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Music brings together people from all over, at Finland’s Flow Fest

We talk to some of the numerous visitors from abroad at Helsinki’s Flow Festival. What brought them to Flow, and what are their impressions? Also, see our slideshow for a glimpse of festival ambiance.

Tagged in Art, Festivals, Finnishness, Lifestyle, Music, Summer, Travel

Arts & culture Festivals

Festivals fill Helsinki in August

People in Finland sure like a good festival, and the Finnish capital conveniently offers a whole bunch of them in August, when the Helsinki Festival and its partner events seem to be everywhere in the city.

Tagged in Art, Festivals, Helsinki

Life & society Cuisine

Culinary pleasures across Finland

Food innovators combine Finland’s culinary tradition with an international, urban style. The focus is on local food and ecological values.

Tagged in Cuisine, Festivals, Food, Nature, ThisisFINLAND Magazine

2005

The year Helsinki Design Week, Scandinavia's biggest design fest, was founded

Arts & culture Slideshows

Lux Helsinki fends off the winter darkness

Full of illuminated surprises, the annual Lux Helsinki light festival uses coloured beams to transform some of the city’s best loved buildings and streets in early January. You can see them in our photos without braving the cold.

Tagged in Architecture, Art, Festivals, Slideshows, Urban, Visual arts, Winter

Business & innovation Sustainability

Finnish events put sustainability at the forefront

Recycling, educating, compensating for emissions, and making sustainable choices attractive: We see how three of Finland’s largest events put their sustainability values into practice.

Tagged in Business, Festivals, Innovation, Slush, Sustainability

1970

The year Ruisrock, Finland's oldest (and Europe's second-oldest) rock fest, was founded

Life & society Festivals

Finnish families get into the Flow Festival spirit

Family Sunday represents a literal growth area for Helsinki’s renowned Flow Festival. After all, these little kids are the music fans of tomorrow.

Tagged in Art, Family, Festivals, Music, Summer

Arts & culture Music

Tiny Finnish town wins World Capital of Metal crown

Lemi, a southeastern Finnish municipality with a population of only 3,076, wins the Capital of Metal competition, melting hearts in the process.

Tagged in Festivals, Finnishness, Heavy metal, Music

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Young Brazilian wins trip to Finland in Capital of Metal contest

Checking his email in early June 2018, a Brazilian student named João Vieira couldn’t believe his eyes: He’d won the Capital of Metal contest. He and a friend would go to Finland to attend the Tuska Open Air heavy metal festival in Helsinki.

Tagged in Festivals, Heavy metal, Music

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