The Twin Cities celebrate Laskiainen, Finland's celebration marking seven weeks before Easter, the coming of spring and increasing day length. Pea soup is traditionally eaten as Finns believed eating heavy foods would […]
The Finnish Center in Farmington Hills will commemorate the Kalevala, the national epic for the Finns, with a very interesting presentation by one of the nation’s experts on Finland, Finnish culture and the Kalevala. Dr. Tom Dubois has done extensive research on Finnish and Sami culture, past and present.
The Los Angeles Chapter celebrates Kalevala Day with a program and potluck luncheon at the Curtin House.
At the Portland International Film Festival: Based on Antti Tuuri’s bestselling novel, The Eternal Road tells the untold story of the many thousands of Communist Americans who answered Stalin’s call in the 1930's to build a new society in the USSR based on justice, equality, and freedom. They include Jussi Ketola, an idealistic American with Finnish […]
Russian pianist Olga Kern will be performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Arizona Musicfest. Maestro Robert Moody and the Festival Orchestra begin the evening with Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, followed by the Symphony No. 5 by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
Second printing of “This Side of Sand Island: Reflections on Fish, Finns and Finding out about Family on the Lower Columbia” will be available at Astoria’s Fisher Poets Gathering, and directly from the author, Victoria Pitkanen Stoppiello. She is a past recipient of a Finlandia Foundation grant. This illustrated essay collection looks, sometimes with a […]
In Portland, Finnish pianist Janne Oksanen will play works by a Finnish composer relatively unknown outside Finland and a contemporary of Sibelius, Toivo Kuula, in a free concert, “Echoes from the North." The program will include Beethoven and Chopin, as well as Kuula: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata no. 31 in A Flat op. 110; Kuula’s Satukuvia […]
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. They Know Not What They Do, a psychological novel set in the near future by Jussi Valtonen, grapples with the role technology plays in our relationships, for better and worse. Jussi Valtonen is an author and psychologist from Helsinki, Finland, who now […]
At the Portland International Film Festival: Based on Antti Tuuri’s bestselling novel, The Eternal Road tells the untold story of the many thousands of Communist Americans who answered Stalin’s call in […]
The Finnish-American Society of the Midwest commemorates the Kalevala, Finland's national epic, with a presentation in the Chicago area by a leading expert on Finland, Finnish culture and the Kalevala, FFN […]