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Tekijä: Villa Karo

Batiikkia! Batik!

Batiikkiworkshoppausta (kuvakertomus) / Batik workshopping  / Un atelier du batik

batik 1

Ensin sulatetaan vaha tulella / Start by melting the wax / On commence par faire fondre la cire sur le feu

batik 2

Palmunlehdistä tehdyllä harjalla roiskitaan vahaa kankaalle, jolloin vahatut kohdat eivät värjäydy; kankaan kuidut ovat jo imeneet vahaa eivätkä enää ime väriä.

With a brush made of palm leaves the wax is shot on the fabric; the parts that are waxed will not absorbe colour and this creates the different …

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La tradition du concert du premier samedi du mois respectée à la Villa Karo

Ancré dans les habitudes des Popolais depuis des années, le concert du premier samedi du mois sur la scène de la Villa Karo de Grand Popo a réuni encore dans l’enceinte du centre des centaines de personnes ce samedi.

Sur la grande scène du Centre Finno-Africain se succède des groupes d’animation locale. Pour ce mois-ci, pas de grande vedette invitée. Place aux jeunes et artistes en quête d’audience. A la suite, deux groupes chorégraphiques du Ceg d’Agoué sur des musiques …

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Soirée finno-africaine at Yes Papa, Cotonou

Soiree

The idea of organizing a Finnish-African night first saw the daylight during another project of filming a documentary of a famous Beninese musician, Gnonnas Pedro, and his son, Gil Gnonnas.

Gnonnas Pedro was very popular in Benin and performed more than once in the Villa Karo, already at the opening concert. He became famous for his group Africando which regrouped well-known African artists playing salsa from several places, such as Guinea, Senegal and Benin. The music of Africando

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Towards May

In the life of the Finnish-African Cultural Center the first four months of the year 2013 were full of collective waves of inspiration associated with a wide spread of great and positive intentions gathered from a burning desire for creativity. Arrivals and departures of residents started on a very good note in January: Timo Sipola (journalist), Liisa Väisänen(Ph.D) and her husband Marco Peretto (photographer),Risto Lindstedt (journalist) and his wife Päivi Lindstedt, Hannu Lindroos (photographer),Antti Sundberg (musician), …

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