Just a day before the legendary Provinssirock festival took off, Speech Karaoke aka Puhekaraoke celebrated its first appearance in Seinäjoki. The summer event was organised by Seinäjoen taidehalli (Kunsthalle Seinäjoki) coinciding with the opening of Noelia Mora Solvez’s great show “Farming”. In her video-works humans imitate animals, so in some odd way her work is… Read More
We searched our current database of 750 speeches for great FIRST OF MAY speeches. We found treasures covering the whole spectrum: from Olaf Palme (“Therefore I am a Social Democrat”), Auvi Suvinen (Anarchist Vappu Speech) all the way to Spede Pasanen. This fine selection and other great speeches could be heard at Secret Sauciety, our… Read More
Report about our trip to Gothenburg 16.8.-22.8.2021 Speech Karaoke Action Group (SKAG) participated in the Sparkplug festival organised by Status Queer, a local LGBTQAI+ organisation in Gothenburg. During the festival, SKAG organised a Speech Karaoke workshop and an event. Four members of SKAG Jenna Jauhiainen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Velda Parkkinen and Julius Valve. We arrived in… Read More
After a long time of very limited Speech Karaoke activities we are excited to be on the road again. Our small crew – Jenna, Velda, Julius and Oliver – will attend the Sparkplug festival that takes place at Galleri Box in Gothenborg. It is an event organized by a new initiative called statusqueer. More updates… Read More
Speech Karaoke turns 10 years today! Speech Karaoke resembles regular karaoke, but instead of a song you choose a speech from our karaoke list and perform it before a live audience from a speakers podium! The audience listens to the speaker and follows the karaoke video’s moving text from the projected screen. Our events are… Read More
The Love Me Gender theme night will address the current debate on gender diversity. We will hear karaoke speeches about human rights, identity politics, personal experiences and structural criticism. The Speech Karaoke Action Group has curated speeches for the night together with people who identify as minority genders, trans rights activists, Elina Nikulainen from Miehet… Read More
Bar U2 in Pihlajanmäki is the first location of our suburb tour in 2019/2020. We want to bring Speech Karaoke to different locations in the outer parts of Helsinki to reach new audiences. Welcome on 7.9. 19:00-21:00 at Bar U2, Pihjalanmäki Shopping Centre. Check back later for the rest of the tour dates.… Read More
Speech Karaoke returns to the National Theatre’s Lavaklubi from the summer break. The first Speech Karaoke of this season is dedicated to the utopian promises and world domination fantasies by the Silicon Valley bigshots and their neoliberal comrades around the world. It seemed the ideal pitch: the new “disruptive” technologies will make the world a… Read More
We are proud to continue our collaboration with the Skoltsámi Culture foundation. For the Helsinki Day a great program is planned with Films, Speech Karaoke and Disco. Joins us at Bar Tenho on June 12, 17:00-23:00 Tenho Restobar, Helsinginkatu 15, Helsinki, Suomi Kuva: Karl Nickul, Mari Korpimäki, Minna Moshnikoff… Read More
For the next Speechkaraoke event at Lavaklubi we have selected a theme that is responsible for a lot of new speeches: Climate Madness (aka Climate Change). We recorded some of the speeches at the last climate protest by young people in Helsinki. Beside the voices of young people we have included the granddaddy of the… Read More