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The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) received 5,632 online applications for those grants whose application period ended today. This was the first time that Taike’s electronic services have been used to such an extent. For the most part, customers have been satisfied with the new online services.

The 4th annual Arts Promotion Day will feature multifaceted and multidimensional street art. Over a dozen events throughout Finland will highlight youth culture and allow children and young people to be heard. Arts Promotion Day will also mark the culmination of the #taideonlasten theme year, during which the Arts Promotion Centre Finland has been promoting children’s and youth culture, as well as the status of artists who work in this field.

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Grant customers of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) are being prevented from logging in to our online services from foreign web addresses.

The Central Arts Council of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland has appointed 75 art experts for the seven national arts councils for the 2017-18 term. In addition, 112 members have been appointed for the 13 regional arts councils. The chairpersons of all the arts councils have artist backgrounds.

Mutanttikieltä is an experimental language program created by Sivuvalo project in 2015.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland is organising a seminar on United Nations Day, Monday 24 October 2016, to discuss art, artistic work, international migration and the effects of these on the status of artists and the implementation of cultural rights. A report on the artistic expertise of immigrants compiled by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland will also be published at the seminar.

Taike receives around 1100 applications for grants each year. You will receive notification by e-mail once the decision is available on the Applyforgrants.fi service.

The purpose of the “Percent for Art” principle is that at least one percent of construction costs is used for art.

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Artists who have immigrated to Finland are not marginalised by the Finnish support system for the arts. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement before they are included in the mainstream.