Speech Karaoke starts it’s 2018 season at Lavaklubi with a controversial topic: The “Sami Issue” – it is about the problematic relationship between the indigenous people of the Fennoscandic Peninsula and the newcomers to the area (aka the Finns), a history that is too easily sweeped under the carpet. While this event must address the failure of the Finnish state to properly deal with the issue, the evening also tries to make the Sami issue more complex than it is often portrait. It is a mistake to think of Sami people as a homogenic group, there are divisions, and difference in opinion, there are progressive voices and conservative ones, radical and poetic ones, sometimes all in one. We will have speeches in Northern Sámi, Inari Sámi and Skolt Sámi. The event is held a day after the Sámi independence day.

Speeches and comments are heard from people such as Petra Laiti, Suohpanterror-taidekollektiivi, Árvaleaddji, Pirita Näkkäläjärvi, Mikko Kärnä, Outi Pieski, Kari Kyrö, Tiina Sanila-Aikio…

The music is provided by smooth king of italo disco, DJ Nosfe! The club is free of charge!