• Finland?s SixDegreeS english language magazine ONLINe PRIVACY Changing its face Page 10 JeNNI LAItI Active for the Sámi cause Page 6 PUBLIC SAUNAS Feeling the heat Page 12 Issue 01/2015 www.6d.fi 16.01.2015 ? 25.02.2015
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  • Contents 3 SixDegrees in this issue February 12 Public saunas Stripping down to their bare essentials and stepping into a dimly lit room to sweat it out with friends and family can prove a challenging ask for many newcomers to Finland. But what about doing so with complete strangers? 4 Starters 14 Society Social media is changing the way we approach the issue of privacy. Plus David Brown, Minority Report and this month?s Legal Immigrant. 14 Tastebuds Jazz and Italian food find themselevs under the same roof in Helsinki. We dive into the wide range of rice varieties on offer at Asian grocery stores. 15 Cultitude DocPoint, Mark Lanegan Band, Sibelius and the World of Art, Tango Pasión ? Sinfonía de Tango and The Festival of Political Photography. Also, find out what?s on at the cinema and in the gaming world over the next month or so. 4 Crowdfunding 6 Jenni Laiti 12 Finnish animation Now taking off here in a big way, we delve into the hows and wheres of popular funding and look at some cases that people have used it for. Bullied as a child for her cultural heritage, this Sámi activist set out to actively make a change for the betterment of her community. 16 Out & See Where to go and what to see in Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Jyväskylä and Oulu. In celebration of the artform?s recent centenary in Finland, we take a look at its rich history, and get to know many of its integral characters. . The SixDegrees Team Editor-in-chief Alexis Kouros Subeditor James O?Sullivan Advertising & Marketing Aiman Kaddoura, Bob Graham, Ethan Shadabi, Andre Roots +358 9?689 67 422 Emails in the form: firstname@6d.fi Events for Out & See: james@6d.fi Jenni Lahti fights for the Sámi cause. See page 6. Image credit: Carl-Johan Utsi Writers and contributors in this issue David Brown, Eva Czechanowski, Alicia Jensen, Andy Kruse, AnnaMaija Lappi, Merle Must, Tania Nathan, James O?Sullivan, Mika Oksanen, Peter Schavemaker, Mari Storpellinen, Mimmu Takalo, Kasperi Teittinen, Aleksi Teivainen, Jutta Vetter Proofreading James O?Sullivan Layout & Graphic Design Kirby Wilson Print house I-Print Seinäjoki Circulation 50,000 pieces Publisher Dream Catcher Productions www.dreamcatcher.fi 6° DreamCatcher Vilhonvuorenkatu 11B 00500 Helsinki tel. +358 9?689 67 420 info@6d.fi www.6d.fi ISSN 1459-5680 All articles, pictures and graphics are subject to copyright. No reproduction or reprinting is allowed without permission from Dream Catcher Inc.© Dream Catcher Next issue is out on 26 February SixDegrees can also be read at www.lehtiluukku.fi
  • Starters 4 Issue 1 2015 Top 5 things on our mind this month... Matriculation exams beckoning A big bunch of Finnish high school goers are getting ready for what could well be the toughest stretch of their student lives that is the matriculation exams. Great grades are required for the most sought-after disciplines of study to follow. Among the bright young aspirants you can see the occasional old geezer seemingly with a point to prove ? one senior citizen has matriculated on three subjects whilst in retirement! Not enough gags to shut up all free mouths Those who recently committed the heinous attack in Paris apparently have not done their homework if they think they can shut up all mouths that speak freely. Time brings perspective Funny how when the rock band Deep Purple first returned in 1984, a teenager or two felt they had been away for an eternity, although it was just nine years. Many subsequent comeback attempts by others have come from a timeline way longer. It is never too late for artists to return to the scene as long as they can still do what they do; another matter is if they can still find anyone who cares enough to come see them and pay for it. Go out and play basketball now? Madness! Not necessarily. Look at the court at the sports park in Laurinlahti, Espoo, that boasts a non-slip surface and is sitting pretty pret-à-jouer. There?s nothing keeping you from shooting hoops in January if you just wear the right gear for the weather. Maybe hold your best ball back though. No respect for the elderly Just around the turn of the year a number of scam cases targeting old people came to light. Those who are found guilty should be severely punished. Taking advantage of the old just won?t do. Mika Oksanen Word on the street What are you looking forward to most in the new year? Satu To have a good relationship with my husband and friends, that?s the most important thing for me. Aku Getting ahead in my studies. Claire Enjoying Helsinki, meeting new people and learning new things about Finland. I only arrived two days ago. I think it?ll just be a very interesting year. Mikko Having a good time. Enjoying life. Compiled by Alicia Jensen Short on funds? Crowdfunding gathers steam here in Finland. Merle Must G OT a great idea for starting a play, journalistic project or a company but lack the necessary fundage? Well, the recent rapid development of crowdfunding websites in Finland might just provide a solution. Let?s take a look of how and where to crowdfund and looked at some cases that people have used it for. First off, some definitions for those who came in late. Crowdfunding means raising money for a project from many people, usually via the Internet. When the set goal isn?t reached, the money is returned to the funders. According to Finnish laws, the contributors must receive something in return, like concert tickets while funding a band or a signed book when donating for its publishing. The model emerged in the US in the early 2000s. Probably one of the most successful Finnish projects, funded through international crowdfunding website Indiegogo, is Jolla?s tablet. Raising 1.82 million dollars (1.46 million euros) the project was complete in December 2014. But no more need Finnish people hope for support on foreign websites. A year and a half ago the first Finnish platform Mesenaatti was launched. This has several projects, like a book of love poems or already funded debut album of the band Dead Girl Diamonds. While Mesenaatti involves a wide range of projects, another platform, Invesdor, sets its sights on budding companies. Elsewhere, for those of you who are eager to kick off a journalistic project, Rapport, founded in May last year, might offer some help. Through this platform, everyone can present their story ideas, but people choose the winning ideas and the Rapport journalists are responsible for them to be funded. Then the journalists decide on the sum needed for the story and start working. Later the work is published on the website, but the funders have first dibs on reading the stories. Even sports-minded people have their own funding website that?s designed to fund professional athletes and teams: Kiririnki. While writing this article, it was possible to fund judoka Eetu Laamanen?s participation in qualification tournaments for the next Olympics or Marianna Zaikova?s participation in the World Marathon Challenge ? running seven marathons in seven days in seven continents ? in January 2015. With that, Zaikova would be the first woman and also the first Finn to join the race. Finnish AFter DArk Learning the Finnish they don?t teach in school A BL E AVAIL ATED W O N TR IL L U S AS AN ERBACK ! tores PAP jor books a /fad om m .6d.fi Buy fr line: www n o or Finnish: Sopii kuin nyrkki silmään English equivalent: Fits like a punch in the eye (literal) Fits like a glove. Enjoy being punched in the eye? No, neither do most people, but this saying really does mean the opposite of what logic might suggest. Something that literally fits you like a punch in the eye fits perfectly, like a glove. Which is fine, of course, providing you don?t misunderstand it when some thug asks you how you?d like a smack in the face. ? ? ? ? Ootsä nähny, kenen kans Miko seurustelee? Mitä? En oo. No, kenen? Sen ihme muijan sieltä hippikommuunista. Muistat sä? Se ihan outo. Heh heh! Se muija sopii Mikolle kyllä ku nyrkki silmään. Samanlaisia hörhöjä molemmat! ? ? ? ? Have you seen who Miko is dating? What? No, I haven?t. Who? A girl from that hippy commune. Remember her? She?s kinda weird. Ha, ha! She fits Miko like a glove! The two freaks deserve each other! David Brown and Mimmu Takalo
  • SixDegrees Starters 5 SixDegrees Stop making with the COMMAS! Tell me about your city... Ever wondered about words that just don?t exist in the English language? Groningen Ewa Czerwinska James O?Sullivan e veRy lanGuaGe has them: an expression that describes minute aspects of life that are impossible to summarise succinctly or with a single word in English. Aside from swearing and slang, there are many really useful phrases that English could do with some borrowing from. Luckily, website Cracked.com is on hand with a handful of choice suggestions, under the title of ?9 Foreign Words the English Language Desperately Needs?. Got a bad case of the blues? Reaching for another forkful to fill the emptiness inside? Gained a few extra pounds as a result of your emotional overeating? Wondering how to surmise your resultant ballooning figure? Try your hand at some German then: kummerspeck. Given these technological times, the Japanese are on hand with hikikomori. What does it mean? Simply a teenager or 20-something who has withdrawn from social life, often obsessed with TV and video games. Wondering about those slippery politicians, who cannot give an answer that?s related to the question? Well, best dabble in some Tibetan where they have the perfect expression to describe such behaviour: Gadrii nombor shulen jongu. This is giving an answer that is unrelated to the question, meaning literally ?to give a green answer to a blue question?. Speaking of blue, how about those potty-mouthed mothers who scream at their kids in public, frequently using a language that can only be described as such as colour. That would be kaelling, of course, just ask the Danes. And so, wondering what came in the number one position on the list? A clue: it?s in Finnish. Any ideas? Well, have you ever wondered about those people who pick over every sentence, taking great pleasure in pointing out every obscure grammatical error you may have or have not just made? In Finnish they are known as pilkkunussija. What?s that you say? Oh yes, a comma f**ker. So, the next time someone corrects your less than perfectly composed email or post, or takes great pleasure in dusting off rigid grammatical rules that detract from your well-considered content, you now have something potent in your vocabulary to impress them with. Schools to teaching typing instead of longhand. R emembeR fussing endlessly over the neatness of your handwriting? Did your teacher or your parents constantly look over your shoulder, rapping you on the knuckles with a ruler when you forgot to cross the Ts and dot the Is, as it were? Well, children of Finland rejoice. At least those who will be studying in 2016, that is. Savon Sanomat recently reported that such archaic skills are no longer needed. That?s right ? cursive writing and calligraphy will not be taught at Finnish schools, replaced with the study of typing skills. ?Fluent typing skills are an important national competence,? the article quotes Minna Harmanen from the National Board of Education, which is currently in the process of finalising the guidelines for the new study of writing. Acknowledging that waiving handwriting will be a major cultural transformation, Harmanen adds that teachers can still teach longhand if they so desire. Given the gradual, steady digitalisation of our former analogue world, it remains to be seen just how useful such skills will be. Unless, of course, you would like to make the best use of your new Digital Ink Pad. HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW WINTER IN FINNISH? 1 2 Merle Must ?S o many bikeS!? was the first thought that came to my mind when I arrived in Groningen, the biggest city in the north of the Netherlands. I had known about Dutch bike-affection before going there for my Master?s studies, but I didn?t guess that cyclists would be everywhere ? turning left, right, behind and in front of you no matter where you go. Soon it became clear that there is no other ?real? way to live in or visit Groningen than by bike. Brave tourists who have the courage to jump on the saddle can see the city from a completely different point of view than on foot. They can also benefit from the fact that the city is actually built for cyclists. There is more than 200 kilometres of special roads for cyclists, with their own traffic lights, tunnels and multiple-floor parking lots. WRITTEN OUT of the school curriculum SixDegrees There are almost twice as many bikes as people in Groningen. CLUES 1. Shovel A catchy view for foreigners can also be the biking Dutchies. As they grow up pedalling, they learn to master it perfectly: it is common to see people cycling with their whole family on a bike, multitasking by eating a broodje (a sandwich, the well-loved Dutch meal) or even reading a book. Because a ?proper? Dutchy often owns more than one bike, it?s no surprise that there are almost twice as many bikes as people in Groningen. Apparently biking contributes to people?s wellbeing, because last year, the residents of Groningen were so satisfied that the city was rated to be one of the happiest in Europe. According to this European Union survey, residents were especially satisfied with the public space, health care and cultural facilities. Besides bikes and happy citizens, this city with the population of Tampere is home to a great batch of university students who form about a quarter of the city?s population. Therefore, the streets are empty in the summer and come to life in September when they fill up with excited youngsters from all over the world. Two big universities also attract world-known scholars, engineers and medical specialists. This spring I had a great opportunity to listen (and almost even understand) the lecture about the accelerating expansion of the universe by Brian Schmidt, the 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Besides biking and learning, Groningen offers something for everyone from strolling near the canals to visiting the art museum. And the Finns who are afraid of homesickness, don?t worry: there?s a Scandinavian restaurant just a few kilometres from the city and all shops sell salmiakki, just search for its Dutch name drop ! 2. Skate 3 3. Blizzard 4 Contact james@6d.fi if you want to share the inside word on your town. 4. To ski 5 6 5. Snow 6. Sledge 7. 7 Fireplace 8. Knitted cap 8 Restaurant Idän Piste Turunlinnantie 14 00930 Helsinki Test your knowledge of Finnish vocabulary by using the local equivalent. Puzzle by eva Czechanowski. Solutions on page 13. Late night bar & restaurant www.idanpiste.fi
  • We Met 6 Issue 1 2015 Art is my Activism A ctivism Jenni Laiti is looking out for Sámi interests. Laiti takes a moment out from fighting the cause. Alicia Jensen R acisM, inequality and structural violence have been part of the everyday life of the Sámi people for hundreds of years. The Sámi are Europe?s only indigenous people, located in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and suffer from being a minority. The Sámi aspire to live in harmony with nature, and pursue a sustainable relationship with the land they live on. A continued denial of rights to make decisions about the land they own as an indigenous population has led to hundreds of years of confrontation ? a struggle which has recently begun to gather momentum. Jenni Laiti grew up in Inari, and was bullied as a child. Yet it wasn?t until she was a teenager that she began to understand that the reason was her cultural heritage as a Sámi, an understanding that motivated her to do something to change that reality. Laiti is currently the spokeswoman for Suohpanterror, a collective activist group representing Sámi interests. She lives in Jokkmokk, Sweden, where Suohpanterror has supported the Gállok Resistance Movement against a planned iron ore mine. The mine would impact the health of the land on which the Sámi population live and herd reindeer. The refusal of the Swedish government to build the mine has thus far brought the biggest tangible success to the Suohpanterror movement ? a success which, Laiti informs, has empowered the movement to ask for change ? self-determination, self-governance, and indigenous/Sámi rights. What was it like growing up as a sámi in Finland? When I was a child in Inari, every one of us in our neighbourhood had a Sámi background, but everyone was Finnish. We were away from our traditional culture, speaking Finnish and living Finnish lives. When I was a child it was quite a negative thing to be a Sámi, it wasn?t appreciated. But nowadays when you see the children and youngsters it?s a positive thing to be Sámi, people appreciate their identities. It was rough. I think all the Sámi have felt racism in society, or bullying because they are Sámi. You didn?t want to talk about being a Sámi, you just wanted to hide it. A lot of my friends, especially boys, have been beat up and got into fights because they are Sámi. But it?s not only the bullying and teasing at school and in the social environment, but the racism and hatred that has been driven for hundreds of years. It?s also structural racism like not having the right to use your own language and the right to your own culture. language. Sámi language is still my mother language because it?s my indigenous language. And I?m speaking Sámi to my children. as a child did you understand where the racism came from? I didn?t understand what it was. Later on when I was 14 or 15 I started to realise. I guess when you?re a youngster you start to search who you are and where you?re coming from, and I have an older sister and brother who were taking their culture and language back, so when they were in that process, I was driven to that. My family is a political family, so we?ve been discussing these things. How does the sámi minority differ from other minorities? We are a minority but we are also indigenous people. We were the first who were here. The difference between an ethnic minority and indigenous people is that an ethnic minority is not connected to the land. They can live anywhere. Indigenous people have a territory that they belong to. We have a history with our land. We?ve been living traditionally in our home area for thousands of years. What do you mean by taking their culture back? My father is a Sámi and my mother is Finnish, and he didn?t speak Sámi to us. In Scandinavia after the Second World War, children were sent to boarding schools, and were prohibited to speak their own language. Because of what happened at the boarding schools, these children who became parents didn?t speak Sámi to their children. My father didn?t want to speak his mother tongue to me. I speak Sámi now. When we didn?t speak Sámi at home, my sister and brother took back the language and started to study it. After a while I switched to speaking Sámi with everyone who spoke the How does sámi culture differ from the culture of the majority in Finland? Sámi culture is indigenous culture. Our culture is based upon the land and it?s all about the connection with the land and living. One of the core values of our culture is living in balance with the nature. When we use the term indigenous it means we were here first and this land is ours. We still have the connection with the land. That?s the biggest difference when you think about the Finnish and the Sámi culture. When we lose that connection, we?ll become disconnected and we don?t love and respect, or listen to the land. Discon- What are the attitudes of the sámi towards the Finnish majority? I think many of us also identify ourselves as Finnish, because many of us have one Finnish parent or inheritance. When we?re talking about racism it?s a question about the majority and minority. Usually the ones who are in the minority don?t hate the majority, they just want to be heard and respected. We don?t hate the Finns, we just want to live in peace and be respected ? in the same way that we are respecting them.
  • We Met 7 SixDegrees Carl-Johan Utsi nectedness is a one of the biggest problems in human history, that is causing the destruction of this planet, that is causing climate change. Moreover, another of the biggest problems of humanity is that we?re not taught to think. We don?t think. We want to destroy everything around us. And when everything is suffering around us, we?re suffering. When the natural world is destroyed it?s causing more disconnections, ecosystems become weaker and they disappear. We have to start to think if we want to survive. We have to start to respect. We cannot just sit and watch TV, or be active in social media. We have to change how we relate to the Earth. I think this engagement is possible when we all remember that we belong to each other. We have to remember that we have to connect to each other. We feel powerless, and when we feel powerless we don?t want to take responsibility. But when we?re connected we love life and we don?t want to destroy it, because we don?t want to destroy the things we love. Finnish people also had the connection with the land, but quite a while ago. How have the Finnish lost that connection? The Finnish are, for example, living in big cities. Sámi people do that too, but when I?m talking about the Sami culture I mean the people living in the north, connected to the land. Food is a good example, it tells a lot about our culture. Finnish people just go to the grocery store and that?s it. But the food is the base for the life. We collect berries. We do reindeer herding, we fish, it?s really important to us and our culture. Traditionally we use every part of the reindeer. We use nature as a source of living. It?s quite hard nowadays when our living areas are getting smaller and smaller because of the exploitation and land grabbing. And globalisation and climate change and everything. It?s a struggle to survive. What needs to change for the Sámi culture to survive? First and most importantly we as a people should have a self-government. We have the right to self-governance but the states ? Finland and Norway and Russia ? should implement the indigenous rights. Indigenous rights are not special rights. They are human rights. They are compensation for the injustice that has been done in the past. You can?t change the past but you can make a better future. Nordic countries have been colonising the Sámi area for the last 500 years, and they have been exploiting our land leaving emptiness behind, so it?s about a lot of wrongs that have been done in the past. The states are obligated to make a better future for us. Year of birth: 1981 Hometown: Inari Currently living: In Jokkmokk, Sweden, with her family, two children and fiancé. Education: Studying Sámi culture at the University of Umeå. Being a Sámi is? everyday survival. It´s hard, tough and exhausting. We have to fight everyday for our culture, language, livelyhood. But it´s something what I have chosen, the thing what makes me to be me. I´m nothing without my culture, that is the most important thing for me after my family. In the future I? hope to see changes in the legislation and Sámi politics. I hope that we as a people achieve selfdetermination and we can live as a free people, because we have the inherent right to be free on our own land and the inherent right to selfdetermination. Freedom is essential to the survival of all peoples. If a people are not free to. When I was a child I wanted to be? a lot of things, a teacher, a policewoman, a designer, but mostly I wanted to serve my people and improve our situation and make a difference in the society. And that´s what we are doing now, making a difference and changing the world. How is that change going to happen? The land is not so large but the state owns the area where we live in Finland. Finland is only now in a process of ratifying ILO 169, a declaration about indigenous rights. It?s the first step Finland has to do. After it?s been ratified, they?ll have to start a process about the Sámi land rights issues. It?s been under discussion for many centuries but nothing has happened. This land is ours, not Finland?s. What are the core ideas that are important for you about Sámi rights and culture? The land is the base for everything. The question is all about the land. At the same time the land is the answer. We are made of the land. We live on the land. Land determines how to live in balance with the land and how to treat each other, and how to arrange ourselves politically. Our whole survival depends on the land. It?s not just the Sámi but the whole globe ? everyone?s survival depends on the land. Land is not important just to us but for the whole of humanity. When it comes to food ? it is the land that sustains us and gives us food. We have responsibilities to it. We must take care of all the living, and we have to protect and respect the Earth. That?s also one of the core values of the Sámi culture. We want to live sustainably. We don?t want to destroy this. That would be a really stupid thing to do. If the nature isn?t healthy no one survives. For me, a really important core value of the Sami culture is to protect our living environment and keep it healthy for the future generations, so there will be healthy environment for the future generations. ?W e don?t hate the Finns, we just want to live in peace and be respected ? in the same way that we are respecting them.? What?s missing from the dialogue between the Finnish majority and the Sámi? Respect is one thing. It?s difficult to understand why one cannot respect or listen to the other. They are like companies, using the word ?dialogue?, saying that they want to build a good dialogue. But it usually means a monologue, they hear us but they don?t listen to us. If Finland and the other Nordic countries would start to listen to us and respect us, and instead of the monologue that they call dialogue, they should actually have dialogue. Why is the relationship between the Sámi and the Finnish majority such a sensitive topic? I think for me, as an activist, it?s not so sensitive. It?s a topic we have to discuss. I want to raise this topic to the government. It might be a sensitive issue for the Finnish government. One reason could be the land right issue. The state of Finland doesn?t want to give back our land, that?s the big issue. And of course there is a lot of racism towards us; we are not equal with the Finnish people. How did you get involved with activism? My personal political agenda is about indigenous rights not being recognised, and that Sámi rights are not on political agenda. We?re a small people, if we don?t fight who will? We have to have the political will to fight. The state has to have the political will to promote our rights. Resulting from hundreds of years of colonisation, my people are feeling powerless. That?s why I choose to challenge that power. I?ve learned that there?s no change without protest. If we want to have some kind of change in our society we have to protest. For me, Suohpanterror art isn?t political art but it?s more political activism in the form of art. Art is my activism. How does art become activism? In Suohpanterror, it?s making posters which are published on Facebook and Instagram. It?s using social media as a tool to spread the word, in a new kind of activism, social media activism, visual activism. You reach a lot of people in the social media. It?s quite easy to share and like them. What is Suohpanterror? It is a Sámi collective artist group. Suohpanterror makes posters that are critical to society, and the structures of majority society. It?s a protest that happens on the border of art and activism. Suohpanterror has social media activism, and has exhibitions. I, as a spokesperson, am travelling around and talking about issues what are important for us, and having workshops about art and activism and encouraging people to start to think for themselves. We want to mobilise everyone and get everyone active in this struggle, resistance, and protest. The Sámi have been politically active from the ?60s, but the states haven?t been listening. That?s why Suohpanterror has chosen this way to be active and make political change. It?s something new to make political art. Sámi artists began to be political in the ?70s. Suohpanterror started in Facebook in 2012. Why are a lot of your members anonymous? We?re still quite small. We don?t want to talk about the people behind the movement. Suohpanterror is criticising society, so it?s a lot of sensitive issues that we don?t want to be personalised. What has Suohpanterror as an activist group achieved so far? In Sweden we?ve been protesting against mining plans in Gállok, Jokkmokk municipality, and achieved a lot in one year. The regional government just dismissed the Jokkmokk Iron Mines Enviromental Assesment Report. The Gállok Resistance Movement is growing and getting bigger and bigger. No One of many Suohpanterror artworks utilising social media and visual activism. Credit: Suohpanterror more mining. No more land grabbings. We want to live sustainably; we want to have a better future. The states have been ignoring the Sámi people and issues for so long, but now we?re bringing issues to the national level, and being heard through the art. Our people are thriving and we?re powerful now ? we?re quite many artists making political art. We?ve done a lot in the short term. We are lifting our people?s spirits. I hope that our pictures will continue to reach a lot of people and that they will start to think. What is the ideal situation in your opinion? The main goal is self-determination and land rights, then we can get self governance. To live as a free people in the future. The other goal is to live ecologically, in balance with the Earth and to protect it. That we, as a people, could live with self determination, and could self determine our own life as a free people, in a sustainable way. We have the inherent right to be free in our own land, we have the inherent right to self-determination. Freedom is essential to the survival of all peoples. If a people are not free to determine their own future, then they cannot expect to survive as a distinct society.
  • Society 8 Issue 1 2015 Column Don?t bank on it COmiNg to an efficient, organised place like Finland, one might have thought that opening a bank account would be as easy as falling off a log. Hence, it was a bit of a surprise to me to find that a few friends had not only had difficulties, but had in some cases simply given up. A little investigation with one friend revealed that several Finnish banks not only do little to entice foreign customers, some seem to actively discourage them. ONe OF the largest banks in Finland provides no services at all in English. Neither their online banking, nor customer service, nor meetings in branches can be held in any languages except Finnish or Swedish. For new arrivals in Finland, that means you either have a local person help you set up an account and pay your bills ? or you bank elsewhere. ?F innish banks not only do little to entice foreign customers ? some seem to actively discourage them.? ANOtheR bank was willing to hold meetings in English, but from that point on provided a series of hoops for us to jump through. When my friend presented her Kela card as proof of legal residence in Finland she was told this was not sufficient ? she would need to go personally to Maistraati and ask for a certificate which confirmed that she had a Kela card. ANOtheR potential hindrance is proof of employment ? if you are in Finland with your (employed) partner or own your own business, chances are you will not be permitted a bank account in your own name. Although my friend owned an apartment in her own country, she was told that here she would have to use her boyfriend?s bank account. StRANgeSt of all is that customers must explain why they need a bank account. A joint bank account for shared bills is not a valid reason. Neither is having moved here from another EU country. In both cases, the bank declined to issue credit cards unless we could come up with something more compelling. AlthOUgh I have no doubt the banks will say differently, to my mind these policies have been developed with a clear view to discouraging non-Finnish clients - and I thought the very concept of the EU was to end exactly this kind of practice. iS it really the contention of the banks that a German citizen with a perfect credit history, ?20,000 in his bank account at home, and who runs a small firm with his Finnish girlfriend, cannot be trusted with a Visa card? DO banks really not think that it is worth providing netbanking services in English in a country where perhaps 100,000 people are not native speakers of either national language? NOt only do these challenges ultimately cost banks themselves, they also make life very difficult for normal, working adults who happen to be living in Finland. the wORlD is not as it was in 1976. We all move from one country to another for work, or our studies or for our partners. Many of us will live in three or four countries during our lifetime. If we can deal with that while still paying our bills and taxes ? shouldn?t our banks also be able to keep up? 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. A private issue The changing face of social media & sharing personal information. Aleksi Teivainen A ROUND this time a year ago Facebook celebrated its 10th year of existence. Along with the accolades associated with bringing together 1.2 billion users worldwide, however, increased negative publicity related to the service?s privacy policy was gathering momentum. One incident in particular raised the ire of many from various sexual and gender minorities in the United States, when the social network?s strict name policy alienated many. RT, a state-funded Russian news outlet, reported in mid-September that the social media powerhouse suspended the profiles of hundreds of drag queens due to their refusal to use real names on their profiles. Although Facebook has since issued an apology, its refusal to allow users to use pseudonyms ? even for safety reasons ? sparked an exodus from the social media platform. The immediate beneficiary of the exodus was Ello, which exploded from near obscurity to a global phenomenon in the matter of weeks, with requests to join the invite-only privacy-oriented social media upstart peaking at over 27,000 per hour, according to RT. Nonetheless, in Finland, Ello has yet to make such waves even among sexual and gender minorities, estimates Salla Virtanen, a spokesperson at Seta ? LGBTI Rights in Finland. While some members of the LGBT community were eventually enticed back to Facebook, perceptions of the service were soured as other social media options continued gaining momentum. ?Facebook is currently considered very commercial, and people are concerned that their personal details are being sold [to third parties],? states Jari Jaanto, the co-founder of IRC-Galleria, the largest social networking website in Finland. Jaanto also estimates that privacy-related concerns are particularly common among people who read about the perils of social media through an intermediary and may not fully understand the phenomenon. ?Then there are the data security experts,? he adds. ?As using the Internet has become more common, practically a national pastime, people have become very conscious of who they want to share their details with. Although a transition toward more closed systems has taken place, people aren?t necessarily ashamed to tell about themselves and their lives.? ?Even young people may no longer share photos that could come back to bite them in the future. On the other hand, people aren?t as afraid of their future employers as they used to be,? he analyses. Fragmentation Privacy concerns are not the only factor driving the growth of alternative social media platforms. ?They were initially made to be a big deal, but people are already used to them. Some groups of people will definitely continue using Facebook for quite a while, but others will switch to rival services due to an improved user interface, for example,? Jaanto estimates. Helsingin Sanomat wrote last year that the popularity of Facebook is on the wane especially among young Finns. An expert interviewed by the daily pointed out that young people increasingly use a number of social media platforms simultaneously, while their parents concentrate primarily on Facebook. The social media landscape is indeed becoming more and more fragmented, confirms Jaanto. ?People used to use IRC-Galleria for all their social media needs, but today their time is distributed among YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Kik Messenger and the likes.? ?Finns are eager to try out new services and alternatives, although they may end up being a thing only for a particular group. Google+, for example, remains relatively small despite the initial buzz that surrounded it,? he adds. ?Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp will continue to grow, whereas Ello seems to have hit a standstill after the initial breakthrough,? he estimates. ?I?m sure that some group will eventually embrace it, though.? One should not assume that all social media services compete directly against one another; they are simply used for different purposes, Jaanto reminds. ?Facebook is where your acquaintances, such as classmates and parents, are. IRC-Galleria is where you meet entirely new people. Services where you form small closed groups, such as WhatsApp, are used to chat with people close to you. On Twitter and Instagram, in turn, you express your views to the entire world and create a public image.? As a result, it is unlikely that people are prepared to tweet about every single issue they have discussed with a friend on WhatsApp
  • Society 9 SixDegrees Minority Report We take a look at the ethnic minorities here in Finland. The Estonians Merle Must R elated in languages and neighbours separated by the Baltic Sea, Estonians form the one of the largest minority group in Finland. According to Finnish Centre of Statistics, more than 44,000 Estonians live in Finland permanently; almost 6,000 moved to Finland in 2013. Besides them, many Estonians have not registered as permanent residents, but are employed here, therefore the estimations are that up to 100,000 Estonians actually work in Finland. Sometimes Estonians call Finland their 16th county and in some Finnish areas, Estonian and Russian language are more commonly heard than Swedish. Estonians carry on their culture across the Baltic Sea in several ways. One of them is the Estonian House in Helsinki, which hosts four Estonian organisations ? but in total, there are about 40 other unions with around 3,300 members related to Estonia all around Finland ? and various cultural events, like concerts or exhibitions to and by Estonians. Grete Ahtola from the Estonian Institute explains that Estonian House is a home for a children?s song studio and a mixed choir. They also organise Estonian courses for Finns and Finnish courses for Estonians ? and once a week all language-learners can gather in the Jututuba (Chat Room) where Estonians and Finns have the possibility to speak and learn both languages. or post every single photo they have uploaded to IRC-Galleria also to Facebook for their parents and grandparents to behold, he explains. A similar trend has been observed in the United States: Taking Stock With Teens, a semi-annual survey carried out by the investment bank Piper Jaffray & Company found in early October that the share of American teenagers who actively use Facebook has plunged from 72 per cent to no more than 45 per cent between April and October. Meanwhile, 59 per cent of the some 7,200 respondents indicated that they use Twitter and 76 per cent that they use Instagram on a regular basis. ?Young people feel that their parents are stepping into their turf by being on Facebook. They want to be with their friends and therefore use the same services their friends do. Young people value privacy and their personal space,? Jaanto analyses. ?IRC-Galleria may be regarded as a better alternative because your mother isn?t there to monitor what you?re up to.? trailblazing Jaanto and Tomi Lintelä launched IRC-Galleria near the end of 2000, roughly four years before a certain Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the first incarnation of Facebook ? on thefacebook.com ? at Harvard University. IRC-Galleria began to expand rapidly after a couple of relatively dormant years, and in 2003 Jaanto and Lintelä established Dynamoid Oy to manage the daily operations of the social media upstart. One year later, the number of active users had shot up from 40,000 to 120,000. ?At first, Tomi and I thought we?d do well to get one hundred people to join,? describes Jaanto. ?The service was developed to enable people to post photos of themselves on the Internet and thus show others what they look like. It also enabled users to leave feedback and interact by means of comments. What made it different from other services was that users could produce all of the content themselves.? ?We looked into it later and estimated that the service could grow to roughly 700,000 users in Finland,? he says. ?It was our desire to seek potential growth, especially abroad.? In 2007, IRC-Galleria was sold to Sulake, the creator of Habbo Hotel, in order to facilitate its expansion abroad in an all-share deal that went awry after the announced listing of Sulake failed to materialise. Today, the service is used by 100,000 unique weekly visitors and by 300,000 unique monthly visitors. Community Although the social media landscape has evolved considerably over the past decade-and-a-half, people continue to use social media largely for the same purposes, Jaanto estimates. ?People have spent time on social media decade after decade due to their need to be with other people. People create a sense of belonging by discussing on social media, by sharing contents they have created,? he says. ?As long as social media services manage to preserve their sense of community, they will continue to thrive,? predicts Jaanto. Legal Immigrants There is a special organisation for Estonian-language education (Vironkielisen opetuksen seura) which is focused on preserving Estonian language and culture in Finland by organising the likes of reading competitions for children and training days for Estonian teachers. The Estonian Institute has also started the project ?Estonia Goes to School?where Estonians visit Finnish to introduce their culture, language and history and organise film and music events. The Estonian diaspora in Finland is also active in Facebook groups, with the most populous having more than 25,000 members discussing various issues. There are also special webpages for Estonians who wish to migrate, offering a range of information. Several Estonian traditions and holidays are celebrated in Finland, says Ahtola. These include Independence Day on 24 February, the National Language Day on 14 March and Teachers? Day on 5 October. Although Estonians and Finns are ?relatives? belonging among Finno-Ugric peoples, there are some differences between their cultures. Ahtola says that probably the greatest contrasts appear in communication: Estonians talk much faster and over each other and that?s not considered impolite, whereas Finns are calmer and slower in communicating and await their turn to talk. The differences also appear in humour. ?Finns don?t laugh at Estonians? ironic and even sarcastic jokes,? explains Ahtola. ?It takes time until a Finnish friend will understand their Estonian friend?s humour.? But there are more similarities than contrasts, thinks Ahtola. The cultural spaces are related and this can be seen, for example, in food: you can find rye bread and blood sausage on both coasts of the Baltic Sea. These close cultural spaces and the Finnish language which is easy for Estonians to learn help them to feel at home in Finland, Ahtola observes. ?And of course it is comforting that Estonia is so close, only a two-hour ferry-trip away,? she adds. Ties with the homeland help Estonians acclimatise to Finland, sees Ahtola. ?Almost every day you can visit a concert, exhibition or a literature event that?s related to Estonia or even held in Estonian.? Contact james@6d.fi if you?d like to share your thoughts for a future issue. 6D gets to know what it?s like to be an everyday ?new local? in Finland. Marek Sabogal Bernardo Clementino is originally from Brazil. What do you do here in Finland? I studied strategy in Aalto University. Now I work in a very cool company called Reddal as a business developer. When and how did you end up here? I came to Finland in 2010 because of my girlfriend, who is Finnish. I had just graduated as an industrial engineer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, while she was still studying here; so I was the detached one that could move around. I realised that the best way for me to get a job and make a life in this country was by creating fast connections to the society and employers. That?s why I applied to Aalto University, even though I already had a degree. In the end I was correctbecause of the networking opportunity Aalto offers, I got my current job, and I got to know people with many different backgrounds, made friends, etc. What do you like about Finland? I like that things work. The buses run on time, I love that! People are honest. The government and the way society runs is extremely inclusive and considerate to people. Perhaps the Finns do not even notice it, but often when I compare it to my home country, Brazil, I notice how important it is to know how your tax money is being used and what is the true value of having trust and faith that people are do- ing their best at their jobs (especially the government ?MPs in Finland are way less lazy than Brazilian ones!). What attracts you about the Finnish culture? A fascinating, and perhaps not that common, aspect I appreciate in Finnish people is their curiosity. As soon as they let loose of the shyness (for instance, after a couple of beers) even strangers come to me to ask ?Where are you from?? Provocatively, I often answer ?I live right around the corner, what about you?? They are so interested, they even sometimes trespass the barrier of intimacy because they simply want to know moreperhaps trying to understand what a foreigner would EVER do in Finland: ?Where do you work??, ?Why are you in Finland?? amongst other personal questions. I guess it?s because Finns are still not that used to foreigners around them. Finland still holds a culture that has been kept very far from ?external influences?. What culture shocks did you experience when coming to Finland? University was my first real contact with the Finnish people. I guess that the largest clash would come from my not-so-common proactive behaviour during classes. As a Brazilian, I am often the guy that asks questions or the only one that actually interacts with the teacher. Have you been able to settle and integrate into Finnish society? This is a very philosophical question. I have done a lot of things to make me more integrated into Finnish society, but I am not sure if I will ever blend in completely. For instance, I have taken many Finnish courses, and I do speak ok Finnish. Even though it has become independent almost a hundred years later than Brazil, Finland has many traditions and subcultures, which I appreciate and would like to understand more. When studying in Aalto, I?ve been active in the student organisations and even created a student club, the Aalto Management Consulting Association (AMCA) together with friends from my programme. It was quite an experience because I had to talk to a lot of students and they reacted in really different ways to new ideas. On top of that, I also joined the academic choir of the School of Business, Kauppakorkeakoulu Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat (KYL), which gives me a pretty interesting view of a lot of traditional (and not-so-traditional) Finnish songs, from Sibelius to Cheek. What were/are your worries? Currently I?m extremely worried about Russia. I?m worried about the ?expansionist? policy that Putin has and the economic sanctions the EU and consequently Finland are applying to Russia. I?m really pessimistic. Finland is facing a never-ending economic crisis and recent news of unemployment growth does not bring hope. It is hard to know how much of all this news is factually-based and how much comes due to Finnish cultural pessimism. What are your future wishes for your life here? You mean, if Russia doesn?t invade Finland and I don?t have to flee very fast? Well, the company I?m working for is growing pretty quickly and I?m getting married in the near future, so things seem to be good just by keeping them the way they are. I would wish Finland to become more and more international as it integrates more with the rest of the World. The government has already noticed the importance of immigrants to the Finnish economy and Vero and Kela are already providing ok services in English. The private side, though, is taking much longer to adapt. What is your favorite Finnish word? Hollola, it?s a city close to Lahti. If you?re by Hollola, you?re Hollolalla. Pöydällä is definitely my second top one: the hardest easy-word to pronounce in any other language.
  • Feature 10 Issue 1 2015 Sketching a history Finnish animation celebrates its centenary. Peter Schavemaker t Filmkompaniet Filmoteka Narodowa Jupiter Film Moomins TV series (above) Moomins on the Riviera (below) he mention of animation in Finland immediately evokes images of Tove Jansson?s Moomins. A constant presence in books, on screens, on mugs and in the hearts of Finns, these lovable characters have been a part of the Finnish culture since 1945. Last year saw celebrations honouring Jansson on the 100th anniversary of her birth, with Moomins the centrepiece of her career retrospective. The Moomins have become Finland?s most well known animation characters, reaching a global audience and still continuing to grow in popularity. They also reach a huge audience in Japan. But why Japan, of all places? ?Finnish and Japanese people like to live quietly and peacefully and care about the environment,? explains Tuula Leinonen, an expert on Finnish animation, ?The gentle and timeless world of the Moomins is built on these values.? Tom Carpelan (Filmkompaniet), who owns the rights to the ?70s and ?80s TV series, agrees with Leinonen. ?Finnish and Japanese people relate to the characters. The Moomins world is a very open and forgiving society, like the Finnish. In Japan the character Snufkin represents freedom.? The appeal of the characters also stretches as far as Hollywood: Walt Disney was a big fan. ?He liked the characters,? Carpelan reveals. ?They tried to buy the idea at the same time they bought Winnie the Pooh. But the Jansson family did not sell it.? ?The reason? The people of Walt Disney came to the office a few months after Jansson?s funeral and asked the family to sign the paper. It was turned down without discussion.? An animated start Finland?s history of animation began well before the first appearance of the Moomins. In fact the first works emerged in the early 1920s after inspiration came from animators in Sweden. The pioneers of Finnish animation were Eric Vasström and Hjalmar Löfving. ?Vasström has the honour to be the first, but we have not seen his animation work,? says Leinonen. ?His 1914 film (title unknown) and images sadly have been destroyed.? Thankfully, the animation ads made by Löfving have been preserved. ?He was a productive guy and knew how to animate,? Leinonen describes. In 1932 Löfving would also independently produce the famous animation Muutama metri tuulta ja sadetta (A Few Metres of Wind and Rain). Jansson and her Moomin creations followed the next decade, boosting the local scene to previously unscaled heights of quality and popularity, and paving the path for numerous artists and animators. Following this, the first serious steps in Finnish stop motion puppet and cut-out animation history were made in the ?70s when YLE opened an animation studio. Later that decade, Finland?s first animated feature, an adaptation of Aleksis Kivi?s iconic Seitsemän Veljestä (Seven Brothers), was released. Creator Riitta Nelimarkka was inspired by the watercolours and cut out technique utilised in Stockholm, where she had studied animation beginning in 1967. Nelimarrka worked on the film for almost four years, with a crew of only six people. ?Most of the film was made in my own home,? she recalls. The story of Seven Brothers relates to the time before Finland became independent from Sweden in 1917. ?I liked the humour of the story and the characters,? Nelimarrka recalls. She also acknowledges the darker elements of the narrative. ?The story has some tragic lines. Its message is that there is nothing wrong with having an own identity and being a Finn.? Nelimarrka won a Jussi Award for her efforts in 1979, sharing space on the mantelpiece next to a pair of State Awards presented to her earlier that decade. Her mark on the history of Finnish animation is unmistakable. Having been appointed professor in art by (former) Finnish president Tarja Halonen in 2008, Nelimarkka says ? with no small modesty ? that she doesn?t consider herself as an animation legend. ?But,? she says coyly, ?I think I started the boom.? Katariina Lillqvist also contributed significantly to the canvas of the local scene, and is considered by many to be ?The Grand Old Lady? of Finnish animation. She is well known for her groundbreaking puppet films, some based on Franz Kafka?s writings. Most of Lillqvist?s films have politics, philosophy, multiculturalism, tolerance and anti-racism as their main subjects. Lillqvist was also awarded with the State Award in 2006 and won the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1996 for her perhaps most recognised effort Maalaislääkäri (The Country Doctor). The impressive film is about refugees from the Sarajevo war.
  • Feature 11 SixDegrees Maalaislääkäri (Country Doctor) ?I wanted to tell their stories. The Silver Bear felt as a true recognition, contrary to the criticism many people expressed.? Currently Lillqvist is finishing a book about her career in puppet animation and owns the Museum of Puppet Arts in Tábor, in her adopted home of the Czech Republic. Estonia helps Finnish animation move forward Further down the animated timeline and Finland made a switch to digital animation in the mid-1990s, with help from the Estonian animation industry. ?We had to go to Tallinn to do the puppet animation for the 13 series of Urpo & Turpo,? states producer Hanna Hemilä. ?The Estonian animation was ahead of us. Nobody was able to do it in Finland.? The cooperation did not go smoothly right away. ?There was not even a single computer, like in the old Soviet days. We brought in the Western way of making animation, and they had the technical knowledge and craft making with the puppets. Together we managed to create a classic series, built in a new era.? In 2001 Hemilä produced her second successful animated series Turilas & Jäärä after opening her own animation studio in Helsinki. The series ? with a claymation look ? was shot in 35mm. Plans to produce a series of 150 episodes at a Chinese studio were scuttled due to financing issues. Nonetheless Turilas & Jäärä still enjoys reruns in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other European countries and can be considered one of the first Finnish series to capitalise on merchandising. One of the puppet makers on the Turilas & Jäärä series was Kari Juusonen. The talented young animator became one of the pillars of the current Finnish animation industry after independently directing his short Pizza Passionata (2001), which was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. Juusonen?s next milestones were (co)directing Niko ? Lentäjän poika (Niko - The Way to the Stars) in 2008 and Niko 2 ? Little Brother, Big Trouble in 2012, two of Finland?s most successful animation features. A co production between Finland, Denmark and Germany, Niko - The Way to the Stars was sold to over 118 countries, had more than three million viewers in Finnish cinemas and also reached 26 million viewers during a US broadcast. ?Both films have been a catalyst for the current Finnish animated feature industry?, says Juusonen. In March 2013 Juusonen made a surprising artistic transfer to Finland?s leading entertainment company Rovio, where he currently is directing the TV series Angry Birds Toons. Both Niko films were produced by Anima Vitae, currently Finland?s leading animation studio. Animation expert Leinonen says the company (founded in May 2000) can be considered a ?Finnish Pixar?, because of its success in producing feature films. Mikael Hed, CEO of Rovio ? believes that ?talent-wise? Anima Vitae can be compared to Pixar. ?I think they are awesome. They have done some incredible stuff. I have nothing but respect from them. We are super happy working with them.? Anima Vitae and Rovio are currently co-operating on the Angry Birds Stella animated series. ?The technical people from Pixar have visited us three times, and they were amazed how we ? a small studio in Finland ? achieved our projects,? states Anima Vitae?s CEO Petteri Pasanen, who also produced Juusonen?s Pizza Passionata. ?From day one our company has been very passionate about quality, and technique.? Pasanen says that the enormous global success of the Niko films opened doors. ?We were lucky the Niko films brought us our international breakthrough. We had the aim to achieve success, and we did. It brought awareness, although not everybody directly recognises that Niko was a Finnish animation project. In the US we are considered a US-friendly company. It feels like a foot in the door. That makes it easier to work on new productions. I don?t have to explain who we are anymore.? Currently Anima Vitae is also trying to get a foot in the door in Asia. The company opened a branch office in Kuala Lumpur, and is working on partnerships with Malaysian, Chinese, Korean and even Australian studios. ?The continuation depends of course on the success of the first one,? he adds. Hed emphasises his only true demand was that the film needs to be a great story. ?There are so many game-based movies out there that are not that great.? Juusonen says the animation aim of Rovio can be seen as an important new turning point in Finnish animation. ?This will take our animation industry to a high level.? Hed reveals that the animation process started while working on the the App. ?Animation at that point was one of the considerations. Early 2010, long before Toons was launched, we did our first animated pieces. Animation was for us an important way of transforming Angry Birds from a game title to a consumer brand.? To achieve their goals Rovio hired experienced animation director Eric Guaglione in August 2012. Guaglione, who previously worked at Walt Disney Animation Studio?s on Mulan, Lilo and Stitch and Brother Bear, was also nominated for an Emmy award in 1995 for his work on Star Trek: Voyager. ?The worldwide phenomenon of Angry Birds was the main reason for my transfer to Rovio?, says the US-born director. ?Working on the Disney properties had the same drive and integrity as working on Angry Birds now. Both understand extremely well how to work on characters and their stories.? Guaglione says his work at Disney is not a blueprint for his current work at Rovio. ?We want to create our own identity and ask the question: Where are we different from Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar? Angry Birds have a little edginess that Disney won?t do.? Hed explains that Rovio has the benefit to test out ideas in other mediums such as games, instead of making a 200 million-euro gamble on the animated films and TV series. Guaglione says his main goal is to take the Rovio storytelling culture to a higher level. ?We like to expand the characters of Angry Birds, from the gaming atmosphere, to an animation based dimension. Currently we are developing new properties and animation styles beyond Angry Birds. It doesn?t stop with Angry Birds.? The recently released character Stella is a first example of the new approach, according to Guaglione. ?It still branching out from the Angry Birds universe. We know that the Angry Birds franchise is very strong, we want to go beyond that,? adds Hed. Rovio director Guaglione says it is an interesting question if the Angry Birds can be considered as typical Finnish characters, as the Moomins are. ?I think they became world citizens.? Hed adds, ?Angry Birds are created by Finns, but have been worked on by such an international crew all over the world that they are cosmopolitan.? Angry Birds As creators of the worldwide phenomenon Angry Birds, Rovio Entertainment is Finland?s biggest entertainment company. Following the Angry Birds Toons animated series that featured the contribution of Juusonen, the company set out to create animation on a global scale. This is set to be achieved on 1 July this year when the first Angry Birds 3D CG-animated film will be released, made in conjunction with Sony Pictures. Such is their faith in the project, that Rovio CEO Hed revealed that Rovio is already preparing for sequels. Coproduction is the key to success. In the last 20 years Finnish animation companies have taken steps far outside Finland. The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture have even established Finnanimation, a nonprofit association formed by Finnish animation producers Niko has been one of the most successful Finnish animation productions ever. in 2005 which carries out various promotional and cultural export activities on all continents. Currently the best example of a Finnish international coproduction is the Finnish/Chinese TV series Dibidogs produced by Finnish Futurecode, owned by Jim and Pia Solatie, and Chinese Blue Arc, owned by Tommy Wang. They met in 2007, a year after the Solatie family created the Dibidogs characters. ?The original characters were drawn by my two kids Mikaela and Tom,? states Jim Solatie, ?they also came up with the first storylines. We asked Finland?s bestselling author Tuija Lehtinen to help us with us with the scripts.? Solatie and his wife, who had just sold their market research company, were so convinced that Dibidogs could work that they decided to invest all their money in a Chinese animation studio to work on the animation series. ?We travelled to China 50 times to find the right partners. In September 2007 we met children?s director Wang at Southern TV, South China?s biggest TV station.? With a budget of 7 million US dollars, the first season of 26 episodes of 23 minutes each premiered in April 2010 on MTV3 in Finland. Two months later Southern TV started broadcasting. ?Now, CCTV ? China?s Central Television ? is broadcasting Dibidogs nationwide?, says Solatie. ?We have closed TV deals with Multimania in Russia and Korean KBC.? Dibidogs was sold to 32 countries. In 2014 Dibidogs was awarded for its international success by winning the Finnish Audiovisual Export Award HALDA. Dibidogs is also broadcasted in European countries such as Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia. Solatie says the victory march has not ended. ?We are having talks with main channels in Southern Europe and will launch the unique DibiTales app where children can create and animate their own stories. The app will be launched in Chinese in the beginning of 2015, followed by an English version.? And so, as Finns continue their international collaboration, with new and exciting projects emerging, the future seems bright for the local scene. With the industry?s centennial celebrations held last year, one could even suggest that there has never been a better time to get animated in Finland. DibiDogs continue to make a global impact.
  • Lifestyle 12 Issue 1 2015 A dressing down in public In a land rich in sauna history and tradition, public saunas used to be a staple in every neighbourhood of Helsinki. Now only a handful still exist. Andy Kruse O NE could say that sauna is to Finns as air is to the rest of us: indispensable. In fact, in a country of 5.5 million people, there is said to be nearly three million saunas on hand. Sauna is also the most recognised Finnish word to have been incorporated into the English language, originally used to describe the structure in which a sauna is held. It?s importance cannot be understated. As a cornerstone of Finnish life, sauna has provided warmth in a cold land and been a cultural domain for millennia. More recently, in the past 100 years or so, locations in metropolitan Helsinki where anyone can come take a sauna and use a bathhouse have been commonplace. During the first half of the 1900s these public saunas dotted the city streets. There was one on just about every block, totalling over 200 at one point. People would come regularly to these locales that served not only as a place to get warm and cleanse, but also as community gathering spots. Then, upon the arrival of piping systems that brought hot water into peoples? homes, residents began to remain there for bathing, and visits to the public sauna became less frequent. Now they?ve been replaced even more so by private saunas at home and those in the numerous public swimming pools. Today the number of public saunas that remain open year-round in Helsinki can be counted on one hand. Inside public sauna Water sizzles as it?s thrown onto a pile of scalding rocks and a hot vapour engulfs the room. ?I like the way the steam bites you when it hits,? grimaces Timo Yliluoma, a regular at Kotiharjun Sauna in Kallio. Ylihuoma prefers to sit up on the piippu hylly, what translates to the ?pipe shelf ?. This is the highest seat in the sauna, the hottest seat in the house. ?Its an overwhelming feeling, like finally getting that itch that you haven?t been able to reach.? Open since 1928, Kotiharjun Sauna is the only strictly log burning sauna left in Helsinki. Nearly two cubic metres of wood are thrown daily into two huge stoves, one in the men?s sauna and one in the women?s. These each hold 1,500 kg of glowing hot stones. As one could imagine, this sends out some serious steam. This hot steam is what Finns call löyly. Originally meaning spirit or life, it?s the essence of sauna. And when it hits the skin, pores open up and sweating ensues pushing dirt and toxins out of the body. Then, following up with a cool shower or jump in a cold lake washes it all away. The experience not only cleans you on the outside, but inside as well. ?You clear your head and go to a different world,? states Otso Koski, another Kotiharju patron who enjoys a sauna two to three times a week. ?It?s complete radio silence for a few hours. All systems down to reboot for the next week.? On special occasions a vihta is passed around the sauna. This is a leafy bundle of birch twigs tightly wrapped together that is firmly swatted across the back during the climax of the sauna. This ritual relieves itching and further stimulates the opening of the pores, while at the same time emitting a sweet aroma into the room. Something special Kotiharjun Sauna offers is their ready stock of vihta available for purchase. Many prefer the public sauna atmosphere over a private sauna club. ?In a public sauna, it doesn?t matter who you are or what is your position in society,? reflects Tuesday night regular Arto Lode. ?There are no rules on how you are supposed to be.? So if there are no rules, then who says you can?t have a public sauna disco party? This is exactly what goes down twice a year at Sauna Hermanni in Vallila. With a DJ, disco ball, lights, and dancing, participants really get loose during this sauna event. Sauna Hermanni goes above and beyond what a normal public sauna might do by holding its own special events such as this. Another classic day at this sauna is the vihta marathon, where 14 different kinds of leaf bundles are available for people to try and compare. And on Helsinki?s Restaurant Day, the sauna brings a spread of traditional Finnish food along with live music. The public steam of life. Images from Alexander Lembke?s series ?The New World of Sauna?. Founded in 1953, just as the electric sauna was the new hype, Sauna Hermanni has always had two large electric stoves, each keeping hot 300 kg of rocks. With separate saunas for men and women, this is the only public sauna to offer a mixed sauna on Thursdays. ?If you have a bad day, you come to sauna and it?s not a bad day anymore,? states Miko Ahonen of Sauna Hermanni. ?There are no angry people here. Red faces come out, but they are happy red faces.? Sauna religion Sauna has always been a place of peace. In medieval Europe, the sauna bathhouse was almost as sacred as church. During a time of nearly constant war, these were places of neutrality where weapons were left at the front. A crime committed in sauna was as punishable as if committed in church. Today poor behaviour in the sauna remains taboo. Folklore has it that a little gnome called saunatonttu, or ?sauna elf ?, has its home in the sauna and is watching. He is always to be treated with respect, as he may bring trouble to those behaving immorally in the sauna. If treated well, he will watch out for the people and warn them if a fire threatens the sauna. It is even customary to occasionally warm up the sauna just for the sauna elf and at times to leave a bite to eat for him. For many, sauna is very much a holy experience. ?Sauna is a religion where you praise yourself and the others with you,? says avid sauna goer Simo Puintila. ?Here you are just how you are ? naked and sweating, and more willing to open up yourself.? So for the Finns, who don?t easily share their emotions, here is one place where they really open up and tell their stories. As a local sauna proverb goes, ?Without clothes we become anonymous. No need to pretend, with no place to hide.? Sauna evolution The practice of sauna has flourished throughout history in Finland particularly, more so than in other countries. For one, the extreme cold makes this the only way to really warm your bones during much of the year. And being that Finland has been more rural and heavily forested than most other densely populated European countries, there has always been an endless supply of firewood allowing sauna to be a regular part of everyday life. The sauna is also historically a very versatile structure, being the first thing built when people would move. They could live and make food in it, take care of personal hygiene, and perhaps most importantly, give birth in a sterile environment. Originally a sauna, or what is often referred to as a ?sweat lodge?, was dug out of the land as a pit and covered into a dome shape with wood, earth, or animal skins to retain the heat inside. Rocks were heated by fire to a very high temperature and water poured over them to create steam and the sensation of increasing heat, just like today. It was mainly a warming and cleansing activity, surrounded by various traditional rituals, prayer and song. The first actual ?Finnish? saunas, are nowadays called savusauna, or ?smoke sauna?. Instead of heating rocks in a stove with a chimney, these saunas are heated by burning large amounts of wood for up to eight hours and letting them fill up with smoke and heat. The smoke is then ventilated out and the warmth in the air and from the rocks stays for an extended period of time. A properly heated smoke sauna gives good heat for up to 12 hours. When the industrial revolution brought metal, the sauna evolved to being built in a log cabin containing a metal wood stove with a chimney that was used to heat the rocks. After this came the electric stove which heats the rocks without fire. And nowadays there is even infrared sauna, where infrared light is experienced as radiant heat absorbed by the skin. Amidst this growth of sauna variety, however, for those who like the social aspect of public saunas, the options are diminishing.
  • Lifestyle 13 SixDegrees solutions for crossword on page 5 STUDY BUSINESS IN ENGLISH ? APPLY NOW! VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATION IN BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION Customer Service and Sales, 180 ECVET points, 3 years t *OGPSNBUJPO BOE HVJEBODF GPS JNNJHSBOUT t *OGPSNBUJPO BCPVU JOUFHSBUJOH JO 4XFEJTI t .FOUPS QSPHSBN '*," t $PVSTFT BOE FWFOUT Tampere Vocational College Tredu offers vocational upper secondary education in Business. The studies are entirely in English. This program is for youth aiming at international customer services duties. Applicants with good command in English language and who have completed basic education are welcome. No high school graduates can be accepted. 1. Lapio 2. Luistin Application period: 16.2.?17.3.2015 (interviews 23.?24.4.2015) Application e-form: www.tredu.fi Interested? Further information: Merja Helin, merja.helin@tampere.fi www.tredu.fi 3. Lumimyrsky 4. Hiihtää 5. Lumi 6. Kelkka 7. Takka 8. Pipo Advisory Board on Immigration and Integration declares an application process for The grAnT FOr IMMIgrAnT ASSOCIATIOnS? CApACITy BuIldIng The grant may be awarded for one of the following purposes: ? Volunteer training, lobbying and organizational democracy for the staff, board members, members and volunteers ? IT-systems and consulting services that could be seen as one-off investments in strengthening the organization ? strategy work ? communications development. The applicant must be an association with more than half (50%) of its members having immigrant backgrounds. The applicant should by definition promote active citizenship and integration, among other things, by means of supporting their members? employability, Finnish or Swedish language training, education and general welfare. The grant is not intended to fund the associations? core work, but their structural development. The size of the grant will vary according to the number of people participating in the strengthening activity and according to the size of the target group benefiting from the development action. The representatives of associations may book a consultation time (45 minutes) for their grant application between February 9-13th, 9:00-15:00. Additional information (in Finnish) and application forms: www.hel.fi > Maahanmuuttajat > Järjestöyhteistyö ja avustukset. Inquiries: Planning Officer Olga Silfver, tel. 09 310 37951 from 9 to15, olga.silfver@hel.fi The dead line for applications is Friday February 20th 2015, at 16.00. When and how to apply: Digital applications in English or Finnish should be submitted by February 21st 2015 (16:00), through the portal asiointi.hel.fi. heLsINKI?s year-round public sAUNAs* sauna Arla, in the Kallio district, has been open since 1929. It had wood burning saunas until 1970 when natural gas became available in the buildings, so this way of heating the stones continues today. One cubic metre of stones is heated in both a men?s and a woman?s sauna for 3-4 hours in the morning creating heat to last all day. On Sundays body scrubbing is available for a fee. And for special order, one can receive the traditional ancient Chinese healing practice of cupping, which uses local suction on the skin to mobilise blood flow and promote healing. www.arlansauna.net Kotiharjun sauna, since 1928, has maintained its original architecture throughout the decades. With separate wood burning saunas for men and women, an electric sauna is also available for rent to families and groups fitting from 50-80 people. The sauna offers a traditional scrubbing service and frozen vihta are available for purchase. Patrons can also rent a towel and purchase non-alcoholic drinks. www.kotiharjunsauna.fi sauna hermanni, since 1953, has a cosy living room environment decorated to reproduce the feel of the 1950s. They specially offer a choice of vihta of birch, oak, and maple, which is softer than the others, for purchase with a sauna. A full menu offers foods such as toast, sausages, eggs, herring, potato salad, or a snack plate of olives, cheese and pickles. Refreshments are available or one may bring their own drinks. www.saunahermanni.fi * Oh, for those who like to enjoy their saunas in public only in summer, here are some more seasonal options on offer: w w w.helsinginlatu.fi /mm / hinnasto ? w w w.siir tolapuutarhat.net /pakila /sivut /sauna.html ? w w w.sompasauna.fi Trend of the Month Travel A s the Arctic freeze sets in, what could be more on people?s minds these days than getting away for a little while. 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  • Tastebuds 14 Issue 1 2015 , s i h t s i t Wha exactly The weird and wonderful tastes of your local Asian grocery store. A little variety of rice would be nice Pizza, wine & jazz Helsinkians can rest easy ? everything they?ve ever needed now in one place. ?O Italians in Helsinki I ask the Italians how their restaurant differs from other Italian restaurants in Helsinki. The look they share is indicative of mutual agreement on no restaurant in particular having impressed them. ?To be honest, most of the Italian restaurants are not really Italian. You can eat well, but you can?t eat Italian well,? explains Metta. ?A plate that is simple you complicate it because you add some local taste. That?s what we don?t want.? Avignonesi delle Lucille says that they wanted to establish a typical, traditional Italian restaurant ? something they claim doesn?t exist in Helsinki. Long grain Cooking well and holding its shape, long grain rice varieties are plentiful and less sticky than shorter grains. They are also more expensive and come in a dizzying array. Remember that cooking times differ for different types of long grains, and adjust water levels accordingly. Basmati and jasmine rice both belong to the long grain rice family. Long grain rice comes in white or brown, the latter being more popular though less healthy as it has had its nutritious brown husk removed. Short grain rice Also called porridge rice in Finnish stores, short grain rice typically also includes risotto rice and glutinous or sticky rice varieties though their type differs. Use short grain rice like glutinous to prepare sticky rice with mango for desserts, or Arborio rice for risotto or cook into porridge, sweet if you prefer or a congee for a typical Asian breakfast. Classic and good. Text and images Alicia Jensen NE DAY, it was the 12 of March, Paolo [Morcucci] came to my place,? begins Stefano Metta. It was a Friday and the two of them were living in Mazzano Romano, a small medieval town close to Rome. ?I?m the owner of some restaurants and bars, and he told me why don?t we open something in Finland? I said to Paolo, why not.? Two weeks later they were on a plane to Finland, and would soon fall in love with Helsinki. Simple as that. I sit down with Metta, a Sicilian Swiss restaurant owner, Morcucci, a musician with a Finnish wife, and Flavio Avignonesi delle Lucille, who has been working in hotel management in London, and was the third addition to the team. There are two other owners who aren?t present at the interview that day, Pasi Pyhanen and Kim Lerche, the latter helping with the music aspect. The mélange of experience and professional history is brought together by friendship, they tell me. What connects them, Metta says, is an artistic soul and wanting to live well; ?we are humanists.? Metta and Morcucci didn?t leave the idyllic medieval town of Mazzano; they left Italy. ?At the moment it?s not the best place to live. The economy is not brilliant, and we don?t like the situation with people always complaining,? says Morcucci. They wanted to find a country where they could stay and live quietly. The solution was the serene streets of Helsinki. ?Paolo, your idea was perfect. It?s not a hectic city like London. It?s a man-sized city that?s what I call Helsinki. It?s not that big, not that small. It?s the perfect size,? adds Avignonesi delle Lucille. Following Morcucci?s lead, the quintet established what they call the only truly Italian restaurant in Helsinki. Being a musician, Morcucci added a jazzy element to their restaurant with the help of Jyrki Kangas, a well known Finnish jazz musician who has, for example, run the annual Pori Jazz festival. Their restaurant sports a small stage where they host live performances three times a week. They named the restaurant Pjazza ? a tribute to both jazz and the atmospheric square Italians call the piazza. It may seem counter productive to go back to the basics after discovering all the joys and weirder wonders of the Asian store. But you must learn to walk before you fly little grasshopper, so let me introduce you to the most basic, and yet arguably the most important of Asian foodstuffs: rice. Rice is the basis of any meal; it is the backbone, and the first and last thing you would eat as an Asian. The very first of solid foods fed to babies, and the very last thing served at banquets. Rice symbolises fertility, plenty, good health, luck, bounty and all things good. Surely you wouldn?t want to neglect such an important guest at your dinner table? From the flour to the kitchen staff, they tell me that their restaurant is authentic Italian. The chefs all come from a specific school in Italy, called the API or Italian Pizza Association. ?Most of all, we are Italians and we conduct it in an Italian way,? says Metta. ?The ambiance is Italian.? What they want to bring Helsinkians is an easy atmosphere and locale where one can enjoy a glass of wine, jazz, and of course true Italian cuisine. They serve a modern pizza that?s easier to digest. The flour is left to rise, or ?levitate? for at least 72 hours. If the dough has risen for that long, it won?t continue to rise in the customer?s stomach. Given that this is Finland, naturally they also have a gluten free pizza. Food, jazz and atmosphere For a starter I tried the burrata cheese with truffle and parma ham, the size of which would have sufficed as a main. I tasted two mains: fettuccine con tartufo nero, or pasta with black truffle, and the pizza bresaola with bresaola, rocket, parmesan and olive oil. Although the pasta was good, I have never tasted a pizza as good as this. The food was accompanied with a glass of Sicilian Donnafugata?s Mille e una Notte, its fullness and berry flavours giving a wonderful contrast to the saltiness of the ham and parmesan which played a leading role in the bresaola. The restaurant has a surprisingly large number of square metres. It consists of a large main room, complete with bar and small stage, and three smaller areas, one of which also has a bar. Each has been designed with a pleasant simplicity, with an easy warmth despite its spaciousness and high ceilings. The addition of live jazz was also wonderful, bringing the restaurant an extra mile ahead. ?The restaurant is a machine which is warming up?, says Avignonesi delle Lucille. Yet the modest owners appear to be doing well already. A lounge area is being developed in the foyer, and the space was buzzing on a live jazz Tuesday night. With already such impressive results, this is certainly a place to keep in mind for when it kicks into top gear. Pjazza Mon - Thu: 11.00 - 23.00 (kitchen closed 15.00-17.00)? Fri - Sat: 11.00 - 01.00? Sun: 11.00 - 17.00 Yrjönkatu 18 B Helsinki tel. 050 347 7802 Jasmine Long grained yet slightly sticky, this aromatic rice is undoubtedly the queen of the rice table for Thai and Chinese cuisines. Its subtle flavour, ease to cook and slightly stickiness amends it to sauces and chopsticks alike, not to mention its light floral fragrance and taste. Buy in 10-20 kilogram bags in Asian stores for the best savings and if health is your goal, mix with wholegrain rice and quinoa. An easy, everyday rice that suits every cuisine. Basmati Long, thin slender grains with a nutty scent, basmati rice is expensive and rightly so. It cooks well into pilaus, briyanis ? even plain ? and holds its shape well. It?s also arguably healthier than other rice varieties, with brown basmati having up to 20% more fibre than regular brown rice. Originating from India, it is prized and eaten at special occasions. Black rice Also known as purple rice, I have only seen the glutinous varieties in Asian stores around Hakaniemi. The nutritional properties of black rice surpass blueberries and is a good source of iron, Vitamin E and antioxidants. Possessing a mild, nutty flavour, soak your rice before cooking and eat with coconut cream and brown sugar as a decadent dessert or mix with normal white rice and cook after soaking. It will stain your rice a nice purple hue but hey, live a little. Red rice Eaten by Indians for health reasons, red rice is purportedly lower on the glycemic scale and therefore better for you. The colour comes from its husk, which adds to its fibre and general good for you nutrients. It cooks up a tad toothsome but tastes pretty nice mixed in with regular rice. It has a flavour similar to black rice but milder, so start out with this one. Available in smaller bags and requires no soaking prior to cooking. Sushi rice Sushi rice is a bit pricier but worth trying for its shiny and flavoursome finish. Generally it?s mixed in with mirin and sugar when made into sushi but why not try this with a topping of sesame oil, wasabi and your choice of protein? Cook as you would rice and spread out on a plate and fan vigorously to maximise the shiny finish after pouring over with mirin mixture. Tania Nathan is a Chinese-Sri Lankan Malaysian who loves her food and is often to be found rummaging through a freezer somewhere in Hakaniemi. Come say hi!
  • Cultitude 15 SixDegrees Steve Gullick The Point of documentaries James O?Sullivan DocPoint O NCE again, the 14th annual DocPoint is the first port of call for what is becoming an increasingly crowded film festival calendar annually. Presenting the best Finnish and international documentaries of the year, the festival lands once again in the Capital Region from 27 January until 1 February. Founded in 2001, DocPoint represents one of the largest documentary film festivals on the Nordic landscape. Here in Finland it is the only festival solely dedicated to documentary films, and has also been organised concurrently with Tallinn since 2010. The numbers are impressive, with some 28,000 visitors attending festival screenings and side events last year. This year sees 166 documentary films on offer. The festival opens with Markku Heikkinen?s Men of Talvivaara Mine, depicting the everyday life of miners in the eponymous mine that has grabbed headlines in recent times. Elsewhere, those who have followed the Edward Snowden saga with great interest are in for a treat: Laura Poitras? Citizenfour is being screened. In June 2013, Poitras flew to Hong Kong with two reporters for the first of many meetings with the man who would soon become Public Enemy No. 1 in the USA. She brought her camera with her, with the resultant footage edited into a gripping documentary. The film will also be DocPoint festival?s main seminar film on Saturday 31 January. Hanna Polak?stouching film Something Better to Come follows a girl named Yula for 14 years living at an enormous dump site near Moscow with her family. Also in Russia, Children 404 and Victory Day, discuss the controversial anti-gay law that was passed in 2013. Aside from politics, other themes during this year?s edition of the festival revolve around nature and the sea. Three of the world best known apes take the screen in Jos de Putter?s See No Evil and two Academy Award-winning documentaries from legendary explorer Jacques Cousteau are screening. On the local scene, 11 new films from Finnish directors are being presented under the banner of ?New Finnish Documentary Film?. Much, much more is on offer. Head to the website for more info. Eclectic Radio tunes James O?Sullivan . Walking Under Water is one of many documentaries on offer at this year?s As always, all of this and more is available at their website. festival. DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2015 27 January ? 1 February http://docpoint.info/en Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis Artistic sounds James O?Sullivan n o other individual has had such an impact on the international classical music scene than national hero Jean Sibelius. Commencing in December last year, celebrations have been taking place in honour of the 150th anniversary of his birth. In the midst of these Ateneum Art Museum is currently exhibiting an extensive jubilee exhibition. Tak- ing a closer look at the composer?s contacts with the art scene of his day, Sibelius and the World of Art is on display until 22 March. The sounds created by Sibelius inspired a great many artists, with their own work creating a reciprocal effect on the composer. Siberlius was surrounded by art during his lifetime: his home could be found amongst the cultural landscape at Lake Tuusula, his artistic circle of friends and relatives, and the art collection at Ainola all had great influence on him. A more specific example of this artistic exchange can be found in his 1892 tone poem En Saga, which would inspire Akseli Gallen-Kallela two years later to paint a work bearing the same name. The links between the composer?s work and the art scene of his time are found to be both on a personal level as well as in the context of the art movements of his era. The exhibition traverses the landscape from Sibelius? youth to his international breakthrough. Fantasies and myths surrounding the composer, as well as his symphonic landscapes and nature motifs are also explored in detail. The website www.sibelius150. fi offers more celebrations, Albert Edelfelt: Composer Jean Sibelius (undated). Ateneum Art Museum. A night of Pasión James O?Sullivan k icking off on 24 February, Finland is once again infused with the spirit of the tango, with the welcome return of the Grammy Awardwinning Argentinean dance group Tango Pasión. The highly regarded troupe is set to bring a new show Sinfonia de Tango. A tribute to the legend of composer Astor Piazzolla, audiences in Helsinki can enjoy the Pasión until 28 February, before it sets off around the country. Stops in Turku, Hämeenlinna, Lahti, Mikkeli, Kuopio and Oulu are scheduled. Tango Pasión first emerged in 1982 when producer Mel Howard and co director José Libertella set about establishing a unique tango spectacle. The fruit of their labour saw them bringing together a number of different tango stories. For them, tango wasn?t about any level of social status. A diverse cast of dancers represented the variety evident in Argentinean society. Audience responded overwhelmingly positively at home and aborad, and it wasn?t long before the group was playing to packed crowds on Broadway. Fast forward to 2014 and 20 artists, dancers and musicians come together to form the world?s best tango show group. With their last visit a couple of years ago drawing a total of around 30,000 attendees, the Argentine heat is a welcome reprieve from the frosty conditions outside. Duration of the show is approximately 2.5 hours, including an intermission. Tango Pasión ? Sinfonía de Tango 24 February until 7 March Helsinki, Turku, Hämeenlinna, Lahti, Mikkeli, Kuopio and Oulu Sibelius and the World of Art Until 22 March Ateneum Art Museum Kaivokatu 2, Helsinki Political snapshot James O?Sullivan D EDICATING itself to photographs and photographers who seek to make a difference on the world through their work, the inaugural Festival of Political Photography is on being exhibited at The Finnish Museum of Photography from 30 January until 12 April. Bringing together images from seven different parts of the world, the photos are the focal point for a resident of each area, whose themes are deemed to have social relevance. The exhibition includes contributions from Swedish photographer David Magnusson, Afghan Farzana Wahidy, Russian Tatiana Vinogradova and Finns Meeri Koutaniemi, Thomas Castle B ringing with him the growing eclecticism of his songbook, Mark Lanegan hits the stage at The Circus on Friday 6 February in support of his latest release, Phantom Radio. The road to this point has been anything but without curves and unexpected turns for the former Screaming Trees frontman. Emerging from the shadows of the grunge movement, the singer-songwriter has diversified his output to the point of sheer unpredictably. Each release has been greeted with acclaim of some degree, as his grunge roots have been overshadowed by more sensitive leanings. Battles with substance abuse has ensured his material remains fringed with darker edges over the years. Collaborations have come thick and fast, with Lanegan hooking up with Queens of the Stone Age (co-writing their monster hit No One Knows), former Belle and Sebastianite Isobel Campbell (for a trio of sublime albums), Greg Dulli (The Gutter Twins), Duke Garwood (2013?s Black Pudding) and even Moby (2013?s The Lonely Night single). This is just the tip of the collaborative iceberg. The past decade has also seen him compliment his early catalogue of solo albums with a revolving line-up of musicians under the banner of Mark Lanegan Band. 2004?s brilliant solo release Bubblegum saw his trademark gravelly vocals and dark reflection harmonizing into something majestic. 2012?s follow-up Blues Funeral saw electronica introduced into the mix, with Lanegan performing a barnstorming gig in February that year at The Circus. The well-received Phantom Radio has seen him head out on an extensive European tour, stretching until the end of March. Support comes from Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss, and Lyenn. Mark Lanegan Band 6 February, 21:00 Tickets ?34.50 and Sara Hurtig. The lion?s share of the works are on display in Finland for the first time. The images themselves traverse a variety of topical subject matters. These include the Finnish media, religion and children, women and minority status, immigration and exclusion. The images offer various and differing perspectives on the circumstances within the festival theme of the third generation. The exhibition also illustrates how habits, social status and values are handed down between generations. This movement of traditions and ideals often sees each generation struggle against the values of those that have come before them and seek to bring about change for their perceived betterment. The exhibition ponders the relevance of the photograph being a tool for influencing change. The images on offer at the exhibition fail to elicit indifference in the viewer, compelling a reaction of some kind. The festival organisers seek to The Circus Salomonkatu 1-3 Helsinki inspire discussion and activities via the images presented. Further facilitating this, a number of workshops will be held in conjunction with the exhibition, as well as discussion groups. Miranda & Jody Heckert, Yuma Arizona Photo by David Magnusson The Festival of Political Photography 30 January ? 12 April The Finnish Museum of Photography Tallberginkatu 1 G Helsinki
  • Out&See Greater Helsinki 16 Issue 1 2015 Anna-Maija Lappi Music _ Clubs 16 Jan. Levon Vincent, Lil Tony & Katerina // Techno. Kaiku, Kaikukatu 4. Tickets ?14.50. www.clubkaiku.fi 16 Jan. Lieminen // Pop. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?13.50. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 16 Jan. Sea Change (NOR) // Synth pop. Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?9.50. www.korjaamo.fi 17 Jan. Plutonium 74 // Psychedelic disco funk. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?13.50. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 17 Jan. Toni Loimuneva, Kari Tapiiri solo // Singer-songwriters. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?7.50. www.semifinal.fi 17 Jan. Laineen Kasperi & Palava Kaupunki + St. Rasta // Hiphop. Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?11/13. www.korjaamo.fi 17 Jan. Above & Beyond (UK) // Trance. The Circus, Salomonkatu 1-3. Tickets ?26-39. www.thecircus.fi 22 Jan. Sarana // Experimental ambient. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?6.50. www.semifinal.fi 22 Jan. Happoradio // Pop/rock. On The Rocks, Mikonkatu 15. Tickets ?17.50. www.ontherocks.fi 22 Jan. TootToot // Rock. Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets ?8.50. www.barloose.com 22 Jan. Jukkis Uotila Trio // Jazz. Koko Jazz Club, Hämeentie 3. Tickets ?11.50/16.50. www.kokojazz.fi 23 Jan. Isolée, Lauri Soini, Denzel & J.Lindroos // Techno. Kaiku, Kaikukatu 4. Tickets ?14.50. www.clubkaiku.fi 23 Jan. Aurora // Pop. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?7.50. www.semifinal.fi 23 Jan. Alavala // Pop. Le Bonk, Yrjönkatu 24. Tickets ?7.50. www.lebonk.fi 23 Jan. Marjo Leinonen Huff?N?Puff // ?Groove ?n? roll.? Virgin Oil CO., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets ?11.50. www.virginoil.fi 23 Jan. Milla Rumi, Älyvarkaat, Karri Lehtonen & Afgaaninvinttikoira // Pop/folk. On The Rocks, Mikonkatu 15. Tickets ?5. www.ontherocks.fi 23 Jan. Kerkko Koskinen Kollektiivi // Pop. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?22. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 23 Jan. Danceteria 10th Anniversary // Stefano Noferini (ITA), Hollen (ITA), Adrian Hour (ARG). Fredan Tivoli, Fredrikinkatu 51-53. Tickets ?13.50. www.fredantivoli.fi 24 Jan. Maria Gasolina // Forro in Finnish etc. Gloria, Pieni Roobertinkatu 12. Tickets ?11.50. www.gloriahelsinki.fi 24 Jan. Funky Rocks Club // Tuomo. On The Rocks, Mikonkatu 15. Tickets ?11.50. www.ontherocks.fi 24 Jan. White Fox // Rock/pop. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?8.50. www.semifinal.fi 24 Jan. Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha // Echoes from Balkan gypsy music, Russian romances and old Finnish ?humppa?. Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets ?11.50. www.barloose.com 24 Jan. Freak Kitchen (SWE), Doom Unit Rebelhead // Metal. Virgin Oil CO., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets ?16.50. www.virginoil.fi 26 Jan. Christina Grimmie & Before You Exit (USA) // Pop. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?22. www.elmu.fi 27 Jan. Nipsey Hussle (USA) // Rap. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?23. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 29 Jan. Mikael Jakobsson Quartet feat. Thomas Franck (DEN) // Jazz. Koko Jazz Club, Hämeentie 3. Tickets ?16.50/22. www.kokojazz.fi 29 Jan. Risto, Talmud Beach // Rock. Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets ?7.50. www.barloose.com 30 Jan. Santa Cruz // Hard rock. Le Bonk, Yrjönkatu 24. Tickets ?13.50. www.lebonk.fi 30 Jan. Femmagaala 2015 // DJ Kridlokk, Tuuttimörkö, Aivovuoto, Soul Valpio Band, At The Hollow. Virgin Oil CO., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets ?11.50. www.virginoil.fi 30 Jan. Freerap Finland meets Freerap Sverige // Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?19. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 30 Jan. Soliti Winter Beach Party // Black Twig, Gim Kordon, Ghost Christina Grimmie 26 Jan. Nosturi K-X-P 31 Jan. Korjaamo Culture Factory Nipsey Hussle 27 Jan. Tavastia Olöf Arnalds 11 Feb. Kuudes Linja Sea Change 16 Jan. Korjaamo Culture Factory Of Jack Nance, Big Wave Riders, Oceans, Cats Of Transnistria, Delay Trees, Astrid Swan, The New Tigers & Black Lizard. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?16.50. www.elmu.fi 30 Jan. Minutian // Rock/ metal. Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?7.50. www.korjaamo.fi 30 Jan. Hexdrive, Ten After Dawn, Di Un Ru, Silent Scream // Rock. On The Rocks, Mikonkatu 15. Tickets ?5. www.ontherocks.fi 30 Jan. Näppituntuma, Serial Humpers, N.A.D. // Ska, reggae, soul, funk... Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?6.50. www.semifinal.fi 30 Jan. Jaakko & Jay, Panssarijuna // Folk punk. Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets ?7.50. www.barloose.com 30 Jan. Club Dance Pon Di Corna // Renaissance Disco (JAM). Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?10. www.kuudeslinja.com 31 Jan. Megastupido-klubi // Kumikameli, The Splits, Liimanarina, Saijaa Saijaa, Joosua & Kari Tapiiri. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?13.50. www.elmu.fi 31 Jan. K-X-P, O Samuli A // Electronic. Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?10/12. www.korjaamo.fi 31 Jan. Linnea Henriksson (SWE), Alina Devecerski (SWE) // Electro pop. Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?13/15. www.korjaamo.fi 31 Jan. Valtter Vin, Sofa Pets, Faenimal Arm // Pop. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?6.50. www.semifinal.fi 31 Jan. Bikers Night at Bar Loose // Crossfyre, Texas Oil. Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets ?11.50. www.barloose.com 5 Feb. Mark Olson (USA) // Folk/ Americana. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?12.50. www.kuudeslinja.com 5 Feb. Kasperi Sarikoski Quartet // Jazz. Koko Jazz Club, Hämeentie 3. Tickets ?11.50/16.50. www.kokojazz.fi 5 Feb. Kakkmaddafakka (NOR) // Indie rock. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?17.50. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 6 Feb. Mokoma // Metal. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?18. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 6 Feb. araabMUZIK (USA) // Hip-hop. Ääniwalli, Pälkäneentie 13. Tickets ?23. www.facebook.com/Aaniwalli 7 Feb. Modern Pets (GER) // Garage punk. Bar Loose, Annankatu 21. Tickets ?8.50. www.barloose.com 7 Feb. Manna + Aino Venna // Pop. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?14.50. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 7 Feb. Spark, Sons Of Suns // Pop/ rock. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?7.50. www.semifinal.fi 7 Feb. Arcturus (NOR) // Metal. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?31.50. www.elmu.fi 7 Feb. Club Blow Up That Gramophone // Callisto. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?13.50. www.kuudeslinja.com 10 Feb. Yung Lean & Sad Boys (SWE) // Rap. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?20. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 10 Feb. Earth (USA) // Experimental metal/post rock. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?25. www.kuudeslinja.com 11 Feb. Ólöf Arnalds (ISL) // Singer and multi-instrumentalist. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?8.50. www.kuudeslinja.com 11 Feb. Gramma, Superfall // Rock. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?6.50. www.semifinal.fi 12 Feb. Nisennenmondai (JPN) // Instrumental. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?22. www.kuudeslinja.com 12 Feb. Naomi Punk (USA) // Punk. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?9.50. www.semifinal.fi 12 Feb. Markus Niittynen Quartet // Jazz. Koko Jazz Club, Hämeentie 3. Tickets ?11.50/16.50. www.kokojazz.fi 13 Feb. At The Hollow // Rock. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?8.50. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 13 Feb. Samat Nimet // Pop. Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. Tickets ?9.50. www.korjaamo.fi 13 Feb. Paquito D?Rivera & UMO // Cuban-American clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and conductor. Savoy Theatre, Kasarmikatu 46-48. Tickets ?32.50/38.50. www.savoyteatteri.fi 13 Feb. Mardi Gras Carneval // Império Uupi Tirronen Light egg by ACT Lighting Design and Odeaubois. 3-8 Feb. Side Step Festival 2015 // Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Tallberginkatu 1B. Tickets ?15/25/40. www.zodiak.fi Side Step Festival 2015 Side Step, the annual contemporary dance festival will be taking place between 3 and 8 February at Zodiak ? Center for New Dance at the Cable Factory. This year, the festival brings on stage impressive creatures from bizarre birds of paradise to clowns of death. The pieces in the festival programme explore large, universal themes. The programme depicts human beings and inner worlds, reflecting weirdness and the unknown. It celebrates the wonder and uniqueness of life but also death and the other sides of reality. do Papagaio, Reine Rimón & Her Hot Papas. Storyville, Museokatu 8. Tickets ?16.50. www.storyville.fi 13 Feb. Renegades of Rhythm: Dj Shadow & Cut Chemist play Afrika Bambaataa // Ääniwalli, Pälkäneentie 13. Tickets ?22/26. www.facebook. com/Aaniwalli 14 Feb. Melrose // Rock. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?19. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 14 Feb. Reggae Snowsplash 2015 // Bitty McLean (UK), Aurora & Band, Safari Sound (SWE), Solid Unruly (SWE). Pressa, Antinkatu 2. Tickets ?21. www.pressa.fi 18 Feb. Octopus Syng, Soft Power // Folk rock/pop. Semifinal, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?6.50. www.semifinal.fi 18 Feb. H.E.A.T. (SWE) // Hard rock. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?27. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 19 Feb. Kannaste-ViinikainenRiippa // Jazz. Koko Jazz Club, Hämeentie 3. Tickets ?11.50/16.50. www.kokojazz.fi 19 & 21 Feb. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain // Savoy Theatre, Kasarmikatu 46-48. Tickets ?38. www.savoyteatteri.fi 20 Feb. Mirel Wagner // ?Silent gig?. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?13.50. www.elmu.fi 20 Feb. Risto, Teksti-TV 666 // On The Rocks, Mikonkatu 15. Tickets ?11.50. www.ontherocks.fi 20 Feb. Anaal Nathrakh (UK) // Metal. Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6. Tickets ?22. www.tavastiaklubi.fi 20 Feb. Anette Olzon (SWE) // Ex-Nightwish vocalist. Virgin Oil CO., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets ?22. www.virginoil.fi 20 & 21 Feb. Winter Wonderland 2015 // Unique wintery festival dedicated for dance music. Helsingin Messukeskus, Messuaukio 1. Tickets ?58-92. www. thewinterwonderland.net 21 Feb. Ismo Alanko // Pop/rock. Virgin Oil CO., Mannerheimintie 5. Tickets ?23. www.virginoil.fi 23 Feb. Anneke Van Giersbergen & Arjen Lucassen (NLD) // ?The Gentle Storm? duo. Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8. Tickets ?18. www.elmu.fi 25 Feb. Oddarrang // Cinematic soundscapes. Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13. Tickets ?12. www.kuudeslinja.com Among the cavalcade of interesting performances are Adrienn Hód´s Dawn with naked human bodies opening up a landscape of muscles, limbs and skin, Gob Squad´s Dancing About where a nightclub dance floor meets ritual worship and expressive dance therapy, and Paraíso ? Colecção Privada by Marlene Monteiro Freitas. During the festival week, the pop up bar Ihana will be serving delicious drinks, coffee, tea and snacks in the Zodiak foyer. Theatre _ Dance 16-25 Jan. Cirko Aereo: Camping 3 // The third part of the acclaimed Camping series by contemporary circus group Circo Aereo. Cirko, Kaasutehtaankatu 1. Tickets ?17.50/27.50. www.cirko.fi 16-30 Jan. Don Quixote // Major classical ballet choreographed by Patrice Bart. Finnish National Opera, Helsinginkatu 58. Tickets ?16-94.50. www.opera.fi 21-29 Jan. Jenni Kivelä: Kleine Monster // A performance about female monsters. Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Tallberginkatu 1B. Tickets ?15/23. www.zodiak.fi 21-30 Jan. Jyrki Karttunen: Jemina ? act as you?d know her // Exciting blend of stand-up comedy, soft porn cabaret and contemporary dance. Helsinki City Theatre, Studio Elsa. Ensi Linja 2. Tickets ?26. www.hkt.fi 23 Jan.-12 Feb. The Cunning Little Vixen // Leo? Janá?ek´s opera featuring a cast of animal characters. Finnish National Opera, Helsinginkatu 58. Tickets ?24118.50. www.opera.fi 3-8 Feb. Side Step Festival 2015 // Contemporary dance festival. Zodiak - Center for New Dance, Tallberginkatu 1B. Tickets ?15/25/40. www.zodiak.fi 13, 14 & 25 Feb. Kullervo // The tragic tale of Kullervo choreographed by Tero Saarinen. Finnish National Opera, Helsinginkatu 58. Tickets ?24-118.50. www.opera.fi 24 & 25 Feb. Tango Pasión: Sinfonía de Tango // Tribute to Astor Piazzolla. Savoy Theatre, Kasarmikatu 46-48. Tickets ?41-56. www.savoyteatteri.fi Exhibitions Until 18 Jan. #snapshot // Photographs taken by ordinary people, images sourced from the internet, historic snapshots and selfies as well as an overview of the history of the selfie. The Finnish Museum of Photography, Tallberginkatu 1 G. Tickets ?0/6/8. www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi From 24 Jan. Helena Hietanen, Jaakko Niemelä: Chaos & Beauty // A show of light and shadow. Kunsthalle Helsinki, Nervanderinkatu 3. Tickets ?0/7/10. www.taidehalli.fi From 30 Jan. The Festival of Political Photography // Event dedicated to photographs and photographers who want to make a difference in the world through their work. The Finnish Museum of Photography, Tallberginkatu 1 G. Tickets ?0/5/8. www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi From 30 Jan. Postmodernism 19801995 // Postmodernism from a Finnish perspective of the years 1980 ? 1995 in architecture, design, popular culture and the arts. Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23. Tickets ?0/5/8/10. www.designmuseum.fi Until 1 Feb. Edward Munch - The Dance of Life // Exhibition of one of the major visual artists in Northern Europe of the 20th century. Didrichsen Art Museum, Kuusilahdenkuja 1. Tickets ?0/8/13. www. didrichsenmuseum.fi From 4 Feb. Shared Cities // Exhibition exploring the role of urban space from a European perspective. Museum of Finnish Architecture, Kasarmikatu 24. Tickets ?0/3/6. www.mfa.fi From 6 Feb. Vilhelm Hammershøi: Painter of Silence // One of the most impressive Scandinavian painters. Amos Anderson Art Museum, Yrjönkatu 27. Tickets ?0/2/8/10. www.amosanderson.fi Until 15 Feb. Klaus Kopu: Epätoden Valta // Wide oil paintings of intense expression and color. Korjaamo Galleria, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Töölönkatu 51 B. www.korjaamo.fi Until 22 Mar. Sibelius and the World of Art // Exhibition explores the links between the composer?s work and the art scene of his time. Ateneum Art Museum, Kaivokatu 2. Tickets ?0/10/12. www.ateneum.fi The event listings in the Out&See sections are based on the available information at the time of printing the issue. SixDegrees is not responsible for possible changes, mistakes, cancellations or lack of information concerning the events mentioned.
  • Out&See Turku 17 SixDegrees Kasperi Teittinen Music _ Clubs 16 Jan. Psykodrama à la Wienerschule // Turku Philharmonics? 225th anniversary year begins with Schoenberg?s Erwartung and Sibelius? Lemminkäinen. Concert Hall, Aninkaistenkatu 9. Tickets ?21/16/9. www.tfo.fi 21 Jan. Freak Kitchen // Swedish virtuoso progressive metal. Klubi, Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets ?12. www.klubi.net 29 Jan. Blues Brothers // Classic movie turned into a musical has been on tour for more than 20 years. Logomo, Köydenpunojankatu 14. Tickets ?57.50/52.50/47.50. www.logomo.fi 29 Jan. Mirage for millennia to come // Turku Philharmonic Orchestra?s performance is named after one of the evening?s highlights, Kaija Saariaho?s Mirage. Concert Hall, Aninkaistenkatu 9. Tickets ?21/16/9. www.tfo.fi 30 Jan. K-X-P // Finnish electronic rock band has been widely praised by indie music lovers. Dynamo, Linnankatu 7. Tickets ?10. www.dynamoklubi.com 30 Jan. Steve?n?Seagulls // Finnish band plays bluegrass versions of classic heavy rock tunes. Klubi, Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets ?12. www.klubi.net 30 Jan. Mauro Negri Quartet // Modern clarinet jazz from Italy. Monk, Humalistonkatu 3. Tickets ?10/8. www.monk.fi 2 Feb. Soile Isokoski // Worldclass soprano sings Bach?s arias. Turku Cathedral, Tuomiokirkonkatu 1. Tickets ?37.50/27.50/22.50. www.turkumusicfestival.fi 6 Feb. Kakkmaddafakka // Oddly named Norwegian indie rockers mix influences from various pop music genres. Klubi, Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets ?13. www.klubi.net 13 Feb. Ostrobothnia Jazz Sextet plays Piazzolla // A crossover of tango and jazz. Café Tiljan, Eerikinkatu 13. Tickets ?15/10. www.abosvenskateater.fi 15 Feb. Amaranthe // Swedish-Danish power metal band features three lead vocalists. Klubi, Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets ?20. www.klubi.net 25 Feb. Soen // International progressive metal supergroup. Klubi, Humalistonkatu 8. Tickets ?16.50. www.klubi.net Others Petri Viitala 24-25 Jan. Top Dog Show // International all breed dog show. Turku Fair and Congress Center, Messukentänkatu 9-13. See more info on ticket prices at w w w.showlink.fi / showlink / topdogshow15. 5-8 Feb. Disney On Ice // A total of seven shows filled with classic stories and recent Disney tales. HK Areena, Artukaistentie 8. See more info on ticket prices at www.hkareena.fi. Theatre _ Dance 18 Jan. Swan Lake // Tschaikovsky?s masterpiece is performed by St Petersburg Festival Ballet. Logomo, Köydenpunojankatu 14. Tickets ? 6 2 . 5 0 / 5 2 . 5 0 / 3 7. 5 0 / 3 2 . 5 0 . www.logomo.fi From 23 Jan. Ellen Thesleff // One of the leading Finnish early modernists. Turku Art Museum, Aurakatu 26. Tickets ?8/5. www.turuntaidemuseo.fi From 13 Feb. Annu Vertanen // Finnish artist is best known for her original large woodcuts. Ars Nova, Itäinen Rantakatu 4-6. Tickets ?8/7/5.50. www.aboavetusarsnova.fi Exhibitions 17 Jan. Ipanahipat Children?s Festival // Workshops, circus, theatre, music and all kinds of things for kids. Logomo, Köydenpunojankatu 14. Tickets ?9.50. www.logomo.fi 17-18 Jan. Antique Fair // Traditional biannual collectors? event. Turku VPK house, Eskelinkatu 5. Tickets ?8. The event listings in the Out&See based sections on the are available infor mation at the time of printing the issue. SixDegrees is not responsi- 14-17 Jan. For further details see www.turkubandfestival.fi ble for possible changes, mistakes, cancellations or lack of infor mation concer ning the events mentioned. Turku Band Festival If you are unfamiliar with the Turku music scene and want to know what kinds of bands are springing up from the local rehearsal spaces, then Turku Band Festival is certainly the event for you. Four days full of gigs, both in the city?s most popular venues like Klubi and Dynamo and in smaller joints like Sointu and Kirjakahvila ? covering a variety of genres including folk, punk, experimental electronic music and metal. Most concerts are admission free and entry fees are low for the rest. SET YOUR SIGHT ON AN INTERNATIONAL CAREER? The applicaTion period 7?27 January 2015 Apply for an English taught Degree Programme at Turku University of Applied Sciences Bachelor of Business administration International Business (part-time studies) Bachelor of Business administration International Business Bachelor of engineering Information Technology Bachelor of health care Nursing Master of Business administration International Business Management Master of culture and arts Leadership and Service Design MORE INfORMATION: www.tuas.fi www.tuas.fi
  • 18 Issue 1 2015 Out&See Oulu Out&See Tampere By James O?Sullivan By Jutta Vetter Music _ Clubs 23 Jan. Paleface // Local rap hero. Club 45 Special, Saaristonkatu 12. Tickets ?14.50 /12. www.45special.com 29 Jan. Honningbarna (NO) // Punk rock from Norway. Club 45 Special, Saaristonkatu 12. Tickets ?12.50/10. www.45special.com 13-14 Feb. CMX // Rock legends. Club 45 Special, Saaristonkatu 12. Tickets ?22.50/20. www.45special.com 23 Jan. Juju // Local rapper. Club 45 Special, Saaristonkatu 12. Tickets ?14/12. www.45special.com 17 Jan. To/Die/For + support // Nuclear Nightclub, Uusikatu 23. Tickets ?8. www.nuclear.fi 29 Jan. Callisto // Post metal. Nuclear Nightclub, Uusikatu 23. Tickets ?10. www.nuclear.fi 16 Feb. Heidi Pakarinen & Karavaani // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?13. www.nightclubtahti.fi 17 Jan. Ässät // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?13. www.nightclubtahti.fi 23 Jan. Yölintu // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?14. www.nightclubtahti.fi 24 Jan. Marko Maunuksela & Fantasia // Iskelmä and dance. Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?14. www.nightclubtahti.fi 30 Jan. Mikko Mäkeläinen & Myrskylyhty // Iskelmä. Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?14. www.nightclubtahti.fi 31 Jan. Tomi Markkola & Fernet // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?14. www.nightclubtahti.fi 6 Feb. Janne Tulkki & Tulinen Sydän // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?14. www.nightclubtahti.fi 7 Feb. Charles Plogman & Rosette // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?15. www.nightclubtahti.fi 14 Feb. Elonkerjuu // Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?15. www.nightclubtahti.fi Exhibitions Until 29 Jan. Annuli Viherjuuren // Paintings. Neliö-galleria, Asemakatu 37. Free Entrance. www.neliogalleria.com Opens 1 Feb. Huumorinkukkia, maalauksia ja veistoksia // Sergei Arhipov, Erkka Auermaa, Raimo Jaatinen, Rauni Koivisto, Sonja Lehto, Kikka Nyren, Lea Pihkala, Susanna Sinivirta. Neliö-galleria, Asemakatu 37. Free Entrance. www. neliogalleria.com 17 Jan ? 22 Feb. Marjo Hyttinen: Traces // Photo exhibition. Northern Jaani Kivinen (KaihoRepublic) 20 Feb. Nightclub Tähti, Pakkahuoneenkatu 19. Tickets ?17. www.nightclubtahti.fi Tuure Kilpeläinen Originally from Uusikaupunki, this musician and singer-songwriter goes continues going from strength to strength. During his career he has collaborated with a number of artists including the likes of Anna Puu, Vesa-Matti Loiri, Kari Tapio and Johanna Kurkela. Elsewhere, teaming up with Kaihon Karavaani, their album Afrikan tähti reached the number 2 position on the Finnish Albums Chart. Photography Center. Hallituskatu 5, Oulu. www.photonorth.fi Teuvo Pakkalankatu 11. Tickets ?7.50-21. www.oulunkarpat.fi 17 Jan ? 22 Feb. Minna Pöllänen: Nature Trail // Photo exhibition. Northern Photography Center. Hallituskatu 5, Oulu. www.photonorth.fi Opens 24 Jan. Checkpoint Leonardo // Oulu Museum of Art, Kasarmitie 7. Tickets ?4-6. www.ouka.fi/taidemuseo/ Until 1 Feb. Aino Tervo & Ilkka Palosaari: ?Vapaudesta? // Paintings. Galleria 5, Hallituskatu 5. Free Entrance. http://galleria5.artoulu.fi 4-22 Feb. Eila Kinnunen: ?Päivä ja yö? // Paintings. Galleria 5, Hallituskatu 5. Free Entrance. http://galleria5.artoulu.fi 23 Jan. Kärpät ? HPK// National Ice Hockey League. Oulu Energia Areena, Teuvo Pakkalankatu 11. Tickets ?7.50-21. www.oulunkarpat.fi 27 Jan. Kärpät ? Ilves // National Ice Hockey League. Oulu Energia Areena, Teuvo Pakkalankatu 11. Tickets ?7.50-21. www.oulunkarpat.fi 30 Jan. Kärpät ? Sport // National Ice Hockey League. Oulu Energia Areena, Teuvo Pakkalankatu 11. Tickets ?7.50-21. www.oulunkarpat.fi 10 Feb. Kärpät ? Lukko // National Ice Hockey League. Oulu Energia Areena, Teuvo Pakkalankatu 11. Tickets ?7.50-21. www.oulunkarpat.fi 13 Feb. Kärpät ? Tappara // National Ice Hockey League. Oulu Energia Areena, Teuvo Pakkalankatu 11. Tickets ?7.50-21. www.oulunkarpat.fi Sports 17 Jan. Kärpät ? TPS // National Ice Hockey League. Oulu Energia Areena, Out&See Jyväskylä Music _ Clubs 21 Jan. Jyväskylä Sinfonia: Sallinen 80 years // Jyväskylä City Theatre, Vapaudenkatu 36. Tickets ? 26/24/12. www.jyvaskylasinfonia.fi/ 23 Jan. Freak Kitchen (SWE), Rebelhead // Gothenburg metal. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?10/8. www.jelmu.net 23 Jan. flamencokitaraduo Toni Jokiniitty & Jari Lehtonen // Poppari, Puistokatu 2-4. Tickets ?8/5. www.jazz-bar.com 27 Jan. Kimmo Pohjonen & Eric Echampard (FIN/FRA) // Improvised sounds onstage. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?16/14. www.jelmu.net 28 Jan. Jyväskylä Sinfonia?s musicians: Damsel of the Forest - A musical fairy tale // Jyväskylä City Theatre, Vapaudenkatu 36. Tickets ?10/8. www.jyvaskylasinfonia.fi/ 30-31 Jan. Garagefest 2015 // Alternative music festival, shared with Joensuu. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?10-18. www.jelmu.net 4 Feb. Jyväskylä Sinfonia: Orient Express // Jyväskylä City Theatre, Vapaudenkatu 36. Tickets ?26/24/12. www.jyvaskylasinfonia.fi/ 6 Feb. Brother Firetribe, Even Steven // Local rockers. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?12/10. www.jelmu.net 9 Feb. Sólstafir (ISL), Jess And The Ancient Ones // Icelandic metal. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?22/21. www.jelmu.net 11 Feb. Jyväskylä Sinfonia: Winds of change // Jyväskylä City Theatre, Vapaudenkatu 36. Tickets ?26/24/12. www.jyvaskylasinfonia.fi/ 12 Feb. Amaranthe (SWE), Cypher16 (UK) // Swedish metal. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?20/17. www.jelmu.net 12 Feb. Pauli Hanhiniemen Melko Akustinen Duo (MAD) // Rock. Poppari, Puistokatu 2-4. Tickets ?12/10. www.jazz-bar.com 18-19 Feb. Jyväskylä Sinfonia: The Brave and the Strong - A Night of Movie Heroes // Cinematic sounds. Jyväskylä City Theatre, Vapaudenkatu 36. Tickets ?26/24/12. www. jyvaskylasinfonia.fi/ 19 Feb. Elektro GT Jazzliiton kiertue (Keitele Jazz) // Poppari, Puistokatu 2-4. Tickets ?10/8. www.jazz-bar.com 19 Feb. Anaal Nathrakh (UK) // British extreme metal. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?18/16. www.jelmu.net Exhibitions Until 28 Jan. Saskiat stipendinäyttely: Music _ Clubs 16 Jan. Klub Tidsmaskin 1958 // Music by DJ Antti. Gastropub Soho, Otavalankatu 10. Free entry. www. gastropub.net/soho/index.php 16 Jan. Tampere Drum&Bass Convention // With DJs Infekto, Wispy, Esc, NoComply, Balttikoira & Retrome. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?5. www.klubi.net 17 Jan. Pub Disco // Music by DJ Jere Dangerous. Gastropub Soho, Otavalankatu 10. Free entry. www. gastropub.net/soho/index.php 17 Jan. Hang the DJ // Music by DJs Antti H & Sami, plus guest VJ. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?6. www.klubi.net 17 Jan. Jussi Selo & Badding Band // Doors open at 22:00, showtime at 22:30. Yo-talo, Kauppakatu 10. Tickets ?10. www.yo-talo.com 21 Jan. The Fisk // Support by Idiomatic. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?6. www.klubi.net 23 Jan. Sub Soho // Music by DJs Lassi & Tuomas. Gastropub Soho, Otavalankatu 10. Free entry. www.gastropub.net/soho/index.php 24 Jan. Voltti Reggae Night // Music by Cstar & Jahvice, and DJs Vilhelm & Voltti Selectors. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?7. www.klubi.net 24 Jan. Wester Coates // Music by DJ Special K & Migulord. Gastropub Soho, Otavalankatu 10. Free entry. www.gastropub.net/soho/index.php 29 Jan. Irina Björklund // La vie est une fête -concert. Tampere Hall (Main Auditorium), Yliopistonkatu 55. Tickets starting from ?30. www.tampere-talo.fi 31 Jan. Take It Back (extended edition) // Music by DJs EC & Extra Stout. Gastropub Soho, Otavalankatu 10. Free entry. www.gastropub.net/soho/index.php 5 Feb. Erja Lyytinen // The Queen of the Slide Guitar. Tampere Hall (Small Auditorium), Yliopistonkatu 55. Tickets starting from ?24/29. www.tampere-talo.fi 6-7 Feb. Valoa Festival // Supported by Bassoradio. Various venues all around the city. For further information on programme and ticket prices, see www.valoafestival.fi 12 Feb. Stam1na // Con Amore 2015 tour, showtime at 22:00. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?18/22. www.klubi.net 13 Feb. Scandinavian Music Group // Doors open at 22:00, showtime at 22:30. Yo-talo, Kauppakatu 10. Tickets ?18/20. www.yo-talo.com 14 Feb. Jarkko Ahola & Erik Walkama Band // Doors open at 22:00, showtime at 22:30. Yo-talo, Tampere talo 30 Jan. Tampere Hall (Park Hall), Yliopistonkatu 55. Tickets starting from ?24/29. www.tampere-talo.fi The Paladins Straight from San Diego, California, The Paladins are an American roots rock & rockabilly band founded in the early 1980s. Especially lead guitar player Dave Gonzales and his top-notch guitar playing skills are often considered to be pioneering in his genre. The Paladins have visited Finland three times before, but more than a decade ago. And now they are back! Their music can best be described as West Coast Jump Blues or Memphis Rockabilly, but above all, it is skilful blues and sizzling rock crossing all genre lines. This is a party that should not be missed! Doors open at 8 pm, with an ultimate dance show by Swing Team at 8:30 pm, hot live music by Mr. Breathless at 9 pm and The Paladins on stage starting from 10 pm. The party continues until 1:30 am. So, put your glad rags on and dance the night away! Kauppakatu 10. www.yo-talo.com Tickets ?12. Irish Bar O?Connell?s, Rautatienkatu 24. Free entry. www.oconnells.fi 16 Feb. Iskelmä Gaala 2015 // Tenth anniversary of the Finnish music gala. Performers include names such as Olli Lindholm, Juha Tapio, Janna, Jonne Aaron, Virve Rosti, Pauli Hanhiniemi, Pate Mustajärvi and Stina Girs. Tampere Hall (Main Auditorium), Yliopistonkatu 55. Tickets starting from ?50/54. www.tampere-talo.fi 20 Feb. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain // Rock and pop classics performed on ukulele, with a delicate touch of British humour. Tampere Hall (Main Auditorium), Yliopistonkatu 55. Tickets starting from ?29/35. www.tampere-talo.fi 21 Feb. Mirel Wagner // Support by Viitasen Piia. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?10/12. www.klubi.net Until May 2015 Evita // The legendary musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice now on stage in Tampere! TTT-Theatre, Hämeenpuisto 28-32. For detailed information on show times and ticket prices, please see www.ttt-teatteri.fi Theatre _ Dance 15 Jan. & 19 Feb. Comedy O?Connell?s // Stand up comedy in English, starting at 20:00. Irish Bar O?Connell?s, Rautatienkatu 24. Free entry. www.oconnells.fi 5 Feb. JadaJada Improv // Improv show in English, starting at 20:00. Exhibitions Until 21 Jan. Marika Mäkelä // Expressive and colourful art work. Sara Hildén Art Museum, Laiturikatu 13 (Särkänniemi). Tickets ?3/4/6/8. www.tampere.fi/english/sarahilden/ exhibition.html Others 17, 25, 31 Jan. Breakfast Club // A tasty breakfast buffet served with cool DJ music. Klubi, Tullikamarin aukio 2. Tickets ?10.50. www.klubi.net 7-8 Feb. Wedding Fair // A definite must for all brides and grooms to be. Tampere Hall, Yliopistonkatu 55. Tickets ?12. www.tampere-talo. fi, www.tampereenhaamessut.com By James O?Sullivan Tobias Fischer Anna-Liisa Hakkarainen & Maarit Siltamäki: Jostain kaukaa, jostain läheltä // Exhibition. Galleria Becker, Seminaarinkatu 28. Free entry. www.jkltaiteilijaseura.net/galleria. htm 15 Jan. ? 8 Feb. Nobuyuki Kobayashi: Portrait of Nature?Myriads of Gods // Exhibition. Galleria Ratamo, Veturitallintie 6. Free entry. www.jyvaskyla.fi/ratamo From 31 Jan. Heidi Hänninen // Exhibition. Galleria Becker, Seminaarinkatu 28. Free entry. www.jkltaiteilijaseura.net/galleria. htm From 12 Feb. Antti Nieminen (1924? 2007) // Exhibition. Galleria Ratamo, Veturitallintie 6. Free entry. www. jyvaskyla.fi/ratamo Until 19 Apr. Soda and circuses ? glass art // Exhibition. Craft Museum of Finland, Kauppakatu 25. www.craftmuseum.fi/ Sports 16 Jan. JYP ? Tappara // National Ice hockey League. Synergia Areena, Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?6.5034.50. www.jypliiga.fi 20 Jan. JYP ? SaiPa // National Ice hockey League. Synergia Areena, Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?6.5036.50. www.jypliiga.fi 14 Feb. JYP ? Kärpät // National Ice hockey League. Synergia Areena, Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?6.5034.50. www.jypliiga.fi 20 Feb. JYP ? Ässät // National Ice hockey League. Synergia Areena, Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?6.5034.50. www.jypliiga.fi 24 Feb. JYP ? Pelicans // National Ice hockey League. Synergia Areena, Rautpohjankatu 10. Tickets ?6.5034.50. www.jypliiga.fi Others 29-31 Jan. BeatCon Music & Games Festival // Festival combining the best in game developing and music. Jyväskylän Paviljonki, Lutakonaukio 12. Tickets TBA. www. beatmusentertainment.me/beatcon/ 30 Jan. Trotting race // Killeri Equestrian Centre, Vesangantie 24. Free entrance. www.killeri.fi 2 Feb. Trotting race // Killeri Equestrian Centre, Vesangantie 24. Free entrance. www.killeri.fi The event listings in the Out&See sections are based on the available information at the time of printing the issue. SixDegrees is not responsible for possible changes, mistakes, cancellations or lack of infor mation concer ning the events mentioned. 26 Feb. Lutakko, Schaumaninkatu 3. Tickets ?15/13. www.jelmu.net Soen (SWE/USA) Once again proving the attraction of the supergroup, metal quartet Soen offer a diverse take on modern metal. Bringing together the talents of former Opeth drummer Martin Lopez, ex-Death, Testament and Sadus bassist Steve DiGiorgio, Willowtree vocalist Joel Ekelöf and guitarist Kim Platbarzdis, the band has been touted as the thinking man?s metal. The quartet dropped their debut effort Cognitive in 2012. Their most recent album arrived late last year, in the shape of Tellurian. Set against a backdrop of often pummelling heavy metal Ekelöf?s vocals miraculously manage to remain grounded, subdued even at times. Resisting the urge to launch into metal histrionics, or growl a metallic roar, the band is left with an often fascinating contrast in styles.
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