Soita Mummolle


hearts from all over the world!

Here is a picture of all the crochet hearts that will be used next week for the knit-guerrilla for our campaign.

It’s such a great thing that our supporters are not only from Finland, but also from USA, Australia and Netherlands!

A big thanks to Diana, Carola, Carol, Riitta, Lee and Tea!

Stefania



Soita Mummolle Päivä program revealed

Soita Mummolle Päivä (Call Your Grandma Day) will take place on 11th August 2010.
Even though the name says “mummo”, we are talking about also grandparents or elderly parents!
This day is appointed to sensitize people about seniors’ loneliness and to show in first person a visible sign of committment.

“What can I do to participate?”
Simple, there are many options depending on your level of availability:

1) Join the Soita Mummolle flash-mob in Helsinki (this is the funniest, dn’t miss it!)
Join Soita Mummolle flash-mob in Kamppi, on 11.8.2010, from 16.00 to 18.00 from 16:00 to 17:00! Come to call for free your elderly parents and grandparents to give a public sign of your love, care and committment. Grandparents are also very welcome to call their children and grandchildren: let’s reduce the genration gap! Free calls provided by Sonera.

Search the people with the Soita Mummolle signs and ask them to make you call!

2) Just call your grandparents and invite others to do the same!
Personal action is important! If you cannot join one the flash-mob or you are not in Helsinki, just call your grandparents and then just post the message “olen soittanut!” on Soita Mummolle Facebook page. Before and during Soita Mummolle Päivä tell everybody you know to do the same!

3)Download the Soita Mummolle Sign, take a picture of you with it and post in on Facebook
You can download the Soita Mummolle Sign “Olen soittanut” (and remember to call for real!) from here.
Then print it, take a picture of you showing it and upload it on 11th August 2010 on Soita Mummolle Facebook page and use it also as your profile picture!



soita mummolle street action#5

Hei folks!

the second last Street Action of the campaign took place today and as usual we hunted many great support photos. We were quite much helped by Pink’s concert in Kaisaniemenpuisto, so that we found the park conveniently packed of people in good mood.

I want to thank everybody we met today, plus of course Krista and Karolina who were today’s volunteer photographers and kept me good company!

The most of the pictures from today’s Street Action are already published in the photogallery section. There are still few missing, from Krista’s camera, so if you don’t find yours yet please be patient and give us girl the time to exchange files. 🙂

Now looking forward to Friday! I am going to be interviewed about the campaign by both Vartti and Kirkko&Kaupunki, and I’ll reveal to the press some previously unreleased details about Soita Mummolle Päivä, which -I remind you! – it’s gonna take place on 11.8.2010.

Stefania



Ready to be back, live and kickin’

Dear all,

my holidays are almost over and soon the final rush of the campaign will make my life very busy. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to upload to Flickr the second batch of pictures from the last Street Action, but you can see them on our Facebook Page.

11th of August, Soita Mummolle Päivä, is coming so quickly, but before that there will be still some things to do:

  • Soita Mummolle Street Action #5, on Wednesday 21.7
  • Soita Mummolle Street Action #6, on Wednesday 4.8 (be sure don’t miss one of these last two Street Actions!)
  • Knitting guerrilla on week 31: knitted hearts attached to an info flyer about upcoming Soita Mummolle Päivä will be “forgotten” on metro and tram seats… let’s see who is going to catch them! They are handmade hearts coming from supporters all over the world, Netherlands, USA, Australia

On the organizational side, I still need to define the last details of Soita Mummolle Päivä with my collaborator Teemu Laajasalo, while contracting a cooperation with Sonera came to a very good result: we are going to have about 7-10 phones to use for free on Soita Mummolle Päivä (unfortunately, no international calls allowed… sorry, my foreigners friends!) and our signs will be hanging for about 2 weeks in 2 Sonera Shops, in Kamppi and Citykäytävä.

On public relations’ side I need to seriously sit down and write the press release for Soita Mummolle Päivä. Anyway, one good result was already achieved, since – after the articles on Peppar.fi and Voi Hyvin – I will be interviewed by Vartti about the campaign next Friday. Perhaps, they will even bring their photographer along to take pictures of me, I almost feel embarassed! :O

SOITA MUMMOLLE, HELSINKI!

Stefania