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Sideways’ versatile selection of sideshows is now even larger.

As usual, the festival offers interesting panel discussions. This year the discussions are brought to you by the feminist magazine Tulva. Panelists will discuss the relationship between music industry and sexual minorities, as well as the #metoo movement.

Radio Helsinki will do live radio at the festival area. The programs Kotibileet and Njassa can be heard live at Nordis while spinning the wheel of fortune. The radio station YleX brings Kohupodi podcast, hosted by Sini Laitinen and Renaz Ebrahimi, to Sideways and discusses the music industry’s scandals interactively with the audience.

If speaking is more your thing than listening, Puhekaraoke (speaking karaoke) is the hing for you. Living memes coming up. And if physical memories and workshops sound like a thing for you, we recommend you to try the Midsummer Printing Studio, where you can print a T-shirt with natural dyeing colors.

Like before, the Sideways area will be filled with art. The street art collective Mimmit peinttaa will decorate the surroundings like on previous years. “Soundshrooms” allows you to create a summer soundscape by touching shroomy objects. Kira Orkasalo’s UV art will guide the audience to the Basement stage, and Meri Nyman’s deliciously colored artworks delight in the icehall.

Sideways partnered with the city of Helsinki in an innovation challenge through which Frame Rate has prepared an immersive “MUTATIONS” installation that lets people create their own song together with the artwork itself. Stereoscape, that also participated in the challenge, has developed Instagram filters that makes the festival experience even better with elements of augmented reality. Filters will be published soon!