We administer four cultural funding programs, which are divided into six different funding options, run a cultural center and library in the heart of Helsinki, and arrange events. Welcome to our site!
Are you interested in learning to speak one of the Nordic languages? Come to our popular language café to brush up your Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish or Icelandic!
Still image from documentation of performance Arkhticós Doloros by Jessie Kleemann in 2019.
Illustration by the artist Kamilla Andersson for the online library The Huddle at Subcase Cyber.
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