The Night of the Arts in Helsinki is a lovely event to start the autumn season. We have events throughout the evening. Free admission all night. Warm welcome!

Klo 15.30 Story time for kids. Dance Theatre Raatikko tells about its autumn premiere, which is a play based on Moomin story byt Tove Jansson. Tapio Wilska reads moomin stories. In Finnish.

Klo 16.00 Author interview. Maija Kajanto: Mittoja ja tilaustöitä (Myllylahti). Discussion with debut novelist in Finnish.

Klo 16.30 Suomen Pimiötaitelijat ry - short introduction to the photography courses in Mörk. Info available also in English. Some cameras on show too.

Klo 17-19 Two exhibition openings:

Minttu Maari Mäntynen: Resonance, Photographs and Kati Koivikko: Riding in a Bright Yellow Wartburg, Photographs. See more info on our exhibitions page.

Klo 19.30 Book discussion: Hannah Arendt – Suuren ajattelijan elämä (Into Kustannus). Translator, doctor in Social Sciences, Maija Pietikäinen tells about the newly published translation of Hannah Arendt biography, written by Kurt Sontheimer. Discussion in Finnish.

Klo 20 Jazz-concert Jonas Metsäkylä Trio. New and wonderful jazz group that plays their own renditions of jazz classics.

Klo 21 Concert Sörnäinen. Finnish country rock from the darkest corner of Helsinki.

Klo 22 Later night movie in the cellar gallery bedrock: Wings of Desire, Der Himmel Über Berlin (O: Wim Wenders, 1987)

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