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Finland's biggest festival gets bigger
16 June 2006
Organisers of the Helsinki Festival Finland's largest festival are hoping to make this year's event bigger than ever with over a quarter of a million visitors.
The festival runs from 18 August to 3 September, and aims to display the best Finnish and international performing and creative arts.
The key to the festival's success is that it is really ten festivals going on simultaneously focusing on different areas.
Along with dance and theatre, there will also be classical music, events for children, jazz, film, a circus and even a brass band.
During Night of the Arts, Helsinki has more than a hundred events taking place across the city all open until midnight, while one highlight for children must be a tasty performance of Hansel and Gretel.
The Chocolate Theatre invites the audience to make chocolate puppets and sets for the play and, after everyone is cleaned up, the creations take centre stage to act out the story.
The cinema festival will include a series of films by the Spanish director Luis Bunuel.
© Adfero Ltd
The festival runs from 18 August to 3 September, and aims to display the best Finnish and international performing and creative arts.
The key to the festival's success is that it is really ten festivals going on simultaneously focusing on different areas.
Along with dance and theatre, there will also be classical music, events for children, jazz, film, a circus and even a brass band.
During Night of the Arts, Helsinki has more than a hundred events taking place across the city all open until midnight, while one highlight for children must be a tasty performance of Hansel and Gretel.
The Chocolate Theatre invites the audience to make chocolate puppets and sets for the play and, after everyone is cleaned up, the creations take centre stage to act out the story.
The cinema festival will include a series of films by the Spanish director Luis Bunuel.
© Adfero Ltd
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