Arts & Culture

Flags are flying across the country on 10th October to celebrate the annual Day of Finnish Literature, and the life and work of one of Finland’s most revered writers Aleksis Kivi. Born in the 1840s in Nurmijärvi north of Helsinki,…

In the forests near Tammisaari one enterprising retiree has turned his hobby into a cottage industry by picking, packing and selling hundreds of liters of berries every year. Across the country you can find more than 50 types of berries:…

Flags are flying across Finland today to celebrate the life and work of Miina Sillanpää, a trailblazer in politics, social mobility and rights. Sillanpää was born into a peasant family during the famine of the 1860s and by age 12…

A tiny restaurant in Töölö, part of the Helsinki neighbourhood’s fabric for more than half a century, is up for sale – but the new owners will have to commit to maintaining the unique atmosphere and vintage recipes that…

Late summer and early autumn is the time when the hidden mycorrhizae of the forest produce their fruiting bodies that are better known as mushrooms – but not all of them are edible. Fungi are very important organisms in ecosystems. They…

A ceremony at the Oval Office with US President Donald Trump marked the end of a four year process to return Indigenous bones and burial objects from the National Museum of Finland to their ancestral homelands. The remains of 20…

Two young Amur leopards will arrive at Helsinki’s Korkeassari Zoo this year as part of an international breeding programme to help save the endangered species. There’s currently around 100 individual animals living in the wild in Russia’s Far East, and…

Imagine a scenario where you’re isolated in your home, and have limited contact with other people. That of course is the premise for the long-running reality TV show Big Brother Suomi which returned to Finnish screens this week, but it’s…

The oldest resident at Helsinki’s Korkeasaari Zoo has died age 47. Coco the Hoffman’s two-toed sloth – nicknamed Lazy Coco in Finnish – was the oldest of her species in Europe, one of the oldest in the world, and had…

Helsinki Pride Week gets underway on Monday, postponed from its usual June date due to the coronavirus situation at that time. Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) is the patron of this year’s events, the first time a PM has taken…