Search results

In addition to producing demographic information about artists and their income level, the aim of the survey was to present phenomena connected to income formation and labour market status.

This study aims to clarify how persons classified as immigrants are treated within the Finnish support system and by art policy. Is equality realised or are some applicants overlooked within support policies?

In its architectural policy the government is defining the goals for action to be taken by the public authorities
in order to enhance architecture.

In the year 2008 the National Council for Dance initiated work on a dance strategy, whose purpose was to examine the activities in the field as a whole, align the developments emerging in the dance sector, and make proposals for actions to improve the operating conditions of dance. The strategy was also intended to support the work of dance artists in different parts of Finland to develop activities in their own regions.

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.

Cultural Centre Villa Rana gives small actors the opportunity to carry out their activities. Without public funding, this would not have been possible.

This paper presents a summary of recent as well as future trends of cultural participation and consumption. It also discusses the socio-economic changes of audiences and the effect that has on cultural participation and consumption.

Available at the National Library of Finland

The topic of this survey is company support for the arts and culture in 2008, and changes in the support after 1999. The survey includes all large Finnish companies with a minimum of 250 employees, and one in ten Finnish companies with 20–249 employees.

The publication reports the results of the project on the Grants and Subsidies for Dance Productions (GDP) allocated by the Finnish National Council for Dance (NCD).

The survey examines the amount of funds Finnish foundations used for financing culture and different art forms by allocating grants, scholarships and prizes to private artists and cultural and artistic communities, as well as through maintaining the culture and arts institution. In addition, the survey clarifies how much public funding culture and arts foundations receive from the state and municipalities, and as donations from companies and private citizens.

This publication reports the findings of a survey pertaining to the level of professional training among visual artists in Finland. It is based on data gained from the registers of visual artists published by the Artists’ Association of Finland (AAF).