Documentary filmmaker Suvi West showed a critical view of the abuse of power against the Sámi people in her film Eatnameamet. West was awarded the National Prize for Information Communication for her film for her accessible narrative, which presents the voice of the minority.
This year’s Helsinki babies are invited to the Cable Factory and Suvilahti cultural grills. Those born in 2020 will enjoy performances by the City Orchestra.
In a night-time fairytale forest, you can cuddle up on your mum or dad’s lap, on cushions on the floor – or just crawl or climb on a chair if you want.
The public is receptive: it reacts immediately – for good or ill. If you get bored, the audience will leave or start to whine or cry.
If you like the performance, you can crawl towards the stage or stare intently without flinching.
On Tuesday, dozens of Helsinki residents born in 2021 were in the audience of the Toddlers in the Theater event at the Helsinki City Theater.
The Rovaniemi-based pop star tells the magazine in an interview that he is now preparing his last album.
The Bank, which serves as a rehearsal venue, should be urgently renovated so that performances can also take place there. Even the decision to start the renovation has not yet been taken, although the change of activity will take place at the turn of the year.
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In her book on superstition, journalist Piia Kaskinen compiled more than 50 beliefs and the reasons behind them.
– Everyone knows that gold is believed to be found at the end of the rainbow. But fewer people know that in many cultures, the rainbow has been a harbinger of death or a sign of death. In some cultures, they have been bridges between the human world and the afterlife,” says Piia Kaskinen.
Kaskinen has recently completed a work called _The Book of the Black Cat_, which deals with superstition and the reasons behind the beliefs.
The inspiration to write the book came when Piia Kaskinen found a two-euro coin on the street. Kaskinen’s friend told her to play the lottery with the coin, because the coin she found was lucky.
– I started to think why I did this. Everyone knows these beliefs, but not the reasons for them. We knock on wood and cross our fingers to avoid bad luck, even if we don’t know why.
Kaskinen noticed that there was no book in Finnish that explained the reasons for the beliefs. He got his hands on literature on foreign superstitions and went through a large number of old newspaper articles found in the National Archives, for example.
That’s how _The Black Cat’s Book_ was born.
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The final films competing for the Oscar for Best International Film will be released at the same time as the other categories in early 2023.
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This year, nine national prizes for information dissemination will be awarded.
HBO’s Succession was nominated in a total of 25 categories. The series won awards for Best Drama Series and Best Screenplay for a Drama Series, among others.
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The Lordi band has had many twists and turns. For author Maria Jyrkas, the key question in the book is: “what is the reward for not giving up?”
Otherwise, the book focuses on the music and the band and the events and people that are essentially related to them.
– We spent over a hundred hours talking to Mr Lord and almost another hundred with the other voices in the book, says Maria Jyrkäs, who wrote the two-year project.
In the first-person, diary-like Lordiary, for example, all but two of the current and former band members have a voice. One of them refused and the other is dead.
– There are, for example, record company directors, managers and Mr. Lord’s childhood friends. There has been a desire to include a wide range of perspectives.
– He brings the legal context and expertise of how serious the situations have been that Lordi as a band has gone through, says Jyrkäs.
For this reason, according to Jyrkäs, Lordiary is not only a biography or a history of the band, but at the same time it is an in-depth look at how the international music business works.
– It’s also a look at what can happen when there’s a lot going on at the same time, the doors are open to the world and we get into a situation where there’s no choice but to act in a certain way.
Jyrkäs sees the key question of the book as what is it like to follow your own vision at a high cost and what is the reward for not giving up?
However, Mr. Lordi does not regard the work as a textbook for bands dreaming of the international music business, even though it involves a lot of learning the hard way.
– The contracts should be read by a lawyer and you should at least try to follow where you are being taken, says Mr. Lordi.
