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We Butter the Bread with Butter Journey through the various gen- (GER), Eyes Set To Kill (USA), res of metal, from the dark and Attila (USA) brutal to the classic and melodic. Metal. Sello Hall Soittoniekanaukio 1 () Telakkakatu 8 Tickets €30 Autumn chansons…with a saw Tickets €25 www.espoo.fi Sello Hall will fill with enchanting energy on Thursday 2 February www.elmu.fi when actor, singer and musical saw player Irina Björklund steps on Wed 8 February EXHIBITIONS stage to share some of her loving memories of Paris. Björklund spent Death Hawks some of her childhood in France, and it was one sleepless night in Blues, krautrock and psychedelia. Paris when it all became clear – inspired by the movie Delicatessen, Bar Loose From Thu 2 February Annankatu 21 Stefan Bremer: Helsinki she had to learn how to play the musical saw! Tickets €5/6 Photographer’s declaration of love The concert in Sello Hall features atmospheric and optimis- www.barloose.com to his home city. tic songs from her latest album, Chanson d’Automne (2011), which Stoa Gallery has received excellent reviews. The album was done in collabora- Wed 8 February Turunlinnantie 1 tion with award-winning film composer Peter Fox and other brilliant Your Choice! concert Mon-Tue 9:00-20:00 FNO performs a selection of fa- Fri 9:00-18:00 musicians. Helsingin Sanomat puts it thus: “The album is near-im- vourites. Conduction by Mikko Sat-Sun 10:00-16:00 possible to categorise. It has a dash of the charming, slightly odd Franck. Free entry French chanson and a pinch of American roots music. Nobody else Finnish National Opera, 19:00 www.stoa.fi makes music like this, except Patricia Kaas. And Björklund does it in Helsinginkatu 58 Tickets €12-55 Until Sat 4 February a much more interesting way. With a saw.” www.opera.fi Yasushi Koyama: Panda Travelling Meeting with friends makes Pan- Thu 2 February da’s journey happy! Artworks of Sello Hall THEATRE & DANCE Yasushi Koyama inspired by Finn- Soittoniekanaukio 1 (Espoo) ish forests, folklore, and the work of Tickets €18 A cut above the rest – the multi-talented Irina Björklund plays the artists Niki de Saint Phalle and Thu 2 February Yoshitomo Nara. www.espoo.fi Sello Hall tonight. The Greatest Love Songs Napa Gallery Syrup-scented dance cavalcade. Eerikinkatu 18 Zodiak Tue-Fri 12:00-18:00 Cable Factory Sat 12:00-16:00 MUSIC Fri 3 February Fri 3 February Sat 4 February Tallberginkatu 1 B www.napagalleria.wordpress.com Kemopetrol Judy Hospitality Helsinki: Netsky Tickets €12/20 Pop rock. Soulful cocktail of r’n’b and pop. (BEL), High Contrast (UK), www.zodiak.fi Until Sun 12 February Thu 2 February Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Bar Loose, Annankatu 21 Borgore (ISR) Believe It Or Not Vallenfyre (UK) Tickets €12/14 Tickets €5/7 Massive drum’n’bass and dubstep Thu 2 February Exhibition featuring new works Death metal. www.tavastiaklubi.fi www.barloose.com event. The English Comedy Club Helsinki of the Helsinki Art Museum from Tavastia The Circus Tiernan Douieb (UK), Ali Jahangiri 2007 to 2011. Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Fri 3 February Fri 3 February Salomonkatu 1-3 (FIN/IRN), Eric Seufert (USA). Art Museum Meilahti Tickets €16/19 Kylesa (USA) Georg Friedrich Händel: Julius Tickets €17-19 Manala Tamminiementie 6 www.tavastiaklubi.fi Experimental post-hardcore. Caesar www.thecircus.fi Töölönkatu 3 Tue-Sun 11:00-18:30 Nosturi, Telakkakatu 8 Popular opera, with brilliant music Tickets €8-10. Free entrance Thu 2 February Tickets €18 and dramatic storyline. Sat 4 February Batiskaf 14 (RUS) www.elmu.fi Finnish National Opera, 19:00 Club Visions Thu 2 & Tue 7 February Until Sun 4 March Melancholic Russian melodies with Helsinginkatu 58 Deep tech house. Don Quixote Elina Merenmies: Secret Joy Caribbean swing. Fri 3 February Tickets €22-99 Bassment One of the major works in classical Light as feather, the drawings and Kuudes Linja Tirehtöörit www.opera.fi Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21 ballet updated by Patrice Bart. paintings of Elina Merenmies move Hämeentie 13 Ska. Tickets €6 Finnish National Opera, 19:00 in a zone between dream and reality. Tickets €4/7 Semifinal Sat 4 February www.bassment.fi Helsinginkatu 58 Kunsthalle Helsinki www.kuudeslinja.com Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Miguel Poveda (ESP) Tickets €14-70 Nervanderinkatu 3 Tickets €6/7 Brilliant flamenco singer. Sat 4 February www.opera.fi Tue, Thu, Fri 11:00-18:00 Thu 2 February www.semifinal.fi Espoo Cultural Centre Clinic 4 Years Anniversary Wed 11:00-20:00 Esoteric (UK) Kaupinkalliontie 10 Dance event with progressive Fri 3-Sun 5 February Sat-Sun 11:00-17:00 Doom metal. Fri 3 February Tickets €35/45 house DJ/producer Jerome Isma- Dance Theatre Glims & Gloms: Tickets €0/5.50/8 Dom, Fredrikinkatu 42 Helsinki Arte Vivo www.espoo.fi Ae (GER). Arka paikka & Amatöörit www.taidehalli.fi Tickets €15 Cinta Hermo from Andalusia, Al- Venue Evening of two contemporary www.domhelsinki.fi gerian-born Ali Amran (guitar and Sat 4 February Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21 dance pieces. Until Sun 29 April vocals), Brazilian percussionist Reggae Snowsplash 2012: Jukka Tickets €13.20-23.20 Stoa Timo Kelaranta: Strange love Thu 2 February Marcelino P.B., Tanzanian percus- Poika, Groundsound Band, Nop- www.clubvenue.fi Turunlinnantie 1 As a photographer Kelaranta is a Club Lagoon sionist Menard Mponda and Aus- sajalka, Momocat and Band, Dy- Tickets €12/20 poet, a master of the abstract im- Beach party in the middle of winter. tralian Nathan Riki Thomson (dou- namq (USA) Sat 4 & Mon 6 February www.stoa.fi age and of minimalism, for whom The Circus ble bass and calimba). Winter’s biggest reggae party. Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla the most important thing in a pic- Salomonkatu 1-3 Stoa, Turunlinnantie 1 Tavastia, Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 del West Fri 3-Sat 11 February ture is its form. Tickets €6 Tickets €5/8 Tickets €20 Bold and colourful opera set in the Helsinki Flamenco Festival The Finnish Museum of Photography www.thecircus.fi www.stoa.fi www.tavastiaklubi.fi Wild West. Brilliant international performances The Cable Factory Finnish National Opera, 19:00 on various venues. Tallberginkatu 1 Thu 2 February Fri 3 February Sat 4 February Helsinginkatu 58 www.flamenco.fi Tue-Sun 11:00-18:00 Moped Ishmail & Ismo-iltamat Angel Witch (UK) Tickets €14-77 Wed 11:00-20:00 Band that draws its music from jazz, Surprising evening with Ismo Heavy metal. www.opera.fi Tickets €0/4/6 70s punk and Finnish nature. Alanko, Ishmail Sandstroem and Nosturi Sat 4 & Sun 5 February www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi Music Centre, Restaurant Reino Nordin. Telakkakatu 8 Sun 5 February Nordic Moves vol. 5 Mannerheimintie 13 Korjaamo Culture Factory Tickets €22 Cat Power (USA) Street dance event. Until Sun 6 May Tickets €10 Töölönkatu 51 B www.elmu.fi Soulful vocals and raw, minimalist Various venues Designworld www.musiikkitalo.fi Tickets €25 guitar playing by acclaimed Tickets €11-41 Exhibition looks at internation- www.korjaamo.fi Sat 4 February American singer-songwriter. www.nordicmoves.com al contemporary design with broad Thu 2-Sat 4 February Sibafest Closing Concert The Circus strokes, giving an overall picture of PRKL! Pimp My Winter Fest 2012 Fri 3 February Sibelius Academy Symphony Orches- Salomonkatu 1-3 Sat 4 & Sun 5 February today’s design. Rock, punk, psychobilly, death met- K-X-P tra feat. Dave Liebman (USA) saxo- Tickets €46 Circo Aereo & Les Objets Vol- Design Museum al and techno. Krautrock-influenced, hypnot- phone and Santtu Rouvali, conductor. www.thecircus.fi ants: Espresso Korkeavuorenkatu 23 Club Prkl ic sounds. , 18:00 A combination of traditional circus Tue 11:00-20:00 Kaisaniemenkatu 4 Kuudes Linja, Hämeentie 13 Concert Hall Mon 6 February expression, cabaret and the move- Wed-Sun 11:00-18:00 Tickets €8-25 Tickets €10 Mannerheimintie 13 First Aid Kit (SWE) ment-based style of contempo- Tickets €0/3/8 www.prklclub.fi www.kuudeslinja.com www.musiikkitalo.fi Sweet folk. rary circus. www.designmuseum.fi Tavastia Espoo Cultural Centre (Louhisali) Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 Kaupinkalliontie 10 Until Sun 17 June Tickets €15/17 Tickets €15/20 Thank You for the Music - How www.tavastiaklubi.fi www.espoo.fi Music Moves Us Exhibition on how the experiences Tue 7 February Tue 7 February of listening to music, watching mu- XV Festival Get Infected Tour 2012: Caliban Brutal Ballet (AUS): Out of the sic videos or going to a concert can (GER), Winds of Plague (USA), Darkness appear in the life and work of an artist, a music lover, a fan. FLAMENCO Kiasma, Mannerheiminaukio 2 Tue 10:00-17:00 Wed-Thu 10:00-20.30 de Helsinki 3.–11.2.2012 Fri 10:00-22:00 Sat 10:00-18:00 Sun 10:00-17:00 MIGUEL POVEDA COMPAÑÍA MANUEL REYES: Tickets €0/8/10 Saturday 4.2. at 7 p.m. ENSAYOS & ACUERDOS www.kiasma.fi Hall, Espoo Cultural Centre Saturday 11.2. at 7 p.m., Savoy Theatre solution sudoku Tickets 45 €, Lippupiste Tickets 39 €, Lippupalvelu NIGHT OF THE AFICIONADOS BOHEMIKA – ALBUM Wednesday 8.2. at 7 p.m., Kanneltalo Tickets 20 €, Lippupalvelu RELEASE CONCERT Friday 10.2. at 7 p.m., Kanneltalo COMPAÑIA MILENA URMAS: Tickets 20 €, Lippupalvelu Thursday 9.2. at 7 p.m., Kanneltalo Tickets 20 €, Lippupalvelu

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