Kaija Saariaho Memorial Concert with The Carice Singers at Kings Place Sunday 2 June 2024 6 p.m. (doors open 5.30 p.m.) Address: Hall One, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG (next to King’s Cross Station) Supported by the Anglo-Finnish Society 2 June 2024 marks the first anniversary of the death of Kaija Saariaho, the […]

Tour of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), King Charles Street, London SW1A 2AH, Friday 29 November 2024 at 2 p.m.  Following our popular FCDO tour earlier this year, we are organising another opportunity to enjoy this tour.  The current premises of the FCDO in King Charles Street, designed by the architect George Gilbert […]

The Finnish Defence Attaché will be giving a talk about Finland’s NATO Membership on Friday, 9 February 2024 at 3 p.m. at the Allen Room at St Anne’s Church, Soho, 55 Dean Street, London, W1D 6AF. Captain (Navy) Mika Raunu will be addressing issues such as the reasons why the Finnish public mood switched so […]

Annual General Meeting at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 March 2024 followed by a light buffet dinner. Notice sent to current subscribing Members of the Society who are requested to notify the Hon. Secretary no later than 5th March 2024 of their intention to attend the AGM or tender their apologies to him, preferably by […]

Tuesday, 23 January 2024 at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 14 Queen Anne’s Gate, London, SW1H 9AA. Art Expert Christina Cadogan will give a talk on Nordic art to the Anglo-Swedish and Anglo-Finnish Societies about the advent of a more modern style of painting in Sweden and Finland in the late nineteenth and early […]

  Monday, 30 October 2023 at 2 p.m. for 2.30 p.m. at Queen’s House, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF. To celebrate Black History Month this year, a visit is organised to Queen’s House, Greenwich, with a focus on the sculpture of Olaudah Equiano, the writer, freedman, and abolitionist. Sculptor Christy Symington MRSS will be […]

Tuesday, 12 December 2023, at 12.30 p.m. at the Finnish Church, 33 Albion Street, London SE16 7HZ. The Anglo-Finnish Society’s Christmas lunch this year will be at the Finnish Church in London, with an opportunity to enjoy traditional Finnish Christmas dishes that are not widely available in London otherwise. The price of the buffet will […]

Tuesday, 3 October 2023 from 6.30 p.m. to 10.00 p.m. at Ognisko Polskie, 55 Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2PG. Together with the Anglo-Swedish Society, the Anglo-Finnish Society is jointly organising a King Sigismund Dinner at the Salonik of the Restaurant of the Polish Club. This year 2023 is the 500th anniversary of the accession of […]

  Tuesday, 14 November 2023 at 2.30 p.m. in the Allen Room, St Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 6AF. Jean Sibelius is a national hero of Finland and a composer of global significance. Sir Edward Elgar was one of the greatest British composers whose musical influences are commonly considered to be typically […]

Thursday, 28 September 2023 at 3.30 p.m. in the Community Hall, St Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 6AF.  This event is organised and hosted jointly with the Anglo-Danish Society. “Nordic Noir” is a crime fiction genre that applies to a type of literature and film or TV drama characterised by plain language, […]