HK Arena (formerly Elysée Arena, Typhoon and Turkuhalli), is an arena in Turku, Finland. It's primarily used for ice hockey, and is the home arena of the TPS Turku, but it's also frequently used to host concerts and other events. HK Arena was the main venue for the 1991 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships and one of the venues in 1997 and 2003.
HK Arena opened in 1990 and holds 11,820 people. A record 12,041 attendants have been registered in 1991.
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“... often the empowering strategies we use in the arena of love and friendship are immediately dropped when we come into the arena of politicized difference—when in fact some of those strategies are useful and necessary.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)