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Festivals In Finland
The following is an incomplete list of festivals in Finland. Festivals *Helsinki Festival *Helsinki Pride * Baltic Circle Festival *Tampere Theatre Festival * ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival * Art Centre KulttuuriKauppila * Art Centre Salmela * IHME Contemporary Art Festival *Jyväskylä Arts Festival *Kesäkumi *Night of the Arts *Tampere Theatre Festival *Tangomarkkinat *Assembly (demo party) *Finnish Metal Expo *Flow Festival * Funky Elephant *Helsinki Burlesque Festival *Helsinki Comics Festival *Helsinki International Film Festival *Helsinki Samba Carnaval * IHME Contemporary Art Festival *Night Visions (film festival) * Summer Sound Festival * Tuska Open * World Village Festival *Finnish Metal Expo *Helsinki Book Fair *Tampere Floral Festival *Tangomarkkinat *Kaustinen Folk Music Festival * Animatricks * Art Centre KulttuuriKauppila * Art Centre Salmela * World Village Festival Film festivals in Finland * Animatricks *Espoo Ciné International Film Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki Festival
The Helsinki Festival (in Finnish: Helsingin juhlaviikot, in Swedish: Helsingfors festspel) is the largest multi-arts festival in Finland. It is Finland's biggest cultural event in terms of visitors. In 2015, around 295,000 people visited the Helsinki Festival. The Helsinki Festival was established in its present form in 1968 by the City of Helsinki to follow up and to broaden the supply of culture in the mainly classical music festival then called "Sibelius viikot" ("Sibelius weeks"). The original "Sibelius viikot" festival was active from 1951 to 1965. The Helsinki Festival is an annual event, in August. The festival offers hundreds of performances and events in the Finnish capital city of Helsinki. The performances consist of theater, music, dance, art exhibitions, circus, movies, children's programs and various forms of other culture. Numerous renowned international artists have also been performing at the Helsinki Festival. Many of the performances are free. One of the main ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki Comics Festival
Helsinki Comics Festival is an annual free cultural event in Helsinki, Finland. It has become the largest comics event in North-Europe. The festival is typically held in early September. The festival has been organized by the Finnish Comics Society since 1979. Activities include a comic market, exhibitions throughout the city, public discussion, presentations, comic guests, competitions, and children's activities. The festival also gives space for many self-published works and zine A zine ( ; short for '' magazine'' or '' fanzine'') is a small-circulation self-published Self-publishing is the publication of media by its author at their own cost, without the involvement of a publisher. The term usually refers to writ ...s to be presented to the public. References External links * Comics conventions Festivals in Helsinki Annual events in Finland Autumn events in Finland {{Lit-festival-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oulu International Children's And Youth Film Festival
Oulu International Children's and Youth Film Festival ( fi, Oulun kansainvälinen lasten- ja nuortenelokuvien festivaali) is an annual children's film festival held in November in Oulu, Finland. The festival has been founded in 1982 by the Oulu Film Centre. There has been Children's Film competition at the festival since 1992. The jury of ten children chooses the best film and the Starboy Award is granted to the director of the film. Other awards are the ECFA Award for the best European film, the For Tomorrow Award to the best youth film and a prize of the Media Foundation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland for a Finnish feature or short film at the film festival. The main venue for the festival is the Cultural Centre Valve in the city centre, films are also shown in the Finnkino Finnkino Oy is a Finnish film distributor and the biggest cinema chain in Finland. It was established in 1986 as a union of 34 companies working in the film industry. In 1994 Finnkino was ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Sun Film Festival
The Midnight Sun Film Festival ( fi, Sodankylän elokuvajuhlat) is an annual five-day film festival in Sodankylä, Finland. The festival usually takes place in the second week of June, but from June 14 to 18 in 2017. One of the main characteristics of the festival is to show films without a break around the clock while the sun shines around the clock. The Midnight Sun Film Festival is non-competitive. The program consists mostly of films directed by the main guests, 20–30 modern movies from all parts of the world, contemporary Finnish films and cinema classics, some of which are usually presented as "master classes" by various film theory experts. Typically, the festival introduces 4–5 young directors who are also guests of the festival. In recent years, attendance has been between 15,000 and 25,000. The festival was first arranged in 1986 and the first international director guests were Samuel Fuller, Jonathan Demme, Bertrand Tavernier and Jean-Pierre Gorin. Later on it hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival is an annual event held in Espoo, Finland, in August. The festival was established in 1990 and it has since grown to be one of Finland's leading film festivals, screening about 100 feature films each year in addition to short films. Espoo Ciné focuses on European cinema and previously there have been series centering on French and Latin cinema, for example. Espoo Ciné also presents a Pink Zone series showing LBGT films as well as one or more outdoor screenings in Tapiola Tapiola (; sv, ) is a district of the municipality of Espoo on the south coast of Finland, and is one of the major urban centres of Espoo. It is located in the western part of Greater Helsinki. The name ''Tapiola'' is derived from '' Tapio'', wh ..., Espoo. As a member of European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation Espoo Ciné has awarded a Méliès d'Argent prize for best European fantasy film since 1999. References External links * Film Festival World Film fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animatricks
Animatricks is annual animation festival taking place in Helsinki every April. The organization behind the festival (Palikka ry) was formed in 1999 and the first Animatricks festival took place in 2000. Animatricks is the only film festival in Finland, that concentrates purely on animation. The festival program consists yearly of Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ... as well as international compilations of films and screenings put together to fit the festivals ever changing themes. The Animatricks festival also includes a yearly competition where the best international animation is awarded with 3000 euros. Winners of the Finnish short animation competition ** Laura Neuvonen: ''Kutoja'', 2005 ** Anna Virtanen: ''Lauantai vuonna'', 2005 ** Ami Lindholm: ''Ilo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival
Kaustinen Folk Music Festival ( fi, Kaustisen kansanmusiikkijuhlat), celebrated yearly in July in Kaustinen, Finland, is the biggest folk music and dance festival in the Nordic countries. It was first celebrated in 1968. The festival originated in showcasing the famous local fiddle-based music tradition, which has continued uninterrupted 250 or more years, and is still the emotional core of the event. Finland has decided to propose the Kaustinen tradition into Unesco Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage spring 2020. In its first year, the festival expected 6,000 visitors. The number was over three times the estimate, though. Nowadays the festival lasts a whole week and hosts 40,000–50,000 visits per year. Besides Finnish and international professional performers, 4,000–5,000 amateurs, forming 400–500 groups, participate the festival yearly. Over 1,000 scheduled performances in almost 30 venues and stages are given yearly, and dozens of workshops and other parti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere Floral Festival
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 in an area of . Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, economic, and cultural hubs in the whole inland region. Tampere and its environs belong to the historical province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the Häme Province from 1831 to 1997, and over time it has often been considered to belong to Tavastia as a province. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'' published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helsinki Book Fair
Helsinki Book Fair () is an annual trade fair for books held since 2001. It is held in October in Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B .... External links Book, the Helsinki Book Fair Magazine Media Card Home page, Helsinki Book Fair Recurring events established in 2001 2001 establishments in Finland Book fairs in Finland Autumn events in Finland Events in Helsinki {{Lit-festival-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Village Festival
The World Village Festival ( fi, Maailma kylässä, sv, Världen i byn) is a free music and culture festival held annually in Helsinki, Finland at the end of May. In 2021 the event will be held virtually. Over the weekend, the festival offers dozens of opportunities to act for a just world and experience music, documentary films and discussions on current issues. The event is admission free and offers much to see and do for visitors of all ages. Between 1995 and 2005 the festival was held every other year, and since 2005 annually in late May. According to the organizers, some 70,000 to 80,000 people visit the festival annually while the number of exhibitors is around 400. Gallery File:Jukka Poika at the World Village Festival 2012.jpg, Jukka Poika performing at the World Village Festival in 2012 File:Capitán at World Village Festival (Helsisnki).jpg, La Fanfarria del Capitán, Argentinean band, at World Village Festival 2014 References External links Maailma kylässä W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuska Open
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Tuska may refer to: *Tuska, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, in Helsinki *Tuska, a deity in the game '' RuneScape'' * Clarence D. Tuska, co-founder of the American Radio Relay League See also *Toska (other) Toska or Toskas may refer to the following: Places *Toska, Island in Norway * Toska, Struga, former village in North Macedonia * Toska, Iran, village in Iran People Surname Toska * Ajet Toska (born 1961), Albanian hammer thrower *David Toska (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer Sound Festival
Summer Sound Festival is an electronic music festival that is held in Liepāja, Latvia. It has been organized since 2012 by Heikki Liimatainen and Alex Kunnari - the founders of Summer Sound Festival Oy. However, the very first festival was held on 2011 at Suvilahti, Helsinki before it became a brand. It was just one day event. In 2014, Summer Sound Festival was considered the biggest EDM festival in Northern Europe. Artists In 2011, festival line up included: Chicane, Above & Beyond, Roger Sanchez, Robbie Rivera, Kaskade and Judge Jules. It was a three-day festival, that was held at Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Centre with following line up: Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, Avicii, Hardwell, Alex Kunnari, Heikki L, Hed Kandi presents Ibiza 2012, Fedde le Grand, Dash Berlin, Markus Schulz, W&W, MYNC, Maison & Dragen, Dallas Superstars, Andy Moor, K-System, Richard Durand, Orion, Something Good, Jay Mellin, DJ Dosse, Gareth Emery, Tom Fall, Axwell, Funkagenda, Chris Lake, Todd T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
