Lauluyhtye Papas no Mamas, tai tuttavallisesti Papat, laulaa miesäänillä ilman säestystä. Ohjelmistomme ytimenä ovat afroamerikkalaiset spirituaalit sekä suomalaiset virret ja hengelliset laulut uudelleen sovitettuna. Olemme vuosien varrella tehneet neljä äänitettä. Haemme nyt rahoitusta uuteen äänitteeseen, joka sisältää kokoelman virsikirjamme helmiä.

Tavoitteemme on CD-muotoinen äänite, joka sisältää n. 45 min soivaa musaa, eli n. 15 suomalaista virttä sovitettuna a cappella –mieslauluyhtyeelle.

Virsikirja on ajaton sekä sanoiltaan että säveliltään. Haluamme tuoda 2000-luvun menoon kristillisyyden kovaa ydintä, joka on tallentunut virrenvärssyiksi eri tekijöiltä vuosisatojen aikana. Kuten kahdessa aiemmassakin kokoelmassamme, olemme valinneet kestosuosikkien lisäksi myös harvinaisemmin kuultuja virsiä, jotka olisi sääli jättää kuulematta.

Tule mukaan mesenaatiksi projektiimme! Haemme nyt rahoitusta masterointiin ja julkaisuun liittyviin kuluihin. Jos saamme rahoituksen ja muut palaset kasaan, aiomme mennä studioon 2015 touko-kesäkuussa ja saada kokoelman valmiiksi ennen joulua. Juuri Sinun apuasi tarvitaan puuttuvan summan saamiseksi kokoon!

Olemme vakaasti sitä mieltä että asiamme on tärkeä ja rahoittamisen arvoinen.

We are on a mission from God!

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Making the documentary is very important for Rovaniemi-based company Flatlight Creative House, and especially for director Miikka Niemi. Miikka was shooting a freestyle skiing film when Pekka’s accident happened right in front of his eyes. This ended both the shooting of the film and Pekka’s successful freestyle skiing career. Miikka says, “It’s really important to tell Pekka’s story. His positive attitude and determination will encourage everybody to push their personal limits.”

Five years ago, 20-year-old Pekka wanted to become the best freestyle skier in the world. His life and future plans were all about freestyle skiing. The story of this young man’s recovery from a brain injury inspired not just the freestyle skiing community, but others, too. In this documentary we want to show the last five years of Pekka’s remarkable turnaround, and talk about his future. We want people to see a side of Pekka’s story that they haven’t yet seen in the media. We have already shot a lot of material for New Run, but there are still many scenes to be filmed.

We would like you to join us on this journey, and help to make this documentary a reality. With the campaign at Mesenaatti, we will fund the screenwriting process, development, and post production of the documentary. Our plan is to make this film internationally renowned and an inspiration for all, and tell Pekka’s story from a different point-of-view.

By joining the crowdfunding campaign and spreading the word you will help us on our journey!

We warmly thank everyone for joining our campaign!

Flatlight Creative House crew

www.flatlight.fi

www.facebook.com/flatlightfilms

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Turkulainen Antero Laiho on kulttuurin moniottelija. Työuransa hän teki Turun yliopiston kirjastossa, josta hän siirtyi joitain vuosia sitten eläkkeelle.
Antero Laiho on ollut aikoinaan perustamassa turkulaisen ja koko Suomen rock-kulttuurin yhtä kulmakiveä, Ruisrockia. Rock-musiikin lisäksi hän on tehnyt salsa-musiikkia tunnetuksi jo 1970-luvulta lähtien. Hän on ansioitunut myös säveltäjänä; tunnetuin sävellyksistä lienee Matti Eskon esittämä Trasselijussin Salsa.
Antero Laiholla on ollut aivan keskeinen rooli turkulaisen nuorisokulttuurin dokumentoinnissa. Työn tuloksena syntyi vuonna 2006 12-osainen musiikkiohjelmasarja Ylen Turun radiolle. Samasta aineistosta on julkastu myös Föribeat-kirja.
Elokuussa Antero Laiho täyttää 70 vuotta. Joukko hänen ystäviään julkaisee syntymäpäivään liittyen juhlakirjan, joka käsittelee päähenkilön toimintaa elämän eri alueilla. Kirjaan ovat sisältöä tehneet mm. Markku Into, Ilpo Tuomarila, Timo Toivonen, Jorma Tuominen, Arja Tuovinen, Olli Pellikka, Iiro Andersson, Jouko Viitanen, Kimmo Rantanen, Reino Tiainen, Olli Laapas, Kimmo Stjärnstedt, Jari Welling, Panu Turunen ja Jouko Grönholm.

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CROWDFUNDING FOR SCIENCE!

Quantum Arts Jam will merge art and physics in three different sessions. Together with the artists we will turn an equation into a painting and the Universe into a real dance.

“We are physicists, constantly asking questions. From time to time we do find answers in experiments, formulas, even theories. However, we imagine things we cannot always picture.

Mathematics is the language of physics, with which we tell stories that pictures hardly could. As universal as it is, our language is not spoken by everyone. That is why we need interpreters. That is why we asked for help from art. ”

Quantum physicists will work together with the artists in improvised jam sessions, with an intention of creating atmosphere that speaks the dialogical language of quantum physics and art with both of its form and content.

Wednesday August 12th 2015 at 4pm
Sibelius-museum, Piispankatu 17, Turku

Session 1: QUANTUM COMPLEXITY
Dr. John Good & Dr. Libby Haney
A dialogue between a crazy Irish quantum physicist and a fascinating London-based artist who was once a quantum physicist herself.
https://sites.google.com/site/johngooldswebsite/

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Session 2: DIAGRAMS OF LOVE
Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco, artist Sibel Kantola & musician Minna Twice
This is what happens when a physics professor meets her best friends artists over a coffee to chat about the life and works of one of the most well-known physicists of all times: Richard Feynman.
http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/fysiikka/henkilokunta/maniscalco/Sivut/home.aspx
http://www.belgrafik.com
http://www.minnatwice.com/

Session 3: BIG BANG TANGO
Prof. Esko Valtaoja & jazz pianist Fabrizio Mocata
The dance of the Universe is definitively a tango! Esko Valtaoja and Fabrizio Mocata will tell the story of the Universe as you’ve never heard before.
http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/fysiikka/henkilokunta/valtaoja/Sivut/home.aspx
http://www.fabriziomocata.com/homepage—english.php

Enable our project by choosing the sum you are wishing to support us with!

PHASES OF THE FUNDING:

1.000€
We will provide the Quantum Arts Jam Session!

2.000€
We will provide an edited video of the Quantum Arts Jam Session after the event, available for anyone online!

3.000€
We will provide a live streaming of the Quantum Arts Jam Sessions, available anywhere in the world!

4.000€
We will provide everything mentioned above, plus a thank you event attached to the Jam for anyone who supported us!

Credits:
University of Turku: Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Open Quantum Systems and Entanglement research Group, QuProCS-project, Department of Cultural History, Aboagora symposium

Video credits:
Edit: Anna Vepsäläinen
Film: Mikko Tukiainen & Jaakko Vainio
Millenium simulation: Klaus Dolag, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics / Earth at Night: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Photos: Daniel Montoya, Kavilo Photography, ABO Photography

Workgroup:
Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco
PhD Elsi Laine
Dr. Massimo Borrelli
FM Jaakko Vainio
FM Mikko Tukiainen
FM Anni Välimäki

Rahankeräyslupa/Permission for funding: POL-2014-11403 (University of Turku)

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Projektin tarkoitus on mahdollistaa jatkossa kotimaisen puumuotoilun innovatiivinen suunnittelu sekä valmistus.
Keräämäni varat käytän pienen tuotantotilani valaistuksen, pienten turvallisempien puuntyöstölaitteiden hankintaan sekä tehokkaamman puupölynpoiston parannuksiin.
Projekti mahdollistaa myös laadukkaan puumateriaalin hankinnan, suunnittelumahdollisuuksien parantamisen sekä mahdollisuuden osallistua erinäisiin tapahtumiin kotimaisen puukäsityön ja muotoilun esittelijänä.

Puutöiden Facebook -näkyvyys on viikkotasolla tavoittanut yli 480.000 ihmistä ympäri maailman.
Tästä on hyvä jatkaa! Arvostan suuresti, että mahdollistat kotimaisen käsityön jatkuvuuden tukemalla projektiani.

Kiitokseksi projektin toteutumisesta valmistan uudelle, rakenteilla olevalle Lastensairaalalle ja sen pienille potilaille ison puisen puumiehen heidän päiviään piristämään.

Ajastanne kiittäen,
Tommi Rajala

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/woodartsuomi

Verkkosivut:
www.wood-art.fi

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Birgit’s garden, Birgitin puutarha, Birgits trägård, Havin hjá Birgit

My Wondrous Journeys to the Faroe Islands, Ihmeelliset matkani Färsaarille, Mina märkliga resor till Färöarna, Mínar undursomu ferðir til Føroyar

Birgit’s Garden is an art photography book by Eija Mäkivuoti. Through photographs and short texts, a multifaceted story is told about the Faroe Islands, a hidden place no one happens upon by chance. The Faroese see their islands as one of the last, untouched paradises on Earth. In the midst of the Atlantic Ocean, chiseled by nature’s relentless forces, a people lives, immensely proud of their country and its 1,000-year-old history.

Both photos and stories are the fruit of Eija’s long-term photo documentary work and projects in the Faroe Islands. The book’s photographs were taken between 2008 – 2014. Through these photographs and stories a somewhat different view of the Faroe islands emerges, which digs beneath the surface. It is at the same time both a ballad and a many-voiced travelogue with, and it is also a tale about friendship, magical places, music and a spiritual home. These photos are interlaced with both serious and humorous micro-tales that give a deeper understanding of both the country and its culture.

The stories are written by Eija Mäkivuoti and people featured in the book. Through their own stories, those featured bring their own voice to the photos. The texts are in Finnish, Swedish and Faroese. The book also includes an English translation of the texts.

Graphic design and layout are by the graphic designer Pia Petterson. Urd Johannessen, who is from the Faroes, has written the epilogue. Petri Kuokka, who’s known for working with many award-winning Finnish photo books, has made the photo processing. The book is made and printed in Finland and published by Sprotin, a Faroese publisher. It is printed by Lönnberg, a printer known for their high quality art books. The book will be published in the Faroe Islands in July 2015 and in Finland in October 2015.

Books Details

Tekstit: Eija Mäkivuoti, Urd Johannessen and in the portrayed people

Graphic desing and layout: Pia Pettersson

Photo processing: Petri Kuokka, Aarnipaja

Format: Hardcover, hand bound

Size: 29,7 x 20 cm

Pages: 128 sivua

Photographs 105 colour images

Languages: Finnish, Swedish, Faroese, English

Publishing / release date: In the Faroe Islands in summer 2015 in collaboration with the Faroese publisher Sprotin; in Finland in autumn 2015

Production & copyright: Eija Mäkivuoti

Limited first edition (signed by the author, numbered)

Rewards – Support the publishing of the photo book

Please enjoy the special rewards offered on the right, including signed copies of the book.

Signed book:

No shipping 43 €

Shipping in Finland 51 €

Shipping in Europe 56.50€

The book will be delivered for the supporters in autumn 2015, the designated time and location will be informed later vie e-mail.

Payment

The payment can be executed in three ways:

1. Through credit card (Visa/Mastercard)

2. Through Finnish net bank

3. Asking the artist to write an invoice from the campaign Holvi account.

Funding

I have been actively collecting funding for this photo book but some part of the total funding is still missing. The total budget for this hand bound high quality photographic art book is closer to 20 000 €. The main idea behind this book is the thought of sustainability; quality over quantity – to make a high quality book that resists time and is not a disposable product. This also implies to the choice of materials, like hard cover, thread binding, durable and scratch resistant laminate for the cover etc.

The book is made and printed in Finland, hence also the higher production costs. The production costs include e.g. the content production and the graphic design, the costs for photo processing and CMYK-conversion, the costs for printing and binding, shipping costs, costs for information and marketing, costs for the different launching events in different Nordic countries (fees for performers, travel costs, equipment, service / events at least in FO, DK, FI) as also for distribution and other costs for making the book available in different Nordic countries (book distributors, shipping fees etc.) and other costs.

The goal for the crowd funding for this art book (and the prior mentioned costs) is 7000€. I will fund the remaining portion by grants and with my own money. The book project has received support from various funds and foundations (for part of the production costs and for artistic salary; they do not cover the entire project budget), e.g. from the Nordic Culture Fund, The Swedish Culture Fund in Finland, Eugène, Elisabeth and Birgit Nygrén Foundation, Mentanargrunnur Landsins (Faroe Islands) and the Letterstedt Association. Some of the supporters have promised to support the project by buying a few books, when it is published. Such are e.g. Tjaldur – the Friendship Association Finland-Faroe Islands and Tórshavnar kommuna.

Join me and help making a book that hopefully are still around after 30 years.

PLEASE, SHARE THIS PROJECT TO YOUR FRIENDS

Help me to spread the word about this photo book out there:

mesenaatti.me/birgitin-puutarha/

Thank you for your support!

Kiitos tuesta! (Finnish)

Tack! (Swedish)

Takk fyri! (Faroese)

Eija Mäkivuoti

www.eijamakivuoti.net

Stories from a magical place

Arriving in the Faroe Islands, the stewardess announces over the speaker: Vælkomin heim. Welcome home. The word for the world is heimur and it includes the word heim, home. I am extremely touched by this.

The Faroese ballads and the chain dance (kvæði), and music in all its modern forms are very important to the Faroese people. The Faroese are extremely proud of their thousand-year-old culture and this fascinates me. These sons and daughters of Norwegian Vikings, Irish Celts and countless other migrants are shaped to be simply beautiful people that still strive to live in harmony with the nature surrounding them. It seems to me that all these past centuries are alive and strong in every moment. It is an essential part of the present – you do not remember them, you live them.

The country’s breathtaking scenery and sea views are frequent subjects in my photographs – those grey and blue seas, the horizons. The most common landscape is grey, rainy or misty – sunny days are rare. The most beautiful light occurs in the morning or evening ‒ the blue hour, when everything in the world turns into magic. Then everything is possible.

My view of the Faroe Islands is shaped by my own experiences there and by what my friends have told me about their country and its culture. Faroese metal music took me there first and the music united us. I realize that time has passed and one thing has led to another. There will always be a next time to go there, always another adventure to embark on together; and if not, I just miss being there.

This photo book is a work of art. I have created it with people that are important to me. Through them I have become a little Faroese myself. Without them this book would not exist. These photographs and stories tell the tale of our journey together.

– Eija’s epilogue for the photo book –

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Sorry, this entry is only available in suomi.

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Hei!

Lähde mukaan tukeaan soololevyni julkaisemista!
Olen Jarmo Kantola, laulajalauluntekijä Oulusta. Tarkemmin sanottuna
asun Haukiputaalla, Kellon Kiviniemessä. Olen toiminut ammattimuusikkona yli viisi vuotta. Musiikkia ja keikkailua olen harrastanut jo parikymppisestä lähtien. Lauluja olen kirjoittanut matkan varrella satoja sekä englanniksi, että suomeksi. Olen myös säveltanyt musiikin useisiin näytelmiin.
Oman levyn tekeminen on ollut mielessäni vuosia ja viime syksynä lähdin sitä toteuttamaan! Nyt äänitykset ovat enää muutamia lauluosuuksia vaille valmiit ja miksaamistakin on jo alettu tekemään.
Levyä tehdään Oulussa Matti Niemen toimiessa äänittäjänä ja tuottajana. Muusikkoina levyllä ovat mukana
-Matti Niemi, basso
-Tommi Hänninen, rummut ja lyömäsoittimet
-Pasi Hiltula, kosketinsoittimet
-J. Aslak, kitara
-Teemu Sarkkinen, kitara
-Aleksi Itkonen, rummut
-Nina Lehtimäki, sello
-Tommi Salmela, mandoliini.
Levy sisältää säveltämääni ja sanoittamaani musiikkia suomeksi.
Sovittajina toimivat mukana olevat muusikot Matin ja minun lisäksi.
Viime vuonna sain kunnian olla mukana The Voice Of Finland-laulukilpailussa. Ohjelman mukanaan tuoma hyvä palaute on antanut myös intoa tämän projektin toteuttamiseen!
Cd-levyn painatuksen, kannen suunnittelun ja taittamisen kustannukset ovat 2500 euroa. Tällä summalla saadaan levyn julkaistua. Kun sijoitat 15€ projektiin, saat levyn postissa kotiisi. Hinta sisältää postikulut ja alv:n.

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Shava is a unique group of five Finnish guys from Helsinki who started playing Bhangra, a fast, energetic type of dance music which has its roots in the villages of the Punjab region of northern India. Bhangra has become a major music phenomenon within the vast immigrant Punjabi populations all over the world. Shava has embraced this tradition which is both ancient and modern at the same time and made it their own. They have created a new tradition, a global Creole music which has its roots both in the soil of India as well as the concrete jungle of East-Helsinki.
Shava’s second studio album is due to be released in February 2015! Our crowdfunding campaign is primarily aimed at mixing and producing the album, and studio costs. Additional funding will be spent on music video production, marketing et cetera.

One of the songs on the album will be Onkimiehen bhangra which we released already a year ago. We think we did a fine job with the song. However, we feel that we need the extra punch and energy that professional production and mixing will bring. Basically we want that the energy of our live performances can be heard on the CD as well. Listen to our ”demo quality” release of Onkimehen bhangra from 2013 – it’s not bad at all, but we want to make our sound really stand out!

Video directed and edited by Ville Tanttu.

TEAM

The recording musicians will be your Shava boys. Featured artists include Yona (FIN), Puspinder Kaur (IND), Runa Bahra (UK) and others TBA.
The album will be produced, mixed and recorded by Mikko Raita at e-studio and Studio Kekkonen in Helsinki, Finland as well as some overdubs in India.
Promotion and marketing will be done by Laura Kokkonen.

COSTS

An approximation of what can be achieved with this campaign –
1 000 € – we can afford professional assistance for mixing the album
5 000 € – full album can be mixed and mastered professionally
10 000 € – full album can be produced, recorded, mixed and mastered professionally
15 000 € – full album can be produced, recorded, mixed and mastered professionally and we’ll have a budget for marketing the album & producing a professional quality music video
20 000€ – full album can be produced, recorded mixed and mastered professionally with more time spend at studio, overdubs, editing & mixing and we’ll have a budget for marketing the album & producing two professional quality music videos

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(You can read about the project in Swedish and Finnish here) Some things matter, and Nils Ferlin managed to put a surprising number of them into cast-iron words in his poems. Reverberating with biblical turns of phrases, Ferlin’s poems bring up an unlikely set of heroes: tramps and vagabonds, freezing old geezers in the poorhouse, and the mystical beauty of nature. The record “Tigerbrand” is a tribute to Ferlin and a fresh, Finnish look at his poems. Perhaps we can help bring out the “Finn blood” that Nils claimed to have inherited. To do so, we have brought together some of the present generation’s finest Finnish musician from classical music, jazz, folk and pop.
Life’s a circus, and we’re the clowns. Cirkus42 is a new project band consisting of singer / songwriter Petter Korkman, pianist Jan-Erik Mansikka, bass player / percussionist / singer Kaarle Mannila and guitarist Mats Nyman. After having initially chosen the songs to work on, we’ve fooled around with the music and let playful experimentation take us where it would. Now we have fourteen songs ready to mix. But we need your help to walk that final mile – please help us make “Tigerbrand” real!
In addition to our core group, we’ve had the pleasure and honour to share our musical playground with several proficient Finnish musicians: Jouko Kyhälä (known among other things as the founder of the internationally renowned mouth organ quartet “Sväng”), Verneri Pohjola (one of Finland’s most renowned jazz trumpet players), Niko Kumpuvaara (one of the foremost accordion players in the world today), as well as the brilliant “Jousikaiku” quartet (Pasi Eerikäinen, Laura Airola, Mauri Kuokkanen and Riikka Lampinen). The “Tigerbrand” project has brought together Finnish artists and singers from various genres and generations. Singers on the record are Riki Sorsa, Jonte Ramsten, Ida Olsonen, Jonas Sebastian, Elsa Korkman, Julia Korkman, Bella Jensen, Petter Korkman and Emma Salokoski. The pictures on this page are mainly by Heidi-Maria Karhu (thank you Heidi!). Finally, the music was recorded with a man who is often introduced as the best recording engineer in Finland: Speedy Saarinen. Most of the music on “Tigerbrand” has been composed by Petter Korkman, but the record also includes hitherto unpublished Ferlin-songs by some of the big names in Finnish songwriting and composition: Kaj Chydenius, Jussi Chydenius and Toivo Kärki. Special thanks go to Kalervo Kärki for digging out Kärki’s compositions “Tre dagar” and “I folkviseton” från the family archives. Thanks in fact to all who’ve shared this journey with us and made it possible. A big thank you also to Svenska kulturfonden and to Musiikin edistämisen säätiö. Now all that remains is to mix, master and print the cd. This is what we need your help for. Please help us raise the funds to finalize this chapter of Finnish and Scandinavian culture! Before you go, please listen to our second “single” from “Tigerbrand”. This is the song Cirkus, based on a poem that provided us with a name both for the band Cirkus42 and for the record “Tigerbrand”. The video was produced by Nils-Erik Ekblom and Petter Korkman, and the song is performed by Jonte Ramsten. Enjoy! Cirkus from TIUKU on Vimeo.

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