One day I was herding sheep with my mother at Plaza Conga. At twelve o'clock, some lunatic appeared and started to chase my horse. He saw me and came after me. I ran away into the mountains and stumbled, which is when the lunatic ran over me. Elías Herrera Tafur, La Shicuana (Cajamarca, Peru)

A Safe World? Photographs taken by Peruvian and Finnish schoolchildren

October 12 to 26, 2009 at Luckan, Simonkatu 8
Open: Mon - Fri 11am-5pm (Tue 11am-7 pm) and Sat 12pm

Starting from October 12th, a photographic exhibition, A Safe World? will be held in Luckan, displaying photographs by Finnish and Peruvian schoolchildren and illustrating their thoughts on and their feelings of fear and safety.

The exhibition A Safe World? is a global education project carried out in 2008 by Tinku Finland in cooperation with a Peruvian NGO working in rural areas in the Andes, in the Peruvian rainforest, and in Lima. The participant schools in Finland are located in Helsinki, Nurmijärvi, Rauma and Kemi.

Tinku will organize a comics workshop in Cinemaissíto the 24th of October at 14.15–15.00 (Luckan).

Collage ”Draw a Tale”
Authors: Pauliina Salminen ja Andrés Jaschek
Participants: pupils of the Kilpisjärvi and Puerto Iguazú 818 schools.
Duration: 4 min

The collage ”Draw a Tale” was realized with schoolchildren living on two frontier areas. One of them was the tropical Puerto Iguazú on the border between Argentina, Brasil and Paraguay, the other one the arctic Kilpisjärvi on the border between Finland, Sweden and Norway.

A foreign traditional tale was told to the children living in both areas: in Kilpisjärvi a guarani legend and in Puerto Iguazú a Saami fairy tale. The children made a collage on the basis of the tale, using natural resources found in their surroundings. Thus a rainforest was built with plants from Lapland and the Lappish landscape was constructed with tropical leaves and grasses. The tale was recorded as narrated and reinterpreted by the children, and two different soundscapes were created out of their memories.

”Draw a Tale” is part of a wider media art project called ”2 x 3 borders”, the purpose of which is to create a connection between two geographical areas. In Cinemaissíto we’ll see a short presentation of the collage, including photographs of the collage itself and of its making, as well as hear the story told by the children.

"Draw a Tale" in Cinemaissíto the 24th of October at 13:30 & 14:35.