Moomin Family Day
A day of family fun at the Walthamstow Wetlands - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Moomin Tales: Enter the magical world of the Moons with professional story teller Liz Frost. Her tales of wonder and adventure with your favourite Moomin characters. Booking essential.
Stone Painting
Moominmamma loves to wander along the seashore picking up stones to paint and use to decorate the Moomin house. A touch of paint can transform anything into a thing of beauty. A bookable craft session.
Travels with Tove
The intimate home movies of the creator of the Moomins
The ICO presents the UK premiere of Travels with Tove (1993) exclusively on our streaming platform from 9–23 July, with a special Panel Discussion & Readings Event on Wednesday 14 July with director Kanerva Cederström, actor and writer Ellie Kendrick (The Levelling), publisher Nat Jansz and Alison Williams, Curator ‘The Woman Who Fell In Love With an Island’.
Coinciding with the anticipated cinema release of Tove (2021), the lyrical biopic that draws on writer, visual artist and Moomin creator Tove Jansson’s bohemian young life in Helsinki, we tenderly turn our attention to a more intimate, perhaps less familiar but definitively globe-trotting aspect to Tove Jansson’s life and art: her compassionate, funny, observational Super 8 filmmaking collaboration with her partner Tuulikki Pietilä, the graphic designer and artist.
Travels with Tove (1993) is the first film in a trilogy of Super 8 films, that includes Haru: Island of Solitary (1998) and Tove and Tooti in Europe (2004). Travels with Tove chronicles the couple's 8mm ‘home movies’ shot by Tuulikki together with Tove on their trips taken to Japan, Hawaii, Mexico and the United States between 1971-1972. Accompanied by their trusted Konica cine-camera, the film touchingly portrays the women’s humorous, off the cuff and original ways of observing people, culture and everyday life.
The film is in Finnish with English language subtitles. Hard of hearing captions will also be available.
This event is held in partnership with queer feminist collective Club des Femmes with the acknowledgment of Jenna Mason’s curation of 'Tove Jansson: An Intimate Portrait' at Dulwich Picture Gallery on 26 January 2018.
Launch: In-Conversation with Sophia Jansson
Accompanying the exhibition at Walthamstow Wetlands in 2021 is a downloadable audio piece ‘The Island’ by multi-instrumentalist and contemporary composer Erland Cooper. The piece is brought to life with on location field recordings by Kirsi Ihalainen. The essay was first published in 1961 in travel magazine ‘Turistliv i Finland’. The piece is read by Tove’s niece Sophia Jansson and Creative Director of Moomin Oy Ltd. who inspired one of Tove’s most famous works ‘The Summer Book.’ Sophia Jansson joins us for this very special launch event on Facebook live - in-conversation with exhibition curators Mhairi Muncaster and Alison Williams.
This will also be available to watch back after the event ICYMI
Facebook Live William Morris Gallery