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The Night of the Arts and Riihimäki Day will be celebrated again in September

30.8.2023 Releases Culture and leisure Culture Riihimäki Day Art Night of the arts

Night of the Arts, Riihimäki. 8.9.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX

Riihimäki's cultural autumn starts in the traditional way. This year, the Night of the Arts will be celebrated on Friday, September 8.9.2023, XNUMX, as usual, around Riihimäki.

During the night of the arts, local actors produce a program for the enjoyment of the townspeople. There will be music, dance, dance lessons, film, yard games, art exhibitions, photography, glassblowing shows and much more. You can also talk to local politicians at the party tents located in Granit Square.

At the city's tent, you can learn about participatory budgeting and talk to the city manager, Jouni Eho, who can be found between 18 and 19 p.m. At the city's tent, you can also participate in the community art workshop of Riihimäki art school. The entire evening's program will be published on Arts Night's Facebook and the city's websites.

On Riihimäki Day, Riihimäki-ness is celebrated

Come and have fun on Riihimäki Day on Monday 11.9.2023 September XNUMX in the courtyard of the city library, where the program includes the unveiling of Aaro Vakkur's author plaque, a concert and sing-along event by Anssi Känsälä and Jani Paulamäki, and a lecture by Juho Haavisto in the Paronen hall of the library: Riihimäki – Ordinary. There is an open mic event organized by the Riihimäki Society in the library yard, where everyone who wants to can perform.

Kiertokapula also organizes a playful sorting competition in the library yard at 15.30:XNUMX p.m., where MP Aino-Kaisa Pekonen and mayor Jouni Eho will compete. In the sorting challenge, the representatives of Kiertokapula's owner municipalities have been challenged to show their sorting skills against other municipalities. The contestant with a better result in the race gets to represent Riihimäki in the final result table.

On Riihimäki Day, admission to the Finnish Glass Museum, the Riihimäki Art Museum and the Finnish Hunting Museum is free between 10 a.m. and 16 p.m. Riihimäki's local transport buses and rentals of city bikes for less than an hour are free all day both on the Night of the Arts and on Riihimäki Day.

The complete Riihimäki Day program can be found on the city's website.

Riihimäki Day is celebrated as Riihimäki's birthday. Riihimäki became Finland's first crossing station with the completion of the Riihimäki-Pietari line in 1870. It influenced the growth of the station village and its further development into an independent municipality and eventually a city. The track was inaugurated by Russian Emperor Alexander II on the name day of September 11.9.1870, XNUMX.

Arts night program

Riihimäki day program

News edited on 5.9 September: Added information about free local transport.

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