Premiere in Ryhmäteatteri!

Hellohello!

Thursday evening we all gathered together for our dear friend who had the premiere of her new show in Ryhmäteatteri. Oh the amount of laughing and utmost talent!! My friend Anna laughed beside me so much she had tears in her eyes, non-stop!
We are talking about comedy, in this case with dark shades, which is the most difficult genre in the field of theatre. And dear Ulla holds the whole audience in her fingers, alone, for 1h 45min so that the audience is crying and laughing at the same time. Just one person, no sidekicks, no music, no videoshots, no nothing. Just her, a rocking chair, lamp and a cuckoo clock. I think this is truly amazing. Not so many people can do this, believe me!
They make an excellent team, Ulla and her director, Raila Allu Leppäkoski. Together they write these stories, small observations about us human beings and make us laugh at our own behaviour, which is rather odd most of the time! It's brilliant, it's verbal fireworks, and she's a diamond. She recieved a standing ovation at the end, it was amazing!

Go and see the show, what a perfect timing too here in the midst of winter darkness! This will make you laugh good!
Ryhmäteatteri's Pengerkatu stage. Hooray!!

Fashion photography & good tea

Today I decided to get outside. I'm still feeling a bit numb but a little better and thought being sick is enough now! Something small to start with, so I headed to a photo exhibition which has been on my to-do-list since it opend in December. It's called Northern Women in Chanel and consists of fashion photographs of Nordic supermodels taken by a Swedish-Hungarian couple. The pictures are really beautiful and it's all Chanel. Oh, Chanel..c'est magnifique! Go there if you got interested, it's open until 27th of January. Our own girls Suvi Koponen and Kirsi Pyrhönen are also represented! Laboratory, Erottaja 9.

Afterwards I needed a cup of good tea, so I went to Café Fleuriste on Uudenmaankatu. Now this is something I call a Café! I love the shades, the beautiful chandelier and table wear, the white Labrador who welcomes every guest, and the flower shop in the back room! So pretty! I'm feeling the energy starting to flow again, this was a good start!

Concert Halls Wuxi and Dalian

Good morning to you all! I'm one early bird over here! The best thing about jet lag is that you can start posting your blog or organizing things or making lists about Christmas, or anything at all when you can't sleep. I thought this was the easiest recovery ever, since I managed to fall back to sleep on two previous nights after waking up around 3.30, but maybe I was wrong. I'm wide awake now, and have been about two hours already! So let's start!

I wanted to show you pictures from the Concert halls we played in China. Both of these venues are brand new. The first concert was in Wuxi and I was very exited to get there, since the hall has been designed by a Finnish architect agency, and my beautiful Goddaughter's father was involved with the project as a designer and a project leader. It's amazing I think! The world is so small, and he is so talented! The hall itself was huge, and we were just at aaw trying to comprehend what we saw. He once said to me that China is every western architect's wet dream at the moment, because they've got the money, they want the wau-effect, and they want it big. I can see that, both of these halls were just huge! But I must say it's not all about appearances, both of these halls were also excellent acoustically, a fact which always justifies almost everything. If it's a great hall with no sound whatsoever, what's it good to anybody, no matter how big or beautiful or peculiar it might look. A musicians point of view might vary while playing on stage but we were told the overall sound was good in the audience. It's always difficult to adjust to different halls when you only get to play there once or twice, but you just sit down and do your job as you always do, and the conductor takes care of the rest. Here we go, first is Wuxi:

                   Then comes Dalian. This I thought felt cold and looked like an airport really!

Where Art Meets Fashion

Later on the day I remembered (luckily!) that it was one of the last chances to go and see an exhibition in Amos Anderson Museum. This has been on my to-do-list since it's opening and was really glad I remembered, phew! It's an interesting combination of fashion designers and artists, they've maid pairs and the results are on show until tomorrow. So hurry up if you want to see it! It's open from 11 until 17, and is situated in Yrjönkatu, on top of Forum.
Two of my favourite designers were represented there: Paola Suhonen and Minna Parikka. They'd paired up with Mikko Ijäs (Suhonen), and Jani Leinonen (Parikka). It was super cool I thought! Also Katja Tukiainen was taking part with Samu-Jussi Koski, I just love her pink girly characters! I asked already at the counter if it was ok to take pictures, because I just knew it would have been difficult for me not to! Gladly it was ok. I'm not going to go all analytic about this, I wouldn't even know how to, it was an experience and a wonderful one. I'll just post pictures, but go there tomorrow if you have the time!

Afterwards I went to Café Amos for a glass of wine and took some more photos of the exhibition magazine. It was nice, got to digest all I saw, and just be in my own thoughts. Good night and sweet dreams!