Kitch - new eco bar and cafe

Although the Kitch bar and cafe is a new place most of it's decoration and stuff is recycled. For instance Helsinki-based Costo has made the lamps out of the old bicycle hoops and recycled advertising materials. Electricity of the bar is pure wind power and the usage of the electricity is minimized. Fair trade and organic ingredients are priorized, when the menu is planned, etc. etc.

Way to go Kitch!

More info:
Kitch Bar & Café
Yrjönkatu 30, Helsinki
www.kitch.fi

Funky Elephant 28.5.–30.5.2009 at Tavastia

There are probably countless reasons to why Afro-American funk and its derivatives are so popular in the Helsinki nightlife. The least of these is not the Funky Elephant festival, which will take place for the fifteenth time this year.

More info:
www.funk.fi
We Are magazine.

Ant Gallery

Ant Gallery presents: Out of office (permanently), photographs. 1.-22.5.2009.

More info:
www.antgallery.net
Museokatu 25, Helsinki.

"Villas and Saunas in Finland" by Harri Hautajärvi

Harri Hautajärvi's book "Villas and Saunas in Finland" presents villas and saunas from the marine archipelago via lake district to the fells of the north – a total of 44 individually-designed buildings that represent the best of recent Finnish summer home and sauna architecture. Harri Hautajärvi, former editor in chief of the Finnish Architectural Review, has selected the sites. They all differ from each other in interesting ways, ranging from simple log cabins to spacious villas. Each site is presented in detail through photographs and texts by the architects themselves.

(image: Venturo by architect Matti Suuronen)

Madventures III - Behind the scenes

Finnish Madventures is on a quest to explore the most insane and strange destinations in the entire world!
Check out the behind the scenes clips available on Madventures YouTube channel.

DALINDÈO: "VINTAGE VOYAGE" EP out in May

Dalindèo is gearing up for their second album which will be released later this year.

Dalindèo "VINTAGE VOYAGE" EP release gig at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki 16.5.

Listen the tracks "Vintage voyage" and "Willpower" at the Dalindèo Myspace.