Santa’s Arctic Circle Marathon and Lapland Folklore Festival in Rovaniemi

Event calendar from July 1^st to July 4^th  2005.

July 1st
13:00 Great inventions -seminar 70th anniversary seminar of the Lapp writer, poet, sagaist Oiva Arvola
17:00 International Folk Dance Concert Folk dance and music from near and afar
19:00 Going with the flow Finnish loved female singer Katri Helena
21:00-1:00 Festival Club Pasi K. & Hurmos and many other performers
22:00-2:00 Dance Along Anne Mattila & Mistral

July 2nd
10:00-17:00 Registration of Marathon participants in hotel Santa Claus
10:00-14:00 Lappish Party (in German) *)
11:00 Get Together Pasta Party for marathon participants
13:00 Jump-jump - Jup Yeah! Childrens' concert, Kengurumeininki makes you jump!
15:00 Kemijoki Phenomenon Dance Theatre Show: life at the Ounasjoki and Kemijoki riverside
19:00 Santa Claus Arctic Circle Marathon

July 3rd
10:00 Festival mass and commemorations in church
11:00-16:00 Hiking trip and river rufting *)
12:00 Festival Parade
13:00 JutaCircus - Jup Yeah! Childrens' concert
15:00 Lumberjack Dance - music drama Lumberjack romance in old traditional way
17:00 Festival Highlights Best numbers of foreign and domestic dancers and players
19:00-23:00 Lappish Party (in English) *)

July 4th
10:00-14:00 Lappish Adventure *)
 

*) Optional activities not included into the Marathon travel package