Don't forget to come on out for Vappu tomorrow (5/4) from 6:30 - 11:00 PM in Berkeley

Don't forget to come on out to Vappu tomorrow night at the Berkeley Finnish Hall; 1970 Chestnut Street. Enjoy a little chamber music, jazz, light rock while sampling some fine Finnish foods! This is one of our biggest events of the year! 

Saturday, May 4
6:30-11:00 p.m.
FEATURING: chamber, jazz, and Finnish tunes by the The Kaleva All Stars Band and The Horsmas
Finnish food, drinks, dancing, music, memories and more!!!
$20-25 Sliding Scale for Adults; $5 for children under 12
1970 Chestnut Street in Berkeley, CA
Come one; come ALL!

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

Weds, 3/20 CONCERT: Katie Pienimäki Schenker & Noah Schenker Classical Song & Jazz

Kati Pienimäki Schenker & Noah Schenker Double Bill!!

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

8:00pm until 10:30pm

$10-$20 sliding scale

at the Berkeley Arts Festival 2133 University Ave.; Berkeley, CA

 We have an interesting concert coming up at Berkeley Arts, courtesy of Phillip Greenlief: ~ An Evening of Classical Song and Jazz ~ Kati will be joined by pianist, and fellow Finn, Marja Mutru and violinist Philip Santos, performing works by Berg, Sallinen, Whitacre, and more. Noah will team up with pianist Keith Saunders and drummer Smith Dobson Jr. for a set of swinging jazz.

Berkeley Arts is housed near the top of University by the old Berkeley Ace Hardware, and is a nice spot with a fine old Baldwin Grand Piano and pleasant acoustics. There will be refreshments as well!

Welcome, and bring friends!
More info here: http://www.berkeleyartsfestival.com

Kati Pienimäki Schenker and Noah Schenker Double Bill!! We have an interesting concert coming up at Berkeley Arts, courtesy of Phillip Greenlief: ~ An Evening of Classical Song and Jazz ~ Kati will be joined by pianist, and fellow Finn, Marja Mutru and violinist Philip Santos, performing works by Berg, Sallinen, Whitacre, and more. Noah will team up with pianist Keith Saunders and drummer Smith Dobson Jr. for a set of swinging jazz. Berkeley Arts is housed near the top of University by the old Berkeley Ace Hardware, and is a nice spot with a fine old Baldwin grand and pleasant acoustics. There will be refreshments as well! Welcome, and bring friends! $10-$20 sliding scale. More info here: www.berkeleyartsfestival.com

Finnish History Talk by Joseph Kellner moved from 3/14 to 3/19 at UC Berkeley

The talk on Finnish history by Joseph Kellner will NOT be given on Thursday, March 14,

NEW DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1 PM - in 206 WHEELER, on the UC Berkeley Campus.

 - per Professor Sirpa Tuomainen

JOSEPH KELLNER is a graduate student in Soviet and Finnish history at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied Russian language and culture in undergrad. According to him, “the whole thing is just a scheme to visit cool places; don’t tell the history department.” On entries on his blog, Joseph looks in depth at the Finnish language, the city of Turku and its surroundings, the sauna, Finland’s rambunctious youth, any other destination he reaches, and anything else the world needs to know.

New Lodge 21 Membership Meeting Time & Date

The UFKB&S Berkeley Lodge 21 voted unanimously, tonight, to move the exiting meeting time from Second Tuesdays of each month to the second Wednesday of each month, beginning at 7:00 pm. Members are also encouraged to attend the preceding Trustees Meeting at 5:00 pm, if they so choose.

Kiipis!

- Berkeley Lodge

Finnish Film Nite at UC Berkeley this week (3/13), Weds FREE SHOWING OF "The Border" (Raja, 1918)

FINNISH FILM NIGHT

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

6PM ::: DWINELLE B4

The Border (Raja 1918)

The Border (2007) is set in the spring of 1918, after the bloody Finnish Civil War. Finland had become sovereign from Russia in 1917, and the war was fought over the leadership of the newly formed nation between the social democratic “Reds”, supported by the Russian Soviet Republic, and the “Whites”, the forces of the anti-socialist Senate, who in turn were supported by the German Empire. The film begins when the Whites have won the war, and a young Finnish soldier, captain von Munck is sent to a village 40 kilometers from St. Petersburg to establish a border between Finland and Russia. Russia is in turmoil after the Bolshevik revolution, and many refugees, spies and revolutionaries attempt to cross the border to Finland. Munck has received a clear but humanely dubious order to only let in Finns and to execute all Reds and spies. In his inner battles he seeks refuge in the company of Major Gentsch and a local teacher, Miss Lintu. Length 110 min.

The film will be shown on UCB campus, in Dwinelle Hall room B4 at 6pm on Wednesday 3/13. It is free, open to everyone, and subtitled in English.

Tervetuloa!

Please contact issa@berkeley.edu with questions.