Advertisement
? Come to celebrate International Children Book Day (ICBD) and Helsinki contemporary childhood! Don’t miss a beautiful event with a program full of storytelling sessions in many heritage languages, workshops and concerts for children and their families!
? Saturday 6.4.2024
⏰ 1 - 6 pm
? Oodi Library | Children’s Department (3rd floor).
?️️ Free entrance
??????? ??????? | ????:
The band HOME will be the protagonist of the gran opening of Reading Together this year!
“??? ????? ???????’’ will mix music and storytelling in Greek. The band describes their performance as "the adventures of Melodie, Rhythm. When music marries the story, to create an atmosphere of hope, solidarity, diversity and understanding. A story about a realistic future for children of all ages.”
Band members: Chrysa Panagiotopoulou (GR): Vocals | Sara Majidinejad (IR): Qanun | Melisa Yıldırım (TR): Anatolian Kamancha | Sami Karkar (FR/ TN): Percussion | Evangelos Velentzas (GR): Storytelling | Vasileios Katopodis (GR): Guitar
? 1 – 2 pm | Children’s Area (Main carpet).
?? ???????????? ???????????? ??????? | ???? ???? ????????!
Come to Oodi Library to participate in storytelling sessions accompanied by music in the following languages:
???????: Nur Koca (TR), educator and storyteller. Musician: Melisa Yıldırım (TR) will play anatolian kamancha.
? 2 – 3 pm | Event Room.
Associations: FIN POLAR ry. and Global Music Department – Uniart
??????: Samah Zahlaf (PS).
? 2 – 3 pm | Balcony (above Event room).
Association: Mirsal ry.
??????? ??? ???????: Wende Luvinga (TZ) & Laura Hytti (FI).
? 2 – 3 pm. Windows carpet.
Association: Familia ry.
???????: Tania Carluccio (IT), educator and language & literature expert. Livia Schweizer (Italy), will play flute.
? 2 – 3 pm. Orage Room.
Association: Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Helsinki & Global Music Department – Uniarts.
?????: Mahsa Khoshnejad (IR) educator. Musician: Sara Majidinejad (IR) will play Qanun.
? 3 – 4 pm | Main carpet.
Associations: Familia ry & Global Music Department – Uniarts.
??????????: Luciana Faria Pereira Paltila (BR), educator and storyteller, & Sofia Santos (PT), educator and storyteller.
Musician: Sami Karkar (FR/TN) will play percussion.
? 3 – 4 pm | Event Room
Associations: APPF - Associação de Professores de Português na Finlândia ry, Kulttuurikeskus Ninho ry, and Global Music Department – Uniarts.
???????: Wende Luvinga (TZ) & Pessy Wanjala (KE).
? 3 – 4 pm Balcony (above Event room).
Association: Familia ry.
??????: Ida Tammi (AT).
? 3 – 4 pm Orange room.
Association: Familia ry.
????? - ???????: Aarthi Sudhindraa (IN) dancer and storyteller.
? 4 – 5 pm: Orange room.
Association: Kulttuurikeskus Ninho ry.
???????: Javiera Mac-lean (CL) illustrator and author, Verónica Miranda (AR), educator, Alicia Sevilla (MX) designer and storyteller, and Mi Casita Päiväkoti (FI) | Musician: Manuel Rosales (AR) will play guitar.
? 4 – 5 pm Event Room.
Associations: Kulttuurikeskus Ninhory , Mi Casita Päiväkoti and Global Music Department - Uniarts.
?????????: Nataliia Deineka (UKR), illustrator and author.
? 4 – 5 pm Balcony (above Event room).
Association: HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme & The Association of Ukrainians in Finland.
----------------------------------------------
? ????????? ??? ????????:
Children will also enjoy funny workshops through literature.
???????? ‘????????????’: Selkokulttuuri ry brings this beautiful workshop in English and plain Finnish, by Hanna Alajärvi (FI) and Jeroen Sebrechts (BE-FI). Families will create their own ‘Susurrador’ (‘Whisperer’), from recycled materials. Learn this special way of storytelling, and experience this active way of sharing, listening and telling stories and poems in your heritage language.
? 2 – 5 pm Workshop Area.
???????? ‘?????????? ???ä’: Noora Ketolainen, from Familia ry, will facilitate a funny workshop for children, around the book the association just launched “Kokonainen minä”.
? 3 – 5 pm Window carpet.
----------------------------------------------
? ??????? ??????? | ????ñ??:
João Luís (PT), Natalia Castrillón (CO) and Tomas Takolander (FI) will close Reading Together with a concert where children and families will actively participate! Enjoy and explore the sounds of the harp, guitar, and percussion with music and rhythms from diverse regions and voices singing in multiple languages (Spanish, English, Finnish, Portuguese).
? 5 – 6 pm | Children’s Area (Main carpet)
Reading Together is a co-production by Kulttuurikeskus Ninho ry, Selkokulttuuri ry, Familia ry – in cooperation with Oodi Library, Global Music Department – Uniarts, FIN POLAR Kultturikeskus Ry, APPF - Associação de Professores de Português na Finlândia ry, HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Helsinki, Mirsal ry, Mi Casita Päiväkoti, The Association of Ukrainians in Finland and Multilingual Library.
With the support of Helsinki City, Taike, Moniheli and Svenska Kulturfonden.
Advertisement
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Keskustakirjasto Oodi, Töölönlahdenkatu 8, FI-00100 Helsinki, Suomi,Helsinki, Finland