The Finnish Sliding Festival! Fun-seekers converge on Palo’s Loon Lake Community Center (near Aurora) the first weekend of February for food, games and sliding! Free admission with plenty of goodies to purchase. Celebrate Finnish customs at this #OnlyInMN annual event. Don’t miss the vendors, music, crowning of the queen and more. Cost is $5 for […]
ETERNAL ROAD /IKITIE ACROSS BORDERS This film follows the journey of Jussi Ketola, who returns home to Finland from America at the beginning of the Great Depression, hoping to live quietly and farm the land. But his fellow Finns, still raw from the ravages of the Civil War, cannot trust Ketola. In Finnish, English and Russian with […]
The Nordic Stories children's book series features "The Piano" by Marika Maijala.
ETERNAL ROAD /IKITIE ACROSS BORDERS This 2017 film follows the journey of Jussi Ketola, who returns home to Finland from America at the beginning of the Great Depression, hoping to live quietly and farm the land. But his fellow Finns, still raw from the ravages of the Civil War, cannot trust Ketola. In Finnish, English and Russian […]
Enjoy social gathering hosted by Lyle Haataja, who will play favorite tunes accompanied by coffee and pastries.
View the 2017 remake of a legendary film based on a legendary book as part of the Finlandia University Finnish American Heritage Center’s Nordic Film Series. In Finnish with English subtitles.
Soloist Alksey Semenenko and Seattle Symphony play Sibelius’ violin concerto.
Soloist Alksey Semenenko and Seattle Symphony play Sibelius’ violin concerto.
The monthly film series presents a Finnish film with English subtitles: It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi […]
Enjoy live music and local fare at the FinnFest Committee's new Naselle Community Center!