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Eino Leino, Poetry and Summer Day 6.7.2025

Welcome, poetry and music lovers, to celebrate Eino Leino's masterful word art!

Eino Leino, Poetry and Summer Day 6.7.2025

Valamo Monastery Cultural Center at 13:00

The sixth day of July, summer is at its most beautiful, poetry and music lovers gather to celebrate Eino Leino's masterful word art! Eino Leino's poems have touched the souls of Finns for over a hundred years. Leino has also been called Finland's most quoted poet, and Vesa-Matti Loiri's recording of Leino's poems sung in 1978 brought new popularity.

Actors Satu Silvo and Reidar Palmgren bring Leino's poems to life, making their verses flow. Anna-Claudia Somero's singing and pianist Jouni Somero's piano melodies intertwine around the poems, creating a touching whole for a summer afternoon.

 

Come and listen to how the rhymes of Leino's poems and the chords of music come together at the Valamo Cultural Center. Let poems and melodies take you to the Finnish soul landscape and open your heart.

I do not rejoice, I do not grieve, I sigh;

but the darkness of the forest brings me, 

a cloud of dust, where the day drowns, 

where the windy danger lies, I sleep, 

the scents of the old forest and the shadows of the water;

from them I make a song of my heart.

(Eino Leino, Nocturne)

 

Tickets 20€ in advance from the monastery's online store and from the Valamo Monastery reception and one hour before at the door of the cultural center.