Maailma kyläsä festival guest Selase Queenselena in the audience during Hassan Maikal’s performance on Saturday in Suvilahti.
This weekend Suvilahti will be celebrating with the power of families and without beer counters.
Helsinki The festival summer started on Saturday, as usual from previous years, with large free events, the Maailma kyläsä festival and the Kumpula village festival.
The two-day World in the Village will now be held for the second time in a row in the Suvilahti festival area. However, the atmosphere is very different from, for example, the Tuska and Flow festivals organized later in the same place.
Especially during the day, there are a lot of families with children on the one hand, and older people on the other. A significant difference from other festivals is also the absence of beer counters. Only a few restaurateurs in the area serve alcohol, not in the festival area in general. Instead, there are fifty different food stalls selling vegetarian food.
Carolina Bermudez and friends eating. There was Indonesian, Nigerian and Cambodian food on the table.
The food offering was diverse.
The public a total of nearly 50,000 people are expected for the festival over the two days. The area used by the event in Suvilahti is smaller than in Tuska and Flow.
“About 10,000 people can fit here at one time. The audience is calculated according to the people entering and leaving at the gates,” the festival’s communications manager Nelli Korpi says.
Since it is a free event, the audience turnover is high.
“People spend an average of three hours here,” says Korpi.
Suvilahti’s future construction sites do not extend into the area used by the Maailma kylässä festival, so the event can be held at the same location next year as well.
The Don Johnson Big Band gathered a large audience on the hot asphalt field in Suvilahti.
Minna Enäjärvi (left), Miro Enäjärvi and Riina Kylliäinen in front of the big stage with a cloud statue rising from the west in the background. However, the event was spared from rain.
Karita Kajanki, Lauri Nieminen and Asta Karpiola enjoying music and a summer day on the lawn.
Vuokko Ahti (right) has been to the World Village event before. This is the first time for Sole Molander, who has been influential as a Helsinki city councilor for a long time. “It’s great that there are people of many ages here and many families with children,” he said.
Although The Maailma kyläsä event has well-known music artists performing every year, it is not an actual music festival.
Its roots are in the Possibilities Square events, which presented the activities of non-governmental organizations and global issues. They are still prominently displayed at the festival. The Maailma kyläsä festival is organized by Fingo, the umbrella organization of Finnish development organizations.
The music is still interesting even in this event. Already on Saturday, the Don Johnson Big Band, which was among the first performers, gathered a large audience on the hot asphalt field in Suvilahti. The band, which recently made a comeback, has performed at the Maailma kyläsä festival twice before, most recently in 2013 and before that in 2006.
Saturday’s foreign headliners are Colombian band Puerto Candelaria and Australian Dub FX feat Mr. Woodnote. On Sunday, we will see, among other things Antti Autio, Maija Kauhanena Tunisian artist Emel and Las Karamba playing Latin fusion, whose members come from Spain, Venezuela, Cuba and Argentina.
Don Johnson Big Band on stage.
Baan Thai Finland presents a Thai dance performance.
Hassan Maikal, a rap and r’n’b artist from Kontula, Helsinki, on stage.
Djomba Kourouma and Bandandjou performance.
A festival guest taking a picture of the Red Shoes installation.
Slava Ukraine! -balloon at the festival.
The children could draw with chalk on the asphalt.
The colorful style of the festival guests:
Beauty Archibong (left) and Babra Ebak from Nigeria enjoyed the festival and the summer weather.
Laura Remekse from Helsinki has her mother’s old shoes. He says he likes summer and colors.
Amandeep Singh, who came from Tampere, is from India. He thinks the turban is important. It tells about equality and freedom.
Luciana Paltila is from Brazil. Her earrings are from her home country.
Mia Matosevik from Helsinki (left) and Miia Ylitalo from Vantaa. Ylitalo put on a yellow raincoat, because when leaving the house, rain fell from the sky.
Arkos Vähämä, who came from Tampere, was wearing an outfit he ordered from Japan.
Friends Tiia Heiskanen (left) and Heini Backman have visited the festival every year. In their opinion, the World in the Village festival is the best of the summer.
Marja Matikainen from Helsinki dresses according to the weather. She likes colors and says that she takes inspiration from everywhere when dressing.
Espoo’s Heidi Serpa (left) has a green dress, which according to her is suitable for the summer weather, and in summer there must be color. According to her, Anna Luoto’s jumpsuit from Helsinki has a humanity theme, which is suitable for the festival.
Sandra Eta from Mikkeli wears black and white.
Sharon Freystaetter from New York has a denim jacket in which she has put souvenirs from the places she has visited. He made the flower garland himself on Saturday at Teurastamo’s spring party.
According to her own words, Viivi Kilkki came to the festival in a basic outfit.
Elias Rummukainen from Helsinki wears sporty outfits.
Päivi Anttila (left) and Marjo Faye from Espoo wore white, even though they didn’t agree on it in advance.
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