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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.

Animation artist and illustrator Ami Lindholm wants her art to cheer people up and give them hope. Her observations of everyday life start with her own life, but in the process of drawing, the experiences become universal. The animated media work allows viewers to touch and to experience empathy.

According to the latest Arts and Culture Barometer, artists have an optimistic view of the future, but concerns about their livelihoods and ability to cope are undermining their wellbeing. The findings of the barometer will be presented at a discussion forum at KokoTeatteri in Helsinki on 7 April. The forum is open to the public.

The Central Arts Council of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) calls on Prime Minister Sanna Marin to save the culture budget. A parliamentary agreement has been reached on sectors funded by revenues from the state-owned gambling monopoly Veikkaus, such as culture, from 2024 onwards. The size of the culture budget for 2023 will be negotiated in a framework meeting of the Government.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) is distributing approximately 34 million euros in the latest round of COVID-19 grants and subsidies to professional artists, private traders and sole proprietors in the art, culture and creative sectors. The application period begins on 4 February and ends on 17 February at 4:00pm.

Visual artist Joonas Hyvönen challenges viewers to consider alternative futures in a deliberately absurd way. Alienating elements borrowed from the world of computer games offer a safe way to experience climate change and catastrophic floods – first hand.

Available at the National Library of Finland

This project aims to develop the occupational wellbeing of professional artists by reducing the stress of artistic work, for example by means of supervision and strengthening collegiality.

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