If you wish us to promote your event, please email relevant details to us at info@finnsworldwide.com AUGUST 2010 every Saturday until 31.8 from 6pm Lontoon suomalaisen merimieskirkon Grillijuhlat - BBQ! Kesälauantaisin kirkolla saunotaan ja sen jälkeen grillataan takapihalla. Tikkakisat yms kuuluvat myös asiaan! Kaikki tervetulleita!! Finnish Church In London 33 Albion Street London SE16 7HZ  Canada Water Tel. 020 7237 1261 Links: www.finnishchurch.org.uk Sunnuntaisin 30.9 asti @ 3pm Pesäpalloa Sunnuntaisin pelaataan pesäpalloa kirkon viereiseen Southwarkin puistoon. Tapaaminen kirkolla klo 15, josta siirrytään porukalla puistoon. Pelien jälkeen mahdollisuus saunoa kirkolla. Finnish Church In London 33 Albion Street London SE16 7HZ  Canada Water Tel. 020 7237 1261 Links: www.finnishchurch.org.uk 
15.6 - 30.8 Rintala Eggertsson Architects at V&A exhibition Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Bodø and Oslo, Norway
Ark
BOTTOM OF NATIONAL ART LIBRARY STAIRS ROOM 25

Ark, Rintala Eggertsson Architects
Nestled against a staircase that leads up to the V&A's National Art Library - itself a site of refuge and retreat - this free-standing wooden tower re-evaluates the concept of the 'archive'. The façades of the tower consist of hundreds of shelves, holding thousands of books. Oriented to face inwards, the book spines gather together to form a rich collage of colours and typographic textures. In contrast, the exterior façade of the structure is dominated by the minimalist white of exposed page edges.

The project investigates how small spaces can focus our energies and thoughts in moments of study, meditation and self-reflection. Accessed via a spiral staircase, the tower invites visitors to explore the structure, have a leisurely browse through the books, and select a private reading chamber in which to enjoy their selection. Architects Build Small Places -exhibition at Victoria and Albert Museum

Architecture is intrinsically part of our everyday experience. Yet architecture exhibitions, with their emphasis on drawings, models and photographs, sometimes deny their audience an engagement with actual buildings.

Using the landscape of the Museum as a test site, the V&A invited nineteen architects to submit proposals for structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat. From these nineteen concept submissions, seven were selected for construction at full-scale.

Small spaces such as these can push the boundaries and possibilities of creative practice. A shift in scale towards smaller, bespoke structures encourages a heightened sensitivity to materials, texture and proportion. A renewed clarity emerges, allowing architects a freedom of expression that often struggles to survive in larger building projects.
 
- Free admission - 
V&A Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL  South Kensigton Links:
V&A Museum 12.8- 10.9 Anssi Sojakka at Page 2 Following the success of Page 1 Exhibition in April 2010, The Page, a new concept of artists management in London, presents Page 2 Summer Show. Page 2 will exhibit a selection of mixed media art works by ANSSI SOJAKKA, Paul Robinson and Graham
Carrick. In the past months our artists have been continuously working on new works waiting to be presented at art prizes and competitions all around London. 

Page 2 is naturally following what emerged from Page 1 exhibition: a selection of works with a focus on mixed media, photography and video.

Opening times Tuesday - Saturday 12noon - 6pm or by appointment. 
For enquiries, please call Daniela 07503 236 844. 
 
203 Brompton Road, London SW3  Links:
Page 2 20.8 @ 7pm PROM 46; Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra The Philharmonia and its Principal Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen are joined by one of today's leading French pianists in Ravel's fiendish test of the left hand, stretching ears as much as fingers in a racy, sometimes macabre mix of styles from Romantic to jazz. 

In the climax to our 75th-birthday celebrations for Estonian Arvo Pärt, Salonen conducts the composer's first symphony for over 35 years, having given the world premiere last year with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mosolov's clangorous outburst of 1920s industrial optimism, unheard at the Proms for 70 years, is complemented by Scriabin's breathtakingly prolonged crescendo of mystical sensuality.

Mosolov The Foundry (4 mins) 
Arvo Pärt Symphony No. 4, 'Los Angeles' 
(UK premiere) (37 mins) 
interval 
Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (18 mins) 
Scriabin The Poem of Ecstasy (20 mins) 

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano 
Philharmonia Orchestra 
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor 
The Royal Albert Hall, London SW7  Waterloo Tel. 0845 401 5040 Links: 
BBC Proms 27.8 @ 7.30pm PROM 56; Osmo Vänskä conducts the Minnesota Orchestra Osmo Vänskä, whose enthusiastic following in the UK dates from his tenure as Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (1996–2002), returns for two Proms with the Minnesota Orchestra, which has seen a revival under his music directorship since 2003. 

Tonight the cinematic incidental music imagined by anniversary composer Samuel Barber for a scene from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound contrasts with the expansive splendour of Bruckner's 'Romantic' Symphony. Young American cellist Alisa Weilerstein makes her Proms debut in the first of Shostakovich's two concertos honed around the skill and and stamina of the great Mstislav Rostropovich. 

Barber Music for a Scene from Shelley (7 mins) 
Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major (29 mins) 
interval
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, 'Romantic' (67 mins) 

Alisa Weilerstein cello 
Minnesota Orchestra 
Osmo Vänskä conductor 
 
The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP  South Kensington and High Street Kensington Tel. 0845 401 5040 Links:
BBC Proms 28.8 @ 7.30pm PROM 57; Osmo Vänskä conducts The Minnesota Orchestra This year's performance of Beethoven's Ninth, a sought-after fixture of every Proms season, concludes the visit by Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra, who together have recorded one of the most widely acclaimed Beethoven cycles of recent years. 

In the mystical heights and ecstatic momentum of the Ninth's final hymn to universal brotherhood they are joined by the BBC Symphony Chorus and an quartet of international soloists.

Former Radio 3 New Generation Artist Lisa Batiashvili returns to the Proms to play the tragic and consoling violin concerto by one of the last century's most eloquent composers.

Berg Violin Concerto (28 mins) 
interval 
Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' (68 mins) 

Lisa Batiashvili violin 
Helena Juntunen soprano 
Charlotte Hellekant mezzo-soprano 
Eric Cutler tenor 
Neal Davies bass 
BBC Symphony Chorus 
Minnesota Orchestra 
Osmo Vänskä conductor The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP  South Kensington and High Street Kensington Tel. 0845 401 5040 Links:
BBC Proms SEPTEMBER 2010 Fri 3.9 from 7pm  Finnish Monthly Pub Evening Finnish pub evening is held on the first Friday of every month. It has traditionally been a very laid-back event that gathers together Finnish people of all ages and from diverse backgrounds. The aim is to have fun, catch up with old friends and make some new ones. You can meet people from students to au pairs, from people who are working in London to those who are only visiting the city. The turnout has usually been between a couple of dozen and about a hundred. All Finns and also other nationalities who are interested in the Finnish culture are most welcome. Bringing friends is ok, too – it is even recommended! Since November 2009, Finnish pub evening is held at The Pipeline which is located in the London East End. If you are missing Finland, The Pipeline might be just what you need. Check out the jukebox for Sielun Veljet, the menu for Nordic delicacies and the bar for some Finnish drinks such as lonkero. Address: 94 Middlesex Street, Spitalfields, London, E1 7DA. The Pipeline is located between Liverpool Street, Aldgate and Aldgate East tube stations. Check out The Pipeline online: http://www.thepipelinebar.co.uk/ Event is organised by FinnsWorldWide: www.finnsworldwide.com Send your feedback by email: info@finnsworldwide.com the Pipeline 94 Middlesex Street London E1 7DA  Liverpool St Links: www.pipeline.com Sat 4.9 from 6pm to midnight Finnish Crayfish Party at Garbo’s FinnsWorldwide is organizing Crayfish Party for Finns and their international friends on Sat 4th of September! We are hosting the event at the Swedish restaurant Garbo’s in Marylebone which have been hosting crayfish parties for year sand they know how to host the parties with Finnish style too. We have brought all the decorations from Finland, like bibs, hats, plates and we have printed song books for all. Price £45 - To be paid in advance via: http://finnsworldwide.com/crayfishparty2010.html Price Includes: 10 Crayfish, Main Course: Meatballs or Salmon (remember to email your preference) A Glass of Wine or Beer A Shot Songbook, Bib, Hat + other party decorations PayPal Charges Venue holds max 50 people so book your seat at the table soon! Garbo’s 42 Crawford Street London, W1H 1HA  Marylebone  4.9 @ 7.30pm PROM 66; Soprano Karita Mattila with Berliner Philharmoniker In the first half of their second Prom, Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic pair late works by two of Germany's greatest late-Romantics – 'Richard the First' and 'Richard the Third', as the conductor Hans von Bülow rather wickedly called them (quipping that, after Wagner, there could be no 'Richard the Second').

After the interval come the sensational sonic adventures by the three great musical pioneers of early-20th-century Vienna. Celebrated Finnish soprano Karita Mattila returns to the Proms as soloist in Strauss's opulently nostalgic reflections on life's last days.

Wagner Parsifal – Prelude (Act 1) (13 mins) 
R. Strauss Four Last Songs (22 mins) 
interval 
Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 (16 mins) 
Webern Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (12 mins) 
Berg Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (21 mins) 

Karita Mattila soprano 

Berliner Philharmoniker 
Sir Simon Rattle conductor The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP  South Kensington and High Street Kensington Tel. 0845 401 5040 Links:
BBC Proms 16.9-16.10 Oiva Toikka’s bird collection exhibition Vessel Gallery is hosting exhibition of Finnish designer Oiva Tikka for his 50th anniversary at Iittala. This collection is the largest presentation of his glass bird creations for Iittala ever presented in the UK.   Vessel Gallery 114 Kensington Park Road London W11 2PW  South Kensington and High Street Kensington Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10am - 6pm. Links: www.vesselgallery.com 
10.9 @ 7.30pm Karita Mattila Performers
Karita Mattila soprano 
Martin Katz piano 


Programme to include songs by: 
Schubert
Brahms
Berg
Strauss
Sibelius
Madetoja


About this concert
To open Wigmore Hall’s 110th anniversary season we have a very special event. Hailed by Musical America in 2005 as ‘the most electrifying singing actress of our day’, Finnish soprano Karita Mattila traces almost a century of Austro-German song, and includes selections by Sibelius and by Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947), the composer she regards as ‘Finland’s hidden jewel’. 
 
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2  Bond Street Tel. 020 7935 2141 Links:
Wigmore Hall 21.9 @ 8pm Kimmo Pohjonen and Pekka Kuusisto Finnish accordion adventurer Kimmo Pohjonen, has revolutionised accordion music and performance with his unique blend of acoustic and electronic. He expands the capabilities and experience of the accordion to levels never before seen or heard, utilizing live loops, effects, surround sound and lights. Here he collaborates for the first time with violinist Pekka Kuusisto, a player set apart by his desire and ability to improvise; and his love of playing many different styles of music, channelling the same intensity into each genre.

‘In the hands of Finland's Kimmo Pohjonen, the accordion abandons its folk roots to become a gutbusting furnace of shamanic sound, animated by primal energies and orchestral dynamics ... a performer whose blend of virtuosity and resolute experimentation is routinely likened to that of Jimi Hendrix and Laurie Anderson.’ (The Wire) 

Tickets £8 / £14 / £22 

LSO St Luke's, Old Street, London EC1V 9NG  Old Street Tel. 020 7638 8891 Links:
London Symphony Orchestra 26.9 @ 4pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
Performance lasts approx. 5 hours, including 2 intervals.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Gary Lehmann Tristan
Christine Brewer Isolde
Anne Sofie von Otter Brangäne
John Relyea King Marke
Jukka Rasilainen Kurwenal
Stephen Gadd Melot
Andrew Kennedy Shepherd, Sailor
Darren Jeffery Helmsman
Philharmonia Voices
Bill Viola visual artist
Peter Sellars artistic collaborator

In one of the most passionate love stories ever told, Tristan and Isolde's lives are set on a path to tragedy by the swapping of a bottle of poison for a love potion. Yet this tragedy also results in their all-encompassing love for each other, and the intensity of their passion is expressed through Wagner's sumptuous chromaticism and lush orchestral colours. The opera is one of the peaks of the operatic repertory, and the climax of Isolde's 'Liebestod' is one of the most moving and all-encompassing musical moments ever written. This concert performance, directed by Peter Sellars, will be set against the stunning backdrop of Bill Viola's film projections, further exploring the emotional subtexts of the work. 

The performance will run for five hours and include two intervals.
 
Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre London SE1  Waterloo Tel. 0844 875 0073 Links: Royal Festival Hall 
30.9.2010 @7.30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
Interval
Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Suite, Op.22

Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Hélène Grimaud piano

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the music of his compatriot Jean Sibelius in this concert. Sibelius's tone poem Finlandia sets the soundworld with its nationalistic evocations of scenes from Finnish history; followed by Lemminkäinen, an orchestral suite based on the Finnish national epic poem, the 'Kalevala'. The most famous movement describes 'The Swan of Tuonela' with a cor anglais' melody gliding over the musical water of the strings and woodwind. The other movements are equally evocative and atmospheric, moving from the 'Land of the Dead' to the hero's exploits in battle. Between these, Brahms' First Piano Concerto provides a flamboyant display of pianistic virtuosity The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore London SW7 2AP  South Kensington and High Street Kensington Tel. 0845 401 5040 Links:
BBC Proms 10.10.2010- 26.10 KIUAS and CELESTY on UK tour For the first time in the label’s history, three acts signed to the Spinefarm label will embark on a series of UK shows in tandem, flying the flag for epic heavy metal (Finnish five-piece KIUAS), authentic folk metal ( Estonian quartet Metsatöll) & dramatic power metal (Finnish sextet CELESTY).

KIUAS, who have played in the UK on a number of occasions, including an appearance at the Bloodstock Open Air Festival plus a full run of dates with Firewind, will headline all of the shows, with Metsatöll providing the meat in the middle, and Celesty (who have also featured on the Bloodstock bill) opening the bill.
KIUAS recently released their latest album, ‘Lustdriven’, supported by the single/video ‘Of Love, Lust & Human Nature’, following hard on the heels of ‘Aio’ – Metsatöll‘s first release for the Spinefarm label. 

CELESTY’s latest offering, ‘Vendetta’, came out in 2009, and saw the six heading deep into symphonic / progressive rock territory, with tracks such as ‘Lord (Of This Kingdom)’, ‘Like Warriors’ and first video ‘Fading Away’ showing that musical ambition doesn’t have to lead to any loss of power. Latest news from the camp is that the band now have a new frontman, with previous singer Antti Railio having recently been replaced by Tony Turunen – brother of former Nightwish frontwoman, Tarja.

October tour dates:
20th – Wrexham, Central Station
22nd – Sheffield, Corporation
23rd – Glasgow, Ivory Blacks
24th – Nottingham, Basement
26th – London, Underworld
 
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