20th Anniversary Week: Lovely Winter Days Were Like a Hare’s Fur – Poetry Concert

You are warmly welcome to enjoy the “Suloiset talvipäivät olivat yhtä jäniksen turkkia” performance, combining spoken word poetry, ambient jazz and theatre!

The performance involves a personage who is looking for a certain absurd piece of toccata; looking back to their days at school spent at the top of a linden tree; bombarding their head with a bunch of sleeping pills; following how Hamlet is being raised; chewing on match heads; struggling with stomach cramps and occasionally impaired vision; and fading into oblivion and even beyond.

The performance, featuring actress Kaija Pakarinen, musician Tapani Rinne and director Riku Saastamoinen, is based on the poetry anthology “Yö aukeaa kuin vilja” (Tammi 1978) by Sirkka Turkka.

Director Riku Saastamoinen describes the performance as follows: “In Turkka's poems, a human being is inextricably and tangibly bound with nature. Rather than its focal point, a human being is part of the entity formed by other species and phenomena. The show is based on the very same ethos; the music, composed by Tapani Rinne for the performance and performed live by him, holds its own against Turkka’s use of language and the acting prowess of Kaija Pakarinen, creating surroundings, associations, harmonies and discordant notes for the text.”

The performance will be held in the Aitio venue on the 2nd floor. Starting time is 16.00 and duration approximately one hour.

Other events of the day:

14:00–15:00 Historical afternoons: An extended stone and Dreams of teenage galaxies? Public art of EMMA Museum around Espoo, past and present (in Finnish) / Studio Ilmiö

Public art has always played a significant role in Espoo's cityscape and attractiveness. The lecture will address the topic of public artworks as part of EMMA's collection activities, such as the acquisition of artworks, their history and maintenance. Not to mention all the stories and memories associated with them!

Katja Oijusluoma, Senior Specialist, and Lotta Hannuksela, Executive Producer, Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA.

The lecture is part of the programme planned for the 20th anniversary week of the WeeGee house. After the lecture, celebrations continue with coffee and tea served to a hundred visitors on a first come, first served basis in the Luova event space of EMMA at 15:00.

15:10–15:30 Array of traditional Chinese dances / 2nd floor

A dance performance by the Chinese-speaking group of the Jade community. Jade is a multilingual community and a place for independent activities for elderly people who have moved to Finland. The community arranges various peer group and recreational activities in the Helsinki capital region. The community’s Chinese-speaking groups from Espoo and Helsinki gather weekly to practise their self-choreographed performances. Public art has always played a significant role in Espoo’s cityscape and attractiveness.

Schedule

14:00 “Historical afternoons” lecture

15:10 Array of traditional Chinese dances

16:00 “Suloiset talvipäivät olivat yhtä jäniksen turkkia” poetry concert