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The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and Oulu Cultural Foundation are launching the Filmiapaja project in 2023 to bring together scriptwriters, writers, audiovisual professionals and financiers. The new project will enable the creation of new productions and collaboration networks. Filmiapaja is part of the upcoming Oulu2026 cultural programme.

The works of art for the dialogue cards on cultural diversity and sustainable development developed by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and the Ministry of Education and Culture were selected from 140 proposals.

The Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) distributed 30.4 million euros in COVID-19 grants and 3.6 million euros in COVID-19 subsidies in the seventh round of COVID-19 support at the beginning of this year. The latest support was directed at professional artists and other professionals in the culture and creative sectors, including technical or production entrepreneurs within the creative industries ecosystem. Altogether, grants and subsidies were awarded to 7215 applicants.

Taike publishes annual statistical reports about grant applicants and recipients.

Visual artist Joel Slotte is inspired by his friends and phenomena that are close to him. A three-year artist grant has helped him produce more multifaceted art.

Changes have been made to calls for applications for grants. Grants for mobility are being offered for the last time; in future, support for internationalisation and foreign travel can be applied for in the form of project grants. As a result of the change, applications will be reviewed within individual arts councils. Changes have also been made regarding applications for grants for multidisciplinary art projects.

This year, three-year operational subsidies can be applied for within all artforms, whereas in previous years they have been offered only to performing arts communities.

Ääreen is a project that showcases Finnish and international interactive, documentary animations. Running throughout October, the programme consists of exhibitions, screenings, discussions and interviews that bring together experts from a broad range of disciplines and offer multidisciplinary experiences for the public.

The theme of this year’s Arts and Culture Barometer is artists in the future. We are inviting professional artists working in different fields of the arts to respond to our open online questionnaire.

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The Open Call invites organisations to submit ideas that explore the possibilities of integrating arts and cultural activities into the provision of health and social care services.

The Annual Review of Public Art provides still images of how public art and the structures behind it are changing. The Annual Review seeks to address the themes, debates, hopes and sorrows that have revolved around public art in 2020.