Name: The Rain Theatre
Start: 2025-08-16T11:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-08-16T14:00:00+03:00
Location: Töölön kirjasto

The Rain Theatre is a multi-sensorial experience that aims to bring the science of cloud formation and rainmaking closer to families and young audiences.
Water, coming from the abundant rains, is the blood that flows in the Amazon. Human action, ubiquitous nowadays not only alters essential natural mechanisms like the water cycle but also causes biodiversity loss, displaces indigenous communities, threatening knowledge and symbiotic ways of living with Nature. Combining storytelling with all our senses will translate into a universal language, as we aim to create awareness about one of the most important phenomena that take place in the Amazon, and elsewhere: Rain.
This performance is adapted to welcome pairs of one child and one adult. We invite not only parents, but grandparents, older siblings, uncles, aunts and non-blood-related families to join children in this journey that combines participatory science experimentation, storytelling in Portuguese and Spanish and visual and sound arts. During the performance, we ask children and adults to engage, empathise and help to restore the unbalance created by humans in the Amazon and bring the rain back.
When: 16.08.2025 at 11:00 & 13:30.
Duration of each performance: ~ 30 min
Where: Töölö Library | Topeliuksenkatu 6, 00250 Helsinki.
Language: Portuguese and Spanish. Interaction after the
performance can be conducted in Portuguese, Spanish, English and German.
Audience: Children (recommended age 3-8) accompanied by an adult.
Limited capacity.
Registration is mandatory: Participants must register in advance using the following link: https://forms.office.com/e/6zH11xzwAG
Please complete a registration for every child attending.
Free entry.
Join us!

About the Artists: “Mandarina Collective”:
Mandarina Collective became real in 2020 when Helsinki-based Ana Álvarez Piedehierro (ES), Ina Fiebig (DE) and Ines Montalvao (PT), were selected to perform in a multilingual Children’s Festival.
The collective is passionate about different but also common fields and, in their work together, they combine their knowledge of Science, Illustration and Experience Design with their passion for communication and a cross-disciplinary approach.
Instagram profile: @mandarina.collective