The Lost City Inc. is an experience engineering company that designs and builds Experience Parks.

The most famous of these are ancient cities based on meticulous anthropological and cultural historical research. Most successful parks have been New York 1964, Oulu 2008, Reykjavik 2027 and Turku 2011.  

From the very beginning the main designer and the head guide has been the legendary Don Walsh.

Experience Park Oulu 2012 is an update where the Experience Park Oulu will be updated to year 2012.

The update will happen on the streets of Oulu during the first week of August. The update is compatible with both old and new tourists and residents of Experience Park Oulu.

Exact info will be first published at www.facebook.com/walsh.don

Working Towards a Brighter Yesterday!

In the new Esitys (‘Performance’) magazine 2/2012 you’ll find an article on clubs and new city culture written by Sami Henrik Haapala. You can get the magazine f.e. from Theatre Academy Library in Helsinki.

Saturday 26. 5. 2012

Soulmate

Café Kauppayhtiö Upstairs, Rovaniemi

Moodswings had its club premiere on 12th May in Rovaniemi.

It’s a new kind of audiovisual club that blasts your eyes, ears, ass and mind.

Moodswings did a test run of its new club concept in a smaller form in December 2011. In May 2012 we presented the full-blown dance club.

Moodswings is the first new club concept created solely for Rovaniemi in mind and comes from the guy behind the clubs Boogalumbia! and HOBOGOLD that have both been touring all round Finland for the past few years.

The club is created in co-operation with media artist Aku Meriläinen a.k.a. VJ Merrylaeinen. The aim is to create a new kind of extremely danceable audiovisual club.

In line with its name Moodswings combines extreme opposites. Energetic and soulful retro soul meets futuristic bass. Organic soul lights the spirits to the skies and a new kind of bass music brings it back deeper underground than you could have ever imagined.

Soulmate, dj

Merrylaeinen, gently interactive visuals

Next Moodswings in the Fall 2012.

Sami Henrik Haapala has been signed as a full-time actor to the Rovaniemi City Theatre in Rovaniemi, Finland starting in August 2011.

Next SHH will be acting in The National Hero, a production directed by Vihtori Rämä. The premiere is set at 24th March 2012 at 7pm.

In the program of Rovaniemi City Theatre during Autumn 2011. New premiere 8th October 2011 at 8pm.

Note! Kullervo is performed also in English so you can join even if you don’t speak Finnish.

That which is not man will never become a man.
- Paavo Haavikko, Kullervo’s Story -

This is a story about revenge told by the misunderstood perpetrator.

Kullervo is the blackest character in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. This exact story has been an inspiration for countless artists like J. R. R. Tolkien, Jean Sibelius and the Finnish metal group Amorphis.

This Kullervo returns to the roots of theatre in funeral. Of the oldest and blackest tragedy in Finnish heritage it searches for an answer to the violence of contemporary world and contemporary time.

In this contemporary dance piece an extreme personality in extreme conditions meets extreme movement that explodes between endless compression and total surrender.

Production, direction, set design, sound design and dance: Sami Henrik Haapala

Photography: Pekka Mäkinen

Graphic design: Antti-Jussi Ahponen

Originally co-produced with Jojo – Oulu Dance Center

Kullervo is available for tour.

(Bigmouth)

Production, direction and performing: Sami Henrik Haapala

Poetry slamming based on Finnish pop, rock, reggae and rap texts.

Premier in Culture Center Valve, Oulu on Tuesday 29. 12. 2009 at 7pm.

Bigmouth has been performed on the small stage of The National Theatre of Karelia during Spring 2010.

Bigmouth is available for tour.