ESPOO MAGAZINE 4/2020

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Music • Visual arts ♥ Theatre ✘ For children ✓ Cinema = Espoo ♦ Something else
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with more than 100 remote, independent and local events. Approximately
15,000 city residents participated in the Espoo Day events.
Herra
Hakkarainen
seikkailee ♥
Espoo City
Theatre: The Seal
− Hylje ♥
Laura
Voutilainen at
Tapiola Hall ✱
MR. Hakkarainen is the
world’s most famous sleepwalker
who, on his nocturnal
trips, finds himself in
most strange situations.
Hakkarainen’s best friend
Masa Marsu must help him
get back home from his
night-time adventures by the
morning. The two friends
also have to investigate who
is stealing golden spoons
from the town’s residents.
The colourful characters of
the town of Tassula come to
life in this Theatre Hevosenkenkä
performance which
does not lack either quick
turns or humour. In a performance
honouring the world
created by Mauri Kunnas,
the beautiful puppets and
the abundant set offer real
eye candy for theatre lovers.
For ages 3 and over.
• Tickets and performance
schedule hevosenkenkä.fi
AT the core of Hylje is a
nuclear family that lives by
the sea. People are fleeing
from war and other crises,
seeking shelter in Europe,
but the family has decided to
shut its door, and eyes, from
reality.
The play’s three acts each
depict events events that
take place a decade apart.
Everything circles back to
the seashore, and the family’s
collective trauma.
The new generation theatre
makers, playwright and
dramaturg Marie Kajava and
director Riikka Oksanen, join
their forces in this Finnish
world premiere.
• Thu 3 Dec at 19:00–21:00,
Fri 4 Dec at 19:00–21:00
and Sat 5 Dec at
15:00–17:00,
Espoo Cultural Centre,
Louhisali.
Tickets from lippu.fi
LAURA Voutilainen, who
started her music studies
as a young girl in Lahti, has
pursued her career with
determination and ambition.
It has been
25 years since her first
recording, during which time
she has become one of the
top performers in the Finnish
music world. Laura made
her breakthrough in January
1994 when her debut
album “Laura Voutilainen”
was released. It was the
best-selling Finnish album of
1994, ending up in around
120,000 Finnish homes. The
album brought such singles
as “Muuttanut oot maailmain”,
“Kerran” and “Kyynelvirta”
to the hit lists.
Duration of the concert
70 minutes, no intermission.
• Sat 5 Dec at 20:00, Espoo
Cultural Centre, Tapiola Hall.
Tickets from lippu.fi
Remember at least these!
Pekka Elomaa
Teemu Sirviö
The performance that honours the
world created by Mauri Kunnas features
beautiful puppets and an abundant set.
The Seal − Hylje is a play about fear
that takes precedence over values, a
kind of dystopian image of the future.
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Jupot in
Christmas spirit
The wind bands
of Juvenalia lead
their listeners to the
Christmas season
with joyous tones
at Sello Hall on 1
December at 18:00.
Christmas cafeteria
open before the concert.
Free admission.
Become an
architect
The All and Nothing
exhibition features a
Learning Yard, where
you can design a
residential area and
apartment of your
dreams on Saturday
5 December at 12:00.
The Learning Yard is
suited for all ages.
The magic of
Christmas at Sello
Hall
The skilled Juvenalia
students and
teachers interpret
Christmas music by
Finnish composers
known and loved
by all on Tuesday 8
December at 19:00.
Free admission.
The most beautiful
Christmas songs
Accompanied by the
Tapiola Sinfonietta,
at the Espoo Cultural
Centre on Tuesday
22 December at
18:00. Free tickets
must be collected
in advance from
the Espoo Cultural
Centre.
Karamzin’s
Coffee Break
Pianist Ari Romppanen
plays music
in the Christmas
spirit, from Bach
to Tchaikovsky at
Children’s Cultural
Centre Aurora on
10 December at
14:00. Free
admission.
Glims Farm
and Inn
Glims Farmstead
Museum consists
of a total of 11 buildings
located in their
original locations in
a historical cultural
landscape. The
buildings form the
permanent exhibition
of Glims.
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