Category Archives: External events

  • 13th June 2024

    Nordic Music Days in Glasgow

    Nordic Music Days is a festival presenting Nordic – and Scottish in 2024 – contemporary music and sound. The next edition of Nordic Music Days takes place in Glasgow from 30 October to 3 November 2024. The 2024 festival will explore societal, cultural and linguistic connections between Scotland and the Nordic region, with the ambition […]

  • Reframed: Disability Aesthetics and Institutional Change in the Visual Arts

    Including Finnish Artist Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen Overview Join us for an online panel discussion about disability in the visual arts featuring artists, curators and arts professionals from across the world. They will explore several key questions including: What are the key challenges and opportunities at this moment? What are the similarities and differences across Europe and […]

  • 8th June 2024

    Helsinki Music Centre Choir in Cambridge

    When: June 15, 2024 8:00 pm Where: Great St Mary’s, The University Church Bernstein: Chichester Psalms and other works | Cambridge University Symphony Chorus Saturday June 15, 2024, 8.00pm Great St Mary’s, The University Church, Cambridge STANFORD Three Latin Motets Op.38 SIBELIUS Partsongs Op.18 SHAW and the swallow VERDI Va, Pensiero (from Nabucco) BRAHMS Wie Lieblich (from Ein Deutsches Requiem) TIPPETT Five Spirituals (from A Child of […]

  • 30th May 2024

    LFA2024 Symposium: On Architectural Acts of Care

    Organised by the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland Saturday, June 8  Location: Somerset House, Strand London WC2R 1LA The event includes screenings and presentations from Vapaa Collective, Fitzrovia Noir and Glenkerry House resident Katie John, followed by a panel discussion moderated by Samir Pandya. The event is free, but registration is required (limited […]

  • 28th May 2024

    New Finnish Film Release in the UK: FOUR LITTLE ADULTS

    DRAMA | FINNISH | 122 MIN Juulia is a successful Member of the Parliament with a seemingly perfect marriage with her priest husband Matias. But when Juulia finds out Matias has had a year-long affair with Enni, she collapses. To save her marriage, Juulia invites Enni to be a part of their lives, and they […]

  • 21st May 2024

    Online talk on Composer Kaija Saariaho

    From The Carice Singers: Dear Supporters, This Saturday 25th May at 10.15am I am giving an , in advance of our Memorial Concert at Kings Place next Sunday.  I will be joined by the Norwegian soprano Linnéa Sundfær Casserly, who has performed Saariaho’s music across Europe and will be joining The Carice Singers for this special […]

  • 16th May 2024

    Historians without Borders (Finland) Online Talk

    Monday, 20 May 2024, 12-1pm on Zoom, Historians without Borders (Finland). Erkki Tuomioja (Former Foreign Minister of Finland and HWB Chair) and Heta Hedman (HWB Secretary General) are speaking online. Tickets and information here.  Upcoming event dates will be posted here:  https://www.projecthindsight.co.uk/labs

  • Annual General Meeting of the Finnish Science Society in the UK

    The Annual General Meeting of the Finnish Science Society in the UK will be held at the Finnish Institute in Somerset House, London, from 5pm BST on Thursday, 23 May 2024. After the meeting, there will be an opportunity to continue discussions over a relaxed dinner in a nearby restaurant. If you are not able to […]

  • 15th May 2024

    FINNISH ART GROUP SUMMER CELEBRATION

    AT THE FINNISH CHURCH IN LONDON, 33 ALBION STREET, SE16 7HZ ‘WHERE IS HOME? MIGRANT LIFE IN THE UK‘ FINNISH CHURCH CAFE & SHOP will be open during the event. ALL WELCOME! TERVETULOA! For more details and to GET YOUR FREE TICKETS at: Finnish Art Group Summer Celebration Tickets, Sat, Jun 8, 2024 at 4:30 […]

  • 10th April 2024

    Performance of ’20 Years Later Still Here’

    Jacksons Lane Arts Centre in Highgate in partnership with The Finnish Institute are bringing the acclaimed Lotta and Stina for a performance of 20 Years Later Still Here, this Saturday 13th April at 7.30 p.m. 20 Years Later Still Here! is an autobiographical show about two women’s wild joyride working in circus. Told with warmth, […]