Fingo, the organiser of World Village Festival, will award the Global Philanthropist of the Year prize for the fifth time. The award is given to a...

Global Philanthropist of the Year 2025

Across the Waters Installation
Across the Waters is a participatory art installation that brings the stories of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Helsinki. The...

Book World
Book World stage will feature a non-stop programme. The topics range from wars and genocides to conflict resolution, world peace and...

The World in Pictures – 40 Years of People and Phenomena
The 40th anniversary exhibition of Maailman Kuvalehti celebrates the multi-award-winning magazine at the heart of which is world-expanding...

YMCA Peace & Sports
YMCA Peace & Sports offers activities and experiences for festival-goers. For the second time in Suvilahti, an activity area especially for young...

Street Art Area
Creativity blooms in the Street Art Area! The stage will be taken by individuals and groups representing a diversity of art forms....

Plaza of Unruly Peace
No more: RESTLESSNESS & POWER But: UNRULINESS & PEACE Towards peace in an unruly manner. Towards a more beautiful world for all. Unruly peace is...

Afro Sunday – World Village Afterparty
Afro Sunday will close the festival weekend as usual – this time on a lovely terrace in the city centre. Afro Sunday is Helsinki's first weekly...

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