Visual arts and live music

Hillo 6, Vadelma Ry's magazine Jam number 6, will be out on 26.10.2011! Check out VadelmahilloClub in Semifinal, Helsinki

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Vadelma Fest-Club on Saturday 9.7.2011

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Vadelma Fest-Club in Liberté on Saturday 9.7.2011

at 21-02

Entrance 7e

More information at www.vadelma.org

Vadelma-Fest 2011 on Saturday 9. July

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Vadelma-Fest 2011 in Alppipuisto-park, Helsinki

on Saturday 9. July at 14-21

Free entrance

More information at www.vadelma.org

Valoa Intiasta - Noora Saarinen -exhibition

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Valoa Intiasta - Noora Saarisen valokuvia
2.8. - 6.9.2010 @ Ravintola Om'pu, Helsinki

Artists of Vadelma CO-exhibiting in Liberté 20.11.2009 - 3.1.2010 - Vadelma r.y. 5 yr.!

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Vadelma-gala in Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki, Sat 28.11.2009 at 18-01

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How is Vadelma

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Vadelma r.y. is out of space and still looking for new rooms from Helsinki.
If you have an idea for that, suggest for the boss.

Contact details, updates etc. you'll find from here http://www.vadelma.org/vadelmaindex.htm

The yearly meeting shall be held on Sunday 10th of February at 14
in Harju, address Aleksis Kivi Street 1, Helsinki.

Vadelma-Club 29.11.2007

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Vadelma-Club was held on 6. Linja on 29.11.2007.
There performing Aalto and Octopus Syng Alive, among others.

SHOW ME YOUR FIFTEEN MINUTES

2007-09-06T05:13:00.000-07:00

Pink Projector Vadelmassa 01/07/07

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http://vadelma.org/pinkprojector/

"helsinki pride"

2007-06-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

Vadelma-happening 17/03/07

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Vadelma had a happening of Manogurgeil etc. performing.
These my visual notes from that night.

Helsinki, Finland and Vadelmaspaces

2006-10-11T00:28:00.000-07:00

- Vadelmaspaces -
exhibition of Vadelma r.y. is happening
13. - 19.10.2006
in Maa-Tila -gallery
Address Albertinkatu 19

Coming up - The Night of Arts

2006-08-16T13:35:00.000-07:00

On Thursday, 24th of August, whole of Helsinki is having a Night of Arts.

Vadelma is going to have open doors in Vadelma Rooms at 21 - 03,
while celebrating the Night of Arts, and also the one year age of Vadelma Rooms (check August 2005).

Here's some excerpts from that becoming evening's program, atmosphere, live music and art:

- in the hall: glamour pingpong
- djs demimonde and vilunki 3000
- in the art room: respect-videoinstallation
- in the studyroom: olemisen vartijat (the guardians of being)
- in the live-room: pasilian savut, sub rosa and klava
- minstrel immanuel
- nibblings and other serving

Exact timeline shall come later.

You'll be most welcome!

(A Night of the Arts -meeting for the members of Vadelma and other participants on Thursday 17.8. at 17.)

JAM!

2006-08-15T04:27:00.000-07:00

First issue of Jam, Vadelma's magazine, is out.

You can buy a copy of Jam with 3e only, by picking it up from Vadelma rooms, or by ordering by e-mail or from feedback ( members get the jam for 2e ).

First Jam is black and white, and about 100 copies printed.
It includes for example:
- stories of Vadelma along the way
- trends 2010
- Vilunki 3000 and Octopus Syng interviewed
- poems and a comic strip

Vadelma in Faces 28. - 30.7.06

2006-07-29T05:13:00.000-07:00

The wonderful Faces Etnofestival is going on in Billnäs at the moment.

Vadelma will take part in Faces '06 by putting up a 6m wall for free collective painting for all festival visitors. Vadelma wants to remind that art is for everyone.

Respect is the theme of the Faces '06, and Vadelma also participates in the art exhibition there with a collective RESPECT- video installation, made by 12 members of Vadelma, me among others.
Also, going solo in the exhibition is Jonne Pitkänen.

Take a look at the Vadelma collective painting there
(photo by Jonne Pitkänen)

vadelma movie club

2006-07-25T13:44:00.000-07:00

vadelma movie club on Sundays at 6pm in Vadelma rooms.

Vadelma Fest '06

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The following text I translated from Finnish, Kalle from Vadelmablogi

(Unfortunately I got the images here from the loungeroom only, which at one point managed to turn into a fabulous dancefloor by the beat of Bollywood, since I was the dj there all night, and also a vj in the small hours. What a wonderful night we had again!)

"After Villa Siperia burnt, a quick decision was made to shift Vadelma Fest '06 to our own rooms in Lönkka. In the beginning the idea of having a summerfestival in a basement felt a little gloomy, but even more gloomier felt the idea of cancelling the whole thing, since we had already booked over ten performers. As unfortunate and tragic as the burning of Siperia was, it also seemed to motivate Vadelma as a collective; as if the energy bound in Siperia, set loose by the fire, had its part shifted to Vadelma. In two days we fixed the Vadelmarooms - never seen them as functioning and polished, and so when getting on toward Saturday evening the fest was ready to begin.

The multifaceted and variable musicprogram began with Dj Saraswati's first India-set in the lounge-room. First liveperformance in the stage of the arthall was by My Divine Creature, which played a visual and stylish set for the increasing audience - dismal toned poprock in impressive clothes. Random Doctors was taking care of the videos in the arthall from the beginning till the end of the fest.

First band in the loungeroom stage was Vadelmaveteran Octopus Syng Alive, which played us an excellent and rather long gig with a special line-up. At the same time in the other side Pleasures and Days was beginning, The theme of their performance was "the on-going re-birth of the transcendental politics in the spirit of popularmusic". This band of two members' answer to the challenge of posthedonism was effectively hard, to say the least.

The evenings' other liveact in lounge-stage was Olli Koivu. The duo had a fine set of acousticspirited popularsong-acting pop in Finnish, accompanied on guitars. The harder goings-on continued in the hall side when Luoja began. The band which has turned into trio played its heavy proge with an impressive grip.

Dj Saraswati continued in the lounge-room with more machine-made Indian music, and also in the big hall machines, synthesizers and record players were about for the rest of the night. The last liveband in the main stage was two-man James Reipas, which gave the festivalpeople lively dancebeat, toned with guitar and organ, around midnight. From this the night was continued with breakbeat and drumbass by dj-gurumen Tomplex, Vox Pops, Apollo Bonaparte and Dave Angel. In the other side, in the trainrooms, was a small nightplay going on, acoustic in B2 and more electric in B3.

Festival audience was a total of 107 people. And alltogether around 20 people was participating in the organizing of the festival. There was no breach of the peace and also otherwise everything went amazingly well.

So thank you again for all the performers, people participating in organizing, and guests!"

VADELMA FEST 2006 on Saturday 17.6. at 19 - 02

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VADELMA FEST 2006

Due to the fire that burned down Villa Siperia last night,
the original Vadelma Fest will be held in a smaller scale
in Vadelma rooms on Saturday 17.6. at 19 - 02.

At the moment the programme of the evening looks as follows,
but changes may still come, and if so, you can read about them here or in Finnish from www.vadelmablogi.blogspot.com

The Main Stage

20:00 My Divine Creature
21:00 Pleasures And Days
22:00 Luoja
23:00 James Reipas
00:00 Apollo Bonaparte;
Vox Pops;
Tomplex;
Dj Dave Angel

The DJ Stage

19:30 Dj Saraswati
20:30 Octobus Syng
21:30 Olli Koivu
22:30 Dj Saraswati

+ VJ Under Control

Music varies from pop, progressive, dance, acid
to BollywoodMantra ChillOut GoaTrance

Tickets 2 euro only

Address Lönnrotinkatu 32 D, Helsinki

You are most welcome!

Villa Siperia has burnt down!

2006-06-14T03:05:00.000-07:00

VADELMA FEST IN SIPERIA NEXT SATURDAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED,
SINCE VILLA SIPERIA HAS BURNT DOWN

The pics above are from Monday and the pic you find from here , is from today, Wednesday.

Comin' up VADELMA FEST

2006-06-09T06:12:00.000-07:00

Coming up on Saturday 17.6. Vadelma Fest in Siperia.

Starting at 14:00, goes on till Sunday.

Lots of bands.

DJ Saraswati plays BollywoodMantra ChillOut GoaTrance

You are most welcome!

Vadelma Club 16.5. 2006

2006-05-19T05:26:00.000-07:00

Vadelma Club was held at Liberté on Tuesday night.
Bands on the stage were Sub Rosa, and Pikku Kukka ("Tiny Flower").
And on three different screens was videoart from VJ Random Flowers + guests.

I only got to see Pikku Kukka, of which are these pics.
The band played very nice music and their show was energetic.
I recommend you to check them out, they'll cheer you up.

The last pic is videoart of Antti Kulonen.

Vadelma contacts

2006-05-19T04:43:00.000-07:00

Vadelma has now gotten a pre-paid telephonenumber, (+358) 041 586 9692,
for sending sms as groupnotices to members.

The phone is with the chairperson, Kalle,
but it won't be kept on, so no use calling there or sending urgent sms to it.

Vadelma's public e-mailaddress is info(at)vadelma.org

You can also send feedback to Vadelma r.y. or join the Vadelma mailing list here

Back to Vadelma

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What a wonderful party!

2005-11-06T02:36:00.000-08:00

Vadelma is not just about partying, though it may seem like it at a first glance from this blog.
Anyway, last night we had a wonderful party in Vadelmarooms for members and their friends.
People had done a lot for that night - excellent decoration, food and program - and the atmosphere was wonderful. Thank you all. Klava, Manogurgeil and Sub Rosa where performing. Unfortunately I only got to see and hear (and photograph) Klava, as I had to leave the party at it's best and go home to pack my luggage.

Octopus Syng Alive in Vadelmarooms

2005-10-23T03:17:00.000-07:00

Octopus syng

Vadelmarooms in the net

2005-10-12T11:22:00.000-07:00

Vadelmarooms have now an internetconnection.
The first imac-netcomputer is in the Vadelmacaf'é for members to use.
Unfortunately blogs were not readable/writable, when I tried it out there today.
But I'm sure some computergenious will solve that problem.

Vadelma 1 year

2005-09-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

The first constitutive meeting of Vadelma R.Y. was held in 25.9.2004 in Sture Jazz Café in Helsinki. Today Vadelma was celebrating it's one year birthday in Vadelmarooms.

The Grand opening of Vadelma R.Y. rooms

2005-08-25T11:57:00.000-07:00

The grand opening of Vadelma R.Y. rooms was held in August in the traditional Night of Arts in Helsinki.
Members and their friends were celebrating. Here's some pictures from that evening -

"Smart Art", Various Artists - Janne, Pekka, Noora etc., Live painting, Dreadlock Tales, Adora, Sub Rosa, Sad Karma, Kalle's videoart, Noora's videoart etc.

Painting the entryway raspberrypink

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Building the entryway

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Cleaning the mirrors, windows etc.

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The building of the kitchen and more workrooms

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The breaking of the "living room"

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The Flooding toilet seat

2005-08-09T02:53:00.000-07:00

On a Tuesdayevening in August we were cleaning and arranging the Vadelma rooms. The day had been hot and sunny, and we had no idea, while working in the basement floor, that there had started a big thunderstorm outside and heavy raining was going on. Suddenly, while I was vacuuming the kitchen, I heard strange noise from the entryway and one of the guys shouting. I went to see and couldn't believe my eyes - The toilet seat was pushing water outside. We closed the toilet door, but the water flooding came to the entryway from under it and was going to get to the first band training room. Guys began moving the furniture and instruments away and we threw all possible towels, t-shirts and pieces of cloth to stop the water flooding on the floor. Luckily the toilet seat stopped flooding after some time, and no serious harm was done. But the smell.. Well, we got rid of it through cleaning. And so it was that even the entrywayfloor ended up being much more cleaner than what it had been before the flood, caused by heavy raining outside.

More space to the passageway

2005-08-08T03:18:00.000-07:00

The passageway in front of the trainingrooms needed more space, so guys decided to brake up the old shelves.

Faces Etnofestival 2005

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The opening of Vadelmas bandtrainingrooms in July

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Sub Rosa was performing and charming the audience in the opening of Vadelmas bandtraining rooms in July.

Vadelma R.Y. rooms before renovation

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These pictures are from Vadelmas rooms in the early March of 2005, before they were renovated.

The first two pictures are taken before breaking some wall, cleaning up, and building the rooms for bands to practise.

The third picture is from when the visual artists' side was just a dirty and dusty hall filled with rubbish.

Vadelmaclub 4. 5. 2005 in Gloria

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Vadelma R.Y. artists' groupexhibition in Gloria 4.5. - 12.6.2005

Vadelma Club in Poirotti 02/02/05

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Vadelmaclub 11.12.2004 in Liberté

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About Vadelma R.Y., in English

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Vadelma R.Y. is an association of visual arts and live music.

Vadelma's members are mostly Finnish, and the action is mostly situated in Helsinki, Finland.

The word vadelma is Finnish, meaning raspberry. And that's about it all Vadelma R.Y. has got to do with that berry.