4.7. Watching Performances and Attending Workshops

While a vol­un­teer is not at work, he/she may take the chance to watch some of the WG2015’s per­for­mances. Vol­un­teers can watch for free fol­low­ing per­for­mances with his/her vol­un­teer pass on while not at work :

• Open­ing Cer­e­mony (D-stand)
• Mid­night Sun Spe­cial (D-stand)
• Clos­ing Cer­e­mony (come with your vol­un­teer clothes on!) (D-stand)
• Group Per­for­mances (if avail­able seats)
• Large Group Per­for­mances (if avail­able seats)
• Sen­ate Square
• Lin­nan­mäki
• Get To­gether Area
• Töölö Sports Hall

Re­mem­ber to bring your vol­un­teer pass when com­ing to watch per­for­mances!

Vol­un­teers have seats in the Open­ing Cer­e­mony at the F-stand and at the DII 23-25 stands. In other Olympic Sta­dium per­for­mances (MSS and Clos­ing Cer­e­mony) the D-stand is re­served for vol­un­teers to watch the show. At Mes­sukeskus Hel­sinki Expo and Con­ven­tion Cen­tre  and in Son­era Sta­dium vol­un­teers can watch the per­for­mance on va­cant seats. And the out­door stages in Hel­sinki are all free of charge for ev­ery­one.

In the Töölö Sports Hall on the A side, it is pos­si­ble to try gym­nas­tics on your spare time. The open­ing days are from Mon­day to Fri­day (12. – 17.7.) from 11:00 – 18:00. The B-side will host evenings for the youth on Sun­day July 12th from 18:00 – 22:00, Wednes­day July 15th from 18:00 – 20:30 and Sat­ur­day July 18th from 16:30 – 22:00. On these dates, a spe­cial pro­gramme for the youth is pre­pared as well a work­shop for all ages.

To watch the Na­tional Af­ter­noons, Na­tional Evenings and FIG Galas vol­un­teers as well as par­tic­i­pants are re­quired to buy their own ticket.

Work­shops sched­ule:

Sen­ate Square

Wednes­day July 15th
10:30 – 11:00 Asahi, by Andy Bas­su­day
14:45 – 15:15 Body & Mind –Mo­ment, by Marit Heikura from the Finnish Gym­nas­tics Fed­er­a­tion

Thurs­day July 16th
10:30-11_00 LAVIS – lavatanssi­jumppa – Finnish open-air dance meets ex­er­cise by Sirkku Pusa
13:30-14:00 LAVIS – lavatanssi­jumppa – Finnish open-air dance meets ex­er­cise bySirkku Pusa

Fri­day July 17th
9:30 – 10:00 Min­na’s Meth­ods, byMin­na Ter­va­mäki
13:30 – 14:00 Soft work­out, by Tei­ja Reini-Nie­mi­nen

Get To­gether Area

Wednes­day July 15th
10:30 – 11:00 Par­kour, by Trick­ing, Swe­den
12:45 – 13:15 Asahi, by Andy Bas­su­day
16:45 – 17:15 Soft work­out, by Tei­ja Reini-Nie­mi­nen

Thurs­day July 16th
10:30 – 11:00 Kinder­Gym, by Brooke Knee­bush, Aust­ra­lia
12:45 – 13:00 Lady­Jazz, by Tuu­la Malo
14:45 – 15:00 Fit­ness Dance, by Soin­tu Condé
16:45 – 17:00 Bol­ly­wood, by Ilo­na Ko­lachana
17:20 – 17:35 Sal­sa ja Mam­bo, by Päi­vi Chris­tensen

Fri­day July 17th
10:30 – 11:00 Make the Earth Move – work­out, by Annu Ri­dan­pää-Tait­to­nen
13:30 – 14:00 Body&Mind – Mo­ment, by Ma­rit Hei­ku­ra

Swim­ming Sta­dium

Wednes­day July 15th
8:15 – 9:00 Aqua fit­ness, by Tei­ja Reini-Nie­mi­nen

Swim­ming Sta­dium Front Park

Thurs­day July 16th
15:30 – 16:20 Dancemix, by Kris­tof­fer Ig­na­tius

Hes­pe­ria park

Wednes­day July 15th
16:30 – 17:20 Dancemix, by Kris­tof­fer Ig­na­tius

14th World Gym­naestrada Lau­sanne/FIG