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 […]
Turku officially European Capital of Culture 2011
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 […]
Shortlist for this year’s Finlandia Prize announced
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 […]
Danish dancer next Artistic Director at National Ballet
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 […]
Bon Jovi tickets on sale next Thursday
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 […]
Nominations for Finlandia Junior award announced
Nominated for the 2007 Finlandia Junior prize are: > Tatun ja Patun Suomi (‘Tatu and Patu’s Finland‘) by Aino Havukainen & Sami Toivonen > Taikuri Into Kiemura by Jukka Itkonen […]
Film producers end the strike
Even though no final promises have been made, the producers trust the Parliament to make the right decisions. They base their trust on the fact that both the Education and […]
Iron Maiden in Helsinki as part of biggest ever Nordic tour
Tickets for the Finnish part of the Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 08 will go on sale next Monday, the 12th of November, via Lippupalvelu. Iron Maiden will release […]
YLE withdraws from Helsinki music hall project
The financially-strapped public broadcaster was to be one of the three financiers of the venture and pay 25 percent of the building costs. The City of Helsinki would also contribute […]
Danish dancer nominated for director post at National Ballet
Greve, who is 39, has previously worked as a dancer with, among others, the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Stuttgart Ballet and […]
Finnish musicians get “humiliating” treatment at U.S. airport
The ordeal took place on the 13th of September after Karjalainen and fellow musicians Ninni Poijärvi and Mika Kuokkanen had arrived at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for a three week […]
Discover Giotto, the first great Italian master painter, in Annantalo
Sculptor and architect Giotto di Bondone (c.1267-1337) is considered not only as one of the first Italian, but one of the first European master painters that would have a great […]