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The Creative Net is providing sparring for finalising project applications within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise ESF+ theme. These sparring sessions are aimed at those who are already quite far along in the application process and especially those who are making an ESF+ application for the first time.

The opening of Taiteen talo will be celebrated on Saturday 14 May. The event is free to all city residents. At the opening, you will be able to see and experience the contribution of the Turku cultural field extensively, and a programme for all ages is promised. As part of the opening programme, the Vallaton Kumous art festival of the Taidekahvit co-operation network will be seen.

In this webinar inclusivity is discussed first of all through cultural diversity. The webinar will be held partly in English and partly in Finnish.

Kaikuja – Ekon – Echoes is an artistic project crystallising the multi-year collaboration between Helsinki’s Central Library Oodi and The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike). Echoes finds its peak in the exhibition Faith is a Blindspot of Permanence by visual artist Niko Luoma, to be presented 6–30 October in Oodi’s Kuutio space. Summing up the whole project, the publication Kaikuja – Ekon – Echoes will be released at the closing event at Oodi on 27 October. The publication serves to showcase the wide variety of makers and their works who have contributed to the multi-year project.

What kind of funding opportunities are currently available for project ideas in the arts, culture and creative sectors? Taike’s Creative Net project is organising a funding briefing for those who participated in the call for ideas within the Creative and Cultural Innovation Expertise theme and all others who are interested in the topic.

Taike’s Creative Net project is organising workshops for further developing ideas and expertise in the arts, culture and creative sectors. These workshops will offer support, sparring and networking opportunities.

Taike is organising an online webinar on MYEL insurance and unemployment security for grant recipients together with Mela and Kela.

How can we ensure that the built environment and public art are accessible to everyone now and in the future? “Forming the future for all" seminar will address diversity and power in relation to the accessibility of urban environments and art.

Taike will hold an info briefing on the outlook for discretionary government grants in 2025 on Friday 6 September at 11–12. The info briefing will be held online as a webinar.

Publishers and foreign and minority language writers will have the chance to meet at the Turku Book Fair on 4 October 2024. The programme also includes a panel discussion that will be open to the public.

This October, Taike is organising one-hour info briefings for communities applying for grants and subsidies. There will be two of these online webinars for the different forms of support. The second webinar will discuss the following types of grants that are part of the new application system for discretionary government grants: project grants for "Percent for Art" projects, general grants for festivals, general grants for cultural magazines and online publications and project grants for children's and youth culture.

In cooperation with Globe Art Point, Taike is hosting an online info briefing covering Taike grants for professional artists. The webinar will cover all forms of support awarded by Taike, but it will focus mainly on this autumn’s call for applications for project grants for artists and working groups.