27.03.2019
The Culture Card 2.0 development workshops held back in January were all about planning the future of the service in collaboration with Culture Card holders, professionals in the field of open art and the staff of the City of Turku Recreation Division.
A whopping 223 Culture Card holders applied to participate in the workshops, with 53 ultimately invited to attend. The selection was carried out based on the aim of gathering as diverse a group of Culture Card users as possible.
The chosen participants had plenty of thoughts and wishes and came up with ideas with open minds and great enthusiasm.
– The results of the workshops highlighted a clear need for increasing the sense of community and interaction. In response, we decided to go ahead and start holding tours for Culture Card holders this spring, which was one of the ideas presented at the workshops. The purpose of these tours is to enable random encounters with other Culture Card holders. Many participants wished for opportunities to share thoughts about cultural experiences with other card-holders following relevant events in order to deepen and share the experience, states Director of the City of Turku Recreation Division Minna Sartes.
The first tours on which Culture Card holders will get a chance to meet one another will be organised on a trial basis in March-April at WAM, Turku Castle and Turku City Theatre. Invitations to the tours have been sent primarily to those who applied for and participated in the future workshops.
There is still room on some of the tours, so be sure to register using the links below if you’re interested, as the number of places is limited. If the tours prove successful, the aim is to organise more of them for all Culture Card holders in the future.
– Some of the most interesting ideas presented at the Culture Card development workshops included a currency for accumulating cultural capital, a sharing economy platform for culture and a method for utilising these to measure the impact of well-being on things like the use of social and health care services or the direct economic benefits of available cultural services.
– The development of the Culture Card will continue based on the results received, and in the future the aim is to also make the Culture Card digital. We will be providing more information on the card’s development as the plans solidify, says Director Minna Sartes.
This spring’s tours on which you can meet other Culture Card holders
Experience Hamlet with other Culture Card holders!
Now is your chance to see Turku City Theatre’s acclaimed performance of Hamlet together with other Culture Card holders! As a Culture Card holder, you can purchase tickets to the Saturday 11 May 13:00 performance at a 5 euro discount (max. 2 tickets/person, price dependent on your chosen seating section).
During the intermission and after the show, you will have a few moments to share your thoughts and meet other local Culture Card holders. In other words, there’s no reason to hesitate about purchasing a ticket just for yourself, as you will have plenty of other Culture Card holders for company.
- You can reserve your tickets by calling the theatre’s sales number 02 262 0030 or from the theatre building’s box office at Itäinen Rantakatu 14, Turku. Limited number of places.
- Further information on the performance (in Finnish)
Exhibition by Salla Tykkä at Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art
On Saturday 6 April at 13:00, Culture Card holders will get a chance to enjoy a guided tour (in Finnish) of Salla Tykkä’s exhibition and discuss her works with the tour guide and other participants. This will be followed by a screening of one of the short films in the Trilogia series at 14:00, after which participants will have a few more moments to continue the discussion.
- Duration: 1.5 h
- Maximum number of participants: 20
- Advance registration (in Finnish)
- Special guided tour for Culture Card holders for the price of admission to WAM.
- Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Itäinen Rantakatu 38
A Few Words about Women exhibition at Turku Castle
On Thursday 11 April at 14:00, researcher Bengt Selin will be holding a guided tour (in Finnish) of the A Few Words about Women exhibition at Turku Castle. The tour will include discussion about the exhibition’s themes and selection of works as well as an exploration of the exhibition process together with the researcher and other participants.
- Duration: 1 h
- Maximum number of participants: 20
- Advance registration (in Finnish)
- Special guided tour for Culture Card holders for the price of admission to Turku Castle.
- Turku Castle, Linnankatu 80
Further information:
Niina Niemi-Nagy
Cultural Secretary
City of Turku Recreation Division
niina.niemi-nagy@turku.fi
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