Helsinki Festival
(I love the cornet in the bottom right corner! I was cleaning the postmark stains off the card and stopped when I realized it was taking the ink off the card too!)
2011
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The Helsinki Festival is the largest multi-arts festival in Finland. It is also called Finland's biggest cultural event in terms of visitors. In 2009, around 288,000 people visited the Helsinki Festival.
The festival offers hundreds of performances and events in the Finnish capital city of Helsinki.
The performances consist of theater, music, dance, art exhibitions, circus, movies, children's programs and various forms of other culture. Numerous renown international artists have also been performing at the Helsinki Festival. Many of the performances are free. One of the main events is called "Night of the Arts" (Taiteiden yö), when all the city is open for anyone to perform outdoors in the parks and streets of Helsinki.
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