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Parkour is a sport where the aim is to move as elegantly as possible by running, jumping, and climbing on surfaces and obstacles.
Parkour develops your strength, balance, and mobility. You can do it in your own style and at your own skill level.
Free to use. Night time silence at 22 - 7.
Governance
Juhani Ruohonen, Director of museum services
Administration
Susanna Hujala, head of development (interim)
Projects.
Pekka Käär, head of development
Administration, economy and human resources.
Ville-Matti Rautjoki, project manager
Museum of History and the Future.
Explore the sinful history of Turku by exercising
Where was justice administered? Where did hangings take place? Who committed an infanticide? What does ‘breaking on the wheel’ mean and where were these wheels? These questions and many more will be answered on a new route, with content aimed only at people over the age of 16. Sites of Sin and Justice in the 1600s leads you to different places of crime and punishment. The route is a part of the 10th anniversary activities of Turku’s year as European Capital of Culture.
The third element of the City of Turku’s sports grant system reform is the new support for competence and development targeted at sports clubs, which aims to ensure high-quality coaching in all sports clubs and associations in Turku.
Turku has nearly 400 municipal sports facilities. The extensive and ageing network requires maintenance and updates in many respects, and the annual appropriations are not enough to implement everything. The sports facility network has significant update needs when several central sports facilities reach the end of their life cycle. The renovations and changes in the school network reduce the number of gyms and outdoor fields, making it more difficult to implement school sports and the activities of sports clubs.
Decisions on the reform of the City of Turku’s sports grant system and sports facility pricing have been made by the Sports Committee, the City Council and the City Board:
The City of Turku is reforming grants related to sports and the pricing of the use of sports facilities. The reforms will be introduced in 2025. The aim is to promote the well-being of children and young people through physical activities, to support hobbyists of different sports more equally than at present and to control the increase in the costs of hobbies.
From 2025 onwards, Turku is the first in Finland to introduce a sports grant for children and young people: Each year, the City of Turku gives all Turku residents aged 7–19 years a voucher for the fees of regular, guided sports hobby activities organised by sports clubs and associations in Turku!
The sports grant system will be reformed from 2025 onwards.
Grants granted by the Sports Committee in 2023-2024
Operating grants
- Operating grant for sports clubs – Application period 18.9.-31.10.2023
- Operating grant for other association activities – Application period 18.9.-31.10.2023
- Personal assistant grant – Application period 2.10.-15.11.2023
- Event grant – Application period 1.2.-31.10.2023 (at latest 1 month prior to the event)
Grants for environments
- Facility rent grant – Application period 1.2.-31.10.2023
- Grant for Building a Spor
Current news
- The City Council has decided on the main guidelines for the overall reform of the grant system and the pricing of sports facilities included in the development policies of the sports facility network. The main guidelines will be introduced in 2025. The grant and pricing principles and details will be decided in spring 2023.
Turku has a long history as a city of culture, offering vast amounts of experiences and sights for citizens and tourists alike.
Turku is known as a multidisciplinary and renewing art city whose attractiveness factors include the performing arts, poetry, contemporary art, and diverse events. Food and sports are also an integral part of the city’s urban culture.
The attractiveness of art and culture promotes the vitality of the entire region.
A vibrant and versatile cultural city is formed by its creators, high-quality art content, and a healthy and independent professional art scene.
Cultural spearhead project’s Work from culture subproject promotes the economic operating and employment conditions of artists, the structures of the operating environment, and the cooperation between parties. The aim is to increase the visibility of the field of art and culture, build partnerships, strengthen competences, and create new and innovative activities in the field.
Research has shown that culture promotes health, well-being, and inclusion. The impacts of culture and art on well-being can be enjoyed both by the experiencer and the creator.
Turku offers culture for everyone, and the majority of the city's cultural offering is intended for all citizens to enjoy. Tailored and targeted low-threshold services are also available for example for children, young people, and older persons.
The Cultural spearhead project is one of the strategic spearhead projects of the City of Turku. The purpose of the project is to develop and promote the operational preconditions for art and culture in Turku in cooperation with the actors in the field. At the same time, the project supports the well-being of the citizens and the vitality of the region.
Free hobbies and clubs in Turku comprehensive schools and their neighbouring areas have been put together in school-specific hobby schedules.
School clubs are mainly intended for pupils of the school in question and are free of charge, unless otherwise stated. Changes are possible. Most of the schedules are only available in Finnish and Swedish.
Turku`s common Cultural Promise: A Time of Art and Culture! is a strategic and visionary outlook for the development of culture in Turku until 2029. The cultural promise serves as the basis for a Cultural spearhead project.
Präkäämö and Clay Präkäämö
Präkäämö on Thursdays 14-18
Clay Präkäämö on Thursdays 14-16
Turku recreational model groups in Vimma
Vimma is involved in a national project aimed at supporting equal recreational opportunities for primary and secondary school students.
Groups are completely free of charge and will continue to operate during the spring season. You can register to the groups, if there is enough room.
The groups are for children and young people in Turku.
Recreational groups serve a small snack.
All groups are for beginners, no prior knowledge of the topics is required.
The winter holiday event
The winter holiday at the Youth Art and Activity Centre Vimma will be spent 19-23.2.2024 with crafts, fun activities and music.
LomaPräkäämö
In the LomaPräkäämö you can relax by making jewellery, knitting cute woollen cuddly toys and handmade paper and notebooks. LomaPräkäämö is free of charge and aimed at 10-18 year olds.
Sunday in Vimma
Art and time together
Sunday in Vimma invites you to spend a relaxed Sunday doing art and things together.
At the Event of the Day, which takes place once a month, the agenda includes art workshops and a changing program organized by young people with their own event and activity team, i.e., Ta & to.
The next Sunday in Vimma 2.10., 6.11. and 4.12.
Sunday together, all ages are welcome
Open pottery and glazing
Clay hand building techniques and throwing of clay with a potter's wheel. Suitable for beginners, instructors will help you to get started.
- Wednesday 13-16
- Thursday 17-20
From March onwards online reservation is required to attend. The enrollment is held on the previous Friday at 12pm (if the workshop you want to attend is on week 12, remember to enroll in Friday on week 11).
Workshops are booked one week at a time.
Affordable exercise all season long with a single load!
The affordable Student Wristband is intended for students in upper secondary education (general upper secondary schools and vocational schools) and higher education institutions. The wristband encourages the user to exercise when it best suits their schedule. The Student Wristband is valid for four months from the date of purchase, and the user can use it once a day to access a sporting facility of their choice. The right to purchase the product requires a valid student card or certificate to be presented.
The Accompaniment Card makes it easier for a person with a disability or a chronic disease to exercise and experience culture. The card entitles one person to free admission to accompany or assist the card holder.
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