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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.

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.

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.

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.

Arts & culture Music

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.

Arts & culture Music

Helsinki rocks both Pride and heavy metal fest on same weekend

Two annual traditions happen at the same time in the Finnish capital in late June or early July: Helsinki Pride, with its rainbow-coloured parade, and Tuska Open Air Metal Festival, where the dominant colour is black. See our slideshow.

Arts & culture Music

Finnish metropolises vie to win Capital of Metal

With more heavy metal bands per capita than anywhere else in the known universe, Finland is at the heart of the tight-knit global metal community. We see how they determine which Finnish city gets the title of Capital of Metal. We also talk with the Finnish university researcher behind the annual Modern Heavy Metal Conference.

Arts & culture Music

Emerging jazz generation: Finnish teen duo demands attention

The phrase “young generation of Finnish jazz,” with all its promise and expectations, forms a fitting but incomplete description of Milo & Moses, a duo of musicians who were born in 2001.