Category Archives: External events

  • 9th November 2025

    Transylvania and Sweden: Contested Borders and Human Rights

      11 November 2025 from 6pm to 8pm GMT at 16 Taviton Street, London A SSEES Study of Central Europe seminar with Anders Blomqvist, Dalarna University This research project examines how Sweden, as a neutral state committed to international law and minority protection, responded to the evolving Transylvanian Question from the post–World War I settlement through the […]

  • The Punsch Ball

    We have received this kind invitation from our friends at the Anglo-Swedish Society.  The Punsch Ball is on 22 November and our members have been offered the member rate of £155. The Punsch Ball will be held in William Gladstone’s magnificent library at the Royal Horseguards Hotel in Whitehall. The ball was last held here in 2017. This magnificent venue has views looking over the […]

  • 1st November 2025

    Short film by a Finnish director Wille Hyvönen

    European Short Film Festival Date: 7 November – 8 November Time: 18:00 Venue: Regent Street Cinema 307 Regent St., London W1B 2HW There is a short film by a Finnish director on 8 November: What My Mother Calls Me, dir. Wille Hyvönen, Finland, 2024, Fiction, 15 mins, Age Rating 12. When her mother dies, Anna […]

  • 26th October 2025

    Concert featuring  Leevi Madetoja’s Symphony No. 2

    Barnet Symphony Orchestra Concert Sunday 23 November 2025, at 7pm, at St John’s Church Friern Barnet, London N11 3EQ The Barnet Symphony Orchestra has extended a warm invitation to their upcoming concert which is believed to be the UK premiere of Leevi Madetoja’s Symphony No. 2 (written in 1918). This programme features one of Finland’s […]

  • 20th October 2025

    Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman

    Book launch: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman 23 Oct 2025, 18:00 UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Masaryk Room, 16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW The Modern Humanities Research Association is delighted to announce the publication of volume 11 in our Jewelled Tortoise series: Mirdja: A Decadent New Woman by L. Onerva, translated by […]

  • Cadogan Fine Arts: ‘Northern Visions’ Exhibition

    Cadogan Fine Arts presents ‘Northern Visions’, an exhibition of Nineteenth Century and Early Modern Nordic Art. This exhibition presents the work of different artists from across Scandinavia and Finland showing the influences of French Impressionism in the late Nineteenth Century towards a more conceptual or abstract style of art in the early Twentieth Century. Among […]

  • 30th September 2025

    Kyrö Masterclass about whisky born in a sauna, Finnish-style!

    Join a Kyrö Masterclass where you’ll learn about whisky born in a sauna, Finnish-style! Date and time Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:00 – 20:00 BST Location 135 Bar & Lounge, 135 Cambridge Heath Road London E1 5RN For tickets go to: Kyrö Masterclass: Whisky Born in a Sauna Tickets, Thu 2 Oct 2025 at 18:00 | […]

  • 5th September 2025

    Moominvalley in November at Upstairs at the Gatehouse

      Moominvalley in November 23 Oct 2025 until 16 Nov 2025 At Upstairs at the Gatehouse, The Gatehouse, Highgate Village, London, N6 4BD In celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Moomins, the literary family of Tove Jansson, the Anglo-Finnish Society is privileged to advertise to the members and the members of other Nordic Societies (and family, friends) a new musical by a […]

  • 4th September 2025

    Finnish/British Jazz collaboration at The 606 Club

    Star Finnish saxist Jari Perkiömäki will play at The 606 Club, 606 Club, 90 Lots Road, Chelsea, London, SW10 0QD Wednesday 10th September 2025 – 8:00 pm Music Charge: £17.00 The award-winning pianist/singer Jonathan Gee is a long established and respected bandleader and sought-after sideman who includes work with the likes of Joe Lovano, Mark Murphy, Benny Golson […]