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This info briefing will discuss the principles of council work and the appointment process itself, and members who have served on arts councils will be interviewed about their council work.

The head office of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) in Helsinki has moved from Hakaniemi to Sörnäinen as of 17 November 2025. The new address is Kaikukatu 2 C.

Taike will host a webinar on Tuesday 11 November starting at 3pm covering this autumn’s call for applications for project grants for the arts. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to this year’s call for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

Taike will host a webinar on Wednesday 12 November starting at 3pm covering this autumn’s call for applications for project grants for the arts. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to this year’s call for applications and provide tips for how to apply.

On Tuesday 7 October 2025, arts and culture professionals from the Nordic region, the Baltics and across Europe gathered at Oulu City Hall to attend the Nordic Diversity Connections in Arts and Culture Seminar. The event addressed contemporary issues of cultural diversity, inclusion and equality in the arts and culture sector.

The system of peer reviews for the arts will be renewed on 1 July 2026, and the arts councils that have thus far made grant decisions will be discontinued. They will be replaced by a pool of experts and rotating grant assessment panels. Welcome to our online status report on the progress of preparations on Tuesday 11 November, 11am–12noon.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and the Foundation for Cultural Policy Research (Cupore) are gathering information this autumn about the international activities of professional artists in different fields of the arts.

Taike will be holding two webinars this October to discuss this autumn’s calls for applications for grants available to communities. The first webinar will cover the following forms of support: general grants for festivals, general grants for cultural magazines and online publications, project grants for "Percent for Art" projects, internationalisation grants for the arts, and general grants for the arts.

Taike will be holding two webinars this October to discuss this autumn’s calls for applications for grants available to communities. The second webinar will cover project grants for culture and general grants for culture.

Taike will be holding an English-language webinar on Tuesday 14 October from 4pm to 5pm to discuss this autumn’s calls for applications for grants available to communities. The webinar will explain the changes that have been made to this year’s calls for applications and provide tips on how to apply.

In December, Parliament decided on appropriations for 2026. Appropriations for artist grants will remain unchanged, but cuts will be made to non-statutory appropriations for the arts and culture.

Finnish Arts and Culture Agency will host a webinar on Wednesday 14 January starting at 1pm covering this year’s call for applications for public display grants and library grants for writers and translators. The webinar will go through the changes that have been made to the calls for applications and provide tips for how to apply.