Made and experienced together – Sibafest 2026
We invite Siba community to join us in co-designing and building our common event.
The concept of Sibafest was renewed in 2024 when the central theme of the event was to open up the knowledge, values and working methods of our artistic community to each other and to the public. Sibafest will take place at the end of January 2026 as an internal Sibelius Academy day followed by a day open to the public.
Three open workshops
Sibafest 2026 will be planned together in three open workshops, to which everyone is welcome. The workshops will be meetings of about one and a half hours, using a variety of co-creation methods. At the same time, we will experiment and build a new kind of event planning practice here in Sibelius Academy.
1. Collaborative beginnings and linkages – workshop
Content: The workshop will focus on the content of the 2026 activities of the departments and their possible links to Sibafest. In particular, the focus will be on new collaborative structures and the content they will generate.
Time and location: Tue 3.12.2024, 14.00-15.30, Musiikkitalo S3101.
2. Collaborative beginnings and linkages part 2 – workshop
Content: The workshop will continue the work already started and brainstorm new approaches to Sibafest content and implementation. The outputs of the workshop will be directly used to develop the concept of the event.
Time and location: Tue 14.1.2025 at 14-15.30, Teams meeting, join the meeting here.
3. Making it happen together – workshop
Content: Refine the content of Sibafest on the basis of the plans of the departments. Together, we agree on the collaborations and roles involved in the implementation.
Time and location: Tue 28.1.2025, 14.00-15.30, Musiikkitalo S3101.
The workshops will be conducted multilingual in Finnish and English.
Registration for the workshops
Registration is recommended, but you can join without registering. Based on the number of registrations, we can take into account the number of participants when planning the workshop tasks and discussions.
Please register for all or just one workshop according to your schedule. Bring ideas for 2026 related to your teaching, department or studies.
Participate in the workshops
You will be part of an experimental and unique joint event. Your input is important!
– The workshops are a great opportunity to hear about the plans of other departments and identify areas for collaboration.
– The material gathered in the workshops will be used in the planning and implementation of Sibafest 2026.
– The concept and the implementation process will be revised based on the ideas generated in the workshops.
Follow the progress of the planning
The outputs of the workshops will be summarised in Arts. You can join the workshops at any stage. Participants and registrants will be linked will be linked to the SibaFest 2026 Teams channel, where all the material related to the preparation will be collected.