Opening of the 2022–2023 academic year

Welcome to celebrate the opening of Uniarts Helsinki’s academic year on Thursday, 15 September 2022, starting at 15:00!

The festivities will be held on the Tori courtyard in the Kookos building on the Sörnäinen campus, and after the official programme, the audience can visit the opening of the BFA exhibition in the Kuva/Tila gallery in the Mylly building. 

We will also be serving something sweet to eat and bubbly to drink!

Presenters

Viivi Tigerstedt, Sara-Maria Pirhonen and Jere Hölttä

Programme 15–18

Performance art: De Lyxx 

Antonia Atarah 
Sara-Maria Pirhonen 

Speech by Uniarts Helsinki rector 

Kaarlo Hildén 

Speech by a representative of the Ministry of Education and Culture 

Minister of Science and Culture Petri Honkonen 

Performance art

Raphaël Beau 

Speech  

Chair of the Student Union Board Johannes Pessi 

Music: brass septet Novus  

Ilari Pälli, cornet in Eb 
Tuomas Salo, cornet in Bb 
Onni Pietilä, cornet in Bb 
Matias Parikka, alto horn 
Lauri Kilpinen, tenor horn 
Aksel Kiviniemi, baritone horn 
Silja Ronimus, tuba  

Speech by special guest 

Auli Leskinen: Dimmed by war grey – no way

Auli Leskinen is a writer and journalist specialising in Latin America. Her debut novel Petojen aika was published in 2013. The book was nominated for the Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize for the best debut of the year. Leskinen was the director of the Finnish Institute in Madrid in 2012–2016. Currently, she is the vice president for Tuudo Ltd Latin America.

Swedish and English subtitles will be made available for her speech at the Tori courtyard in Kookos. 

Performance art 

Ville Laurinkoski 

Announcement of the Alumni of the Year 

Archaic trio

Heli Hartikainen, saxophone  
Katju Lindqvist, voice  
Sanna Sällinen, accordion  

Opening of the BFA Exhibition 

The annual BFA graduates’ degree exhibition presents the work of students from all subject areas at the Academy of Fine Arts of Uniarts Helsinki. Each participant is allowed to produce the artistic component of their bachelor’s thesis project with no formal restrictions and are thus able to fully showcase the present state of their artistic thinking. Find out more on exhibition’s website.

Programme in Helsinki Music Centre 18–19

Organ concert: Leipzig au­di­tions 1722

Timo Kiiskinen, organ

Time

15.9.2022 at 15:00