Turku 2011

Turku

Turku 2011

Aims:

Turku aspires to attain internationality through this one year while promoting creative economy and cultural well-being, and as a kind of understatement not to leave anyone out in the cold or rather no one untouched or cold by what shall be realised in 2011.

"More than just one year"

Long-term projects

Long-term projects shall be launched to support the Capital of Culture project:

Development centre of creative industries and cultural export
Support service for event production
Cooperation laboratory of business life and culture
Research and service entity related to cultural well-being

Turku 2011 infrastructural projects are foreseen by constructing or restoring following projects:

Congress and main music house
New main library
Cultural quarters
Neighborhood libraries and chain of family parks
Development of the banks of the River Aura
Meeting of the old and the new in a number of urban areas under development, such as the Kakolanmaki hill and the Linnanfalt wooden quarters near the harbor

Development of Prerequisites

To face challenges coming from culture and tourism, infrastructure, economic resources, further development of expertise and international activity, projects are initiated in following areas:

Application of the 'one per cent for art' principle
Development of ateliers and atelier entities for artist groups
National urban park project
Baltic Sea centre
Centre for performing arts
Film commission of Western Finland
Nobel House and House of Books projects
Permanent post of urban and community artists

Turku 2011 Programme

The programme shall entail projects, exhibitions and events. It will be realised through national and international cooperation.

The initial ideas for the 2011 programme came from nearly 500 suggestions.

Implementation of the programme shall be the responsibility of professions from art and culture, associations, enterprises and the research and education organisations.

To fulfil the European Union goals, efforts shall be undertaken to bring together people from different cultures. The programme will try out new projects to encourage new makers of culture and audience for culture.

Altogether the year shall be subdivided into three phases: Encounters (January to April), Regeneration (May to August) and Impact (September to December).

The programme shall be comprised of four thematic entities: