Future Stories events

The Future Stories event concept offers fun things to do throughout the summer across Espoo. Choose the events you like or participate in them all. 

The events are described on the website of Espoo’s culture houses, and they are also gathered on this website. This information will be complemented.  

The main work of the event, Rakkauskirjeitä luonnolle (Love Letters to Nature), will be published on 26 August. The public can meet the artists on the opening day from 15.00 to 16.00 next to the Kivenlahti beach outdoor gym.

The five-part environmental art series was curated from the letters of city residents. Its works invite people to pause in different parts of the Espoonlahti environment to enjoy nature experiences and love letters. Take a tour of the Waterfront Walkway and experience all the works!

The locations of the works can be found on the map provided.

Follow the process on Instagram: @sisu.kollektiivi

Works by Nikolo Kerimov about the anguish, joy and sorrow of the plant kingdom.

Free admission.

Read more on the exhibition at the Espoo Cultural Centre on the espoo.fi website. 

In the hugely popular plant jam session you can play instruments and dance with green plants. Find the plant instrumentalist in you and play Paranoid on the snake plant. Sensors attached to the plants measure the plants’ vital functions, and the measurement result is translated into sound. What do plants sound like when they are touched and sprayed?  Vespa Laine, Markus Heino and Saara Isola as well as plants will be jamming along with Fern Orchestra. 

Bring your own plant, bring it to Fern Orchestra’s greenhouse and sit down as a model for your plant. What do you look like to your plant? The data collected by the sensors attached to the plant is sent to the plotting device, and you get a portrait of yourself. 

Fern Orchestra’s greenhouse is open 

Fri 25 August 15:30–17:00 | 18:00–19:30

Sat 26 August 11:00–12:30 | 13:30–15:00 | 15:30–17:00

Sun 27 August 11:00–12:30 | 13:30–15:00 | 15:30–17:00 

Read more on the website of Exhibition Centre WeeGee.

We’ll invent stories about snow globe worlds together.

What are all the places where you could live?  What would life look like from a different perspective? In the Open Art Workshop, we’ll be telling stories about the fascinating worlds of snow globes by writing, drawing or using artificial intelligence.

The Sello Hall and Soittoniekanaukio Square offer programme throughout Espoo Day. Admission to the events is free. A more detailed timetable will be confirmed later.

Help! The oceans are filling up with rubbish! Now we need the help of all the children and a reminder that plastic bottle mail does not belong in the oceans. Muovipullopostia is an engaging, educational and engaging performance that utilises the creative methods of folk music. The theme is reducing littering and respecting the environment. 

Saija Penttilä, bass and vocals 

Maimu Jõgeda, accordion and vocals 

Iida-Maria Kuronen, kantele and vocals 

Verna Kylmänen, piano and vocals 

Viive Virtanen, violin and vocals 

Onni Rajaniemi, guitar and vocals 

Aurora Visa, kantele and vocals 

Vilma Timonen, direction  

Recommended for ages 4 and up 

Duration 35 min 

Redecorate your clothes! 

At Helsinki Urban Art’s printing workshop, you can give a new look and life to your old clothes with textile colours. The workshop is suitable for all ages; children under school age can attend with a parent. The workshop will be held in front of Sello Hall or in the foyer in case of rain.  

Chief Climate Conductor Johanna Almark and her band. The music will lead us from the streams through the spring to the sea. 

 

Read more on the website of Sello Hall.

Kannusali and Avonia Music Institute are involved in organising an event open to all and free of charge on 26 August. There will be all sorts of programme throughout the day. During the day, the programme is more aimed at families and small children, and the evening culminates in an outdoor concert held in Avonia’s yard. 

The concert will feature, among others, Elsi Sloan and VIMMA.  ELSI SLOAN is Finland’s first transgender Jussi candidate, a stage artist and activist and a musician who released their debut album this spring. VIMMA is a band focusing on environmental destruction, climate change and the future of our planet, whose music mixes progressive folk and art pop with powerful poems about building communities and activism. 

The event will be held in the premises of Avonia Music Institute, in the yard and in the vicinity. 

A more detailed timetable and programme will be confirmed later.

More information will be released on the Kannusali website.

The mystical park symphony takes the listener on a surprising sound journey where the past and present are intertwined in a fascinating way.   The audio piece was created by Children’s Cultural Centre Aurora in cooperation with Art & Craft School Robotti. Audio recording: Ville Olaskari/Art & Craft School Robotti  

https://bit.ly/puistosinfonia  

In Seikkailutaidekoulu’s independent orienteering, you can explore Aurora’s yard in search of animal clues. 

The nature-themed paintings have been created with self-made plant and earth colours. Colourful animal and plant themes celebrate the diversity of the surrounding nature but also challenge us to think about the transience of everything. Vegetable dyes do not last forever. Free admission. 

Free admission. 

The concert dives into the life of bees and other pollinators from different perspectives. The concert is best suited for 3–10-year-olds. Free admission. 

The music playschool involves singing and reciting nursery rhymes in Finnish and English with music playschool teacher Tuuli Paasolainen. Recommended for ages 0–7, but all ages are welcome to join.  Free admission. 

Babies paint safely in the colours of summer. Suitable for babies aged 6–14 months. You can take the works home as a souvenir. Fee: €12, online shop kauppa.espoo.fi(external link, opens in a new window)

Contemporary circus group Race Horse Company: Sirkus ikään kuin ikään 

Mon 19 June at 10:00 Matinkylä residents’ park – Matinraitti 12 

Ma 19 June at 13:00 Community Centre Palttina residents’ park – Tegelhagen 4 

Tue 20 June at 10:00 Karakallio residents’ park – Kotkatie 10 

Tue 20 June at 13:00 Perkkaa residents’ park – Majurinpolku 3 

Wed 21 June at 10:00 Soukka residents’ park – Soukankaari 10 

Wed 21 June at 13:00 Tapiola residents’ park – Louhenkuja 4 

Thu 22 June at 10:00 Hiirisuo residents’ park – Pohjoisentie 1 

A wordless contemporary circus performance.  Duration 35 minutes.  Appropriate for all ages.  Free admission. 

The programme includes plant printing, painting with vegetable dyes and clay art. Daily changing programme. Workshops designed and instructed by Mette Lagerstam. Admission to the workshops is free.  

The programme includes visits to beehives and bee and pollinator-themed art. Daily changing programme. Workshops designed and instructed by Sanna Kängsep and Terhi Jokiaho. Admission to the workshops is free.

 (6–18 months) Tickets €12 at Espoo webshop kauppa.espoo.fi(external link, opens in a new window)

Part of the programme of the Perinnepäivät (Traditional Days) event of the Träskända area.  

Free admission. 

In the workshop, which is suitable for the whole family, you can also customise your helmet, which protects your brilliant head. Cycle to the event or grab the decorations and attach to your bike at home. 

Workshop designed and instructed by: Art Instructor Jenni Vilander. Free admission to the workshop. 

Aurora’s outdoor screening features the beloved science fiction classic E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. The film being screened is a 2002 digitally fine-tuned version of the original 1982 science fiction classic. 

In the 1980s fashion, the film will be shown using 35 mm film. 

The duration of the film is 115 minutes + film reel changes. Age limit 7 years. Free admission. 

A contemporary circus performance. Dancing and balancing on a unique mechanical horse, acrobats take the audience into the wild vortex of Indigo. Performers: Hanna Moisala and Jenni Lehtinen 

Free admission. 

 

Read more on Children’s Cultural Centre Aurora’s website.