Category Archives: Events / Exhibitions

COMING SOON: HELSINKI BEYOND DREAMS

By Hella Hernberg | Published: 25/10/2011


For the past year or so, we have been busy with our forthcoming book.

Titled Helsinki Beyond Dreams, the book is about emerging local cultures and how they make a difference. We’ve invited a culturally varied group of urban activists, theorists and designers to share their views around the theme. We can’t wait to get all the inspiring stories and the rich photography out and published!

The book will be available in the spring 2012. It is also part of the official program of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. Stay alert, more information will follow.

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TWO HUNDRED NEW RESTAURANTS

By Ida Kukkapuro | Published: 27/08/2011

Photography: Veikko Kähkönen

A wonderfully disgusting odour of fried fat is floating in the air. People are standing in a serpentine line on Eerikinkatu street, downtown Helsinki. A basket filled with greasy delicacies has just come down from the first floor window, tied in a rope. A group of Japanese tourists are looking suspiciously at their paper plates with chocolate-glazed bacon and pie made of Mars chocolate bars. (more…)

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COOKING UNDER THE SUN

By Hella Hernberg | Published: 17/08/2011

Photography: Johannes Romppanen

Last weekend, we drove our bicycles to Kalasatama to test the Solar Kitchen – an exceptional travelling restaurant concept by Catalan designer Martí Guixe and Finnish chef Antto Melasniemi.

The two visionaries both have a history of experimenting with food – Martí from the designer’s point of view and Antto as a chef of several fine-dining restaurants. Solar cooking offers a whole new way of approaching a restaurant. The texture and taste of the food is different, as the heat radiates from different angles. (more…)

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A TROPICAL NIGHT RIDE

By Hella Hernberg | Published: 29/07/2011

Photography: Johannes Romppanen

Bicycle brunches, free concerts, independent art exhibitions, hammocks, swimming and night movies. This summer Kalasatama has proved to be the perfect location to spend warm days and nights in the city.

Last wednesday, the We Love Helsinki community celebrated a Bicycle Day in Kalasatama in an almost tropical summer night. The event, created together with a number of voluntary urban activists, started at Bermuda Helsinki’s container with live music, bicycle repair and brunch for a voluntary fee, freshly roasted coffee by Kaffa, drinks from the bicycle bar, and radler (traditional cyclists’ drink) from a bicycle tank by Pelago. At 10pm, over 300 cyclists started a night ride around the centre of Helsinki. The almost endless line of riders ringing their bells and curving through the streets was a spectacular sight. (more…)

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FOR THE LOVE OF FOOD

By Hella Hernberg | Published: 24/05/2011

Wild herb pizzas queuing for the oven in Kalasatama

Last Saturday 21 May was a historical day in Helsinki. For one day, anyone could start their own pop-up restaurant, anywhere, and regardless of what the rules say. The first ever Ravintolapäivä (Restaudant Day) was a carneval-like celebration in favour of richer food cultures and against rules that sometimes make food such a complicated question. Organised through a Facebook event, small and original restaurants popped up just for a few hours – on the streets, parks, clothing shops or homes, offering tapas, drinks, smoothies, popsicles and even fancy dinners served at home in the evening. (more…)

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