ESPOO MAGAZINE 3/2019

PICKS
TIINA PARIKKA AND MIA WECKSTRÖM
800
The
City of Espoo employed more than 800 summer workers this
summer. Most of the jobs were for one month. Work was available in
elderly care, sport and youth work, early childhood education, town
planning, construction supervision, the environmental centre, real
estate management, financial management and city survey positions.
OLLI URPELA
Children at Tuomarila day-care centre.
NEW CULTURAL SERVICE FOR CHILDREN
IN SEPTEMBER, the City of Espoo will introduce a new children’s cultural
service known as Culture Call, which will bring art and culture
directly into day-care centres. Culture Call will involve professionals
from the field of culture visiting day-care centres to perform and lead
workshops. In its first year, Culture Call will cover all of the 175 municipal
day-care centres in Espoo.
Twenty-four artists and cultural professionals are creating content
for Culture Call. Over the course of the academic year, at least
one cultural professional will visit every day-care centre. In addition,
at least one Culture Call event will be held for the educators in every
day-care centre, where the cultural professionals will teach the early
childhood education personnel how to use cultural and artistic techniques
with children.
The aim of Culture Call is to ensure systematic, coherent collaboration
between early childhood education and cultural professionals, increase
the amount of mutual learning, and enhance inclusion and the non-discriminatory
right for children to experience and engage in art and culture.
THE SERVICE CENTRE FOR SENIOR
CITIZENS IN ESPOON KESKUS IS MOVING
Espoon keskus will
have a museum of its own
THE HELINÄ Rautavaara Museum, which exhibits the world’s cultures,
will open its doors to the public at the Entresse shopping centre on Espoo
Day, 31 August. At the heart of the museum’s collection are the
ritual, practical and artistic items collected by journalist Helinä Rautavaara
from Africa, Asia and Latin America. The museum’s collections
also include Rautavaara’s photographs and audiovisual material, as well
as notes and diaries.
The first temporary exhibition of the autumn will take visitors on a
journey into the rainforest of Peru, right into the lives of the isolated
Mashco-Piro people. The exhibition was created as a result of a project
entitled “Indigenous People on the Edges of the World,” financed by the
Kone Foundation and coordinated by the University of Turku.
Entry to the museum is free of charge. Find out more at helinamuseo.fi.
THE SERVICE centre for senior citizens in Espoon keskus is moving to new
premises in the Espoontori shopping centre (Kamreerintie 3, floor 3).
The new service centre will celebrate its opening at 1.30 pm on
Monday 9 September. Come and see the new premises and find out
about the service centre’s activities!
The service centre is an open living room for senior citizens in the
area – a place where they can enjoy a meal, spend time, engage in hobbies
and participate in various events.
The service centre’s premises are available for reservation, primarily
by associations of senior citizens and pensioners, for their own non-
would be great if Finland and Espoo
won the race to become the European
Capital of Innovation while Finland
profit activities. Other users may rent the premises by agreement.
holds the EU presidency.
’’It
– JUKKA MÄKELÄ, MAYOR
Helinä
Rautavaara in
India in 1966.
Rautavaara
bequeathed
Finland’s largest
collection
of West-African
objects,
tens of
thousands of
photographs,
hundreds
of hours of
recordings
and dozens of
hours of ciné
film.
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