ESPOO MAGAZINE 3/2017

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COLLECTINGS Welcome to new residents! ESPOO’S CULTURAL service providers acknowledge Espoo residents who received their Finnish citizenship in 2016 in the form of diverse cultural benefits from 1 September 2017 to 31 May 2018. The goal is to make the cultural services on offer familiar to the residents of Espoo and to welcome all new citizens to Espoo. New citizens have the opportunity to visit museums, enjoy concerts, watch films and take part in different events and workshops. In addition to the City of Espoo’s own cultural services, cultural houses and centres, the active parties include the Gallen-Kallela Museum, the Helinä Rautavaara Museum, Espoo City Theatre, the Glims & Gloms dance company, Hevosenkenkä Theatre, Espoo Ciné, JuuriJuhla-RotFest and the Tapiola Choir. The benefits range from free tickets to reduced prices. This is a pilot project. The continuation of the project will be assessed later. In 2016, approximately 730 Espoo residents received Finnish citizenship. The majority of them spoke some Finnish. The most common mother tongues included Russian, Somali, English and Arabic. Autumn Sonata by Ingmar Bergman Espoo City Theatre, opening night 14 February 2018. FROM THE ANNALS OF HISTORY A journey through time to a Finnish elementary school MUSICIANS OF THE MUSIC OF FINLAND EVENTS ALUMNI OF THE ESPOO MUSIC INSTITUTE THE CENTENARY of Finland marked in Shanghai and the surrounding cities on 6–18 November. The Sibelius China Society, established in June by the Sibelius Society of Finland and the China Symphony Development Foundation, was celebrated at the same time. The society strengthens the cultural collaboration and student exchange between the two countries in the field of classical music. The China Symphony Development Foundation’s members include all 73 symphony orchestras of China. Music of Finland is part of the esteemed Shanghai International Arts Festival. The event includes nine Finnish music concerts, lectures and piano master courses at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Ningbo International Institute. The concerts include piano and chamber music pieces by Sibelius performed by Folke Gräsbeck, Jan-Paul, Jonathan and Rebecca Roozeman as well as Jamin and Jason Hu. The young musicians from the two families started their studies at the Espoo Music Institute. In 2014, they toured China with the Tapiola Youth Symphony Orchestra. The President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, is the patron of the Music of Finland event. HOUSING COUNSELLORS TO HELP WITH HOUSING PROBLEMS ESPOO’S NEW housing counselling service helps residents with housing problems. A resident or a relative may contact a housing counsellor, for instance, in case of problems with paying the rent, rent debt situations or neighbourhood trouble. The housing counselling service provides information about seeking support and benefits and guidance at the start of the tenancy. Housing counsellors organise housing search information events once a month around Espoo. The housing search information events provide THE FESTIVAL INCLUDES NINE CONCERTS OF FINNISH MUSIC. information regarding housing searches, housing providers and rental housing and assist with housing applications as much as possible. You can register for the information events directly through the housing counsellors. The telephone service lines are open on weekdays from 8 am to 2 pm. The housing counsellors use a call-back service and they 09 816 34455 South Espoo post code areas: 02100-02380 ja 02780 09 816 34456 North Espoo post code areas: 02600-02680, 02700-02770, 02810- 02980, 00370 aim to call back during the same day. THE DECREE on elementary education of 1866 obligated municipalities to establish and maintain elementary schools. At the same time, however, years of failed crops and great famine caused delay to the building work. Espoo’s first municipal elementary school, Lagstads folkskola, was completed for the autumn 1873. Before that, school was already held in different places, such as manor houses. It was in use as a school until the end of the spring term of 1954 when a new school building was completed. The Premises Department of the City of Espoo @tilapalvelut has published on its Twitter account pictures of buildings in Espoo that are over 100 years old. Pictures with the hashtag #Suomi100 tell the story of Espoo’s history and development from a rural municipality to a continually growing city. A school museum has been in the plans of the City of Espoo since the 1960s. For many years, Espoo City Museum has been gathering school-related artefacts and materials for its collections. In 1999, Esbo hembygdsförening agreed a long-term lease agreement with the City of Espoo. In cooperation with the city, the association repaired the building in a discreet way and Lagstad hembygdsgård was inaugurated in 2002. The following year, the Lagstad school museum was opened in a former classroom on the building’s second floor. Espoo City Museum’s exhibition Kansa koulussa (At Elementary School) continues now also in a building that was a former teacher’s quarters. There it is possible under the supervision of a guide to get familiar with, for example, writing with a dip pen or a fountain pen, counting with an abacus or writing with a chalk slate. The exhibition is a fascinating journey through the history of Espoo’s elementary schools, from the establishment of the first municipal elementary school to the present day. 6
MAKING YOUR MARK IN THE WORLD AT WORK Kamilla Mäkinen works as children and youth textile work instructor at the Gräsa arts and crafts centre. Gräsa gives children and youths the chance to improve their arts and crafts and self-expression skills and to spend their free time in a meaningful way. TEXT Piritta Porthan PHOTO Timo Porthan ’’ I’ve been doing arts and crafts using different techniques since I was a child and I want to keep developing in my field. Ten years ago I started as a substitute at the Gräsa arts and crafts centre, and the temporary post led to a permanent position as a children and youth textile work instructor. My job description includes planning clubs and working as an instructor. I also take part in youth work through training and meetings. Our largest target group is lower and upper comprehensive school students. I feel that teaching them handicrafts provides an important counterbalance to school work and electronics. Handicrafts help to develop coordination, creativity and thinking. I hope that our enthusiasts will dare to put their new skills to good use at home. Handicrafts activities started at Gräsa more than 37 years ago in the form of a woodwork club, which was followed by textile work and ceramics clubs. Nowadays, we have three material groups: woodwork, metalwork and engine clubs; ceramics and silver work clubs; and arts and crafts, textile work and sewing clubs. We plan the course contents ourselves, but we also receive a lot of new ideas from the participants. Every year, Gräsa’s clubs are attended by more than a hundred children and youth. In addition to this, we also organise mini courses and weekend workshops. The participants only pay for the material costs, and everyone is welcome to join. There are still places available.” 3 PERMANENT INSTRUCTORS 3 PART-TIME INSTRUCTORS 20 WEEKLY COURSES 2 BUILDINGS OF THE OLD GRÄSA MANOR AS WORK SPACES 5 DIFFERENT WORK SPACES AMONG OTHER THINGS, GRÄSA OFFERS Kamilla Mäkinen has been doing crafts since she was a child. Work as an instructor at Gräsa has allowed her to transform a beloved hobby into a job. ESPOO-LEHTI 3/2017 >> 7
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