Mari Pudas
Joining at the festival is a matter of it, unnecessary queuing is not, writes journalist Mari Pudas.
Jenni Vartiainen performed on Saturday. Pink bröijer
The Helsinki City Festival (HCF), organized around the Helsinki Ice Hall and ice rink, has spoken over the weekend. All the arrangements when they couldn’t read from Iltalehti over the weekend.
The author of this story was present on Friday and Saturday, both during work and in leisure time.
The biggest problems were related to a lot of crowds, congestion and the fact that visitors were lost. Readers who contacted Iltalehti tell us how there were no signage, and that deficiency was easy to detect.
When there are no signs, people spin where it hurts. Example: HCF had access to the ice rink sanitary facilities, so I didn’t have to go to the bajamojo, lovely! Here’s a megalomaniac plus for the organizers.
It was a pity that from the toilet rush at the entrance to the ice rink, if I had just read the big one that the toilets were in use all over the ice rink. Now, at the entrance, there was an A4 -sized tag on the wall with a “direction of travel”. Traveling wherever?
Big events can happen, so the location of the first aid is essential to know. Such was the case with HCF, but where? It remained a mystery.
Similarly, one single water point was nowhere to be seen. These are usually marked at other festivals with large balloons. The area map was not visible anywhere except in the program leaf. Then know how many of these leaf took themselves and how many began to dig up the magazine, for example, in search of a water point.
My own chapter was a way out. It had not been marked in any way.
Exit texts read in a few places, but they were emergency exits. Even the program magazine did not tell you how to get out of the festival. The exit was eventually found on the basis of the instructions of the shock when the road threw along the road through the bush.
Particularly irritation was caused by completely unnecessary queues, which were not only in the Vessos in the food. On Friday, I queued up with other visitors to half a half of the Hamburger stall just to hear that the hamburgers are out, but the French will get. So at half past six, the hamburger point says there are no hamburgers anymore?
The visitors’ hamburger hunger clearly surprised the seller. In this case too, the information was deceived, as the outlet was not reported until after queuing. Certainly it wouldn’t have been difficult to put a sign on the counter that tells the hamburgers to have run out. This would have avoided completely unnecessary queuing and irritation.
Sure, the outlets are not the points of the organizer but for outside entrepreneurs, but the festival visitor doesn’t make the difference to these things.
The congestion bothered in many places, especially in the stairs as they tried to go to the main stage or on the second stage. There has not been a similar problem at the Sideways Festival in the same place before, that is, something has been done differently in this regard.
The plus, of course, is that the organizer was trying to solve the problems the next day by moving the authentic and delimiting the VIP area.
The fact that the entrance comes on Friday after four massive congestion is by no means surprising. That’s what people head to festivals after work.
Just because the signage will be more clearly featured in the future and the passageways between different stages will be considered more closely, the Helsinki City Festival has all the prerequisites for being one of the festival beads in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
The location of the festival is completely overwhelming when it is organized in the middle of the city and not to be eaten in the bush.
The public goes in every direction if walking does not land, and those who come from farther can easily get there by train.
The artist roofing was extensive this year, so there was something for everyone.
A lovely festival atmosphere is born when a cold midfield is in the hand, the sun reels on the forehead and the artist is on the stage who is a pleasant music taste, such as the magnificent Jenni Vartiainen, who performed on Saturday.
Hopefully, that same wonderful feeling will be experienced next year at the core of Stad at the better organized festivals.