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Actor Peter Franzén has many roles and one big dream: \”If it could somehow be tricked\”

In the domestic suspense drama Helsinki Syndrome, Peter Franzén is a family man paying ransom during the Depression, \”whose cup goes upside down\”. The story contains some plot revelations about the new series.

Peter Franzén sits in the studio.
Actor Peter Franzé will be seen in the television series Helsinki Syndrome and in the movie Hamsterit, which will premiere next year.

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Savon Sanomat: The songs of the new Iloisen Theater have been sung, the pension company filed for bankruptcy

According to the theater director’s estimate, salaries are unpaid for more than one hundred thousand euros. In total, UIT owes several hundred thousand euros.

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Last year alone, UIT’s profit was a freezing 269,000 euros. The picture is from 2020.

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Public uproar interrupted the installation of the OULU letters – a new location is now being considered by a small group of politicians and officials

The OULU letters, which have sparked a heated public debate in Oulu, will probably not be included in the cityscape this autumn.

Oulu letters will be erected in Torinranta next to Kaarlenväylä.
The OULU letters were supposed to go up on Kaarlenväylä in Torinranta already at the beginning of September. They already had time to pour the foundations for the letters next to the busy bike path.

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The renovation of Nelostie revealed extraordinary ancient finds: a Stone Age grave and residence and a blacksmith’s hearth that is more than 1,000 years old

The excavations, which lasted more than a year, were completed in July of last year, and now the research reports concerning them have been completed. Around 25,000–30,000 different artefacts were found in the excavations.

Important archaeological discoveries were made in the Hartola region near Oravakivensalmi in connection with the archaeological excavations carried out in connection with the improvement of Nelostie.

In total, investigations were carried out at 15 different ancient sites, of which the most extensive excavations took place in the Muikunlahti and Kirkkola area, near the border between Päijät-Häme and Central Finland.

Depending on the method of calculation, approximately 25,000–30,000 finds were accumulated from the excavations.

– A typical find is, for example, a piece of a clay pot or another part of a larger object. They easily accumulate in large-scale excavations, says Laakso.

Inhabited for thousands of years

A Stone Age settlement was revealed in Muikunlahti, where there has been human activity and habitation since the Stone Age for about 8,000 years, according to Laakso’s estimate, at most a few dozen people at a time, a family or family communities.

A piece of flint found in Hartola with a palm, which is probably part of the tip of an arrow or some tool.
The tip of an arrow or a small spear made of flint was found at a stone age site in Muikunlahti.

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Oulu’s newest festival does not announce its performers in advance, and does not intend to do so in the future – this is an experience-based event

The Taikasaari event featured, for example, medieval combat sports and mythical creatures.

Star motor performs on a small stage.
Producer/dj Tähtimotori thrives in the shadier alleys of machine music. He performed twice during the evening.

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Shoulder pads, neon colors and spending – the 1980s were much more contradictory and diverse than we remember, says the researcher

The 1980s are often associated with flamboyance, angularity and selfishness. Optimism and bright faith in the future were also characteristic of the era. However, the decade was very contradictory.

A collage of things and objects from the 80s.
Many people remember the 1980s for these very things: hairdo, Dallas, Rubik’s cube, Top Gun and aerobics. A collage of popular things from the 1980s.

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Korean superstar Sunmi performed in Helsinki and brought with her the precise machinery of K-pop: ban on filming for the media, stage spikes from the prompter

Sunmi, the iconic name of K-pop, performed at Helsinki’s Kulttuuritalo on Sunday. The concert revealed a lot of the mechanisms of K-pop, which is gaining more and more popularity in Finland as well.

Sunmi.
Sunmi started her career in the legendary band Wonder Girls.

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Kainuu Musiikkijuhlat reached its goal of visitors, and the event promises to continue as early as next June

The event, which went almost smoothly, gathered around 10,000 festival guests in Kajaani over the weekend. Apulanta had to stop his gig on Friday for safety reasons.

The main stage of the Kainuu Music Festival in August 2022, photographed from the audience's perspective.
The main stage of the Kainuu Music Festival was 32 meters wide.

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The recipient of the Finlandia Award for Architecture is chosen by film director Klaus Härö – the candidates are a university, a primary school and a sauna

After two years overshadowed by the corona restrictions, schools are now also participating in the competition. The winner will be announced at the beginning of October.

Three sites are competing for the Finlandia Award for Architecture this year. The candidates are the Jätkäsaari school in Helsinki, the Serlachius art sauna in Mänttä and the renovation of the library at the University of Jyväskylä.

In the previous two years, the selection of candidates has been affected by the corona period restrictions. Now the preselection committee has once again been able to get to know schools, kindergartens, hospitals and nursing homes, which is also reflected in the selected candidates.

The library of the University of Jyväskylä after renovation.
New large windows have been opened in the facade of the library of the University of Jyväskylä towards the campus area.

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Teemu Hostikka, who reaches an audience of millions, has a short work week and appreciates boredom: \”If the calendar is full, you won’t get anything creative done\”

For the Eränkävijät director, band time was a school of teamwork, the lessons of which helped him become a successful media entrepreneur. The seventh season of the favorite series starts in October.

On the other hand, the statement would be completely correct, because Hostikka has progressed from a high-profile musician and album cover designer through Oulu Kärppi’s match videos to an internationally awarded TV producer by being in the right place at the right time.

In those places, however, Hostikka has worked tirelessly, managed to gather the right team around him and channeled his enthusiasm and creativity into products that almost every Finn knows.

– I have always been able to work with people much more talented than myself. I can say that I was the worst player in the band, but I did the most songs and the others could play them better than me. Maybe it’s the same today, Hostikka reflects.

Boredom gives way to creativity

At first, Hostikka only employed herself. Now, NTRNZ Media’s core team consists of twenty permanent employees at the Oulu head office – or wherever everyone thinks is best to work – and a close group of freelancers.

The office space in the old station building is more like a home than a workplace, and it suits professionals doing creative work well. The tapping of keyboards echoes on large-patterned wallpapers and half-panel walls.

– Here is a nice symbiosis of very modern industry and state-of-the-art technology and traditional old architecture. At the same time, when data is moving with the optical fiber, the workroom is heated with the stove.

The mood is quite relaxed anyway. Hostikka strives to have a four-day work week, although she admits that it has slipped from time to time. He also offers the opportunity for free working time to his subordinates.

– If you fill up the calendar for the whole week, you won’t get anything creative done. All creativity springs from a certain kind of boredom. If it’s even a quarter of a day boring, then something new and cool will be born, Hostikka reasons.

The eternal autumn of the coastal city drove to Lapland

The interview day is Friday. The director-producer often spends it somewhere else than at the office, for example paddling in the Oulujoki estuary.

All hobbies are somehow connected to nature, and following nature hobbies, Hostikka moved to her current place of residence in Kittilä Rauhala some time ago.

– There are clearly four seasons. In the coastal cities there is such an eternal autumn, it rained for a very long time. There it might pass in a week.

A man wearing a red outdoor jacket, ski goggles and a helmet takes a selfie in the Italian Alps.
Val d’Ayas is one of Hostika’s favorite places in the Italian Alps. In addition to the hobby of freediving, it became known during the filming of Love of the Wild, the international season of Eränkävijöt.

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