Projects

11.1.2023 The Operation Pirkanmaa project, which continues the work of the “Tampere26 – European Capital of Culture” bid, enables the development of new operating m…

4.10.2022 The project creates a digital escape game that draws its contents from writers and illustrators from the Pirkanmaa region, their work and home municipalities. The digital game combines a literary-themed online exhibition and escape game-like puzzles in a new way.

4.10.2022 An international freedom of speech event will be held for the first time in Tampere in 2023, after which the event is scheduled to take place every two years. The aim is to promote freedom of speech wherever it is in jeopardy.

4.10.2022 Schoolchildren will build fish, jellyfish, water fleas, crabs or anything living in water from recycled plastics at environmental and art education workshops.

4.10.2022 A guerrilla lighting event will be held in Hiedanranta, Tampere on Wednesday 14 December 2022. The light procession, which is open to all, will last for about an hour, and during it, objects in Hiedanranta will be seen in a completely new light.

4.10.2022 The Meeting of Writers Alive and Dead project will bring to life the successful history of literature from Pirkanmaa, and at the same time, give a voice to present-day authors. The Association Pirkkalaiskirjailijat ry will produce the series of events in honour of the association's 80th anniversary.

4.10.2022 The Word Bridges project will showcase the versatile children's literature offering and know-how of the twin cities of Tampere and Tartu, and the project aims to strengthen knowledge and cooperation in children's and young people's literature in Estonia and Finland.

4.10.2022 A film screening for each day was planned for the European Capital of Culture year 2026. In Operation Pirkanmaa, the legacy project of the application process, plans were scaled back to a weekly level: in 2023, at least one thematically selected European film or series of films will be shown in the region each week - in other words, at least 52 European films during the year.

4.10.2022 Dance Theatre MD is one of the partners involved in the international two-year Rail2Dance project, which began in September 2022. This year, the partners received Creative Europe funding for the project. The main applicant is the ballet company of the Städtische Theater Chemnitz, and other partners are Plesni Teatr from Ljubljana and Norrlandsopera from Umeå.

18.6.2022 The festival promotes freedom of expression and a culture of active participation, where audiences are not only consumers of art but also creators of festival content.

18.4.2022 The project has a regional development remit in the Tampere Region to develop an arts and culture distribution model.

18.4.2022 The Colour Up project will be extended from Tampere to the surrounding municipalities in the Tampere Region.

18.4.2022 Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra has hired Roope Mäenpää to also arrange a tour version for a smaller orchestra of the Insect Symphony premiering in March 2022.

18.4.2022 The Resonance project will create a model of participation to support local cultural youth work in the nationwide Nuori kulttuuri on Air event, taking place on 7th May 2022.

18.4.2022 Performing arts experiences in Tampere Region's nature destinations in the form of music and craftsmanship.

18.4.2022 From 2022 to 2023, PiiPoo cultural centre will organise art workshops for young people in four Tampere Region's municipalities and will plan a multidisciplinary art event for young people with young people.

18.4.2022 Folk Extreme's Kalevala X is a cinematic, multi-disciplinary art series from a new age, which finds its inspiration in Kaleva, the Finnish national epic.

18.4.2022 Tampere University of Applied Sciences' (TAMK) project Producer Bank, running from 2021–2023, is developing a network of producers in the cultural sector and its operations in the Tampere Region.