Canadian Friends of Finland present

Letters to Father Jacob

Klaus Haro, director

2009 Drama
English subtitles
Duration 1h 12 min

Letters to Father Jacob follows two wonderful, moving characters each on their own unusual path. The two paths cross when Leila, who has recently been pardoned from a life-sentence for murder, goes to work as a personal assistant for Father Jacob. Leila is only used to taking care of herself, and a job as an assistant to Father Jacob does not come easy. Two fully different worlds get mixed unexpectedly, and the roles of a helper and a person in need for help turn around.

The visually-stunning, careful and finely-honed directing by Klaus Haro features wonderful performances by Heikki Nousiainen and Kaarina Hazard.

Letters to Father Jacob has won Best Film award in three Film Festivals in Europe this year.

Wednesday January 27, 2010 at 7 pm.

An evening with
Pertti Voutilainen

Past Chairman of Kansallis Banking Group and past president of Outokumpu Oyj, a world leader in stainless steel products.

Mr. Voutilainen will speak about the comparison of culture and business practice between Canada and Finland.

Date: Thursday April 29, 2010
Time: 6.30 for refreshments
Venue: Miller Thomson LLP - Main Board Room 40 King St W., Suite 5800, Toronto
Dress Code: Business attire
Cost: $20 for members
$30 for non-members

RSVP: Leave message by phone 416-730-8350
or by email: tickets@cff.ca (please include your name, phone number and number of tickets)

Registration deadline: Monday April 26

Sponsored by Canadian Friends of Finland
and the Finland Chamber of Commerce

Canadian Friends of Finland present

The House of Branching Love

Directed by Mika Kaurismaki
Based on the novel by Petri Karra

2009 Comedy/Drama
English subtitles
102 minutes

With: Hannu-Pekka Bjorkman, Elina Knihtila, Antti Reini, Anna Easteden, Tommi Eronen, Kati Outinen, Ilkka Villi.

A hilarious and harrowing exercise in marriage prevention, Mika Kaurismaki's "The House of Branching Love" has been described as a Finnish "War of the Roses", and is probably Kaurismaki's most polished production - a departure from the dry, droll, low-tech fare for which he's better known.

Family therapist Juhani Helin, 35, and business trainer Paula Helin, 34, decide to divorce in a civilized manner and move to separate addresses after selling their common house. But the pandora's box of their marriage flies open and releases the plagues of love and hate.

Wednesday March 10, 2010 at 7 pm.

Town Hall, Innis College,
University of Toronto, St George & Sussex,
@ St George Subway.

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Parking week nights across from Innis College on the east side of St George.

Ticket information:
Please reserve tickets in advance (for pick up at the door)
CFF members $10, Non-members $12
Leave message by phone 416-730-8350 or by email: tickets@cff.ca (please include your name, phone number and number of tickets)

You are cordially invited to the 29th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Friends of Finland

Program:
7:00 p.m. Agenda for the Annual Meeting as stipulated in the By-Laws
7:30 p.m. Wolfram Eilenberger is going to talk about being married to a Finn.

Wolfram Eilenberger, b. 1972, is a German writer and philosopher (Dr. phil.). He is the author of five books (narrative nonfiction, essays, novel), a correspondent for Cicero Magazine and a former columnist for Die Zeit and Der Tagesspiegel. His writings have appeared in Internationale Politik, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, among others. His latest novel Finnen von Sinnen (My Finnish Wife) was published in March 2010 and will appear in Finnish in 2011. Wolfram Eilenberger teaches philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He lives with his family in Toronto and Berlin.

Refreshments will be provided.

Time: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 7p.m.
Place:

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University College, Room 179, University of Toronto, 15 King's College Circle.
(St. George Subway station), Toronto.

Please RSVP by June 13, 2010
Phone 416-730-8350 or e-mail president@cff.ca

CFF and Finnish Studies

Invite You to Attend

Finland's Women Writers in the 19th Century

A Symposium

Time:
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Symposium 1-5 pm
Awards Dinner 6-9 pm
Cash bar at 6:00, Sit down at 6:30

Place:
St. Michael's College,
Father Madden Room, Carr Hall,
100 St. Joseph St

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The Speakers

Mari Hatavara, PhD, is professor of Finnish Literature at the University of Tampere. She specializes in the historical novel, poetics, the theory of narration, 19th century aesthetics, and the role of the medium in literary and cinematic narration.

Professor Hatavara's publications include the book Historia ja poetiikka Fredrika Runebergin ja Zacharias Topeliuksen historiallisissa romaa-neissa, and articles on authors such as Aleksis Kivi and Mika Waltari. Her most recent research explores Leena Lander's Kasky as novel and as film.

Pia Paivio, PhD, is Assistant Professor and Director of the Finnish Studies Program at the University of Toronto since 2009. Dr. Paivio's research interests deal mainly with Finnish Linguistics, especially with Finnish syntax and semantics, Bilingual language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy.

Borje Vahamaki. PhD, Professor Emeritus of Finnish Studies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include Finnish linguistics, Finnish literature, and Finnish folklore, Finnish North American culture and literature, as well as translating and publishing Finnish literature and Finnish scholarship.

Symposium Program

Banquet Program

Symposium tickets @ $35 non-members
Symposium tickets @ $30 CFF members
Symposium tickets @ $10 students
Dinner tickets @ $60
Symposium+Dinner @$90 non-members
Symposium+Dinner @$85 CFF members
Symposium+Dinner @$60 students

Symposium & Awards Dinner Sponsors:
Canadian Friends of Finland
Canadian Friends of Finland Education Foundation
The Finnish Studies Program at the University of Toronto

The Canadian Friends of Finland

invite you to attend the inaugural

delivered by

Megan Leslie - MP
Federal Member of Parliament (Halifax)

Thursday November 4, 2010 at 7PM
University Of Toronto, St. Michael's College, Charbonnel Lounge, Elmsley Hall, 81 St Mary St., Toronto

Megan Leslie will speak on
Defiant Sister: A Post-Immigration Story.

The lecture will be moderated by Prof Pekka Sinervo, former Dean of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.

Megan was raised in Kirkland Lake, Ontario and educated at York University and Dalhousie. She was elected to Parliament in 2008 and voted best rookie MP by her colleagues in the House. She grew up in a strong Finnish household with her grandparents and her mother, who migrated to Canada in the 1950s.

Vox Finlandia will present a short performance prior to the lecture.

The Varpu Lindstrom lecture has been established to recognize the dedication and contribution that Varpu Lindstrom has made over a 30 year period to the Canadian/Finnish community across Canada.

Please RSVP by email (please include your name, phone number and number of tickets) or by phone at 416 730-8350.

This event is free.
All are welcome.
Refreshments will be served.

Saturday, November 20, 2010 1-4 pm

The seminar will be hosted by Rick Phillips, the former host and producer of CBC radio's Sound Advice, the weekly guide to Classical music and recordings. Through the use of many recordings, Rick will explore the wonderful world of the Sibelius tone poems.

Sibelius was a master of the tone poem and wrote many that are linked to Finnish legend and lore. Finlandia is the most famous. He once said, "I am above all a tone painter and poet".

Please take this opportunity to add to your musical knowledge and enhance your enjoyment of great music by one of the world's great composers.

$25 for CFF members, $35 for non-members

Location:
Women's Art Association of Canada
23 Prince Arthur Ave., Toronto
(near Avenue Rd. and Bloor Streets)

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Subway:
St. George Station, Bedford St. exit

For more information or to register:
call Ron Walenius: 416-483-5645; or
email (please include your name, phone number and number of tickets)

Refreshments will be served.

The Scandinavian-Canadian Club

Dinner & Dance party

75th Anniversary

Saturday, December 4, 2010 at the Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre

Cost: Members $50 and Guests $60, Cash bar

Glogg and cocktails at 6.30 p.m.
Sit-down 3-course Dinner at 7.00 p.m.
Entertainment, Live Music & Dancing

RVSP, NO LATER than November 27, 2010 to
Irene Ingersoll, 416-698-0525 or email (please include your name, phone number and number of tickets)

Reservation to be confirmed by cheque payable to:
Scandinavian-Canadian Club and mailed before Nov. 28 to
The Scandinavian-Canadian Club
91 Stormont Avenue, Toronto, ON, M5N 2C3

Latvian Canadian Cultural Centre is located at
4 Credit Union Drive, Toronto M4A 2N8
South/west corner of Eglinton Ave. East, 1/2 km east of DVP