For Choreographic Convention, Love Harvest curators Satu Herrala, Anna Karhu-Cormier, and Maija Mustonen invite the public to an intimate gathering evoking the senses with embodied practices, visual memories, herbal teas, and healing scents.
Love Harvest is a small, loving art festival celebrating the well-being of the land, plants, and bodies at Frantsila Organic Herb Farm and Hiukkanen village hall in Hämeenkyrö, Finland. The festival has been held twice, in 2024 and 2025, and the next one is planned to take place in the spring of 2028.
Choreographic convention parcours 3, 4
In collaboration with: rendezvous
Satu Herrala is a curator and researcher with a background in dance and choreography. She is interested in exploring how attuning to bodily coexistence informs ways of being, knowing and acting, and how collective action emerges from embodiment. Currently she is working on a doctoral research on embodied curating at Aalto University. Together with Anna Karhu-Cormier and Maija Mustonen she founded and co-curated Love Harvest Festival in 2024 and 2025. In 2021 with Hans Rosenström she co-curated a contemporary art programme A I S T I T / coming to our senses consisting of exhibitions, performances, discursive events and public art. 2015–2019 she worked as the artistic director and curator of Baltic Circle International Theatre Festival. Recently she has worked as a dancer with Biret Haarla Pieski and Pauliina Feodoroff. She often teachers at various art universities and mentors at Saari Residence, among other places.
Anna Karhu-Cormier is a multidisciplinary artist and botanist based in Finland. She specialises in sensory and site-responsive art, creating works that invite embodied and immersive experiences. She holds a Master’s degree from Falmouth University in England. Currently, she serves as Creative Director of the Frantsila Farm retreat centre, developing artistic practices rooted in plants, place, and human experience. Together with Satu Herrala and Maija Mustonen, she co-founded and curated the Love Harvest Festival in 2024 and 2025.
Maija Mustonen is an artist and curator based in Helsinki, Finland. Recent works by Mustonen and her collaborators have been presented at Sequences Art Festival in Reykjavík, SIC Gallery, Drifts Festival, Theatre Takomo, Outo olo, Kiasma Theatre and Kunsthalle Helsinki, as well as Tallinn Art Hall, Medūza Gallery in Vilnius and Titanik Gallery in Turku. She is currently developing a new work for Galleria Sinne. Mustonen is a founding member of the rendezvous association and space. She has curated for Mad House Helsinki and Love Harvest Festival and was part of Contemporary Art Space Kutomo’s artistic team. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki and a bachelor’s degree in dance and choreography from the Laban Centre in London. Mustonen is supported by a five-year working grant from the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.