There will once again be hundreds of events of all kinds held in a variety of venues, from clubs to the streets and from parks to boutiques. In addition, many museums offer free admission and galleries and museums extend their opening hours.
The Night of the Arts celebrations will spread across Helsinki with hundreds of other free events on Thursday evening and night. The program will include open rehearsals at various theatres, dance, circus, literary events and discussions, open doors to museums as well as a great variety of live music.
The gigs include the program of Etno-Espa as well as Elojuhla in Stoa and events at other cultural centers in Helsinki. There will also be opera from an archway, piano music on the shores of Töölönlahti Bay and a percussion improvisation in Huvilanranta, to name a few.
In addition to Kansalaistori Square, films will be screened in venues such as the inner courtyard of the City Museum, Kino Engel, Tiivistämö, Teurastamo and Dance House Helsinki. The Night of the Arts program is created in collaboration with Helsinki residents.
The free Music in the Parks concerts can be enjoyed, picnic style, in Kaivopuisto, Lapinlahti and Sinebrychoff parks on the Night of the Arts and a few days after.
Viewers will be able to watch the final scenes of disaster movies in Kansalaistori Square in a participatory project organized by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen.
The couple, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary as artists, asked people to submit manuscripts for fictional final scenes of disaster films set in Kansalaistori Square. Selected scenes were shot this summer with the help of about a hundred volunteer actors and will now be screened to live accompaniment by the cult band Cleaning Women.
Continuing with the disaster film theme, the event in the square will end with an outdoor screening of Airplane! (1980).
The whole program can be viewed here in English.
