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MIM goessustainableALLINN: 49 MAY, LAS SOPON HE CULURAL KILOMEREURKU: 18-19 MAY,CONAINERS A URKU CIYHEARE AREA

www.mimproject.org

In autumn 2009, the independent research group MIM project started battling the moneywasting theatre dinosaur, aspiring to a kind of technological theatre whose artistic value would not depend on electricity from a wallsocket. Tis project will culminate in 2011 with an independent theatreperformance in which energy plays a central role: transforming, generating,

reproducing, between people, between machines, and between people andmachines.

Morten on theShip of FoolsALLINN & URKU: AUGUS,ISLANDS IN HE BALIC SEA

www.vatteater.ee

Once upon a time, sailor MortenViks finds himself reduced to

just an inch in height on boardhis boat, along with bugs ascrew... How can I ever sail my

boat if Im as big as a bug?? he wonders. In a series of adventures Mortenmust ignore his own safety and do everything he can to save his boat fromdisaster.

Te troupe will sail in the Ruhnu Karu boat among the Estonian, Swedish andFinnish islands on the Baltic Sea.

Mobile AnimationTis joint project by the Arts Academy at urku University of Applied Sciences and the Estonian Academy of Arts focuses on developing innovativeuses and novel distribution channels for animation. Te created animationswill feature familiar locations and sights from urku and allinn as well asother exciting settings, fused together into short stories.

Easter Joy: C. H.Grauns EasterOratorioURKU: 24 APRIL, URKUCAHEDRAL

As a part of the Easter Joy concert series C. H. Grauns EasterOratorio will be premiered inFinland at urku Cathedral.Originally written in the 1700s,the oratorio was lost for decades before being revived at a performance in Berlin in 2004. Intion of Easter and the Capital of Culture year, the performance wilat the culturally significant national sanctuary, the urku Cathedr

AnimateURKU: AR MUSEUM,DARKROOM

28 JAN27 MAR: PRII PRN (ES)8 APR29 MAY: URUN ANIKISI10 JUN4 SEP:DAVID SHRIGLEY (UK)16 SEP13 NOV:LARS ARRHENIUS (SVE)18 NOV 20118 JAN 2012: ANIMAAION APUPYRASSOCIAION

Te Animate exhibition series will examine the role of animation asalone art form and as a part of Estonian, Finnish and international vin general. Te four seasons will see different acclaimed animatorover urkus Art Museum and Associations with their work.

CuratedExpedition tothe Baltic SeaURKU: 28 MAY 31 AUGUS:EXPEDIION IN URKU MARINEAREAS, 25 29 JUNE EVENIN SEILI, OCOBER: DANCEPERFORMANCE IN HE BARKERHEAREALLINN: PRE-PRODUCION OFHE PROJEC IN 2010

www.capsula.org.es

A crosscultural Curated Expedition to the Baltic Sea will all ow the CCulture audience to marvel at the Baltic Sea and related natural phethrough five different art projects.

www.tallinn2011.ee www.turku2011.fi

Cultural ourism 2011 enhances collaboration and the creation of new

culturebased quality tourism products and, in this way, increases thenumber of foreign tourists in the urku and allinn regions. Tis includesa study of the experiences of the visitors and organizing training for theservice producers. Trough a joint product development, the project creates an attractive and interesting product combination for the Europeanmarket to join the two cities. Te project is being financed by the InterregIV A programme.

Photo: Juuso Westerlund

Photo: Priit Prn

Photo: Jussi Vierimaa

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Culture with capital :urku and allinn joinedby the Baltic Sea

allinn & urku share the title of European Capital of Culture on either sideof the Gulf of Finland and the rest of the world is watching with envy. Priorto urku and allinns year in 2011, no other Capitals of Culture have shareda similar history, culture and set of values much less a common sea. Asthe ice melts, fantasies of the Baltic Sea appear sharper to us with joint programmes bridging over the 174.3 km distance between the two old cities.

An examination of the Baltic Sea from various perspectives stands at theheart of urku and allinns joint programmes. It is about history, culture,stories, environment, identity, future. Among those, you will find Te Detour, a project capturing the perceptions of history on the level of bothshared and individual memory of Estonians, Russians and Finns.

On a more theatrical level, the Baltic Sea will see four of its cities connectedin the New Baltic Drama 2011 competition, performing in both allinn andurku, and eventually in neighbouring countries. Also sport and nature enthusiasts will be offered a unique opportunity to bring the two Capitals ofCulture together by spanning from allinn to urku for a 10days kayak expedition in summer 2011.

allinn and urku are also seizing the opportunity to offer a double pack ofculture to visitors from afar by creating cultural trips that combine the bestof both cities.

No wonder do the two cities want this close cooperation to continue beyondthis special year. Te grand opening to that is what the Gulf of Finland offersnow, which is unprecedented cultural events to delight the locals and welcome guests from everywhere.

So if you want to see what it is all about, get on board the boat and join thecapitals of culture journey!

Dancing owerURKU:14-30 APRIL, 8 PERFORMANCES A LOGOMOALLINN: 6-12 JUNE, 4 PERFORMANCES A KAEL

www.aurinkobaletti.com

Produced to mark Aurinkobalettis 30th anniversary,the Dancing ower will rise into the firmament of allinn and urku in the cities year as European Capitalsof Culture in 2011. Te tenmetre tower represents thecore of humanity: a soul bursting with energy, creativity and dreams.

Smeds Ensemble& Von Krahl Te-atre: KaramazovWorkshopALLINN: OCOBER, KAELURKU: 25 OCOBER12NOVEMBER, MANILLA HEARE

www.smedsensemble.fi

www.vonkrahl.ee

Tere is no doubt that Kristian Smeds is currently Finlands most outstanding and daring theatre director. His unexpected and highly personal takes onclassics are famous, sometimes even notorious. Tey require a new type offlexible actor just the kind trained by Von Krahl Teatre in collaboration withthe University of artus Viljandi Culture Academy. So that the task is worthyof the performers, Dostoevsky enters the picture with his most complex andweighty work.

New BalticDrama 2011ALLINN: PREMIERE 9 APRIL,NOVEMBER, ALLINN CIYHEAREURKU: 9-19 NOVEMBER,URKU CIY HEARE

www.balticdrama.com

Inspired by the fact that the European Capitals of Culture for 2011 are allinnand urku, four cities on the Baltic Sea allinn, urku, St Petersburg andStockholm launched the international play competition New Baltic Drama2011 in autumn 2009. An international jury selected four winners, whoseplays will be performed in November at the joint festival New Baltic Drama2011 in urku and allinn.

Te DetourURKU SALO HELSINKI KOKA VAALIMAA VYBORG PRIMORSK S PEERSBURG KINGISSEPA NARVA RAKVERE ALLINN. JULY 2010SEP 2011

www.detour2011.eu

Te aim of Detour is to raise theissue of shared memory betweenFinland and Estonia. o do so, we

decided to link up both towns by solid land. Doing so, we made a dStPetersburg and Russia, the Great Eastern neighbour that has inthe history of these two small nations. 121 places were eventuallydepending on one and only criterion: they had to have a direct or indnection with a historical event regarding at least two of the three cou

Night MovesClubsSHANGHAI LONDON SOCKHOLM PARIS HELSINKI - AMPERE ALLINN URKU ARCHIPELAGO.ALLINN: 11 MARCHURKU: 20-24 JULY, URKUMODERN FESIVAL AND NIGHMOVES CRUISE

urku Modern festival and the urku 2011 Foundation have engagecooperation by showcasing Finnish electronic music with the eNight Moves 2011 club tour. In March 2011, the Night Moves tour cuin allinn in FHoones jointly produced club event. As a conclusiotour, electronic music enthusiasts will now get to enjoy the hottest of artists possible with the special Night Moves cruise near urku i

Old SpacesLiving Art (OSLA)URKU: 20102011, URKUCASLEALLINN: 1112 JUNE & 10AUGUS 2011, VARIOUSLOCAIONS

www.oldspaceslivingart.word-press.com

Te theme of this new dance and new media project of young artallinn and urku, taking place in the twin Capitals of Culture simully, is living history. In urku Castle is a sitespecific location, as t

will study the 700year history of the place with the artists. In allistudents will bring different eras to life on allinns streets.

Night of theAncient BonfiresALLINN: 27 AUGUS, VIIMSIPENINSULA & ESONIAN COASURKU: 27 AUG, FINNISH COAS

www.muinastuled.org

On the last Saturday of August at9.30 pm, ancient fires are lit on

Illustration: Sasha Pepelyaev

Photo: Juho Paavola

Photo: Kimmo Metsranta

OSLA workshops

Photo: Maire Pihlaja

Photo: Janne Grning

Photo: Atelier Limo