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2008 Events
It is the 1960s and they dance the tango. Finland�s all-time Tango king Reijo Taipale plays a central role in the movie. The acting is outstanding: Pertti Koivula is superb as the �prodigal son� or �black sheep� of the family who returns home for the summer, and Veikko Tiitinen is a gem as the wise grandfather. The film earned four Jussis (Finnish equivalent of Oscar) in 1994 year. Land of Happiness is an uplifting, pleasantly nostalgic film: �Tango as life� and/or �Life as tango�.
Markku P�l�nen�s Land of Happiness started the unprecedented, extraordinary Finnish boom Finnish cinema experienced in the 1990s and beyond.
Beverages and �pulla� will be served.
Time: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
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The storied classic in Finnish literature by Johannes Linnankoski, The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1905), has been brought to the screen five times: Mauritz Stiller (1919, silent), Julius Janzen (1934), Teuvo Tulio (1938), Gustaf Molander (1956), and Mikko Niskanen (1971).
Time: Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
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CFFEF invites you to welcome spring with a
Wednesday, April 30 at 7:30 pm.
Place: Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue (at Yorkville)
Reception to follow with traditional Finnish Vappu - Mayday beverages and treats
The Program
Soprano Cindy Koistinen and pianist Heidi
Saario have been working together on Finnish
song repertoire since fall 2007, with their
debut performance at the Independence Day
Gala in November 2007.
Heidi Saario
Heidi Saario was born in Helsinki, Finland, and moved to Toronto in 2002. She began her professional studies at the Helsinki Conservatory and graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree. In Toronto, she studied with Leslie Kinton at the Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music and graduated with a Masters Degree in Performance and Pedagogy. In addition, she has complemented her studies by participating in Master Classes with Liisa Pohjola, Matti Raekallio, and Teppo Koivisto in Finland and with Marc Durand, Robert McDonald, John Perry in Canada. Heidi has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician both in Finland and Canada. Heidi is a recipient of several awards and scholarships including the Women�s Art Association of Canada - Barbara Wilkes Scholarship and Hilda Dorothy Borman Scholarship. In the last couple of years Heidi�s focus has been on Finnish piano music and she recorded her first CD Jean Sibelius - Compositions for Piano at the CBC studios in Toronto. This CD will be released in March 2008. Aside from performing, Heidi maintains a busy private studio in Toronto and teaches piano for all ages and levels.
Cindy Koistinen
Born in Edmonton, soprano Cindy Koistinen completed a B.A. in Women�s Studies from the University of Alberta before deciding to pursue full-time studies in music at UBC. After being offered a place in the Master�s program and the role of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at her audition, she went on to perform during her studies such diverse roles as Ann Putnam from The Crucible and Belinda from Dido and Aeneas. Ms. Koistinen has toured internationally, performing in the Czech Republic in the lead role of Sandrina in Mozart�s Die G�rtnerin Aus Liebe. Other operatic roles she has performed include the role of Eurydice in Offenbach�s Orphe� aux Enfers, Donna Anna from Mozart�s Don Giovanni and Violetta from Verdi�s La Traviata. Ms. Koistinen�s concert experience includes the soprano solos from Handel�s Messiah and Faur��s Requiem and most recently she performed the soprano solos in Schubert�s Mass in G at the George Weston Recital Hall under the baton of Ivars Taurins. In addition to performing, she also maintains an active teaching schedule. Ms. Koistinen lives in Toronto with her husband, baritone Gilbert J. Anderson, and their daughter Kaelyn.
PLEASE ORDER TICKETS EARLY AS SEATS ARE LIMITED TO 100.
CFF Member $25
Program:
One of the most famous Finns of all time, ski-jumper Matti Nyk�nen, won everything possible during his career � and more: 4 Olympic gold medals, 7 World Championship titles, 4 World Cup tour championships and no less than 46 World Cup circuit victories.
Matti � Hell Is for Heroes is a personal drama feature based on a true story about a man who loves ski-jumping so much that he rises to the top of his game and becomes the best in the world. But although he can fly like an eagle, his life is littered with crash-landings.
Please RSVP or 416-730-8350 by June 9, 2008
Place:
Parking week nights across from Innis College on the east side of St George
In conjunction with Tuire Walsh's EVERGREEN DESIGN studio
Reception | Dinner | Bonfire
Directions to Villa Harmony (tel 705 426 7290)
Tickets available at $75 per person of which $40 qualifies for a tax receipt. Tickets restricted to 100.
RSVP or 416-730-8350
Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen received her PhD at University of British Columbia in 2004. She worked as a post-Graduate Fellow at the Institute on Globalization and the Human condition at McMaster. Between 2006 and 2008 she was Dean of Academic Studies, S�mi Allaskuvla/Sami University College in Kautokeino, Norway. Dr. Kuokkanen has recently accepted an appointment as assistant professor of Political Science and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. Her publications include the books Reshaping the University. Responsibility, Indigenous Epistemes, and the Logic of the Gift (2007) and Juoida mii geasuha� Anthology of Contemporary Sami Literature as well as numerous articles.
Dr. Kuokkanen is a Sami woman from the Finnish side of Deatnu (Teno) Valley. She is a celebrated and accomplished advocate of Sami culture and rights.
Time: Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Refreshments will be served!
CFF and Finnish Studies
Time: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 1-5 pm
Place:
Dr. Antti H�kkinen, University of Helsinki, researcher of the Academy of Finland researches poverty, crime, prostitution, and other social and economic issues in the history of rural municipalities in Finland. His numerous publications include �N�lk� punikkina? Huonot ajat ja poliittinen aktiivisuus� (Hunger as a Red? Bad Times and Political Activism) (1990) and the book Conflict, Social Action and Social History (2000). Dr. H�kkinen�s current research projects: (1) Ethnicity and Marginalisation in Twentieth Century Finland; (2) Health Promotion as Ideology, Policy and Practice in Finland 1900�2000, and (3) Managing social capital in a changing economy: Communities, neighbourhoods and associations in 19th- and 20th-century Finland.
Hanna Snellman, PhD, has worked in the Department of Ethnology, University of Helsinki since 1987, first as research associate and later as Academy Research Fellow. Currently she is a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies finishing her project on Finnish immigrant women in Sweden. In 2007 she served as the fifth Finnish Chair at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Dr. Snellman's research interests have mainly dealt with the history of forest areas and migration and are always based on interviews. Dr. Snellman�s oral history approach often focuses on northern issues.
Program
1:00 B�rje V�h�m�ki: Opening of Symposium
Banquet Program
6:00 Cash Bar / Silent Auction Begins
The Scholarships and
Their Winners 2008
Symposium tickets:
Please mail a cheque payable to CFF to:
Symposium Sponsors:
November 24: Welcome Reception for Ambassador Risto Piipponen and Mrs Piipponen
Year of the Wolf (2007)
Director: Olli Saarela, Award-winning director of Ambush (1998)
Sari is a talented student of literature who appears composed and confident on the outside. Her life is however characterized by a sense of remoteness: women envy her for her intelligence and beauty, men admire her from a distance for the same reasons. But looming inside her is a beast that isolates her from the rest of the world. Sari has epilepsy, a dreaded and mystical disease, and a fear of new attacks makes her live cautiously, keeping a safe distance to other people.
When Sari meets Mikko Groman, an older man who is a lecturer at her department, she recognizes in him a similar element of remoteness. Mikko, who drifts around in his private world of complex thoughts, only feels at home in the company of 19th century poetry. In the performance-oriented modern world of computers and camera phones, Mikko is an oddity.
In Mikko Sari finds an equal, but outsiders only see them as two totally incompatible people. Year of the Wolf is a film by award-winning director Olli Saarela of forbidden love and of conquering personal fears.
Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Place:
Parking week nights across from Innis College on the east side of St George
Beverages and Christmas pulla to follow!
Request tickets via email or call 416 730 8350.
CFF members $10, Non-members $12
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CFF welcomes you to the first film night of 2008
English subtitles. 59 min.
Town Hall, Innis College,
