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As of April 2015, applications must be received by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland no later than 4:00pm on the last day of the application period. It is no longer sufficient that applications be postmarked on the last day. The change is due to a new online service that is being introduced for submitting applications. The deadline for submitting applications online is also 4.00pm.

Sibelius Discovery Day takes over London’s Barbican Centre and the St Luke’s concert venue next Sunday, 15 March. The full-day programme includes lectures, panel discussions and chamber music, culminating with a performance of Sibelius’ Symphony No.2 by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).

The next Finnish parliamentary election will be held on 19 April 2015, after which a new Government will be formed and a new Government Programme adopted. The Central Arts Council has announced its objectives for 2015–19.

Do you have a project idea for arts development cooperation that you want to develop? Are you keen to get ideas and opinions from peers in the field?

The application period for the new subsidies for promoting multiculturalism and combating racism is in January.

The Central Arts Council of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland has appointed 74 art experts for the seven national arts councils. In addition, 27 members have been appointed for the 14 subcommittees responsible for preparing peer reviews within each field of the arts, while 112 members have been appointed for the 13 regional arts councils.

The seminar presents the cases of The City Ghettos of Today, an artist-run interdisciplinary project in seven European cities. All the people interested in the themes of cultural diversity, community art, European collaboration through arts and interdisciplinary work between researchers and artists are welcome.

As of 2015 the Arts Promotion Centre Finland will no longer award separate grants and subsidies for international projects promoting cultural cooperation, exports and exchanges. Instead, these funds shall be included in grants and subsidies for travel and residencies.

The City Ghettos of Today is a unique artistic initiative exploring the concept of ‘ghetto’ in 7 European cities. The activities of the project will take place in Helsinki between 8.9. and 20.9. These include a transforming installation that will form its contents in multidisciplinary workshops collaboratively with an international team of artists and local participants, a seminar that presents the cases of the project in the different cities, a series of workshops and public interview-discussions and two public performances related to the collectively built installation.

The Central Arts Council has awarded 40,000 euros to a campaign to increase the visibility of art. The non-profit literature organisation Nuoren Voiman Liitto (NVL) has been selected to implement the campaign using social media.