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Culture Bank makes artists and cultural professionals visible across 14 regions

21.9.2026 Developed in the Pirkanmaa region, Culture Bank has grown into a shared service for 14 regions across Finland, bringing artists, cultural professionals and their services together in one place. The aim of the service is to strengthen employment opportunities in the creative industries and make it easier to find and commission art and cultural services.

360 000 participants in Operation Pirkanmaa programme over the three-year period

14.1.2025 The regional cultural development programme Operation Pirkanmaa included 287 projects between 2022 and 2024. The projects included more than 2 500 events, which were attended by almost 360 000 people. Operation Pirkanmaa contributed around €1.6 million as partner to the projects. Other funding gathered by the projects amounted to around €1.3 million, with an employment impact of around 59 work years.

Window Walkabout starts and offers new type of screen time in the windows

17.10.2024 Window Walkabout is the biggest art event ever in the Tampere Region, with windows in urban areas serving as the stage for the audience in the streets in Tampere and 19 other towns and municipalities in the Tampere Region. The scale of the event is unique: more than 1000 persons are involved in creating some 200 windows with art-related content in October and November. The event is free of charge and will launch the Festival of Light in Tampere on Thursday 24 October.

The diverse art windows of the Window Walkabout event on a map service

7.10.2024 The Window Walkabout project offers a whole new kind of screen time in October and November. The glow of up to 200 illuminated art-filled windows in the Tampere Region invites you to explore what kind of worlds are taking form behind the screens. The Festival of Light opening in central Tampere will feature 60 windows from 24 to 26 October. The windows are to be found of the map at address ruuduntakaa.fi.

Window Walkabout - Experience windows as stages for art and light both in Tampere and around Pirkanmaa

6.9.2024 Window Walkabout is the largest art event ever in the Tampere Region, where windows in the city centre serve as the stage for the audience on the streets. As the opening event of the Tampere Festival of Light, it will brighten the dark autumn with a surprising set of beautifully lighted windows starting from 24 October. Free of charge for the audience, Window Walkabout is also the final event of the regional culture development project Operation Pirkanmaa and takes place at several locations. In addition to Tampere, it will cover 19 partner municipalities in October and November, which means that up to 200 lighted art windows can be viewed in the Tampere Region.

A building planned to be demolished turns into a culture space overflowing with art in the heart of Tampere

7.3.2024 The hugely popular demolition art house Pinni47 was piloted last summer in the center of Tampere, and it attracted over 20 000 visitors in two months. For the coming summer, the City of Tampere and the regional development project Operation Pirkanmaa held an open call for a new demolition art project to be organized in Ratinanranta. Upeart, a company specializing in impressive public art productions, was chosen as the operator for Voimakatu 11.

Missing characters! – A digital escape game in the footsteps of authors and illustrators from Pirkanmaa

3.1.2024 The implementation of the National Literacy Strategy is increasingly important. Diverse literacy skills increase understanding and active participation in society. Operation Pirkanmaa is a partner in a number of projects that promote literacy skills among children and young people. The Finnish Book Institute's digital game on the literature of the Pirkanmaa region also contributes to strengthening multiliteracy skills.

Stereo:ID's free series of light events during the winter season

20.10.2023 Stereo:ID is organising a free series of light events as part of Operation Pirkanmaa during the winter season. During the autumn holiday week 19-24 October 2023, the media and light-art event Projio will be held for the fourth time in the Finlayson area. The cooperation also includes the light art work Circle, which will tour Tampere, Valkeakoski and Ylöjärvi.

The Museum Centre Vapriikki released a website about the Finnish Civil War

11.9.2023 The decisive battles of the Finnish Civil War took place in Tampere in the spring of 1918. For 15 years, visitors could explore the war and these battles in a popular exhibition at the Museum Centre Vapriikki. The exhibition has now closed, but the topic continues as a web page. Innovative virtual content provides historical information in an immersive manner.