Kanun virtuoso Hakan Güngör will perform the world premiere of "Dao of Water" by Enjott Schneider, commissioned by the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, with Yangqin virtuoso Lee Meng-hsueh.
The third Horizon concert, organised in June, will focus on Indian music. HPO is welcoming a distinguished veena virtuoso to collaborate with orchestra musicians. The upcoming concert of the Horizon series will feature a mesmerising collaboration between Dr Jayanthi Kumaresh, a distinguished sixth-generation veena virtuoso, and tabla maestro Pramath Kiran, alongside musicians from the Helsinki Philharmonic. Together, they will present a program that harmoniously merges two musical traditions.
The next edition of #StopHatredNow will be held from 13 to 17 May 2024, with the theme of Actions & Empathy . We're excited to team up with the community of expert organisations and concerned souls committed to bringing change and promoting diversity, social justice, and inclusion in their work!

Mark your calendars and join us in May!
#StopHatredNow #StopHatredNow2024
#towardsfeministfutures #community #diversityequityinclusion #antiracism #socialjustice
Welcome to experience a multidimensional sound art installation by Nordic artists Laila Skovmand (DK), Petri Kuljuntausta (FI) and Jens L. Thomsen (FO).
The exhibition introduces the sensation of sounds travelling four times faster than they do in the air, of being completely surrounded by sound and elevates the feeling of being one with nature in a new sound art installation that includes soundscapes that have never been played to an audience before.
Sound’s Hidden Journey Under Nordic Waters is a pioneering exploration of sounds underwater from an artistic point of view.
The project is created by sound artists Petri Kuljuntausta (Finland), Laila Skovmand (Denmark), and Jens L. Thomsen (Faroe Islands). Together with sound engineer Roma Komar, they have created unique recordings of underwater reverb – from deep caves in the Atlantic to silent fjords in Greenland and the shallow waters of the beautiful lake Saanajärvi (Sánajávri). Each artist offers their own perspective on water – hovering between philosophy and science, myth, ethics, and aesthetics.
Between 13 and 20 April, the sound art exhibition at Suomenlinna explores humanity’s connection to water and raises questions about how we are influenced by our relationship with nature. Welcome to dive into worlds of sound never before presented to the public!
During the process of creating the recordings, the artists were portrayed by documentary filmmakers Karin Pennanen, Benjamin Hesselholdt and Peter Sørensen. The films can be seen during the exhibition at Suomenlinna.
Free entry. The exhibition will be open on
Saturday 13 April 11-15
Tuesday 16 April 11-19
Wednesday 17 April 11-15
Thursday 18 April 11-19
Friday 19 April 11-15
Saturday 20 April 11-15
The project is produced by Between Music in collaboration with MiklagårdArts Finland, with support from Teledyne RESON.
The Gülistan Ensemble with Helsinki Philharmonic musicians will present works by female composers of Classical Ottoman Music who lived in Istanbul from the XVII.th century onwards.
The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra invites top musicians in their own fields to enter into a musical and cultural dialogue in the form of intimate chamber concerts. Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh brings his own dialect of music culture, frequencies and virtuosity to the orchestra’s musicians.
After the concert based on Kinan Azmeh's compositions, there is an audience discussion with the performers. The discussion is led by the curator of the Horizon series, Ceyda Berk-Söderblom.
Excited that our artistic director, Ceyda will be be speaking at 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 on February 8th. The conference is full, but it is possible to follow the program via live stream.
This performance is the culmination of a special collaboration between Ukrainian group Opera Aperta (composers: Roman Grygoriv, Illia Razumeiko and ethnomusicologist Marichka Styrbulova) together with students from the Global Music Department of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Art Helsinki.
LIVE CREATIVE LABORATORY IN BOLOGNA, ITALY
Our founder Ceyda Berk-Söderblom is happy to be having a conversation with journalist Annalisa Camilli – Internazionale (Italy) about the role of culture in monolithic and pluralistic representation in Bologna, Italy.
The conversation and following Q&A session at Life on Mars 2022 will be moderated by Carlotta Garlanda – Liv.in.g. (Italy).
Our founder Ceyda Berk-Söderblom is happy to be speaking at a panel discussion, 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 - 𝐓𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 with Garance Amieux (Le Périscope - Scènes de Musiques Actuelles ) and SISSEL VERA PETTERSEN (Vocalist & saxophonist). The panel will be moderated by Gwendolenn Sharp (The Green Room)
Our founder and artistic director, Ceyda Berk-Söderblom, will be part of a panel discussion as part of this year’s Cultural Mobility Forum organised by On the Move and discuss a crucial issue: "Digital Inclusion".
"Creating Inclusive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" is a keynote and Q&A with Gary David, moderated by Ceyda Berk-Söderblom. The sessions focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and the ways in which it can be beneficial, innovative, and a key part of a strategy.
In our experiment, we want to understand how individuals – who are part of the Untitled Alliance – manage to translate the goals and ideals of their daily work into their private life. Do you advocate a basic universal income but don’t know how to deal with your kids’ pocket money? Do you implement national citizens assemblies but cannot decide on the family vacation? Are you a vegan eating meat in your dreams? Do you have occasionally brief moments of feeling like a hypocrite? Then this is the right session for you.
Debate
With Steven Hadley, Beth Ponte, Ceyda Berk-Söderblom, Valika Smeulders
Moderated by Acesso Cultura’s Executive Director Maria Vlachou
Livestreamed on Acesso Cultura’s Facebook page
The conversation will take place in English.
Steven Hadley’s new book, Audience Development and Cultural Policy, examines the relationship of audience development to cultural policy and offers a perspective on how the practice of audience development is connected to ideas of democratic access to culture. Providing a detailed overview of arts marketing, audience development and cultural democracy, the book argues that the work of audience development has been profoundly misunderstood by the field of arts management.
Given that the book focuses on the British case, we think it will be interesting to talk about these issues – audience development, democratising access to culture and cultural democracy – with colleagues from other countries and get to know better their practices. As well as have a closer look at a concrete case, that of the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), which in recent times has been a reference in the world of museums and culture in general.
Melissa Arni-Hardén, Mari Männistö, Cátia Suomalainen Pedrosa, facilitated by Ceyda Berk-Söderblom & Sepideh Rahaa
This discussion will concentrate on the recruitment processes and new Human Resources (HR) tools with a specific focus on municipalities. The roundtable will also bring experiences from arts and cultural institution leaders. The main question is; how to improve existing recruitment structures to enable the diverse, multi-voiced workforce, creators in all layers of different arts and cultural organisations. Melissa Arni-Hardén (Chief Specialist, Talent Espoo), Mari Männistö (Director of Culture, Helsinki) and Cátia Suomalainen Pedrosa (Director of Cultural Centre Caisa) will join us in this roundtable.
Art, Culture and Diverse Finland – Discussion on the Ministry report
Our founder Ceyda Berk Söderblom with Sepideh Rahaa will be moderating the Discussion on the Ministry report Art, Culture and Diverse Finland.
The Ministry of Education and Culture’s report Art, Culture and Diverse Finland, the final report of the Working Group for Cultural Policy, Immigrants and Promotion of Cultural Diversity, was released earlier this year and is the topic of this discussion. The discussion is focused on art institutions as part of G.A.P’s contribution to this year’s #StopHatredNow theme, Reshaping Horizons of Hope. Researcher Pasi Saukkonen (Chair of the Working Group) & Maija Lummepuro (Senior Advisor, Ministry of Education and Culture) present the report and discuss the action plan which the Ministry is currently preparing. Our other guests Jussi Koitela (Head of Program at Frame Contemporary Finland) and Erik Söderblom (Artistic Director of Espoo City Theatre) engage in this conversation by addressing the next possible steps advancing diversity, equity and inclusivity in the art scene. The discussion is moderated by Ceyda Berk-Söderblom (Cultural Manager) and Sepideh Rahaa (Artist and Researcher).
Our founder Ceyda Berk-Söderblom will be in conversation tomorrow with the members of the Third Space collective, Sepideh Rahaa, Ana Gutieszca and visual artist and theatre-maker Mohammed Moe Mustafa about "ɪɴᴛɪᴍᴀᴄʏ & ᴄᴏʟʟᴀʙᴏʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ".
We stand for a structure where collaboration becomes a sustainable and meaningful practice. Ceyda will talk about her in-born resistance to the notion of a narrowly focused life, learning and doing.
The event is co-organised by the Third Space Collective and the Publics and accessible via Zoom for everyone with registration.
#ThirdSpace #Publics #artistsruninitatives #collaborationbasedpractices
Our Founder Ceyda Berk Söderblom, Sepideh Rahaa and Kemê Pellicer met in a Café Sabich in Kontula where they discussed what art activism means to them individually but also what it means to their common goals and how it shapes their creative processes. The event is part of a discussion series whose purpose is to highlight non-Finnish-speaking artists and cultural producers living in the Helsinki metropolitan area and to discuss current themes and debates around contemporary art and culture.
The series has been initiated by the Adult Education Center of Helsinki City / Helsingin työväenopisto.
Classical music and culture professionals discuss antiracism in Finland.
WATCH A RECORDING OF THE EVENT
This Taidepiste event, hosted completely in English for the first time, focuses on the current state of diversity and equality in the field of classical music in Finland. Who are the gatekeepers that exist in the field and what are their responsibilities? What can we learn from progress being made outside of Finland?
The topic is discussed by curator, cultural manager and producer Ceyda Berk-Söderblom, cellist and master’s student from the Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy Sujari Britt, Dean of the Sibelius Academy Emilie Gardberg, and General Manager of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Aleksi Malmberg. The discussion will be in English and moderated by journalist Sean Ricks.
We are also pleased to welcome hugely talented cellist Sujari Britt to perform with pianist Valeria Resjan as part of the event.
396 registered participants from 30 countries and 11 time zones
60 parallel sessions
50 hosts 5 sessions to convene us all together
2 days 1 transformation
Untitled is a ten-year process of reimagining the fundamentals of our society and changing them through experiments. It is set up by an Alliance including Base2 (SWE), Bethnal Green Ventures (UK), City of Helsinki (FI), ClimateWorks (US), Dark Matter Labs (NL, UK, CA), Das Progressive Zentrum (GE), Demos Helsinki (FI), Drift (NL), Economic Security Project (US), Emerge (SWE), Espoo City Theatre – The International Theatre of Finland (FI), FundingBox (DK), Gehl Architects (DK), Hanskis Maskin Service (FI), Imaginaries Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (US), Life Itself (FR), MiklagardArts (FI), Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting (JP), RSA US (US), Service Union United PAM (FI), Sitra (FI), Situation Lab at Carnegie Mellon University (US), States of Change (AU), Sthml Tech Fest (SWE), The Democratic Society (BE), The Long Now Foundation (US), The Trampery (UK), Tokai University (JP), Tradeka (FI), Waag (NL), Y-Foundation (FI), YLVA (FI). During two festival days and one night, we celebrate the urgent permission to reimagine critical parts of our societies together, to form unlikely alliances and develop real-world experiments that could renew our shared experience. At the festival, Art helps us to imagine and relate. Intimate conversations explore attractive yet problematic ideas. Experiments are planned together to shed light on the yet unknown future. Finally, present and future merge into a party.
Together with The Culture for All service, the Globe Art Point organized The concluding seminar of the Avaus project at the Ateneum in Helsinki on 14 September 2020.
The aim of the project was to promote operating models that support the opportunities for foreign-born artists and art and culture professionals to work in the Finnish art and culture field. The aim is to better identify the skills of people from elsewhere and to promote equality.
The panelists involved in the final discussion:
Ceyda Berk-Söderblom (Chairperson of the Board, Globe Art Point)
Minna Karvonen (Director of Division for Art and Cultural Heritage, Department of Culture and Art Policy, Ministry of Education and Culture)
Tommi Laitio (Director of the City of Helsinki’s Culture and Leisure Division)
Paula Tuovinen (Director of the Art Promotion Center, Taike)
Sepideh Rahaa, moderator
The online video of the event: https://youtu.be/70C2NYA8GNk
#united #globalsolidarity #arts #culture #cooperation #freedom
Dear friends and dear colleagues,
The COVID-19 affects the artistic and cultural field strongly with most festivals, concerts and events cancelled and many cultural centres shut down, which means a massive loss of activities and income for all involved: artists, producers, managers, technicians, etc. Our work - based on meeting with people from abroad and exchange of activities - is at the verge of a complete shut-down.
We all are now faced with a big unknown. We will be challenged to alter our institutionalised thinking, to give up our privileged position and try to see the very same situation from a different perspective.
We want to send a message of courage to everyone involved and affected.
Cultural philosopher Slavoj Zizek, in his article, articulates an alternative perspective for us all to consider and reflect on when reading the COVID-19 situation. Zizek says, “...But maybe another – and much more beneficial – ideological virus will spread and hopefully infect us: the virus of thinking about an alternate society, a society beyond nation-state, a society that actualizes itself in the forms of global solidarity and cooperation...”
We stand with our colleagues all over the world and affirm our total solidarity with the arts and culture sectors!
💚 Let’s remain united to defend our culture, arts and freedom. 💚
👉Take a look at Zizek's article: https://bit.ly/33pJ10l
MiklagardArts team
We are very honoured and happy to renew our collaboration with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra in 2020 with brilliant Kanun virtuoso Hakan Güngör.
A programme of the 48th Hong Kong Arts Festival (2020)
The new ‘Music about China’ will bring together influential composers both at home and abroad, including Enjott Schneider (Germany), Marcel Wengler (Luxembourg), Anthony Paul De Ritis (US) and Hong Kong composers, Leon Ko, Golden Horse Award winner, and Chan Ming-chi, whose Jing•Qi•Shen was recommended by the International Rostrum of Composers organized by UNESCO. Chan’s latest work Another Round, using Cantonese gongs-and-drums and – what else? – mahjong, to vividly depict the life of mahjong players.
Turku proudly hosts Talent Boost Summit on 12th November 2019 in Logomo. This year the event’s focus will be on talent retention and how to boost business through international talents.
Ceyda will share her experience in Finland and talk about the role of arts to build dialogue and promote understanding in cultural diversified society.
Companies in Finland have a shortage of experts in many areas, such as IT, cleantech, creative, health, maritime and tech fields. Hiring the first international experts is often a big step for the company. However, the company's culture and know-how develop with the help of international experts. This accelerates growth and success in export markets. For our competitiveness, it is crucial to attract these international professionals.
International experts living in Finland are an important asset to our working life. Many also have talented spouses who also have moved to Finland. Also, annually, more than 3,000 foreign students graduate from Finnish universities. These people have both professional knowledge and experience in Finnish culture and lifestyle in addition to their own language, culture and networks. Their expertise is key for innovation, growth and internationalization of Finnish businesses.
Muse Conversations come to Finland for the first time!
Hear Oxford University’s pioneering historian, philosopher and author Theodore Zeldin discuss what it is all about on Friday September 13th from 1-2pm and come take part in a live conversation on Monday September 16th from either 1–3pm or 7–9pm.
All events are free and open to everyone!
Join Theodore Zeldin as he discusses how a new kind of conversation can create a deeper understanding between two people and inspire ambitions for work, for art and for private life.
The discussion will be held in English.
Theodore Zeldin CBE is an Oxford University historian, philosopher and author. He has been a pioneer in revealing how relationships and emotions such as love, fear, loneliness, friendship and ambition have evolved in different civilisations over the centuries, and most importantly, how they can be changed again today through a new kind of conversation that creates trust between strangers, new ways of working that avoid boredom and new attitudes to rebellious youth and forsaken old age.
