Bruce Springsteen has only been in Finland once before. In 2003 he played two sold out gigs at the same stadium in the capital in front of a record combined audience of 89,856, breaking the Finnish record of 87,000 set by Michael Jackson in 1997. Bruce Springsteen is only one of the international mega stars […]
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There goes the family
{mosimage}Last summer the directors of programming at the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) needed a soap opera to fill the hours of the summer afternoons. They chose a Spanish series featuring a loud speaking and eccentric, yet traditional, family. Surprisingly, Los Serrano (Serranon perhe) became so popular that in autumn, YLE needed to rebroadcast the series […]
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Happy Birthday, Suomi!
{mosimage}It's Finland's birthday! Today the country celebrates its declaration of independence from the Russian empire. It has not been an easy way down the road since 1917. One civil war, a war against the Soviet Union during World War II and a severe economical crisis at the beginning of the nineties before joining European Union […]
The rest of the extra funds for the film industry will go to, among other things, the digitalization of small countryside cinemas and films for children. In the previous proposal there was no extra money allocated to support domestically produced films, despite earlier suggestions by Wallin. The over 10 million euros extra to directly benefit […]
The festival drawing the largest amount of visitors this year was the Maritime Festival in Kotka. An estimated 300,000 people visited the Tall Ship Races and other events in the port town 130 km east of Helsinki. The festival with the biggest number of paying visitors (almost 65,000) was the Helsinki Festival. With 264,376 visitors […]
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Finnish Minister of Culture Stefan Wallin finds the decision a great honour for the City of Turku, for Finland and for Europe. “Turku is Finland’s oldest city, and a place from which culture originated and remains to this day. This is a great day for us all. It feels wonderful to be from Finland and, […]
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Bringing theatre people together
{mosimage}Theatre lovers do not often have many opportunities to enjoy good plays in other languages than Finnish. The 4th International Baltic Circle Theatre Festival will bring temporarily a solution to the problem. Finnish and foreign audiences have an excellent opportunity to discover artists from different places in Europe in the International Baltic Circle Theatre Festival, since one […]
Nominated for the Finlandia prize 2007 are: Kohti [‘Towards’] by Juha Itkonen Det har varit kallt i Madrid [‘It’s been cold in Madrid’] by Agneta Ara Romeo ja Julia [‘Romeo and Juliet‘] by Jari Järvelä Lakanasiivet [‘(The) Bed sheet wings’] by Sirpa Kähkönen Sakset [‘(The) Scissors’] by Laura Lindstedt Toiset Kengät [‘The other shoes’] by […]
The Board of Directors of the Finnish National Opera Foundation decided on the appointment on Wednesday (14.11), after it had proposed him for the job two weeks earlier. Also the personnel groups of the Finnish National Opera agreed unanimously with the nomination. As Artistic Director, Greve will be responsible for the artistic planning and development […]
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Moving pictures experience
Every year, when it’s dark and cold, the Avanto festival presents the most innovative tendencies in music and visual arts. This year’s edition focus on films under the title of International Free Cinema. The festival is held this weekend in several venues around Helsinki. {mosimage} Like dancing to the rhythm of free jazz, the moving […]
The last time Jon Bon Jovi and the rest of the group played in Finland was in 2000, in Turku and Helsinki. The band’s greatest hits album Cross Road from 1994 is the third best selling foreign album in Finland, with over 125,000 copies sold. Bon Jovi – official website Bon Jovi – MySpace