The colorful rhythms and movements of afro-Brazilian capoeira will take over Kolibrí! Join us in the circle (roda) of happiness and joy created by all of us dancing, singing and playing together!

Capacity: 20 pairs

The colorful rhythms and movements of afro-Brazilian capoeira will take over Kolibrí! Join us in the circle (roda) of happiness and joy created by all of us dancing, singing and playing together!

Capacity: 20 paris

Would you like to get to know La Gallina Turuleca, El Gallo Corocó or The Green Horse? And would you like to know what happened to Papá’s car? You will meet all these characters and hear their stories in this lovely children’s concert in Spanish. This performance will surely surprise you! Come and bring your family, we will be waiting for you!

Capacity: 40 pairs

Kolibrí 2022 will offer to all participants, from audience members to artists and volunteers, the “Serenity Corner”. This will be a safe and calm space for those needing a comfortable spot for a sensory break. Besides comfortable furniture and a sensory-neutral atmosphere, the space will contain toys and activities to help regulate those with overwhelmed sensory systems. The “Serenity Corner” may prove very valuable to autistic people or those with ADHD, but can also be used by anyone who needs a quiet space, like breastfeeding mothers for instance.

Come and make your own pin 2019. Pin Kolibrí close to your heart!

Create your own Kolibrí T-shirt

Let’s put color and wings to the imagination! Bring your own cotton clothing piece and you’ll be able to stamp Kolibri’s 11th edition logo on it!

Can you feel a letter with your hands? Can you sew a sound? At this non-stop workshop, we will discover the Cyrillic alphabet! First, we will walk about the room to see what letters we can find in the environment. We will then draw, paint, create shadow installations and dance in the light. We will use textiles and learn techniques that are safe for children of all ages to play and explore. Come and join us!

Capacity: 15 pairs.

Surprise and amazement at oneself invite babies and their caregivers to think of perplexity as a way of seeing the world and as a tool to explore it.

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Babies and adults will move, play and make sounds to the rhythms of Latin American folk melodies and songs written especially for children in a calm but happy atmosphere. Songs are mostly in Spanish but we use also Finnish and English, or no language. Join us!

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Reading, singing, playing and sharing in our language is a wonderful opportunity!
Bring your favorite book, song, poem or rhyme that reminds you of your childhood, and enjoy it with your kids.
We will be waiting for you with a lot of surprises!

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Ana Paula Ojeda and Juan Palomino, our invited artists for Kolibrí 2022, will tell us all about Mexican folk art, its colours and shapes. We will paint a giant Alebrije together. Don’t miss it!

Capacity: 20 pairs.

This workshop is about the exploration of the body-space dimension, laterality, musicality and the emerging of sensations, emotions and ideas through corporal expression and movement exercises. Surprise and awe at one’s own body invite kids and their caregivers to think about bewilderment as a way to see the world and a tool to investigate it.

Capacity:15 pairs.

In this workshop, Kolibrí’s invited artists for 2022, Ana Paula Ojeda and Juan Palomino, will present the Mesoamerican animal myths featured in their famous book series, soon to be available in the HelMet libraries. Let’s create our own myths about our favorite animal and design a colorful mask! What will it look like?

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Come and join us in an interactive performance based on musical improvisation! Violist Tal Riva Theodorou and guitarist Yunjia Liu will create a dialog with the audience using free improvisation as the language. Participants will delve into a world of introspection, curiosity and active listening through sound, colors and movement. This performance will be a journey of bewilderment and awakening for both performers and audience! Come and have fun!

Capacity: 40 pairs.

Valosirkus Spektri (Light Circus Spektri) lights the world up in all colors of the rainbow! Prepare yourself for a 30-minute-long LED show with dance and music. After the performance, there will be time for the audience to try hoop dancing and playing with circus props (not LED ones). Come and join us!

Capacity: 40 pairs.

In this workshop, children and adults will be challenged to build a boat to navigate through the bewilderment of science! Reaching the destination won’t be easy or boring. If your boat is too small, it will sink. If it is very big, it will be slow. Building the boats requires simple steps that the kids can perform and the wooden boats will be propelled by magnetohydrodynamics. Let’s navigate through science together!

Capacidad: 15 pairs.

22.9-15.10.2022
Lastenkulttuurikeskus Pessi, Vernissakatu 4, Vantaa (Finland)

In this 11th edition of Kolibrí Festivaali, the special invited artist is Mexican illustrator Juan Palomino. Palomino is also the artist behind the creation of the image promoting this year’s edition of the multicultural art festival for children and their families.

During Kolibrí Festivaali 2022 (22.9-1.10), Juan’s amazing talent will be showcased through workshops for children and their families and a seminar for professional artists, students and educators, facilitated by him and the renowned Mexican writer Ana Paula Ojeda, co-author of many of his latest books.

Juan Palomino has been illustrating books for children and youth since 2008, working with publishing houses in Mexico and Spain. His books have been showcased by, among others, Fundación Cuatro Gatos (USA), The White Ravens Selection from the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich (Germany), The Honor List from IBBY (Switzerland), Best Books from the New York Public Library (USA) and the Junior Library Guild Selection (USA).

Juan has received several prestigious awards, such as the Bologna Children’s Book Fair International Prize for Illustration in 2016, the Antonio García Cubas Award (INAH – Mexico) in 2019, the Golden Apple from the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava in 2021 and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Ragazzi Award for “Cajita de Fósforos”, with Adolfo Cordova, also in 2021. Juan’s illustrations have been featured in several exhibitions in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Palomino studied philosophy and illustration at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and was also one of the coordinators of a diploma program in illustration at UNAM.

According to him, the key to his success is his commitment to continuous learning, with the aim of inspiring fascination and curiosity in his readers. His interest in illustration happened by chance, but allowed him to discover the amazing potential of illustration in enriching the experience of readers. His images feel very poetic and full of symbolism, lately focusing often on such themes as the ancient pre-Hispanic mythologies.

According to the Jury of the famous Ragazzi Awards 2021 of the Bologna Children’s book Fair: “Juan Palomino’s astonishing plates complete and expand the lines at the same time, while the images, rich in color and dramatic expressiveness, leave ample room for the active imagination of the readers.”

The exhibition will showcase the artist’s latest work in illustration for children’s literature, as well as samples of his sketch books. Visitors will thus be treated to an excellent opportunity to “spy” on his creative process and to delve into the artist’s search for the perfect image. In addition, some of Palomino´s latest books will be available for viewing.

Prints of the artwork featured in the exhibition can be purchased at the webstore of Ninho Kulttuurikeskus ry.
The purchases will support the work of our association. (www.ninho.fi)

Juan Palomino’s participation in Kolibrí Festivaali and the creation of this exhibition would not be possible without the cooperation of TAIKE, SKF, the Embassy of Mexico in Finland, Lastenkulttuurikeskus Pessi (Vantaa), the city of Vantaa, the city of Helsinki and Instituto Ibero-Americano de Finlandia.

The exhibition will be held at Lastenkulttuurikeskus Pessi, from September 22th to October 15th, 2022. The opening will be on September 22, at 5 pm. Entrance is free.

Lastenkulttuurikeskus Pessi, Vernissakatu 4, 01300 Vantaa (Finland)

OPENING HOURS: Mon-Fri 10-16

Children’s and youth literature in Spanish and Portuguese languages.

Sale of new and second-hand books, the books of Paloma Valdivia and Juan Palomino and the illustrations gifted by Isidro Ferrer and Yara Kono to support the Festival.

Kolibrí gives us a unique possibility to take home children’s literature in Spanish and Portuguese for early childhood, pre-readers, and readers. An unmissable selection of authors, illustrators, and publisher houses from Ibero-America.

In this workshop, we will discover surprising facts about the family life of birds! We will learn and have fun discussing these curiosities, connecting them to our own human family life and engaging in fun drawing activities!

Come and let yourself be surprised about the similarities between human and bird life.

Capacity: 15 pairs.

The Color Up Peace workshop aims to create a space to talk about and experience peacebuilding through visual art-making. The workshop invites participants to artistically engage with photos of peace turned into coloring pages as part of the larger Color Up Peace project. The idea behind the workshop is to encourage participants to think about the meaning of peace and peace values; to create opportunities for sharing visions of peace; to foster dialogue through collective visual art-making; and to employ visual art-making as a peace-building tool. Come and color up peace with us!

Capacity: 15 pairs.

In this non-stop workshop, participants will reuse plastic and metal packaging to make their own musical toys while also learning the first steps of playing a rhythm together. The activities happen at the same time, and the participants can join at any moment to create musical toys and to learn basic Afro-Brazilian rhythms on percussion. Joyful get-together for all age groups!

Capacity: 20 pairs

In this workshop, Kolibrí’s invited artists for 2022, Ana Paula Ojeda and Juan Palomino, will present the Mesoamerican animal myths featured in their famous book series, soon to be available in the HelMet libraries. Let’s create our own myths about our favorite animal and design a colorful mask! What will it look like?

Capacity: 20 pairs

Let´s create metamorphosis together! Each participant gets an equal amount of plasticine. They will create a character to feature in a short animation video. The next participant will then be able to take over: they will animate the metamorphosis from the first character into their own. The final result will be a continuous animation of one character into another. At the end, everyone will create a soundscape for the animation together. Come and join us in this playful and fun animation game!

Capacity: 15 pairs.

Surprise and amazement at oneself invite babies and their caregivers to think of perplexity as a way of seeing the world and as a tool to explore it.

Capacity: 20 pairs

Ana Paula Ojeda and Juan Palomino, our invited artists for Kolibrí 2022, will tell us all about Mexican folk art, its colours and shapes. We will paint a giant Alebrije together. Don’t miss it!

Capacity: 20 pairs.

A chunche, informally speaking, is any object. There is nothing specific to define a chunche, it is a word used in México to describe pretty much anything. It can be a collector’s item, or an object deemed to go into the trash. It can also be part of an object.

In this workshop, we will build paper balls filled with small surprises like toys, candy or stickers. You can keep the ball for yourself or give it away to someone you love. They are a great way to cheer someone up on a bad day. Come create some chunches with us!

Capacity: 12 pairs

Reading, singing, playing and sharing in our language is a wonderful opportunity!
Bring your favorite book, song, poem or rhyme that reminds you of your childhood, and enjoy it with your kids.
We will be waiting for you with a lot of surprises!

Capacidad: 20 pairs

Young scientists fresh out of Ninho’s lab invite other children to a surprisingly fun workshop. Come explore, through scientific lenses, the daily experiences inside any kitchen. The mentors for this amazing team of expert young facilitators are the amazing scientists Ana Alvarez Piedehierro and Inês Montalvão.

Don’t miss this incredible workshop!

Capacity: 15 pairs

Can you feel the nature around you when you close your eyes? In this workshop, children and adults will explore natural materials from the forest with all their senses. Come and create your own forest scent to take home and enjoy anywhere, even indoors!

Capacity: 15 pairs.

Reading, singing, playing and sharing in our language is a wonderful opportunity!
Bring your favorite book, song, poem or rhyme that reminds you of your childhood, and enjoy it with your kids.
We will be waiting for you with a lot of surprises!

Capacity: 20 pairs

Politicians can be reminded of children’s rights in various ways. In this workshop, families make artivist postcards and send them to politicians. Only your imagination will set the limits of what you will create! Postcards will be made using scrap materials from a dressmaker’s atelier combined with drawings to add different textures to your postcards. Come and join us!

This workshop was created by Hanna Väätäinen and Mafalda Cristina Encarnação Beijinho at Every Women’s Center.

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Oh, the joy of spontaneous creation! In this workshop, we will create an abstract artwork together using primarily materials and colors present in nature. Together, we will look at the splatters and lines we have created. Could that shape represent a house? Is that a bunny? By outlining different shapes, we can also recall different words for them. Do you remember how to say “cat” in Spanish? Come and join us in creating art and practicing different languages!

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Reading, singing, playing and sharing in our language is a wonderful opportunity!
Bring your favorite book, song, poem or rhyme that reminds you of your childhood, and enjoy it with your kids.
We will be waiting for you with a lot of surprises!

Capacity: 20 pairs.

This workshop is about the exploration of the body-space dimension, laterality, musicality and the emerging of sensations, emotions and ideas through corporal expression and movement exercises. Surprise and awe at one’s own body invite kids and their carers to think about bewilderment as a way to see the world and a tool to investigate it.

Capacity: 15 pairs

Surprise and amazement at oneself invite babies and their caregivers to think of perplexity as a way of seeing the world and as a tool to explore it.

Capacity: 20 pairs.

Are you ready to meet Saci-Pererê? In this workshop, kids will listen to a story about one of the most beloved characters of Brazilian folklore, the one-legged boy Saci. After the storytelling session, the children will let their imagination run wild and build their own Saci-Pererê with his magical red hat!

Capacity: 15 pairs.

Come with your sweetest smile, fun carnival mask, costume, party dress and dancing shoes (costumes are optional, but recommended!). Let’s celebrate the coolest party of the year: Kolibrí Carnival! Don’t forget to bring your family dressed up in their carnival costumes or masks!

Remember, the carnival staple is the smile, and anyone can bring that!

Capacity: 40 pairs