Wednesday, 25 Mar 2026, 7.30pm London, Royal Festival Hall Tickets £7 – £60 The music: Lotta Wennäkoski Zelo (world premiere)* (20′) Sibelius Kullervo (70’) The performers Robin Ticciati conductor Miina-Liisa Värelä soprano Shenyang bass-baritone YL Male Voice Choir This is Sibelius in the raw. Every story has to start somewhere, and in this remarkable choral […]
Pekka Kuusisto, Sam Amidon and musicians of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra Willows Album Launch Platoon Presents at Kings Place Date: Tue 24 Feb – Start time: 7.30pm (Doors: 7pm) Violinist Pekka Kuusisto and musicians of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra bring their new album ‘Willows’ to the stage – a quietly radical programme featuring Vaughan Williams’ […]
Tim Bird has lived in Finland for forty years and has written a book about his view on Finland titled ‘Happy Land’. The book has been chosen as Book of the month for January at Standfords Book Shop in Covent Garden. Tim will be speaking at the bookshop on Tuesday 27th January at 7 p.m., […]
Finnish tango in Camden on Friday, 23 January at 8.30 p.m. Shades of Winter – The Little Heart Tango Orchestra returns to Green Note for a wintry edition of the Mystery of Finnish Tango. Nobody quite knows how the sinuous rhythms of the Argentinian Tango first made the long journey from the steamy nightclubs of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Animal Nature Future Film Festival (ANFFF) is an international platform based in the UK and China dedicated to promoting environmental and animal protection through film and the arts. Since its inception in London, ANFFF has reached over 17 million audiences worldwide. Their 2025 festival will open with the Finnish documentary Once Upon a Time in […]