Moomins
Meet and Greet Moomins!
During FinnFest 2011 you will have many opportunities to encounter your favorite Moomin characters. You can see beautiful Moomin-inspired art and movement at the Dancing Moominvalley Art Exhibion, including the Musical Landscapes from Moominvalley – a visually impressive musical performance.
Meet Moomin characters at the Tori and fall in love with Moomin videos at the Children’s Corner and media room. Be inspired to play some Moominvalley music with a Kantele music group, and finish your delightful Moomin experience with a lecture about Tove Jansson’s Moomins and their relationship to Finnishness.
During FinnFest 2011 you will have many opportunities to encounter your favorite Moomin characters. You can see beautiful Moomin-inspired art and movement at the Dancing Moominvalley Art Exhibion, including the Musical Landscapes from Moominvalley – a visually impressive musical performance.
Meet Moomin characters at the Tori and fall in love with Moomin videos at the Children’s Corner and media room. Be inspired to play some Moominvalley music with a Kantele music group, and finish your delightful Moomin experience with a lecture about Tove Jansson’s Moomins and their relationship to Finnishness.
Dancing Moominvalley Art Exhibition
The creator of the Moomins, Finnish artist and writer Tove Jansson loved dance!
The Dancing Moominvalley theme exhibition presents 32 original works from the Moominvalley collection of the Art Museum of Tampere, Finland. The...
Dancing Moomins at the Tori
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 12:00 - 12:30
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 12:00 - 12:30
Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 12:00 - 12:30
Tori
Lecture: Tove Jansson and Moomins
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:00
Pacific Salon 5
Elina Bonelius lectures about Tove Jansson, Moomins and how dancing is related to their life (with pictures from the Moominvalley collection, Tampere Art Museum, Finland).
Moominvalley is dancing. The Moomins dance, their friends dance, even nature...
Musical Performance: "Dancing Moominvalley"
Free
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 10:30 - 11:30
Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 10:00 - 11:00
Town & Country Room
Composer Heikki Mäenpää and the Dancing Moominvalley Orchestra present “Dancing Moominvalley.” Join the beloved inhabitants of Moominvalley in this joyful and interactive musical performance for the whole family. The program ...
Movie: Comet in Moominland -Muumipeikko ja pyrstötähti
Sunday, August 14, 2011 - 09:00 - 10:15
Media Room
An animated feature based on Tove Jansson's book.
The Comet is on it's way to Moominvalley and nobody knows what to do about it. But it's the signal for the Moomins to begin one of their most dramatic adventures. Encounters with man-...
