FINNISH FILM NIGHT: The Storage (Varasto) TUES, 4/30 at 6pm at UC Berkeley FREE

Join us for our last Finnish Film Night of the Academic Year!

The Storage (Varasto)

 

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
6:00PM, Dwinelle B-4

 

The Storage (2011) is a comedy about the life of people working in a paint store. Rousku, who mixes and delivers paint, enjoys his uncomplicated job and free life as a single man. He is having an affair with the store assistant, Karita, but doesn’t want to commit to a serious relationship. Rousku's friend and colleague Raninen is obsessed by the dream of getting all the numbers correct in the lottery in the order where they emerge from the lottery machine.  Karita is determined to make Rousku settle down, and is one step closer to her goal when she learns that she is pregnant.

The length of the film is 97 minutes. As always, the film is 
FREE,  open to everyone, and subtitled in English. 

Tervetuloa! 

-Amanda, UC Berkeley Finnish Studies

 

Click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKb868Qpwzs to view the trailer.

CONCERT: Studio Finland Trio SATURDAY House Concert in Oakland at 8 pm, $6-$10 suggested donation

Saturday, April 27, at a house concert in Berkeley with my Studio Finland Trio.   It’s a great intimate performance space called “Crane House”.  There will be two bands, the first at 8 pm and our trio at 9 pm.  We will be exploring my originals & Finnish tunes – mixing jazzy interpretations with lost of free improvisation.  

Studio Finland Trio is: Heikki Koskinen: digital trumpet, tenor recorder & piano / Steve Heckman: saxophones, clarinets & flutes / Noah Schenker: double bass

 The Crane House address is 784 65th St., Oakland. It is right on the Oakland/Berkeley border, two blocks from Ashby BART. If you are approaching from the Berkeley side the street name is Harmon.  

Come through the gate on the left and walk back to the studio entrance. In order to preserve the dance floor, please leave your shoes at the door.  Suggested donation for musicians is $6-10

 -- Heikki Koskinen

New Summer Session Course @UC Berkeley 7/7-8/18 "Music 74 / 139: Indigenous Music & Politics"

Music 74 / 139: Indigenous Music & Politics

Summer Session D 

(July 7 - August 16, 2013)

Robbie Beahrs (PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology)

In recent decades, indigenous music has become a critical site for examining questions of contemporary identities, traditional knowledge, cultural ownership, and political activism in our globalizing and hyper-mediated world. This seminar-style course examines indigenous modernities through musical and cultural practices of indigenous peoples from four different cultural groups: the Inuit of Arctic Canada, the Sámi of Lapland, the Ainu of Hoikkaido (Japan), and Aboriginal peoples of Australia. Drawing on scholarly readings, recordings, music videos, films, and the Internet, we will approach questions large and small: Who or what does “indigenous” refer to in various political, national, and transnational contexts? How is “indigeneity” performed musically? What kinds of tensions, possibilities, and alliances do indigenous identities offer for contemporary world citizens? How have the academic disciplines of ethnomusicology, folklore, and ethnic and cultural studies approached contemporary indigenous issues? Central to our discussions will be tracing and problematizing binaries such as traditional/modern, local/global, and authentic/appropriated.

Please email me if you have any questions about the course: robeahrs@berkeley.edu

Thursday 4/25 Performance: "Words in Action" - Scena, Songs & Poems in many languages

W O R D S     I N    A C T I O N

A MULTILINGUAL STUDENT PERFORMANCE 

Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as 

UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs, and poems in:

Arabic, Armenian, Bitonga, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Chinese, Danish, Farsi, Finnish, French,

German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Ronga, Russian,

Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Telugu, Xangama, Xitswa

Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 3:00-6:30PM

Chevron Auditorium, International House

(2299 Piedmont Avenue, at Bancroft Way)

With the generous participation of the following instructors:

Elsa Elmahdy (Arabic), Santoukht Mikaelian (Armenian),

Milutin Janjic (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Slovenian), Chen-huTsai (Chinese),

Karen Møller (Danish), Jaleh Pirnazar (Farsi), Sirpa Tuomainen (Finnish),

Seda Chavdarian and Vesna Rodic (French), Nikolaus Euba (German), Annamaria Bellezza (Italian),

Chika Shibahara (Japanese), Catarina Gama (Portuguese),

Jeremias Zunguze (Portuguese, Ronga, Bitonga, Xangana, Xitswa),

Upkar Ubhi (Punjabi), Suzan Negip-Schatt (Romanian), Lisa Little (Russian),

Alexandra Saum-Pascual and Marilola Perez (Spanish), Edwin O. Okong’o (Swahili),

Joi Barrios and Chat Aban (Tagalog), and Hepsi Sunkari (Telugu)

Organized and directed by

Annamaria Bellezza

Italian Studies

Free for UC Berkeley Students, Faculty, and Staff

(A donation from the general public would be appreciated)

SPONSORED BY THE BERKELEY LANGUAGE CENTER:HTTP://BLC.BERKELEY.EDU/

For more information about the event, please emailambellezza@berkeley.edu

Poster attached

Finlandia Prize-Winning Author, Rosa Liksom, to speak at SF Scandinavian Conference on 5/4/13.

Rosa Liksom, the Finlandia Prize -winning Finnish author, will be part of our Scandinavian Conference in San Francisco. There will be free to the public event with her on Saturday, May 4, from 10:30-12 at the San Francisco Hilton Hotel in the Financial District. Please spread the word!

http://www.rosaliksom.com/home