20.2.2012
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7.5.2012
Sounding cities
A series of concerts and lectures organised by the University of Helsinki Music Society (HYMS)
12.5.2012
"Dumari ja Spuget"
Finland’s musical stalwart Tuomari Nurmio and his band perform new and old songs celebrating Helsinki.
11.5.2012
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20.5.2012
Kallio Kukkii Festival - An urban intervention in Kallio
Kallio Kukkii Festival is celebrated between 11 and 20 May. This year, the cultural event is organised for the 18th time in succession, which makes it the oldest regional festival in Helsinki.
25.5.2012
Ballet at the Senate Square
Finnish National Ballet performs at Senate Square, the historic heart of Helsinki.
26.5.2012
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27.5.2012
World Books - Democracy forum
World Books is part of the World Village Festival
15.10.2011
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31.5.2012
Stories of Pitkäsilta Bridge
Helsinki City Theatre
Audience outreach project
29.5.2012
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7.6.2012
Helsinki International Ballet Competition
Finnish National Opera
4.4.2012
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17.6.2012
Head and heart – Helsinki celebrates 200 years as Finland’s capital
The Head and Heart exhibition at Virka Galleria tells the story of Helsinki, declared as the capital of the newly created Grand Duchy of Finland on 8 April 1812 by Tsar Alexander I.
14.5.2012
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21.6.2012
Helsinki – Finland’s capital for 200 years
In November the Sytkyt Puppet Theatre toured Finland from Inari to Porvoo with a show on the history of Helsinki. After the show, the children created stories and drawings of their own hometowns.
4.4.2012
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29.6.2012
Helsinki youth in the 1950s and 1960s
Finlandia Hall
26.3.2012
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15.8.2012
Searching for the city’s soul
A history of urban planning in Helsinki
Suomenlinnakeskus
1.5.2012
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30.9.2012
The emergence of Finland’s literary culture
The National Library of Finland
1.5.2012
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30.9.2012
Martti Luther and his impact on Finland
The National Library of Finland
1.1.2012
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31.12.2012
Jubilee year on the Union Axis – from Observatory Hill to Kallio Church
Unioninkatu is the Festival Street of the Helsinki 200 Years as Capital jubilee year. Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who elevated Helsinki to the status of capital, arrived in Helsinki along this street on his 1819 visit to the city, and named it Unioninkatu, or Union Street.
1.1.2012
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31.12.2012
Journeys to the heart of the city – education, book project and virtual street
The Union Axis dissects the centre of Helsinki, stretching from Kopernikuksentie on Observatory Hill, via Unioninkatu across Pitkäsilta Bridge to Siltasaarenkatu and to Kallio Church beyond.
1.1.2012
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31.12.2012
From neighbourhoods to communities
The Kassi service is now Sharetribe.
1.1.2012
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31.12.2012
Guard Battalion – 200 years
The history of the Guard Battalion begins with the Life Guard’s 3rd Finnish Sniper Battalion, founded in 1812.
1.1.2012
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31.12.2012
Pihlajamäki 50 years!
The first residents moved to Pihlajamäki, in north-eastern Helsinki, in 1962, making 2012 a 50th anniversary year for the purpose-built suburb.
1.1.2012
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31.12.2012
The open city – opportunities for improving the lives of city residents
Laituri is one of the most important Helsinki venues for World Design Capital year 2012.
Exhibitions, which change every month, follow the theme ‘The open city – opportunities for improving the lives of city residents’.
8.4.2012
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31.12.2012
Taste Helsinki’s 200-year culinary history
The HelsinkiMenu restaurants are marking the city’s 200 years as Finland’s capital with a wide range of menus and flavours from across this period.
29.3.2012
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17.2.2013
”Discoveries – art on campus”
Come and discover which significant historical figures thronged to Finland’s new capital city!