Haight Street Fair's Battle of the Bands FINALS!!!
at the Blue McCaw
2565 Mission Street (at 21st) in San Francisco
Bands start at 9 PM. This is a Battle of the Bands, so
Come on out and help Kippis win this thing!
-- Mari
Monday, May 23, 2011
Kippis and Battle of the Bands - Friday 5/27 at 9 p.m. in SF
Friday, May 27th at 9 p.m.
Haight Street Fair's Battle of the Bands FINALS!!!
at the Blue McCaw
2565 Mission Street (at 21st) in San Francisco
Bands start at 9 PM. This is a Battle of the Bands, so
Come on out and help Kippis win this thing!
Haight Street Fair's Battle of the Bands FINALS!!!
at the Blue McCaw
2565 Mission Street (at 21st) in San Francisco
Bands start at 9 PM. This is a Battle of the Bands, so
Come on out and help Kippis win this thing!
Friday, May 20, 2011
Southbay's first FINNLUNCH, Wednesday June 1 from 12-2 p.m. in Sunnyvale
| When? | Wednesday, June 1 · 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
|---|---|
| Location | 175 South Murphy Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086 |
| Created By | |
| More Info | Haven’t seen your fellow Finns or Finn-minded friends in a while? Now is your opportunity: please join the event for professional networking, exchanging career tips, cooking recipes, slow or busy eating (up-to-you) or just casual conversation at downtown Sunnyvale. Previously we have seen many developers, business managers, investors, start ups, finance guys, angels, hockey players and base players. Who know’s who’s coming this time? Come check it out. Sit down with a stranger and learn something new and bring your American friend to learn about snowboarding or Sibelius. Register at www.finnlunch.com |
Friday, May 13, 2011
Berkeley Historical Society Exhibit Opening: "Finnish Co-Ops" - Saturday, May 15 3-5:30 p.m.
The Berkeley Historical Society
Exhibit Opening
Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley – A Noble Venture
Sunday, May 15th from 3-5:30 pm
Berkeley Historical Society - 1931 Center Street
Therese Pipe and Linda Rosen Co-Curators
Panel discussion on the vision and struggles of the Co-op - 3:15 pm. Bob Schildgen will moderate a panel of former employees and co-op experts: David Thompson, Vangie (Elkins) Buell, John Curl, Betsy Wood, Harry Siitonen and Charles (Chuck) Robinson.Exhibit Opening
Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley – A Noble Venture
Sunday, May 15th from 3-5:30 pm
Berkeley Historical Society - 1931 Center Street
Therese Pipe and Linda Rosen Co-Curators
* Relive the co-op days !
- Refreshments and viewing the exhibit to follow.
- Prize for the person bringing in the lowest Co-op membership card number
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Crate and Barrel to carry Marimekko Design Store in San Francisco!
Crate and Barrel is in Good Company!
Finnish Company.
In an announcement to customers, Crate and Barrel posted the following announcement:
Our very special relationship with Marimekko, which spans nearly half a century, began in the early '60s when Crate and Barrel co-founders Gordon and Carol Segal discovered Finnish designer Maija Isola's incredible hand silk-screened Marimekko fabrics at a store in Denmark. Searching for well-designed, useful, quality products to bring back to their customers, Marimekko was an ideal fit. In 1966, Crate and Barrel presented Marimekko fabric collections from Finland for the first time. To this day, a signature of every Crate and Barrel store is the dramatic, suspended sweep of Marimekko textiles radiating bold color and pure joy. The Marimekko Shop at Crate and Barrel is an exciting new opportunity to share our belief that timeless, modern design enhances our everyday lives.
Finnish Company.
In an announcement to customers, Crate and Barrel posted the following announcement:
Our very special relationship with Marimekko, which spans nearly half a century, began in the early '60s when Crate and Barrel co-founders Gordon and Carol Segal discovered Finnish designer Maija Isola's incredible hand silk-screened Marimekko fabrics at a store in Denmark. Searching for well-designed, useful, quality products to bring back to their customers, Marimekko was an ideal fit. In 1966, Crate and Barrel presented Marimekko fabric collections from Finland for the first time. To this day, a signature of every Crate and Barrel store is the dramatic, suspended sweep of Marimekko textiles radiating bold color and pure joy. The Marimekko Shop at Crate and Barrel is an exciting new opportunity to share our belief that timeless, modern design enhances our everyday lives.
The new Crate and Barrel store Marimekko Shop will open soon at 55 Stockton St in San Francisco!
Their online store already carries Finnish Marimekko kitchenwares, wearables, outdoor, pillows, bed, bath, baby, bags and accessories can now be purchased in local Crate and Barrel stores all over the US!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Finnishing School
Reposted from Time Magazine, April 11, 2011
...In a clearing outside the Kallahti Comprehensive School, a handful of 9-year-olds are sitting back-to-back, arranging sticks, pinecones, stones and berries into shapes on the frozen ground. The arrangers will then have to describe these shapes using geometric terms so the kids who can’t see them can say what they are.
“It’s a different way of conceptualizing math when you do it this way instead of using pen and paper, and it goes straight to the brain,” says Veli-Matti Har-jula, who teaches the same group of children straight through from third to sixth grade. Educators in Sweden, not Finland, came up with the concept of “outside math,” but Harjula didn’t have to get anybody’s approval to borrow it. He can pretty much do whatever he wants, provided that his students meet the very general objectives of the core curriculum set by Finland’s National Board of Education. For math, the latest national core curriculum runs just under 10 pages (up from 3 1/2 pages for the previous core curriculum)…...Finland has a number of smart ideas about how to teach kids while letting them be kids.
“People in Finland cannot be divided by how smart they are...Finland is a society based on equity.”
as seen in the Hockinson UFKBAS Newsletter (Thanks Fran!)
Saturday, April 23, 2011
April 29th from 10 AM - 1 PM - UC Berkeley Lecture: Does Research Influence Social Policy? The Nordic Experience
The UC Berkeley Center for Child and Youth Policy presents...
Does Research Influence Social Policy? The Nordic Experience
Does Research Influence Social Policy? The Nordic Experience
Friday, April 29th, 2011
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Haviland Hall, Rm. 5
Lunch Provided
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Haviland Hall, Rm. 5
Lunch Provided
Key Note Presentation by Tapio Salonen
Professor in Social Work, Dean at Faculty of Health & Society
Malmo University, Sweden
Professor in Social Work, Dean at Faculty of Health & Society
Malmo University, Sweden
Panel Discussion Featuring:
- Espen Dahl, Professor at Oslo University College, Oslo Norway
- Pasi Moisio, Senior researcher at National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki Finland
- Anna Angelin, Assistant Professor at School of Social Welfare, Lund University, Sweden
- Timo Kauppinen, Professor in Sociology at Turku University, Finland
- Thomas Lorentzen, Senior researcher at Uni Rokkan Centre, Bergen Norway
Event contact:
University of California, Berkeley | School of Social Welfare, Center for Child & Youth Policy
120 Haviland Hall #7400 | Berkeley, California 94720-7400
Phone: (510) 643-7016 | Fax: (510) 643-6126 | E-mail: ccyp@berkeley.edu
Friday, April 22, 2011
Looking for Finnish speakers whose fields are Mathematics, Economics or Finnish/Scandinavian mythology, Kalevala, Cultural history, etc.
Hei,
I'm looking for Finnish speakers whose fields are Mathematics, Economics or Finnish/Scandinavian mythology, Kalevala, Cultural history. This would involve being interviewed in Finnish by a UCB Finnish student for our Spring 2011 final project.
Please email me at sirpa@berkeley.edu if you know of any such person who would be willing to help out our Finnish Studies students.
Kiitos,
Sirpa Tuomainen
Finnish Studies Professor
University of California at Berkeley
http://ies.berkeley.edu/fsp/finnishstudies/
Thursday, April 21, 2011
News From Kirsti Maki at FAHA
NEW APARTMENTS AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT FAHA
There are two openings to live at the beautiful FAHA Palms (Finnish American Housing Association) in Sonoma, CA. The co-op apartments are 1,200 sq ft both with 2br and 2bt and available right now for move in.
The second floor unit facing the gardens is priced at $182,825.00 and ground floor unit facing the street at $168,766.00
Please contact Eva Saari at (707) 938-4869 - or -
Mikko Kalliomaki at (707) 938-7029 for further details.
NEW WEBSITE BY FINNISH LADIES CREATED TO PURCHASE SCANDINAVIAN-DESIGNED GIFTS
Please check www.designstory.com for fun and interesting items for home and as gifts from Aarikka to Artek and Aarnio and everything Scandinavian - owned by Finnish ladies.
HOUSING SWAP - Helsinki Condo for Berkeley ?
Marita Laukkanen, who lived in the Bay Area 1997-2002 is returning to Berkeley 01JUL-05AUG and is looking for a place suitable for a family with two kids. They would like to exchange their 2 br condo in Helsinki for housing during this time in Berkeley. More information and pictures available by email marita.laukkanen@vatt.fi
ILOISTA PAASIAISTA - WISHING EVERYONE HAPPY EASTER!
Thank you,
Kirsti Maki
Your Travel Expert
There are two openings to live at the beautiful FAHA Palms (Finnish American Housing Association) in Sonoma, CA. The co-op apartments are 1,200 sq ft both with 2br and 2bt and available right now for move in.
The second floor unit facing the gardens is priced at $182,825.00 and ground floor unit facing the street at $168,766.00
Please contact Eva Saari at (707) 938-4869 - or -
Mikko Kalliomaki at (707) 938-7029 for further details.
NEW WEBSITE BY FINNISH LADIES CREATED TO PURCHASE SCANDINAVIAN-DESIGNED GIFTS
Please check www.designstory.com for fun and interesting items for home and as gifts from Aarikka to Artek and Aarnio and everything Scandinavian - owned by Finnish ladies.
HOUSING SWAP - Helsinki Condo for Berkeley ?
Marita Laukkanen, who lived in the Bay Area 1997-2002 is returning to Berkeley 01JUL-05AUG and is looking for a place suitable for a family with two kids. They would like to exchange their 2 br condo in Helsinki for housing during this time in Berkeley. More information and pictures available by email marita.laukkanen@vatt.fi
ILOISTA PAASIAISTA - WISHING EVERYONE HAPPY EASTER!
Thank you,
Kirsti Maki
Your Travel Expert
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Vappu Dinner Dance + Music by the Kaleva All Stars Band, Snacks, April 30, 7:30 p.m. ($20)
Berkeley Finnish Hall's Annual Vappu Dance
Finn Hall Auditorium, 1970 Chestnut St; Berkeley, CA
Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Live Music by the Kaleva All Stars Band + Snacks
$20.00
Monday, April 18, 2011
UC Berkeley Finnish Studies Presents Film - Tuesday 4/19 at 5:30pm - Äideistä Parhain (Mother of Mine, 2005)
The Department of Scandinavian and the Finnish Studies Program at UC Berkeley are pleased to present the final Spring 2011 Finnish Film Series Screening:
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7-AM1oE_uk
We close the season with the jewel in the crown of the BLC´s Finnish movies, Äideistä Parhain (literally meaning "The Best Of All Mothers").
A touching must-see, the film tells a story of a little boy named Eero, one of the 70,000 Finnish children evacuated from Finland during World War II and relocated in neutral Sweden. Eero´s father dies in the war and his broken mother sends her son away in order to protect him. Eero ends up in a rural village in Sweden with foster parents Hjalmar and Signe but the adaptation isn’t easy for anyone.
In a beautiful way, the movie addresses the relationship between the mother(s) and the son, the meaning of family as well as the nature of loss.
Plus, we'll even bring some Easter Snacks!
Tervetuloa!
The UC Berkeley Finnish Studies Film Screening Group
Äideistä Parhain ("Mother of Mine")
111 mins, in Finnish with English subtitles
Directed by Klaus Härö, 2005
111 mins, in Finnish with English subtitles
Directed by Klaus Härö, 2005
Tuesday 4/19 at 5:30pm
UC Berkeley Campus
Dwinelle B-4*
UC Berkeley Campus
Dwinelle B-4*
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
We close the season with the jewel in the crown of the BLC´s Finnish movies, Äideistä Parhain (literally meaning "The Best Of All Mothers").
A touching must-see, the film tells a story of a little boy named Eero, one of the 70,000 Finnish children evacuated from Finland during World War II and relocated in neutral Sweden. Eero´s father dies in the war and his broken mother sends her son away in order to protect him. Eero ends up in a rural village in Sweden with foster parents Hjalmar and Signe but the adaptation isn’t easy for anyone.
In a beautiful way, the movie addresses the relationship between the mother(s) and the son, the meaning of family as well as the nature of loss.
Plus, we'll even bring some Easter Snacks!
Tervetuloa!
The UC Berkeley Finnish Studies Film Screening Group
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