Remixing Folk Feminisms in Oulu

Remixing Folk Feminisms reimagines folk traditions not as static heritage, but as living, adaptive practices that shape feminist, ecological, and social futures across Northern Europe.

Grounded in making, listening, and collective inquiry, Remixing Folk Feminisms foregrounds women’s traditional knowledges and vernacular practices as radical resources for the present - and for imagining more just futures.

Programme highlights

• Immersive, hands-on workshops to explore the meanings of everyday creativity, including through weaving, knitting, storying, crown-making, and other craft-based practices
• Bog somatics, an experiential form of environmental education rooted in embodied engagement with peatland ecologies
• Collaborative making and collective learning across disciplines, generations, and communities
• A curated exhibition presenting works developed during the week

Workshops are held in Finnish and English supporting a multilingual and transnational exchange of ideas, skills, and ways of knowing in facilitator languages.

Programme details and registration

Learn more about the workshops and register: www.remixingfolkfeminisms.com

Why Remixing Folk Feminisms?

This is an intersectional, gender-inclusive feminist space grounded in care, sustainability, and resilience. The programme centres everyday practices—craft, ritual, storytelling, and environmental attunement—as powerful sites of knowledge, relation, and transformation.

Rather than preserving the past, Remixing Folk Feminisms activates folk traditions, mobilising vernacular practices and ecological relations to rethink the present and cultivate feminist, ecological futures.

Join a community of makers, thinkers, and practitioners to reclaim, remake, and remix.

Workshops by Anna Hickey-Moody (Maynooth University, Ireland) · Brigita Ozolins (University of Tasmania, Australia) · Pearl Phelan (Maynooth University, Ireland) · Suvi Pihkala (University of Oulu, Finland) · Miriam von Schantz, (Konstfack university, Sweden) · Brigita Stroda (lastroda.com, Latvia) · Tiina Lempinen (University of Oulu, Finland) · Helena Ristaniemi and Arla Magga (Giellagas Institute, University of Oulu, Finland)

Remixing Folk Feminism is a programme organised by Mná le chéile – Women together; collective of artists and scholars from Finland, Ireland, Latvia and Sweden. For Remixing Folk Feminisms in Oulu, the collective teams up with Gender Studies at the University of Oulu, Finland. The program has been funded by Oulu Culture Foundation. Part of our programme is supported by University of Oulu Gradute School and University of Oulu profiling area Frontiers of Arctic and Global Resilience (FRONT).