Children's Pirkkaset - Children's Culture Month

Children's Pirkkaset is looking for a touring workshop for the perioid 1-28 February 2025

Children's culture month Children's Pirkkaset is looking for a touring workshop and requests offers for workshops aimed at children. The target customers of the free events are 3-8 year old children and their families. The application is open from 18th September to 6th October in the Pirkanmaa's Culture Bank.

Children's Pirkkaset's touring workshop will be organized around 20 times in different municipalities of Pirkanmaa during February. Different spaces, such as libraries, school classrooms or cultural centers, serve as workshop spaces. The art form of the application has not been limited, but the workshop must take into account Children's Pirkkaset 2025 theme "participation". The theme of participation invites children to make art together and influence the outcome of the workshop.

Applications for Pirkkaset's touring workshop will be made at Pirkanmaa's Culture Bank at www.kultuttipankki.fi and will end on October 6, 2024. The search is carried out in the service as a request for quotation and it requires registration on the site. The use of the service is free of charge. Selections will be made on by 31.10. and details will be agreed with the selected operator separately. We reserve the right not to select any of the offers who submitted an offer.

How to make an offer: 
1. Go to the website www.kulttuuripankki.fi.
2. If you do not yet have a profile in Culture Bank, you must create your own profile so that you can participate in the offer search. Joining is free of charge. 
3. Click the register link at the top of the page. Select the Author option and fill in the information on the registration form. 
4. After that, wait for Culture Bank's maintenance to approve your profile. This takes 1–2 business days. You will be notified of approval by email. 
5. When your profile has been approved, go to www.kulttuuripankki.fi and log in with your credentials. 
6. After that, click on the Request for Tenders link, and you will find the touring performer of Lasten Pirkkaset - search information and instructions

Children's Pirkkaset is designed and developed by the Pirkkaset working group, which is made up of the cultural representatives of the municipalities, and is coordinated by the city of Tampere.

Pirkkaset-Network shares Information about Children's Culture in Pirkanmaa

Pirkkanen is the joint children's culture network of the Pirkanmaa region which promotes children's cultural activities in the area. The activities started in autumn 2002 in the form of a children's culture project, Pirkkanen, in the Pirkanmaa sub-region. Today, Pirkkanen is a network that already covers most of the municipalities in Pirkanmaa.  

The most visible activities of the network include the Children’s culture month, Pirkkaset, organised every February, and the Pirkkaset mailing list, which is open to everyone and that provides information on the training, seminars and opportunities related to children's culture in the region.