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Music lights the way to Christmas

Culture is endless but the 2011 calendar year is drawing to a close, and with it the Turku 2011 events and activities. However, we still have some treats in store for music lovers, for example.

During the past year, culture has been a significant draw for tourism in Turku. The increase in interest is strongly evident throughout Southwest Finland: over 40% of Turku residents and over 20% of other residents of Southwest Finland report increases in culture consumption. By the end of November, a total of 1.800.000 visitors have participated in Capital of Culture events. Of these numbers, Logomo Exhibition Centre visits amount to 220.700 people.

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Music lights the way to Christmas

Culture is endless but the 2011 calendar year is drawing to a close, and with it the Turku 2011 events and activities. However, we still have some treats in store for music lovers, for example.

The national survey conducted by market research company Taloustutkimus in September indicates that the Capital of Culture year has sparked the public’s interest in culture more than ever before. During the past year, culture has been a significant draw for tourism in Turku.

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Welcome to the opening of the CAA exhibtion!

The official opening of the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) is held at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström on Saturday 18th June 2011.

CAA brings to Turku Archipelago over 20 new art works by international and local artists. The exhibition is the largest contemporary art project in the Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture programme.

Free bus transport is organized between Turku and Korpoström. The art works along the route will be introduced. The bus leaves from Turku at 11am, from outside the Orthodox church by the Turku market square. Return from Korpoström leaves at 6pm.

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Attend a plant swap & help rescue endangered sea grass!

This invitation is for you who live in the Turku Archipelago. You are invited to participate by sending in cuttings from houseplants by post. In exchange of the cuttings you will receive a souvenir from the project. For each donated houseplant cutting a patch of sea grass will be transplanted at the bottom of the archipelago sea.

The aim of the project is to shed light on a biotope in danger of extinction, the

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Follow the process of CAA exhibition!

In the CAA blog now a collection of stories from the past year of the artists' first encounters with the Turku archipelago, research trips together with the navy, the pilots or fishermen, etc.

During the Spring the blog follows the production of various new art works, from short films to local food.

The Contemporary Art Arhipelago blog

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The date has been changed!

(Aesth)ethics: Encounters with nature

Fri 5.8.2011 at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström

What is the value of the landscape? How is nature today encountered as sacred? What is the freedom associated with it? What is untouched nature? How do the responsibilities and potential, both as individuals and as a community, entwine in our relation to it?

Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) discussions

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Archipelago Science Fiction Blog

What do you fear or hope for, or what would be the most surprising thing that could happen? Archipelago Science Fiction is a new work by the artists Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson for the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA).

The artists collected future visions from the archipelago residents and organised three workshops for the locals in Korpo, Utö and Houtskär in January 2011. The scenarios are now being turned into scripts for short films in the blog: http://contemporaryartarchipelago.fi/scifi/

During Spring 2011 we will film the fantasies with the locals as actors. The films will capture scenarios that combine the thoughts, fear and wishes of many archipelago residents. The first filming will take place in May.

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155 DAYS TO THE OPENING IN THE ARCHIPELAGO

Welcome to explore Turku archipelago with new contemporary art works as your guides this summer, from Saturday 18th June! 155 days to go to the opening of the Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) exhibition, which will spread across the isles from Ruissalo to Utö, along the roads and marine routes.

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Archipelago Science Fiction

Archipelago Science Fiction is a new work by the artists Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Henrik Andersson for the exhibition Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA).

Questionnaire (please fill in by 6.1.2010): http://www.ykon.org/kochta-kalleinen/caa/

As noone can tell how things will really be in a hundred years, there are no boundaries set for your imagination!

Welcome to the workshops:

Fri 7.1.2011 at 12-17 Korpo, hotel Nestor

Performances:

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The living archipelago of tomorrow?

Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) discussion event focused on the questions concerning the future modes and means of living in the Turku archipelago: How can the development of tourism answer the needs of the local community and environment? Which values can be identified as specific to the archipelago, other than those of economic growth?

Economy: Nets to the Future –event on Fri 29.10.2010 at the Archipelago Centre Korpoström brought together around 40 people, all actively involved in the development of the livelihoods in the archipelago – architects, planners, tourism and other local businesses, artists and others. The starting point was:

What can a living archipelago be like in the future, all year round? How do summer residents and tourists contribute to the local community? What makes the archipelago special as an alternative to urban life?

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