Thomas Radeke from FH Joanneum (AT) will give the workshop “3D Graphics Using Cinema 4D” April 22-25.

“3D Graphics with Maxon CINEMA 4D” deals with concepts in 3D modelling  scene layout, textures & materials, lighting and rendering.The goal of the workshop is to learn about – and have fun with – 3D graphics software and experience what kind of visual work designers can accomplish with a tool like CINEMA 4D.
The workshop level can be anywhere between basic and advanced, depending on the participants’ interests.

The registration for International Week workshops will start April 2nd!

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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event this year with eleven workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative on-line and real-life learning.
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International Week web site
International Week on Facebook
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TAMK celebrated World Water Day on March 21st 2013. Second year Film and Television students got a task to create some 1.5 min. films  using the Quick and Green -method.

The main character begs the pastor for aid with the apple flavoured mineral water

The films were done fast and the shooting lasted only one day. The film production adapted more environment friendly methods.

Juho Aittanen, director of the film Omenavichy (Apple flavoured mineral water) describes the process:

"So we made a sketch for the World Water Week. The assignment was to make a 1,5 minute short film which could be shot in a day and would address the subject of water.

With a rebellious attitude our group decided that we would make the connection to Water Week as far fetched as possible.

In the end after a couple of missteps (an 8 hour brainstorming session ending with a plot for a 30 minute spy-thriller about water wars) the end product is surprisingly not a disgrace of my short career. Come to think of it I kind of fancy it."

Michel Pistra, Samuel van Dijk and Baz Laarakkers from Academy of Pop Culture Minerva (NL) will give the workshop "It's Alive" April 22-25.

One of the previous Pop Culture Academy workshops in action

• Visualizing sound (and also the other way around) has been done for years. 
• You can see it in what VJ’s do, you can see it in your iTunes visualisation, you can see it everywhere. 
• Some visualisations are technical translations, some are artistic interpretations. 
• The funny thing is, when you put audio and image together, the outcome can be unpredictable.   
• In this workshop we’re going to explore the sonic and visual boundaries. 
• With all kinds of tools we are connecting sound and image into one. 
• Mainly hands on and away from you computer workshop.

After the workshop you are the master of this

The registration for International Week workshops will start April 2nd!

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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event this year with eleven workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative on-line and real-life learning.
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International Week web site
International Week on Facebook
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The ending lunch at the UVIC grounds. Sunny at last, and the salads were great!

So, last Friday Alicia, Emilija, Iiro, Einari and I came back to chilly Finland from Vic, Spain, where we had taken part in the DobleCLICK! of the UVIC University. Oh, what a party there was that Thursday night! And oh, how content I was of not having attended the party myself, when I saw the pale faces of our students next morning, in the train due to Barcelona airport.

We had hamburgers in this bar before the final party

We had an even more pleasant surprise when the winners of the competition were announced: A film made by TAMK Film&TV students called BAD GAME won the main prize - and a thousand euros! Iiro rose from the audience and went to receive the diploma as a representative of our school. He even got interviewed afterwards, and everybody seemed to think he was the director of the film.

In reality, the film Bad Game was the result of last year's 48 hours filmmaking event, and the students in the project group were in four different continents at the time of the shootings. So Marja Pihlaja, who belongs to the group, told me next Monday 25.3. when I gave her the award diploma and the cheque. Marja also told me that the film didn't have an actual director, and her own role had been the producer.

Marja Pihlaja with the diploma and the cheque

I wanted to post a link here, in case you want to see the Bad Game film, but I haven't found it anywhere in the Internet. So instead, I'll put an image here of what I saw at a local shop in Vic:

Local sausage shop

Nina Dvorko will give the workshop "Non-Fiction Storytelling in the Era of Digital Technology" on April 24.
This is one of the workshops of our International Week 2013.

This presentation/lecture introduces its audience to the new forms of documentary storytelling in the context of digital media (the Internet, virtual environments, interactive installations, locative media, computer games, transmedia, etc.) It is focused mainly on web-based documentary forms and content creation tools for non-linear documentary films.

Analysed are: communicative and technological characteristics of the user interaction with the documentary Web-projects interactive content, expressive means for digital environment, as well as the role of the tool kit (software product) in the project implementation.

Professor N.I.Dvorko employs rich material: 35 years’ worth of international practice of non-fiction storytelling creation), the projects of her students of Saint-Petersburg State University of Film and Television, the multimedia project she has been working on, which helps to study the international experience of interactive storytelling from different perspectives.

The registration for International Week workshops will start April 2nd!
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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event this year with eleven workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative on-line and real-life learning.
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Learn more: 
International Week web site
International Week on Facebook
Read about the previous International Weeks
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IKUINEN GALLERY
Olet mitä syöt (You are what you eat)
Lasse Juuti
27.3.-12.4.2013
Mon-Fri 12 am to 4 pm
Finlaysoninkuja 3

We need food for living/in order to survive. This exhibition leads us to the garbage bin. Eating habits and experiences come to life on paper plates. The dried scraps and traces of food act as canvases that have been continued with paint and markers. The marks on the plates give the artist a lead from the past, and with the help of a brush the abandoned plate, state of stillness, comes to life.

In the plates that I have collected the marks of dining are juxtaposed to the traces of paint, the used plate and palette become equivalent, the food and its leftovers seek to find a mutual form and material feel. The act of painting reflects the need that is similar to the need for food. From food and pleasure derive themes of fine dining and maximalism, which is portrayed using paint. This art piece has aspects of art history and tradition, where food, portraits, canvases plates and recycling play an integral part.

Mr. Juuti is a painter. Mr. Juuti paints, because he paints. Simple as that.

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Ikuinen Gallery is a contemporary art project space located in the old factory complex Finlayson in central Tampere. The gallery is run by a board of fine art students in Tampere UAS School of Art and Media as part of their study programme. Ikuinen Gallery’s main focus is in presenting interesting and high quality student work as well as work of other adventurous artists.
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Ikuinen Gallery (on Tumbrl)
Ikuinen Gallery on this blog
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Our teacher in Finnish language Senior Lecturer Marja Oksanen has enriched her excellent work with a new dimension. Her blog "Suomea oppimaan - Finnish language and culture for foreigners" has now been released: http://finnish.blogs.tamk.fi/

Marja Oksanen with some of her students

The blog is a very good example of present-day student centered education. Marja says that blog has been made for the students to give them a channel to tell about their experiences and thoughts about Finnish language, way of living and culture here.

The sidebar of the blog has an impressive collection of links to resources for studying Finnish language and culture. The blog posts are fascinating stories written by Marja's students. So far you can find Tobias Schengber's (exhange student in Environmental Engineering) "Welcome to Lapland – Tervetuloa Lappiin"; Lishan Wu's (Environmental Engineering student) "My journey of learning Finnish"; Maksym Sytnyk's, (Environmental Engineering) "Finnish language is not difficult, it’s different – Suomen kieli ei ole vaikea, se on erilainen"; Federico di Rosa's (Media student) "Snowboarding In Tampere area – Lumilautailua Tampereella"; Henry Koch's (Environmental Engineering) "Finns – special of their own way" and Carolin Büttner's (Media) Music from Finland! – Musiikkia Suomesta!

The Art&Media blog welcomes this new member of TAMK family of blogs and wishes all the best to Marja Oksanen and the students writing in it!

by Riikka Gröndahl
Right now the fourth year Fine Art students have the final juicy squeeze on their hands. The last hammering, exporting, brush stroking and colour managing are being done and the ideas students have been working on for six months will get their concrete shape. 

Graduating fine art students having coffee and a meeting

Graduating artists are proud to release their Himona website for audience. Now it's possible to see some sneak peeks of the pieces from 23 fine art students and to be updated on the latest happenings concerning the exhibitions. One can also download the exhibition publication on the site. The publication's theme is work. Art is work that is done out of pure passion. Passion is a compulsive desire that has made the artists to give all they have and even more. In order to make art one needs to work passionately and like crazy.

Himona condoms ready for distribution

Himona exhibition spreads the joyful word of art also with condoms. In collaboration with HIV Foundation graduating artist J. A. Juvani has designed a condom package. Soon the condoms will be in distribution around the city of Tampere. The artists think that best result in everything is a mix of passion and responsibility. The work of an artist is a union of wild, limitless creativity and conscious sense of responsibility.

Passionate welcome to www.himona.tamk.fi
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Himona on Facebook
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The graduation show Himona will be shown in two separate exhibitions:

TR1 Kunsthalle April 6 - 28, 2013
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson

Himona sticker, pink

Open Tue-Fri 9AM to 5PM, Sat-Sun 11AM to 6PM
Tickets 5/1€, on Fridays free admission
www.tr1.tampere.fi

Art Centre Mältinranta April 20 - May 7
Kuninkaankatu 2
Open Mon-Thu 12AM to 6PM, Fri-Sun 12AM to 4PM
Free Admission
www.tampereen-taiteilijaseura.fi

by Kirsi Karimäki

Four students and three teachers from TAMK had an opportunity to take part to InnoEvent in Odense in Denmark last week. In InnoEvent students from Lillebælt Academy of Professional Higher Education and University College Lillebælt create new solutions for the Odense University Hospital.

This is how it started

The whole week is about students of today creating new useful solutions for the healthcare of tomorrow.  And when the name of the week is InnoEvent we really talk about big event. The event organization is mainly handled by tens of students and hundreds of students from different fields of education participate to the event.  Students create new solutions in over 40 innovative teams for the whole week, teachers support the teams.

Of course we enjoy cakes during our visit

InnoEvent ended the Oscars Gala type of the award show in Saturday. This year the Minister for Science, Innovation and Higher Education was participating to the award ceremony.

And the winner is...

We had good time in Odense and we learned a lot, maybe next year brings us together again.

Read more:
http://innoevent.dk/

The author is Lecturer in our international media programme

Morten Østergaard spoke in the award show

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Read more about our cooperation with EAL/SDE in Odense 
InnoEvent on our blog 
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Jacob van der Linden will give the workshop "Immersion in Visual Representation" on April 23rd. This is one of the workshops of our International Week 2013.

photo: Barbican's Rain Room

"We all have seen thousands of photographs, paintings and other images. Why some catch our eye and stay in our memories while others just slip by? Jacob van der Linden will work with students during his workshop to figure out how the media used by visual and interaction designers can attract people and immerse them in the designer's work."

Jacob van der Linden comes from the Hague University of Applied Sciences.

The registration for International Week workshops will start April 2nd!
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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event this year with eleven workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative on-line and real-life learning.
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Learn more: 
International Week web site
International Week on Facebook
Read about the previous International Weeks
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-- Written by Carita Forsgren --

Today we had our 2nd day of the DobleCLICK! happening at the University of Vic, Spain, starting with a workshop held by 3 students, called Creativity in Reverse. Alicia and Emilija first had some trouble finding an idea for their task, but then they saw some buns in the snack room and came up with a Star Wars theme.

Here we have Princess Alicia

Flying Albert

View from UVIC

The other teachers and myself were not totally lazy while the students from our different universities were giving lectures and workshops: we gave some mentoring for the UVIC students' projects, and attended the presentation given by Albert van Der Kooij from the Academy of Pop Culture, Hanzehogeschool Groningen.

In the afternoon, our Film&TV guys Iiro Holopainen & Einari Paasirova gave a fine workshop on Scandinavian directors.

Einari & Iiro in matching colours

Einari & Iiro on Tuesday

Emilija by the re-built Roman temple

What about our first day, Tuesday the 19th of March? Well, there were many student workshops then as well, and somehow we also had time to do a city tour and a very nice afternoon pique-nique near the university campus.

Emilija, Alicia & others at our pique-nique

At the marketplace

Rosa Pons (right) giving instructions

Chris Hales will again be here in April to give two workshops. His International Week workshop will be "Mind Over Matter"

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This short creative workshop (3 days) will enable a small group of participants to work with EEG signals coming directly from the human brain, using the Neurosky Mindwave device connected to a Mac or PC computer: http://www.neurosky.com/Products/MindWave.aspx

The group will analyse and test the capabilities of the Mindwave in order to design and produce an interactive audiovisual installation which will give different experiences to visitors to the installation, depending on their mental states. The installation would involve manipulating both projected audiovisual imagery and moving real-life objects with the Mindwave. In this respect the workshop is suitable for those interested in sculpture, electronics, interactivity, new media, narrative, and videomaking.

The group will work together on different aspects of the making of the installation and will present the piece to the public during an "open" session.

Times: April 23-25 mornings
Maximum 6 participants
The registration for International Week workshops will start April 2nd!
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The sixth International Week of Tampere University of Applied Sciences School of Art, Music and Media
23-26/4/2013
4 days, 11 workshops, presentations and seminars
Art, Music and Media 6th International Week is an annual event with workshops, seminars and discussions on new ideas and new creative cooperation. This year some of the main themes will be blended learning, collaborative online and real-life learning.
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SPRING MIGRATION
19.3.-14.4.2013
TAMK library
Kuntokatu 3

A flock of birds is moving east. Ikuinen Gallery has joined the migrating wedge of cranes and takes a common rest at the main campus of TAMK.

Spring Migration is a paper-based installation folded by the Ikuinen Gallery team with some help of art and media students from Finlayson campus. The paper cranes took a flight out from the cosy home nest and landed on new chirping branches. The meaning of the twittering visit is to create visible, easily approachable art outside the limiting gallery walls. With the birds we want to send our greetings from students to students.

Visit our migrating spring birds while they stop at Kuntokatu campus library, during the opening hours.

The Flock behind the installation:
Finlayson students, Anna Pekkala, Anne Järvi, Annette Hanse, Anu Mustonen, Niina Kiiveri

The Spring Migration is one part of Ikuinen Gallery's mission to conquer the World. We want to spread student-made art outside the wall's of Finlayson Campus.
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Ikuinen Gallery is a contemporary art project space located in the old factory complex Finlayson in central Tampere. The gallery is run by a board of fine art students in Tampere UAS School of Art and Media as part of their study programme. Ikuinen Gallery’s main focus is in presenting interesting and high quality student work as well as work of other adventurous artists.
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Ikuinen Gallery (on Tumbrl)
Ikuinen Gallery on this blog
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Our third year fine art student Emmi Nieminen has been nominated for the Comics Finlandia award 2013. Emmi is the youngest nominee ever.

"It's ok I guess" was Emmi's reaction on her blog after the nomination

The awards seremony will take place at the national annual comics festival "Tampere kuplii" on March 22nd.

You can learn more about Emmi and her art on her bilingual (Finnish, English) blog: http://karva.sarjakuvablogit.com/

Comics Finlandia (in Finnish)
Tampere kuplii comics festival (in Finnish)

The cover of Emmi's nominated album Keskiviikko (Wednesday)

Fifty students and teachers from five universities in Finland, Latvia, Netherlands, Spain and UK have started their six week online learning project preparing the two week workshop in Tampere two last weeks of April.

The project works in five mixed online teams and in five local teams before the workshop in Tampere. This is the local  student team in Vic

Media Culture 2020 is an Erasmus Intensive Programme project. MC2020 will demonstrate what 21th century converged and interactive European Media Culture could be. MC2020 breaks classroom and campus walls by creating open virtual learning environments where students from different countries and fields can explore and learn together.

MC2020 has also online lectures and demonstrations. Here the lecture by Lenno Verhoog, Utrecht School of Arts is followed by students in Vic, Tampere and Hilversum. The picture from Tampere.

The participants are art, film, media and business students from Liepaja University, Utrecht School of Arts, University of Vic, University of Lincoln and TAMK.

MC2020 will have a second two week workshop hosted by the MPLab of Liepaja University in October-November this year. The project is partly funded by EU.

MC2020 is a part of the degree studies of the students and awarded with study points.

Read more on the MC2020 blog

By Samantha Conlon
as part of our video art course, our teacher, Sari, invited artist/curator Angela Washko to come visit TAMK to give a lecture and also to meet us individually and talk about our work. i was quiet nervous at the mention of it, the words 'New York' and 'curator' automatically made me feel on egde, then i googled Angela's work and felt even more anxious about our talk! turns out there was no need because within minutes of meeting Angela i felt really relaxed and comfortable, she had a really nice presence.

Angela Washko

i showed Angela my tumblr and we discussed various past and present projects i had been working on, she gave me a lot of really good advice on how to approach a new project and where to publish it to get some attention to it. my work at present works sort of in the online sphere, i had worked with chatroulette in the past and i just find that 'internet art' really appeals to me, this is why i was really excited to meet Angela as her work is a culmination of all things i am interested in; technology, the internet, 21st century, feminism. i especially liked her new work 'Chastity' which she is working on at her residency in The Cable Factory in Helsinki (so i believe) and which i got to talk to her about a little.

Angela Washko's 'My Sanctuary' in Vaasa

a strange thing happened when i showed her my blog, i included in my sidebar some links to projects i have been involved with and when she saw a link to 'Illuminati Girl Gang' she asked me to go the site, when i did she said she knew about it and in fact her best friend had been in the same issue as that i was published in and her best friend happened to be one of my favourite artists Ann Hirsch - such a strange situation that we even get to meet seeing as she's from the US and I from Ireland, even stranger then that we had people/ situations in common - it's a small world!

Angela has performed her 'My Sanctuary' piece in both Vaasa and Tampere earlier this month. She will have one more performance in Finland taking place in Kiasma March 21 5-7 pm
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Angela Washko (web site)
The event in Kiasma March 21 5-7 pm

Samantha Conlon's Tumblr

Tampere Film Festival Youth Jury Award went to Thoughts About Dying (Ajatuksia kuolevaisuudesta, 2012) by Jani Ilomäki. Congratulations!

The Mass of Men directed by Gabriel Gauchet (2012), a fiction from United Kingdom, won the Grand Prix at Tampere Film Festival International Competition.
See all winners


About Thoughts about Dying:
Boy wonders about death.

Eight-year-old Antti is told that his dog should put to sleep. Antti will have his first facing with death, and he begins to think what death means.

The film is director’s (Jani Ilomäki), cinematographer’s (Mikko Parttimaa), producer’s (Julia Elomäki) and production designer’s (Salla Lehtikangas) diploma work in Tampere University of Applied Sciences 2012.

Read more on the film official web site (bilingual Finnish/English)

TAMK is partner in the European Acoustic Heritage -project. EAH aims at discovering and enhancing the soundscapes in Europe, the different soundings and listenings that make up the real and imaginary world and the personality of places and environments contributing to sonic cultural heritage.

The project funded by EU's Culture Programme includes the "European Acoustic Heritage - State of Art" publication and exhibition. The publication was published in September 2012. The exhibition opening is on March 11 in Brussels, Belgium.

The publication Kytö, Meri - Remy, Nicolas & Uimonen, Heikki: "European Acoustic Heritage" is now published by Tampere University of Applied Sciences and available online, download here

Read about EAH exhibition and events in Tampere last September
Read about the international NoTours student workshop in conjuction with the EAH events

By Sirkku Niskanen and Hanna Tullila
Photos by Sirkku Niskanen, Hanna Tullila and Elina Ylhäisi

This fall it was possible to explore forms of performance in Fine Arts program’s workshop course. 

Performance was approached by theater professional, as well as from the perspective of an artist. During the course students thought over performance and live installation interfaces.

At the beginning of the course theater dramaturge Jarkko Suhola taught acting methods by different exercises. Students began to design their own performances of personal interest basis. They worked on them ahead of teachers Björn Aho and Minna Suoniemi. Through the process students broke their own boundaries and discovered new means of expression.

The result was an art event [Party]kkeli. Saturday 19/01/2013 students were able to present their works to the public. A spectacular evening consisted of four performances: Red Coat Rack, Mirror Tower, At That Point and Barzilla.

Performing students: Hinni Huttunen, Riikka Enne, Elina Ylhäisi, Niko Sirkiä, Hanna Tullila, Sirkku Niskanen, Laura Mykkänen, Laura Lehtinen, Jemina Lindholm, Tiina Lehikoinen and Tytti Mäkelä.

Open house at TAMK Finlayson Fine Art department
- see how Himona - the fine graduate exhibition is made
Friday 8th of March 2013
Meet the artists from 10am to 4pm
Finlaysoninkatu 7, 33210 Tampere

The graduating fine art students are having an open house on 8th of March. The historical venue at Finlayson, in the heart of the city of Tampere, is open for audience for one day.

Ismo Torvinen testing his smoke bass, to be seen at the exhibition

Now it’s possible to come and see how do the artists work for example with sculptures, videos and installations. All the pieces made right now will be on display in April when the hard work of 23 artists’ is culminating in two Degree Shows called Himona.

Himona comes from the Finnish word himo which can be translated as passion, desire, lust, craving. The word himona also means plenty, a lot, much. In order to make art one must work like crazy and passionately.

The artists warmly welcome you to their works spaces on Friday the 8th starting from 10am.
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Himona on Facebook
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The graduation show Himona will be shown in two separate exhibitions:
TR1 Kunsthalle April 6 - 28, 2013
Väinö Linnan aukio 13, Finlayson
Open Tue-Fri 9AM to 5PM, Sat-Sun 11AM to 6PM
Tickets 5/1€, on Fridays free admission
www.tr1.tampere.fi

Art Centre Mältinranta April 20 - May 7
Kuninkaankatu 2
Open Mon-Thu 12AM to 6PM, Fri-Sun 12AM to 4PM
Free Admission
www.tampereen-taiteilijaseura.fi