Malmitalo 30th Anniversary: Arppa, good boys – Malmi Summer of Events

For the 30th Anniversary weekend of Malmitalo Cultural Centre, super-popular Arppa and rap group Good Boys, who focus on both sounding good and being ethical, will both be getting on stage on Friday.

The party will be abuzz with a party atmosphere and sense of community: to celebrate the anniversary, Malmi Vice, a.k.a. Valari Tynkkynen has been involved in creating a piece of community art for Malmitalo and the people of Malmi, which everyone is invited to leave their mark on.

Join us in the park for this anniversary celebration, free of charge!

Programme:

4 pm to 7 pm
Malmi Vice community art and workshop
Malmi Vice has designed a piece of community art for Malmitalo’s 30th Anniversary, which everyone gets to put their own mark on. Make your mark in Malmi’s art history!

The community art includes a paint marker workshop, which will be held by legendary graffiti artist Samuli Turunen. Join us and learn more about community art, paint markers, and meet Mr. Malmi Vice himself.

4 pm to 7 pm
Street painting workshop
Join us for a street painting session on Ala-Malmi Square to celebrate Malmitalo’s 30th Anniversary! Together, we will paint a path to Malmitalo and Ala-Malmi Park with natural colours and put a new layer of paint to culminate the Malmi Summer of Events.

Age recommendation: all ages, children under 7 accompanied by an adult.

Language: Finnish, English, French

5 pm to 6 pm
good boys
good boys are a mystical band that promise to give you goodness, both in their sound and their chill rhyming. This is how they describe themselves:

good boys are the first fully goodness-focused band in Fennoscandia.
good boys have been creating very high quality and original rap with sheer force of will and feeling, and have found their place in the badminton field of Finnish rap.
good boys are a diverse, multi-talented, excellent and particular kind of band.
good boys are an essential part of a balanced cultural diet.
good boys must be seen live, if you intend to claim that you know what it’s about, that.
good boys are what it’s about, and nothing else.

Check them out and listen to find out!

7 pm to 8 pm
Arppa
Arppa’s gigs are energetic and surprising, and the band is one of the top names of the Finnish indie scene.
Arppa’s enchanting music is timeless and their texts like moving pictures – insightful, sincere and laser-sharp depictions of atmospheres go from Ykspihlaja in Kokkola to night-time Helsinki and onward to a July 1958 speakeasy with Laila Kinnunen.

It is impossible to not get swept away by Arppa’s natural presence and the band’s palpable, sincere joy of performing. And now, we get to hear Arppa and their band at the Malmitalo 30th Anniversary celebration!

Arppa’s band includes musicians Ville-Ville-Veikko Airaniemi, Eero Seppä and Okko Saastamoinen.