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Call for partners 2025-2026: Annantalo Arts Centre is seeking partners to supplement its art education portfolio

We are seeking partners to supplement our art education portfolio, as our art education classes have room for more activities than what we can provide on our own. Submit your suggestion and join us in providing group activities for our target groups in summer 2025 or the 2025–2026 school year. Partner applications are open during 1–30 November 2024 on our website.

​​​​​​​Annantalo is an arts centre for children, young adults and families, right in the Helsinki city centre. Our eleven classrooms provide an environment for making art professionally. Annantalo provides art education for groups.

We are seeking partners that share our operating principles in art education: professionalism, focus on art and children, accessibility, and equality.

You can suggest activities for summer 2025 (weeks 23–31) or the 2025–2026 term (weeks 34–50 and 3–20). Activities may also take place during school holidays, which are on weeks 42 and 8. Classroom attendance limits vary. Currently, our largest classroom accommodates 20 pupils.

For our partners, Annantalo provides:

  • An inspirational facility in the arts centre, which is easily accessed by public transport
  • Extensive opening hours: During the school year, we are open on Mon–Fri from 8 am to 8 pm, and in summer, on Mon–Fri from 8 am to 5 pm
  • The subsidised price to use an art classroom is €20/h (incl. VAT 25.5%).
  • Annantalo’s exhibitions, the surrounding yard and other common facilities that support education
  • Cafeteria, cleaning and lobby services
  • Access to our office, break rooms and changing rooms
  • Limited storage space for materials and equipment. Storage may not be located next to your classroom.

Partners will be responsible for the administration and organisation of their own operations, such as marketing, registration and education arrangements.

Partners will be required to:

  • respect and follow the usage instructions and occupancy limits of the classrooms as well as the Annantalo safe space principles.
  • strive for accessibility and equality.
  • have a liability insurance.
  • carry out a criminal background check of their instructors and other personnel that encounter children and young adults.
  • follow an applicable collective bargaining agreement.
  • enrol their instructors in the Annantalo orientation process.

Annantalo will select its partners along the following criteria:

  • The operators meet the abovementioned principles and requirements.
  • The partner’s proposal fits Annantalo’s education portfolio.
  • The operator provides arts education content that they must demonstrate a need for in Helsinki, such as in terms of teaching language, arts discipline or particular target group..

Arts education partner applications are open during 1–30 November 2024. Open the form here.

Contact

Team Leader Eeva Mussaari, eeva.mussaari(at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 334 1078

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Forum for the cultural education

In Helsinki, the whole city is a learning environment. Cultural education is the best way to promote this.

http://www.annantalo.fi/en/culturaleducation

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Association of Finnish Children’s Cultural Centers

The Association promotes the  cultural centres for children and adolescents and competence of the field of children’s culture nationwide.

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art testers

The goal of the national Art Testers activity is to give all Finnish eighth-graders an opportunity to experience and test art, including the kinds of art that many would not be able to access otherwise.

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Art-filled Journeys into the Future

The goal of the project Art-filled Journeys into the Future (2020-21) was to strengthen the future skills of children and young people through art education methods

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kultus.fi

Kultus is an online service maintained and developed by Annantalo Arts Centre. It provides information on cultural activities for children and young people in the metropolitan region.

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culture kids

Every child born in 2020 or after and living in Helsinki is sponsored by a cultural operator. The operator will offer the child and their family personal experiences with the arts and culture.

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Cultural special needs youth work KENT

The aim of the project Cultural special needs youth work (KENT, in 2017-2021) was to establish art and cultural activities as a part of special needs youth work.

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