Taito Pirkanmaa: HANDS-ON NATURE – Piloting children’s arts and crafts summer camps in the Tampere Region

18.4.2022 The summer camps combining arts and crafts and the outdoors are based on the values of responsibility, inclusion, sense of community, accessibility and equality.

18.4.2022 Art Castle is a cultural event for children and young people combining different art forms, organised by the Serlachius Residency. The pilot event, run in cooperation with Mänttä-Vilppula schoolchildren, will take place this spring with the theme “Rhythm of the Forest”.

18.4.2022 The Children's Grand Carnival Tour will be visiting municipalities and suburbs in the Tampere Region with activities for the whole family.

18.4.2022 The Pirkanmaa Kuorokeskus (Choir Centre), an association which provides a network and platform for all choirs operating in the Tampere Region, aims to found 40 new community choirs in the region by the year 2024.

18.4.2022 Operation Pirkanmaa supports the local, participatory, and inclusive workshops held in 2022 as part of the festival due to be held in April 2023.

18.4.2022 The online course is produced by ACCAC Finland - Accessible Arts and Culture association in collaboration with Context Learning Finland.

18.4.2022 What would the skateboarding scene be without skateboarding movies? The collaboration between skateboarding association Kaarikoirat and the Tampere Film Festival dives right into the heart of the sport.

18.4.2022 The Finnish Contact project team will be bringing its knowhow to the major youth event of the Kaunas Capital of Culture.

18.4.2022 In conjunction with the Tampere26 European Capital of Culture bid, circus and theatre director and vanguard community artist Meri-Maija Näykki proposed developing a meanwhile use scheme in Tampere. The scheme has since been piloted and is now being implemented.

18.4.2022 Project Enchanting Dance aims to interest people of different ages in open-air dance culture – and to ensure its continuation by activating both school children and the elderly.

18.4.2022 In the yard and nearby forest of an old primary school owned by the municipality of Pirkkala is a spatial work of art and excursion destination open to all: Ania Bird Sanctuary, whose grand opening was held in the summer of 2021

18.4.2022 The Tampere.Finland app has a sauna section, which collects details of the area’s public saunas, their opening hours and other important information in one place.

18.4.2022 Project Circus Hopping brings circus art and its benefits to municipalities in the region.

12.4.2022 The project develops solutions for how to make cultural welfare services more equitably available among the population of the municipalities involved.