Plaza of Unruly Peace

No more: RESTLESSNESS & POWER 
But: UNRULINESS & PEACE 

Towards peace in an unruly manner. Towards a more beautiful world for all. Unruly peace is letting go of control. Finding inner calm in the midst of the storm. Play that knows no boundaries. Encountering others with curiosity and without control. To learn how to navigate towards unruly peace, we need a compass. Let’s strengthen our inner skills and challen our own thinking to make the journey to a different future possible.  

The Plaza of Unruly Peace has four directions, or experience points, that can help us find unruly peace in our own lives and in the world. The experience points are: stop, let go, play and encounter. Navigate the square with the Unruly Peace Compass, which you can get on your phone.  

The Plaza of Unruly Peace is located opposite the Speakers’ Stage in the backyard of Konttori.  

The programme is mainly aimed at young people and adults, but children are also welcome.   

STOP  
Sat & Sun 12-19 Recordings and self-reflection / Fingo & Erika Eva  

Being in the moment is often difficult for us, living for the future, already planning the next step or reflecting on the past. We waste the life that is happening here because we are only living towards tomorrow’s goals. Sometimes we need moments of pausing from all the doing and all the going. Stopping helps us remember what is meaningful and that it can be found surprisingly close by. Sometimes all it takes is to take a breath to remember to be alive, here and now. 

LET GO 
Sat & Sun 12-16 Uncertain times companion cards / Fingo  
Sat & Sun 16.30-19 Paremmat Pidot maailmanlopun äärellä / Paremmat Pidot 

Let’s explore together whether it is possible to give up control and learn to better tolerate uncertainties. From an early age we learn to control our emotions, to walk the line and force ourselves and others into “normality”. Globally, control has been seen in the violent drawing of straight lines on the map of the continent and telling entire nations where they should live. It is thought that by anticipating ourselves and our environment, we will fare better. But that is not nature’s way. Nature is unruly!   

PLAY  
Sat & Sun 12-16 Future Poetry Workshop / KSL Study Centre  
Sat & Sun 16.30-19 Hardcore Punk Poetry Workshop / Eero Heinonen  

Let’s unleash our unruly creativity! Let’s write poetry, express ourselves and create something completely new. Imagining the future can be play. Play is an invitation to imagine something that has never been seen before. It offers endless possibilities to create. By planning for the future and anticipating risks, we often try to control time and the future. Would it be better to develop the ability to adapt and the capacity to flex? Play and creativity offer us a way to do that.   

ENCOUNTER  
Sat 12-16 Mediation simulation / Changemaker & FELM  
Sat 16.30-19 Radical encounter / Fingo  
Sun 12-19 Radical encounter / Fingo   

Navigating towards a shared peace, achieved through compassionate presence. Can we learn to let go of control, and instead encounter each other with authenticity and curiosity? How often do we meet a friend and proceed according to a pre-scripted dialogue? Or how often do we try to make the other conform to our own will? Has someone tried to change you, or give you preconceived labels or roles? What if we met others with curiosity, and accepted the fact that we don’t know exactly who they are, and can’t predict what happens in this moment?