The 2010 Helsinki Festival is to get a head start with a performance by the legendary Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin at the city’s Finlandia Hall on Saturday 14 August 2010.

T-shirts, bags and other festival merchandise can be purchased from the web shop and f.ex. from the Huvila Festival tent.

Finland’s biggest arts festival, the Helsinki Festival, broke its visitor target. The overall number of visitors to the Helsinki Festival, which finished on Monday 31 August, reached almost 288,000.

Commissioned by Helsinki Festival, Virva Talonen's Special Cases examines to the interface between the ordinary and the extraordinary.

Helsinki Festival's largest one-off urban event, the Night of the Arts, has again attracted huge crowds to the centre of the Finnish capital.

Flow Festival, organised August 13-16 at Helsinki’s Suvilahti as part of the Helsinki Festival, matched its high expectations. 

The Night of the Arts presents a programme of more than two hundred events taking place in the city centre and beyond, offering a fantastic opportunity for residents and visitors alike to explore, experience and enjoy the city of Helsinki.

On 13 and 19 August, Helsinki Festival and the Kino Engel film theatre will be offering free screenings of the L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio documentary.

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Paquito d'Rivera says hi to Helsinki Festival.

The full Helsinki Festival 2009 programme has now been announced.

Flow Festival 09 takes place on 14.-16.8.

Helsinki Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of Erik Söderblom (b. 1958) as Festival Director.