WA: Alvar Aalto’s Jyväskylä
New York–based Finnish photographer Janne Tuunanen explores Aalto's work in their shared hometown of Jyväskylä.
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MN: The Great Northern Sauna Village
A first for the annual Great Northern Festival! Experience a variety of saunas during the public event, or book a private sauna session for your group. Hours are 4-8:30 pm weekdays and 11 am-9:30 pm weekends
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WA: Nordic Stories
WA: Nordic Stories
Our monthly Nordic Stories program is geared toward preschool aged children and their caregivers and features children’s stories from the Nordic countries paired with fun craft projects. This month's book […]
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WA: Finnish Film Festival
This inaugural event features three days of movies from Finland. See website for films and screening times.
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WA: “Aalto: Architect of Emotions”
WA: “Aalto: Architect of Emotions”
In honor of acclaimed Finnish architect Alvar Aalto's 125th birthday, join us for a screening of Aalto: Architect of Emotions.
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MN: Laskiainen
85th Finnish Sliding Festival in Palo. The two-day wintertime celebration includes food, artisans, basketball games, sleigh and dog sled rides, music and sledding.
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ONLINE: Folk Songs from Karelia Workshop
ONLINE: Folk Songs from Karelia Workshop
Conducting this two-day workshop is Emmi Kuittinen, a folk musician, singer and songwriter, who specializes in the Karelian and Ingrian singing styles and also laments. Karelia is a wide area situated in Finland and Russia and it has a very rich and diverse singing culture. In this workshop you’ll get to know more about different […]
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MN: Laskiainen
MN: Laskiainen
85th Finnish Sliding Festival in Palo. The two-day wintertime celebration includes food, artisans, basketball games, sleigh and dog sled rides, music and sledding.
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ONLINE: Folk Songs from Karelia Workshop
ONLINE: Folk Songs from Karelia Workshop
Conducting this two-day workshop is Emmi Kuittinen, a folk musician, singer and songwriter, who specializes in the Karelian and Ingrian singing styles and also laments. Karelia is a wide area situated in Finland and Russia and it has a very rich and diverse singing culture. In this workshop you’ll get to know more about different […]
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Sámi National Day
The Sámi are the indigenous people inhabiting northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Sámi National Day is February 6, which commemorates the first Sámi congress in 1917.
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MN: Sámi Day Celebration
MN: Sámi Day Celebration
Celebration of the 30th Sámi National Day includes Sámi stories, button-making, browsing the library's Sámi Collection, conversation, and exploring items from the Sámi Cultural Center.
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ONLINE: Maija Isola: Master of Colour and Form
ONLINE: Maija Isola: Master of Colour and Form
A documentary about Maija Isola, a pioneering Marimekko designer as part of the Architecture and Design Film Festival; check for window to view it. also screening in Washington D.C. on January 27
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ONLINE & NYC: Sámi Film Festival
The 5th annual screening of Sámi films will be held online and in-person. Check for schedule and details.
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MA: Mobile Sauna
Celebrate National Sauna Week with Cape Ann Finns and Abundance Mobile Sauna. Reservations required, times vary throughout each day. Click below for details.
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Online: FinnFest 2023
Online: FinnFest 2023
Learn all about FinnFest USA 2023 in Duluth in July in this Zoom session hosted by FFN chapter, the Finnish American Society of Cape Cod, with FinnFest President K. Marianne Wargelin. Email to register: mlariv@comcast.net
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Radio & Livestreamed Sauna Special
Radio & Livestreamed Sauna Special
From Duluth, a special program for National Sauna Week on The North 103.3 FM! Host Tim Winker spins sauna songs and talks history, culture and music of the Finnish sauna in America---including interviews conducted in saunas. The hour-long program will air during the 6-10 pm (Central) Folk Migrations show. Tune in or listen online at […]
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MA: Traditional Finnish Sauna
Abundance Mobile Sauna celebrates National Sauna Week in the Finnish tradition. Reservations are required, and times vary throughout the day. Click below for details.
NATIONAL SAUNA WEEK
Finlandia Foundation has declared the last week of February "National Sauna Week," to build awareness and appreciation of this aspect of Finnish and Finnish-American culture, with activities, online programming and a wealth of information to come to the FFN website.
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ID: Pack River Sauna & Swim
ID: Pack River Sauna & Swim
In the Coeur d'Alene area, Toasty Mobile Saunas hosts a fun series of events to celebrate National Sauna Week. Check the schedule for activities on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd and 25th at the link below. All times are PST.
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NY: What Sauna Means to Me
NY: What Sauna Means to Me
Fingers Lake Finns will enjoy a potluck dinner, view short sauna videos and hold a discussion about sauna in the days of the area's Finnish settlement history as well as today.
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Online: Finnish Sauna Culture
Online: Finnish Sauna Culture
Learn about smoke saunas and this collection of historic saunas open to the public in Jämsä, Finland, with Saija Silen. Details and registration at link below.
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Online: Importance of Good Sauna
Online: Importance of Good Sauna
A panel of sauna experts ask "Why do Americans compromise on sauna quality?" For details and registration click link below.
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ID: Run & Sauna
ID: Run & Sauna
In the Coeur d'Alene area, Toasty Mobile Saunas hosts a fun series of events to celebrate National Sauna Week. Check the schedule for activities on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd and 25th at the link below. All times are PST.
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ID: Aromatherapy Sauna
ID: Aromatherapy Sauna
In the Coeur d'Alene area, Toasty Mobile Saunas hosts a fun series of events to celebrate National Sauna Week. Check the schedule for activities on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd and 25th at the link below. All times are PST.
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Online: Spirit(s) of the Sauna
Online: Spirit(s) of the Sauna
Discover the unique world of folklore of the sauna, and the surprising number of spirits in the sauna with you. Details and registration at link below.
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OR & VIRTUAL: Searching Your Genealogy
OR & VIRTUAL: Searching Your Genealogy
Attend in person or join via Zoom on the last Wednesday of each month, January - June.
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Online: Katja Pantzar Author Talk
Online: Katja Pantzar Author Talk
Finlandia Foundation National Executive Director Tommy Flanagan chats with Katja Pantzar, author of Everyday Sisu and The Finnish Way. Details and registration at link below.
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ID: Boundary County Sauna
ID: Boundary County Sauna
In the Coeur d'Alene area, Toasty Mobile Saunas hosts a fun series of events to celebrate National Sauna Week. Check the schedule for activities on the 19th, 20th, 21st, 23rd and 25th at the link below. All times are PST.
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Online: Finland’s Sauna Diplomacy
Online: Finland’s Sauna Diplomacy
Pasi Rajala, of the Finnish Embassy and host of the D.C. Sauna Society, talks about how sauna is an unusual but effective setting for diplomatic relations.
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MA: Sauna Week Mobile Sauna
Celebrate National Sauna Week! Reservations for timed use of the mobile sauna are required. Hours vary each day. Details and reservations at link below.
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Online: The Public Sauna in the USA
Online: The Public Sauna in the USA
Justin Juntunen, founder and CEO of Cedar & Stone Nordic Sauna in Duluth, MN, looks at how the cultural gift of sauna is transforming communities today. Details and registration at link below.
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UT: Sauna Party
Students in the advanced Finnish class at Brigham Young University and members of Finlandia Foundation Utah will enjoy a private sauna party, including authentic vihtas and traditional foods.
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MA: National Sauna Day
MA: National Sauna Day
Celebrate the sauna beginning with a Pannukakku Breakfast, bake sale and artist tables (8 - 10 a.m.), followed by a presentation about traditional Finnish sauna, and fun sauna sing-along led by Roy Helander. The sauna museum will be open from 9 til noon, and ski/snowshoe/hiking trails will beckon.
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Online: Meet Jasper Pääkkönen
Online: Meet Jasper Pääkkönen
A chat with the Finnish actor who is also an avid fly fisherman, environmentalist and entrepreneur who co-founded the much-lauded Löyly sauna and restaurant in Helsinki. Details and registration at link below.
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CA: Winter Sauna Festival
CA: Winter Sauna Festival
Come to FAHA and enjoy hot saunas and icy pool, a winter fest meal of pea soup + laskiaispulla + coffee. There will also be a presentation on Kalevala.
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Kalevala Day
The first edition of the Kalevala appeared in 1835, compiled and edited by Elias Lönnrot on the basis of the epic folk poems he had collected in Finland and Karelia. This poetic song tradition, sung in an unusual, archaic trochaic tetrametre, had been part of the oral tradition among speakers of Balto-Finnic languages for 2,000 years. Several […]
MI: Animal Life: Art from the Kalevala
This annual exhibition is in coordination with the City of Hancock’s Heikinpäivä mid-winter celebration on January 28 and Kalevala Day on February 28.
MI & Online: Kalevalathon
Celebrate Kaleva Day at the 5th annual nonstop reading of the epic Finnish work, led by Led by Finlandia University’s Finnish & Nordic Studies professor Dr. Hilary-Joy Virtanen. You may attend in person and read, or watch the livestream. It starts at 9 a.m. and will continue until the entire book has been read. Click link below for […]
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Film & Online Panel Discussion
Film & Online Panel Discussion
Scandinavia House, Finlandia Foundation’s Young Leaders Board and the Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. present a discussion on gender and equality within the Finnish film industry with directors, researchers, and industry professionals from both Finland and the United States. The panel will reference the Finnish film Force of Habit (Tottumiskysymys) as a starting point for […]
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FL: Midnight Sun Festival
Enjoy the best musical entertainment directly from Finland, arts and crafts, great food, ice-cold lemonade and beer and the Finnish heritage of Lake Worth.