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A
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T
he people of Helsinki go in for
sports and exercise energetically
both indoors and out, with a total
over 9 million visits recorded at the
City?s Sports Department?s sports facilities every year.
?Among adults, the favoured forms of
exercise are walking, bicycling and swimming,? explains Tellervo Kivisaari, head
of communications at City of Helsinki
Sports Department. ?Young people and
children also do a lot of cycling; among
team sports, their favourites include football and floorball, which has gained great
popularity in recent years.?
Along with more than 800 sports clubs
available, offering some 100 sports for
residents to enjoy, a significant portion
of the city?s residents enjoy sports and
exercise independently. The main network of walking paths around town is
Above: Ice Park (top) and Kivikko Ski Hall
about 350 km in length and is also used
provide outdoor winter sporting options both
by joggers and bikers. The City has also
out in the open and also inside.
about 1,000 km of bike paths.
The Sports Department is in charge of some 70 sports halls, including ice-skating rinks
Oulunkylä and Pirkkola, four swimming halls and one riding hall. There are also nine
swimming pools which are run by corporations with support from the City. The Sports
Department has also around 350 sports fields, many of them are used for ice-skating
in the winter, and is also responsible for two outdoor swimming pools and 28 beaches.
Winter exercise
Now that lazing about on the sand under the sun has become a distant memory, just
what is on offer for the sporting enthusiast during these colder months?
?Ice skating is one of the most popular wintertime activities in Helsinki,? Kivisaari
notes. ?Skating in Helsinki is easy and fun, as most of the ice skating rinks here are
free or very cheap.? The Sports Department is responsible for seven artificial ice-skating rinks all over the Helsinki (Kallio, Kontula, Käpylä, Lassila, Oulunkylä, Pukinmäki
and Railway Station Square?s Ice Park) and dozens of natural rinks.
For skiers, enthusiasts can enjoy a wide network of some 200 km of maintained tracks around the city, with the main focus being in the Paloheinä
area where there is a very popular skiing centre. However, if you are not willing to brace the chilly weather outside then try Kivikko ski hall, offering
some 800 metres in total of ski tracks indoors, with a width of 6-8 metres.
Itäkeskus Swimming Hall is one of four swimming
halls the City is in charge of.
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Issue 10 2013
Top 5
things on our
mind this month...
ndependence Day Reception hits the road
What do Finland?s Presidential Castle in Helsinki
and the Tampere Hall have in common? Surely
many things, but currently particularly the fact
that the Presidential Reception on 6 December
will take place in the latter instead of the former
as is usually the case, and the reception programme has been adapted as well.
The cost of ?getting to know Southeast Asia?
You need a team of 19 travellers, because if there
are fewer, the total cost of the trip ? not one cent
of which comes from your own pocket ? would
not soar to 223,513 euros, in which case the cost
of the eight bottles of wine reserved for a dinner
? totalling 1,680 euros ? might look worse. The
details were quoted from YLE, but the recipe was
masterminded by the big shots at Keva (former
Local Government Pensions Institution).
After-thought on the above
?Why, oh why, did I grow up a loser who will
never, ever, get so much as one chance to enjoy
anything of the sort??
Country kind of love eclipsing urban urges
New research results by the Family Federation of
Finland back up former findings stating that the
hustle-bustle and stress associated with urban
life tends to deteriorate happiness in relationships, whereas those who live in the country have
more time for one another.
How about that friendly word or a pat on the back?
Finally, here is what we found a good quote by
a family counsellor in Pori, in an YLE interview:
?There are people out there who have been taken over by malice. But you cannot make a mean
person kinder by being mean to him or her.?
Every day, all of us, we do need a little bit of kindness to carry on and lead happy lives. And there?s
no need to wait for the other person to take the
initiative.
Mika Oksanen
Word on the
street
What are your special
plans for Christmas?
Lia (31): ?I do not have a special plan for
Christmas but for sure I?ll enjoy it with my brother
and friends here in Finland! I will also cook
traditional ham bread from my home country,
Venezuela. Yummy!?
Silvia (30): As a foreigner, my first plan is to come
back to Spain, where I?ll spend that time with
family and friends. We?ll dinner together, talk and
give presents to each other. For me, Christmas is
the perfect time to have fun and to relax with the
ones you love?.
Marcia (28): My special plan for Christmas this
year is going to be trying to come with a special
plan for Christmas, because I haven?t planned
anything at all yet? Otherwise I see myself
toasting with my cat and my parents on Skype!
Sanni (23): During Christmas I?m going to spend
time with my family, eat a lot and watch the BBC?s
Pride and Prejudice series with my sisters!
Compiled by Eva Blanco.
A year in the life of
Finland
Nick Barlow
JANUARY
The first day of the year saw Finland cut the number of
municipalities in the country from 336 to 320. Rumours of
cutbacks in local services in many areas proved well-founded.
Also, the country?s biggest newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat,
changed its size from broadsheet to tabloid. In true Finnish
fashion, no-one cared.
FEBUARY
A 10,000 tonne meteorite entered the earth?s atmosphere
and exploded over Chelyabinsk Oblast in southern Russia
with the force of 500 kilotons of TNT. On the same day
Asteroid 2012 DA14 passed Earth at a distance of merely
27,700 km. We?re all doomed! Where?s Bruce Willis when
you need him?
MARCH
Finland?s first ever ?citizen?s initiative? parliamentary vote
? a proposed ban on fur farming debated after well over
50,000 people signed an online petition calling for it ? was
comprehensively rejected by parliament, leading to suggestions
that maybe our politicians actually couldn?t care less what the
people want. As if!
APRIL
Team unique of Finland won the synchronised skating 2013
World Championships in Boston. Finland has only missed out
twice on a top-three place since the competition started in 2000,
but still, who knew, right?!
MAY
Two Finns and one Austrian held captive in Yemen since
December 2012 are released. Finland?s Foreign Ministry
makes a surprise recommendation that Finns do not travel
to that country, a mere five months too late.
JUNE
The sun rises in Lapland and remains up for a couple of months,
as cinefiles flock to Sodänkylä to celebrate the Midnight Sun
Film Festival; five days of fantastic films, special guests and
disorientating daylight.
JULY
Finland was closed, like every year.
AUGUST
Whistleblower Edward Snowden received temporary asylum
in Russia and had to leave the airport he was holed up in. His
time as a de facto Tom Hanks comes to an end.
SEPTEMBER
Russia arrests 30 Greenpeace activists including one Finn and
locks them up on trumped-up piracy charges. Months pass
before they are freed on bail. Decent people the world over
protest, and quite right too. Also, Microsoft buys Nokia?s mobile
phone business. We?re doomed (again)!
OCTOBER
No round-up would be complete without a mention of a
member of The Finns party doing something stupid. This year
it?s James Hirvisaari who was photographed giving a Nazi
salute in the Finnish Parliament. He was expelled from his party
as a result, which is something of an achievement in itself.
NOVEMBER
The fallout from an YLE documentary that ?exposed? racist
behaviour in Finland continues. Research shows negative
attitudes towards immigrants prevail. Non-European
immigrants are unsurprised.
DECEMBER
The Finnish Christmas season gets off to a raucous start as the
police are summoned hundreds of times to pikkujoulu (?Little
Christmas?) parties. ?Alcohol explains most of the call-outs,?
understates a police spokesman.
Finnish After Dark
Learning the Finnish they don?t teach in school
David Brown and
Mimmu Takalo
Finnish: Yhdet (note plural!)
English equivalent: A quick one (i.e. drink)
There is no such thing as one drink in Finland, which is why the word for one drink is always in the plural. As in going for a quick
ones. That may not make any sense, but after the third pint it probably will, particularly after you?ve forgotten that you told your
boyfriend you?d meet him and his parents for that special dinner.
?
?
Lähetkö yksille töitten jälkeen?
No, joo. Yhdet ei olis pahitteeks. Mut sen täytyy sit jäädä siihen. Mulla on tärkee kokous aamulla.
?
?
Fancy a pint after work?
Sure?one can?t hurt. But I have to go after that ? I?ve got that big conference in the morning.
Check out our interview with FAD?s creators on page 8.
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Keeping the routine
James O?Sullivan
N
www.dailyroutines.typepad.com
?
CANNES
Finland
The daily rhythms of history?s greatest
figures have been revealed.
EXT time your alarm goes off first thing in the morning,
maybe it?s not time to put on your slippers and shuffle off
to the breakfast table, before jumping into the shower and
heading off to work surrounded by the eerie silence that befalls
public transport first thing in the morning.
Why not walk in the same footsteps of Winston Churchill,
sipping on a whiskey at 11:00 am, followed by a big and boozy
lunch, and tucking into another whiskey at 5:00 pm. If that?s not
your, ah, cup of tea ? or in fact you do fancy a cuppa of a morning,
how about doing as Stephen King does: drinking tea or glass of
water and sitting down at the same desk to commence writing each
day sometime between 8-8:30 am.
Others, such as author Haruki Murakami, prefer to be up at
4:00 am and getting to work straight away for 5-6 hours, before
rounding the day off with a 10 km run, or 1,500 m swim.
Up until recently, all this and more has been compiled at the
Daily Routines blog, with a book recently replacing the website
and making itself comfortable on bookshelves, entitled Daily
Rituals: How Artists Work. Documenting the daily rhythms of the
likes of Vladimir Nabokov, Benjamin Franklin, Jasper Johns,
Franz Kafka and Ingmar Bergman, take solace in your own
eccentricities with the fact that some of history?s greatest names
aren?t bothered to mow the lawn or take the day off work to attend
their wedding day. Or just get on with it and dance to the rhythm
of your own drum, the way you always have.
Tell me about your
city...
James O?Sullivan
O
FFERING even more quality content in English, Helsinki
Times recently signed an agreement with Helsingin Sanomat
to cooperate.
Now readers can enjoy selected Helsingin Sanomat articles,
translated from Finnish into English, on the Helsinki Times website
and in the print edition, published weekly. This cooperation, which
includes the use of pictures and graphics, kicked off earlier this
month.
As a result of the agreement, the Helsinki Times website has
become part of HS.fi, and the titles of English articles feature on
the Helsingin Sanomat web page.
?Through the quality journalism of Helsingin Sanomat, we can
serve our international readers even better,? states Helsinki Times?
editor-in-chief Alexis Kouros.
Established in 2007, Helsinki Times arrives to newstands
around the country each Thursday. Reaching members of the
community who desire to have their news available in English,
the paper is also available on 350 Finnair flights each week.
Further good news, in addition to this latest development, Kouros
recently inked a deal that allows Helsinki Times to publish content
from the Washington Post and its affiliates.
www.helsinkitimes.fi
How well do you know Christmas in Finnish?
Valérie Brun
Pronounced ?kan?, here is a
luxurious small town in the southeast of France. Historically being
just a fishing village used as a port
of call between the Lérins Islands, it
has quickly evolved into one of the main tourist destinations today.
I?m not officially ?Cannoise? but I lived there for over nine years
and I can say that it?s a beautiful place; certainly not a boring
city for a fruitful vacation: Culture, history, warm Mediterranean
climate, food, beaches, scenery, romantic settings?you can find
it all right here.
Located in the south and surrounded by other small neighbouring
towns such as Juan Les Pins, Antibes and Nice, among others,
here you can expand your excursion discovering colourful
architecture and absorb its rich culture.
For a romantic time, hold hands and visit ?Le Suquet? which is
the old quarter of Cannes and original fisherman?s residential area.
Their steep streets were laid out over 400 years ago and as you walk
up them, you will end up at the clock tower and church from which
you will be hypnotised by a spectacular view over ?La Croisette?,
the main city?s boulevard displaying luxurious hotels over long and
sandy beaches? You can end your evening by having a candlelight
dinner at one of the many restaurants located at Rue St Antoine;
their menus are certainly pricey, but absolutely worth it.
As for entertainment, Cannes is famous for their annual Cannes
International Film Festival that takes place every month of May.
This festival was founded in 1946 and quickly became one of
the most prestigious and publicised film festivals of the world.
The city?s rhythm changes during the festival, giving a sort of
international vibe, and makes you feel you might run into a
celebrity in a moment?s notice. The boulevard is full of people
surrounding the Festival Palace checking out who?s walking on the
red carpet, while journalists and photographers are busy at work.
For us who live in Finland, and sometimes feel a desperate
need of a warmer climate, Cannes is a perfect choice, an oasis of
warm Mediterranean climate; even if we go in the wintertime, the
temperature there remains mild and pleasant. As for the locals
who crave for cold and snow, they are only a one-hour-drive away
from Valberg, a big Winter Sport Tourist station situated in the
South Alpes where people go spend their weekends and ski?
As you can see, there?s something for everyone! But here?s a tip: if
you happen to go to Cannes your Italian skills will be ironically more
appreciated than your English ? or better yet, use your French!!!
Criminal case?
1. present
3. Santa Claus
5. snow
7. porridge
9. crib
2. elf
4. candle
6. sleigh
8. gingerbread
10. mulled wine
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We Met
Taking
on a new
Issue 10 2013
meaning
This trio finds nothing to fear (and plenty to smile about) After Dark with the local lingo.
James O?Sullivan
S
ITTING with David Brown, Mimmu Takalo
and Juan Hernández, stories and jokes flow
thick and fast. Language trainers in English
(Brown) and Finnish (Takalo), two thirds of the
trio are responsible for 6D?s ongoing Finnish
After Dark column for the past few years. Now
it?s time to unleash their alternative dictionary
to the masses, with Hernández providing visual
interpretation for their new book, which compiles
a number of their more memorable entries.
We sat down with them to hear how it all came
about, what words they have not been able to use
for the column and discover just what constitutes
a boy-man-girl.
You?re all from outside of Helsinki, what
originally brought you all to the Capital
Region?
David Brown: [laughs] Need you ask?
Mimmu Takalo: Love.
Juan Hernández: I came as a student here ? but
I have stayed because of love.
MT: I met my spouse on a train from Tampere
to Jyväskylä. He was from Helsinki and came to
Tampere for six months to live, and then it was
my turn. And here we are.
DB: The same with my wife. We met in India.
She came to New Zealand for two years and now
12 years in Helsinki, so yeah, very fair, balanced
and equitable.
MT: Your locations are a bit more exotic than
mine. But the same thing. [laughs]
JH: I was a student in Aalto University. I was
there one year and then I met Georgia, from
Greece. Then I decided to stay as she?s studying
her master?s here.
Where did the idea come from for Finnish
After Dark?
DB: Well, we were in a bar?
MT: No we weren?t.
DB: Okay, we were not in a bar.
MT: It was an official work-related thing. We
were working as language trainers at the same
company. Finnish After Dark was a work-related
workshop. They wanted us to come up with new
ideas for courses.
DB: [somewhat incredulous] Really? This is
different to how I remember it.
MT: There were a couple of drinks involved.
We came up with this whole concept of a Finnish
course that could be sold to anybody. First would
be grammar and then these field trips into the
wild to practise your taxi queue vocabulary and
how to avoid being beaten up. We designed the
whole course, intermediate to the advanced
level. The advanced level you need to drink quite
heavily but still pronounce well. A little bit of
slurring is okay. I would have given assignments
like go and talk to the bartender girl and can you
make her smile in Finnish. What did she reply?
Could you conjugate the verbs you were using?
DB: Also using silmäpeli.
MT: Silmäpeli, yes. It was a whole concept for a
course. It could be expanded to a whole language
school.
DB: Some of the conversations we had got
wilder and wilder, such as starting to export to
schools. At the same time, the idea was quite
serious. If you take some language courses here,
as most of us have done, when you come out of
them you know a lot of grammar, but you know
absolutely nothing about what they say when
they are in the bar. If you think, for instance, of
going up to a girl in the bar and what you are
going to say. You know none of that stuff.
MT: Yeah, because you guys introduce your
friends like, ?Tässä on ystäväni Mike?. It sounds so
kirjakieli and so much like The Bible ? that?s what
kirjakieli was invented for. I start all of my courses
and lessons usually asking people what they want.
Do you want to sound like The Bible, or a normal
person? Or a young girl from the Helsinki area?
That?s a special accent you can have. Most choose
the middle option.
So, can I come to your course and learn how
to speak like a helsinkiläinen gimma?
MT: If your employer pays for it, there?s a course
that is totally tailored for your needs.
Sikahyvä!
MT: Yeah, we really need to start launching this
idea.
DB: It was one of those ideas that was really
serious and silly at the same time. . Finnish
language is so difficult with those kinds of
conjugations. Other languages that I have studied,
Danish and Spanish, you don?t have those kinds
of differences between the written language and
the spoken language. Also you don?t have the kind
of mistakes where you are going to get beaten to a
pulp if you use the wrong preposition.
MT: That?s why Finnish is the best language
to teach. Because from the very beginning you
make such crazy mistakes that it makes my life
so fun. Everyday. I was told today that I taste very
good. A male student of mine actually referred to
me as meat. It was nice [laughs].
DB: Not in the lihatiski sense?
MT: Probably a bit. [laughs]
DB: With my clients studying English, very
rarely do they make a mistake that?s actually
funny. It happens, but it?s rare. In English, if you
walk into a bar, you can use any phrases you
learnt at school and get a beer.
MT: Even my students on higher levels make
these sentences that sound very good, but the little
mistake with case means something different.
DB: It?s an unforgiving language from that
point of view.
MT: But it?s fun.
Juan, have you taken any Finnish lessons?
JH: Actually I was studying for six months,
everyday. But, it was too hard. I took a really
basic, boring course.
MT: That?s what many people say. Occasionally
I use study material during my classes that is
K-18, R-rated. It works for adults, as my clients
are adults. It sticks in your head. When you have
K-18 material people don?t want to leave the
classroom. They want to sit. I collect all kinds
of material. I have a list of the most erotic foods,
according to Finnish women and women. It?s a
long list, but beginner students, they really learn
their foods. [laughs]
DB: So is it makkara?
MT: No. [laughs]
Not HK Sininen?
MT: Actually, mustamakkara was mentioned.
But I think there was something like shamppanja,
mansikka, suklaa, things like this. Then there
was this one other example: jälkiruokka naisen
vartalolta. But one of my students read it as
vartalosta, which means ?eating food out of
a woman?s body?, instead of ?from on top of a
woman?s body?. We have lots of fun. Sometimes
they think I am a traditional teacher and worry
about what they just said, but quite soon they
realise that I am not that kind of a teacher.
How did the Finnish After Dark evolve from
the original course idea to the column, was
there something in between?
DB: No there wasn?t. I discussed the idea for
the column with Laura [Seppälä], when she was
managing editor at SixDegrees. I think that she
had this idea that there should be a column where
we explain a Finnish word each month. As soon
as she mentioned this I realised that explaining a
word in itself isn?t interesting. Nobody would read
it if it was ?cat? or ?wallpaper?. It only makes sense
if you wouldn?t have heard of it from anywhere
else. Then I suggested that we do these idioms. It
came together really quickly. It has proven to be
a good concept, one with a lot of longevity. We
certainly have a lot of words left. We have enough
for a second book, anyway.
How does the process work? Mimmu, do you
present a word and David, you come up with
the text, or what?
MT: I think mostly the words come from my
head. [laughs]
DB: Yeah, Mimmu has more of a kind of party,
drinking?
MT: I?m the mother of a two-year-old now,
come on.
DB: I?ve been quite curious where you get the
words from.
MT: They just come.
DB: Given that I?ve known Mimmu?s partner
for about ten years, when she has stuff about onenight stands I start wondering.
MT: Hey, I was single there for six months. Yeah,
I come up with most of the words. Sometimes
you come up with something, and you write
the definition and I come up with some type of
dialogue. I have fun with the dialogue.
DB: In a way it?s quite complicated, as Mimmu
comes up with the words then I write something.
MT: Sometimes I can tell you didn?t get what it
was.
DB: Yeah, sometimes not.
MT: Don?t get into my head, it?s crazier than you
think.
DB: It?s true! Sometimes I have asked my wife
and she hasn?t known either what you meant.
Some of them are so open to interpretation, or
could have possible different meanings anyway.
Those have been fun. If I ask my wife, ?What does
this mean??, and she falls about laughing. Or says,
?What? Where did you hear that??
MT: But, I?m a safe source. It?s okay if it comes
from Mimmu.
DB: Actually yes, there was one, kiertopalkinto,
my wife really dislikes that word. Thinks it is
really vile.
MT: But it can be. Is it the feminist in her?
What does it mean?
MT: Kierto is to circulate, palkinto is a trophy.
But it?s not a trophy.
DB: It?s like the town bike.
MT: ?Trophy? in English is a good thing, but in
Finnish it is something that you give to the next
guy and the next guy, or woman.
DB: My wife?s doing a PhD in gender studies.
MT: I?m almost always trying to break
traditional gender roles by using examples.
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(L to R ) Juan, David and Mimmu find yet
another word that can?t be found in more
traditional Finnish dictionaries.
Finnish After Dark is out now.
DB: In that sense I think we have achieved good
equality of the sexes. The book isn?t sexist.
Juan, how have you managed to sketch out
some of these ideas?
JH: Because everything is almost new for me
I wanted to meet with David and Mimmu and
maybe we could come up with an idea together.
Some of the words I didn?t understand, they were
totally different for me. But, no problem, I really
liked to draw them. I learnt also.
Which words have made an impression on
you?
JH: Silmäpeli, räkälä.
DB: My favourite word that was new for me
was morkkis: a moral hangover. When you wake
up the next morning and you think, ?Shit, I did
something really fucked up last night?.
MT: Morkkis doesn?t come without alcohol.
Finns don?t do crazy things without alcohol. It
goes together with krapula, but krapula can be
by itself. But yeah, I like Juan?s pictures. I didn?t
know what to expect, really. I?m a visual person
myself and wondered how can someone draw
these kinds of things. But after we saw the first
couple I realised that they were really good.
Have some been easier to draw that others?
JH: Yeah. Normally I try to put the same
amount of time to each. I made something fast
and sketchy, to pick up the idea to complement
the story. Here is one of the roiskeläppä pizza.
[shows image]
MT: No, I think this is krapula, because the
roiskeläppä pizza is the type that you get in a
plastic bag from the supermarket. This one here
is a real pizza.
JH: It?s hard to find good pizza here in Finland.
Puttes does a really good pizza in Helsinki?
MT: Everybody says that, even my Italian
students. I have the advantage: I ask every single
one of my students, where is the best restaurant
of their culture. The Indians say this one and not
that one, the Chinese say none of these. [laughs]
JH: What?s the pizza place called again?
MT: Puttes.
JH: Wow, in Spanish that sounds really bad.
MT: It actually doesn?t mean anything in Finnish.
Now you will remember the name. Just be
ready to explain to your partner if you go
there ? oh, she?s Greek, it?s okay.
JH: Yeah, but putana is in Greek also.
DB: It?s also in Italian. Actually, did you know that
puttanesca means the dirty pasta fit for a whore. You
could do a Spanish After Dark, Italian After Dark.
JH: We would have a lot of material.
MT: Actually, in Finnish we don?t have guys
yelling after girls and shouting like in these
Latin countries. We don?t do that. That?s why we
marry foreign guys, because they do that we take
it seriously. We are Finns. That?s what I tell my
students. Actually, Juan, when do the guys learn
to shout at women like that? When does it start?
JH: Well in construction?
MT: But it?s not just construction, it?s
everywhere.
JH: Yeah, but in construction the best ones
come from there.
MT: But our men in Finland sound like [makes
incomprehensible drunk noise]. That?s the
Finnish way. And we women are like, ?Oh, that?s
so sweet! He talks!?
DB: Yeah a guy can go up to girls here and say
?mitäs tytöt? and they say, ?Oh you silver-tongued
devil?.
MT: No, I don?t think guys come up to girls.
Like we discussed, it?s non-verbal. Talking is
breaking the code. Eye contact is the thing. If it?s
long enough, then it means ?let?s get out of here?.
DB: When I was studying in Guatemala you
occasionally would see these guys going up to
these beautiful blonde women saying, ?You are
so beautiful, I want to cry when I see you?. You
occasionally would meet these girls who would
say ?really?? They would believe it.
MT: They were Finnish probably. [laughs] A
Finnish man wouldn?t say that, ever. Because it?s
not true. Finnish men say, ?I like your eyes, the
other one is a bit funny, but I like them both?.
It?s true, we don?t have the chatting up thing,
small talk; it?s very different. That?s why we fall
for foreign guys because they talk. Everybody
agrees. I ask my students why they fall for Finnish
women and they say, ?They are aggressive and
you don?t need to say anything?. Actually, one
of my students, she?s from the Caribbean, said
that she would recommend Finnish men for
everyone as they stay at home and look after
the babies, and are not embarrassed to push the
stroller. She said she doesn?t know any Caribbean
guy who would push a stroller on the street.
Have there been any words that you have
really liked but have not been able to include
in the column, maybe argued about?
MT: We haven?t argued, but I have suggested
tonnes of stuff. There have been maybe 100
that have not been used. I think we haven?t used
swear words. I think with swearing, we could use
something that is a normal word, but can be used
as a swear word. They are not really that fun.
DB: Yeah, like with the word vittu, all foreigners
know the word, but what funny can you say about it?
When we had this idea, it was that nothing should
be too offensively sexual. We talked about words
like stondis, but for one thing it?s hard to think about
anything that?s funny to say about them. Also the
tone of the magazine didn?t call for it.
MT: Actually, we talked just last week about the
word poikamies. Everybody agrees that it?s a boyman describing a single man. Then poikamiestyttö
on the other hand, the bachelorette, the boyman-girl is not really right.
DB: It?s just weird. Some of those have been
useful and some people have been amazed that
I?ve known these words such as poikamiestyttö.
Certainly you?d get something different if you ask
for that in some exotic countries. An extra gender.
MT: There have been some other words that I
don?t agree with, some of the sporty ones.
DB: We ended up taking out the sporty ones.
Originally I put that we should have more variety,
but then we realised it wasn?t really ?after dark?.
MT: Yeah, it wasn?t part of the original course
concept.
So, what about the course concept, can you
see it kicking off in future?
DB: The problem is, who would pay for it?
MT: We both work for companies that are very
conservative.
DB: It?s a shame, because people would like
the course and would benefit from it, but the
companies wouldn?t pay for it.
MT: But then again, if we had the energy
and time, it could be a nice idea. Every other
weekend you meet up, and you practise in
the meantime. It would be a very fun night
out. Everyone has their handouts with them.
Everybody in the bar is worried at the bar that
?Here they are again, trying their lines out?. Then
there?s the eye contact session and staring like
crazy, and count how many seconds it takes
before the Finns turn away, and those with the
longest amount of time wins.
DB: It will be interesting to see if anyone
reacts negatively to the concept of the book.
Someone will think we are denigrating the
language somehow. I expect the results will be
mainly positive. Most people I know are very
curious about it. Actually, next year my book
on the great hellholes of the world comes out.
It has a 30-page section on Finland, which
a couple of my Finnish friends have read.
One of them said it was the most blisteringly
unpleasant description of Finland imaginable,
but she also said that ?unfortunately you are
right?. It?s been a really difficult concept to
write about. On the one hand it is very tongue
in cheek, but on the other it is interesting to
analyse societies as different as New Zealand,
DR Congo, Azerbaijan and Finland from a
fairly common, cynical viewpoint. As in ? what
is wrong with this place?! As I say in the intro
to the book, some places are naturally hellholes,
and others have hellhole attributes thrust upon
them.
Of course, Finland isn?t a hellhole in the way
that some places I go to in Africa are hellholes;
there?s a whole different interpretation of hell.
I had to use my imagination when it comes to
Finland.
Lifestyle
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Issue 10 2013
No need for
breakfast at Tiffany?s
?Why kill an animal to decorate your home if you can do it with trash??
Photos
Eva Blanco
J
AIME and Yuan?s daughter was three years old when one chilly
afternoon of the fall 2010 she became stubborn asking for a
bow. At first, her parents didn?t have any intention to throw
on a coat and head out onto the street in desperate search for one
before shops closed their doors. On the other hand, you know how
little reasonable and intense small girls can get when they consider
a concrete item is missing in their fantasy world (and even more
if we are talking about such a very precious ? and pink ? detail).
Starting to feel the urgency for finding a solution to this
unexpected family crisis, Mexican Jaime de Vizcaya came up with
an original idea: he was going to create a rubber bow out of some
old bicycle tires, which had a worn-out inner tube manufactured
in brown (the new ones are black) that at that time looked
conveniently pinkish. ?When I finished the bow she was really
happy with the results, and so we immediately saw the potential,?
explains de Vizcaya with a fatherly spark in his eyes.
Of course, the fact that both Jaime and his Chinese wife, Yuan
Long, had an extensive background in the field of design helped
to easily turn a family anecdote into a business idea. Thus, a new
professional adventure soon started for them with the creation of
?2.elämä?, their eco-friendly brand that sells jewellery, complements
and items for home decoration, all created from recycled materials.
?After three years living in China, coming back to Finland was
like a second chance, a second opportunity,? de Vizcaya remembers
when asked about the beginnings of the project. ?That?s why we
decided to call it ?second life? (toinen elämä in Finnish), but the
name was also related our business concept itself: we are giving a
second life to items that had been already trashed.?
Item for home decoration: a deer
whose head has been made by
assembling different parts of a
bicycle.
Don?t miss this!
2.elämä will be present from 11 to 22 December at the
Christmas market set up at the Old Student House, Vanha
ylioppilastalo in Finnish, situated in front of Stockmann.
Wood is good
Long came to Helsinki for the first time in 1999 to study at the
University of Art and Design, nowadays part of the Aalto University,
from where then she graduated in the ceramics department. In
2002 she spent one year as an exchange student in the US. That
was the first time she took some lessons in jewellery design ? to
subsequently find out her hands were pretty capable of doing
delicate work, and her mind of introducing original proposals.
Back in Helsinki she met de Vizcaya, who was pursing his degree
in product strategic design and, at the same time, working for
Aarikka, the Finnish brand renowned for their wooden jewellery,
home decorations and ornaments. He had started to collaborate
with them as a student, after winning a design competition that
had been organised to find young talents from the university.
?It was a very good experience because I immersed myself more
into the Finnish culture,? de Vizcaya reflects. ?I got to understand
much better what Finns like and appreciate ? and what they don?t.
For instance, Finns appreciate a piece of jewellery made of gold as
much as another one made of wood. The material doesn?t matter
that much, but rather the design behind it. In Finland wood is
something very valuable, because it?s part of the daily life, part of
the culture.?
Social responsibility
Apart from discovering different applications for natural materials,
his time in Aarikka left another deep mark in de Vizcaya.
Manufacturing processes there were not only eco but also socially
concerned, and this remained with him as something he wanted to
continue encouraging through his work.
That is the reason why, at 2.elämä, this multicultural couple try to
offer minor jobs or collaborations to those people who have fewer
professional opportunities: foreigners, people with substanceabuse problems or, in some cases, even with mental diseases. For
this they have established cooperation with the employment office,
which takes care of paying a part of the salaries.
?Everybody knows that being an entrepreneur here is not easy,?
says Long reflecting on the process of starting-up in Finland. ?At the
beginning is not that profitable. Also, part of Finnish culture is the
fact that you have to be patient; you cannot expect fast results in a
short time. Scandinavia moves asserted, but slow. For instance, hiring
people is really expensive. Currently, for us it?s almost impossible.?
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Detail of the ?Butterfly? collection, feminine complements made out of
recycled rubber.
?On the plus side, in Finland design is a language in itself,? adds
de Vizcaya. ?Once you do good design, people appreciate it and
they find the value out of it. That is the reason why our brand has
been accepted not only among our retailers but also among our
customers.?
Where you see trash I see a deer
However, in order to create ?good design?, one must first decide
upon the materials to be used for the products? elaboration. In the
case of this brand, most part of the materials that are recollected
have already been trashed, representing a good opportunity not to
have to pay for them. Everything from bicycle parts to computer
cables and small hard drive components is utilised ? not forgetting
carpets used at fairs, which after merely a couple of days of being
put to use its hundreds of meters are directly destined to recycling
centres. Then, the next step of the process consists of washing
all these materials until they are ready to be reused for human
consumption.
?We select materials based on the possibility of having them
constantly,? explains de Vizcaya regarding this point. ?Design
involves mass production; the piece needs to be repeated many
times. Then, we don?t add any glues or corrosive elements to the
creations because we want them to have a healthy life cycle. That?s
something related to sustainability. That is, the moment our items
become old and not useful any more, each part or component can
be easily separated and recycled.?
For instance, one of the most popular products sold by 2.elämä
is ?Trophy?, a collection composed of a bear-outlined rug and a
wall ornament that resembles a deer whose face has been made by
assembling together a bicycle seat, and structural metal steel tubes
as its horns. ?Why kill an animal to decorate your home if you can
do it with trash ? and it will look more original?? says de Vizcaya
playfully.
Design activism
?For the creation process I normally don?t have a preconceived idea
of the exact thing I want to do,? Long points out. ?I rather enjoy
playing with the materials and let them surprise me. When I design
something for 2.elämä I try to keep the original shape or texture
of the material. I don?t try to change it into something completely
different. This way people can see my work and immediately relate
it to where it comes from. I like that because the idea behind the
business is that we are promoting the eco lifestyle.?
Jaime agrees to this point of view, and takes it even further: ?I am
an activist, but using my creative talent. I may not be shouting on
the streets ?let?s protect the environment?, but I am doing it through
my design.?
Jaime de Vizcaya and Yuan Long, the founders of the eco-friendly design
brand ?2.elämä?.
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s
ick and tired of pop up ads hounding you when you
are visiting your favourite website? Worn down by the
various interuptions as you update your Facebook page?
Ticked off because you know every click is being tracked? Bad
mood from bumping into too many banners? Well, you are
certainly not alone.
These days, digital dwellers are increasingly using advert
blockers with their browsers and social media sites. One of the
most downloaded add-ons for browsers such as Firefox and
programs used with Facebook are for blocking those pesky
adverts that get in the way of your online time.
For users, the benefits of ad blocking are numerous. Without
the often unwanted clutter of sales dragging down the speed
of loading pages, there is the added bonus of increased privacy
when browsing, in light of ad delivery platforms employing
tracking and profiling systems
These ad-blocking add-ons have been a saving grace amidst
the the increased barrage of advertising. in recent times.
Adblock is one of the most widely utilised add-on for those
who use Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome. Many more
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this will affect online advertising in the long run, but the sales
forecast is not good at all.
See how you can free up your browsing!
Society
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Issue 10 2013
Column
Are you being
served?
It doesn?t happen often, but on rare occasions I wander into
a shop intending to spend more than 5 euros. In the past
couple of years there has been a camera, a new phone and a
fair amount of travel and outdoor gear, and I have noticed
that all of those shopping experiences have one thing in
common ? I have largely served myself.
Go into a major store here and you can expect to spend ten
minutes trying to identity a staff member, and another ten
while the staff member tries to avoid making eye contact
with you. If you do manage to pin one down ? there is
every chance they won?t be able to help you anyway. I still
remember asking about a new Nokia Lumia model and
discovering that the assistant had never heard of it. ?
Last week I told a staff member in an outdoor store that I
was looking for new boots and a sleeping bag ? purchases
that might have run to around 800 euros had I received
good service. Instead the staff member invited me to try
on whatever boots I liked, and promptly fled. I did actually
go in search of him a little while later, but without success.
I still haven?t bought the boots, and will now probably get
them online.
?W
hy do companies
spend six figures
a year advertising for
people to come to their
store, only to ignore them
when they do so??
That doesn?t stop me wondering why it is like this. Why do
companies spend six figures a year advertising for people to
come to their store, only to ignore them when they do so?
I suspect that the major reason is a lack of incentives. Put
a 20-year-old behind a counter and they will likely stand
staring at it until given a good reason to do anything else.
They need to be rewarded for making sales. Even then they
will only really start to engage with customers if they use the
store?s products personally, like them, and are familiar with
how they work.
Baffling as it may seem, recruiting people who like
cooking might be a grand idea for a store selling kitchen
appliances, and yet the most common response in most
stores to a question about blenders or paring knives is a look
of sheer terror and a quick attempt at a getaway.
I would hate to think that Finnish retailers would adopt
the US model of all-intrusion-all-the-time, in which
shop assistants pursue customers with predatory intent,
twittering ?How are you today?? as if dealing with a lost
puppy.
But retailers should be able to ensure that staff are
identifiable (are name tags really too difficult?), available
and understand something about their own products. Staff
should be able to identify potential sales, and spend time
with customers who are looking at big ticket items. They
should be able to ask questions, to listen and to make
recommendations.
So why don?t they? Possibly because most shop assistants
have never noticed that the English form of their job title
includes the verb ?assist?.
David Brown is a language consultant and journalist, regularly
covering stories in Africa, Asia & the Middle East. He has lived
in Finland for over 10 years.
big
?One
family here?
SixDegrees hits the road to visit an aged care centre
surrounded by Espoo?s wilderness. Once there, we
witness first-hand the great connection between
the international members of the staff and their
experienced patients.
Text and images Eva Blanco.
VANESA JORGE had been working as a nurse in Spain, the country
she is originally from, for approximately four years before she
moved to Finland last May. ?Nowadays, the situation there is
really bad,? she explains. ?I wanted to cry every two days. The last
hospital I was working for was private, and it?s really hard when you
see money comes always before people; when you see the patient
requires a concrete treatment and some other is granted to them
instead due to economic reasons.?
This joyful expat also tells she was supposed to be ?the lucky one?,
because she was one of the few students who got a job immediately
after graduating from university (around 80 per cent of her former
classmates were unemployed at that time). ?I got to do 17-hour
working shifts,? she points out with a light touch of outrage. ?All
through the two years I worked in the private sector in Tenerife
(Canary Islands) I was only offered temporary contracts, from oneto-three months long, which means that, for instance, I never had
the right to enjoy any holidays at all.?
By mid-September, merely four months after she landed in this
northern country, Vanesa had already found her way into the local
labour market. From the very first moment she started to settle
down she decided to give her best shot at learning the language. She
joined some Finnish courses at the university and started to apply
for different positions within the health field. Soon after she got her
first interviews, but her language skills weren?t strong enough as
to make it to the final stage of the selection process. However, she
came across a definitive opportunity when through some common
friends she met Érico Melo, a Portuguese gerontologist who told
her there was an open position for a nurse at the aged care centre he
was working at, Attendo Kuusikoti, situated in Espoo. After making
sure her professional profile would fit the job?s requirements, Melo,
who knew of the difficulties she could otherwise face on her way,
decided to mentor her.
?It?s like from hell to heaven, in one step,? Vanesa says when asked
about her new job. ?When I saw the permanent contract I couldn?t
believe it. What I had been pursuing in Spain for years without
achieving it, I got it here almost at the first chance.?
Unsatisfied need
Melo moved to Finland in 2003 and studied at a polytechnic
university for three-and-a-half years. Then he returned to Portugal
to finish his master?s degree in gerontology. After obtaining his
qualification, he decided to permanently establish himself in
Finland (his wife?s country of origin), where altogether he has spent
over eight years now.
?I started working at the aged care centre in September 2009,?
Melo comments. ?So it didn?t take me long after coming back to
Finland to land this job. However, I have to say that I was a bit too
qualified for the role I first developed in here. So, I had to work my
way up step by step.?
From the 43 employees working in the health care department at
Attendo Kuusikoti, some 30 per cent are foreigners coming from a
wide range of different countries. Going beyond the conventions
of formal languages, this multicultural team bases their internal
communication on their warmth and goodwill towards the elderly.
Thus, lacking some vocabulary in Finnish is a small difficulty that
can be easily overcome with the huge doses of passion these people
show for their work ? and, of course, having a little help from their
local colleagues.
?There is a big need for foreign professionals in Finland, especially
in the health sector and elderly care?, Melo states. ?I totally
understand that in this sector you have to manage the language
to some extent, because you are dealing with delicate information
regarding medical treatments, but, on the other hand, if people are
not given any opportunity to learn, they will never do so. I consider
there is some kind of cliché in this country about foreigners not
being able to learn Finnish, which is quite unfair for people like us,
who speak fluently. I am not saying Finnish is not a hard language
to learn, it?s obvious that it is, but for sure it?s not impossible either.?
Jorge has a funny anecdote to illustrate Melo?s argument. ?The
first day I started to work at the aged care centre I was holding
a conversation in Finnish with the person in charge of the
maintenance and, when I told him I had been in Finland for four
months altogether, he kept correcting me by saying, ?You mean four
years, not four months?, and I had to tell him, ?Actually, I do mean
four months?. He seemed to be quite impressed with the spoken
level I had acquired in such a short time.?
A few obstacles down the road
So, if there is a clear need for expat talent, and in practise a perfect
command of the language is not always a must, why is it so difficult
then for most part of foreigners to get a work opportunity matching
their professional background? For Melo the inflexion point for
pursuing a career in Finland is, precisely, to land your first job.
?After you have gained some experience in the local market,
then somehow you have proved that you are able to manage both
the language and work routine well enough as to be competent at
developing your tasks,? Melo says. ?But getting there it?s not an easy
path. Employers are sometimes afraid of hiring the wrong people
because, once they hire somebody, they see themselves forced to
offer a permanent contract almost right away, which means they
can be stuck with that person for a very long time.?
Furthermore, when it comes to foreigners searching for a job in
the Finnish health sector, another element seems to complicate the
equation: the Valvira licence, the official document extended by the
National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health (Valvira),
which authorises the use of the occupational title of healthcare
professional when the latter has been obtained outside Finland.
?The Valvira licence has become a very bureaucratic process,?
Melo observes. ?Back in the day it didn?t use to be that way, but
now it can take up to several months after applying for the person
to finally get it. I think this institution is trying to put pressure
on the people who are hiring, by stating that it is their ultimate
responsibility that the employees? level of Finnish is good enough,
and that they will be the ones answering in case the employees
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Resident Risto celebrating the
week of the elderly by sharing a
dance with one of the international
members of the team. As he would
say a few moments later during
our conversation: ?Party!?
Legal Immigrants
6D gets to know what it?s like to be a
regular immigrant in Finland.
Thomas Poole
moved here from
South Africa to explore
opportunities with his
girlfriend in December
2012.
Interview time! From left to right:
Matti, one of the Finnish residents
at Attendo Kuusikoti, Spanish
nurse Vanesa Jorge and Portuguese
gerontologist Érico Melo.
Minority Report
SixDegrees takes a look at the ethnic
minorities here in Finland.
commit any kind of major mistake due to a bad command of the
language. This pressure is quite a new thing, and it?s getting people
even more restrictive when hiring foreigners.?
Settling in: a one-day issue
Considering all the cultural uniqueness that Finland offers, one
may be tempted to think that adapting to the work environment
in the health field, where a good relationship with the patient is
essential, entails a long and effortful process. ?At the beginning the
elderly would hesitate a bit about how well we understood them,
even if they saw we were fluent in Finnish,? says Melo. ?There is
always a bit of a cultural shock; everybody is way quieter here
than in southern latitudes, like in our countries of origin, Spain or
Portugal. But, at the end of the day we are just people taking care
of people.?
?The most important thing,? Vanesa adds, ?is to show them that
you are there for them. You have to act in a very natural way. You
have to feel they are your family in a way, and, at the same time,
respect their privacy. Soon after you will realise they also enjoy the
fresh air you bring along with you. For them, every day in here
looks pretty much the same, so you really need to try your best to
put a bit of joy into their lives. I constantly laugh together with my
patients ? and I have been working here less than a month!?
What do the elderly say?
While in some South European countries it?s understood that the
elderly will receive some care in their autumn years from their
relatives, in Finland it is a very different story.
?With the social security system how it is established here, from a
very young age you can get grants to study and become independent
from your family,? Melo reflects. ?Somehow that makes you grow
apart from an early age. So, if you don?t have a close relationship
with your parents when you are 19, then how is it going to be when
you are 50? For many people it?s good enough if they go check on
their grandmother once a year for Christmas. It?s really sad. That?s
also the reason why people here get so attached to nurses and other
members of the staff.?
According to Melo, there are long queues to get into a place like
Attendo Kuusikoti, even with the state trying to emphasise the idea
of people staying at home as long as possible, offering ?kotihoito?,
care-at-home resources, before supporting the possibility of
applying for aged care centres.
?I like this place, and the people here; they are nice and friendly,?
says Matti, a 67 year-old retired journalist who has performed a
long career in different media and still enjoys practising his English
every once in a while. He has spent roughly one year at the aged
care facility, from where he gets the attention he needs to deal with
his paralysed left side of the body. His recently incorporated Spanish
nurse helps him manage his daily routine. ?Vanesa and I have
become very good friends,? Matti answers when asked about the link
established between them, and then continues joking: ?She knows I
am a tall, dark-haired handsome man. For me, foreigners and locals
are all the same, I make no distinctions. We are one big family here.?
Switzerland
Fabian Unger
?According to the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign
Affairs, around 1,600 Swiss are currently calling Finland
their home. Apart from historic- or language-related
countries like Sweden or Hungary, this number is bigger
than the those from any other European country of similar
size, namely Austria, Czech Republic, Portugal or Belgium.
But what is it that has brought Swiss to the utmost north of
mainland Europe?
?Nowadays, Swiss people probably come to Finland for a
change of scene, for making experiences in another country,
or maybe because of love. In former times, it was perhaps
more for setting up own businesses,? explains Jürg Kuhn,
President of the local Swiss club ?Schweizerklub Finnland?.
?Many Swiss cheesemakers have found their way to
Finland. The traces are still seen today: Finland is one of the
biggest Emmental-cheese producers worldwide.? Cheese also
plays a part in a dish sold here in Finland as ?Sveitsinleike?,
which is basically Cordon Bleu. ?Apart from that, during the
time, when Finland belonged to Russia, Swiss also moved to
Finland in order to teach French,? says Kuhn.
The Schweizerklub Finnland was founded nearly 85 years
ago and nowadays counts around 150 members mainly in
and near Helsinki. ?Due to geographical reasons, many Swiss
living outside the Capital Region are members of the biggest
club ?Sveitsin Ystävät Suomessa? (?Friends of Switzerland in
Finland?), which is active all over the country,? explains Kuhn,
who has lived in Finland for 13 years.
?Our most popular events are fondue and raclette evenings
and 1 August being the national holiday of Switzerland,? says
Kuhn. When browsing their webpage (www.schweizerklub.
fi/), dozens of other activities pop up: film evenings, trips,
visits to exhibitions and lectures, sport events and card game
?Jass? evenings.
At first glance, apart from large public interest in winter
sports, Switzerland and Finland do not seem to have a lot
in common. ?But the differences are not that big. Finland
and Switzerland have always had very tight ties politically,
economically and also between the people. Swiss and Finns
are rather calm and also modest ? or at least, they both think,
they are,? tells Kuhn. What would Swiss people miss most
about their country? ?The mountains and the possibility
to gaze dozens of kilometres into the distance. In Finland,
there?s a tree every other metre. But apart from that, the
Swiss probably might not miss that much.?
What do you do here in Finland?
I currently own and operate a small event photography,
photojournalism and media business out of a small studio
in North Helsinki. I also work as a bartender, am currently
completing my journalism degree as well as a volunteer
internship at Helsinki Times.
When and how did you end up here?
I moved here from London with my girlfriend in
December of last year when she had to return to Helsinki
to prepare for her entrance exams for university. Having
lived in Thailand, Amsterdam and Vancouver before
that, I decided it was time to move on and explore new
opportunities. London is a very difficult city to establish
oneself as an entrepreneur and the high quality of life,
the Finnish education and social systems attracted me to
move here.
What attracts you about the Finnish culture?
The honesty of the people. I find that Finns generally tend to
either remain silent or engage in what they feel is meaningful
conversation. In a recent independent experiment, it was
found that 11 out of 13 wallets left lying around in the city
were either returned to their owners or handed in to lost
and found.
What culture shocks did you experience when coming
to Finland?
I suppose what can be perceived as negativity from the Finns...
I soon discovered that this was actually just reserved honesty.
Have you been able to settle and integrate into Finnish
society?
I?ve realised that Finns sincerely appreciate hard work
and honesty. With this in mind I?ve found it relatively
easy to find full time work, set up two photography
businesses as well as register my Media TMI (Arctic
Sun Media.TMI) and undertake a volunteer internship
at the Helsinki Times newspaper in the space of under
a year. Finns are also generally very accepting and
are genuinely interested in South Africa, it?s political,
social and environmental dynamics, so I never really
have trouble meeting people or engaging in casual
conversation.
What are/were your worries?
At first I was worried about finding full time work, but since
that has been taken care of, nothing serious to be honest.
What are your future wishes for your life here?
I would like to see my photography and media businesses
take off to a point where they are self-sustainable
sources of income and I can live my dream as a freelance
photojournalist. I?m also hoping to publish my first book
on the wildlife smuggling trade in the next year. I also
hope to be able to live the Finnish dream of building
myself a log cabin in the forests next to a lake at some
point one day.
What is your favourite Finnish word?
Voi voi. This has so many uses, such as meaning ?well, well?, or
?don?t make such a big deal of it?.
Contact james@6d.fi
if you?d like to share your
thoughts for a future issue.
Feature
14
Issue 10 2013
European
In its over 25-year history, the Erasmus
programme has transformed the lives of
countless European students. To date,
over three million Europeans have had the
Erasmus experience.
Erasmus
by
numbers
Looking at the figures about the Erasmus programme gives
some indication of the scope with which it has had an impact
on the European young. The programme was launched in
1987, when 3,000 students from 11 member states went on
an exchange. Since then, it has supported over three million
student exchanges. Finland joined the Erasmus programme
in 1992, among five other EU members, and presently 34
countries participate. The initiative is set to expand even
further in 2014, with plans to extend it also beyond Europe?s
borders.
Currently, every year sees a multitude of students travel
for a student exchange or work placement: during the 201112 academic year, the latest for which statistics are available,
over 250,000 European students ? roughly equal to Espoo?s
population ? went on an Erasmus exchange.
As for Finland, over 5,200 students went on an exchange
in the academic year 2011-12, and about 70,000 students in
total have participated. In absolute figures this doesn?t place
Finland high on the list of countries, but when contrasted
with the overall number of graduate population, the share
of Erasmus students is at over 10 per cent. According to this
measure, Finland is one of the biggest senders of Erasmus
students, surpassed only by Liechtenstein (the European
average is at 4.7 per cent). The number of incoming students
nevertheless exceeds that of outgoing exchange students,
being at 6,900 for the academic year 2011-12.
A few more statistics: The average duration of student
exchange is six months, and has constantly been so for the
last decade. Spain is the biggest sender of students (39,545
in the academic year 2011-12) followed by Germany,
France, Italy and Poland. Spain was also the most popular
destination (at 39,300 students), ahead of France, Germany,
the UK and Italy. (For those interested in further figures
on Erasmus student mobility, the EU has comprehensive
statistics online.)
Satu Haavisto / CIMO
Teemu Henriksson
T
HERE may be great differences in the lives and prospects of
an economics student in Helsinki, a biology student in Spain
and a future teacher in Romania, but what they all share is
access to a student exchange period abroad. Thanks to the
European Commission?s Erasmus programme, going abroad as
part of their studies has never been easier.
Erasmus might be the most significant student exchange
programme in the world, and yet this definition doesn?t come
even close in describing its overall significance to European
youth. It?s not a stretch to say that Erasmus has become something
much more than a mere mobility programme, having entered the
European consciousness and promoted European integration in a
way that sets it apart from the long list of other EU initiatives.
Speaking to the newspaper La Stampa last year, Umberto Eco,
an Italian semitiocian and novelist, accredited Erasmus for having
helped create the first truly European generation. ?I call it a sexual
revolution: a young Catalan man meets a Flemish girl ? they fall
in love, they get married and they become European, as do their
children.? The effect has been so notable that Eco even proposed
that something similar be made compulsory for everyone, so that
workers of all trades would ?need to spend time in other countries
within the European Union; they should integrate.?
Also in economical terms the programme is significant, and may
have a role to play in solving the high unemployment levels that
affect the young populations in many parts of Europe. For former
Erasmus students, it?s easier to go abroad again, which has helped
form a new, more mobile workforce in Europe.
Who goes and who doesn?t
Although Erasmus has caught on among Finnish students, on a
closer look there are notable differences within the universities in
the country in how many of their students take the opportunity to
go on an exchange. Generally speaking, students in the southern and
western parts of Finland are more likely to go than in the east or north.
One factor behind this discrepancy may be in the students?
personal history and previous experiences with moving. ?In many
universities of applied sciences in the northern and eastern parts
of Finland, a big proportion of students are from the same town
where their school is,? says Anne Siltala, Erasmus Programme
Manager at the Centre for International Mobility (CIMO), the
national agency for the Erasmus programme in Finland. ?Going
abroad might therefore represent a bigger step for them than for
those students who have already moved away from their hometown
because of their studies.?
There is also another discrepancy, namely between men and
women: according to CIMO?s statistics, women form a larger
share of Erasmus students. This may also be one of the reasons
why humanities and social sciences are overrepresented among
exchange students ? typically the majority of the students of these
disciplines are women. Also a relatively large share of business
and economics students go on an exchange, while students of
technology and natural sciences are less likely to go.
In terms of financing their year abroad, students are entitled
also abroad to the student financial aid that they receive from
the state. Furthermore, all Erasmus exchange students get an
Erasmus grant, which over the recent years has been about
230 euros per month. Siltala estimates that although not an
enormous sum, the grant is undoubtedly helpful in covering
some of the expenses of moving and living abroad. ?I?m certain
that if the grant wouldn?t be available, the number of exchange
students would be lower,? she says.
Mobile workforce
Erasmus thus provides a simplified procedure for going on an
exchange and even some financial assistance. The final piece in the
puzzle is the student?s motivation to go. Apart from the desire to
experience a foreign culture and meet people, the most common
reasons that students give for going is the hope that an exchange
period will help them later in their professional lives, thanks to
international experience and improved language skills, says Tarja
Virta, International Officer at the International Office of the
University of Turku.
Siltala notes that there is, indeed, some validity behind such
expectations: a survey by the European Commission found that
those who had been on an Erasmus exchange seemed to have
found jobs within their fields quicker than average, and had slightly
higher starting salaries.
?Of course, if you?ve once lived abroad, it?s easier to go again. So
in that sense former Erasmus students are more likely to be part
of European mobile workforce,? Siltala says. And when young
people come together from around the continent, relationships are
naturally born, which can lead to the kinds of enduring personal
commitments that Eco observed.
?I?ve heard it said that not since the Second World War have there
been so many Europeans living outside their home countries!?
Siltala says. According to her, the European Commission is
currently conducting a thorough investigation into mobility and its
impact, which should produce more information about the longterm effects of student mobility. But even if students don?t end up
moving abroad, Siltala surmises that the programme has had a
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Satu Haavisto / CIMO
POLL
1. Where are you studying/
did you study?
2. Was it a good experience?
Tomas Peltola (Finnish)
1) I?m an exchange student in
Ljubljana, Slovenia, for about five
months. I?ll be back in February
2014.
2) The main reason for my
exchange was that I wanted to gain
international experience and to get
a completely new and different
approach to industrial design. At
the same time my goal was to go
to the middle of nowhere. Slovenia is a small country,
and for many people it is an unknown place. So my
interest was to find out about how people live there and
how everything works there. I recommend to all who
have the opportunity to go abroad, because it opens up
an entirely new perspective and gives you thousands of
positive experiences.?
Paola Montevecchi (Italian)
?N
ot since the Second
World War have there
been so many Europeans
living outside their home
countries!?
big impact on people?s attitudes, on how they relate to the rest of
Europe. ?I?m sure that going on an exchange or meeting exchange
students here in Finland helps to create a certain sense of European
identity.?
Erasmus 2.0
The Erasmus project as we know it will come to an end this year,
as it is part of the European Commission?s Lifelong Learning
Programme, which will end at the end of 2013. Yet this is not the
end, as Erasmus is set to return stronger than before in the form of
a new programme: Erasmus+.
The first Erasmus+ students will start their exchange periods
in autumn next year. Erasmus+ will be an umbrella programme,
including also other activities than those relating to student
mobility. But from the point of view of exchange students there
will not be radical changes, apart from certain steps that will
broaden the programme?s scope. Perhaps the biggest immediate
difference is that students will be able to spend up to 12 months
on a study exchange or work placement abroad for every degree
level they study ? currently the exchanges are restricted to one
student exchange and one work placement per person. In the new
system, there is also the new possibility for students to go on a work
placement even after graduating.
Also the geographical reach will expand, as the ambition is to
turn Erasmus+ into a global mobility programme. Negotiations
are still underway, however, so going outside Europe will not be
possible yet in 2014. ?There are already EU funded programmes
that take place outside Europe, for example in the shape of
different kinds of capacity building initiatives,? says Siltala from
CIMO. ?It?s likely that Erasmus is extended first to include such
countries and initiatives.?
Such is the appeal of Erasmus that the programme is also the
subject of the first European Citizens? Initiative. Called Fraternité
2020, the initiative calls on the EU to provide more funds to
exchange programmes, make skills development a more integral
part of the exchange experience, and improve the monitoring of
the programme?s results.
In order for the European Commission to examine the initiative,
Fraternité 2020 would need to collect one million signatures ? an
unlikely outcome, as the deadline for this was 1 November and at
the time of writing the number of collected signatures was at 67,000.
Undeterred, the organisers of the initiative push on, exemplifying
the kind of commitment that Erasmus can invoke.
?We hoped to gather at least 100,000 signatures,? says Luca
Copetti, member of the Citizens? Committee. The hope is that
this will still help raise awareness of Fraternité 2020?s goal to
increase the amount dedicated to exchange programmes in the
EU budget, which has been at 1.2 per cent. The thinking goes
that the money invested in these initiatives more than pays
itself back: ?Erasmus students increase their competences and
many former participants are today in a leading position in
companies across Europe and, in fact, the whole world,? says
Copetti. ?In this way, Erasmus certainly has benefited Europe
much more than it has cost.?
Copetti emphasises that Erasmus has been essential in
permitting the kind of student mobility that we have seen in the
recent years.
?Before the establishment of the Erasmus programme, going
abroad was the privilege of a lucky few that had families rich
enough to pay for their stay abroad. Thanks to Erasmus, many
more people can go abroad today, and Erasmus has helped
students from disadvantaged social backgrounds to reach their
full potential.?
And, when asked what is Fraternité 2020?s motivation, Copetti
explains:
?When you have been on Erasmus and you know what a lifechanging experience it is, you simply want everybody else to have a
chance to have that experience, too,?
With such positive spirit supporting it, the Erasmus
programme is set to continue for the foreseeable future, offering
new generations of Europeans the opportunity to experience the
Erasmus spirit first-hand.
In these times when the subject of austerity seems to go hand
in hand with talk about public spending, it is noteworthy that
the Erasmus programme will not only continue but also expand
further. May many more generations of students go and explore
their continent, the world, and its people.
1) Aalto University of Art and Design
Helsinki as exchange student (
from January to July 2013.
2) I chose Finland because I
always wanted to confront with a
system of education so different
from the Italian and considered
the best in the world, improve my
English ( in Finland everyone speck
English! ) and to be in contact with
the amazing nature there; and I must admit that I was
thrilled about the experience and not disappointed about
all the things.
Julian Röder (German)
1) Four Months in Finland from
end of August until middle of
December 2009.
2) It was unforgettable, lifechanging, the best time of my life.
Four Months of perfect balance
between studies, parties and
free time (traveling), awesome
exchange students (and sexy
Russian chicks) and Finnish
tutors ? not to forget the tastiest canteen food ever.
Actually that?s the reason why I?m convinced (and told
all my fellow students in Germany who also were abroad)
that I had the best exchange of all my fellow students and
probably the best exchange possible.
More info on Fraternité 2020 can
be found at:
www.f2020.eu
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Reading and entrepeneurship
Issue 10 2013
Johanna Singh Lehtikuva
Dead Romans and the
power of fiction in history
Author David J. Cord reveals the story
behind his latest work.
are living through those times, we
with our own lives and own stories.
We think about our own hopes
and dreams, our own struggles
and conflicts as we go about our
daily lives, not the grand historical
movements we are living through.
This is what I tried to do with Dead
Romans.
I
T WAS an innocuous passage I came across
while looking for something else. It was an
ancient account of the Roman Emperor Lucius
Verus, his mistress, and a plague infecting his
army as they returned from war. After I finished
reading it disappeared from my conscious mind.
?It is said that he shaved off his beard while
in Syria to humour the whim of a low-born
mistress, and because of this many things were
said against him by the Syrians. It was his fate
to bring a pestilence with him to whatever
provinces he traversed on his return, and finally
even to Rome.?
Later it all came back, and I found myself
thinking more and more about it. The historical
significance of the emperor and the plague
interested me, but the juxtaposition of the private
details was even more fascinating. There was so
much conflict stuck into those two sentences, and
so much left unsaid. Who was his mistress? What
happened in the provinces when the pandemic
reached them?
Defining events and individual stories
The plague was a devastating event to Roman
society in 166 AD. Some estimates are that up to
20 per cent of the Roman population perished,
an event similar in scale to the Black Death. More
than one historian has suggested the true decline
of the Roman civilisation began with the plague.
This was a defining event, a broad historical
movement, but looking at it this way missed the
most important point. Individual stories make up
a societal change. I finally realised this was the
story I had been looking for, and since it didn?t
exist I had to write it.
I chose three narratives, each independent but
part of the whole, like a triple helix. The first was
at the lowest tier of society: a shepherd slave boy
who has to save his family from being broken up
and sold off by a cruel master. The second story
was of the emperor?s mistress who is abused by
her father, hated by the nobility, and gradually
loses her grip on reality. The third was a tale of
aspiration. An ambitious writer has to decide to
either write a high-profile panegyric for someone
he hates or else remain a humble baker.
These stories occur during the outbreak of the
plague, that great historical event, the impetus
for a change in the fundamental nature of things.
This is the phenomenon where historians and
doctoral students write their peer-reviewed
studies. But historians look at the event, not the
people. I turned it around, to look at the people of
that era and not the event.
The value of fiction
Two thousand years from now, historians will
look at the great events of our era: the fall of the
Soviet Union, the age of fear and terrorism, or the
creation of the European Union, perhaps. Yet we
Here is the value of fiction. There
were no ancient accounts of what
happened to a particular shepherd
boy when the plague reached the
city of Ephesus. He is not mentioned
in history books, isn?t the subject
of television documentaries, and
has no doctoral thesis written
about him. He doesn?t even exist,
of course, because I invented him.
But it is fiction?s role to imagine,
to go beyond archaeological digs
and written records, to give a view
of something which is only dreamed of but has
value and meaning nonetheless.
The three main characters in Dead Romans
take progressive steps from historical reality.
The emperor?s mistress was named Panthea
according to the ancient writers, and we know
a few things about her life. The remainder I
imagined. The baker and aspiring writer Aristides
is not known to history, but we know quite a bit
about what bakers did in the city of Ephesus, how
they worked and how they lived. Daphnis, the
shepherd slave boy, is entirely unknown, entirely
imagined, entirely original.
Documented history and inventive fiction
The farther one goes from documented history
the more opportunities there are for inventive
fiction. But it is necessary to have a backdrop, a
time, a society, to properly ground the characters
and the story. It is traditional to explore
character development and societal themes
in contemporary fiction, where the reader is
familiar with the setting. Reviewers have been
pleasantly surprised that I did this with historical
fiction.
Historical fiction set in the time of the Roman
Empire is supposed to be about Julius Caesar?s
army, or gladiators, or any of the other tired
tropes about ancient life. It is not supposed to be
about private internal struggles. Yet I believe that
by taking the characters farther from the society
we are familiar with, the better we can identify
with them.
Dead Romans is now available through Stairway
Press and many retailers.
Eezy does it
Looking to tap into your entrepreneurial
potential, without the bureaucratic migraine?
Hector Montes
S
TARTING a business may possibly be among
your life projects. However, there could be
that little something preventing you from
going forward and fulfilling your goals.
You know you have the skills and will to
succeed, but perhaps you are concerned about
the hassle of the registration and tax paperwork
or being able to cope with all the obligations
and routines of an entrepreneur. Or maybe you
are concerned that your language skills could be
not good enough to become an entrepreneur in
Finland.
Whatever the reason, Eezy is here to make it
easier for you, aspiring entrepreneur. ?We handle
all of the compulsory costs and legal obligations
of our clients,? says Johanna Singh, representative
of Eezy. ?In other words, we take care of all the
unpleasant paperwork, so that our clients are able
to concentrate in their work and marketing. You
can work as an entrepreneur without having to
start up a business of your own.?
Singh explains the process to start invoicing
through Eezy. ?The only requirements are to
have a Finnish tax card and not to be currently
running a company?.
?If you fulfil these prerequisites, you can register
with us via our online service using your net bank
authentication. If you don?t use e-banking, you
can contact us, and we?ll handle the registration
for you,? details the Eezy representative.
After completing the registration, you can start
working right away. ?Immediately after you log in
for the first time in our system, you will be able
you to start invoicing your clients through us?.
Eezy has about 8,900 people working through
them in different business branches, which
include information-based businesses, domestic
services, renovation, handicrafts, industrial and
graphic design, and performing arts, among
others. ?Hundreds of our clients are foreigners,?
explains Singh, ?and that number is growing.?
?One advantage of working with Eezy is that
you are able to invoice foreign companies, which
might be important clients for our registered
users because of their international connections?.
Another advantage of invoicing through Eezy
is the possibility of offering services without
establishing an employer-employee relationship
with the service recipient.
?In the current economic circumstances,
companies and organisations may be reluctant to
hire. However, there?s still much work to do. In
this sense, we consider that offering your services
as a self-employed worker through Eezy is a winwin situation,? explains the Eezy spokeswoman.
?The invoicing of your services can be projectbased, hourly-based, or as the situation requires?.
Singh mentions that many of their registered
users decide to keep using Eezy?s services even
after they have established themselves in the job
market.
?When we started our operations, we thought
that most of our clients would use our services
more of as a launch platform before going solo
in their business?, Singh explains. ?However,
many decide to stay with us more than expected
because it is such a convenient way of operating.?
?In fact,? Singh explains, ?the earnings you get
while using Eezy are in many cases approximately
the same as those if you would operate as a
private entrepreneur. Of course, it depends on
the particular costs of running a company, but
we have many ex-entrepreneurs among our
registered users who consider that it is more
advantageous for them to work through us?.
?
?
?
?
?
?
The corporate form of Eezy is a cooperative,
but you are not required to join in as a
member.
While working through Eezy, you are in a
fixed term employment relationship with
Eezy, and the duration of the employment
relationship is equal to the duration of the
job assignment in question.
As your employer, Eezy will pay your
salary and withhold tax in compliance
with your tax card, as well as take care
of mandatory insurances and other
employer contributions and submit the
annual reports of your income to the tax
administration.
You are not regarded as an entrepreneur
although you operate independently and
in an entrepreneurial manner, but as a
self-employed person.
Any work-related expenses you incur are
mainly deductible through Eezy.
For more information, visit www.eezy.fi.
Tastebuds
19
SixDegrees
Tamarin
Restaurant
Teaching as
a future career?
Sharing authentic Thai flavours all
around Helsinki and beyond.
Vocational Teacher Education
at JAMK
? pedagogical qualification for teaching
in Finland
? 60 credits post-degree programme for
adult students
? 1?2 years of flexible studying in international group in English
? eligibility can be obtained usually with
a relevant degree and 3 years work
experience.
Apply on 7-24 January, 2014.
Find out more and visit:
www.jamk.fi/teachereducation
Text Valerie Brun, images Thomas Poole
Located on Helsinki?s Fredrikinkatu, Thai restaurant Tamarin
opened its doors in 2008 and is one of the five Tamarin Restaurants
located around the city. This successful family business keeps
growing strong and is today managed by Kenny Woo, son and
second generation taking care of his parents? legacy.
The first Tamarin Restaurant opened in 2007 and is located
on Iso Roobertinkatu. Because of the predominant use of raw
ingredients, they had a difficult start introducing Thai flavours
to their new Finnish clientele. However, after a year of persisting
with their authentic recipes and fresh tastes, a level of success was
reached that inspired them to open a second Tamarin Restaurant
in Kamppi, which is that I am visiting today, along with our trusty
photographer Thomas.
A tasteful and spicy experience
Warmly greeted by a traditionally dressed Thai hostess, Woo shows
us to our table and sits with us right away. Highlighted by Thai
ornaments and plants, the atmosphere transports us to the Far East,
with the light and friendly ambiance making me feel completely at
ease and eager to try Thai food, which surprisingly enough, is my
first time as well.
My first taste is a savoury somtom tamarind (?8) or better called
a Thai papaya salad, with grated green papaya, apple slices and
cashew nuts dressed with a delicious homemade fish sauce. While
I am not expecting the spiciness that lit my mouth on fire, I fully
enjoy the freshness of the herbs and ingredients. In particular is the
papaya, a fruit that I enjoyed all my childhood in South America
only fully-grown and orange coloured. In contrast, this time I
discover papaya harvested way before its time, giving a completely
different and exotic freshness that pleasantly surprises me.
?It was hard to introduce raw papaya to our customers,? Woo
admits. But the kitchen insisted on introducing this exotic salad
to the public and soon enough, somtom became a very commonly
requested dish from the menu.
The second salad is yam woon (?8) consisting of glass noodles
mixed with mainly king prawns, Thai chilli paste, tomatoes and
tamarind juice. Thai chilli sauce gives the spiciness to the dish this
time and while I clamour to keep a straight face with the rising
heat, I simultaneously enjoy the legitimate taste of all the other
ingredients. ?We try to keep the flavour as authentic as possible,?
Kenny says, ?All of the herbs come directly from Thailand.?
As a main course, Tamarin?s kitchen delights us with a beef pahd
prig pao (?14.50), a very traditional Thai dish consisting mainly
of fried meat with sweet onions, string beans, fresh basil leaves
and evidently fresh Thai chilli as well as Thai chilli paste. Due to
both chilli ingredients, this recipe is believed to be too spicy but
Kenny assures that it?s actually very sweet. Thomas, who has lived
in Thailand for a few years, and who, unlike me, is accustomed to
the spicy flavours, confirms this statement.
The second main course is a non-spicy thord fra (?18) consisting
mainly of stir-fried king prawns, garlic, green onion, fresh pepper
and oyster as well as fish sauce. Since it?s not spicy, it?s a dish that is
easily approached by customers.
Keeping busy
Despite the fact that he studied two years of marketing, Woo
decided to practise a whole different career by entering the
restaurant business. General manager of five Tamarin Restaurants
in Helsinki plus one opening soon in Turku, Woo cuts himself in
multiple pieces taking care of them all.
?I call myself a slave but I?m still young so I enjoy it while it?s fun,?
he says with a smile. Of course, he counts on a solid support system
having his best friend and family helping with both marketing and
recruitment.
Tamarin?s kitchen has been a mentor to several young cooking
aficionados, giving them the opportunity to learn and adopt Thai
cuisine as their own until they become chefs themselves. For
example, Tamarin in Forum has a chef, nicknamed ?kiddo?, who
started when he was only 15; today, two-and-a-half years later, he?s
become a brilliant chef. Here at Tamarin in Kamppi, a native Thai
chef named Suthidee Khamphu is mentoring a young 19 year-old
girl who will take his place when he leaves for the Turku resraurant.
?The recipes are quite easy so they learn fast,? Woo enthuses.
The recipes might be easy but their menu keeps very diverse
giving their customers the opportunity to try the most traditional
and tasteful flavours of Thai cuisine. Their late lunch buffet offers
several dishes, usually suggestions from customers, for only ?10
and they change everyday.
Amongst the most popular dishes, Woo suggests the pad mad
(number 27 from the menu), it can be served with chicken, pork,
beef, duck or king prawn as a core ingredient; but for me the papaya
salad wins over all. Even though I couldn?t feel my tongue for two
hours, I know that I will order it again.
Tamarin
Fredrikinkatu 49
Helsinki?
tel. 09 755 5465?
Mon-Fri 11:00-23:00
Sat 12:00-23:00
Sun 12:00-22:00
What Finns
are eating
this month
The
Christmas
spread
?Tis the season to have laatikko, or casserole, or
whatever you want to call it. Basically, mash whatever
you have into a paste, add lashings of cream and butter
and ole hyvä. Carrot, swede, potato all are stand-alone
models, and let?s not forget liver.
Elsewhere, such things as ?slippery fish? (lipeäkala),
ginger snaps (piparkakku) and glögi are on hand to
whet your appetite, along with copious amounts of, well,
everything you can get your hands on. Christmas rice
porridge sees revellers licking their bowl in search of
the lucky single almond that has been placed in the
pot. Elsewhere, favourites such as ham with mustard
breadcrumbs around its exterior and an overindulgence
in all things sweet battle for your taste buds? attention.
Cultitude
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Issue 10 2013
There?s
something
about
Sarah
Who said international
politics, journalism and
acrobatics cannot go
hand in hand?
Text and image Eva Blanco.
S
ARAH HUDSON arrived in Finland in 2006. She had previously
been living in Beirut, where she was working as a freelance writer
just when the war broke out. She was then forced to leave.
?Every time I mention this, everybody gets really excited and says,
?it must have been a great experience to be a journalist in Lebanon
during war time?,? she reflects. ?Well, it wasn?t. I was mostly doing
lifestyle reviews of bars and clubs ? while they were quite lively
through the conflict-, unfortunately, magazines weren?t. Basically
all the media I was working for got shut down. Bank accounts were
frozen, so no one got paid.?
She left the country via Syria. Originally the plan was to fly out,
but the airport was bombed. So, Hudson and her companions
ended up driving across the border into Damascus and spending
the night there. ?A few hours later, the road we had used was also
destroyed, and soon after there was no way out. I should have stayed
a bit longer; I would have got a free trip to Australia,? Hudson says
playfully, and then explains that ships were sent to pick up citizens
some weeks after.
Instead, she landed in France for a while, a country she was also
familiar with after her previous experience as a barmaid in Paris
(where she had been working at a ?shitty bar?). However, after a few
months of enjoying the great variety of French cheeses, Hudson
came to the conclusion that there was not much for her to do there.
And so she decided to pay a visit to her brother, who happened to
live in Finland. The rest is history.
SixDegrees sat down with the Australian journalist to talk about
her rich experience as a traveller, her love at first sight of the
country of the thousand lakes and the social circus association she
is one of the founders of, Sirkus Magenta.
What was your fist impression of Finland?
Finland did the magical thing of luring me when it was nice and
sunny in August. It was also a beautiful autumn that year, and
during your first winter here you still kind of like snow and it?s
pretty exciting. Suddenly, one day it?s too late: you are sucked in,
and just roll gradually into winter depression every year. [Laughs]
But I think you have to work so hard to build a niche for yourself
here, that, once you have it, it also becomes really hard to leave. On
the other hand, my first job here was as a face-to-face marketer for
Unicef. I travelled all over Finland in a mobile home for a couple of
months and met some really great people. They are the reason why
I decided to establish myself in Finland. Many say Finns are really
backward and shy, and it?s hard to make friends here, but I found
exactly the opposite.
Which is?
Such nice, intelligent, articulate, interesting and educated people,
that I got hooked.
Was it easy to figure out what your plan was going to be in
Finland?
Once I had been here for a while I was looking for an excuse to stay,
so I decided to apply for a master?s degree ? I found out it was free,
and then I discovered I even got paid to do it, because I had been
working here already long enough. I got the social security and the
student loans. Then, after finishing my studies in Global Politics at
the University of Helsinki, I somehow felt guilty. I didn?t want to
just take the free education and leave, so I decided that I was going
to do my time as a taxpayer here ? which was not that easy, because
I graduated right in the middle of the economic crisis.
So how did you land your first job after graduating?
As I told you, it was quite hard to find work at first. So, I suppose
I had to use all the skills I had, and one of those skills happens
to be circus. So I ended up teaching circus at a local school in
Helsinki. From there I met people who wanted to take circus a bit
further, including Silja Kyytinen the creator of Sirkus Magenta, a
social circus association. Silja needed some help with the project,
so I immediately jumped on board and, together with some other
friends, we officially founded the association in 2011. Now we have
about 20 trainers working for us, and we usually run 30 hours a
week of classes. Plus, we also have a project in a camp of Syrian
refugees in the north of Jordan.
Tell us more about the kind of work and activities you do at
Sirkus Magenta.
Magenta is a social circus. We work with special needs groups:
disabled kids, socially excluded young people, families in crisis,
foster home kids etc. That?s our main raison d?être. We do a lot
of in-school projects as well, and then we also run some adults
hobby groups. So we are like a teaching circus, basically, we use
circus skills as a vehicle to promote social inclusion, individual selfdetermination and confidence building.
?F
inland did the magical thing
of luring me when it was
nice and sunny in August.?
What kind of skills do you teach and why are they so
effective?
We do a lot of pairs acrobatics. It?s a lot of counterbalancing someone
else?s weight, so you have to communicate; you have to make eye
contact, hold or support someone, touch ? it?s a really amazing kind of
tool to use. It involves a lot of climbing on people or hanging off people.
The reason why I think circus is so effective as a social tool is that it
gives a lot of quick successes. At the beginning you think you are never
going to be able to do certain tricks, and 10 minutes later you are there.
And this is valid for anyone with a basic level of fitness. So it?s a very
good way to get people encouraged and feeling better about themselves
and their bodies. It?s magical? and very, very addictive!
Tell us about the project you are running in the refugee camp
of Za?atri (Jordan), how it is working out so far and what your
main achievements are in this field.
We work with the Syrian refugees living there. Our target group is
15 to 24 year-old youth. There are now unofficially some 170,000
people in a camp, in the middle of the desert. Most of them come
from a town in the south of Syria from where the protests against
the current regime started to spread. The thing is that in the camp
there?s nothing to do. Schooling is provided by the UN and other
organisations for kids, but they have a lot of difficulty getting
anyone involved in anything. Passivity is a huge problem. I believe
only one third of the kids there are going to school. So we have
heard from different sources that the circus project is actually one
of the most effective social projects they have ever seen. It gets
people involved, and it keeps them involved. That?s one of our
challenges there: keeping people coming, especially with the girls.
Due to cultural issues, they might come for a few sessions and then
they stop coming and, when you ask why, they say they have too
much housework to do, and so they are not allowed to come. We
suspect that for the girls it is only the less conservative families that
allow them to come at all ? although parents have actually turned
out to love the circus for their kids. Also, they might arrive one
day with a ring on their finger. They are 14 years old and they are
engaged to be married maybe to a 40 year-old man. So they are not
allowed to come to circus anymore because they are ?women? now
and they have family duties.
What are the future plans regarding this project?
The project has been there since March, and we are sort of winding
up for now in mid-November because we don?t know if the project
will get funding to continue or not. At the moment we have four
of our trainers there. It?s a pity because most of the youngsters
there have lost relatives during the war, and the wonderful thing
about the circus is that whatever trauma people have gone through,
within the circus tent a lot of that drops away. People can be kids
again, they can laugh, they can play and they can fail. Circus is a
lot about failure. You start things up, you laugh, you fall over, you
laugh. All of us need to have a safe place to fail, and that?s what the
circus offers. As much as the situation can differ from one place
to another, people are people everywhere. Laughter and joy are
universal. In that sense I believe Sirkus Magenta is doing a lot more
good for the world than most of politics ever has or will do.
I understand that at the beginning of this year you landed
a job with Yle, in online, radio and TV news journalism in
English. What have you learnt thanks to this position?
Working in news journalism you get to know a lot more than you ever
needed to know about Finnish politics. [laughs] But I think in many ways
my respect has largely grown. I really respect where Finland stands in the
international scene, I respect the politics and the politicians, because in
my home country politics and politicians are largely disgraceful. Partly
also because people have such low expectations of them that it kind of
gives them a licence to behave in a very poor way. It?s really sad, because I
think people are coming to politics with a vision and some commitment
? they just lose it when they start thinking they should ?play the game?.
I have respect for the way Finns conduct themselves. There is a strong
welfare state here because people believe in helping each other. I don?t
know if the politics come before the mentality, or the other way around.
The idea is not to think about yourself all the time but keep in mind the
big picture.
An easy one to wrap up?Do you speak Finnish?
Yeah, I do ? although not fabulously well and it?s an eternal struggle.
I needed it for work. For Yle I have to translate a lot, but the thing is
I have never decided that I was going to learn Finnish, and, except
for about six credits at university, I?ve never studied it thoroughly.
So, there is evidently some way to learn Finnish through osmosis.
Sirkus Magenta works with Syrian youth aged 15-24 years at
Za?atri refugee camp in north Jordan as part of Finn Church
Aid?s non-formal education program, funded by the Finnish
Foreign Ministry. Sirkus Magenta?s special needs projects also
operate with support from:
? Myrsky (Vamos project with youth at risk)
? Effective Circus Project/European Social Fund (suburb
circus)
? Vantaa City
? Elu Keskus
? Finnish Culture Fund (SKR)
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SixDegrees
Music from the heart
Live Nation
Harlem gospel singer Anthony Morgan talks about his
upcoming European tour.
Anthony Morgan
Yannick Ilunga
IT HAS been over 20 years since Anthony Morgan first performed
in Europe. Now, the New York native gospel singer is back, along
with Harlem Spirit of Gospel, for a series of concerts that will bring
him from Finland ? where he will perform for the first time ever ?
and the Nordic Countries to Southern Italy. His tour touches down
at Helsinki?s Savoy Theatre on 8 December.
?This string of concerts gives me the chance to go back to
Copenhagen, where I held my first European performance,?
Morgan says. ?It was in the late 1980s and I was on my first gospel
tour. Performing in Europe is a blessing, because it gives me the
chance to see my friends over here and to enjoy the food, which
I love!?
Gospel, joy and dreams
Born and raised in Harlem, New York, Morgan has been enjoying
a successful career for over two decades. A well-known name in
the Big Apple?s music scene, Morgan has shared the stage with big
names in jazz, pop and R&B such as Diana Ross, Jimmy Cliff and
Jessica Simpson, performing also at Times Square?s legendary B.B.
King?s Blues Club & Grill.
Morgan?s career as gospel singer began in the simplest way one
can imagine. ?It was over 20 years ago, but I can still remember
it very well: I was in a club and I heard Tramine Hawkins? Spirit
Fall Down On Me. That?s how it all started!? he recalls with a smile.
?Music is a happy thing for me. I have worked for IMG Worldwide
for 27 years and now it has given me the opportunity to follow my
own dream.?
His European tour comes with perfect timing, as no music genre
is probably more suited than gospel to create the perfect Christmas
atmosphere.
?Our performance, filled with joy, fun, uplifting and fulfillment,
will definitely be a life changing experience for those who will
attend,? Morgan enthuses. ?Besides, I know that people in Finland
speak and understand English, which is great, because we love to
interact with the audience.?
Numerous tours in Europe have made Morgan aware of the
difference between the gospel genre here and overseas. ?Gospel
music is singing about the love for Jesus Christ,? Morgan explains.
?Even so, one can still spot some differences between gospel
repertoires in different regions. Gospel in Europe is a little more
conservative, while the US one is more charismatic.?
Morgan also has some words of wisdom for all those who are
thinking about giving gospel music a try. ?My advice to anyone who
would like to sing gospel is to be willing to sing about your life
experience with God in a song and in truth,? he says. ?Gospel is
passion, joy and fun.?
Mode for the
masses
Annette Vinther Hansen
James O?Sullivan
H
Anthony Morgan & The
Harlem Spirit of Gospel
8 December, 19:00
Tickets ?34-36
Savoy Theatre
Kasarmikatu 46-48
Helsinki
hits Helsinki
UGELY successful Brit act Depeche Mode is returning
to Finland, playing Hartwall Areena on Sunday 15
December.
At the forefront of musical innovation for the past 25 years,
the trio of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher
have successfully incorporated elements of electronica and
glam rock into their sound over the years. Known for such
hits as Enjoy The Silence, Strange Love, Personal Jesus, Policy
Of Truth, It?s No Good and I Feel Loved, the band first made
waves with the 1981 release of full-length Speak & Spell.
From there the sky was literally the limit, with the classic
albums Music For The Masses (1987) and Violator (1990)
helping to push their
cumulative album sales
north of the 75 million mark.
Recent
release
Delta
Depeche Mode
Machine dropped earlier this
15 December, 19:00
year, with the band following
Tickets ?70.50-73.50
it up with a massive global
Hartwall Areena
jaunt.
Areenankuja 1
Support on the 15th comes
Helsinki
in the shape of Big Deal.
Nothing ordinary
James O?Sullivan
Jukka Eskola, photo Miikka Pirinen
James O?Sullivan
N
ot to be totally eclipsed by Tampere and its burly November
jazz festival, Helsinki sees nearly a week of concerts promoted
by the Wejazz collective during mid December.
This series of gigs is spread through the whole of the second week
of the month, kicking off on Monday 9 December with the heady
combination of classic American drummer Andrew Cyrille and
free-jazz saxophonist Mikko Innanen at the Alexander Theatre,
the old Opera House on Boulevardi. Even on this first night the bill
is well stocked, including another American, Greg Osby, and his
Swiss trio VEIN, the six-piece Jukka Eskola Orkestra Bossa with
the Proton Quartet guesting, and an opener from veteran Finnish
performance artist and poet M.A.Numminen.
Other venues include Koko Jazz Club and Kuudes Linja, just up
Mopo, photo Stiina Koistinen
Hämeentie a way, Savoy Theatre and even Tavastia Club, where
a children?s afternoon program precedes the two final Saturday
headline concerts: Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko with his FinnoDanish Quintet as well as two supporting acts at the Savoy, and the
late night DJ-hosted rave at Kuudes Linja Club featuring Dalindeo
along with the Hammond/drum duo of Kahden Miehen Galaksi.
But equally as interesting among the other mid-week concerts
are two played at unconventional venues, both on Wednesday
11 December: in Andorra Cinema on Eerikinkatu the Londonlauded, trance-jazz quintet Oddarrang
play their latest release In Cinema with
accompanying visuals, and at Dubrovik
We Jazz 2013
Timo Lassy plays with his quintet and
9-14 December
American singer Joyce Elaine Yuille.
www.wejazz.fi/2013
What a week!
t
he first solo exhibition
to be staged in Finland
of renowned Danish
artist Jeppe Hein?s work is
currently on offer at Helsinki?s
Amos Anderson Art Museum.
Recipient of this year Ars
Fennica Prize, Hein offers There
Are No Ordinary Moments to
the public, a series that utilises
a wide range of watercolours,
sculptures and installations.
Served
with
copious
lashings of humour, Hein
strives to facilitate social
encounters with art for the
viewer, regularly creating a
visual platform for things
unseen by the naked eye.
Jeppe Hein ? There Are
No Ordinary Moments
Until 13 January
Amos Anderson Art Museum
Yrjönkatu 27, Helsinki
HELSINKI TIMES
28 NOVEMBER ? 4 DECEMBER 2013
Customer service points
Rautatientori Metro Station
(by Central Railway Station)
Itäkeskus Metro Station
Pasila, Opastinsilta 6A
Monthly review
HSL?s campaign puts customers
in the limelight and gives a face
to public transport.
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HSL Customer service tel. 09 4766 4000
(Mon-Fri 7am-7pm, Sat-Sun 9am-5pm)
Advice on public transport routes,
timetables and tickets, Travel Card
assistance and lost Travel Cards
HSL Helsinki Region Transport
PO BOX 100, 00077 HSL
www.hsl.fi
Faces of public transport
In November, HSL invited passengers
of various ages to have their picture
taken. Photographer Lauri Eriksson set
up pop-up studios at the Central Railway Station and the Sello shopping
centre, with over 500 people accepting the invitation.
?Each of our million passengers deserves to be in the spotlight. The photos will also form a colourful collage of
public transport users, in which passengers can try to spot themselves
or people they know,? says Mari Flink,
HSL?s Director of Marketing and Communications.
Faces on view
The portraits have been compiled on
the HSL website: www.hsl.fi. They are also on view in posters exhibited at Metro
stations and the Kamppi Terminal. There
will also be a physical exhibition touring
the Helsinki region shopping centres
and other public premises next year.
A mini-documentary will be produced on the project, in which the passengers featured in the pictures will
give their views on public transport
and its future.
A million encounters a day
Public transport is the mode of travel
in favour with everyone: almost a mil-
lion journeys are made on HSL?s transport services daily, amounting to 345
million journeys a year.
A typical HSL customer appreciates
public transport and is happy with the
services. The majority of residents in
Home by public transport
after a Christmas party
The Metro operates until 1.30
am on Friday/Saturday and Saturday/Sunday nights. A metro
train will run between Ruoholahti and Itäkeskus every 10 minutes
and on both eastern routes every
20 minutes. The extended nighttime service is being tried out until June 2014, after which its continuation will be decided based
on the experiences.
During the extended metro operating hours, there will be no
separate feeder services. The
buses 90N, 92N, 94N, 96N and
97N serving East Helsinki will not
operate all the services on Friday
and Saturday nights.
The number of guards on the
weekend night trains will be increased and ticket inspectors
will also be patrolling on them.
HSL offers additional late evening
bus services on weekends during
the pre-Christmas party season.
Additional services will operate on
several Helsinki internal and regional bus routes until mid-December.
The additional services will run
also on the night of Thursday 5
December, the eve of Independence Day.
the Helsinki region want public transport to be developed further, supporting the reduction of emissions and
traffic noise and the focusing of residential areas and jobs near good public transport connections.
The popularity of public transport is
evident not only in attitudes but also in
practice. For the first time in 50 years,
the use of public transport is growing
faster in the Helsinki region than private motoring.
HSL?s Journey
Planner ranks
again among
top online services
Jouko routes
replaced
by new
bus routes
HSL?s Journey Planner has once again
been ranked among top online services. It came in fourth in a poll on the
most valued online brands in Finland
conducted by Taloustutkimus Oy,
with only Google, Yle Areena and the
Finnish Meteorological Institute finishing ahead of it. Nearly 3,000 internet users replied to the survey.
In a competition for the Best Mobile Service in Finland 2013 organised by Teleforum, HSL?s Journey
Planner and Kutsuplus applications
were among the three best applications in the Utility & Productivity Services for Consumers category. HSL?s Kutsuplus is a new kind of
on-demand bus service offering tailored rides in minibuses that can be
booked online with a computer or
mobile phone.
At the beginning of 2014, the Jouko neighbourhood routes in Helsinki will be replaced by new routes
operating in the same areas. The
routes will be operated with minibuses that can, in addition to designated bus stops, stop anywhere
along the route, within traffic regulations.
The new routes will mainly provide the same connections as the
current Jouko routes. On some
routes the number of departures
will be increased and the operating
hours will be extended.
In Lauttasaari, the Jouko routes
J20 and J21 will not be replaced by
new routes because of a low number of passengers. There is a good
number of bus routes operating in
Lauttasaari: 20, 21V, 65A and 66A.
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SixDegrees
Forthcoming flicks
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug aims for another huge box office haul.
James O?Sullivan
Y
EP, the Christmas season is soon upon
us, which means that some of the year?s
most anticipated flicks should be arriving
in cinemas anytime soon...well, hopefully.
First tentpole flick of the season sees The
Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (11.12) on
screens around the country. While some were
let down by the first instalment, nearly half a
billion dollars in global box office means the
LOTR machine is still chugging along nicely.
Winner of the Palme d´or in Cannes 2013,
Blue is the Warmest Colour (13.11) offers the
tale of love between two teenage girls. But what
becomes of them after they enter adulthood?
For those who like their films more beige in
colour, A Late Quartet (20.12) offers the likes
of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Christopher
Walken wielding a bow, as one half of worldrenowned string quartet that is struggling to
stay together.
Steering the ship into indie territory after the
flop of his recent Fockers outing, The Secret
Life of Walter Mitty (27.12) sees Ben Stiller
stepping both in front and behind the camera.
Based on James Thurber?s short story, here
Stiller?s magazine publishing firm proofreader
retreats into his fantasy world, where viewers
are treated to a wide world of imagination.
Kristen Wiig, Patton Oswalt, and Shirley
MacLaine round out the cast.
Vince Vaugh offers up Delivery Man (3.1), as
an aging slacker who finds out his former days
of sperm donations have resulted in the birth of
a lazy 533 children. Upping the ante somewhat
in quality the same day, Martin Scorsese?s The
Wolf of Wall Street (3.1) promises yet another
memorable film from one of cinema?s greatest
directors. Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew
McConaughey star in the true story of wealthy
stockbroker Jordan Belfort, with the dizzy
heights of his success matched only by a fall
from grace involving crime, corruption and
the federal government.
If your still at a loose end on the same day,
Grudge Match (3.1) offers the baffling concept of
retired boxers Sylvester Stallone and Robert De
Niro deciding to settle a long-standing beef by
heading back into the ring after 30 years. Alan
Arkin, Kim Basinger, and Jon Bernthal costar.
Oldboy (10.1) sees Spike Lee remake director
Chan-wook Park?s critically acclaimed 2003
thriller, with Josh Brolin?s advertising executive
abducted and placed in solitary confinement
for 20 years. Time to seek revenge, then.
Finally, Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal
team up, only to butt heads in Prisoners (17.1).
After two girls go missing, daddy Jackman
starts to go off the rails in spectacular style,
kidnapping the main suspect, with Gyllenhaal?s
detective lagging behind.
Christmas
roundup 2013
Nick Barlow
W
ith Christmas coming up, the last
few months have seen an impressive
slew of gaming releases as publishers
fight for a share of the crowded crimbo
market. Here?s 6D?s Xmas 2013 round-up. All
titles have been tested on Xbox 360 or PS3
unless otherwise stated.
Starting with one of the biggest titles of the
year, Activision?s Call of Duty: Ghosts sees
the franchise juggernaut continue ploughing
a mighty furrow. With a decent SP campaign
to get you in the mood it starts off well, but
the multiplayer doesn?t really do anything
different beyond some new modes and maps,
all of which are variations on well-worn
themes. 6/10.
Another big franchise with a Christmas
game out is Assassin?s Creed, whose Black
Flag does a far better job of keeping the title
fresh. With more of the action transplanted
onto the high seas, you?ve much choice of
what to do, and the storyline offers genuine
surprises to keep you interested while you?re
a-pirating. 9/10. Another long-running series
is Splinter Cell, and Blacklist is no wimp in
the stealth action stakes. Although the daft
storyline is pushed too much to the forefront
the innovative MP offerings rescue it from
being merely good. Consider it upgraded.
8/10
Sports-wise, EA?s annual NHL title keeps
treading its well-worn path. Is there much to
differentiate it from previous iterations? Not
really ? although it does involves almost as
much punching as skating this time round.
6/10. Going vroom, F1 2013 brings more
hi-tech racing action to your homes. If ultra-
realistic mechanics are your thing, this one
is definitely for you. While last year?s update
was strictly by-the-numbers, this year?s
sees new tracks, classic cars, and improved
graphics. 8/10. For desktop gamers, Rome
Total War 2 is a stonking successor to the
original classic strategy title. Massive armies
do battle as you struggle to gain control of 1/4
of the world. It?s as in-depth and as massive
a time-sink as you?re likely to find. Quality
gameage. 9/10. On to Football Manager 2014.
The basic idea stays the same ? take your
struggling minnows to Champions League
glory ? but this year it?s much simpler to get
your head around. It?s designed better, more
streamlined, and more fun to play. 8/10.
There?s not much for beat ?em up fans,
although the remastered classic Soulcalibur
II HD Online still feels innovative and
immensely satisfying even after all these
years, and, of course, looks much crisper
than in 2003. 8/10. Finally, Sony have
recently pulled out all the stops with their
exclusives for the PS3: Puppeteer is a budget
platformer containing several great ideas but
failing to make the most of them. It?s still
an engaging, creative game. 7/10. Beyond: 2
Souls is from the same man responsible for
Heavy Rain, and feels more like a movie than
a game. It?s all story ? and a good one ? so
feels like a sequence of interactive scenes that
don?t really offer the player that much to do.
Very interesting to play once, replay value is
minimal. 6.5/10. Much more fun is Ratchet
& Clank: Nexus. Another budget title, it?s as
hilarious and bonkers as any other title in the
Ratchet series. Bombastic and coming with a
free copy of the last R&C game, this is one for
the Xmas tree. 8.5/10.
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Music _ Clubs
5 Dec. Beastmilk // Post-punk.
Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets
?8.50/9. www.barloose.com
5 Dec. Jenny Robson // Jazz. Koko
Jazz Club, Hämeentie 3. Tickets
?11.50/16.50. www.kokojazz.fi
5 Dec. Brunnen - Independence
Day // Karri K.o.i.r.a live. Helsingin
Kaivohuone, Iso Puistotie 1. Tickets
?13.50/21.50. www.kaivohuone.fi
5 Dec. Club Clinic // Nic
Fanciulli (UK). Venue, Pohjoinen
Rautatiekatu 21. Tickets ?12.7022.70. www.clubvenue.fi
5 Dec. Jonna Tervomaa // Pop. Virgin
Oil Co., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets
?18.50. www.virginoil.fi
5 Dec. Anna Eriksson // Pop. Savoy
Theatre,
Kasarmikatu
46-48.
Tickets ?40. www.savoyteatteri.fi
5 Dec. Rähinä Live 2013 // Elastinen,
Brädi, Spekti, Uniikki, Mikael
Gabriel, Iso H. Nosturi, Telakkakatu
8. Tickets ?21.50. www.elmu.fi
5 Dec. Pariisin Kevät // Pop. Korjaamo
Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B.
Tickets ?17/19. www.korjaamo.fi
5 & 6 Dec. The Sounds (SWE)
/ / Rock /pop. Tavastia, Urho
Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?44/45. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
5-7 Dec. Colours Festival 2013 //
House/trance. Suvilahti. Tickets
?26.50-67.50.
6 Dec. Herra Ylppö & Ihmiset // Rock.
Virgin Oil Co., Mannerheimintie 5.
Tickets ?13.50/15. www.virginoil.fi
6 Dec. Hayseed Dixie (USA) //
?Rockgrass?. Le Bonk, Yrjönkatu 24.
Tickets ?13.50. www.lebonk.fi
6 Dec. Johanna Kurkela ? Joulun
Lauluja // Christmas concert. Kallio
Church, Itäinen Papinkatu 2. Tickets
?16.50/18.50.
6 Dec. Crystal Fighters (UK/ESP) //
Electropop, Basque-rhythms and
folk melodies. Nosturi, Telakkakatu
8. Tickets ?25.50. www.elmu.fi
6 Dec. Apulanta // Rock. The
Circus, Salomonkatu 1-3. Tickets
?21.50/23. www.thecircus.fi
6 Dec. Shotgun Club // Bar Loose,
Annankatu 21. Tickets ?7.50/8.
www.barloose.com
6 & 7 Dec. Ismo Alanko
33?
Kolmanne sv uo sis a t a
t aiteilijaelämää
//
Pop /rock.
Helsinki
Hall
of
Culture,
Sturenkatu 4. Tickets ?35/37.
www.kulttuuritalo.fi
7 Dec. CMX // Rock. Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?21.50/23. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
7 Dec. Murmansk, Mushmouted Talk
// Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets
?8.50/9. www.barloose.com
7 Dec. Viikate // Metal. Virgin Oil
Co., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets
?16.50/17. www.virginoil.fi
7 Dec. Turisas, Ensiferum // Metal.
Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets
?23.50. www.elmu.fi
7 Dec. Michael Monroe // Rock
legend.
The
Cable
Factory,
Tallberginkatu 1. Tickets ?37/40.
7 Dec. Samuli Edelmann // Musician
and actor. The Circus, Salomonkatu
1-3. Tickets ?19.50. www.thecircus.fi
8 Dec. Superchunk (USA) / / Indie
rock. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie
13. Tickets ?19.50 /20. w w w.
kuudeslinja.com
8 Dec. Bring Me the Horizon
(UK) // Metal core. The Circus,
Salomonkatu 1-3. Tickets ?35/39.
www.thecircus.fi
8 Dec. Anthony Morgan & Harlem
Spirit of Gospel (USA) // Gospel,
pop, jazz and r?n?b. Savoy Theatre,
Kasarmikatu
46-48.
Tickets
?34/36. www.savoyteatteri.fi
9 Dec. We Jazz 2013 // Andrew
Cyrille & Mikko Innanen (USA/
FIN), VEIN featuring Greg Osby
(USA), Jukka Eskola Orquesta
Bossa.
Alexander
Theatre,
Bulevardi 23-27. Tickets ?3.5041. www.aleksanterinteatteri.fi
9 Dec. Amon Amarth (SWE) // Metal.
The Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1.
Tickets ?39.
10 Dec. We Jazz 3D Concer t / /
We Jazz Loft Sessions. Kuudes
Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets
?25. www.kuudeslinja.com
11 Dec. Aiyekoo to & Afrobeat
International,
Mirkka
&
Madr ug ad a / / Afrobeat and
Brazilian rhy thms. Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?11.50 /12. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
By Anna-Maija Lappi
11 Dec. Hy vä Klubi / / Death
Hawks, The Mutants, Suomen
Kar vapääkuninkaat 1968. Le
Bonk, Yrjönkatu 24. Tickets
?6.50. www.lebonk.fi
12 Dec. Eternal Oath (SWE) // Metal.
Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4 ?
6. Tickets ?8.50. www.semifinal.fi
13 Dec. Svart Night #6 // Kimi Kärki,
Seremonia, Domovoyd. Bar Loose,
Annankatu 21. Tickets ?8.50/9.
www.barloose.com
13 Dec. Rock?n?Roll Xmas // Melrose,
Marjo Leinonen Huff?n?Puff. Virgin
Oil Co., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets
?13.50/14. www.virginoil.fi
13 Dec. Egotrippi // Pop. Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?18.50/20. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
13 Dec. Royal Republic (SWE) //
Rock. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8.
Tickets ?23.50. www.elmu.fi
14 Dec. Drumsö // Pop-punk.
Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4 ?
6. Tickets ?7.50. www.semifinal.fi
14 Dec. Tänäänkin menee hyvin-klubi
// Anal Thunder, The Heartburns.
Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets
?8.50/9. www.barloose.com
14 Dec. Anneke Van Giersbergen
(NLD) // Former lead singer of The
Gathering. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8.
Tickets ?23.50. www.elmu.fi
14 D e c . H a l o o H e l s i n k i ! / /
P o p . Ta v a s t i a , U r h o Ke k k o s e n
k a t u 4 - 6 . T i c k e t s ? 18 . 5 0 / 2 0 .
w w w.t a v a s t i a k lu b i.f i
14 Dec. We Jazz 2013 Closing
Par t y / / Dalindéo & Kahden
Miehen Galaksi live. Kuudes
Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets
?8/19. www.kuudeslinja.com
17 Dec. Satyricon (NOR) // Metal. The
Circus, Salomonkatu 1-3. Tickets
?29/33. www.thecircus.fi
19 Dec. Sanni // Pop. Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?11.50/12. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
19 Dec. Jarboe (USA) // Unique
American singer-songwriter. Kuudes
Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?9.50.
www.kuudeslinja.com
20 Dec. Rubik // Indie pop/rock
group´s farewell gig. Korjaamo
Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B.
Tickets ?16/19. www.korjaamo.fi
20 Dec. Asa & DJ Polarsoul,
L aineen
K asperi
&
Palava
Kaupunki // Finnish rap. Virgin Oil
Co., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets
?13.50/14. www.virginoil.fi
2 0 D e c. P o e t s o f t h e Fall / /
Rock. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen
katu 4 - 6. Tickets ?19.50 / 20.
w w w.tavastiaklubi.fi
20
Dec.
22-Pis tepirkko,
Whoop!
//
Pop / rock.
Bar
Lo ose, Annankatu 21. Tickets
?13.50 /14. w w w.barlo ose.com
21 Dec. Don Johnson Big Band,
The Winyls // Hip hop /jazz/funk/
reggae. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen
katu 4-6. Tickets ?17.50 /18.
www.tavastiaklubi.fi
21 Dec. MetalOrgy goes Xmas
vol. 2 // Turmion Kätilöt, Fear of
Domination, Diablerie, ErilaZ.
Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets
?21.50. www.elmu.fi
22 Dec. Rajaton // A cappella
Christmas concert. Music Centre,
Concert Hall. Mannerheimintie 13.
Tickets ?40.50. www.musiikkitalo.fi
28 Dec. Teppo Vapaus & Intohimon
Orjat, Tiisu // Semifinal, Urho
Kekkosen katu 4 ? 6. Tickets ?8.50.
www.semifinal.fi
31 Dec. Helldone 2013 // HIM,
Per tti
Kurikan
Nimipäivät,
Beastmilk, Odalisque. Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?62.50. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
31 Dec. Von Hertzen Brothers // Rock.
Virgin Oil Co., Mannerheimintie 5.
Tickets ?23.50/25. www.virginoil.fi
31 Dec. New Year?s Eve With
Antero Lindgren / / Promising
singer-song writer. Bar Loose,
Annankatu 21. Tickets ?8.50/9.
www.barloose.com
31 Dec. Insomniacs & Candyland
NYE with Hollen (ITA) // Techno
& house. Venue, Pohjoinen
Rautatiekatu 21. Tickets ?12.7022.70. www.clubvenue.fi
31 Dec. A mor phis / / Metal.
Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets
?27. www.elmu.fi
31 Dec. Bonne Année avec Aino
Venna / / Folk, jazz and chansons.
Savoy The atre, Kas armikatu
4 6 - 4 8. Ticket s ?12 / 23 / 25.
w w w.savoyteatteri.fi
3 Jan. Alamaailman Vasarat,
Michael Monroe
7 Dec. The Cable Factory
Hidria Spacefolk // Psychedelic
folk/rock/ ?astrobeat?.
Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?13.50/14. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
14 Jan. Kylesa (USA), Sierra (CAN),
Jagged Vision (NOR) // Rock/
Metal/Hardcore
etc.
Tavastia,
Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?21.50/22. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
18 Jan. Nicole Willis & Soul
Investigators // Soul and funk.
Korjaamo
Culture
Factory,
Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?14-16.
www.korjaamo.fi
24 Jan. Doom Unit // Hard rock.
Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets
?11.50/12. www.barloose.com
25 Jan. We Butter The Bread With
Butter (GER) // Death core. Nosturi,
Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?19.50.
www.elmu.fi
25 Jan. Alcest (FRA), Hexvessel,
The Fauns (USA) // Folk/rock/noise
pop. Korjaamo Culture Factory,
Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?23/26.
www.korjaamo.fi
27 Jan. Simple Minds (UK) // Scottish
rock group. The Circus, Salomonkatu
1-3. Tickets ?47. www.thecircus.fi
29 Jan. Imperial State Electric
(SWE) // Rock. Tavastia, Urho
Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets
?19.50/20. www.tavastiaklubi.fi
Fulsteam
Theatre _ Dance
Sanni
19 Dec. Tavastia
Sonya Lindfors: NOIR?
7-12 Dec. Zodiak
Young Artists
Until 5 Jan. Kunsthalle
Until 21 Dec. Cabaret Jamon //
Cabaret/circus show visualized by
artist Jani Leinonen and fashion
designer Minna Parikka. Cirko,
Kaasutehtaankatu 1. Tickets ?39.
www.cirko.fi
Until 6 Jan. Winter Circus Cosmos
// Magical winter circus with
international top performers, live
music and fantastic costumes.
Dance Theatre Hurjaruuth, The
Cable Factory. Tallberginkatu 1 A.
Tickets ?11-78. www.hurjaruuth.fi
5 Dec. English Comedy Club Helsinki
// Brian Mørk (DNK), TMF Joe Eagan
(CAN) & Pietari Vihula. Manala,
Museokatu 10. Tickets ?10-12.
www.comedyfinland.com
5 - 31 Dec. Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
// Luminously melodic masterwork
of Puccini. Finnish National Opera,
Helsinginkatu 58. Tickets ?15-91.
www.opera.fi
7 Dec. - 11 Jan. The Snow Queen
// Kenneth Greve?s ballet for the
whole family is based on the tale by
H.C. Andersen from 1845. Finnish
National Opera, Helsinginkatu 58.
Tickets ?19-98. www.opera.fi
7 - 14 Dec. Sonya Lindfors: NOIR?
// Dance piece dealing with the
experience of being different.
Zodiak - Center for New Dance,
Tallberginkatu 1B. Tickets ?14/22.
www.zodiak.fi
10 Dec. Bill Burr (USA) // World-class
stand-up comedy. Savoy Theatre,
Kasarmikatu 46-48. Tickets ?30.
www.savoyteatteri.fi
11 - 30 Dec. Gioachino Rossini: La
Cenerentola // The classic Cinderella
tale told by Rossini. Finnish National
Opera, Helsinginkatu 58. Tickets
?15-91. www.opera.fi
11 Dec.-24 Jan. Jyrki Karttunen:
Youth and Freedom // Dream-like dive
into the world of emotions. Helsinki
City Theatre, Pieni Näyttämö.
Eläintarhantie 5. Tickets ?18-29.
www.hkt.fi
19 D e c . M a r g a r e t C h o / /
Stand-up
comedienne´s
w o r l d t o u r. S a v o y T h e a t r e ,
Kas armikatu 4 6 - 4 8. Tickets
? 2 5 / 3 0 . w w w. s a v o y t e a t t e r i .f i
18-28 Jan. Balanchine-ForsytheKylián: Bella Figura // Triple bill
featuring works by three worldfamous choreographers. Finnish
National Opera, Helsinginkatu 58.
Tickets ?15-91. www.opera.fi
Exhibitions
Jarboe
19 Dec.Kuudes Linja
Until 15 Dec. Surrealism and illusion
in early 20th century postcard
photography // The Finnish Museum
of Photography, The Cable Factory.
Tallberginkatu 1. Tickets ?0/6/8.
www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until 31 Dec. Mad about Helsinki // A
unique overview of the city´s history
and beloved places. Helsinki City
Museum, Sofiankatu 4.
Until 5 Jan. Young Artists 2013
// A group of young artists under
4-8 Jan. Lux Helsinki // Various venues. Free entry. www.luxhelsinki.fi
LUX Helsinki - It´s all
about light!
LUX Helsinki is here again to bring light and colours to the darkest
time of the year! Between Saturday 4 and Wednesday 8 January,
enchanting light installations created by both Finnish and international artists are taking over the city and offering the audiences
a chance to experience the wintry Helsinki literally in a new light.
The LUX route consists of 12 installation sites and leads the visitors along the shore of Töölönlahti bay, past the National Opera?s
amphitheatre, Hesperia Park, the National Museum, the Hakasalmi Villa, Helsinki Music Centre, the old railway warehouses
and Kansalaistori Park to the New Student House. The Senate
Square is the event?s central venue with Corazón, a massive beating heart created by the Spanish fashion designer Agatha Ruiz
de la Prada in collaboration with the production and design company D-Facto from Lyons.
In addition to the light installations, there will be LUX Ratikka
tram, exhibition of light art at Merikaapelihalli in the Cable Factory
and other light-related events.
35 shows what is hot in Finnish
art just now. Kunsthalle Helsinki,
Nervanderinkatu 3. Tickets ?6/9.
www.taidehalli.fi
Until 12 Jan. Aesthete Extarordinaire
// Birger Kaipiainen´s ceramic
fantasies. EMMA ? Espoo Museum of
Modern Art, Ahertajantie 5. Tickets
?0/8/10. www.emma.museum
Until 13 Jan. Jeppe Hein ? There
are No Ordinary Moments // Solo
exhibition of the renowned Danish
artist Jeppe Hein, winner of this year
Ars Fennica Prize. Amos Anderson
Art Museum, Yrjönkatu 27. Tickets
?0/2/8/10. www.amosanderson.fi
From 15 Jan. Tuija Lindström: In The
Beginning There Was Everything //
Retrospective of one of Sweden´s
foremost
photographers.
The
Finnish Museum of Photography,
The Cable Factory. Tallberginkatu
1.
Tickets
?0 /6/ 8.
www.
valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi
Until 19 Jan. Kiasma Hits // Classics
of Finnish contemporary art and
famous international artworks.
Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2.
Tickets ?0/8/10. www.kiasma.fi
Until 2 Feb. Transformation: Towards
a Sustainable Future // How to
you build or renovate your home
to balance human needs with the
demands of ecological sustainability?
Museum of Finnish Architecture,
Kasarmikatu 24. Tickets ?0/3/6.
www.mfa.fi
Until 9 Feb. On the Shores of the Lake
// Exhibition presenting the life of the
Tuusula artist community. Ateneum
Art Museum, Kaivokatu 2. Tickets
?0/10/12. www.ateneum.fi
Others
11-22 Dec. Vanhan Joulumyyjäiset
// Christmas bazaar at The Old
Student House. Vanha ylioppilastalo,
Mannerheimintie 3.
14-15 Dec. Korjaamo Christmas
Market // Finnish design and
Christmas treats. Korjaamo Culture
Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. www.
korjaamo.fi
4-8 Jan. Lux Helsinki // Brilliant light
installations to illuminate the darkest
time of the year. Throughout the city.
www.luxhelsinki.fi
From 28 Jan. Docpoint // Helsinki
documentary film festival. www.
docpoint.info
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changes, mistakes, cancellations
or lack of information concerning
the events mentioned.
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Music _ Clubs
5 Dec. Turku Music Awards and
Kivestivaalit // Band night featuring
Risto, Death Hawks and Salaliitto.
Klubi (LIVE), Humalistonkatu 8.
Tickets ?8/10. www.klubi.net
5 Dec. The Great Independency Rock
?n? Roll Swindle // Band night with
Black Magic Six, The Shrieks and
Country Dark. Dynamo, Linnankatu
7. Tickets ?6. www.dynamoklubi.com
5 Dec. TrrTrrTrr!! // A pop rocking
cover band that borrows your
favourite tunes from three decades
back and adds a new flavor to them.
Apollo, Humalistonkatu 6. Tickets
?7. www.nightclub.fi
5
Dec.
Kovasetti
Presents:
Kotiteollisuus // Popular Finnish
heavy metal band from Lappeenranta
plays sullen songs. Logomo,
Köydenpunojankatu 14. Tickets
?24.50/62.50. www.logomo.fi
6 Dec. Jenni Vartiainen // One of
Finland?s finest female artist on
tour promoting her new album Terra.
Logomo, Köydenpunojankatu 14.
Tickets ?34.50. www.logomo.fi
6-7 Dec. Jean S // Finland?s best
party band known for its lively music.
Börs Night Club, Eerikinkatu 10.
Tickets ?26.50. www.tokravintolat.fi
9 Dec. Hayseed Dixie (USA) // The
creators of the musical genre
?Rockgrass? from the Appalachian
Mountains come all the way to the
cold north to give Finland a taste
of hillbilly tunes. Klubi (LIVE),
Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets ?10/12.
www.klubi.net
12 Dec. Royal Republic (SWE) // The
new kings of rock ?n? roll from Malmö
on a mission to revive the rock
scene. Klubi (LIVE), Humalistonkatu
8. Tickets ?13.50. www.klubi.net
13 Dec. Scandinavian Music Group
// Finnish group specialising in
beautiful melodies that resonate
with the Finnish mentality. Klubi
(LIVE), Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets
?16/18. www.klubi.net
13 Dec. Kolmas Nainen // A
cornerstone of Finnish rock that has
churned out hits for three decades.
Caribia Arena, Kongressikuja 1.
Tickets ?20/22. caribiaareena.fi
13-14 Dec. West Coast Allstars //
Unplugged gig by Ressu Redford,
Jussu Pöyhönen, Toni Nuotio and
Tommi Läntinen. Börs Night Club,
Eerikinkatu 10. Tickets ?26.50.
www.tokravintolat.fi
14 Dec. Robin // Down by the Laituri
festival presents this popular young
artist from Turku. Caribia Arena,
Kongressikuja 1. Tickets ?25.
caribiaareena.fi
14 Dec. Sir Elwoodin hiljaiset värit
-duo// Basement jazzy band tells
melancholic tales through its music.
Klubi (ILTA), Humalistonkatu 8.
Tickets ?22/8. www.klubi.net
14 Dec. Raskasta joulua - Heavy
Christmas // Finland?s finest
metal artists come together for
a Christmas concert. Featuring
Marco Hietala, Tony Kakko, Jarkko
Live Nation
23 Jan. Logomo, Köydenpunojankatu 14. www.logomo.fi
Tickets: ?32.50/37.50/52.50/62.50
St Petersburg Festival Ballet:
Swan Lake
One of Russia?s most prestigious ballet companies has enthralled
Finnish audiences for the past couple of years with classic ballet
performances. The dramatic Swan Lake ballet will be performed
on this tour of Finland in more cities than ever before due to the
high demand for tickets for previous tours. St Petersburg Festival
Ballet is known for the modern touch on the otherwise gently
elegant productions. In addition to gaining acclaim for its skilful
dancers, the company has also been praised for costume and
set design.
Ahola and JP Leppäluoto. Logomo,
Köydenpunojankatu 14. Tickets
?36.50. www.logomo.fi
1 Jan. Melissa Horn (SWE) // Somber
and folky songs from Melissa?s latest
album. Logomo, Köydenpunojankatu
14. Tickets ?41.50. www.logomo.fi
18 Jan. New Year Viennese Concert
//
The
Schoenbrunn
Palace
Orchestra on a world tour, featuring
such young talents as Christoph
Filler,
Bibiana
Nwobilo
and
conductor Guido Mancusi. Logomo,
Köydenpunojankatu 14. Tickets
?169. www.logomo.fi
17-18 Jan. RudiRok ? Son of a Beats
// A unique mixture of stand-up,
beatboxing
and
ventriloquism
performed by a sound artist who has
been touring Finland for over ten
years. Linnateatteri, Linnankatu 31.
Tickets ?23/29. www.linnateatteri.fi
Others
8 Dec. Christmas Market // The
largest Christmas market in Finland.
Turku Fair and Congress Center,
Messukentänkatu 9-13. Admission
free. turunmessukeskus.fi
1-12 Jan. Caravan Show // Movie
club Kinokopla screens Thomas
Vinterberg?s
movie
Jahti.
Logomo, Turku Fair and Congress
Center, Messukentänkatu 9-13.
turunmessukeskus.fi
Theatre _ Dance
Première 11 Dec. The Nutcracker
// Masterpiece of classic ballet
performed by the dancers of
Aurinkobaletti. Åbo Svenska Teater,
Itäinen Rantakatu 64. Tickets
?13/18/22. www.aurinkobaletti.com
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Issue 10 2013
Music _ Clubs
Out&See Tampere
By Jutta Vetter
By James O?Sullivan
Music _ Clubs
Live Nation
Ringa Manner
6 Dec. Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute
6 Dec. Tuomari Nurmio // Local
// Performed by Blackeyed Blondes,
legend comes to town. Club 45
21 ? 27 FEBRUARY
2013
showtime at 00:15. Rock & Kitchen
Special, Saaristonkatu
12. Tickets
Jack the Rooster, Satakunnankatu 13
?12. www.45special.com
B. Free entry. www.jacktherooster.fi
6 Dec. Turisas, Ensiferium, Battle
6 Dec. Finland 96 years // Live on
Beast // Things are going to get
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exchange student party Stammtisch
at the Student village bar Rentukka.
Party is organised by the Erasmus
Student Network and The Student
Union of the University of Jyväskylä.
Ravintola Rentukka, Taitoniekantie 9.
Tickets ?2/1. www.rentukka.fi
7 Dec. Pallomeri // Local outfit brings
the noise. Poppari, Puistokatu 2-4.
Tickets ?3. www.jazz-bar.com
6 Dec. Rytmihäriö ?// Heavy
noisesmiths out to promote their latest
full-length Todellisuuden mestari.
Musta Kynnys, Hannikaisenkatu 16.
Tickets ?7. www.mustakynnys.com
7 Dec. 22-Pistepirkko // Classic
local outfit continues their fresh
recent rebirth. Musta Kynnys,
Hannikaisenkatu 16. Tickets ?10.
www.mustakynnys.com
12 Dec. Stammtisch // Traditional
exchange student party Stammtisch
at the Student village bar Rentukka.
Party is organised by the Erasmus
Student Network and The Student
Union of the University of Jyväskylä.
Ravintola Rentukka, Taitoniekantie 9.
Tickets ?2/1. www.rentukka.fi
13 Dec. Oliver // Local quartet get
heavy. Red Neck, Asemakatu 7.
Tickets ?6. www.punaniska.com
14 Dec. Markon kone // Jyväskylä?s
own ?90s rock/pop faves enjoy a
comeback. Red Neck, Asemakatu
7. Tickets ?5. www.punaniska.com
18 Dec. Skeletorfest // Local acts
coming together by the power of
Greyskull. Gardeners of Gethsemane,
Sir Nigel Fungus, Alchemaster?s
Apprentice, Typeface Ravintola
Rentukka, Taitoniekantie 9. Free.
www.rentukka.fi
26 Dec. Amorphis // Metal legends
stop in as part of their global
tour in support of Circle. Lutakko,
Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?10/8.
www.jelmu.net
31 Dec. MEN IN THE BOX plays Alice In
Chains ?// Tunes from grunge legends
get an airing on New Year?s Eve.
Musta Kynnys, Hannikaisenkatu 16.
Tickets ?5. www.mustakynnys.com
10 Jan. Sata Cruz //Local rockers
follow up a clutch of UK live dates
with a gig in the New Year. Red
Neck, Asemakatu 7. Tickets ?6.
www.punaniska.com
16 Jan. Kadi Quartet // Modern jazz,
fronted by singer Kadi Vija. Poppari,
Puistokatu 2-4. Tickets ?3. www.
jazz-bar.com
Exhibitions
Until 12 Jan. Olli Marttila ?
Muistikuvia Litorinamereltä //
Solutions for
crossword on
page 7
11 Dec. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?10/8. www.jelmu.net
Hayseed Dixie (US)
Toe-tappin? hillbilly sounds from the U S of A began life as an
AC/DC covers band, albeit with a bluegrass edge. Now things
have turned truly global, with their mix of bluegrass and folk,
more accurately known as Rockgrass, seeing them recording
songs in a variety of language ? including Finnish! Covering local
legend Hector?s Juodaan Viinaa was just the tip of an iceberg
that includes a full album in Norwegian, a few tunes in German
and even one in Spanish.
Drawings, paintings and sculptures
1973-2013. Jyväskylä Art Museum
Holvi, Kauppatu 23. Tickets ?4-6.
Free entry on fridays. www.jyvaskyla.
fi/taidemuseo
Until 29 Dec. Mobile2013 @ Finland
// Exhibition. Galleria Ratamo,
Veturitallintie 6. Free entry. www.
jyvaskyla.fi/ratamo
Until 11 Dec. Risto Immonen
// Exhibition. Galleria Becker,
Seminaarinkatu 28. Free entry. www.
jkltaiteilijaseura.net/galleria.htm
4-22 Jan. Merja Briñon // Exhibition.
Galleria Becker, Seminaarinkatu 28.
Free entry. www.jkltaiteilijaseura.
net/galleria.htm
Until 19 Dec. Vicki Lynn Snellman:
A Personal Conversation with
Rain // Exhibition. Multicultural
Center
/
Galler y
Gloria,
Matarankatu 6. Free entry. ?www.
monikulttuurikeskus-gloria.fi
Sports
5 Dec. JYP ? HPK // National Ice
Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
12 Dec. JYP ? KalPal // National
Ice Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
14 Dec. JYP ? KalPal // National
Ice Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
28 Dec. JYP ? Tappara // National
Ice Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
3 Jan. JYP ? Ässät // National Ice
Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
10 Jan. JYP ? Ilves // National Ice
Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
14 Jan. JYP ? SaiPa // National Ice
Hockey League. Synergia arena,
Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?5-30.
www.jypliiga.fi
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