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City of Tampere is looking for entrepreneurs to join the business mentoring programme.
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Juhani Harri retrospective at Sara Hildén Art Museum
The large-scale retrospective exhibition of Finnish artist Juhani Harri (1939–2003) includes over 100 works from 1960 until 2002.
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Freedom of choice pilot in oral health care ends on 15 September
The freedom of choice pilot in oral health care ends in Pirkanmaa in September. Customers participating in the pilot can use the services of the provider of their choice, such as have a dental check-up, until 15 September 2019. After that, they will automatically be transferred back to the oral health care services of their town of residence. Transferring does not require any action from customers.
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New low-threshold drug abuse service for young people
The City of Tampere has established a new low-threshold service for 16–25-year-olds living in Tampere and Orivesi who have drug-related problems. The youth drug clinic Nuppo in Sarvis, Hatanpää, also helps the families and friends of young people.
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Tampere gets over MEUR 3 of EU funding for improving urban and event security
The Tampere Region has the largest security competence cluster in Finland. Security is also an increasingly crucial competitive factor in international event hosting applications, for example. The funding facilitates the creation of pioneering solutions for improving the daily security of residents and visitors.
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2,140 pupils to start first grade in Tampere
A total of around 2,140 first-grade pupils will start school in Tampere this autumn. The school year begins at Tampere’s comprehensive schools on Thursday, 8 August 2019.
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The extension of Vuores school has been completed
The amount of space available at Vuores school in South Tampere will increase significantly as the new additional building starts to be used at the beginning of the school year 2019-2020. At the same time, the school, which previously only had grades 1–6, will become a comprehensive school for grades 1–9.
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Down by the Lake 14 years of Tampere-Düsseldorf-Artist-in-Residence Programme is open at Haihara Art Center 10.8.-1.9.2019
The Haihara Art Center will exhibit a contemporary art exhibition from August 10th to September 1st 2019 Down by the Lake -14 Years of Tampere-Düsseldorf Artist-in-Residence-programme. The art exhibition features a wide variety of works by contemporary artists from Pirkanmaa and Düsseldorf.
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Osamu Tezuka, the God of Manga, at the Tampere Art Museum
Two significant exhibitions of Japanese manga art will open in September at the Tampere Art Museum. Osamu Tezuka – The God of Manga is the first European museum exhibition of work by Osamu Tezuka, known as the creator and god of Japanese manga. Consisting of original works, the exhibition is produced in association with the Osamu Tezuka Production company of Tokyo and it will be on the middle and upper floors of the museum. The MangaMania! exhibition on the ground floor addresses manga as an art form and a cultural phenomenon.
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Two new exhibitions in Tampere Art Museum
There are two new exhibitions opening in Tampere Art Museum on 8th June 2019. Nastja Säde Rönkkö has been chosen The Young Artist of the Year 2019 and her exhibition Altered Breaths, Future Feelings will be presented on the two upper floors of the museum. Lars Holmström’s exhibition LXX -spectrum- features large paintings, relief paintings, constructions and video pieces.