{"id":31282,"date":"2015-02-09T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expedia.blog.uk.sandwave.dev\/stories\/mantta-finlands-cultural-hotspot-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-01T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T21:48:01","slug":"mantta-finlands-cultural-hotspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.uk\/stories\/mantta-finlands-cultural-hotspot\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u00e4ntt\u00e4: Finland&#8217;s cultural hotspot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;M\u00e4ntt\u00e4 is to Finland what Marfa is to Texas-In other words, it&#8217;s an unlikely place for a flourishing art scene, and that&#8217;s exactly what makes it so special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a.travel-assets.com\/findyours-php\/viewfinder\/images\/res40\/77000\/77027.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.travel-assets.com\/findyours-php\/viewfinder\/images\/res40\/77000\/77027.jpg\" alt=\"Mantta Art Festival 5 Copyright Bethany Salvon 2014 beersandbeans.com All rights reserved\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>M\u00e4ntt\u00e4&#8217;s Pekilo Gallery hosts a contemporary art festival every summer that extends out through the factory town. This year, for example, Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen created an installation in which she strung resident&#8217;s shirts from the M\u00e4ntt\u00e4 Church. She titled the piece, The Spirit of Truth, after a popular hymn in Finnish schools, and when the wind blew, it looked like hundreds of fluttering prayer flags. Inside Pekilo, a former industrial building for animal feed turned art space in 2001, international and Finnish artists were on display, chosen by guest curator Minna Joenniemi under the theme Hetkinen, meaning &#8220;A Moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/a.travel-assets.com\/findyours-php\/viewfinder\/images\/res40\/77000\/77028.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.travel-assets.com\/findyours-php\/viewfinder\/images\/res40\/77000\/77028.jpg\" alt=\"Mantta Art Festival 2 Copyright Bethany Salvon 2014 beersandbeans.com All rights reserved\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In August, the M\u00e4ntt\u00e4 Music Festival also takes place. It&#8217;s the only international piano festival in Finland, and features several nights of top-notch performances held in M\u00e4ntt\u00e4&#8217;s best venues, including the town&#8217;s newest venue Gosta&#8217;s Pavilion. This year&#8217;s music festival saw an amazing array of classical pianists, like Laura Mikkola and Anna Vinnitskaya, among other international and Finnish musicians. 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