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Guitar Duo Rokas Jurkus & Lovro Peretić playing guitars by the lake.
30.5.2025

Summer Festival Season Begins with Guitar Music, Choral Singing, and Visual Arts

The summer festival season kicks off next week in the Pirkanmaa region with Tampere Guitar Festival.
23.5.2025

Tampere Joins International Network of Festival Cities

In April 2025, the City of Tampere joined the international EFFE Seal for Festival…
20.5.2025

Lithuanian Culture takes the spotlight in Tampere summer events

The Lithuanian Culture 2025 in Tampere programme showcases world-class contemporary dance, guitar music, children’s theatre, and photographic art.
A group of performers on stage doing tricks on their bodies, skateboards, rollerskates, bmx bikes.
9.5.2025

The Main Programme of Tampere Theatre Festival 2025 is announced!

The largest theatre event in the Nordic countries celebrates its 56th edition 4–10 August 2025
Dancer on open-air stage with their upper body in white paint
1.4.2025

Spring dance festivals in Tampere: a celebration of heritage and innovation

Tampere Region Festivals offer fantastic experiences for dance lovers in April and May, as…
Band playing outside in front of a yellow wall, trees, audience with umbrellas
14.3.2025

Let’s make events work! Tampere Region Festivals invites the locals to organise events together

Tampere Region Festivals (Pirkanmaan festivaalit ry) and its partners are hosting an open event…
18.2.2025

Mänttä Art Festival 2025: new theme and a new approach on curating

In its 2025 summer exhibition, Mänttä Art Festival approaches the world through the negative:…
31.1.2025

Tampere Film Festival competition elections have been announced

The competition screenings of the 55th Tampere Film Festival present short films and documentaries from as many as 60 different countries.

21.1.2025

The first festival week of the year is here!

Tampere Chamber Music ja Tomaatteja! Tomaatteja! stand up -festivaali avaavat Pirkanmaan festivaalivuoden 2025.

A host presenting a film screening to a full audience
3.12.2024

Tampere Film Festival 2025: radical care and premieres from the underground

The 55th Tampere Film Festival will be held 5–9 March 2025. The first programme announcement presents local collaborations.

24.10.2024

The new folk dance festival TRADI merges two beloved dance events

The Pispala Schottische event family gets a new member as the folk dance event Tanssimania merges with the showcase event Tanssimylly 4–6 April 2025.
12.9.2024

Tampere Jazz Happening 2024: jazz poetry, Portuguese music and top pianists

This year, the Tampere Jazz Happening – organised during the weekend of All Saints’…