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…
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…
Animal Nature Future Film Festival (ANFFF) opening with the Finnish documentary Once Upon a Time in a Forest
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…
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…
Kyrö Masterclass about whisky born in a sauna, Finnish-style!
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…
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…
Finnish piano music at the Edinburgh Fringe
Concert on 23 August at 7 p.m. at the Church Hall at Stockbridge Church Echoes of Finland: Rare Piano Gems by Sibelius, Madetoja and Palmgren Performer: Mianoora Kosonen Experience a captivating evening as Finnish pianist Mianoora Kosonen unveils rarely heard piano works by Finnish composers Jean Sibelius, Leevi Madetoja and Selim Palmgren. This program explores…
Music from the Thousand Lakes – a one-day seminar in Oxford and online
Music from the Thousand Lakes A one-day seminar on Music from Finland, Karelia, and the Meänkieli Date: 14 October 2025 Time: 1.30 pm-6 pm Venue: Large Seminar Room 204, Faculty of Music, Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe, Observatory Quarter, University of Oxford, OX2 6AH or Online: link provided closer to event date Tickets: Music from the Thousand Lakes |…
Zoom Talk with Ellen Strömberg
The Anglo-Swedish Society has kindly invited our members to their Zoom Talk with Ellen Strömberg on 18th September 2025 (18:00 – 19:15). Ellen Strömberg, who writes in Swedish and is one of Finland’s most prominent authors, will talk to us about her work as an author, including her critically acclaimed, August Prize-winning novel “We Will…