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Makers' meeting - brunch for professionals on Sat 17.5. at 9.30

If you are an artist, art teacher, producer, researcher - all of these or similar, and your field of work is children’s and youth art, this invitation is for you.

In addition to providing and enabling art for children and young people, Annantalo also hosts gatherings for children’s art professionals. The collaboration with art professionals working with and for children and young people in Helsinki started last autumn, and it will continue on Sat 17.5. over brunch. We will plan a multi-artistic meeting place - a platform for exploration and thought sharing.

The aim of the brunch is to finalise the maker-to-maker model, which we will use to start regular activities in autumn 2025. After the brunch, you will be able to watch theatre and dance performances by children and young people! The brunch and the performances are free of charge.

The meeting will be held in Finnish, but all language levels are welcome.

Sing up for the brunch here. The link will take you to the webropol form.

Please feel free to forward the invitation to the target group.

Contacts: Susanna Metsälä, Senior Planning Officer for Arts Education, susanna.metsala(at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 631 8144


Developing together – Annantalo as an expertise centre 

We want to develop children's culture and arts education with arts, arts education and arts training professionals. 

Annantalo is being developed into an expertise centre for children's culture in Helsinki. Annantalo's expertise centre involves operations between arts professionals to support and develop arts and art pedagogy for children and young people. It involves professional meetings, peer training, networking, knowledge production and knowledge sharing. It is a multidisciplinary platform, the activities of which mainly take place in Annantalo. The idea of the operations is to share expertise between actors of children's and young people's arts and in the field of art pedagogy.  

The activities of the Annantalo expertise centre include:  

  • Children's culture service network survey  
  • Maintenance of the Kultus.hel.fi website 
  • Knowledge production and knowledge sharing 
  • Joint meetings of arts and education professionals 
  • Membership of children's and young people's arts and art pedagogy networks and organisations  


Helsinki Cultural Education Plan 

In Helsinki, the Cultural Education Plan is used as a common tool between early childhood education, basic education, upper secondary education, and cultural and artistic actors, the implementation of which is promoted through networks and various measures. 

Learn more about the Cultural Education Plan. The link will take you to the Helsinki Learns website. 


Kultus.hel.fi event search

The Kultus.hel.fi online service is intended for teachers and early childhood educators, and it brings together the learning subjects of culture, arts and sport in one place.   

The online service offers tours, workshops, performances and exhibitions suitable for daycare and school groups, as well as upper secondary school students, from different areas in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Kultus also provides information about events aimed at teachers. The service allows you to browse and register for events.   

There are also educational materials and assignment packages that support cultural education, and they are freely available to all educators.   

Kultus has its own newsletter, which contains excerpts from the contents of Kultus and other topical issues in cultural education. Subscribe to the Kultus newsletter. The link will take you to the City of Helsinki's culture and activity calendar. 

Learn more about Kultus. The link will take you to the City of Helsinki's culture and activity calendar. 

 
Contacts

Coordinator Suvi Lahdenmäki, suvi.lahdenmaki(at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 186 8906 


Cultural Education Forum – educators and people from the field of culture meet 

The City of Helsinki organises the Cultural Education Forum twice a year. This is an event where people from the fields of arts and culture meet teachers and educators. They can discuss, learn about and develop cultural education together. 

The event involves discussion of current topics and lectures by experts, as well as speeches by educators and artists. You can also network and meet new people at the event. 

Read more about the topic on the cultural education forum page. 

Contacts 

Senior Planning Officer for Children's Culture Laura Arala, laura.arala (at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 162 6388 


School culture coordinators 

Each school in Helsinki has its own teacher entrusted with cultural services, a cultural coordinator. They are the liaison between their school and the cultural services of the cultural centre. 

The school's cultural coordinator acts as a contact person and initiator for cultural services. The cultural coordinator receives information about offers of cultural services for children and young people and communicates it to their colleagues. The coordinator will familiarise themselves with the Helsinki Cultural Education Plan and their colleagues with the content of the plan. The cultural coordinator informs their school about the 5×2 arts education so that all the school’s 3rd–6th graders can participate in it once during primary school.  

The coordinator shares information regularly about cultural offerings at school meetings and on planning days. It is recommended to use the Kultus.hel.fi online service and the websites of various cultural institutions as design tools. 

Coordinators are rewarded with an annual Kulke card, which provides free admission to the aforementioned cultural centres' performances. We also arrange meetings for coordinators in cooperation with other city actors. 

Contacts 

Senior Planning Officer for Children's Culture Laura Arala, laura.arala (at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 162 6388 


Publications on the activities of Annantalo 

Annantalo produces publications that document Annantalo's operations. Pedagogical assignment materials can be found under the Arts education and teaching tab.   

Several theses have been undertaken at Annantalo. Annantalo welcomes initiatives for research projects in the fields of children's and youth art, as well as art pedagogy.  
 
Annantalo's anniversary publication (2022): 
Leikkivä Picasso ja koira, joka kuoli - Taidekasvatustarinoita Annantalon historiasta  

Methodological guide to cultural youth work (2018): 
KENT – kulttuurinen erityisnuorityö - Taiteen äärellä vahvistumista​​​​​​​ 

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Contacts

Team leader Mirka Nokka, mirka.nokka (at)hel.fi, +358 (0)40 662 3795