Excursions (Thursday): 1) TAMPERE, 2) MÄNTTÄ

Note that there will be a list on the information board in the lobby where you can put your name if you want to take part in an excursion. This list will appear there LATE TUESDAY OR EARLY WEDNESDAY. Anyway, put your name there before the Wednesday lunch!



1. TAMPERE

Departure from Orivesi 10 o’clock. Price for the bus: 15 euros. Max. 50 persons.

Alternatives:

1. DAY AT A FINNISH LAKE
Boat adventure 5 euros/person (place for 12 persons)
”Visit” the Finnish sauna, about 6 euros, two saunas near by each other (Rauhaniemen kansankylpylä, Kaupinojan sauna)

2. THE MUSEUMS IN TAMPERE
There are several museums in Tampere. The biggest one with many exhibitions is Vapriikki. Visit this museum and other museums in the surroundings by your own.
More information:
http://vapriikki.fi/en/nayttelyt/
Open 10-18, entrance fee 10 euros/4 euros.

3. THE AMUSEMENT PARK SÄRKÄNNIEMI
Tickets = Adventure Wristband 32 euros for a child 100-120cm and 38 euros for a person over 120cm. We buy tickets in before hand (otherwise we have to stand very long time in a queue)
http://www.sarkanniemi.fi/en/sarkanniemi/

4. SHOPPING IN TAMPERE BY YOUR OWN We are going to travel back to Orivesi at 4 o’clock p.m. Meeting point: Torni-hotel behind the Railway Station (take a lift to the top to the hotel for free).

 
2. MÄNTTÄ ART FESTIVAL
Host: Max. If the bus will have a mic, we'll have open mic so feel free to perform.

The bus will pick us up at 10 o'clock. (Don't be late!) Max 50 persons.
Fees: bus 15 euros, Mänttä Art Festival 12 euros / students 9 euros (not sure if applies only to Finnish student cards). It takes something like 1 hour to drive to Mänttä.


MÄNTTÄ ART FESTIVAL

The festival, which is more of an annual summer exhibition, and which has a central role in the 'summer art scene' of the old school art establishment, has this year been curated by video artist Anssi Kasitonni. The exhibit has traditionally been about late modern art or early easy-to-digest contemporary, but last year it caught the attention of the younger generation, the political artists and the fresh contemporary art wing with a new conceptual, political and hard edge attitude (curated by Dzamil Kamanger and Kalle Hamm). The curator of this year, video artist Anssi Kasitonni, has been an active, humoristic and excentric agent in the local art scene for years. Going commando includes works by e.g. Mika Taanila (on of the artists of last Documenta) and Pertti Kurikka (the main character of the Finnish disabled punk band Pertti Kurikan nimipäivät). Joker card: one of the artists of the exhibition is Lucy Liu.

After visiting the Art Festival we will take the bus close to the Serlachius Museum Gösta, where we'll have time to eat snacks and take it easy. There's a lake there, so at least the brave ones can swim. There the ones who want to visit the Serlachius Museum have a possibility to go in and check Mark Wallinger and an exhibition studying the crossroads of natural science and art. The Serlachius family made a fortune with wood / paper and functioned as patrons for many modern artists (at the same time they were against the worker movement, so the issue is a bit sensitive and complex). The museum was for long a bourgeois summer hit with its landscape paintings (some of them fine, actually) but there are as well some good paintings of workers from the industrial period. The new wing of the museum aims to be more than a site for a summer visit, and now there is a possibility to check out how far they are taking this ambition this year.