Events 2017
Information about seminars, discussions and other events that were organized by The Culture for All Service in cooperation with other actors in 2017.
Release of the art project Queerkätkö 26.6.2017
Welcome to celebrate the release of the community art piece Queerkätkö (Queercache) by the artists Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger on Monday 26.6.2017 at 5 pm at the Helsinki City Museum (Aleksanterinkatu 16)!
Publishing event 31.5.2017: a new report on Arabic-Nordic literature
The new report on Arabic-Nordic Literary Field, produced by the project Multilingualism and Diversity as a Resource in the Cultural Field will be published 31st May. Welcome to the publication event!
Sámi literature travels to Latin America, discussion on 27.5. at World Village Festival
Sat 27.5.2017 19.00–19.45 Amazon Stage
World Village Festival, HelsinkiNordic seminar: Language is the house we live in
Århus, Denmark, 21.9.2017
In the seminar we will learn more about the current situation of multilingualism in the Nordic countries – both as a demographic fact and as an issue to take into account at the literary field. Institutions in the Nordic countries that have included multilingualism in their practices will present their solutions. We will also discuss multilingualism within educational practices and cultural politics, such as the Nordic literary prize, readers’ access to books in their mother tongue and translation policies.
#StopHatredNow – Towards a More Diverse Cultural Field, Helsinki 9th-11th of May 2017
Lavaklubi: Läntinen Teatterikuja 1, 00100 Helsinki
Free entry!Discussion: Cruising and paid love in literature - Garth Greenwell 11.5.2017
Discussion open for everyone
Thursday 11.5.2017 at 16.30-17.30
At Library 10, Helsinki
Free entranceSatakielikuukausi 21 Febryary - 21 March 2017
Festival Satakielikuukausi, which can be translated as the month of a hundred languages, celebrates mother tongues, multilingualism and language diversity now for the third time. The festival program consists of poetry readings, meetings with writers, visual arts, workshops, sound art and discussions in different locations including cultural centres, libraries and schools.
An invitation to Dispel the Greyness Celebration
Join us on Tuesday November 7th from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Culture for All office in the Cable Factory to celebrate the end of the year!
TOVE – queer icon 28.4.2017
Svenska Teatern, Finland 100 – In Rainbow Colors and Regnbågsankan organize a discussion of Tove Jansson as a queer icon.
Queercache 27 June–30 July 2017
Kalle Hamm and Dzamil Kamanger
QUEERCACHE (Helsinki)
Community environmental art project, 2017Celebrate the equal marriage legislation wherever, whenever!
You can for example participate to Tahdon challenge or Washing line art project.
Let's have a toast for the equal marriage legislation! 1.3.2017
The equal marriage legislation is finally true also in Finland! Several generations of activists have worked to make this happen.
Inclusion as a Strategy for Museums of the Future 16.-17.10.2017
Together — Finnish-German Museum Forum 2017 in Berlin
DiDa - Disability Day Art & Action 2017 (27.11-3.12)
DiDa – Disability Day Art & Action is a network festival celebrated around the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3 December. DiDa wants to raise questions concerning human rights and equality through high-quality and thought-provoking art works, cultural programme and action.
