Hat Party

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Hat Party is an annual celebration of hat's arranged by TOKYO. Traditionally the party is helled in a club in Helsinki and the best hat's are awarded.

Hat Party 2008

In 2008 the Hat Party will be held in the honor of the father of written finnish language, Mikael Agricola. Party will be held at Korjaamo in 9th of April, which is the official Mikael Agricola's day and the day of finnish language in Finland.

Best hat's will be awarded! ;)

Mikael Agricola

Mikael was a Finnish clergyman who became de facto founder of written Finnish and one of the prominent proponents of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden-Finland. He is often called "the father of Finnish written language." Agricola was consecrated as the bishop of Turku in 1554 without papal approval. As a result, he began a reform of the Finnish church along Lutheran lines. He translated the New Testament, the prayerbook, hymns, and the mass into Finnish, and through this work set the rules of orthography that are the basis of modern Finnish spelling. His thoroughgoing work is particularly remarkable in that he accomplished it in only three years. He died suddenly on a return trip from negotiating a treaty with the Russians.