Fern Orchestra organises An Algae Art Happening, where you can experience the science and art collective's latest work, The Algae Diary, an audiovisual play about the life of the unicellular algae. The Algae Festival will also include a screening of the documentary film Algae Safari and participation in the Algae Jury, where the DNA data of organisms is listened to. You can also experience the installation Breath, which was seen at Lux Helsinki in 2019.

Holding on the Happening traditions, the public will be able to participate in the light art exhibition by painting glass slides of marine unicellular species in free workshops before the event itself. The works from the workshops will be projected on a PANI projector at the event after sunset.

You protect what you love, you love what you know, you know what you have learned. How do you love a single-celled alga invisible to the eye and why should you love it? The photosynthetic organisms of the oceans; algae and bacteria, produce half the oxygen on Earth. That's why protecting the oceans is so important. Most acts of love for the oceans are done on land. 

Fern Orchestra wants to celebrate marine organisms by promoting interspecies love; it is a bridge to a new worldview revision, essential for the continuity of humanity. Moreover, there is far too little talk of love. Ticket sales from the event will be donated to Baltic Sea conservation.

Working Group

Collaborators

Fern Orchestra, Art House Turku, Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland, The Baltic Sea Challenge, City of Turku and Turku City Theatre