KEMINMAA. Peter Franzén, born and raised in the small northern town of [...]
TORNIO. For three days (18-20/4) media students and teachers in Tornio and Tampere celebrate the radio media with lectures, competitions, [...]
KEMI. Photographer Tuula Lampela has a studio in Sodankylä, northern Lapland. – I wanted to do something outside my ordinary [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. Border towns Haparanda and Tornio are growing together into a single unit. The long term vision is to constitute [...]
KEMI. If you you go to Aine’s in Tornio, it will be an art museum. If you go to Aine’s [...]
INARI. An Alaskan fish smoker, Australian protest singers, a female Indian revenger, a Colombian jungle tribe and Sami yoikers – [...]
ROVANIEMI. Works of Rovaniemi-born artist Kari Huhatamo can be found all over FInland, and out in Europe. His abstract and [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO, JUOKSENGI/JUOKSENKI. Living at a national border gives a number of advantages – the access to different cultures, languages, food [...]
ROVANIEMI. – We can’t learn skills from indigenous peoples. But more about life attitudes, mobility, flexibility. A relaxed attitude. Freedom. [...]
HELSINKI. Writer Rosa Liksom was born in Ylitornio, Finnish Lapland. After living in Denmark, Russia, France, Iceland and Norway, and [...]
ROVANIEMI. What is Arctic Design, and how can it be developed and used here in the north? The new publication [...]
OULU. Images are getting more and more important in our societies. In recent years, technologies have developed fast and made [...]
TORNIO. Dancers Titta Court and Pia Lindy sweep around the book-shelves in the public library, let books cover their faces, [...]
II. What do you scream when you see a really scary horror film? Probably something like Iik!! This is also [...]
KEMI. What is political art today? In radical political times, like the late 60′s and early 70′s it was easy [...]
YLITORNIO. The music instrument kantele has a long tradition in Finland. According to the national epic Kalevala, it was created [...]
FINLAND. In his art, the Finnish-American photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen fuses his own naked body with nature, often in the [...]
TORNIO. Aine art museum in Tornio is full of birds – big owls, black ravens, sparrows, tits, waterfowl. But also [...]
TORNIO/OULU. Läjä [The Heap] screams and howls like a wounded animal, circling on the stage, backed by the thundering energy [...]
OULU. Today, the biggest short and documentary film festival in the Nordic countries starts in Oulu. Around 150 films will [...]
ROVANIEMI. There are travellers, and there are travellers. When Pasi Pikkupeura goes to Russia, he will probably not lie on [...]
OULU. Like bees to honey, Finnish music video lovers, film students and producers have been drawn to Oulu every year [...]
HELSINKI/OULU. Central Helsinki will have a new landmark and attraction next Thursday, 23rd of August. Artist Reijo Hukkanen from Oulu [...]
ROVANIEMI. Interested in the North and the Arctic? In Rovaniemi there is a goldmine waiting for you – 35 000 [...]
TORNIOHAPARANDA. Finland’s most popular reggae artist Jukka Poika gave a concert in his old home town Tornio yesterday. Born as [...]
ORANKI. Art can be found in many unknown and surprising places. Around small village Oranki, northeast of Pello in Finnish [...]
TORNE VALLEY. Some new signs on the lampposts have recenty appeared in HaparandaTornio. The same symbols are also on the [...]
HAPARANDATORNIO. The Kalottjazz & Blues festival is in full swing in border towns Haparanda and Tornio. The intimate and [...]
Ii. The artworks of Art Ii Biennale of Northern Environmental and Scultpture Art are now completed and opened to the [...]
SODANKYLÄ. In the middle of the night people stumble out of the cirkus tent, getting blinded by the midnight sun, [...]
II. “North as such is art. Here nature and people get strength from each other, support each other [...]“, Leena [...]
SODANKYLÄ. To be surrounded by the clear light of the midnight sun, and then voluntarily creep into the darkness of [...]
KEMI. French cartoonist Christophe Blain has gained fame for his comic books about the pirate/painter Isaac. Blain is one [...]
TORNIO. Aine art museum was full of happy people on Sunday. Comments like “Delicious!”, “Have you tried this?” and “Oh, [...]
ROVANIEMI. There´s a campaign going on to save old dance hall Valsa (= Valistustalo [Education House], also called Tivoli [...]
HAPARANDA-TORNIO. Ouga Chaka! Ouga Chaka! Ouga ouga ouga chaka! Twelve hard shouting women made their own version of “Hooked on a [...]
OULU. A new book from Oulu writer Eero Suvilehto is underways, this time about Iceland. Meetings with modern Vikings, readings [...]
KEMI. DAYS RISING Riitta Helevä – Petri Yrjölä Kemi Art Museum, Finland 2/3 – 15/4 2012 Petri Yrjölä was nominated [...]
