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The City of Salo will participate in two Turku 2011 projects, Central Park of Culture and Exercise and 876 Shades of Darkness. Events in Salo will spread throughout the city with monthly themes for the entire 2011. The Central Park of Culture and Exercise events will combine culture and exercise....
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With the Live 2011 Grand Prix media art competition, Turku 2011 challenged top artists and new emerging talents from all over the world to deliver media art and novel media applications. The competition resulted in a selection of innovative and insightful works that will be extensively showcased in...
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The tradition of Finnish storytelling comes alive and rises to new heights as “Nordiska Röster – Nordic Voices” brings new and lively storytelling to Turku and the Åboland region.Storytelling festivals will feature professional European storytellers who will share their stories in schools,...
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Experience Park Turku 2011 is a seven-day urban drama event of performances, excursions and games, which offer both traditional and contemporary ways to experience the city. The Park combines role play, multimedia, clubs, theatre, dance, environmental art and site-specific performance art at public...
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Families, children, groups and businesses. Turku residents, Finns, foreigners. Everyone will be welcome to take part in making short films which must be premiered in no more than three hours. The entire film making process: conceptualising, filming, editing and of course a collective viewing of the...
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Based on digitised cine film material collected from Turku and Turku residents, composer-conductor-pianist-mastermind Kirmo Lintinen will create a performance that combines film material and music performed with strings. The performance by Mikkeli City Orchestra will premiere in April. Kirmo...
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A documentary film by Jouko Aaltonen tells the story of two Turkus, the one from the past and the modern one. Turku is the oldest city in Finland. Its old distinguished buildings were destroyed in the modern fervour - businessmen, decision makers and architects were all involved. Why were they...
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The Old Spaces Living Art project explores historical narratives related to Turku Castle and how history can be expressed through the arts. Can historical locations be re-discovered over and over again? The project will help to develop new working methods for art education and innovative ways for...
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The Time Warp project challenges children to take a look at their own local history and to create stories out of historical events. The Time Warp will make us think about how children from different ages experienced the course of history by having the children themselves enact the characters...
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The contemporary circus performance Pirjo’s Best Day Ever by the Varietee Kasataide Association tells the story of a lonely woman and a day in her life which starts out as mundane, but keeps getting more absurd as the day progresses. When she is alone, all Pirjo sees is shadows, but in the presence...
