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Nine Finnish Playwrights Featured at Gothenburg Book Fair

E. L. Karhu, Leea Klemola, Pipsa Lonka, Christoffer Mellgren, Arni Rajamäki, Laura Ruohonen, Otto Sa...

Möt dramatiker från Finland på Göteborgs bokmässa 25-28.9.2025, tidtabell

De finländska dramatikerna är: E.L. Karhu, Leea Klemola, Pipsa Lonka, Christoffer Mellgren, Arni Raj...

Drama at the Gothenburg Book Fair

The largest cultural event in the Nordics – the Gothenburg Book Fair – will spotlight drama as its m...

CPP summer intensive training progamme

June 23—July 5, 2025, hosted by INK / Istrian National Theater in Pula, Croatia.

Kolibrí Festivaali open call

Submit your artistic proposals by March 10, 2025.

R.E.A.D 10 festival Helsinki

This year the festival takes place on 16th and 19th of October.

About the Project

In 2025, we will highlight drama as a distinct literary genre, showcasing the art of the playwright...

Open Call for Participation

The Nordic-Baltic Drama Network is looking for suggestions for short performances, seminars, innovat...

How does culture build social resilience?

Join in the webinar via Zoom on September 25th at 10.00.

Open call to Theatre Festivals in Teheran

Dramatic Arts Center of Iran (DAC) is inviting the professional theatre artists to attend in four fe...

Theatre of Change?

An open discussion at Tampere Theatre Festival on Sat 10 Aug 2024 at 10:15–12:15, Main Library Metso...

The new artistic directors of Hangö Teaterträff want to shake things up

Emelie Zilliacus and Martin Paul, the newly minted artistic directors of the international Hangö Tea...

A celebration of renewal at Hangö Teaterträff

The 32nd Hangö Teaterträff takes place on 6–9 June 2024 in the unique archipelago environment of Han...

Join the first SoloPlayDay

On Nov 4-10, 2024 We are aiming to celebrate the diversity of monodrama performances around the worl...

UNITED – Out of the Bubble

A seminar about innovative and creative citizen participation on 5 March, 2024 at & Theatre, Espoo.

Maailma näyttämölle -tapahtuma 18.3.2024

Ma 18.3.2024 klo 13-17 Helsingin Kaupunginteatterin Suuren näyttämön lämpiössä. World on Stage proje...

International Festivals in Finland 2023-2024

Save the dates and plan your trip to Finland

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Finnish performers, writers and works around the world

Turku International Puppetry Festival 2023

8 to 12 November 2023 Turku, Finland.

Finnish playwrights at Craf Bites International -events

Playwrights Guild of Canada PGC members have been paired up with an International playwright to shar...

From Start to Finnish at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

From Start to Finnish is an annual showcase of Finnish performing arts at the Edinburgh Fringe festi...

Open Call Common Space: site-specific theatre symposium

Deadline for applications: July 31, 2023

The Finnish Exhibition of Countries and Regions at PQ2023

The theme of PQ2023 is RARE and the Finnish national exhibition will be addressed under the sub-them...

The Program for Performing HEL 2023 is out

The newly published program for 2023 features 20 Finnish artists and groups selected by the jury fro...

Thalia Gala on World Theatre Day, 27 March 2023

The event celebrates artistic excellence across the theatre, dance and circus industries in Finland....

(Inter)acting with the Inner Partner for beginning practitioners

Thursdays once a week, 17.30-20. March 2 – June 1, 2023.

Open lectures at Aalto University on Scenography, Production and Costume Design

The lectures are open to everyone interested - students, professionals as well as the general public...

Open lecture: Eco Soma Methods - Tuning into our Worlds

18 January 2023. Petra Kuppers is visiting the Theatre Academy by invitaiton from Performing Arts Re...

Conference: Norm Critical Leadership. Challenging Norms and Nordic Exceptionalism

February 8th–9th 2023. Cultural Centre Caisa, Helsinki

Networking event for GAP Creatives database in Tampere

16.12. 15:00-18:00

Looking for playwrights and dramatic texts

Pink Pavilion is looking for one Finnish or Finland-based playwright who is interested in having an...

Fritt Arbete IV – Festival

23.11-15.12.2022

We should all be dreaming

Thursday 10.11, from 18:00 - 20:00 (workshop, BIPOC only). Friday 11.11, from 18:00 - 20:30 (soft ga...

Theatre Academy: Visitor lectures for the public

In its Visiting Experts lecture series Theatre Academy invites international experts in the arts and...

Critical Costume 2022

17-20 November 2022 Online conference

Baltic Circle’s 2022 programme focuses on building togetherness and exchanging information

The 19th iteration of the international theatre festival Baltic Circle is set to take place from the...

Y-festival - Equality by means of art!

October 8th 2022. Y-festivaali (Y Festival) is a free cultural and human rights event that builds an...

Dido’s Bar at Royal Docks and on tour

Dido’s Bar is a new immersive theatre and music production opening in London’s historic Royal Docks...

READ #8 - Reading Drama Festival

27-29 October 2022, Helsinki

Boost Your Future: Career Networking Event

14th of November 2022, Helsinki

Wolf Safari at the Fierce Festival

Welcome to the Wild Side! Wed 12 Oct 2022 – Fri 14 Oct 2022, in Birmingham, UK.

Moving in November

3rd to 13th of November 2022, Helsinki

PA Culture Roundtable

27 September 2022. During the PAC Roundtable we will dive into the topic of cultural relations in tu...

Youth Learning Through Arts seminar

September 5th at 14-16.30

Turku International Puppetry Fest 2022

TIP-Fest 2.-6.11.2022 – New Beginnings

SAMPO Festival

24-28 August 2022, Helsinki, Finland.

Telakka Open Border: Estonia

7-10 October 2022, Tampere, Finland

Festival Baltoscandal gives a glimpse of the future

Baltoscandal takes place 6-9 July in Rakvere, Estonia

Helsinki Living Streets

16 June to 25 August. Helsingin elävät kadut (Helsinki Living Streets) will take culture to the stre...

Perform Europe’s Impact

Join the LIVESTREAM on 13 June 2022

FINFRINGE - Festival for short performances

Turku 11.-14.5.2022.

Hippalot Arts Festival for Children

28-31 July, 2022

Hangö Teaterträff 2022

Mental resilience, family and parenthood at Tampere Theatre Festival

Preparations for the forthcoming Tampere Theatre Festival are now well underway. Hilkka-Liisa Iivana...

A garden of writing – Finnish theatre makers at the Sala Beckett

Klaus Maunuksela is set to take part in this year’s summer workshop at Barcelona’s world-renowned Sa...

Tampere Theatre Festival Celebrates Its Brand New Repertoire

1 – 7 August 2022.

Cultural Mobility Forum 2022

25 May 2022, 9.00-17.00 (EEST TIME). The first yearly Forum is hosted physically by Nordic Culture P...

All My Relations - a workshop

Eco-Pedagogy, Self-Cultivation and Transformative Performance Practices. The deadline for applicatio...

Semion Aleksandrovsky: With Charles Bukowski in The Bar

The production is part of the safety residency program of TINFO – Theatre Info Finland.

Outi Nyytäjä Lec­ture

25.4.2022 at 19-21 Theatre Academy, Auditorium 1, Helsinki. Riikka Ala-Harja and Juha-Pekka Hotinen...

Public defence: Dynamics of value creation in the audience experiences of contemporary dance

Saara Moisio’s doctoral dissertation "Balancing Acts in Spectatorship – Dynamics of Value Creation i...

NI’JA WHITSON: Under the Water and In the Dark

Theatre Academy Helsinki has organised a lecture series titled ‘Decolonising Embodiment’ held on Zoo...

Afterwork Art Criticism: Art, Activism, and the Freedom of Speech in Media

December 9, 2021, at 17:00

Turku International Puppetry Festival

3 to 7 November 2021.

Seminar Building Bridges: the concrete action for interculturalism and inclusion in Finnish theatre

Time: 15.10.2021 from 10.00 to 15.30, Helsinki. The seminar is organised by New Theatre Helsinki.

The festival season is here!

With the future looking brighter and more settled for the arts industry, Finland's contemporary thea...

FINFRINGE 2021

FINFRINGE 2021 will be held at Åbo Svenska Teater in Turku, Finland the 13-16 October.

Seminar on Art, Culture and a Diverse Finland

The Ministry of Education and Culture is organising a joint seminar on Art, Culture and a Diverse Fi...

Experiences of foreign-born professionals

On Fri 6 Aug, 2021. Welcome to the panel discussion focusing on experiences of foreign-born professi...

SAMPO Puppet Theatre Festival

25th-29th August 2021 in Helsinki

The 2021 Tampere Theatre Festival is especially dedicated to Finnish theatre

The 52nd Tampere Theatre Festival, the largest and longest-running event of its kind in Scandinavia,...

URB 21 festival

Outside & Online 5 – 13 June, 2021

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2021

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival takes place in Kuopio between 14th and 19th September 2021

Want to perform in the UK? Webinar for performing arts professionals

Online webinar 8 June at 1 pm – 2.30 pm.

Mad House Helsinki Summer Program

The summer season starts in the end of May and lasts until the end of August.

From Words to Actions

Monday 17th May from 11:00 - 16:00 in occasion of the Institutional Day of #StopHatredNow2021.

New Nordic Voices. This week!

Digital Event: 29th March - 2nd April 2021.

Cutting a Cake

A Play About Justice in Six Uneven Slices for the young audiences. Watch the recording of the readin...

A Slice of Finnish Drama - World Theatre Day 2021

A Play Reading of Christoffer Mellgren’s Cutting a Cake: A Play About Justice in Six Uneven Slices...

Finland in Solidarity with Belarus

Klockriketeatern presents a reading of Andrei Kureichik’s play on Belarus Solidarity Day, Sunday Feb...

I det stora samarbetet

Ett webbinarium om teatersamarbetet den 28 januari 2021. Ordnas av DuvTeatern, Svenska Teatern, Wege...

Joonas Lahtisen väitöstilaisuus

Väitöstutkimuksen Making Sense of Perception and Power in Participatory Performance tarkastamistilai...

Performing HEL Training vol 1

The training will be held at Zoom on 2020, Nov 3. Sign up now!

Näytelmä puhuu lukuteatterina

Miten lukea näytelmää? Suomalais-puolalainen lukuteatteritapahtuma herättää innon pohtia näytelmää l...

Performing HEL - Stay Tuned

The next edition will take place in autumn 2021 in Helsinki, Finland.

Turku International Puppetry Festival

TIP-Fest: LIGHT Edition 4 to 8 November 2020

Global connections – virtually and face-to-face

International network for contemporary performing arts (IETM) members are due to gather for their an...

ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art

The nominees for the 2020 ANTI Festival International Prize for Live are: Geumhyung Jeong (South Kor...

Puola näytelmissä

Kolmen puolalaisen nykynäytelmän ensiesitykset Suomessa. Tervetuloa lukudraamatapahtumaan!

The seminar of Matkalla - On the go! project

What are the possibilities for a disabled or Deaf person to become an artist and to work as an artis...

Kulturpolitikens dialogdag

13.11.2020 Hanaholmen, Esbo och Zoom