What was your best Helsinki Day experience?

I hope the weather didn’t scare you away and you all anyway attended some of the many events that took place at yesterday’s Helsinki Day. What was your best experience?

Was it maybe the huge picnic on Pohjoisesplanadi in the evening? A concert? An exhibition? Or something else?

Leave a comment how you liked the Helsinki Day 2013 (despite the weather of course)!

Street Photography – Shanghai vs. Helsinki

As part of Helsinki Day the photo exhibition Helsinki Street + Shanghai Coca will be opened today. It presents the people and lives of Helsinki on the one and Shanghai on the other hand.

picture by Yin Zi

The pictures from Shanghai come from photographer Coca Dai who lives and works in the city. His works have been shown at several prominent photography festivals around China. All the pictures from Helsinki have been made by the photographers of helsinkistreet.fi.

The official opening will be at 14:00. “Street Photography – Shanghai vs. Helsinki” will be the topic of the discussion starting at 18:00 with the photographers. The exhibition at Magito Studio is open for the public free of charge till August 3.

Happy Birthday Helsinki!

Tomorrow the whole city celebrates. Not just in the city but in many areas in Helsinki there will be something happening. So don’t miss this important day.

The Helsinki Day starts traditionally at 9:00 in the courtyard of the City Hall where the Mayor Jussi Pajunen will hold a speech, followed by some live music. During the day countless events will take place all over the city. One of the highlights will be the free Helsinki Day concert by Radio Aalto at Kaisaniemi starting at 15:00 with performances by Anna Puu, Haloo Helsinki!, Sunrise Avenue and many more. All of tomorrow’s events are listed on theofficial website.

June 12 was chosen as Helsinki Day since this was the day in 1550 that the Swedish King Gustav I founded the city at the mouth of Vantaa River. 

Happy Helsinki Day!

We reached the climax of the Helsinki Week. Today is Helsinki Day, the 200^th anniversary of Helsinki as the capital of Finland. For this day lots of events have been arranged. 

At Ruttopuisto the people from Sininen Verstas have made a special gift for Helsinki and sewed colorful fabric covers for the trees in the park. 

But there is so much more to explore today in Helsinki. A list of most (definitely not all) activities that take place today can be found from the Helsinki viikko website. One of the highlight is going to be the big free open air concert by Radio Aalto at Kaisaniemi Park. Great Finnish acts like The Rasmus, Lauri Tähk, Chisu and many more will play.

It’s gonna be a great day! Have fun!