Finland is a country...

Finland is a country.... According to some conspiracy theorists (my son tells me), Finland is not real-- but here I am about to land. It's my second time here, and I can see the forests from up high, and this gives me comfort. The flight from Copenhagen to Helsinki is uneventful and short, two things I value. I take a cab from the airport to where I'll be staying for a week - I'm here to conduct a workshop at UniArts Helsinki/Theatre Academy in connection with the M/other Becomings Symposium ; a two-day event where I was also invited to be among the host of keynote speakers and panels. m/other becomings is a collaboration between Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology (DK) , The Association for Arts and Mental Health (DK), Kultivator (SE) , Art Lab Gnesta (SE) , and Bioart Society (FI). Helsinki is green and sunny - the sun is out for the seven of the eight days that I'm there and wherever I walk the smell of lilacs and elderberry seem to follow. On...