Helsinglight's blog: Discover a creative and magical world

Spökpodden -crowned as one of Sweden's best new podcasts 2019 will be visiting Helsinglight on 11-12 January 2020 to record some episodes with us! Such an incredibly exciting collaboration! Spökpodden is founded by Martin Nilsson & Oscar Panizza and is a podcast with medial and occult guests as well as supernatural stories.

Mexican-British special effects designer and photographer Rubén Gerardo Alfaro Moreno will be the next creative artist at Helsinglight AAiR - Alternative Artist in Residence, 22- 30th November 2019.

Photographer and Developer Carl Öst Wilkens will be the next creative artist trying out Helsinglight AAiR - Alternative Artist in Residence at House of Helsinglight, 9th-16th November 2019.

We are currently in the midst of massive renovations at House of Helsinglight and we’re running a bit behind schedule with some crucial stages with the heating system that we need to finish before winter arrives. We have therefor taken the decision that we unfortunately need to cancel the upcoming workshops we had planned in for the end of year and postpone them til the year 2020!

We decided we want to share another creative vision and project of ours that we have been working on and planning for a while. Our work, dreams and goals with Helsinglight is to create an unique and alternative cultural destination. A destination where people from all over the world can come to create, live or visit with unique conference and event possibilities too. The very first house we're in the planning progress of now, is to build and create the "Baba Yaga hut", inspired by the tale of the witch Baba Yaga, in the Slavic Folklore.

So here’s the thing. I went to Helsinglight at an incredibly stressful time in my life. I am effectively homeless and fighting for a divorce. I also happen to be working on an art series depicting my own experiences of struggling with mental illness. I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect before going to Helsinglight.

"I was supposed to be in Canada now"… Those were my thoughts as I got off the plane at the tiny airport Stockholm Skavsta. I was terrified, but also excited - having no idea what I'm doing here or what Helsinglight really will be like. A few months before, while scrolling through facebook I found one of those sponsored adverts about an Alternative Artist in Residence, AAiR program.

During the autumn and winter, we will introduce new courses and workshops at House of Helsinglight. Everything from the creation of masks in silicone, loose parts (prosthetics), casting of the face in plaster (Lifecasting), fantasy hat making course, basic course in burlesque, etc.

During the month of July in the summer of 2019 we left our routines, habits and distractions in Stockholm and spent three weeks at the ”Alternative Artist in Residence" at Helsinglight. We got the opportunity to reflect and experiment with our respective expressions and styles. Calle - a photographer and Ivoncita - an artist and performer