“Soiva Saari” translates to “Sonic Island” from Finnish and is the project title for the main cultural program of Hai Art in 2014 in Hailuoto, Finland.

This years biggest project realised an Artist-In-Residency with the German/Uruguayan sculptor & artist Lukas Kühne who proposed an acoustic sculpture for Hailuoto. Subsequently the ‘Organum’ was built in a remote location on the island and is since a public space to experience diverse phenomena around architecture, nature, sound, acoustic, space, silence and voice.

The second emphasis lies on Hai Arts children & youth work, The Art Attack festival, the iPad Orchestra and the Media Lab. The Art Attack Festival shows the arts we create with local children and offers workshops, exhibition space and performance possiblities. The iPad Orchestra rehearsals, performances organization and training takes place in the LAB in the center of Hailuoto, which is open several days a week after school. Our goal is to offer the small community in Hailuoto an enthusiastic and relaxed atmosphere that encourages children, young people and everyone else to practice creative activities.

All project-related actions are free for the participants. While our non-profit association has received a government grant for the program, we have to provide 30% of the budget ourselves (“match-money”). Until now we have achieved to collect 20% from various sources but are still struggling to fill in the last 10% until the end of the year.

We ask the general public for crowd funding and ask to support us if possible. We offer a variety of actions and rewards for your support. Would you like a private tour to the Organum, a workshop? Or a group event? We also offer T-shirts and postcards of the Organum for smaller prices.

Please support us to gain our grant obligation. Thank you!

All our projects are documented on our website, Facebook, Vimeo and Soundcloud.

Thanks
The Hai Art team

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By taking part in our campaign you support the versatility of the dance field. The guesting of Willman Dance Company in Theatre Avoimet Ovet brings a brisk dance happening on a stage of spoken theatre. The evening contains a new choreography by Marjaterttu Willman and a guesting dance company that changes on each performance eve. By supporting the campaign you take part in accomplishing a co-operation performance of different dance companies, which is rarely seen on the freelance dance field. On 8th May we will arrange a performance for school students as well, with the aid of collected funds for
the project.

By funding you enable artistic or bodily experiences to yourself, to your loved ones and school students. As a reward you can have an impact on the content of the dance piece, enable a Pilates lesson either to yourself or to your company, or even meet the choreographer of the dance piece!

Special Cultural Godparent reward offers you a chance to support the cultural education of school students. You may choose a reward you like. The funds collected in the campaign are used to the costs of the realisation of the dance performance and to the performance for school students.

You can help the succes of the campaign by sharing information of the campaign to your friends and colleagues. This way we can get as many people excited about dance and art as possible to join our campaign!

Old people, odd people

Contemporary dance is not vague squirming of the body in a gloomy light. It enables a visual and entertaining stage experience to the spectator, offering interpretations of the surrounding world. The aim of Willman Dance Company is to create dance performances that have a taste of life, discussing humane themes.

Old people, odd people describes the people of the streets that deviate from the mainstream. What are these weird individuals actually thinking? How can their grotesque and queer behaviour be found so human in the end? The new contemporary dance performance by Marjaterttu Willman challenges the spectator into pondering of inequality and subconcious evaluation. Are we still ready to notice the individuals with a difficult status? Are we responsible of everyone, or only of ourselves?

The costumes of the piece are prepared from recycled clothes and fabrics. The working group wants to have an impact on sustainable development.

Guesting dance companies

Dance companies that have an influence on the dance field are guesting the performances of Willman Dance Company. Petri Kekoni Company, Gruppen Fyra and Kaari and Roni Martin Compania have been invited to perform in the performance evenings.

Funding

The funding is needed for the salary fees of the artists, for the rent of the performing space and rehearsal space, for costume design and for the marketing costs. Part of the costs we can cover with the grant from the city of Helsinki and with the ticket sales, but unofortunately not everything. So please join our campaign and support the success of our performance!

We thank you for your interest towards our campaign and we encourage you to take part in funding of our project.

Sincerely,
Marjaterttu Willman and the working group

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Saaga Ensemblen 28.02.2015 julkaistava toinen pitkäsoitto Kuullella sisältää yhdeksän uutta kappaletta, jotka ovat syntyneet tiiviissä yhteistyössä yhtyeen jäsenten kesken. Inspiraatiota on haettu niin metsistä, pelloilta, kaupungin sykkeestä, ihmisyydestä kuin ihmissuhteistakin. Tämän vuoksi kappaleiden kansanomainen sävy on saanut uusia vivahteita ja mukaan on sekoittunut selvästi myös maailmanmusiikin ja popin aineksia. Lauluosuuksien ja eri soitinten (esim. kantele, harmooni) erikoispiirteitä on haluttu tuoda uudella levyllä selvemmin esille. Sanoitukset ovat kaikki Saagan omaa tuotantoa ja useimmat niistä ovatkin syntyneet samaa tahtia sävelten kanssa. Uusien tekstien mukaan mahtuu kauniina lisänä Aleksis Kiven runo Suomenmaa Jyri Sariolan säveltämänä, mikä tuo kokonaisuuteen saagamaisen kansanomaista tuttuutta. Kuullella – levy edustaa rohkeasti ja monipuolisesti nykyhetken Saaga Ensembleä ja se on mielenkiintoinen jatkumo yhtyeen Polku-albumille (28.02.2013).
KUULLELLA
1. Piilosilla (säv., san. Milla Viljamaa/Soila Sariola)
2. Aamuun asti (säv. Jyri Sariola, san. Jyri Sariola/Soila Sariola)
3. Mieleni meret (säv., san. Vilma Timonen)
4. Kuullella (säv. Jyri Sariola, san. Jyri Sariola/Soila Sariola)
5. Peloista pois minut nostat (säv. Jaakko Kämäräinen, san. Jaakko Kämäräinen/Jyri Sariola/Soila Sariola)
6. Tuulen kansa (säv., san. Soila Sariola)
7. Vihainen mies (säv., san. Soila Sariola)
8. Huomiseen aikaa on (säv., san. Soila Sariola)
9. Suomenmaa (säv. Jyri Sariola, san. Aleksis Kivi)

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A hundred years ago the conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp declared urinals and bottle racks as works of art. Those works that shocked the art world and changed the whole concept of art were later raised on pedestals and placed in display cases in art museums.

Duchamp’s readymades were everyday objects in an era when the standard of living of the masses was rising rapidly. Today artist Riiko Sakkinen takes the readymade on the next level and builds his readymade of a top luxury product, during a time when the gap between the poor and the rich is unprecedentedly wide. Lamborghini Huracán sports car will be on artist’s daily use and can therefore be contemplated by the public in the streets and highways.

As a reward for the funders the artist offers his used and signed underwear from a limited and numbered 230 piece edition.

Become a patron of art * and join us to enable this unprecedented work of art!

* Patron of art means Mesenaatti in Finnish

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Lauluissa käsitellään ystävyyden ja välittämisen merkitystä jokaisen lapsen elämässä. Laulujen ideat lähtivät koulukiusaamisesta ja siihen puuttumisesta.
Laulut sopivat päiväkotien ja alakoulujen musiikkihetkiin sekä jokaisen lapsiperheen kuunneltavaksi ja laulettavaksi.

Sanoituksia lauluihin ovat tehneet Maiju Saariniemi, Juha Back, Kiki Rautio ja Sari Hopia. Melodiat ovat Sari Hopian käsialaa. Ystävä välittää -laulut äänitetään Rock Above Studiossa Espoossa.

Levy ja nuottivihko ilmestyvät huhtikuun 2015 aikana. Voit rahoittaa levyä ostamalla sen jo etukäteen.

Esiinnymme kouluilla, päiväkodeissa, kirjastoissa ja erilaisissa tilaisuuksissa laulamassa ja leikittämässä lapsia.
Seuraavaksi laulatamme lapsia Lapsimessuilla 10.4.2015 Helsingin Messukeskuksessa Vekarat-lavalla. http://www.messukeskus.com/Sites2/Lapsi/Kavijat/ohjelma/Sivut/Vekarat.aspx

Ostamalla ennakkoon levyn, olet tervetullut levyn julkistamistilaisuuteen Espooseen, sekä saat tietoa tapahtumistamme ja esityksistämme jatkossakin.

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Moi kaikille,

We are watching this transition of summer turning into autumn and even as all of the scariest signs of the season become visible, we also look forward to bringing you one of the great treats of the season, the return of large-scale cultural events designed to pass warm evenings indoors. Specifically one great evening of jazz dancing and jazz music that we have planned at Helsinki’s Gloria Theater on October 11th!

We are a team combining the Helsinki Traditional Jazz Dance Company, an organization bringing American-born jazz dance performance and jazz dance courses to Europe, and Jason DeBose, a California-born resident of Helsinki who brought his U.S. training and work experience as a photographer and producer to Finland in 2007.

The program for which we have now come to Mesenaatti to raise funds is a jazz club tour by a group of American jazz musicians who have been delighting audience with complex stylings and dizzying musical talents for decades, who we have arranged to play alongside the Helsinki Traditional Jazz Dance Company as they bring to Punavuori a brand new set of jazz dance routines born in the American South entitled “The Groove of New Orleans.”

We have a full six-hour program planned that will give the audience a chance to first experience dance captains Clyde Wilder (USA) and Malin Grahn-Wilder (FIN) and their team as they ignite the stage with four highly trained feet of their own alongside their team of Helsinki Traditional Jazz Dance Company dancers. They will be accompanied by our US jazz band on stage at Gloria for a 90 minute dance presentation, after which our musicians will take center stage, the seats of the floor will be cleared, and the audience will be invited to dance into the night, wrapping up with two hours of dance and swing hits brought by renowned DJ Fiona Timantti (ITL).

A memorable international evening lies ahead and here we are offering jazz and swing dance fans from Uusimaa and beyond to pick up tickets at discount, early-bird prices by contributing to our campaign right here on Mesenaatti.

Gloria is a theater of 300 seats, and we are prepared to offer our audience as many of those seats as can be taken by Friday, September 19th. Have a look at Gloria at

nk.hel.fi/gloria/

https://fi-fi.facebook.com/gloriahelsinki

and contribute right here on Mesenaatti for tickets to The Groove of New Orleans in this lovely historic theater.

Our Mesenaatti campaign will offer:

22 EUR – a standard ticket, access to the show for the entire 6-hour performance and dance program, and a seat for the 8 PM dance program.

30 EUR – a priority seating ticket, which allows early access to Gloria’s open seating plan (sit wherever you choose amongst Gloria’s two floors and 300+ seats), as well as a shorter line once inside for the coat check area and the bar.

150 EUR – a balcony table: a private compartment on the second floor of the Gloria Theater that seats four, closely overlooking the stage. This package price also includes early venue access, in addition to a bottle of either wine or champagne for the group upon arrival.

350 EUR – the package of the balcony table (four seats on a balcony or wherever you like) plus a backstage meet-up with the jazz band and the dancers, which also will allow access to the backstage refreshment serving table.
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What these ticket purchases will contribute to funding:

– the travel costs of our musicians;
– the performance fees of the dancers and the musicians;
– their accommodation costs during their rehearsal time;
– the photographers and live camera crew that will capture key moments of the night (which will of course be shared later on the website of the Helsinki Traditional Jazz Dance Company).

Questions? Please contact us:

Jason DeBose
jason@musicneverdiesmovie.com

Malin Grahn-Wilder
helsinki.traditionaljazzdance@gmail.com

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Related links:

The Helsinki Traditional Jazz Dance Company

YouTube:

http://bit.ly/YcXslK

Jason DeBose

Facebook:
on.fb.me/1qzd1gT

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IN THE BOOK, 87 PEOPLE appear wearing the same polyester shirt Morrissey wore, when The Smiths played live in Seinäjoki, Finland, in June 1984.

It was a special concert. It was probably the northest gig the band ever did, and also one of the few Smiths gigs Morrissey describes in detail in his Autobiography (2013): ”I recall standing at the lip of the stage as if dragged from a river, the microphone slipping out of my hand, and no one around to caution how rain and electricity are deadly components to the overheated flesh.”

Antti Nylén gave the shirt a new life, and photographed all those Morrissey fans (mostly Finnish) in August 2014, in Helsinki, on 35mm black and white film.

The portraits will make a book, which will – hopefully! – be released in the winter/spring of 2015.

The project comments on fandom, identity, and corporeality as central elements of the ‘Moz cult.’

Will any other living pop star actually inspire 87 people to do something this silly?

In addition, the book considers some more theoretical issues on photography in general, and film pohotography in particular, i.e. its alleged ability to ‘capture’ something of the thing being photographed. Morrissey’s old shirt evidently, somehow, ‘radiates,’ but will this radiation be seen in the pictures?

And whose shirt it actually is, now, after all?

THE TITLE OF THE BOOK IS Paita – The Shirt (it has a minimal amount of text, but everything will be in English too). The book will be published by Savukeidas.

A photo book is significantly more expensive to produce than a book containing text only. Because the author works with analog materials, the original photos (black and white silver gelatine prints) need to be digitally reproduced for the book. Tuomo-Juhani Vuorenmaa, a specialist in professional photography publishing, will take care of this.

Book design will be done by Jorma Hinkka, a graphic designer and a long-standing photographic art enthusiast.

YOU CAN FUND THE PROJECT and purchase the book in advance by pledging 45 € via Mesenaatti.me crowdfunding site. The book will be posted once it is published (in the winter/spring of 2015). The sum (45 €) includes VAT and postage to any country. This is the only funding option available to international funders.

If you live in Finland, you can choose other funding options too, which include postage to Finnish addressess.

By funding 25 € you get the book, but numbered (from 61 to 260) and signed by the author.

With 40 € you get the book (numbered from 41 to 60) and an email invitation to the book launch party, which will take place in Helsinki in 2015 (when the book is released).

By supporting us with 60 € or 75 € you will get the book (numbered from 1 to 20 and 21 to 40), and a series of colour photographs, hand made by the author in RA-4 colour process. The three 9×12 cm photos in the series are closeups of the Shirt itself, and the series are numbered from 1 to 40. The 75 € option includes an email invitation to the book launch party, which will take place in Helsinki in winter/spring of 2015.

Thank you for your interest!

The author’s short photo blog entry on the project

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The Finnish art policy handbook works as an opening for discussion on Finnish art and cultural policy development. It is a guide to the making and understanding of the arts and cultural policy in Finland. The handbook is a continuation of the Finnish Art policy event, which brought the general public, those working in the field of art and policy makers together to exchange views on art and cultural policy. The work focuses on the ten Finland-based political parties’ views on art and cultural policy and the analysis of these views. In addition, it includes the views of artists, politicians, researchers and reporters on the effects and making of art and cultural policy and of the changed conditions in the policy.

The authors of the publication are amongst others:researchers Pauli Rautiainen and Olli Jakonen, film director Hannaleena Hauru, artist Freja Bäckman, critic and performance artist Eeva Kemppi and the reporter Kimmo Jylhämö. The handbook is compiled by curator and artist Jussi Koitela.

The articles in the handbook repeat the question of the mobilising of art and cultural policy and bringing it to a more central role in Finnish society. The texts focus on reflecting amongst other things; how the reading and understanding of cultural policy history and its concepts could activate and produce tools to modify the funding of art and on the cultural and general political climate.

The handbook is published by the Baltic Circle –modern theatre festival and Checkpoint Helsinki. Financing of the handbook with regards to delivery and design work as well of the articles has been gathered together.  As patrons of the campaign, we collect funding for the printing and distribution of the handbook.

With 2000 euros we will get a thousand first edition copies of the book.
With 5000 euros, we can invest more in the layout and printing quality of the handbook as well as double the number of copies, whereupon we can also distribute it to all the Finnish libraries.

The book is published on the brink of parliamentary elections in March.

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Rahoittamalla hankettamme saat lähikosketuksen ainutkertaiseen Aina Joku Vie -tanssi-iltaan juuri Sinulle sopivalla tavalla. Seuratanssin askeleet -lipulla pääset itsekin mukaan tanssin pyörteisiin, Seinäruusun valinta taas takaa aitiopaikan kiehtovien tapahtumien äärellä.

Samalla olet mahdollistamassa uusien kokeilujen syntymistä tanssiyhteisössämme myös jatkossa. Kampanjan avulla kerätyt varat käytetään suoraan tapahtuman toteutuksesta aiheutuviin kuluihin.
Räätälöityjen kampanjalippujen valikoimasta löytyy jokaiselle sopiva, kokonaisvaltaisempi elämys. Älä siis epäröi kutsua myös ystäviäsi mukaan: levittämällä sanaa teemme yhteisvoimin tapahtumasta sosiaalisemman ja antoisamman. Lämmin kiitos tuestasi!

AINA JOKU VIE
Mistä kumpuaa mollikansan melankolia, pohtii Alpo Aaltokoski Companyn työryhmä valmistaessaan Kaapelitehtaalle teosta, jossa ensimmäistä kertaa myös katsojilla on mahdollisuus olla osa tapahtumia. ”Suomalaisessa tanssilavakulttuurissa kiteytyy jotakin hyvin olennaista täkäläisestä elämäntavasta ja ajatusmaailmasta”, sanoo palkittu koreografi ja tanssitaiteilija Alpo Aaltokoski.
Kaapelitehtaan Puristamoon ravintola Hima&Salin kupeessa rakentuu tanssiravintolahenkinen miljöö, missä ilta alkaa alkeistason seuratanssiopetuksella ja huipentuu sekahakuun. Seinäruusun rooli on yhtä sallittu. http://www.aaltokoskicompany.fi/ohjelmisto/teokset/aina-joku-vie-2/

TAUKO DESIGN
Aina Joku Vie -illan tanssijoiden pukusuunnittelusta vastaa kotimainen vaatemerkki TAUKO design, joka tunnetaan terveydenhuollon poistotekstiilien hyödyntämisestä vaatetuotantonsa raakamateriaalina. TAUKO tuo estradille tulevan mallistonsa näytösversion, jossa esitellään merkille ominaisesti aivan uusi tapa käyttää kierrätettyjä sairaalatekstiilejä – nyt painokuosin muodossa. http://taukodesign.fi/

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Loud Silents Festival gathers groups of people under the same roof to enjoy the wonderful alliance of silent films and live music. Embracing the Finnish silent film community and film tradition is part of the organization’s agenda – thus, we wish to empower the audience by giving them tools to support and fund our highly ambitious project.

Silent film with live accompaniment is an experience that shakes you to your core. Each show becomes a unique spectacle, something that cannot be reproduced or digitally distributed. Producing the shows takes not only a lot of time, but also cold, hard cash.

When producing film screenings, one needs to pay for screening rights and also rent either the digital copy or a film reel, and in addition you need premises, projectors and people to operate the equipment. With live band performances, you need an array of speakers, microphones, PA and a crew to help out, not to mention the band’s fees and training hours. With Loud Silents Festival, we are paying for two.

When the festival debuted in 2013, we received a notable amount of media attention; Loud Silents was covered by e.g. Aamulehti, Helsingin Sanomat, Turun Sanomat, Finnish Broadcasting Company, Image, Sue, Classic Radio, Radio City, and also a number of underground media outlets. To add to the stories by traditional medias, we actively produce content for our social media channels and our website, loudsilents.com

Last year our audience consisted mainly of university students and lower-middle class taking interest in cultural events. This year we hope to attract more varied groups by including a family-friendly Chaplin screening to the mix. Detailed info about the full program can be found in our home page.

We are asking for your help! Our aim is to collect 1,500 EUR with the help of Mesenaatti.me users. By contributing to our crowdfunding campaing you will directly support the festival’s production and take a little bit of financial load off our shoulders. In addition to exclusive perks, you will experience a new, communal way of making a festival happen.

-Mikko, Otto & Niilo
Loud Silents Festival

Loud Silents Festival @ Tampereen ylioppilasteatteri 25.-26.4. 2014.

Info & schedule: http://loudsilents.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/loudsilentsfestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LoudSilents
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/loudsilentsfestival

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