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The autumn application period for grants awarded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has changed.

Next Res Artis meeting Exploring Sustainability under the Midnight Sun will be held in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland from 18 – 20 June 2018. Meeting will be organized in partnership with the Arts Promotion Centre Finland and the City of Rovaniemi.

Calling all artists and friends of the arts: Taike invites you to participate in our vision survey. Taike is thinking of ways in which we could serve the entire field of the arts in Finland even better.

An error has occurred in the payment of December’s artist grants. Some grant recipients may have received payment twice, either in full or in part. Any double payments will be cancelled from the accounts to which they were paid, so no action is required by grant recipients to return the extra amount at this stage.

Application period 5.10.–18.11.2020

Ääreen is an art project that combines documentary with immersive animation. It will be conducted at Oodi Central Library in Helsinki. The purpose of the project is to support and encourage artists interested in documentary animation, and to create new media presentation practices in the library context.

Small changes have been made to calls for applications for communities, as the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has combined some subsidy applications.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland shall award a state subsidy to one or two “good speech” projects. The total amount of the subsidy is 30,000 euros. The application period began on 15 February and continues until 15 March 2017.

Ethnomusicologist Esa Vienamo (MA) has been appointed regional artist for outsider art. The role of the regional artist for outsider art is to promote the artistic work opportunities of outsider artists, reinforce the structures for these activities, and engage marginalised artists.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has appointed Jaakko Kemppainen MA (New Media and Game Design, Aalto University), MSc (Digital Culture, University of Jyväskylä) regional artist for games as art. As regional artist for games as art, Kemppainen is responsible for promoting the status of games as art, as well as for stimulating interest and promoting opportunities in this field.

The Central Arts Council of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) has appointed 74 art experts for the seven national arts councils for the 2019-20 term. In addition, 107 members have been appointed for the 13 regional arts councils.

Barometer to shed light on the mobility of art and artists and related needs.

Contrary to preliminary information, applicants for grants or subsidies for promoting cultural diversity will be notified of the decision in writing by the end of March.