Uudenmaan kulttuurimarkkinat, Helsinki-Uusimaa Cultural Market.

Helsinki-Uusimaa Cultural Market – Improving availability of culture

A new event welcomes culture producers and purchasers to Musiikkitalo in Helsinki on September 24. The Helsinki-Uusimaa Cultural Market belongs to a project with the same name. The aim of the project is to increase the dialogue with municipalities.  

Via the project, all 26 municipalities in Helsinki-Uusimaa are given purchase money to get cultural services of their own liking at the Market. You will find the purchase announcements of the municipalities at the event or online from 24 September to 6 October 2024. Preliminary info is available at the beginning of September. We expect the offers by 6 October the latest. 

Representatives for the cultural services in the municipalities will be present, as well as project partners. They will give information about various possibilities for education, funding and projects in the creative industry. They will also assist you with questions related to work.  

We wish you warmly welcome to introduce yourself, to network and to get inspired. Free access. Further information available below. 

Cultural Market program (In Finnish)

Event corners program (In Finnish)

Images in the kuvat.fi service

When: Tuesday 24 September at 8.30 to 15.30 

Where: Downstairs foyer at Musiikkitalo, Mannerheimintie 13a, Helsinki 

Registration: We look forward to your registration. By doing so, you enable an estimation of participants and the arrival of more detailed information about the event.

Make your own registration

How to participate  

There are many ways for artists and other actors in creative industry to participate at the Cultural Market. 

Leave an offer in the purchase announcement online: Each municipality in Helsinki-Uusimaa has a target it wants to buy cultural services for, especially within the project Cultural Market. You will find the purchase announcements at the event or project website from 24 September to 6 October 2024. Preliminary info is available already at the beginning of September. We recommend you to ask for further information of the representatives for the cultural services in municipalities present at the event. We expect the offers by 6 October the latest.   
Give a short presentation at the event corner: You can make a reservation for an about 5-minute presentation of your own activities or services for the small event corner in the event hall. There is a microphone, and the space is about 2,5 x 2,5 metres, but no presentation technology is available. Once the registration is open, you will get further information.  
Make a reservation for a quick meeting with a municipality: Every purchaser, that is a municipality has a list on its table with the possibility to reserve a 15-minute one-to-one meeting in a quiet spot.  
A table for you to use: Plenty of high tables (50x50cm) are available at the event. Upon arrival, you can choose any vacant table, put your own material on it and keep it for your own presentation needs for as long as needed. Tables cannot be reserved, and no presentation technology is available 
Networking and materials: Use the possibility to take business cards, flyers and brochures to the event. You can distribute them either from your own table or by giving them directly to purchasers in the area. Please note! At the same time with this event, the Culture Forum is on a lunch break from 12 to 13. It is good to be prepared for more people at your own table. 
Print your own poster and hang it on the wall: Every producer has the possibility to sell and present his or her production and activities to the purchasers, that is the municipalities. For this purpose, on the website there will be poster forms easy to fill in. You are expected to print pre-filled posters yourself. There will be poster forms, glue and tape available, A certain space on the wall has been reserved for the posters and it will be easy for the purchasers to take photos of them.

Poster word

Poster pdf

Poster ppt

Other participants at the Cultural Market  

At least the following cultural actors will be participating. The list will be updated as the event comes closer. Purchasers and other actors have a table, where they are easy to find.   

Purchasers 

The municipalities in Helsinki-Uusimaa: Askola, Espoo, Hanko, Helsinki, Hyvinkää, Inkoo, Järvenpää, Karkkila, Kauniainen, Kerava, Kirkkonummi, Lapinjärvi, Lohja, Loviisa, Myrskylä, Mäntsälä, Nurmijärvi, Pornainen, Porvoo, Pukkila, Raasepori, Sipoo, Siuntio, Tuusula, Vantaa and Vihti. 
Wellbeing services counties: Eastern Uusimaa, Western Uusimaa and Helsinki.

Other actors 

Financiers: Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council, Creative Europe, Arts Promotion Centre Finland’s project Creative Net, EU Funding Programme CERV (Citizens, equality, rights and values).  
Educators: Uniarts Helsinki, Humak University of Applied Sciences / Creative Industries Business Service Creve.
Organisations: Trade Union for Art and Culture Professionals TAKU, Culture for All, KUJE- Uusimaa’s cultural well-being contact point, Project KLOV by Suomen Yrittäjät and Helsinki School of Economics, Globe Art Point, Project Estradi.

Arrival and meals 

Arrival: Arrival is possible from 8.30 am forward. The main foyer at Musiikkitalo has a coat rack service. Steps or an elevator take you the downstairs foyer. A registration desk is found on the entrance floor. Read more about arrival(Will be opened in a new window, You are transferring to another service).  

Acessibility: Musiikkitalo is a threshold-free building, where accessibility has been taken into consideration in many ways. Read more about accessibility(Will be opened in a new window, You are transferring to another service).  

Meals: Free coffee is served at Musiikkitalo. Several restaurants in the neighbourhood serve lunches at your own expense.  