Children's Pirkkaset - Children's Culture Month

Children's Pirkkaset is a joint Children's Culture Month in the Municipalities of Pirkanmaa

During the month children's culture is visible and heard all over Pirkanmaa and the program offers cultural events, workshops, exhibitions and camps produced by private actors, colleges, cultural centers and municipalities.

The baby is waving a red circus scarf.
A little girl paints the wall with watercolor.
A child with paint on her fingers.
The Program is available on-site and virtually for Children ages 0-12 and their families.

Cultural cooperative Uulu’s Biisinikkarit is the touring workshop of the Children's Pirkkaset cultural month in 2025

Cultural cooperative Uulu’s Biisinikkarit workshop has been chosen for the touring workshop of the Children's Pirkkaset. In February 2025, the workshop will tour the municipalities of Pirkanmaa, delighting children and families. Biisinikkarit workshop includes Pirkkaset's 2025 theme “participation”.

In children's culture, children's participation and encouraging children's play and creativity are important values. "Making songs together gives a new perspective on creativity: it shows that everyone can be creative and make music themselves." says Uulu's program manager Petra Käppi. In the Biisinikkarit workshop, a brand new song with words, tunes and arrangements is created with the counselors and children. The inspiration and theme comes from the participants, i.e. the children, and they get to influence the song's structure from the beginning. The final result of the workshop is a song created together, which will be recorded and made available to the participants after the workshop.

Pirkkaset's touring workshop was applied through Pirkanmaa's Kulttuuripankki and the selection was made by the regional Children's Pirkkaset working group.

Lasten Pirkkaset is a common children's culture month of the municipalities of Pirkanmaa. During the month children's culture can be seen and heard all over Pirkanmaa.

Pirkkaset Working Group 2024-2025

Children's culture network is coordinated by a working group which is established in 2007. The composition of the working group will be updated every two years. Representatives from all municipalities in Pirkanmaa are invited to take part in the activities. The working group is lead by Piia Karkkola, the leading coordinator of children's culture in the city of Tampere, with the help of a working group of municipal representatives.

Merja Kostamovaara
Coordinator
Phone:
044 431 4740
Updated 29.1.2025