The 7th Le Petit Festival – Hanko
The annual multi-art Le Petit Festival – Hanko offers a versatile and emotional programme once more. We present concerts, contemporary dance, theatre, visual arts, performance, outsider art, children’s theatre, clownery, films, video art, artistic workshops, lectures and street art. The programme joins together traditional, contemporary, and folk art. The event’s central scene is Hanko Town Hall ; moreover, the art pieces are displayed in the different parts of the city and the coastline. Part of the shows are free of charge and invites visitors to take part.
Performing arts means the encounter, the sharing, and the possibility to understand each other better. We continue the battle. Long live the performing arts!
20-22 August 2021
› Ticket sales online at tiketti.fi/le-petit-festival-hanko-2021
Discount tickets: Students, unemployed, retired, professionals (card shown at the door)
Children’s tickets 6 – 12 yrs.
The event is supported by: City of Hanko / Culture, SKR Uudenmaan rahasto, Aktia Foundation, Center for Arts Promotion and Svenska Kulturfonden
FRIDAY 20 AUG
AT 16 – 17
Veli Granö – WONDERFUL ITE ART
City Hall foyer and hall, tickets 10 / passport
Artist Veli Granö tells and shows pictures from his journey of more than 30 years with Finnish contemporary folk artists. `ITE – taide´ reveals the deepest meanings of art.
AT 17 – 18
THE OUTSIDER ARTIST OF THE YEAR JORI TAPIO KALLIOLA
THE EXHIBITION OPENING, MEET THE ARTIST
Essayist and translator Sampsa Laurinen interviews.
Languages finnish / swedish
Hanko Town Hall Foyér, Vuorikatu 1, tickets 10 / pass
The Association for Rural Culture and Education chose the outsider artist of 2021, the Rauma-born Jori Tapio Kalliola. The artist, living and working in Hanko, is known for his feisty, authority critical, sculpted wooden figures. The entitlement’s purpose is to raise self-made but artistically meaningful artists’ voices and viewpoints.
AT 17.30 – 17.50
Pianist Tuomas Kortelahti
Living in Hanko, plays classical piano music and well-known film tunes at the Hanko Town Hall´s Foyér, Vuorikatu 1
( Audience welcome to take a glass of wine )
AT 18 – 19.40, 15 min. break
Thruth and falsehood – Vladimir Vysotski´s songs
Hanko Town Hall, Stage, Vuorikatu 1, tickets 35 /25 euros / pass
Always so current Vladimis Vysotskis songs as fresh, raw interpretations – presented by our country’s frontline actors and musicians: Martti Suosalo, Nora Raikamo , Jarkko Lahti and musicians Kiureli Sammallahti and Valtteri Bruun.
Vladimir Vysotski was a Russian (Soviet) poet, actor and singer-songwriter. His production was not published in the Soviet Union due to its scathing criticism. It was not until 1988 that Vysotski was freed of censorship, and in the 1990’s he was recognised and incorporated into the ranks of Russian literature.
The songs talk about love, war, crime and everyday life. For instance, also some lyrics are a painful reminder that freedom of speech and human rights are not still fulfilled globally.
Martti Suosalo -singing
Nora Raikamo -singing, violin
Jarkko Lahti -singing
Kiureli Sammallahti -singing, accordion
Valtteri Bruun -singing, guitar
AT 21.30 – 22.30
Barlast/Oförsagd: Breaks at Dawn with the media artist Nina-Maria Oförsagd
Hank Town Hall, Stage, Vuorikatu 1 , tickets 25/ 20 / pass
The Barlast is a folk music/ jazz group’s and the media artist Nina-Maria Oförsagd´s improvised live cinema piece.
What happens around us at night, when most of us are asleep and time does not really exist? The orchestra moves on the dark hours when nothing happens: outside of everyday life, in between, before waking up to the metropolis.
In the artwork shaping life, the visual material talks to the soundscape. During the show, Oförsagd edit, using the art form VJing, the story to the music which Barlast composes. This is the way how spontaneous, experimental film is created.
The Barlast is influenced by European jazz, Nordic folk music, and free improvisation. It also investigates the borderline between improvisation and composing. Oförsagd uses the material filmed at the Asian metropolises (Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei and imaginary Lin-Tsi). Oförsagd searches locations from different, unique environments where she can whiz into the magical time zone to construct and visualise fictional worlds and atmospheres.
Philip Holm – contrabass, synthesizer
Heikki Hänninen – guitars
Minna Koskenlahti – percussion and flute
Sanna Salonen – soprano saxophone, bass clarinet and master
Nina-Maria Oförsagd – live visuals
SATURDAY 21 AUG
AT 10 – 12
CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKSHOP
by dancer and choreographer Nina Mamia – Dance Theatre Mamia Company
Brankkis, Nycanderinkatu 8, tickets 15
In the contemporary dance workshop, versatile contemporary dance series and dance improvisation exercises. The workshop is aimed at all dance enthusiasts (10 years and up).
All you need is clothes suitable for movement and a happy mind.
The workshop is led by choreographer, dancer and dance teacher Nina Mamia.
AT 13 – 14
Street walk performance – PULLISTUS,
Design artist Reika Vesala
Vuorikatu – Itäsatama – Reagatta beach – Town Hall, Welcome !
The natural form of the human body has not been valued as such during the history of fashion. Both women’s and men’s bodies have been shaped: breasts have been highlighted, the bottom has been lifted and the feet have been made smaller by tying them. Nowadays, the body is shaped by using silicone, for instance. This artwork is the artist’s own, wild version of body shaping.
Reika Vesala is from Osaka, Japan and is based in Finland. She works in the field of textile art and design as well as an artist and designer. She expresses her points of views without prejudgments.
She wonders about words and images’ language, what matters and what does not, what is visible and invisible. Vesala often creates communal artworks. 大阪出身でフィンランド在住のヴェサラ玲華は、テキスタイルアートとテキスタイルデザインの分野で活動を行っています。彼女の作品は、テキスタイルの技法と素材とコンセプトを通して表現していながら、その概念に捕らわれていません。作品で彼女は、意義と無意義・見えると見えない・言葉とイメージなど、対照の意味を考察します。コミュニティーアートでは、創造的プロセスが人々をアートに、個々を集団に、内心を公開に繋げるという結合点を作り出します。また、着るというコンセプトを通して表現しているウェアラブルアートも、通常の着るという概念を広範囲から受取り、作品に取り入れています。
AT 15 – 15.15
THE ROAD – DANCE SOLO BY NINA MAMIA
Vuorikatu 1, in front of the City Hall, free admission
The Road is a dance solo about how life forces you to your knees and gives you a new opportunity. The solo is accessible and palpable to everyone because it is not tied to language or a specific space. Choreography, dance: Nina Mamia, Sound design: Kasperi Nordman Costume: Wolf Enkelinen
AT 16 – 17
HAMLET PRIVATE
Dance artist, choreographer Samuli Roininen, Dance Theatre MD
You have a front-row seat: The only seat… An exclusive experience – Hamlet just for you.
Villa Tellina uppstrairs, Appelgrenintie 2, tickets 25 ( Tiketti )
HAMLET PRIVATE takes you on a personal journey into the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Without stage lights or other effects – purely by the performer’s own storytelling and presence, you are invited into the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. As a fortuneteller, the performer gives you a reading, using a deck of tarot cards, with motives from Hamlet. The show is based on your own life and the choices you make. Hamlet’s questions becomes your questions – his hesitation and his choices yours. The show wants to offer an option to the compelling will to control every area of life and feelings with the reason.
AT 16.30 – 17
Gustaf Broms – ANIMA MUNDI
Vuorikatu 1, vapaa pääsy
`Being in a time and place, where identification with
the thin membrane of skin, as container of self,
slowly dissolves, as borders between beings evaporate,
the environment disintegrates into a myriad of sentient beings.´
BROM IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING PERFORMANCE ARTISTS IN SWEDEN.
AT 17.30 – 17.50
Tuomas Kortelahti, piano music at the foyer
AT 18 – 19.25
MARTTI SUOSALO: PARASTA ELÄMÄSSÄ – Every Brilliant Thing
Hanko Town Hall Stage, Vuorikatu 1, tickets 30 / 25
Top Finnish actor Martti Suosalo´s masterful monologue is moving, full of hope and bittersweet. It is a story about the chronically depressed mother’s son, who tries to cheer up her mother by listing things that make life worth living. The things everyone should remember from time to time. The play is performed by Martti Suosalol and the audience. The show has been directed by Pentti Kotkanniemi, and it is based on the British author Duncan Macmillan´s text Every Brilliant Thing.
AT 21.30 – 22.30
KINOCONCERT: Kari Ikonen
Hanko Town Hall, Stage, Vuorikatu 1, tickets 30 /25
Paradise and expulsion
The movie director F. W Murnau’s film, Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931), is still one of the most beautiful movies, a folktale about the forbidden love in the French Polynesian island, Bora Bora.
Fact and fiction shake hands. The camera follows the islanders’ lives and the nature around them as part of the island’s pulse. First, Murnau had to execute the movie together with the well-known documentarist Robert J. Flaherty, the director of Nanook of the North (1922). However, they encountered disagreement because Flaherty wanted to make the movie more scientific and authentic to the Polynesian habits when Murnau considered more critical engaging storytelling. As a synthetic result, the locals do not seem to perform but live in the story.
Tabu is the purest praise of love, nature, and physicality. Among the silent film period’s greatest masters, F.W Murnau was the frontrunner; as the robust imagery creator, his influence on cinematic storytelling has been significant. The movie does not have dialogue, but the emotions are shown.
The film was the last work of its director. Murnau died in the car accident only two weeks before the premiere of Tabu. Murnau made 21 films in total, but 8 of them are entirely missing.
Internationally known jazz wizard Kari Ikonen created the unique music for the film, where the grand piano is toned in sounds of the Western and exotic chords. Dream and reality are mixed in the music, as in the film.
(Collaboration with Hanko Film Festival – HANGON ELOKUVAJUHLAT)
AT 23.15
Film by Gustaf Broms ´PERFORATED REALITIES` 16 min.
Hangon Kaupungintalon näyttämö, Vuorikatu 1, vapaa pääsy, free entree
SUNDAY 22 AUG
AT 10 – 14
WHOOSH OF THE WIND – WINDMILL WORKSHOP, Regatta beach, WELLCOME !FREE
With Art designer Reika Vesala
Let us make a communal piece, windmill installation, we have the material: hardened fabric and wooden sticks. Welcome to make windmills together. Making the windmill takes around 20min/piece. Everyone shall place a self-made windmill at the beach, and in the end, the mills will form one large installation. More windmills, better. The most important in the artwork is the sea wind. In the end, you may take your own windmill with you. Welcome!
AT 11 – 11.30 finnish
AT 12.30 – 13 swedish
Kittie Smalls in the shadows of the danger – Dance Theatre Mamia Co
Foyér, Hanko Town Hall, Vuorikatu 1, tickets 15 / pass / family 2+2 50
“No-one can manage alone. Invite everyone to play, always!”
Family smalls has packed their things, and after the summer, it is the time to return from the summerhouse to the city. In the middle of all the hassle, the summer cat Kittie is left to the summerhouse. From here, the kitty’s adventure begins in the world of balls of yarn. A warm adventurous tale is a multilevel piece about loneliness and the importance of the family. Kittie Smalls is a interactive dance theater performance about loneliness.
Performance is suitable for kindergartens and adults who are child at heart.
Written by Kasperi Nordman & Nina Mamia Choreography: Nina Mamia Director & sound design: Kasperi Nordman Kittie Smalls: Nina Mamia Rat Plummings: Kasperi Nordman
AT 12 – 13, 13.30 – 14.30 and 15.30 – 16.30
HAMLET PRIVATE
Dance artist, choreographer Samuli Roininen, Dance Theatre MD
You have a front-row seat: The only seat… An exclusive experience – Hamlet just for you.
Villa Tellina uppstrairs, Appelgrenintie 2, tickets 25
HAMLET PRIVATE takes you on a personal journey into the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Without stage lights or other effects – purely by the performer’s own storytelling and presence, you are invited into the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. As a fortuneteller, the performer gives you a reading, using a deck of tarot cards, with motives from Hamlet. The show is based on your own life and the choices you make. Hamlet’s questions becomes your questions – his hesitation and his choices yours. The show wants to offer an option to the compelling will to control every area of life and feelings with the reason.
AT 12 – 18
LACRIMAL DUCTS – LAMENTATIONS
AT 12 – 13 Lecture, Stage, Hanko Town Hall
AT 13.15 Performance, Stage, Hanko Town Hall
AT 14.30 – 17.30 Workshop, Foyér, Hanko Town Hall, Vuorikatu 1
What is a lamentation? Are they old tradition? Do they have something to do with the current time? Three artist-researcher work pairs investigate what kind of needs lamentation and crying out loud are corresponding to. The themes of the investigation project are the bodily experienced cry, the apposition of the orthodox and folk tradition for a contemporary weeper and the variety, communality, and feelings of the modern lamentation. The researchers of the lamentation interpret their findings as well. The practice is approached through emotions, expressions, experiences, and meanings given to them.
The project is executed by the artist-researcher working pairs in a total of six people.
The musicians specialised in lamentation tradition are: Emilia Kallonen, Liisa Matveinen ja Emmi Kuittinen. The ethnomusicologist Elina Hytönen-Ng specialised in the music experience. The church musician Riikka Patrikainen specialised in rituals and the cultural researcher and folklorist Villiina Silvonen immersed in lamentations of the archive materials and their meanings.
AT 17 – 17.25
Street theater performance: Internationale ATK show
In front of Hanko City Hall, Vuorikatu 1, free admission
And they pressed Enter…
Four digitized clowns present their absurd and tragicomic adventures in bit vortices. Physical comedy, speed and dangerous situations. The Internationale ATK show is a combination of clownery and dance theater performance about the encounter between man and technology.
Performers: Johanna Keinänen, Tuovi Rantanen, Liisa Ruuskanen and Hanna Terävä
Costume designer Mirkka Nyrhinen and sound designer
Composer: Petri Tiainen
Private eye: Liisa Risu
AT 18 – 19
Dr Zeiffal, Dr Zeigal and the Hippo That Can Never Be Caught.
Taina Mäki- Iso and Jouni Bäckström
Hanko Town hall, Stage Vuorikatu 1, tickets 25 / 20 / family 2+ 2 75
The comedy for all the family follows two funny hippo researcher’s adventures. Suddenly, the lecture changes when an actual living hippo comes on the scene. Droll researchers are played by the children’s theatre’s professionals: theatre director and clown Taina Mäki – Iso and opera singer, actor Jouni Bäckstöm. The play is directed by creative director Georgia Murphy, of the theatre The Mouths of Lions in London, who directed the premiere of this play in England as well.
AT 20 – 21
TANGO NIGHT – After Party
Noche de tango – Tangoilta – Tangonight
Besos brujos
Hanko Town Hall, Foyér, Vuorikatu 1 , tickets 15 e
The Argentine tango encounters the Finnish tango on the dim night of August.
Accordian artist Olli Kari, violinist and singer Sanna Mansikkaniemi and violinist Raido Lill.
Long live the performing arts!
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