Newsroom
News and current perspectives about and around Uniarts Helsinki.
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Master class in children’s theatre launches two new plays to professional stages
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Art through experimentation and chance: a public lecture by Yuko Mohri in Helsinki on 4 November
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75 years of higher education in church music
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Doctoral dissertation: Language-aware choirs can exceed merely musical purposes
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The diversity of basic education in the arts must be safeguarded amid changing municipal finances
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Call for alumni: apply for a funded residency at ISCP in New York
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Stage for Sound is the new online platform for sound-based art and research at the Theatre Academy
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Uniarts Helsinki management’s response to the Student Union’s open letter
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Uniarts Helsinki’s opening of the 2026–2027 academic year emphasised freedom and community
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Students find Uniarts Helsinki’s teaching high-quality and helpful for their creativity and critical thinking
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Call for alumni to the residency programme in Scotland
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Kıvanç Tatar appointed professor of digital arts at the Uniarts Helsinki Research Institute
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Tatyana Pogozheva’s timeless violin pedagogy is now available also in English
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Members of Uniarts Helsinki appointed to the new Council of Arts and Culture (2026–2029)
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Striving for excellence should be the child’s own choice – New global study maps how specialist music programmes support musically gifted children
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Get inspired and excited! Apply for courses at Uniarts Helsinki’s Open University starting from 4 August 2026
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Elena Mîndru takes a personal journey to jazz standards, enriched by life experiences and reinvention
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Päivi Takala appointed Professor of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts
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Joerg Fingerhut appointed Professor for Philosophy of Cognitive Science and the Arts at Uniarts Helsinki
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Uniarts Hub offers support for developing art-based business ideas
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University of the Arts Helsinki’s Kevin Skelton awarded Academy Research Fellowship funding
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Maiju Loukola named vice dean for research at the Academy of Fine Arts
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Timo Viialainen selected for the Jan van Eyck Academie residency for 2027
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A new perspective on Selim Palmgren’s symbolist world
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Kai Lehikoinen appointed professor of dance pedagogy at the Theatre Academy
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Uniarts Helsinki shaping the future of European music education – the IN.TUNE alliance sets its sights on 2030
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“Something between a book fair and a comics festival”: an idea by two fellow students grew into a popular artist book fair that will next take over Sörnäinen campus
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Johanna Ehrnrooth prize awarded to visual artist Olli Valkola
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New partnership agreement between the City of Helsinki and Uniarts Helsinki to strengthen vitality, the arts and culture
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Charlotte Clermont selected for the LIFT Alumni Residency in Toronto autumn 2026
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Kuvan Kevät 2026 is coming – explore the artists online
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Unlock new skills this summer – apply for courses at Uniarts Helsinki’s Open University starting from 31 March 2026
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Sibelius Academy sets up a new residency programme with Paloheimo foundation funding
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Helsinki schoolchildren get to hear their own compositions performed by professional musicians in a March concert
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Helmi Vesa Piano Competition prizes have been awarded
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Doctoral degree: Everyday electronic devices can evoke surprisingly strong emotions
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Four new titles of docent awarded by the Uniarts Helsinki Research Institute
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Season 2 of Yle’s documentary series focuses on acting and scenography students
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The application for the Jan van Eyck Academie alumni residency is open
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Major research funding awarded to Uniarts Helsinki in 2025
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Theatre Academy’s educational materials can be read freely online
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Filmmakers, apply for a residency at LIFT in Toronto 2026
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Leena Niemistö is the new chair of the Uniarts Helsinki Board
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Spring 2026 performances reflect on our relationship with food, myths and the gaze
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Real-time online ensemble playing comes to life through new equipment
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Apply to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten residency programme 1 Jan–1 Feb 2026
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Roy Boswell and Xiao Zhiyu Selected for Alumni Residencies in Scotland and New York
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The cosmology of the African Bakongo people inspired an album of music featuring a traditional Brazilian instrument
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New international research reveals widespread and systemic sexual violence in the arts and culture sector
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Saastamoinen foundation grants 1.3 million euros to strengthen international networks and research programmes in fine arts
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Idiorrhythmic Imaginaries research exhibition events
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Uniarts Helsinki’s Open University studies are now listed on the Opin.fi website
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Uniarts Hub offers support for developing art-based business ideas in spring 2026
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Deaf history takes the stage – and confronts centuries of violence
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Get inspired by studies in the arts at Uniarts Helsinki’s Open University next spring!
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Applications for the Creative Entrepreneur program are now open – grab the tools for entrepreneurship!
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Newly appointed professor of curating, exhibiting and mediating in contemporary art wants to train curators who can connect art, research and society
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Exhibition at Kuva/Tila showcases works by students from the Academy of Fine Arts and Universität der Künste Berlin
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Kaikukortti to be accepted at Theatre Academy performances starting in November
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Uniarts Helsinki’s conferment ceremony 2024 in pictures
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The International Research Advisory Board urges Uniarts Helsinki to profile its research
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Sibelius Academy’s Violeta Simjanovska invited by King Charles to Royal reception in London
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A new book: Socially engaged art practices strengthen inclusion and support the resilience of democracy
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A Theatre Academy student production to be featured at the international Fast Forward Festival
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Uniarts Helsinki warns that a legislative reform may lead to inequality in music studies
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Call for alumni: apply for a funded residency at ISCP in New York
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Uniarts Helsinki endorses the appeal to exclude Israel from the EU’s Horizon Europe framework programme
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Music can both harm and heal the mind – A new book explores music therapy in the rehabilitation of torture survivors and refugees
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Opening of the 2025–2026 academic year highlighted art and science in uncertain times
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Rector Kaarlo Hildén’s speech at the opening of the academic year 2025-2026
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Iiu Susiraja, Jimmy López and Noora Dadu are Uniarts Helsinki’s Alumni of the Year 2025
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New album presents the piano of the future – the world of microtones opens up with Finnish talent
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“Learning with the whole body” – Malax brings the performing arts into schools with impressive results
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Call for alumni to the residency programme in Scotland
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Join Tarek Atoui for a keynote on improvisation and participation
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Autumn at the Academy of Fine Arts: personal stories, international collaborations and artistic research in times of crises
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Hanna Kuusela, Leena Niemistö and Alf Rehn selected to the Uniarts Helsinki Board
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International Visitor Programme in Lied returns to Sibelius Academy with acclaimed line-up of artists
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Riikka Talvitie receives the first International Prize for Artistic Research in Music