Our Sea is Your Sea
The Children's Maritime Festival was held in Kotka, Finland, on 29 - 31 July. The Festival is one of the biggest children's events in Finland. During the festive weekend families could enjoy music, theatre, dance and circus performances. Children could also participate in various workshops and handicraft activities - making boats, pirate flags and scarves and sea creatures.
 This year the theme was Our sea is your sea and it allowed children and their families to look at the Baltic Sea as a place worth taking care of, as a place to have fun in and as a place that helps to travel far. On the main stage performances varied from circus and ballroom dancing to hip hop and rap. At the theatre stage one could find a Danish theatre group'Batida cooking spaghetti' and a Finnish Teatteri Hevosenkenkä (Theatre Horse shoe) performing their play "Dragon and seven princesses". The Children's Maritime Festival brings together generations. During its 29-year history many parents have enjoyed the festival as they were children and many grandparents have worked at the festival in their early years.
Many non-profit organizations take part in the festival to market their activities to the families in Kotka and the nearby towns.
The next summer Children's Maritime Festival will be held on 27 - 29 July 2012. It will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. The visitors from all Baltic cities are welcome to spend a wonderful weekend in Kotka and to take part in all the festivities.
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