Arts & culture Archives

Toasting Finland’s Jean Sibelius at 150

The 150th anniversary of composer Jean Sibelius’s birth is celebrated in 2015 with events in Finland and around the world.

We talk to Baghdad-born Adel Abidin, who has been making art in Finland using an array of media for more than a decade.

Helsinki’s Night Visions Film Fest has action, sci-fi and cult movies and big-name guests.

We meet Riikka Pulkkinen, whose novels earn her a place in the upper ranks of young Finnish authors.

Young Finnish author Salla Simukka is winning over youth-fiction fans worldwide with her Snow White trilogy.

Finland’s cool, unique, multifaceted literature becomes the focus of the world’s biggest book fair in Frankfurt.

Tove Jansson centenary: The immensely popular Moomins form just one facet of her versatile career in art and literature.

With thriving festivals and clubs across the country, jazz fans in Finland have never had it as good as they do now.