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
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