Baltic Sea Day at Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna Sea Fortress will celebrate Baltic Sea Day from morning to night!

10:00 and 13:15: Let’s clean up the beaches together!
During these free guided tours, participants will collect litter off the beaches, calculate the amounts and learn from where the trash that ends up on the shores of Suomenlinna comes from. Come help the Baltic Sea and learn something new. The tours will depart from the ferry terminal and last around two hours.

18:00: Take a dip in the Baltic Sea at the Suomenlinna beach.
You can leave your belongings at the Ruutikellari event space while you’re swimming.

18:00: Algae sample collection
As part of the nationwide Baltic Sea Day, algae researcher Sonja Repetti will collect samples from the sea using a plankton net. Swimmers are welcome to participate in the collection of samples if they wish. After sample collection, we’ll head over to Ruutikellari for a concert.

19:00: Flagellate Collective concert, Ruutikellari
During the concert, microscope views of samples collected from the Baltic Sea will be projected onto a screen, magnified up to hundreds of times. Musicians Devina Boughton, Veera Katila and Kirsi Ojala, along with visiting artist Davide Stefani (ITA), will respond to the movements of algae and other plankton – and influence them in turn – by playing traditional Finnish and Karelian horn and pipe instruments, as well as horns made from kelp. The performance will feature a brief introduction to algae and the instruments used.

This is a pay-what-you-want concert (suggested donation: €5–20). The proceeds will be donated to the John Nurminen Foundation to support the harmonious coexistence of people and algae.

The programme for Suomenlinna’s Baltic Sea Day will be updated throughout the summer! See the suomenlinna.fi site!

Photo: Suomenlinna administrative board, photographer: Jaakko Koljonen