Asemakatu 6, 40100 Jyväskylä, tel. 014 – 624 800, 624 801,
fax 014 – 624 802.
Opening times: Monday to Friday 8.00am – 4.00pm.
The Centre of Cultural Activities that operate under the committee of culture carries out duties that includes taking care of the city’s cultural services, library and museum activities, basic teaching of art and the support of it. The Centre of Cultural Activities produces services of culture and art, organises youth activities and gives information on different aspects of culture.
The Centre of Cultural Activities gives advice and guidance on, for example, city’s support for culture and civic activities, youth work and for organising different events. They also have information on different premises in the city that are appropriate for holding events and exhibitions as well as the contact details for the city’s cultural organisers.
The Cultural Secretary is largely in charge of the Centre of Cultural Activities Customer Information. The Cultural Secretary’s telephone number is 014 – 624 798.
Additional information:
www.jyvaskyla.fi/kulttuuri/palvelukeskus
http://www.jyvaskyla.fi/lang/english/culture
The following are governed by the Centre of Cultural Activities: Jyväskylä Art Museum, Museum of Central Finland, Finnish Craft Museum, Finnish Centre of National Costumes, Preservation Centre, Jyväskylä City Library and Jyväskylä School of Visual Arts.
Jyväskylä Art Museum is also a district art museum of the Central Finland. It has three different places of business that hold exhibitions, events and varied activities that the audience can participate in. The most popular day to visit a museum is a Friday, because they have free entry then. Every now and then, some public workshops, which are not overly prised, are also organised during some Fridays and weekends, where anyone can try their skills at graphic art or some other methods used in visual arts.
In the Art Museum, people are able to get familiar with the visual art of Central Finland, Finnish and International graphical art, artistic photography or Finnish and International arts collections. Museums also provide information on visual arts. Museum gathers art collections as well as records and documents phenomena of art. Investigation material is collected and organised in archives at the Art Museum. Publications, exhibition books and internet pages are produced from exhibitions that are primarily meant for self-study.
The museum shop sells exhibition publications, art books and cards, graphic proofs and small gifts. Teaching material, such as slide shows, videos and teaching programmes can be borrowed from the Art Museum. Small events or even birthday parties can be held there too. There is a museum-lecturer at the museum that will help to organise a visit or a study-trip to the museum.
Museum-lecturer’s contact details: Kilpisenkatu 8, tel. 014 – 626 852
Exhibitions are open from Tuesday to Sunday at 11.00am – 6.00pm,
they are closed on Mondays.
Opening time of the office is Monday to Friday 8.00am – 4.00pm.
SUOJA, Kilpisenkatu 8, tel. 014 – 626 855
Entry fee: adults €5.00, children free. Free entry on Fridays.
HOLVI, Kauppakatu 23, tel. 014 – 525 856
Free entry to main exhibitions, but a fee is payable on special exhibitions. Material cost is payable at workshops.
GRAPHICS CENTRE / GALLERIA HARMONIA, Hannikaisenkatu 39, tel. 014 – 624
817, fax 014 – 615 730
OFFICE: Kilpisenkatu 8
Mailing address: PL 165, 40101 Jyväskylä
Tel. 014 – 626 878, fax 014 – 624 814
E-mail: taidemuseo@jkl.fi or personal mail to a known person: firstname.surname@jkl.fi
Museum of Central Finland in Jyväskylä is a museum on history of civilisation. Their address is Alvar Aallon katu 7. The opening time of the museum is Tuesdays to Sundays 11.00am – 6.00pm. The telephone number for inquiries is 014 – 624 930. www.jyvaskyla.fi/ksmuseo
Alvar Aalto Museum is a museum that preserves the heritage of an architect
called Alvar Aalto. The museum building is designed by Aalto and holds a
permanent exhibition on many different aspects of Aalto’s lifework.
Their address is Alvar Aallon katu 7. The museum is open Tuesdays to Sundays
11.00am – 6.00pm and their telephone number is 014 – 624 809.
www.alvaraalto.fi
Finnish Craft Museum is a specialist museum of handicraft and craft industry that operates in the whole of Finland. The museum also includes the Finnish Centre of National Costumes and the Preservation Centre that specialises in textiles. The museum organises exhibitions, events, workshops and other varied activities for the public audience.
People are able to familiarise themselves with Finnish craft as an occupation, hobby or as a form of art at the Finnish Craft Museum. The museum also exhibits foreign craft in changing exhibitions. In addition, the museum gathers different crafts artefacts into their collection, as well as records, investigates and documents phenomena of handicraft.
Finnish Craft Museum lends out teaching material and they also have a shop. While visiting the museum, people can borrow Finnish, Swedish, English, German or Russian audiotapes for free of charge.
The exhibitions are open from Tuesday to Sunday 11.00am – 6.00pm,
they are closed on Mondays. The address of the museum is Kauppakatu 25 and
their telephone number is 014 – 624 945.
www.craftmuseum.fi
City of Jyväskylä School of Visual Arts organises objective-oriented basic teaching of art for the children, teenagers and adults. The student is able to choose according to his/her own interests on either visual art or architecture. The teaching takes place in specified age groups. The application period to get into the School of Visual Arts is each year at the end of April. The places are distributed between the applicants by a draw when there are more applicants than there are places at the course. All courses are subject to a fee.
City of Jyväskylä Library, i.e. Central Finland Regional Library at Vapaudenkatu 39-41 offers the immigrant
Additional information can be requested from the information services on the second floor at City of Jyväskylä Library, i.e. Central Finland Regional Library, tel. 014 – 624 440. The information services will also take suggestions on what new material they should get. The lending office on the second floor of the main library, tel. 014 – 624 464, helps customers on matters about borrowing material from the library. All of the library’s branches provide leaflets in several different languages about library’s regulations of use, lending times and fees. The opening times for the main library and its branches are available on the internet at www.jyvaskyla.fi/kirjasto .
Additional information about the library is available on the internet at www.jyvaskyla.fi/kirjasto
Vapaudenkatu 39-41
The Adult Education Centre of Jyväskylä region operates in Jyväskylä, the municipalities of Jyväskylä, Uurainen and Muurame. Many of the courses are held in the same building with the library at the city centre. Some courses are also organised in different residential area. The Adult Education Centre offers a possibility to choose from hundreds of different courses in, for example, languages or different aspects of arts and crafts. Finnish language can be studied on the course called “Finnish for Foreigners”. Classes are held once or twice a week, mainly during the evenings and usually lasting for one and half hours at a time. The courses do not end with examinations; instead, they are ideal as a hobby or for developing one’s own skills alongside of work. The brochure of the Adult Education Centre is distributed to all homes during early autumn. It lists all the courses starting that autumn and the following spring, as well as the instructions on how to sign up for a course. All courses are subject to a fee, but their prices are very good.
Advice Centre for Handicraft is also part of the City of Jyväskylä Adult Education Centre. It is situated at Torikeskus on the fourth floor and their telephone number is 014 – 626 594. It is possible to weave, sow and get guidance there. The Advice Centre for Handicraft is open through out the year.
The student union for the students at the Adult Education Centre is “Opistolaisyhdistys ry” and all of the student belong to it. The union organises, for example, trips and get-togethers, and they have a summer cottage by the lake Tuomiojärvi for the students’ use.
The politico-employment education for the immigrants, such as basic and advanced Finnish language courses, are also organises at the Adult Education Centre.
The Adult Education Centre gladly receives suggestions from the immigrants for new courses. The Principle’s telephone number is 014 – 625 598.
Additional information:
www.jyvaskylanseutu.fi/kansalaisopisto
The City of Jyväskylä Volunteer Centre called VaPari works in cooperation with Finnish Red Cross for the district of Western Finland, Jyväskylä and Kuokkala divisions, as well as immigrant services and other organisations that support the immigrant integration. The following services are possible at VaPari:
Courses training support personnel are organised at VaPari about 2-3 times a year. The course is run during the evenings and takes 12-15 hours to complete. VaPari has previously organised also courses training ethnic support personnel. The support personnel who take part in the activities are offered complementary training and guidance.
VaPari has trained voluntary support personnel on their list. None of the professional services are replaced by the work carried out by the support personnel. Those needing support are found either through Immigrant Services or directly from those attending VaPari. All services are carried out in full confidentiality.
Telephone number for arranging contacts for friends and support personnel is 014 – 625 546, and it can be called from Monday to Friday 8.00am – 11.00pm. Appointments can be made at VaPari.
VaPari’s rooms at Kumppanustalo are available to anyone for meetings with friends and with, for example, an interpreter. The immigrants have also a change to take part in groups that are run by some volunteers.
Together with SPR, VaPari organises welcome parties for the immigrants and they have also been invited to Valentine’s Day parties and events of International Volunteer’s Day. The programme at these parties is multicultural.
E-mail: vapari@jyvaskyla.fi , address: Kumppanustalo, Vapaudenkatu 4, 40100 Jyväskylä.
The largest sport complex in Scandinavia, called Hippos, is situated in
the centre of town. Exercise and sports are also seen in Jyväskylä’s
street life more than usual, because the country’s only Faculty of
Physical Education is situated in the city. The highest education and research
of sports are also situated at Hippos sports complex, annex of sport establishment
in addition to University Campus. KIHU- Research Centre of Competition and
Top-ranking Athletics, and LIKES – Promotional Foundations of Sports
and National Health, are placed at Hippos area as well as some of the university
premises like Welfare Technology Centre, Viveca.
Additional information can be found at:
www.jyvaskyla.fi/liikunta
www.kihu.fi
www.likes.fi
The possibilities for outdoor and indoor sports are good in Jyväskylä.
Laajavuori outdoor park and winter sports centre can be found immediately
close to the city centre. The network of cross-country skiing tracks is vast
in Jyväskylä. There are over 200km of maintained cross-country
skiing tracks and at Laajavuori alone, there are 62,5km of them. There is
33km of cross-country skiing track that is lit in Jyväskylä. Tracks
usually start from one of the sports parks. There are all together 11 sports
parks in the city where an ice rink can be found during the winter. At Viitaniemi,
there is a large ice rink that serves speed skaters and bandy players. The
ice rink is also excellent for normal public skating.
www.jyvaskylanseutu.fi/kannat/latuinfo
Modern sport and exercise takes place also in sports halls where the weather or seasons does not affect the performance. Sports halls also provide the opportunity to hold large indoor celebrations or folk events. Hippos Sports Centre is a multipurpose sports centre where the possibilities for hobbies, such as athletics or racket and ball games, can be found. Full size artificial lawn that can be spread out makes it possible to carry out proper winter practice for many of our sports teams in, for example, baseball and football.
Downstairs of Hippos Sport Centre has two ice rinks for practise that are used especially by the juniors. Next to Hippos, there is a competition ice rink where, for example, JYP’s (Jyväskylä’s own hockey team) hockey games take place.
Community Centre is the centre for indoor sports at Hippos where it is possible to play almost all of the indoor games. The same is possible in the air-raid shelter that is built into the rock at Kuokkala residential area. Multipurpose halls for different types of sports have been dug into the air-raid shelter sports centre called Graniitti at Kuokkala. The city’s indoor firing range is also situated at Graniitti.
There are about 130 different sports clubs in Jyväskylä that offers
almost 70 different hobbies. Running, cycling and gymnastics are the most
popular sports. Children’s and the teenagers’ hobbies are mostly
ice hockey, football, gymnastics and dance.
www.jyvaskylanseutu.fi/kannat/liikuntaseurat/
www.jyvaskyla.fi/liikunta
e-mail: liikunta.info@jkl.fi
telephone: 014 – 624 848
Jyväskylä Town Theatre is situated at the theatre building designed by Alvar Aalto and built in 1982. The theatre has two stages of which the larger one can seat 551 people and the smaller one 98 people. Information about their programme is available on the internet at www.jyvaskyla.fi/kaupunginteatteri . Ticket reservations can be made either on the internet or by phoning the sales office on 014 – 624 200.
There are also several amateur theatres in Jyväskylä and many of them have received national theatre awards too. Additional information is available, for example, at www.jyvaskyla.fi/kulttuuri
Cinema Fantasia is situated in Jyväskeskus on Kauppakatu 29-31. The ticket office of Fantasia is on the first floor, where as the cinema halls, kiosk and the cinema office are on the third floor. The programme can be found at www.finnkino.fi/teatterit in the submenu of Jyväskylä. Ticket reservations can be made either at the ticket office or through the internet. Foreign films and TV-programmes in Finland have subtitles in Finnish and/or Swedish, so it is possible to watch a film or a programme with its original soundtrack
One way of using spare time is to be active in different associations. Often, immigrants have formed associations to preserve their own culture and to integrate into the new society.
Just three people could already set up an association, but it is important to get more people to support the association. People that are invited to the constitutive meeting are the kind that could also be possible members of the association. The initiators will think beforehand who would be invited to discuss the forming of the association.
The aim of the association is to be non-profit making. This means that the association would be working for a good and real cause. The aim of the association could be, for example, the preservation of one’s own language or religion, organising a chance for a common sports or recreation, or introducing one’s own culture to others. The aims of the association and the methods of implementing its activities are so closely linked, it is practical to discuss them at the same time. There are two questions to be discussed:
What is the aim of the association, in other words, what do we want to achieve with the activities of the association?
How is the association going to be performing, in other words, how are we going to achieve our aims or what do we want to do in our association?
The rules of the association must define the following:
The register of the associations is held by the National
Board of Patents and Registration of Trademarks. The register holds the following
information on each association: memorandum of association, the rules, names
and home counties of the chairman and other members that are able to sign
their name on legal documents on behalf of the association. Usually, the names
of those members who are able to sign their name on legal documents on behalf
of the association are also stated in the rules of the association, the chairman
always being one of them. The registration authority checks that the association
is not against the law and good manners or otherwise unsuitable. The information
on the register of an association is open to all and anyone who wishes to
see it can take a look at it.
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