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The 4th annual Arts Promotion Day will feature multifaceted and multidimensional street art. Over a dozen events throughout Finland will highlight youth culture and allow children and young people to be heard. Arts Promotion Day will also mark the culmination of the #taideonlasten theme year, during which the Arts Promotion Centre Finland has been promoting children’s and youth culture, as well as the status of artists who work in this field.

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The Central Arts Council of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland has appointed 75 art experts for the seven national arts councils for the 2017-18 term. In addition, 112 members have been appointed for the 13 regional arts councils. The chairpersons of all the arts councils have artist backgrounds.

Mutanttikieltä is an experimental language program created by Sivuvalo project in 2015.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland is organising a seminar on United Nations Day, Monday 24 October 2016, to discuss art, artistic work, international migration and the effects of these on the status of artists and the implementation of cultural rights. A report on the artistic expertise of immigrants compiled by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland will also be published at the seminar.

Seven national arts councils shall make decisions about state grants, subsidies and awards in 2017-18. Each national arts council shall have between 9 and 12 members. Publishing Manager Saara Tiuraniemi has been appointed Vice-Chair of the Central Arts Council.

MSFL 2016
Malakta Sound Field Lab
with John Grzinich

October 27th - 30th 2016
Art Factory Malakta
Malax, Finland

Are you an artist, a musician, a writer, a dancer, an actor or some other kind of professional artist arrived in Finland as a refugee or an asylum seeker during the past five years?

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The Arts Promotion Centre Finland requests candidates for national and regional arts councils to be nominated by 15 June. The Central Arts Council shall appoint the members for the 2017-18 term in the autumn.

The RECEPTION community-art triennial, now being held for the first time, begins on Friday, April 1, 2016 at the Old Student House, as part of the IHME Contemporary Art Festival. The opening shot for the Triennial brings together makers, producers and funders of community art to discuss topical issues and approaches in the field.