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Call for partners 2026-2027 

Various companies, associations and freelancers organise art education at Annantalo, thereby diversifying Annantalo’s art education offerings. 

We seek partners once a year through an open call held in the autumn. All our partners share our guiding principles, which are professionalism, art-based and child-centred educational approach, accessibility and equality.

Schedule of the call for partners 

  • 13.10.2025 Call for Partners opens 
  • 30.11.2025 Call for Partners closes 
  • 16.1.2026 Applicants will be contacted by 
  • 19.2.2026 Summer season partner agreements finalized 
  • 1.3.2026 Descriptions of summer season partners' activities for communication purposes 
  • 21.3.2026 School year partner agreements finalized 
  • 1.4.2026 Descriptions of School year partners’ activities for communication purposes 


Contacts: Susanna Metsälä, Senior Planning Officer for Arts Education, susanna.metsala(at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 631 8144


Welcome to the Autumn Day of the Association of Art Schools 14.11.2025!

The Autumn Day is intended for teachers at educational institutions providing basic education in architecture, visual arts, crafts, and media arts.

Register by October 28.

The training day is organized in cooperation between the Association of Art Schools and Annantalo. The Autumn Day program has been specially designed to inspire teachers and their teaching work. The day's program includes a visit to the studio of Man Yuan, Young Artist of the Year, in Sörnäinen, a talk by Katri Jurvakainen, a doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, on the role of art education in renewing and challenging an unsustainable social system, and the announcement of the 2025 Visual Arts Educator of the Year. In the afternoon, there will be workshops of your choice. The options are: Improvisation workshop, Task as a task / Uppgift som uppgift, The use of domestic red clay in basic art education: successes and pitfalls in a nutshell, Light painting and drawing with light, and Lumen print – images on photographic paper without a camera.

Workshops are selected on the registration form. Be quick! Group sizes are limited and will be filled in order of registration, so please also select a secondary workshop.

The Autumn Day events will be held at Artist Man Yun's studio, Sörnäisten rantatie 33 D, 00540 Helsinki, and Annantalo, Annankatu 30, 00100 Helsinki.

See the Autumn Day program and additional information. The link will take you to the Association's website. The page is available only in Finnish.

Register by October 28. The link will take you to a Webropol form. The form is available only in Finnish.

Developing together – Annantalo as an expertise centre 

We want to develop children's culture and arts education with arts, arts education and arts training professionals. 

Annantalo is being developed into an expertise centre for children's culture in Helsinki. Annantalo's expertise centre involves operations between arts professionals to support and develop arts and art pedagogy for children and young people. It involves professional meetings, peer training, networking, knowledge production and knowledge sharing. It is a multidisciplinary platform, the activities of which mainly take place in Annantalo. The idea of the operations is to share expertise between actors of children's and young people's arts and in the field of art pedagogy.  

The activities of the Annantalo expertise centre include:  

  • Children's culture service network survey  
  • Maintenance of the Kultus.hel.fi website 
  • Knowledge production and knowledge sharing 
  • Joint meetings of arts and education professionals 
  • Membership of children's and young people's arts and art pedagogy networks and organisations  


Helsinki Cultural Education Plan 

In Helsinki, the Cultural Education Plan is used as a common tool between early childhood education, basic education, upper secondary education, and cultural and artistic actors, the implementation of which is promoted through networks and various measures. 

Learn more about the Cultural Education Plan. The link will take you to the Helsinki Learns website. 


Kultus.hel.fi event search

The Kultus.hel.fi online service is intended for teachers and early childhood educators, and it brings together the learning subjects of culture, arts and sport in one place.   

The online service offers tours, workshops, performances and exhibitions suitable for daycare and school groups, as well as upper secondary school students, from different areas in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Kultus also provides information about events aimed at teachers. The service allows you to browse and register for events.   

There are also educational materials and assignment packages that support cultural education, and they are freely available to all educators.   

Kultus has its own newsletter, which contains excerpts from the contents of Kultus and other topical issues in cultural education. Subscribe to the Kultus newsletter. The link will take you to the City of Helsinki's culture and activity calendar. 

Learn more about Kultus. The link will take you to the City of Helsinki's culture and activity calendar. 

 
Contacts

Coordinator Anjuli Korhonen, anjuli.korhonen(at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 4837386


Cultural Education Forum – educators and people from the field of culture meet 

The City of Helsinki organises the Cultural Education Forum twice a year. This is an event where people from the fields of arts and culture meet teachers and educators. They can discuss, learn about and develop cultural education together. 

The event involves discussion of current topics and lectures by experts, as well as speeches by educators and artists. You can also network and meet new people at the event. 

Read more about the topic on the cultural education forum page. 

Contacts 

Senior Planning Officer for Children's Culture Laura Arala, laura.arala (at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 162 6388 


School culture coordinators 

Each school in Helsinki has its own teacher entrusted with cultural services, a cultural coordinator. They are the liaison between their school and the cultural services of the cultural centre. 

The school's cultural coordinator acts as a contact person and initiator for cultural services. The cultural coordinator receives information about offers of cultural services for children and young people and communicates it to their colleagues. The coordinator will familiarise themselves with the Helsinki Cultural Education Plan and their colleagues with the content of the plan. The cultural coordinator informs their school about the 5×2 arts education so that all the school’s 3rd–6th graders can participate in it once during primary school.  

The coordinator shares information regularly about cultural offerings at school meetings and on planning days. It is recommended to use the Kultus.hel.fi online service and the websites of various cultural institutions as design tools. 

Coordinators are rewarded with an annual Kulke card, which provides free admission to the aforementioned cultural centres' performances. We also arrange meetings for coordinators in cooperation with other city actors. 

Contacts 

Senior Planning Officer for Children's Culture Laura Arala, laura.arala (at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 162 6388 


Publications on the activities of Annantalo 

Annantalo produces publications that document Annantalo's operations. Pedagogical assignment materials can be found under the Arts education and teaching tab.   

Several theses have been undertaken at Annantalo. Annantalo welcomes initiatives for research projects in the fields of children's and youth art, as well as art pedagogy.  
 
Annantalo's anniversary publication (2022): 
Leikkivä Picasso ja koira, joka kuoli - Taidekasvatustarinoita Annantalon historiasta  

Methodological guide to cultural youth work (2018): 
KENT – kulttuurinen erityisnuorityö - Taiteen äärellä vahvistumista​​​​​​​ 

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Contacts

Team leader Mirka Nokka, mirka.nokka (at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 662 3795