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The autumn 2022 Kanteletupa workshops are culminating in the third workshop in the Organo hall of the Helsinki Musiikkitalo on January 29, 2023, which is also the final rehearsal for the concert on February 11, 2023, at 6 p.m. Kanteletupa – yhteisöllinen aikamatka musiikin alkulähteille -concert is an experimental event where the audience has the […]

RUUKKU-journal #18, Responsibility, published on the 30th of September, 2022, containes the exposition Connected Alone – An Ancient Musical Culture As a Tool For Self-Expression Today by Arja Kastinen. This exposition examines the possibilities and problems of using the elements of ancient musical culture for producing new music. It contains eleven video clips and associated […]

The Kanteletupa-workshops will be held twice this autumn: October 15 and November 26 from noon to 2 p.m. at the Helsinki Mu­sic Cen­tre’s Ground Foyer. The third workshop will be held in the Organo hall in January 29, 2023. Welcome! The workshops will be part of the research project The Dialogue of Creativity. At the […]

This year’s Silence Festival in Kaukonen, Kittilä, Finland, offers two special performances connected to the ancient kantele improvisation. On Fri, June 10, Drop of a Light – Tom Collin & Arja Kastinen at 3, 4 and 5 p.m. Premiere of a new cross-disciplinary collaboration created in Kaukonen village during the festival week. Floor acrobat Tom […]

The contents of Arja’s research project as a Visiting Researcher at the Sibelius Academy Folk Music Department, The University of Arts Helsinki, is now published on its own site. The project title is: Kantele of the Runosong Culture and the Dialogue of Creativity. The project examines kantele improvisation within the Finnish-Karelian runosong culture, its various […]