14 October 2026 – 21 March 2027

We are excited to announce that the next edition of Southnord Artfest lands in Helsinki in 2026. While the full programme is still under development, plans are already underway for a headline exhibition and a dynamic series of events in collaboration with one of the city’s leading art institutions. More details to follow in the coming months.

1 November 2026

We Should All Be Dreaming is a long-term ongoing project that focuses on the radical potential of decolonial dreaming as a restorative and subversive practice. Situating itself somewhere between a workshop, a choreographed gathering and a performance, this event gently invites you to spend time together, listen together and dream together.

5 November 2026

Conviction, resistance, and belonging are not only theorised but felt, carried, and performed in everyday life. We invite you to an evening exploring embodied politics together with Marie-Louise Richards and body_hacker, bringing together two distinct practices in conversation: thought and movement, proposition and gesture.

7-8 November 2026

A weekend celebration of Afrodiasporic voices in literature, bringing together poets, authors and researchers from across the Nordic countries for readings, dialogues and exchanges with the Helsinki public. Over two days, Oodi becomes a gathering place for writers who share an African heritage and a Nordic context, and who use literature to examine what it means to live between cultures, languages and histories.