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28.10. PRESENT Finntopia – British perspectives on the world’s happiest country

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Seven Brothers One Woman show by Heidi Niemi It's the 150th anniversary of the first Finnish novel, Aleksis Kivi’s Seven Brothers. To celebrate, we asked actor Heidi Niemi to create a one woman show, playing all seven brothers Juhani, Tuomas, Aapo, Lauri, Simeoni, Timo, Lauri and Eero.

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What makes Finland the world's happiest country?

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Photographer Barry Falk spent a week making portra

Rich Cutler is a photographic artist based in Brig $Rich Cutler is a photographic artist based in Brighton, UK. His practice is compelled by constructions of time and semiotics, fractures and commonalities between the historical and the present, and tensions between the sciences and the arts. In 2020, Finland was ranked as the world’s most content country for the third year running by the United Nations’ World Happiness Report. Forests have had a significant role in shaping Finnish culture with its hallmarks of egalitarianism and respect for nature. This project, Metsänpeitto, is an exploration of Finland through its forests and myths. Finns and forests intertwine through history to the present. The forest has provided shelter and sustenance for millennia. But the forest can be perilous too. This was apparent during the Second World War, when the Finns fought Soviet soldiers among the pines and birches. Unsurprisingly, the forest is a frequent motif in Finnish mythology. Today, forests still cover most of the land and continue to shape Finnish culture with its hallmarks of egalitarianism and respect for nature. Image 1 – Forest Landscapes Image 2 – Forest Still Lifes’ Photographer @rich.cutler @map6collective @photofringe @colonnadehse @ourfinland @thisisfinlandofficial #Finland #photofringe2020 #winterwar #metsänpeitto #forestfinland #photofestival #Colonnadehouse #photographycollective #documentingfinland #happiness #happinessreport #collaborativeproject #photographycollective #photocollectives #groupshow #emergingphotography #contemporaryphotography #photography #brightonevents #Worthing #helsinkiofficial #VisitFinland #thisisfinland$

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