Tag: Arts

  • Kolibrí festivali spring 2016

    Kolibrí festivali spring 2016

    Kolibrí festivaali is much more than a children’s festival! It is a multidisciplinary artistic platform that focuses on the promotion of multiculturalism through art expressions. We embrace artistic expressions from various fields such as circus, music, painting and photography in our activities. We aim to work in an integral manner with people from all ages and backgrounds while focusing on sharing our culture with the Finnish society. Kolibrí festivaali recognizes and cherishes cultural differences, for they enrich our vision of the world.

    The core team of Kolibrí festivaali is a group of foreign nationals that have adopted Helsinki as their home and offers activities free of charge for children and their families. We work hard to make of this space a stage that enhances the visibility of immigrant artists, creative and talented people with artistic proposals. While our focus is in sharing our culture from the Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries, the activities are offered to all children interested to join, regardless on their mother tongue. For the purpose, we offer workshopsand activities in various languages simultaneously, but what is more, we aim to share art that does not have any language barrier. The invited artists are resourceful and diverse and will use the support of new and old technology in order to engage the senses of children, their parents, grandparents, and whomever joins us.

    The raised money will be used to pay artists that would perform in the festival and to pay for the production expenses. Your contribution means the world to us. Big thanks!

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    Kolibrí es más que él festival infantil iberoamericano en Helsinki, es una plataforma educativa y artística que promociona el multiculturalismo en Finlandia. El festival Kolibrí trabaja de manera integral con todas las familias e integrantes, independientemente de su edad e identidad. Lo hacemos a través de diferentes expresiones danza, música, circo, literatura, fotografía, arquitectura, entre otros. Kolibrí festivaali reconoce y aprecia las diferencias, éstas enriquecen nuestra visión del mundo.

    El equipo clave de Kolibrí festivaali está compuesto por inmigrantes residentes en Helsinki y programa actividades de acceso gratuito para los niños y sus familias. Nos proponemos compartir arte y tiempo de calidad en familia sin barreras en la lengua. Así nos esforzamos por visibilizar aquellos inmigrantes los artistas, creativos, investigadores y talentos que desarrollan propuestas educativas y artísticas vinculadas con la infancia en Finlandia.

    Nuestro enfoque está en la promoción de cultura de los países hispano y portugués hablantes. Sin embargo, son muy bienvenidos todos los interesados en participar sin importar cuál sea su lengua materna. Para lograrlo, nuestros talleres y actividades se ofrecen en varias lenguas de manera simultánea. Los ingeniosos artistas hacen uso de viejas y nuevas tecnologías para activar los sentidos y saberes en niños, sus padres, sus abuelos, o quien sea que los acompañe. Kolibrí es una propuesta artística educativa que privilegia la interrelación entre los miembros de esta diversa comunidad que es Helsinki, desde la perspectiva de los niños y sus familias.

    El dinero recaudado será utilizado para pagar salario de artistas y gastos de producción Kolibrí. Tu contribución hace toda la diferencia. Muchas gracias!

  • artArctica festival 2016

    artArctica festival 2016

    The ecosystems and cultures of the Arctic are beautiful and inspiring – yet at the same time fragile. We believe that we have a lot to learn from people living in the Arctic, in closer connection to the world around them. That the Arctic is so much more than just an empty, icy landscape – it is alive, fascinating, full of stories.

    We passionately believe the Arctic is an inspiring place, and we want to share this with you.

    So we put together this festival.

    Like a snowball turning into an avalanche, artArctica festival is a small idea grown big: we’re now hosting photography exhibitions, installations, dance and music performances, feature films and short film selections – and we are lucky to have participants from every corner of the Arctic: Greenland, Canada, Russia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands.

    In the final stages of production, we have come a long way – and now we need your support to ensure we produce a high-quality event, for both artists and audience.

    We still need to cover certain travel expenses for the artists, as well as production expenses like printing large-format photographs and securing royalties rights for the films. By supporting this project, you are directly supporting grass-roots art-making in the Arctic.

    We are lucky to be supported by cultural foundations and grants, as well as various independent groups and
    organisations – and we need one last nudge, and that’s you. It’s the person we’re making this festival for: the
    Arctic enthusiast (even if you don’t know it yet), the artist, the admirer, the traveller, the story-teller. You. We
    need you, because without you our festival is just a private show.

    So help us make this festival a beautiful and unforgettable get-together – and be part of something bigger. Whether you can visit the festival, or live far away, but think this is the kind of thing that is worth happening, you can support us in one way or another.

    The festival is partly funded by Kulturkontakt Nord and Letterstedtska föreningen.

    It is happening in collaboration with the following organisations:

    Global Music Centre (FI)
    City-Sámit (FI)
    Walhalla Film (FI)
    Finnish Arctic Club (FI)
    Arctic Museum Nanoq (FI)
    Skábmagovat Film Festival (FI)
    Uummannaq Polar Institute (GL)
    Arctic Arts Institute (RU)

  • Quantum Arts Jam

    Quantum Arts Jam

    CROWDFUNDING FOR SCIENCE!

    Quantum Arts Jam will merge art and physics in three different sessions. Together with the artists we will turn an equation into a painting and the Universe into a real dance.

    “We are physicists, constantly asking questions. From time to time we do find answers in experiments, formulas, even theories. However, we imagine things we cannot always picture.

    Mathematics is the language of physics, with which we tell stories that pictures hardly could. As universal as it is, our language is not spoken by everyone. That is why we need interpreters. That is why we asked for help from art. ”

    Quantum physicists will work together with the artists in improvised jam sessions, with an intention of creating atmosphere that speaks the dialogical language of quantum physics and art with both of its form and content.

    Wednesday August 12th 2015 at 4pm
    Sibelius-museum, Piispankatu 17, Turku

    Session 1: QUANTUM COMPLEXITY
    Dr. John Good & Dr. Libby Haney
    A dialogue between a crazy Irish quantum physicist and a fascinating London-based artist who was once a quantum physicist herself.
    https://sites.google.com/site/johngooldswebsite/

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    Session 2: DIAGRAMS OF LOVE
    Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco, artist Sibel Kantola & musician Minna Twice
    This is what happens when a physics professor meets her best friends artists over a coffee to chat about the life and works of one of the most well-known physicists of all times: Richard Feynman.
    http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/fysiikka/henkilokunta/maniscalco/Sivut/home.aspx
    http://www.belgrafik.com
    http://www.minnatwice.com/

    Session 3: BIG BANG TANGO
    Prof. Esko Valtaoja & jazz pianist Fabrizio Mocata
    The dance of the Universe is definitively a tango! Esko Valtaoja and Fabrizio Mocata will tell the story of the Universe as you’ve never heard before.
    http://www.utu.fi/fi/yksikot/sci/yksikot/fysiikka/henkilokunta/valtaoja/Sivut/home.aspx
    http://www.fabriziomocata.com/homepage—english.php

    Enable our project by choosing the sum you are wishing to support us with!

    PHASES OF THE FUNDING:

    1.000€
    We will provide the Quantum Arts Jam Session!

    2.000€
    We will provide an edited video of the Quantum Arts Jam Session after the event, available for anyone online!

    3.000€
    We will provide a live streaming of the Quantum Arts Jam Sessions, available anywhere in the world!

    4.000€
    We will provide everything mentioned above, plus a thank you event attached to the Jam for anyone who supported us!

    Credits:
    University of Turku: Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Open Quantum Systems and Entanglement research Group, QuProCS-project, Department of Cultural History, Aboagora symposium

    Video credits:
    Edit: Anna Vepsäläinen
    Film: Mikko Tukiainen & Jaakko Vainio
    Millenium simulation: Klaus Dolag, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics / Earth at Night: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
    Photos: Daniel Montoya, Kavilo Photography, ABO Photography

    Workgroup:
    Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco
    PhD Elsi Laine
    Dr. Massimo Borrelli
    FM Jaakko Vainio
    FM Mikko Tukiainen
    FM Anni Välimäki

    Rahankeräyslupa/Permission for funding: POL-2014-11403 (University of Turku)