Themed on Peace, the 2025 World Village Festival will be organised on 24 and 25 May in Suvilahti, Helsinki. The call for festival programme submissions is open and exhibitor schedules have been released. Join in the action to build peace!
World Village Festival is Finland’s largest sustainable development event attracting 45,000 festivalgoers in 2024. Audiences are interested in global issues and in the work of various actors and the impacts of their work. We are looking for NGOs and other civil society actors and societal stakeholders to implement impactful programme reflecting our 2025 theme: Peace. We are looking for proposals linked to the theme that will inspire the audience for action for a fairer world:
- Talks and discussions
- Films
- Exhibitions
- Workshops
- Kids’ programme
Talks and discussions programme and film proposals can be submitted until 1 December 2024. The call for cultural programme will be open until 10 January 2025.
Become an exhibitor, vendor or partner
World Village Festival exhibitors, vendors and partners reach thousands of people interested in global responsibility, international issues, NGO activity and ethical consumption.
- The exhibitor and vendor space and advertising space price list has been published.
- The preliminary site map has been published.
- Call for partners is open.
- Exhibitor registration opens on 14 November and closes on 27 February 2025 on the festival website at maailmakylassa.fi/en. Advertising space can be booked until 27 March.
- Early Bird discount for those signing up by 17 December 2024!
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Pluralistic discussion arena that is free from discrimination and harassment
World Village Festival is a discrimination and harassment-free space and committed to promoting the principles of equality, justice and non-discrimination. World Village Festival provides an arena for discussions on global topics, with an emphasis on open dialogue and cooperation. Fingo, the organiser of World Village Festival, has updated its programme policy effective from autumn 2024:
We will invite performers to our events with a view to maximising diversity, including in particular: people representing a variety of backgrounds – such as ethnicity, cultural background, gender, age, etc. and people representing a variety of societal and political views. All those appearing in festival programme are required to commit themselves to Fingo’s Safer Space Guidelines.
We will not invite anyone who to our knowledge has been sentenced under Finnish law for agitation against a population group or for a hate crime. As regards persons whose criminal proceedings are still underway, we will assess the situation specifically for each case. As regards sentences imposed a very long time ago, we will pay particular attention to how the person has demonstrated change and commitment to promoting equality and responsibility. Fingo must not be associated with unlawful activity, but we may, on a case-by-case basis, invite to our events persons who have used unlawful actions to seek goals that are in line with Fingo’s values. We will not invite anyone who is or has been a Member of Parliament and has been dismissed from an established parliamentary group due to their conduct (not due to political differences of opinion).
Flight emission offsets to Finnish Nature Association’s Climate Group
We address the festival’s environmental impact by various environmental compensations. This year we donated to the Climate Group of the Finnish Nature Association. Members of the Climate Group fight together against the climate crisis, take concrete climate action in nature and participate in political advocacy.
World Village Festival on theme Peace 24.–25.5.2025 in Suvilahti, Helsinki. Join! Act! Change!
More information
Programme: Johanna Eurakoski, johanna.eurakoski@fingo.fi, +358 50 317 6696
Exhibitors: Laura Valoma, laura.valoma@fingo.fi, +358 50 317 6742
Cooperation: Marjo Martin, marjo.martin@fingo.fi, +358 50 317 6694
Communications: Nelli Korpi, nelli.korpi@fingo.fi, +358 50 317 6698
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World Village Festival is Finland’s leading event for global action for the whole family, an admission free cultural festival, and a trade fair for sustainable development. The event will be organised in the Suvilahti event venue, Helsinki 24–25 May 2025 with Peace as its theme. The main organiser is Finnish Development NGOs Fingo.
