Our beloved Día de Muertos community celebration is growing! 🧡 Save the dates: 22.10., 31.10., 1.11. This year, for the first time, our traditional family celebration will take place as two special celebration days, in two of Helsinki Metropolitan area’s most iconic cultural spaces: EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art on Saturday 31.10. and Oodi […]
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1. Introduction In May 2026, Ninho Ry association conducted a questionnaire for families living in Finland in multilingual and minority heritage language contexts, crafted by us interns, Tinka Kukkamäki and Inés De Luis Moro, who are studying for their master’s in education at Tampere and Helsinki Universities. The questionnaire received a wide range of insightful responses, with families sharing their experiences of everyday language use, different approaches to language
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Kulttuurikeskus Ninho will offer a training program for professional workers in the children’s culture sector in 2026, thanks to the funding from the Pluralismisäätio Foundation. The ‘Strength Capacity Building Training Program for a more democratic and inclusive Children’s Culture Sector’ will be an intensive program with three free workshops for professionals. The goal is to create
10 editions and more than 700 books delivered to the Helmet and Multilingual Library collections by Kulttuurikeskus Ninho. Ninho proudly continues to promote inclusion in children’s culture in Finland through the long‑term initiative “The Program for Enriching the Children’s Books Collection in Spanish & Portuguese in Finland’s Libraries.” A New Delivery of 153 Contemporary Children’s Books The Bestowal event
Reading Together returns to Oodi Library (Helsinki) on 11.4.2026 to celebrate the International Children’s Book Day. This wonderful event will feature storytelling and live music in 14 languages. This year’s program includes stories and songs in Arabic, Bosnian – Croatian – Montenegrin – Serbian, English, Farsi, Finnish, Hindi, Italian, Latvian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Tatar languages. For the first time, the Opening will start with children’s voices: International Kids Choir by International Scholl of Music (ISM), conducted by Myra Owens, and accompaniment by Abigail Wiegand in piano. And for the second year in a row,
The Program for Enriching the Collection of Spanish & Portuguese Children’s Literature in Finland’s Public Libraries is celebrating its 2026 edition! Thanks to the participation of various institutions and Embassies, 153 new children’s titles will be added to Helmet’s libraries and the Multilingual Library. Since it began in 2016, we have delivered over 700 books with the help of Embassies, authors, book institutions, and publishers. Through this
KABOOKS! 2026 is just around the corner! It’s a chance to reconnect, chat about plans for the new season, and of course, enjoy music and children’s together! Don’t miss KABOOKS! 2026 session in Spanish! To kick things off, Martha Vera (MX) will be sharing playful and engaging stories, with live music by Yoandi Jimeno (CU). If you’re looking
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Kulttuurikeskus Ninho ry invites professional artists, educators, storytellers, and musicians to be part of our upcoming KABOOKS! 2026 season. We are looking for storytellers and musicians who can perform musical-multilingual storytelling sessions to children aged 6 months – 2.5 years old years old. What is KABOOKS!? KABOOKS! is a interactive multilingual, musical story time journey
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PICNIC 2026 Spring Season is here! If you are looking for Spanish-speaking families with children, come along! PICNIC weekly encounters are designed as peer-support spaces, where you can meet other Spanish-speaking families, play, sing, learn together, and enjoy a safe-gathering while exploring the Spanish children’s literature collection at Helmet. Spanish-speaking family’s gatherings in Helsinki and Espoo PICNIC 2026 will keep offering its weekly family meetups at Pasila Library (Helsinki) and we’re excited to announce the new group
