*MAM Project 010: How do Japanese complain?

The Complaints Choir project will enter Japan! Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen has been hugely successful with their concept of compiling a local voluntary choir making their own lyrics and topics on complaining. How will Japanese complain? And on what?

The Complaints Choir invites people to complain as they want and to sing their complaints out loud with fellow complainers. The first choir was organized in Birmingham, followed by the Complaints Choir in Helsinki, Hamburg, St. Petersburg and now Tokyo.

The voluntary chorus will perform on Nov 13 and 14, and the video work based on the project will be screened at Mori Museum from Nov 28 on.

13 and 14 November 2009, Tokyo

28 November 2009 – 28 February 2010, Mori Museum, Tokyo

*MAM Project 010: Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen

Complaints Choirs Worldwide

Kochta-Kalleinen Homepage

Tellervo Kalleinen Homepage

Mori Art Museum: MAM Project 010

(2009.10.20)

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19 February 2010

*Meri Nikula competed at the TWS festival

Meri Nikula performed at the Experimental Sound, Art & Performance Festival organized by Tokyo Wonder Site on February 17 – 28, 2010. Her performance was seen at TWS Hongo on February 19.

Nikula participated the A.I.T. artist-in-residence programme in early 2009. She has many contacts to Japan and Japanese performance scene.

Her festival work was entitled “I Eye I / ai ai ai /”.

“I perform with my twin-self - one of me live and one on video.  I play together with myself, observing and celebrating life - the beauty as well as the absurdness of being human and our ability to switch from taking life very seriously to laughing about it all.”

Meri Nikula at TWS

Fri, February 19, 2010 at 7:00 pm (Door open 6:30 pm)

Admission: Free

Meri Nikula

Tokyo Wonder Site

Experimental Sound, Art & Performance Festival

(2010.02.09)

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*MAM Project 010: How do Japanese complain?

The Complaints Choir project will enter Japan! Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen has been hugely successful with their concept of compiling a local voluntary choir making their own lyrics and topics on complaining. How will Japanese complain? And on what?

The Complaints Choir invites people to complain as they want and to sing their complaints out loud with fellow complainers. The first choir was organized in Birmingham, followed by the Complaints Choir in Helsinki, Hamburg, St. Petersburg and now Tokyo.

The voluntary chorus will perform on Nov 13 and 14, and the video work based on the project will be screened at Mori Museum from Nov 28 on.

13 and 14 November 2009, Tokyo

28 November 2009 – 28 February 2010, Mori Museum, Tokyo

*MAM Project 010: Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen

Complaints Choirs Worldwide

Kochta-Kalleinen Homepage

Tellervo Kalleinen Homepage

Mori Art Museum: MAM Project 010

(2009.10.20)

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27 & 28 February 2010

*”Inhabitants” closes the three-year

choreography residency programme

Virva Talonen is a Finnish dancer and choreographer who will work in February 2010 in a joint Finnish-Japanese residence programme. FIJ, Yokohama Arts Foundation and Dance Info Finland started in 2007 a three-year project. Young choreographers from Japan and Finland have had a possibility to work for three or four weeks in each other’s country.

Talonen will work with Japanese dancers Miho Konai and Misako Tanaka. They will prepare a showcase performance “Inhabitants”, and the work will be seen in ST Spot, Yokohama on February 27 and 28 (three performances).

Talonen’s residency closes the residency programme.

“Inhabitants”

Virva Talonen (choreography), Miho Konai and Misako Tanaka

ST Spot, Yokohama

Sat, Feb 27 at 7:30 pm

Sun, Feb 28 at 2:00 pm & 5:00 pm

Virva Talonen

Participants of the Japan-Finland Choreography Exchange Project

2007 Maki Morishita (Japan) and Vera Nevanlinna (Finland)

2008 Hiroaki Umeda (Japan) and Sari Palmgren (Finland)

2009 Anna (Japan)

2010 Virva Talonen (Finland)

Organizers

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1 (Yokohama Arts Foundation)

The Finnish Institute in Japan

The Finnish Dance Information Centre

(2010.02.09)

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27 February - 5 March 2010  

*TPAM: Performing art producers will visit Tokyo

A group of Finnish theatre, dance and new circus producers are visiting the Tokyo Performing Arts Market.

The participants study at the TAIVEX Senior Manager education programme. It is a training platform for Finnish art information centres. Its main aim is to develop the export of Finnish performing arts, literature and visual arts. TAIVEX is also improving international connections, networking and better know-how on various market areas.

Many of the visitors are first-timers in Japan, and the FIJ arranges a seminar on March 1 focusing on contemporary Japanese theatre, dance and performing arts producing.

Beside the TAIVEX students also other performing arts professionals will attend the TPAM.

TPAM

(2010.02.09)

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1 - 4 March 2010  

*TPAM: Booths for theatre, dance and circus from Finland

Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) 2010 will host separate booths of Dance Information Centre, Theatre Information Centre and Circus Information Centre from Finland.

The dance professionals have visited TPAM several times but the theatre and circus are attending the biggest performing arts market in Asia for the first time.

Dance Information Centre

Theatre Information Centre

Circus Information Centre

TPAM

(2010.02.09)

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Photo: Marko Mäkinen

3 March 2010  

TPAM 2010: "Digital Duende"

in an international showcase

As a part of the TPAM showcases the Karttunen Kollektiv will perform a dance work "Digital Duende" .

Finland meets Spain in this witty, detailed and brilliantly danced encounter for two men. The Hispanic accents are not the result of dull research, but rather accumulated through enjoyment of popular music and movies, and any extravagance is contained within the Nordic confines of a computer generated system.

Jyrki Karttunen first achieved fame as a choreographer with his work "Digital Duende". Audiences in for example Finland, South Africa, Great Britain, Italy, Australia and Romania have already become familiar with the piece’s flaunting display of wit. It has been invited to several international festivals, including the Aerowaves season in London in January 2000.

(source: Karttunen Kollektiv page)

International Showcase

Wed, March 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Theater, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space

Karttunen Kollektiv: "Digital Duende"

(+ showcases from Cas public, Kanada, and Nan Jombang Dane Company, Indonesia)

Karttunen Kollektiv

TPAM: International Showcase

(2010.02.09)

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Photo: Saara Vuorjoki/Fimic

13 March 2010

A Hartikainen piece at a TWS performance

Composer Jarkko Hartikainen (b. 1981) joins flutist Bettina Danielle Berger (Switzerland, Germany) in her performance at the Tokyo Wonder Site Artist Exchange evening on March 13, 2010. He will work for a solo flute piece with Ms. Berger.

Jarkko Hartikainen at www.fimic.fi - Contemporary Classical - Composers and Artists - Hartikainen Jarkko

Tokyo Wonder Site

(2010.02.09)

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24 and 25 April 2010

* Maria Kalaniemi makes a mini tour in Tokyo

Maria Kalaniemi, a master of free-bass button accordion, is one of Finland's leading contemporary accordionists. Her roots are in folk and classical music but her sights and abilities go far beyond existing styles. Technically brilliant as a player, and adept at improvisation, she is also a very powerful, intuitive and sensitive composer.

She will perform in Tokyo on April 24 and 25. The concerts are produced by the Music Plant Ltd.

Star Pine Café

www.mariakalaniemi.com

www.mplant.com

(2010.04.08)

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29 April - 5 May 2010

DMJ screens four dance videos from Finland

Four Finnish dance videos will be shown at Dance and Media Japan International Dance Festival this spring. The DMJ festival promotes dance videos as a form of art. In total 44 dance videos around the world are in the festival program. All are dance performances created especially for video format, so they are actually like movies that are performed by dancing.

Mus Musculus by Kimmo Alakunnas tells a story about the connection between a man and a mouse as well as the joys and sorrows of loneliness and friendship. North Horizon by Thomas Freundlich and Valtteri Raekallio was shot in Spitzbergen in the Arctic, and combines contemporary dance with spectacular nature scenes. Shakki (Chess) by Antti Kairakari and Joni Saastamoinen shows a thrilling chess game played in the year 1625 by a famous chess player Greco against an unknown player. The themes in the dance movie vary from warfare to sacrifice and from international politics to everyday forms of using power. Strawberry Girl by Arja Petterson, a choreographer for Dance Theater Hurjaruuth, is a story of a Polish girl, who writes her summer job experiences at a strawberry farm in Finland in the internet chat Suomi24.

April 29 at 7 pm

Kimmo Alakunnas: Mus Musculus

May 1 at 4 pm

Thomas Freundlich & Valtteri Raekallio: North Horizon http://www.north-horizon.fi/North_Horizon_-_a_dance_film/Home.html

May 1 at 6 pm

Antti Kairakari & Joni Saastamoinen: Shakki (Chess)

Arja Pettersson: Strawberry Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvu6N25MDIc

Info: http://www.dance-media.com/videodance/fes2010-en/pg92.html

(2010.04.08)

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28 - 31 May 2010

*Finland Fest 2010 – World Music and Metal Attack

Finland Fest brings also this spring Finnish music to Tokyo. Two showcases on Friday 28th and Saturday 29th introduce contemporary Finnish folk music and heavy metal to the public, and business day on Monday 31st brings music industry professionals together to create contacts in Japan. Finland Fest also includes seminars on Japanese music market targeted to professional attendees from Finland.

The Finland Fest is organized by Music Export Finland (Musex), The Finnish Music Information Centre (Fimic), The Sibelius Academy, The Finnish Institute in Japan and Embassy of Finland.

Finland Fest 2010 events

Fri, May 28 at 7:30 pm at JZ Brat (Shibuya, Tokyo)

World Music Showcase

(Produced by Music Plant Ltd.)

Sväng http://www.mplant.com/koruna/svang/

Lepistö & Lehti http://www.myspace.com/lepistolehti

Frigg http://www.frigg.fi/

Info: Music Plant Ltd. http://www.mplant.com/

JZ Brat http://www.jzbrat.com/top.html

Sat, May 29 at 5 pm at LIQUIDROOM (Ebisu, Tokyo)

-Metal Attack-

(Produced by Creativeman)

Poisonblack  http://www.poisonblack.com/

Tarot http://www.wingsofdarkness.net/php/index.php

Turisas http://www.turisas.com/

Before the Dawn http://www.beforethedawn.com/

Info: Finland Fest Official MySpace http://www.myspace.com/finlandfestinjapan

Creativeman http://www.creativeman.co.jp/english/

(2010.04.08)

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21 June 2010

* Ensemble Nomad plays a "Finlandia 2010" concert

Ensemble Nomad is one of the leading contemporary music groups in Japan. With its Artistic Director, guitarist Norio Sato the ensemble has performed numerous ambitious projects. In June 2010 they will update the image of the musical Finland; a concert subtitled “Finlandia 2010” will present new music by two generations working in Finland.

Most of the composers have some connection to Japan already. Juha T. Koskinen and Lotta Wennäkoski have been heard, among others, at the Takefu Music Festival, and Koskinen had a premiere of his guitar piece in Tokyo in March 2009. Perttu Haapanen visited a Tokyo Wonder Site residency programme this Autumn.

Pehr Henrik Nordgren (1944-2008) is the Finnish composer most connected to Japan. He spent years in Japan in early 1970s, and the time left permanent traces in his thinking. In his otherwise Western idiom he has used Japanese instruments, and one of his most perfomed works a series of piano ballads based on Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan. In June 2010  Ensemble Nomad performs his late String Quintet.

June 21, 2010 at Tokyo Opera City

Works by Perttu Haapanen, Juha T. Koskinen, Kaija Saariaho, Lotta Wennäkoski, Matthew Whittall and Pehr Henrik Nordgren

Ensemble Nomad

Composers: www.fimic.fi – Contemporary Classical - Composers

(2010.04.08)

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Jaakko Mattila: Cube (2008), watercolour on paper

1 April - 30 June 2010  

*Jaakko Mattila will work at Youkobo

Finnish artist Jaakko Mattila will visit the Youkobo Art Space from April to June 2010. He has been lately working with watercolour; thus he will concentrate at Youkobo in Japanese papers and brushes.

Mattila will hold also an exhibition "Made in Japan" on June 10-27, 2010 at Youkobo.

Jaakko Mattila

Youkobo Art Space

The Jaakko Mattila Youkobo blog:

http://youkobo2010.blogspot.com/

(2010.02.09)

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17 April - 5 September 2010

*Heini Riitahuhta exhibition tours in Japan

Ceramic artist Heini Riitahuhta, who works in the Arabia Art Department, gave her first solo exhibition in Japan. The tour started on April 17 from CasE Gallery in Tokyo. Later the works travelled to Mie, Toyama and Kagawa.

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15 - 27 June 2010

*The Ishimoto exhibition:

Clay flowers fill the Spiral Garden

Spiral Garden in Tokyo will mount an exhibition of artist and designer Fujiwo Ishimoto (b. 1941) in June 2010. Ishimoto is a key figure in the history of Marimekko company and textile art in Finland. He joined Marimekko in 1974, and has ever since created numerous classics.

In 1989 he started to work with ceramics at the Art Department of the Arabia company, Helsinki; since then he have had a work room at Arabia. The interest to clay lies back to his childhood in Ehime, an area connected to pottery for centuries.

In his ceramics he has been working on flower themes the recent years. Floral elements go deep in Japanese esthetics and philosophy. Combined with deep interest in nature Ishimoto has created unique flower pieces with skillful clay work, deep sense of form and colour.

June 15-27, 2010

The Fujiwo Ishimoto Exhibition

Spiral, Tokyo

The Spiral/Wacoal Art Center

(2010.04.08)

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1 June - 17 July 2010

* Juha T. Koskinen stays at TWS

Composer Juha T. Koskinen works at the Tokyo Wonder Site residence programme in summer.

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2 - 14 July 2010
*Jesse Auersalo debuts in Japan

Visual artist Jesse Auersalo’s surrealistic and fascinating works can be seen first time in Japan in July. Works in exhibition N.D.E – Near Death Experience illustrate the feelings of fear in the empty moments when body and mind seems to be dissolving. Still Auersalo shows how there can also be light in the middle of the hallucinations.

Jesse Auersalo is currently living and working in London, and he belongs to creative agency Big Active in London and Pekka in Helsinki. He is known for his gloomy and detailed black-and-white illustrations that can shock and fascinate the viewer at the same time.

Jesse Auersalo: N.D.E – Near Death Experience.

Gallery PUBLIC/IMAGE.3D (Ikejiri, Tokyo)

www.public-image.org/3d/?p=1173

Jesse Auersalo: www.jesseauersalo.com
Big Active: www.bigactive.com/illustration/jesse-auersalo
Pekka: www.pekkafinland.fi/jesseauersalo

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30 June - 15 July 2010

*Composers Hiroaki Takaha stays in residence at Viitasaari

As a part of a composer residence program between the Tokyo Wonder Site and the Time of Music Festival, Finland, composer Hiroaki Takaha will stay in Viitasaari. He also visits the Avanti! Summer Sounds festival in Porvoo.

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7 - 14 July 2010

Glass Design update Vol. 3

The glass exhibition participates the “Creative Design City” at the International Design Centre in Nagoya.

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4 - 5 September 2010
*Reflections from Finland
“Reflections from Finland” by two Finnish artist, sculptor Kim Waltzer, and fine artist Hanna Lamnaouer, was hold at Kawaguchi Art Gallery ATLIA. The exhibition was a related project of Finnish–Japanese education comparative research.

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18 September 2010
Bravade brings recorders to Musashino
Bravade, the only professional recorder quartet in Finland debuts in Japan. Sunniva Fagerlund, Pauliina Fred, Hanna Haapamäki and Hanna Kangasniemi founded the group in 2004.

The repertoire of Bravade consists of music from the Middle Ages to contemporary commissions. In the Musashino concert they perform Renaissance and Baroque music as well as works by Ryohei Hirose, Maki Ishii, Lotta Wennäkoski and Tomi Räisänen.

Their Renaissance instruments are made of maple after the Bassano family originals. The smallest of them is a soprano recorder, and the grandest a sub bass recorder of almost 2 meters height.

Bravade: ”Under the Apple Tree”
Musashino Cultural Centre, Tokyo

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September – October 2010
*Visual artist Tuula Närhinen at A.I.T.
Ms. Tuula Närhinen (b. 1967) is a visual artist working with installations comprising series of photographs and moving images, drawings or sculptures. At the core of her artistic practice
are natural phenomena, landscape and environmental issues. Her works combine methods derived from scientific research with a dry sense of humor.

Närhinen will stay at the A.I.T Artist-in-Residency in Tokyo in September and October 2010.

Tuula Närhinen

A.I.T

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23 September – 10 November 2010
*Ahonen & Lamberg visit Tokyo
Young and rising design studio Ahonen & Lamberg, based in Paris, will give an exhibition in Ikejiri, Tokyo on 1–10 October. Ahonen & Lamberg will use traditional Japanese ukiyo-e themes and techniques to create an installation in which the visitor can walk and view the three dimensional space from different angles.

Ahonen & Lamberg are also collaborating with designer Akira Naka, who is known for his knitted garments and accessories, to create Spring/Summer 2011 collection. The collection will be released around the end of September in Tokyo. Around the same time a magazine that introduces Ahonen & Lambergs’ most important works will be published.

Ahonen & Lamberg was founded in 2006 by Anna Ahonen and Katariina Lamberg, and they have been designing not only posters and magazine covers, but also fashion items and logos for different organizations. In their works they aim to balance classical and alternative design, and have recently risen among the most promising graphic designers in the world.

Art Exhibition/installation on 1 – 10 October at PUBLIC/IMAGE.3D (Ikejiri, Tokyo)

Fashion collection AKIRA × Ahonen&Lamberg released around middle–end of September

Akira Naka

Ahonen & Lamberg Special Magazine published in September

Ahonen & Lamberg will also participate in Tokyo Graphic Passport on 23 – 29 September at 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Sotokanda, Tokyo)

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2 October - 9 November 2010

*Finland Days introduces Finnish culture in Sapporo

Finland Days takes a theme of “Learning about Finland”, and includes various kinds of events ranging from postcard exhibition and Finnish folk music concert to workshop on Finnish food. Most of the events are free, but for workshops and lectures a prior registration is required.

Events are concentrated in Sapporo Lifelong Learning Center Chieria, where there will be for example free lobby concerts of Finnish folk music and reading sessions of Finnish picture books. There will also be a lecture series on Finnish life style and culture.

The main visitor from Finland is folk music act Järvelän pikkupelimannit, which was founded 30 years ago by 6 young folk musicians. From since they have been playing not only in Finland but also in Europe and America. Now they are coming to Japan for the first time.

Lecture series on Finnish life style and culture (Sapporo Lifelong Learning Center Chieria)

2 October

Preventing lifestyle diseases – experimenting Nordic walking

8 October

Finnish lifestyle – Four seasons of one Salmela family

15 October

Living traditional music – folk music and kantele

22 October

Learning can be fun! – A new way of studying

29 October

Traditional Finnish Christmas decoration Himmeli

9 November

JPP – Järvelän pikkupelimannit gives live concert in Sapporo (Chieria Hall)

Finland Days in Sapporo

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28 October 2010
Islaja, Lau Nau and Antti Tolvi giving a gig in Tokyo
Finnish folk musicians Islaja, Lau Nau and Antti Tolvi are performing at SuperDeluxe in Roppongi, Tokyo.

Islaja alias Merja Kokkonen is a visual artist and musician, whose records have been praised by different music magazines. She has been performing at many big festivals around Europe. Lau Nau is a Finnish folk musician Laura Naukkarinen, whose releases have also get a lot of attention. She is a partner of Antti Tolvi, whose background is at free jazz, but nowadays his music focused more on harmonies and peacefulness.

Islaja, Lau Nau and Antti Tolvi
SuperDeluxe (Roppongi, Tokyo)

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29 October – 7 November 2010
*HIRAMEKI Design x Finland
Curated by designers Harri Koskinen and Ilkka Suppanen HIRAMEKI Design x Finland will showcase an updated view on Finnish design. During the Tokyo Designers Week and Designtide Tokyo in late October and early November the biggest ever Finnish design event in Japan brings 64 designers and design companies to Tokyo.

HIRAMEKI Design x Finland will be held at Living Design Center OZONE in Shinjuku. Besides the main exhibition open to the public, the project also focuses on business events. There will also be various additional programs, such as consumer lectures and a fashion show. Finland Film Festival in Japan 2010 will be held during the time of HIRAMEKI in Ebisu.

HIRAMEKI Design x Finland

Living Design Center OZONE
Tokyo Designers Week 2010
Designtide Tokyo 2010

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29 October – 9 November 2010
*Nordik Tree and Järvelän pikkupelimannit (JPP) touring Japan
Folk Music groups Nordik Tree and Järvelän pikkupelimannit (JPP) are touring in Japan. Nordik Tree performs in Tokyo on 29 October, Kamakura on 31 October and in Nagano 1 November. JPP gives a concerts in Musashino on 3 November, in Itami on 6 November and on 9 November as part of Sapporo Finland Days.

Nordik Tree
Järvelän pikkupelimannit

The Music Plant

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30 October – 5 November 2010
*Finland Film Festival in Japan 2010
Ebisu Garden Cinema in Tokyo will screen seven new movies from Finland. The set includes an international prize-winner, and a bunch of fresh new entries. The festival also premieres two films which have been bought to into a theatrical distribution in Japan. One of them is an intimate drama “Letters to Father Jacob” by Klaus Härö which has won numerous awards at film festivals around the world. In addition to the seven movies the screenings also include Finnish short films.

Ebisu Garden Cinema

Trailers of the movies screened:

Forbidden Fruit (Kielletty hedelmä; dir. Dome Karukoski, 2009)
Heartbeats (Kohtaamisia; dir. Saara Cantell, 2010)
Last Cowboy Standing (Skavabölen pojat; dir. Zaida Bergroth, 2009)
Letters to Father Jacob (Postia pappi Jaakobille; dir. Klaus Härö, 2009)
Recipes for Disaster (Katastrofin aineksia; dir. John Webster, 2008)
Tears of April (Käsky; dir. Aku Louhimies, 2008)
Twisted Roots (Väärät juuret; dir. Saara Saarela, 2009)

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3 November 2010
The Irino Prize concert premieres Tomi Räisänen
Tomi Räisäsen (b. 1976) is one of the winners of the Japanese Irino Prize for chamber music in 2007. His winning piece “Stheno” for recorder, guitar and tape will get the Japanese premiere at the Tokyo Opera City among other Irino winners. The performers are Toshiya Suzuki, recorder, and Norio Sato, guitar. Other Räisänen music will also be heard at the Bravade recital on 18 September in Musashino.

Tomi Räisänen

Tokyo Opera City
Irino Prize

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9–22 November 2010
*“The Sacred City” in collaboration between Japan and Finland
The Reality Research Center (RRC) is a Helsinki-based artistic research group, whose works aim to question the prevailing concepts of reality and challenge the traditional structures and perspectives of theatre and performance art. The group is based on the theatre genre but it works more in the field of live art.

In November the RRC starts in Helsinki a two-year project with 13 artists from Japan and Finland. “The Sacred City” project consists of two workshops, both of which result in a performance. The workshops are centered on the experience of the sacred in the contemporary society. The aim of the project is to look at the sacred from a personal perspective, outside the prevailing cultural and religious contexts. The second part of “The Sacred City” will be organized in Japan in 2011.

The Helsinki project will be organized in collaboration with Baltic Circle Theatre Festival and Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP). “The Sacred City” is produced in Japan by Keizo Maeda.

The Reality Research Center

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22 November 2010
*Symposium on contemporary theatre in Nordic countries
“Theatre in Nordic Countries today” is a symposium arranged at the Ibsen Festival, Tokyo. It will present the theatre field in contemporary Nordic countries. Director Hanna Helavuori from Finnish Theatre Information Centre will be giving a presentation on Finnish theatre. The event is connected to the publishing of the book on the Nordic Performing Arts.

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December 2010
*A new book on Nordic performing arts
Dance critic and journalist Akiko Tachiki and professor emeritus of Seijo University Mitsuya Mori will publish a book about contemporary performing arts in Nordic countries. The book will introduce contemporary conditions of performing arts in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. After a historical review to the scene the book will be divided in chapters by countries, and current flows in theater, ballet and modern dance of each country will be introduced.

The Finland chapter will include interviews of today’s theatre and dance celebrities; theatre director Kristian Smeds, artistic director Kenneth Greve from National Ballet, and dancer Tero Saarinen. Besides interviews, Soila Lehtonen has written about realism in Finnish theatre, and Auli Räsänen about contemporary dance. Akiko Tachiki has written an article about Finnish National Ballet.

The Performing Arts in Nordic Countries Today (tentative)
Editors Akiko Tachiki and Mitsuya Mori
Sangensha Publishers Inc.
price 3500 yen (subject to change, tax not included).

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18–20 December 2010
*Corto Tokyo 2010
Director of Tampere Film Festival Jukka-Pekka Laakso participates in CON-CAN Movie Festival as Festival Advisor. Corto Tokyo 2010 Short Film competition final will be arranged at Keio and Waseda Universities.

CON-CAN Movie Festival

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