Kolibrí 2024 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.

Let’s put color and wings to the imagination!
Come and make your own 2024 pin. Pin Kolibrí close to your heart! 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 13th edition logo on it!

Kolibrí Festivaali celebrates the Opening of its 13th edition at STOA, with the warm-hearted children’s performance INDABA.

Discover the spirit of Kolibrí 2024 with this party that will gather the whole Kolibrí Community. This children’s performance created by Ayla Brinkmann, Kasheshi Makena and Pietari Kauppinen, combines music, songs, storytelling and dance.

A vibrant merge of bamboo flute grooves, Tanzanian rhythms and a taste of South African amapiano, trombone, flutes, timbila, and percussion.

Let’s celebrate together the beginning of Kolibrí Festivaali!

Don’t miss this fun, multicultural art workshop by Javiera Mac-lean (CL), creator of Kolibrí 2024 official image. Create unique portraits with your children using playful stamps of eyes, noses, mouths, and more fun elements!

Afterwards, we’ll combine all portraits into a collective exhibition celebrating our diverse faces and cultures.

Celebrate creativity, diversity, and community with us in this collaborative experience!

Bom Cabelo and Tambor Vivo come back to Kolibrí with the vibrant world of Afro-Brazilian culture! Join us for an energetic workshop where children and adults come together to explore the dynamic movements of capoeira and the lively rhythms of traditional samba de roda.

A fun collective activity to learn movements, help your children to practice them and discover traditional instruments such as the pandeiro, agogó, atabaque and reco-reco. You can also play them! The workshop will end with a festive roda (circle), where we will sing and dance. Don’t miss it!

In capoeira workshops for children, there are no physical barriers, as everyone can contribute with their unique version of movements.

⚠️ Please remember to bring comfortable clothes, water and earplugs or other kinds of ear protectors, in case you are sensitive to loud sounds.

A marathon of readings in Spanish! Authors, characters and histories speak about the diversity of childhood that use this language. We’ll read, sing, play and share experiences in Spanish. An event you can’t miss!

In line with the main theme of Kolibrí 2024, this installation invites us to explore and play with various kaleidoscopes, stimulating our curiosity and revealing the inner workings of this intriguing toy.

Have fun creating different compositions using colorful paper shapes, and marvel at the magical possibilities of kaleidoscopes.

Children will have the chance to play with different kaleidoscopes and interact with a large kaleidoscope construction, allowing them to observe their surroundings and capture multiplied portraits. So come with your phone fully charged and take amazing pictures with your little ones!

This beautiful artistic proposal helps us understand how even small changes can affect the whole.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A question everyone has asked themselves at some point, and children will reflect on in this dynamic activity.

First, we’ll enjoy an interactive storytelling session of the bilingual Ukrainian-Finnish children’s book “Michelle is Choosing a Profession” (AS Priton, 2024), led by its author and illustrator, Nataliia Deineka (UA). Nataliia will also facilitate an art workshop where children will draw their favorite professions while creating their own book.

A beautiful souvenir of Kolibrí 2024 to take home. And there’s more! Courtesy of the publisher AS Priton, Nataliia will gift each participating child a copy of “Michelle is Choosing a Profession.

Imagination, hope, art, and literature come together in this lovely activity that you can’t miss.

“Michelle is Choosing a Profession” comes to Kolibrí Festivaali thanks to a collaboration between Kolibrí, , and .

A marathon of readings in Portuguese! Authors, characters and histories speak about the diversity of childhood that use this language. We’ll read, sing, play and share experiences in Portuguese. An event you can’t miss!

Kolibrí dives into Indian culture for the first time with this dynamic and engaging workshop, designed for children of all ages. A fun opportunity to discover traditional Indian rhythms and poems with your little ones, and to learn how to dance like the amazing Bollywood actors!

You’ll also have the chance to dance with traditional costumes and accessories!

Unleash your creativity and confidence and immerse yourself in this unique workshop, where we will learn to express all kinds of emotions through beautiful Indian dance.

Also for families with babies! You can come with baby carrier or a wrap to dance better with your little ones.

⚠️ Following the artists’ advice, it is recommended to dance barefoot and that children don’t eat or hold objects in their hands during the workshop.

How many cultures and languages are enjoyed in your family? Welcome to a unique storytelling and art workshop featuring the children’s book “Kokonainen minä,” written by Wende Luvinga (TZ) and illustrated by Noora Ketolainen (FI) and Maryam Abuzaid-Ryu (FI).

Published by the association Familia in 2024, the book celebrates intercultural, multilingual childhoods and invites children to express their own lived experiences.

The workshop includes an engaging storytelling session where children and parents can participate, creating multilingual and beautiful moments. Following the reading, the book team will facilitate an art workshop where children can express themselves by creating portraits of their family members to take home!

This activity encourages collaborative learning and expression, making it a perfect opportunity to explore the beauty of multiculturality together!

The activity Kokonainen minä is possible thanks to a collaboration with the association Familia.

Welcome to an authentic Veracruz party, set to the rhythm of ‘café con pan’ (coffee with bread)!

The Mexican band Jaranas del Norte returns to Kolibrí with a music and dance show inspired by the children’s book “Ariles y más ariles. Los animales en el son jarocho” (Ed. El Naranjo, 2007), written by Caterina Camastra and illustrated by Julio Torres Lara.

‘Ariles y más ariles’ will take us to the Mexican countryside of Veracruz, where we will enjoy the different musical instruments, rhythms and melodies of son jarocho, its traditional musical style.

Discover its landscapes, its people, and the colorful animals that live there: singing and colorful birds, a speedy fish, a singing snake, and even a dancing iguana!

An interactive and visual concert featuring projected illustrations by Julio Torres Lara, traditional dances by the members of Jaranas del Norte, and more importantly, participation of the audience!

Immerse yourself into this unique workshop to experience art and meditation! Create with your little ones your own mandalas, using natural rhythms, playful kaleidoscope patterns, and sensory materials like colored sand and rice.

In her fourth participation in Kolibrí, Vivita Kaupere (LV) invites you to find with your little ones a space to meditate, express, and embrace the harmony of colors and nature.

Vivita will guide you with techniques, advice and visuals of mandalas, so it’s a perfect activity for all skill levels. Come with your children and create together your own artistic retreat!

Kolibrí Festivaali 2024 will host its traditional Children’s Book Fair!

Our Children’s Book Fair is one of our most traditional events and it offers a unique opportunity to take home children’s books in Spanish and Portuguese. Every year, we embrace children’s literature with a wide selection of titles from publishers throughout Ibero-America.

Don’t miss the chance to bring home second-hand and new children’s books to enjoy with your little ones .

Welcome to a fun musical journey without words! This music class offers a unique musical experience emphasizing rhythm, melody, body expression and collaboration.

Through percussion instruments and interactive materials such as scarves, maracas and a playful parachute, children and adults will explore together the richness of music and multiculturalism.

From singing and rhyming to playing instruments and moving, this special Muskari will awaken your little ones’ creativity and their interest in music.

Join this inclusive space to enjoy the universal language of music!

Get ready to groove at Kolibrí 2024 with ‘The Colors of Sound’ musical workshop! Dive into the vibrant world of Afro-Brazilian music as we learn an easy samba rhythm together.

It’s an exciting opportunity for you and your little ones to play the instruments used in a samba bateria – think chocalho, caixa, surdo, tamborim, repique o repinique, agogô, and more!

A workshop that will provide children with a fun way to express themselves and learn the power of music to bring people together.

⚠️ Please remember to bring ear protectors, like earplugs.

Welcome to this experimental and collaborative workshop where 6 mysterious boxes will allow us to feel different parts of our planet: oceans, earth, fauna, flora…

Participants will have the opportunity to not only explore natural elements, but also to express their sensations through art, on a large collaborative drawing paper.

Art and touch merge in this activity, where the collective imagination of all participants will come together to create an imaginary world inspired by diversity.

Join Mrs. Satakieli on this captivating musical adventure around the world! This well-known nightingale of Finnish culture embarks on a journey to distant countries in search of the essence of music. Encouraged by a wise owl, Mrs. Satakieli visits Japan, Australia, Congo, Brazil, and the USA, experiencing a multicultural musical journey that will reveal to her the beauty of music’s diversity.

This charming family show combines storytelling, traditional music and songs, and visuals, featuring original compositions by Paloma Catalá (ES), who is also the author of the story.

Live with your little ones this musical travel through multiculturality!

Welcome to the Touch Wood ry workshop! Experience a unique journey and explore the benefits of playing with beautiful wooden toys with your little ones. After their great success in Kolibrí 2023, the Touch Wood ry team comes back with this wonderful experience with handmade wooden toys.

This event is designed for children of all ages, providing them access to these extraordinary wooden toys that not only entertain but also enrich their play, stimulate their creativity, ignite their imagination, and promote communication through sensory exploration.

Through touch, sight, hearing, smell, and even taste (for babies), they will embark on a multisensory journey that engages their whole being.

Have an incredible time with your family! And don’t forget to turn off your mobile phones

This activity is thanks to a collaboration between the Wood Program of Aalto University and Touch Wood ry.

“What Stories Does the Moon Tell?” is a storytelling theater play, where the most unexpected characters reveal their secret gardens.

The Portuguese theater company, and Kolibrí 2024 Guests of Honour, O Som do Algodão, arrive with a performance full of short stories and filled with music and poems that highlight the the magic of the nightfall. A sensorial and performative experience to be shared amongst families.

As the sun sets and the moon rises in the sky, stories come to life. These are tales of magic, featuring such animals as pompous goats, pilot-geckos, flying-elephants and toothless crocodiles. The sounds and music let us travel into the stars, accompanied by the comfort of soft voices and wordplay.A magic play for babies, children, and dreamy families.

The participation of O Som do Algodão is possible thanks to a collaboration of the Embassy of Portugal in Finland and Estonia and Camões I.P.

INDABA is a warm-hearted children’s performance that explores the rich tapestry of Afro-Finnish identities through music, dance, and storytelling. How does it feel to be Finnish, African, or both? Who tells our stories best?

Derived from the isiZulu word for a meeting or a meaningful discussion, INDABA invites you to experience a vibrant merge of bamboo flute grooves, Tanzanian rhythms and a taste of South African amapiano and solos on voice, trombone, flutes, timbila, percussion, and dance. The performers speak and sing in Finnish, English, Kiswahili and Kisumbwa.

Inspired by the book “Third Culture Kids”, this performance celebrates diversity and fluidity and encourages each person to tell their own story in their own way. Let’s have an indaba!