Article written by Thierry Francis Mbabane, pictures courtesy of Jussi Vierimaa, video by Thierry Francis Mbabane. Young people living as a minority in Finland create new spaces to communicate with other youth in order to protect democracy. It was April 2019 that I visited Sibelius Museum in Turku and witnessed the launch of Sahwira Literature Rhythms…
Category: Thinking the Art
Amos Rex, il nuovo museo di Helsinki: in pochi mesi più di 150 mila persone a visitare la mostra di teamLab
Articolo di Gloria De Felice e Mahdi Biagioli Durante una fredda mattinata di novembre, abbiamo avuto la possibilità di visitare l’ormai popolare Amos Rex di Helsinki. Eravamo estremamente curiosi di questa visita, soprattutto notando la lunga coda giornaliera di visitatori. Donne, uomini, bambini in fila ordinata e composta, pazienti al freddo ad attendere il loro…
Amos Rex: the new museum in Helsinki. The first exhibition by teamLab: over 150 thousand visitors
written by Gloria De Felice & Mahdi Biagioli It was an early morning of November when we had a chance to visit the Helsinki based now popular museum Amos Rex in the hearth of the capital of Finland. We were tremendously intrigued to check it out. Every day we could observe a long line of…
31st Helsinki International Film Festival: It is a great event, but…
Article written by Gloria De Felice From the 20 to the 30th of September I had the opportunity to visit The International Helsinki Film Festival “Love and Anarchy” (Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa). It´s always a remarkable experience since it gives me the prospect to evolve my cultural and cinematography perspective. I discovered new films from all over…
Hay Fever: Noël Coward’s sharp comedy hits Helsinki
Text by Anna Olkinuora Hay Fever by Noel Coward Finn-Brit Players & Passport Theatre Directed by Adrian Goldman The Finn-Brit Players in co-production with Passport Theatre get together for the second time in Helsinki. This spring, they bring us Noel Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. I’ve been invited to the rehearsals the weekend before the…
My First Feminist Festival Experience in Russia // La mia prima esperienza ad un festival femminista in Russia
When you read the sentence Feminism in Russia, you might associate it with: violence, naked women, occupations, and imprisonments. Dismally, this is what most of the media in the rest of Europe show on mainstream news. When I got invited in September 2017 to the feminist festival in Saint Petersburg organized by Eve´s Ribs project,…
Ken Mai: Requiem of Flowers
Ken Mai‘s butoh performance, Requiem of Flower, conveys the blooming and the death of a flower. Through movement changing from heart achingly beautiful to uncomfortably grotesque Ken Mai takes us on a journey through creation and destruction full of nature’s elements and laws of the universe. Already an intimate space of Höyhentämö is made even…
Multicultural Finland Independence Day #Mippi100: It would have been a memorable event if../ Sarebbe stato un evento indimenticabile se non..
If an event is promoted in two languages, Finnish and English, and it is dedicated to multiculturalism, you might expect, at least, that the show abides by the same intention. On last December 6, Finland celebrated its 100 years of Independence. Many monuments in Helsinki and around the world were lit up in blue to…
Cinemaissí 2017: Violence against women / Violenza sulle donne
Cinemaissí, the Helsinki Latin American Film festival, is organized in the capital of Finland every autumn (19 October-22 October this year). I recently wrote an article related to the last year’s festival thus if you are interested I would recommend reading the article from this link. This time, I decided to focus on a specific and…
30th Helsinki International Film Festival: 4 films that will change your life / 4 film che cambieranno la tua vita
The 30th Helsinki International Film Festival took place between the 14th to 24th of September. During this cinema event, named Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa (Love and Anarchy), 175 feature films and 190 shorts were screened. It hosted numerous guests and welcomed 60000 visitors. This year, I decided to publish a piece more peculiar than the usual…