Children’s Cultural Centre Aurora participates in capital region project honouring Children’s Rights Week

For the first time, children’s culture operators in the capital region have joined forces to carry out a project aimed at getting children’s voices heard across the capital region. The idea is to highlight children’ wishes for the future and their thoughts related to wellbeing. The theme of Children’s Rights Week 2023 is children’s right to wellbeing.

During the autumn, children have written poems and stories and jotted down their thoughts about children’s wellbeing. A sound artwork based on these texts will be presented at shopping centres and city-owned premises, such as cultural venues and libraries, in the capital region during Children’s Rights Week. 

The work has been created in cooperation between children’s cultural centres and partners in the capital region. Project participants include Children’s Cultural Centre Aurora in Espoo, Annantalo in Helsinki, children’s cultural centres Pessi, Toteemi and Pyykkitupa in Vantaa, Vantaan Sanataidekoulu and Sydkustens ordkonstskola.

In addition to the sound artwork, the children’s cultural centres will coordinate a flag-raising event on the morning of World Children’s Day on 20 November. In Espoo, the festive flag-raising will be carried out by actors from Teatteri Hevosenkenkä playing fairytale characters. The flag will be raised in the yard of Children’s Cultural Centre Aurora in Järvenperä, at Kulttuuriaukio square in Tapiola and in front of Sello Hall in Leppävaara.

“Children are the culture consumers of the future, and through this project, we want to give them a new kind of platform to be seen and heard across the city. This theme week is the ideal time to put this idea into practice,” says Children’s Culture Coordinator Johanna Kallioaho.
 
During Children’s Rights Week, 20–26 November 2023, there will also be plenty of events related to children’s culture around the capital region. To see what’s on, check out the cities’ event calendars.