‘Grandmother’s Songs’

‘Isoäidin laulut’

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Teea Aarnio’s ‘Grand Mother’s Songs’

at Four Winds Anniversary Festival 29.7.-2.8.2026.

The 30-year journey of Four Winds Tuki Association will be celebrated 29.7.-2.8.2026 under the theme Grandmothers’ Wisdom. Grandmothers’ Wisdom is rooted in the earth, the forests, the waters, and the winds. The festival happens at Herranniemi, Vuonislahti and ticket packages are now available.

Through weaving songs Teea Aarnio explores consciousness, and the many layers of ’a song’. In this concert songs are conversations with her grand mom, with Grand Mother Earth and freeing unexpressed matters from the lineage of motherness, daughterness, womanhood.

‘HUOJUU ELÄMÄN PUU’

‘THE TREE OF LIFE SWAYS’

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‘Huojuu elämän puu’ is simultaneously a stage work, a concert and a performance that enables a communal gathering around poetry. The themes of peace, war, violence and freedom run through the performance.

The interdisciplinary performance highlights poetry as a visible social resource and features the work of twenty poets, from Katri Vala to Bo Carpelan and Eeva-Liisa Manner to Niillas Holmberg, with compositions and arrangements by Kaj Chydenius, Eero Ojanen, Anna-Mari Kähärä, Teea Aarnio and Antti Kujanpää.

The planning and realisation of ‘Huojuu elämän puu’ is by Marja-Leena Mikkola, author, Ulla-Maija Peltonen, docent, and five performers: Teea Aarnio, Kristiina Halkola, Vuokko Hovatta, Antti Kujanpää and Jussi Lehtonen.