Ikuisesti sinun (Forever Yours) is an honest and riveting look at children in the child care system in Finland won a Jussi for Best Documentary. Director and writer Mia Halme keeps her focus on a few children in problematic home conditions and in foster care, but the questions raised in the film are more universal.
Browse the flea market goods and craft show, and enjoy the bake sale and pasties.
Enjoy a hearty pannukakku and pulla breakfast and browse the goods at the flea market, a benefit for the Saima Park scholarship fund.
Browse the flea market goods and craft show, and enjoy the bake sale and pasties.
Celebrate spring and enjoy the Lawn Program at House of Finland, in Balboa Park.
Ruusamari Teppo presents a program she has created, built on her connection to Finnish composer Jean Sibelius: She is his great-great granddaughter.
A day of celebration (think spring). In Finland, it is known as Vappu, in Sweden Valborg’s Mass Eve. Complimentary hot dogs, sima (think of mead), doughnuts (munkki), and coffee. Wine and beer available for purchase. There will be children games, adult games, a tug of war between the Swedes and Finns, and a sing-a-long besides […]
U.S. premiere of "Vista" by Kaija Saariaho, with Susanna Mälkki conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Also featuring "Lemminkäinen Suite" by Sibelius, which tells four stories from the Finnish national saga, the Kalevala, about the hero Lemminkäinen. Sibelius pulls out all his descriptive stops to create the wide-open, Northern musical landscape in which these tales play out, ranging […]
FFN offers matching grants to students attending Salolampi Language Village in Bemidji, MN for those who receive financial support from a Finlandia Foundation chapter. Travel grants may also be available. Today is the deadline for qualifying. Click below for information.
Sample the food, music, dance, culture, native costumes and crafts from around the world, including Finland.