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Makers' meeting - brunch for professionals on Sat 17.5. at 9.30

If you are an artist, art teacher, producer, researcher - all of these or similar, and your field of work is children’s and youth art, this invitation is for you.

In addition to providing and enabling art for children and young people, Annantalo also hosts gatherings for children’s art professionals. The collaboration with art professionals working with and for children and young people in Helsinki started last autumn, and it will continue on Sat 17.5. over brunch. We will plan a multi-artistic meeting place - a platform for exploration and thought sharing.

The aim of the brunch is to finalise the maker-to-maker model, which we will use to start regular activities in autumn 2025. After the brunch, you will be able to watch theatre and dance performances by children and young people! The brunch and the performances are free of charge.

The meeting will be held in Finnish, but all language levels are welcome.

Sing up for the brunch here. The link will take you to the webropol form.

Please feel free to forward the invitation to the target group.

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

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

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