The 43rd edition of Children’s Culture Week celebrates friendship

20.1.2025 | This year, the Children’s Culture Week programme features friendship in its many forms. The Cultural Weeks will be held in the Kymenlaakso and Loviisa regions from 1st to 28th of February.

Friendship is a force that gives joy to life. Genuine encounters with friends, spending time together, playing and doing things together are friendship at its best. A friend can be a classmate, sister, brother, relative, acquaintance, grandma, grandpa, parents, brother, stuffed toy, pet, tree, beautiful flowers, imaginary friend or many others. It’s up to everyone to decide.

The Children’s Cultural Weeks is an annual cultural cavalcade organised by the Koppaverkosto network, which opens its doors to public events across municipal borders and visits kindergartens and schools. During February, a wide range of free family events will be organised in Hamina, Kotka, Kouvola, Loviisa, Pyhtää, Virolahti and Miehikkälä.

There will also be plenty of targeted programmes for day-care centres and schools. The total number of events doubles when targeted performances for kindergartens, pre-schools and schools are taken into account.

The varied programme invites families to move boldly across municipal boundaries and see the programme coverage across the seven municipalities. Pre-registration is required for some events. The full range of programmes is available by municipality and city on the Children’s Culture Week website www.lastenkulttuuriviikot.fi, only in finnish.

Our Children’s Culture Week event is based, as usual, on the winning work of the poster competition for schools in late autumn 2024. This year, the Children’s Culture Week poster competition was won by Kerttu Horto and Meeri Hostikka, 4th grade students at Pihkoo School. The stunning work depicting the friendship of two cats reminds us of the importance of showing emotions in the small, big moments of everyday life.

The official award ceremony for the poster competition will take place in Kotka in February in connection with the Children’s Culture Weeks event. You can also view the digital poster exhibition via the event website.