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Symposium Banquet will take place in Music Theatre Palace in Tuulensuu Building on  Tuesday May 31st  at 19.00 - 24.00. The participation fee of 80 € (including a VAT of 23%) is not included to the symposium fee. Participation requires registration because of limited number of places, which will be given to the persons who have registered first. Conference guests can bring their spouse to the banguet by informing about it in pursuance of registration.

The banquet includes a music show by Blues Brothers & Laura Voutilainen, delicious dinner, dancing, and a solo artist Johanna Debreczeni.

History

The Tuulensuu Building was erected in 1929 according to the drawings of Bertel Stömmer, the City Architect of Tampere. On its completion, the Tuulensuu Building was the largest multi-storey residential building in Tampere,(c) Music Theatre Palace website with the Tuulensuu cinema seating 720 people occupying a large part of it. The imposing building constructed in the neoclassical style features architectural forms dating back to Greco-Roman antiquity both as concerns the basics of composition and principles of organising surfaces. The ornamentation has clearly been influenced by cubism. The cinema  with its painstakingly crafted details constitutes an integral part of the whole – its luxurious décor featured e.g. a striking curtain adorned with brass lynxes (the heraldic beast of Häme Province). A live orchestra in the pit in front of the screen accompanied silent films.       

  Sculptor Väinö Richard Rautalin and stucco plasterer Arvid Nurhonen, both from Tampere, decorated the building. Especially well known are the reliefs around the stage opening, eight on either side consisting of a total of 24 nude women and nine nude men. The reliefs seem to express different moods: joy, sadness, anger, love, jealousy, etc. 

The first tenant of the completed building was Kinosto Oy. At the time the cinema was called Tuulensuu. Suomi-Filmi leased it in 1939 and named it Kino-Palatsi. Regular cinema business on the premises ended in 1991, and the building was subsequently leased by a religious group that called itself the Palace Church. After the lease expired, Taitokaari Oy, the property owner, (c) Music Theatre Palace websitedecided to restore the cinema thoroughly. The restoration carried out in 2006–2008 brought the cinema as close to its original appearance as possible. The work overseen by the National Board of Antiquities was based on careful study of archival material, old photographs and documents.

In October 2008 Finland witnessed an extraordinary event as theatre director Petri Lairikko and writer Katariina Leino opened Music Theatre Palace on the premises. The business idea behind the unique restaurant/theatre was to combine extravagant musicals and shows with high-class restaurant services into a stylish treat. Music Theatre Palace has been warmly received by theatre-goers. Its first own musical production, Some Like It Hot, was a huge success, and the subsequent Beatles Show also drew capacity crowds. The Finnish theatre institution has received a real treasure unlike anything seen earlier. In October 2009 Tampere celebrated the 80th birthday of the Tuulensuu Building. That month also marked the first year of operation of Music Theatre Palace.