• On a 1-year artist's grant (for stage work) from the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Svenska kulturfonden) 2011-12.
• Acted, played banjos, electric bass, guitar and organ, and devised music for Gimme Another Country @ the Universum Theatre, (The first part of the trilogy looked like this.) which premiered 11.10.2011. (photos here) (recension här (Radio Vega) och här (Nytid) )
• Touring with Teater Taimine's Stjärnornas sång and Thomas & Tryggve/Tuomas & Tero, as well as production duties.
• ...studying teaching... (Öppna universitet: grund pedagogik, och yrkespedagogik på Åbo akademi)
• Taught acting for camera at the vocational school Västra Nylands Folkhögskola.
• Attended Teatro Punto's MODERN COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE WORKSHOP in Paris summer of 2011.
• Directed Anna Krogerus' play Isän talviuni (Pappa går i ide) @ Wasa Teater; also sound and music. Recension i Hbl - blog om föreställningen

 

• Performed as actor and musician in Teater Taimine's Stjärnornas sång , as well as Thomas & Tryggve (220+ performances since 2003), and 'Var är Anttes vantte?' (Where is Antte's mitten?) at Svenska teatern (The Helsinki Swedish Theatre)
• Directed and recorded music for audio teaching material for the Finnish Ministry of Education. (3 x 30 min pieces on Thales, Aristoteles and Descartes).
• Taught acting for camera at the vocational school Västra Nylands Folkhögskola.
• Directed preproduction of a touring production of Anna Krogerus' Isän talviuni (Pappa går i ide) for Wasa Teater, to premiere in September 2011.
• Acted in Tommy Seitajoki's short film 'Djurens dag', a Kinoproduction Oy.

• Acted in and contributed to the text of Teater Mars' drama production Faster Else's liv - och andra historier, directed by Joakim Groth which premiered 11th October and was performed 16 times at Universum.
• Sound and music production for the Taimine Theatre's touring production for elementary schools Leka skogen, directed by Paul Olin and written by Malin Kivelä. The premiere was 29th September, and the production is touring all over Finland 2010-11.
• Acting, music production, arrangement and live performance, poster design for and sales of Stjärnornas sång ('The song of the stars'), a touring production for pre-schoolers, premiered 10th September in Helsinki. 26 performances this autumn.Here's a review.
• Friends from London, Astronautswithmicrophones, came over to Helsinki, and we played at Bar Loose. Here's a little mention of that and a review of their three track demo.

• A track from Emil Brynge's 4th EP is included in the compilation CD We Bring You A King With A Head Of Gold: Dark Britannica II (Cold spring)
• Acts in the Kinoproduction TV film En kväll på krogen, directed by Joakim Groth.
• Works as a cameraman on the artist portrait of veteran actor Fred Negendanck for the FST/Finnish Broadcasting Company.
• Works 4 months as a teaching assistant at Sysmän Yhteiskoulu (Sysmä jr high school and high school) assisting with English, Swedish and drama education.
• ...and rehearses, makes music and the poster for, and sells, Stjärnornas sång ('The song of the stars') (see above).

• Works on Lettie's 3rd album with Mike Mason in Oxford, providing guitars, bass, autoharp and other instruments. HERE'S ONE TRACK FROM THE UNRELEASED ALBUM - here's two more.
• Records and mixes Emil Brynge's 4th E.P.
• Live performances with Lettie, Erin Lang & the Foundlings (with Roger O'Donnell (ex-The Cure) on keyboards), Emil Brynge, and others.. VIDEO: W/ ERIN LANG @ THE LUMINAIRE - VIDEO: W/ I.V WEBB @ 12 BAR
• Records guitars, bass and sitar for Anne Nikitin's scores for Channel 5/National Geographic's Banged Up Abroad, National Geographic's Journey To The End Of The Universe, and two BBC documentaries.
• Short film The Engineers (see below) is shown at the Helsinki International Film Festival (Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa)

• Oskar directs a 7min radio drama piece for Finnish Broadcasting Co. and conducts a workshop on directing actors for media students at the Arcada Institute in Helsinki.
• Shoots and edits for Pain In The Reel Productions: one 7min TVitem for Finnish Broadcasting Corp. about driving schools and the increasing pollution in Shanghai, a corporate recruitment video for Wagas Cafés in China and an aborted 45min documentary project.

 

• directs Nils Karlsson-Pyssling, a classic short story by Astrid Lindgren, now in music theatre format, at the 300-seater Turku Swedish Theatre. Premiered 5.1.2008. Read a review (in swedish)

"Oskar Silén has drilled the boys to an exact and disciplined performance that they execute with concentration and stage presence. ... [Stage designer] Ahlqvist and Silén serve up a good amount of clever solutions." Bror Rönnholm ÅU 8.1.2008

• The short film The Engineers recieves an Honourable Mention at the Kettupäivät film festival in Helsinki, and is aired on Finnish TV the same week as part of the Råfilm (Raw film) short film series.