Cooperative

Pohjois-Karjalan kansanteatteri Pokka is a performing and applied arts cooperative and performing arts collective founded in 2019.

Pokka produces theatre, events, performing arts, projects and training in Eastern Finland. At the core of the cooperative members’ professional skills and interests are inclusion, community, accessibility, social impact, interdisciplinarity and collaboration with other sectors.

All of Pokka’s activities are based on seven pillars of values.

1. Content above action. Pokka is driven by strong intrinsic motivations. Pokka does not act for external reasons. The content of its activities is always in line with Pokka’s values.
2. Accessibility of art. The focus is on bringing art to the people. Art belongs to everyone.
3. Respect for the people. Pokka minimises hierarchical structures. In Pokka, everyone is genuinely equal.
4. Ecology. Pokka is committed to the principles of sustainability, environmental ethics and ecology.
5. Trust and presence. In Pokka, everyone has the right to be met and heard as themselves.
6. Peaceful citizen activism. Pokka takes a stand on current social issues and phenomena across the spectrum of humanity. Pokka offers alternatives to a money-driven world, unsustainable consumption patterns and the illusion of constant economic growth. Pokka’s work combines gentle anarchism with a discursive questioning of structures and ways of thinking.
7. Promoting a better and fairer world through art. Pokka believes in the power of art to heal the world and accelerate human spiritual evolution. Art can reach the unexplainable, illuminate the unattainable in science. From the equal alliance of art and science, a deeper understanding is born, a truthful entity, in whose light man sees the world, himself and others more clearly.