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söndag, augusti 16, 2009

Helsinki ikuisesti

Stämningsbild strax före visningen av filmen Helsingfors för evigt, Helsinki forever eller Helsinki ikuisesti av en finländsk filmprofessor och regissör, Peter von Bagh, igår kl 21.00-22.15 på Kulturhusets tak. Jag hade uppmanat barnen att ta med sig paraply, men själv missade jag det och var därför tvungen att stå i dörröppningen under tak för att kunna se filmen utan att bli blöt. Det var i princip fullsatt när jag kom strax före nio. Många hade säkert kommit redan kl 20 för att höra filmskaparen själv berätta om sin film. Jag är glad att jag kom iväg och såg denna intressanta filmen.

När jag cyklade hem passerade jag myllret av ungdomar kring Kungsan som skingrades efter en konsert som störts av en tårgasattack (träffade på en grannflicka som berättade för mig om det när vi sågs vid övergångsstället i korsningen Kungsträdgårsgatan/Hamngatan). Lite längre fram, vid Mariatorget, var gatorna och trottoarerna fyllda av åskådare och löpare i Midnattsloppet.

lördag, augusti 15, 2009

Vernissage

This was the last day of STICKA´s participation in Kulturfestivalen. We had great fun. Thanks everybody involved for a very nice event.

If you look closely on the third photo you will see that we also had a male knitter today and the actress "Emelie" from a very popular TV-series named Saltön. Here you can find out more about it: Stickas blogg, Alisons blogg and Marias blogg.

onsdag, augusti 12, 2009

Day Two of Kulturfestivalen's Sticka in stan

Look how well Alison has matched her Kulturfestivalen t-shirt. The next day went very well. The wall behind us was now decorated to look like bookcases as we shared the space with the Library of Kulturhuset (Läsesalongen) and "Serieteket".
We had many visitors that stayed with us for a long time knitting, crocheting and talking. Some of the people that visited us yesterday returned today as they thougt it was a fun way to spend a few hours. For example there was a student of Biology and "Geovetenskap" (geo science?) at the University of Stockholm that I taught how to knit without twisting the stitches. She told me that she had not been able to find any work during her summer holiday and therefore decided to spend her last days before her next term started knitting with us.
I was also interviewed by a journalist, Frida Engström, working at Hemslöjden. Her paper is preparing a special issue on knitting.

tisdag, augusti 11, 2009

The first day of Kulturfestivalen, Sticka in stan


I´ve now done my first two hours as cultural worker. I was a bit sceptic to this activity - Sticka in Stan - as I might have told you before I'm not so fund of knitted graffiti. I mean I do not want to do it myself - but some of it looks nice and make me happy. Especially Alisons graffitti. Her work is just marvellous. SVT was there and I was happy to see her on the late ABC-news programme. My friend Åsa came and sat down with us for a while during her lunch. She works in a bank nearby. Two of my fellow-knitters from STHLM Knitters, Katarina and Tove, also came by. Tove also brought her babyboy "Lill-T". I was very lucky to meet with so many good friends.
Tomorrow Catrin said she might come to say hallo. Í'll be there again tomorrow from 2 pm to 4 pm. I made aquaintance with a new type of yarn - banangarn. We had some free samples of the yarn at our table from the company Vackra garn who were selling their yarn at the market nearby. No use trying to look for info on their website though. It is still "under construction".