Jasmine Alakari is a Finnish-Swedish multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and climate justice advocate working across sound, film, ritual, and performance.
Through water, voice, and storytelling, she explores how ecological grief, myth, and embodied listening can become forms of resistance and renewal. Her practice interlaces Karelian runo-singing and kantele (ancient finno baltic harp) with audio-visual media and spatial sound technologies to imagine new ways of relating to landscapes, rivers, and each other.
Jasmine is the founder of VEDEN VIRE, a long-term artistic and educational project in collaboration with SymbioticLab and MONOM studio, positioning water as co-composer and co-creator. She co-founded RiverLov, a platform for giving rivers legal and sonic agency, and has collaborated with Earthrise Studio, CultureCOP, New York Times Climate Hub and the Climate Heritage Network on projects presented at the Berlin Art Week, Spatial Festival, Funkhaus, Berghain, COP26 and COP27, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdk), among others.
Her background in film directing (MA at Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin DFFB) informs her narrative-driven approach, weaving cinema, performance, and sound into immersive experiences. Her debut feature film is currently in post-production.
Rooted in both Helsinki and Berlin, Jasmine’s work moves between performance stages, ecological field sites, and pedagogical contexts. A kantele player trained from childhood in the Tapiola Choir, she reimagines folk traditions as living, future-oriented practices.
She holds a Creative Climate Leadership certification (Julie’s Bicycle, 2023), a certificate in Indigenous Rights (Columbia University, 2020), and has studied at Sandberg Institute, Stockholm School of Dramatic Arts, and the Helsinki University of the Arts. Her works have been shown internationally at film festivals, museums, and cultural forums.
⋆｡ﾟ Recent works include performances and installations atSpatial Festival Berlin, Berlin Art Week, MONOM Studio, LIOS Labs Desert Residency.
⋆｡ﾟ Guest lectures, workshops, and intergenerational storytelling programs in Finland, Germany, and internationally.
⋆｡ﾟ Upcoming: a children’s songbook and workshop series (2026–2027) re-telling Kalevala myths through ecological and hydrofeminist perspectives.
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