it is precisely the common property of the people.”
If culture is asked to be self-sufficient, it means handing over this national property to transnational ownership, says Auvinen.
“And when the cultural industries generate tax revenue just by providing employment, and the industry's input-output ratio is unbelievably good. So this so-called saving confuses me and seems completely counterintuitive.”
To Tampere In relation to Työväen Teatter, Janne Auvinen is, so to speak, not the first time a priest has been on board. The house is familiar through family: Auvinen's parents Vili Auvinen and Eila Roine both made significant careers in TTT.
Auvis has an “absurdly great feeling” about the new job.
“The Workers' Theater has always been very important to me. I've been there since I was a child, and it's remained a bit like home, which I've followed with interest even if I've been anywhere in the world.”
Auvinen says that he has joked that he works at TTT as an actor Teija Auvinen – who is his brother Tom's wife – with that there must always be at least one Auvine working in Työvis. He emphasizes that under no circumstances is he going to the house to reminisce about the past.
“Yes, I'm going to look forward to the future.”
Jaakkola and Auvinen will start their new positions in October.
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