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KUHMO THINKS ABOUT WINTER EVEN IN HIGH SUMMER
Music, exhibitions, nature photos, dance, theatre and literature
The Kuhmo Culture Celebrates Winter will be held for the seventh time on January 1–6, 2015.
Kuhmo Culture Celebrates Winter, to be held for the seventh time from January 1 to 6, 2015, is a joint arena for Kuhmo organisers and artists, some of them internationally-acclaimed. It is a showcase for some of the best Kuhmo culture: music of many kinds, dance, theatre, exhibitions, films and local food.
The slogan chosen when the event was established was “The Best of Kuhmo Culture”, and this applies again this year. The people involved have various links with Kuhmo: some are now living in Kuhmo, some were born or have their roots here, and others have cultural ties with the town.
The week begins at the Kuhmo Arts Centre on New Year’s Day, January 1, with an art exhibition of work by Liisa Linkola entitled My Colour Diary. The exhibition is organised by the Latitude 64 group of Kuhmo artists in partnership with the City of Kuhmo. The exhibition will open at 16.00 and the works will be on display at the Kuhmo Arts Centre throughout January. Liisa Linkola will also be interviewed by Philip Donner, a member of the Latitude 64 group, about her art at the Pajakka Hall of the Kuhmo Arts Centre at 15.00 on Tuesday, January 6.
At 18.00 on January 1, we will be treated to the traditional New Year’s Day concert at the Kuhmo Arts Centre. This will be given by the Lentua Sinfonietta conducted by Jukka-Pekka Kuusela.
Friday January 2 is dedicated to nature. An exhibition, How are Nature Guidebooks born?, by non-fiction writer Jouni Laaksonen will open at 13.00 at Kuhmo Library. At 15.00 and 18.00 on the same day, Jouni Laaksonen will talk on the same topic at the Petola Visitor Centre.
Dance is also an item on the programme for Kuhmo Culture Celebrates Winter. Naturally this will involve Kuhmo dance, choreographed by Ritva Kuha and Maija Palsio, but also a Rimpparemmi choreography Yolo – you only live once by Sampo Kerola. The organiser of this is the City of Kuhmo.
At 16.00 on Sunday January 4 Kuhmo Culture Celebrates Winter features the opening of a new art exhibition The Artists’ Kalevala in Russia at Juminkeko. As always at Juminkeko, the fundamental theme is the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, and its spirit. This time the artistic views are those of artists from Russia – three of them Petrozavodsk, three from St. Petersburg and one from Moscow. Igor Baranov, Natalia Egorova, Antonina Yufa, Aleksandr Novoselov, Sergei Terentyev, Tatyana Tshursinova and Irina Zatulovskaya have interpreted The Kalevala in painting, video and textiles.
On the same evening, at 18.00 on Sunday January 4, Kuhmo Chamber Music will be giving its winter concert at the Lentua Hall of the Kuhmo Arts Centre. On the programme will be works by Villa-Lobos, Bruch, Poulenc, Stravinsky and Glinka, performed this time by Kuhmo Chamber Music artists Vladimir Mendelssohn, viola, Michel Lethiec, clarinet, and Andrea Rucli, piano. After the concert, there will be an excellent chance to complement food for the soul with food for the body at a sumptuous tapas evening at the Neljä Kaesaa right next to the Kuhmo Arts Centre.
A dramatized portrait – both fact and fiction – of Annikki Kariniemi, a writer from Lapland, will be presented (in Finnish) at the Kuhmo Arts Centre at 14.00 on Monday January 5. This monologue, The Red Snows of Lapland, by Rosa Liksom will be performed by Topi Mikkola and Dr Marja L. Tuominen will talk about Kariniemi the writer.
At 18.00 on the same evening, January 5, a concert of archaic music will be held at the Hotel Kalevala. The artistic content of this programme will be in the safe hands of Taito Hoffrén. Food will again be available after this concert, this time a Kainuu–international supper at the same Hotel.
January 6 is Twelfth Night and at 15.00 Liisa Linkola the artist will talk about her exhibition at an event organised by the Latitude 64 group of artists. In the evening, the Kuhmo Korpi Raikaa association will be hosting a concert of light music devoted to gems from the Finnish rock lyric repertoire.
The aim of Kuhmo Culture Celebrates Winter is to present a wide selection of culture both to local residents and to people from further away. It is organised by Juminkeko, the Sommelo Music Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the City of Kuhmo, the Kuhmo Arts Centre and the Petola Nature Centre.
The graphic design is the work of Klaus von Matt.
Further info:
www.kuhmowinter.fi
