This Week In Oulu

By 65DN

Wednesday, 01 July 2009

This week Oulu gets a rock n'pop picnic, a sing-a-long evening, motocross, and archaelogical digs. What more could you want? Oulu can expect more raving revellers for Rotuaari 2009 (Picture 2008). Rotuuari Piknik, the yearly overflowing of rock and pop bands in a conveniently central location, starts tonight at 18.30 and continues every day up to and including Saturday in a tiny, sealed-off festival area at Kirkkokatu 19. Bands include Ismo Alanko Teholla and Apulanta on Wednesday, Popeda and Muska on Thursday, Egotrippi and Maria Gasolina on Friday, and Anna Eriksson and Helsinki soul band Miss Saana & the Missionaries on Friday. Tickets are 25€ per day in advance from Stockman’s third floor and 30€ per day at the gate; the cafés and bars around the ball are off limits to ticketless pedestrians, as is the entire area to under 18s after 18.30. Finland’s biggest sing-a-long evening is happening tonight at 19.00 in the 2600-capacity Möljä summer theatre at Piktänmöljäntie 2 in Toppila, courtesy of the Meri Oulu Cultural Society. Thousands are expected to turn up to sing ‘classic Finnish songs’ accompanied by Mikko Alatalo, who looks more than a little like Elton john, and his band. Tarpit Orchestra and Cyphosis are playing at hard rock/metal club Hevimesta at Torikatu 11 on Wednesday evening as the first act in the Club Six Foot Under Wednesday band nights, which continue to August 26. Go arctic events continue this week with tar boat trips to Turkansaari on Wednesday for 42€ leaving from beside the Koivuranta café at Kursutie 18 at 11.00, a four-hour boat tour for over-18s on the Alexandra on Wednesday and Friday leaving at 18.00 from the marketplace, and night canoeing on Friday for 57€ from 22.00 to 01.00 and also leaving from the marketplace. See here for more information, or visit their customer service point at Torikatu 10. Archeological digs are now open every weekday in July from 12.00 to 17.00 at the Kierikki Centre at Pahkalantie in Yli-Ii, offering anyone with 15€ the chance to dig all day to find stone-age artifacts–pottery for instance –on the site of a very old village. An archeologist is on site to give help and advice, and according to the centre staff the sites are ‘very rich…nearly everyone who digs there finds something.’ Developers and an ever-increasing pile of rubbish are threatening the Rölli forest in Save the Rölli forest, described a ‘play for all the family’ and an ‘ecological summer adventure’ by its creators the Oulu Student Theatre company. The play is in Finnish and shows on Wednesday and Thursday at 16.00 for 10€/5€ at Vaaskikiventie 12, and on Saturday and Sunday at 15.00. Aino Juntunen is giving a free fifteen-minute organ recital at the cathedral at 12.15 on Thursday. The Liminka Music week continues with a free student concert and songs on Wednesday from 18.00, chamber music from Saint-Säens, Dvorak, and Berlioz on Thursday at 22.00, tickets 8€, a symphony orchestra concert on Friday at 19.00 with Stravinsky and more Dvorak–this time a cello concerto, and the final concert on Saturday at 12.30, tickets 10€. The Oulu Northern Lights play the Kuopio Steelers for first-division American football in the Castern grounds at Paulaharjuntie on Saturday at 17.00. Tickets are 5€. The Motorcross Northern Tour is happening at the Iinati motorsports centre at Iinatintie 160 on Saturday and Sunday. The Hanna Schroderus stipend exhibition is at Gallery 5 at Hallituskatu 5 until July 19. Artwork by Liisa Kitinprami is at the Kierikki Centre at Pahkalantie 447. Sculptures by Martti Väänänen are on display at the O. Jauhiainen Museum at Jaarantie 2, Kiiminki. ‘A smile on the lips,’ ‘naivistic’ paintings by Lea Pihkala, are at the Art Museum café at Kasarmintie 7. Please keep the topic of messages relevant to the subject of the article. Name: Title: Comment: MathGuard security question: 9 + 0 =

 

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