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Arts & culture Dance

Household Dance Protocol choreographs chores in Finland

Sandrina Lindgren combines housework and dance in her Household Dance Protocol project in Turku. You may be amazed at what you discover if you include playfulness and movement in your daily chores.

Tagged in Dance, Fun, Lifestyle

Arts & culture Design

Design nation Finland also becoming illustration nation

Helsinki Design Week, September 7–17: Design means more than simply ceramics and other household items. We talk with Kustaa Saksi, one of many gifted Finnish illustrators you should keep your eye on.

Tagged in Art, Design, Fashion, ThisisFINLAND Magazine

Arts & culture Webpick

Sebastian Fagerlund – portrait of a composer from Europe in 2017

Composer Sebastian Fagerlund’s new opera Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) got its premiere at the Finnish National Opera and Ballet.

Tagged in Art, classical music, Music

2005

The year Helsinki Design Week, Scandinavia's biggest design fest, was founded

Arts & culture Webpick

Four companies selected for Music Finland’s Fast Track export program

The Fast Track music export program was developed to support major international breakthroughs from Finland.

Tagged in Export, Music

Arts & culture Design

Design and conquer: Global focus on Finland for Helsinki Design Week

Q&A is the 2017 theme for the annual Helsinki Design Week, so we ask some Finns who live and breathe design what makes it so fun.

Tagged in Art, Design, Helsinki

1902

The year Francisco Tárrega composed the waltz that later became the Nokia ringtone

Arts & culture Webpick

Helsinki Design Week 2017: It’s all about Q&A

This year Helsinki Design Week is looking for questions and answers, and has named its theme accordingly: Q&A. The annual design festival takes over the Finnish capital from September 7 to 17, 2017.

Tagged in Art, Design, Helsinki

Arts & culture Design

Two Finnish designers to check out

Helsinki Design Week, September 7–17: Lotta Nieminen and Klaus Haapaniemi are two Finnish designers out of the many whose talent, skill and products appear in connection with top international brands.

Tagged in Design, Finland, ThisisFINLAND Magazine