• Inkoonkatu 1 B, Helsinki, cellar space (from 19:00)- 15 rue Geoffroy l'Asnier, Paris (Cité Internationale des Arts - metro Pont Marie), room 1513, 1st floor, the door is in the right after the gate (push the button)  (from 18:00)
    Welcome to the 1000050s Art´s Birthday party!
    To celebrate this international event there will be art carneval in the cellar space in Helsinki (spoken word, screening etc.). At the same time in my (Kari Y) open studio in Paris it is possible to participate in the event in Helsinki via Skype.  
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    spongia iacta est. l.
    ¡¡ARTS BIRTHDAY!!. >>≥
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    ≥poetry≥≥≥,
    music,
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    øø video screening
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    provided by
    ANONYM ARTISTS IN ALPPILA: aaa
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    T.I.M.E.&.S.P.A.C.E. .T.H.R.E.A.T.H.E.N.I.N.G.
    videophone -connection.
    Trams 3 and 9 and bus 23 will get you there
    in Helsinki, call 0468838154 to Jarkko 2 get you in. 
    7pm a speech performance from Paris, after that Jukka Hautamäki performs and about 20 others...
    + spoken word, performance, screening...

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      bring your own food & drink +NYYTTÄRIT+
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    PS

    *dance floor for those you will bring their own portable radio + headphones (mobile phone will do) fm-radio involved!!!!

    *S*T*A*Y* *T*U*N*E*D* & more infos: jarkrasa @ skype & jarkko.rasanen@gmail.com
    In Paris, the address is 15 rue Geoffroy de l´Asnier (closest metro Pont Marie). Open the gate by buzzing the button. In the inner yard, the door is in the right. You need the door code to get in. You´ll get it by sending e-mail to fuja(at)kuva.fi. Without the code you´ll have to wait a while in the yard before you can go in.

    2013 is Art's 1,000,050th Anniversary!

     Art's Birthday.Net - an annual exchange-art event celebrated on January 17th by a loose collection of artists and artist organizations around the world.

     "Art's Birthday" is an annual event first proposed in 1963 by French artist Robert Filliou.

    He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on the 17th of January to be precise, Art was born. According to Filliou, it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Modest beginnings, but look at us now.

    Filliou proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. In recent years, the idea has been taken up by a loose network of artists and friends around the world. Each year the Eternal Network evolves to include new partners - working with the ideas of exchange and telecommunications-art.

    Artists have celebrated Art's Birthday with lavish parties and gatherings, correspondence and mailart, and through Telematic networks using SloScan TV, Videophones, music composed for telephone lines, modem-to-modem MIDI connections, early bulletin board and chat systems, and (starting in the mid 1990's) the Internet 

    (From (http://www.artsbirthday.net/)

    in fb https://www.facebook.com/events/483284271728493/?ref=ts&fref=ts 
     https://www.facebook.com/events/272320279561516/?notif_t=plan_user_invited
     WILLKOMMEN! BIENVENUE! WELCOME!!