The last time Pori Theatre’s production was presented at Tampere Theatre Festival was 26 years ago, in 1997, when the festival presented Fully Satisfied Woman directed by Jouko Turka.

Pori Theatre’s play *The Girl from the Tulip Factory* has been selected as part of the main programme of Tampere Theatre Summer.

Tampere Theatre Summer is one of the most important theatre festivals in Europe.

This year, the festival will take place from 7 to 13 August. The festival’s performances have been selected by the Tampere Theatre Summer Artistic Board together with the Executive Director.

Tulitiktekhtahta’s girl premiered at the Pori Theater in January and the performances ended in May. A total of 3,265 spectators attended the 15 performances.

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Training leading to a professional qualification in renovation is launched in Raahe. The training at the Brahe Training Centre will start in mid-August.

A vocational qualification in building construction, with a focus on renovation, gives you the skills to work on renovating ageing buildings.

There is also a need for training in Raahe’s old wooden house area, where around 150 wooden houses and a couple of hundred outbuildings are protected. The area is considered one of the best preserved wooden house areas in Finland.

Due to the specificities of the building stock in the area, the training offered in Brahe also includes an initial survey and planning of the restoration site. It will broaden the graduates’ understanding of the requirements and objectives for the restoration of buildings of cultural and historical interest.

The training is carried out as practical work exercises at repair construction sites and as complementary theory studies. The degree is suitable for people who have a previous bachelor’s degree in building construction, a bachelor’s degree with an emphasis on skills in restoration in the art industry, or long experience in building construction.

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To counterbalance war and polarisation, we need a joyful sense of community, and that’s what the meme culture inspired by Käärijän offers us, writes meme researcher Särmä.

It has long been said that the single culture is a thing of the past. No longer does everyone watch the same TV programmes on the same two or three channels at the same time, and social media algorithms have forever fragmented our attention by creating our own individual content streams.

One might think that memes – those funny and transformable images and videos circulating on the internet – would be likely to increase the individual fragmentation of culture. However, I would argue that memes are a major producer of unified culture in the 2020s and that it was precisely because of their potential for memes that Wrappers restored unified culture with a bang.

On the meme front, the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag was repeated in solidarity with the suffering of Ukrainians. The meme-like combination of colours was seen on tights, ties, many clothing combinations, the borders of profile pictures on social media, various images of nature, for example sunflowers against a blue sky.

After the anxiety caused by the corona years and the war, it has been wonderful to wake up to this late spring when Finland’s Eurovision candidate Käärijä has achieved enormous popularity, and this is what I claim: partly thanks to its versatile meme potential.

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