Info

Leif Laaksonen

Since 1995, World Village Festival has been a free festival for the whole family. The event is open to all and a meeting place offering tastes of different cultures and surprises from all over the world.

Discover the World

Cultures from all over the world meet in the centre of Helsinki on 26-27 May 2012. The festival offers world views and possibilities, as well as music, circus, dance, theatre, art and activities.

The event offers new perspectives on tolerant multiculturalism, development cooperation, global issues and expanding one's possibilities for affecting everyday life.

Festival magazine (2011)

Organisers

The main organiser of World Village Festival is the KEPA, which is an umbrella organisation for nearly 300 development organisations or other NGOs working on issues concerning development and globalisation. KEPA itself is a politically and ideologically non-aligned organisation that operates with funding from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Over 300 other partners are involved in the festival – some 200 NGOs as well as educational institutions, museums, public authorities and businesses.

Check out the history of the festival to see how it all began.

Festival theme democracy

This year's theme is democracy, which will be featured especially in the factual programme featuring discussions and interviews. The first bits are published April 11 and the whole factual programme April 19.