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I made a poster and next week I am putting up a show - come go bananas with us, our co-performers and our students at The Shangri-La Summer Show 2019! About 1/3 of the tickets are left, get yours from our webshop via tiny.cc/SUMMERSHOW2019

Because March is almost over by now, let us naturally (dum di dum...) look at the month before that; one-second-a-day: February 2019 These are so fun to do and I love watching other's mini videos of their months!

Tonight! At our studio starting 18hrs - Dr.Sketchy's Helsinki presents: Wonderland! Come and draw and enjoy the nice setting, music and atmosphere. Photo by Neil Kendall.

Last Sunday we turned our studio into interstellar space -or intergalactic if you so like- they way it would look if an, umm, elementary school or some kind of vaudevillian basement theatre put up a play about space. We really wanted it to look adorably crappy on one hand with our small self made planets and things hanging by the help of string and clothes pins but on the other hand still keep it on the right side of being deliberately camp (the way we like it) as well as to function as the optional drawing detail or background inspiration. The navigators of the ship with the brave cosmonaut. (Our space aesthethics always tend to be rather b-movie retrotastic.) So as you know from what I've written before, Dr.Sketchy's is a worldwide concept of  "alternative" live model drawing. There have been  Dr.Sketchy events in Finland for a decade now , and last autumn Tinker Bell and I revived the Helsinki branch. We make sure our Sketchy-playlists suit the themes as well and ...

Time for some self-promotion! Or not promoting me but my business (which I suppose I really should remember to do more often) - Both my colleague and I (plus our assistant. Yazzz, we have one that actually the employment agency pays for! Phew!) are huge fans of Halloween . So to get the most out of it we are celebrating Halloween weeks at the studio with spooky tunes and choreographies. Plus some discounts - come and try out a new class for just 10€! You can find our studio at Facebook here: Facebook.com/StudioShangriLa And our Burlesque School (which is pretty much the same as the studio page, but focusing more on the burlesque content) here: Facebook.com/ShangriLaSchoolOfShowgirls You can of course find our website here: studioshangrila.fi and us at instagram @studioshangrila For any blogreader of mine who hangs around Southern Finland and wants to take classes with us (a whole season/weekly/once) I've made a discount code to use at the web store or at the studio for 15% off any...

Last Saturday we hosted the latest Dr.Sketchy Anti-Art School night at our studio, this time with a 1960's theme. Tinker Bell and I are the hosts for Dr.Sketchy's Helsinki nights. Picture by Aiju. We wanted to give the night some extra psychedelic vibes so we fixed a projection with some 1969 Joshua Light show that started looping in the background when the evening turned darker, letting the music turn from sixties pop to psychedelia. Tinker Bell drawing behind the curtains. Dr.Sketchy has been on a hiatus in Helsinki, the first one after the break being the Marie Antoinette themed night last June. We plan to keep another evening during autumn still, so follow the Facebook page for updates, or check our studio's page . You will obviously here about any future nights here as well. A couple of drawings from the evening by Janne Korsumäki . And a few by Kerttu Jaatinen. (We used our red-and-white striped screen in the beginning of the night and I was happy to see it being us...