Skilled musicians contributed to the Big Top atmosphere.
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The Audience Embraced the Opening of Shooting Stars

A festive circus parade opened the Shooting Stars film event on Tuesday at Tullikamari's Pakkahuone. The merry fellows of Epilä charmed the audience with their act.

The estrade was filled with ropedancers and jugglers, accompanied with Paukkurauta Jallu, the beautiful dancer Satu, violinist Timppa Lampenius and Jaska the journalist. The world's strongest girl, Pippi Longstocking, lifted up a thousand pounds of iron in front of a cheering audience. The circus even featured an actual bicycle-riding city bear.

-We have many reasons to rejoice now as we open the fourth Shooting Stars event, Riitta Ollila, the chair of the city's culture and leisure board, related in the greetings of the City of Tampere. The financing of the event is guaranteed for at least the next year, and the organizers are enthusiastic.

-I dare to say that the entire city takes pleasure in this event, Ollila concluded her speech.

The Shooting Stars Event Builds Bridges

Love and relationships are just as important to the mentally handicapped as they are to everyone else, stated educationalist Kaarina Määttä, also known as the ”love professor”, in her speech. The most important part of relationships are the shared everyday experiences, doing things together.Everyone must have the right to love

-The best thing about Shooting Stars is the way it builds bridges between different people, said Jukka-Pekka Laakso, who presented the greetings of the Film Festival. The event fits especially well together with Tampere Film Festival, because the festival has a long history of connecting people with different world views.

The Shooting Stars event also hosts the visiting London Disability Film Festival.

-Movies consist of images and sounds, which limits the experiences of the people who can not see or hear, said Caglar Kimyoncu and Raina Haig, who presented the Londoners' greetings. However, there are numerous ways to get around these limitations. The movies can feature sign language for the hearing-impaired, or oral narration for the visually impaired.

The opening event ended with a 60-minute movie by the London Disability Film Festival.

	The cheerful acrobats formed a handsome pyramid.

TEXT: Eero Takkinen
TRANSLATION: Antti Pasanen
PHOTOS: Anu Mastokangas
UPDATED: Thursday, 21-Mar-2002 10:46:15 EET

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