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Peter Seenan: Hietaniemi cemetery is my local escape from Christmas mania

19 Dec , 2018 , 23:03 Peter Seenan Gallery

In the shops people rush around frantically snatching products off shelves like rationing is about to begin and at Alko, I see a hobbling bent old lady suddenly stand arrow-like to wrestle a 24-pack of beer into her trolley. Awful […]

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It’s easier than ever to manage without Finnish in Helsinki

23 Oct , 2018 , 21:25 Peter Seenan

It’s Friday morning. I use Google Maps in English to check which number seventy bus I’ll take from Töölö to Viikki to get me there by eight. I board the bus and present a ticket I’ve bought on Whim, a […]

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Finland shocks

21 Sep , 2018 , 23:43 Peter Seenan

I was recently asked the question, what was your biggest culture shock going to Finland for the first time? I arrived in 2011 to settle in Helsinki having lived for almost a year in Finland during my Erasmus exchange in […]

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She walked out of Tom of Finland feeling sick

18 Jun , 2018 , 22:12 Peter Seenan
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A couple of years ago a close friend of mine attended the Tom of Finland exhibition at Taidehalli with her colleagues. One, a married mother, left in disgust explaining that she’d been made to feel physically sick. I was reminded […]

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Peter Seenan: In praise of women

3 May , 2018 , 20:36 Peter Seenan

Integration in Finland with Akademen Not long after I arrived in Helsinki I passed an audition to get into Finland’s oldest choir, Akademiska Sångföreningen, or to give them their full English title, The Academic Male Voice Choir of Helsinki. I […]

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