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FX industry professional Calum MacDonald will be the next creative artist trying out Helsinglight AAiR - Alternative Artist in Residence at House of Helsinglight, 21th February-13th March 2020. Calum MacDonald is an FX industry professional based in Scotland where he runs Gibbet FX which provides FX Makeup.

This week I am going to introduce myself. My name is Emma Dzakula Karlsson and I have been working at Helsinglight for a few weeks.

We would like to introduce Fredrik Lindgren who has come to Helsinglight to do his thesis in prop making. From having a dream of becoming an orthopedic technician with Halloween as his favorite holiday, the interest in creating costumes and masks grew stronger. He therefore moved from Umeå to Skellefteå to begin his education in film design with prop making.

Mexican-British special effects designer and photographer Rubén Gerardo Alfaro Moreno and assistants Laura Alfaro Moreno & Monica Rodriguez Rodriguez also from México stayed at Helsinglight AAiR - Alternative Artist in Residence, 22- 30th November 2019. This is what they had to say about their stay and experience at House of Helsinglight.

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.