Welcome to the opening of the Vuotalo Art Yard on Helsinki Day!

The lower yard of Cultural Centre Vuotalo will turn into the Vuotalo Art Yard!

An exhibition of environmental art by Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Visual Arts will open in the lower yard of Vuotalo, turning the area into the Vuotalo Art Yard! More than a hundred 12–18-year-old students took part in the work of environmental art implemented as a ceramic relief on the concrete wall of the Vuotalo Art Yard. This colourful collaboration consists of plant, insect and bird-themed reliefs. The work highlights natural values that are also vital in an urban environment.

High up in the trees in the Art Yard, you can see giant flowers and an imaginary city of birds created by the students. In the Art Yard, you can also examine and marvel at the students’ giant birds, the faces on the trees, Japanese carp-shaped windsocks, and the celebratory windsocks created as a piece of communal art in the Helsinki Day non-stop workshop.

Hung up in the windows of the Art Yard, there is a sea-themed collaborative work comprising ships, nautical charts, fish, sea monsters and other peculiar creatures, as well as animations created by media art students. The non-stop workshop of Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Visual Arts that is open to everyone allows you to make a sled kite and fly it in the summer sky.

Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Visual Arts provides basic art education in visual art and media art, in accordance with the extended syllabus, for children and young people aged 5–20. The school offers a fun hobby that allows children and young people to study visual art and media art in a goal-oriented and diverse manner, progressing year after year.

Tulilinnut at 16.15 and 17.00
Tulilinnut is an intensive group in show dance from Helsinki Dance Institute that comprises passionate and goal-oriented 12–15-year-old dance enthusiasts. In addition to having dance lessons together, the group competes actively at the junior level in various show dance competitions in Finland and regularly performs at various events.

The choreography for the group’s performance was created in collaboration by the students and their teacher, Phet Haanpää. The performance exudes the joy and pleasure of dance and features magnificent, talented young people indulging in the rapture of dance.

Free entry