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.

Discover Palestinian culture at Kolibrí Festivaali! Join us for a lively day in this playground, full of songs, games, poems, and traditional dances. Kampa Kollektiivi wishes to keep Palestinian culture alive through this engaging activity.

Noor Assad (PAL-FI) will teach us songs, poems and games, while Moe (PAL) will lead us through the most common steps of dabke dance, accompanied by dancers from the Finnish dabke group, Al Huriya. Don’t miss out on this moving experience, hoping for a world where all children can play in peace.

Let’s celebrate together the Opening of Kolibrí Festivaali 2025 at Kulttuurikeskus Caisa! You are welcome to sing, dance, clap, and make new friends at this super fun Opening party. A free concert where all ages and childhoods will feel the joy of community.

The multicultural band KAÔS will take us into a musical journey from Europe to Middle East and Asia, through a repertoire for families with lullabies and beautiful popular songs in Portuguese, Japanese and Farsi.

Jump into the spirit of Kolibrí Festivaali through the enchanting instruments of Ni Jui Hsin (tsugaru shamisen), Sara Majidi Nejad (qanun) and João Luís (percussion).

Come blow out the candles at this unique birthday party and let’s wish together!

Kolibrí 2025 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.

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 14th edition logo on it!

Come and make your own 2025 pin. Pin Kolibrí close to your heart!

Roma culture jumps onto the stage of Kolibrí to the rhythm of ‘bulerías’! Anette Åkerlund (FI) will offer a passionate performance for all families with flamenco dance and singing!

Don’t miss this beautiful concert with a repertoire that will merge traditional Roma children’s songs, popular flamenco songs, and other songs in Roma and Finnish, composed by Anette.

She will be accompanied by flamenco guitarist Joonas Widenius (FI) and violinist Lotta-Maria Heiskanen (FI), who is specialized in flamenco and Middle Eastern music.

Anette hopes that her concert will motivate Roma children to listen and sing in the Roma language, feeling proud of their own culture and heritage.

This activity is possible thanks to the support by the

Vivita Kaupere celebrates her 5th year at Kolibrí with an art workshop where you can bring your most colorful desires to life using natural materials, completely safe for children. Learn to paint with your little ones using elements you can easily find in nature.

A calm space to experience artistic creativity, where Vivita hopes everyone feels included, welcomed, understood, and accepted. Forget everything and let yourself be carried away to a world full of lines and colors!

A marathon of readings in Portuguese! Authors, characters, and stories that reflect the diversity of childhoods where Portuguese is spoken. We’ll read, sing, play, and share experiences — all in Portuguese. An event you won’t want to miss!

This activity is possible thanks to the support of and .

Welcome to discover and illustrate the poems that Gabriela Mistral (Chile) wrote for children! Mistral is the only Spanish-speaking female author to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. This is a playful activity to connect with literature and imagination.

Facilitators: Catalina Calderón, Consul of Chile, and Patricia Oksa, official from the Chilean Embassy.

This activity is possible thanks to the support of the .

Join this creative and eco-friendly workshop, inspired by lantern making traditions across cultures, such as Chinese, Thai, Brazilian, and Mexican. Burak Türköz and Lù Chén invite you to celebrate collaborative creativity and cultural creation with joy and care.

Make paper lanterns with your children and decorate them with “amulets” that represent your past or future wishes. Feel free to bring any sentimental objects from home to decorate your lantern, or use the ones provided in the workshop. Bring your objects and wishes to life in this activity full of creativity and sensory play!

⚠️ The activity is expected to last about 3 hours, or until materials run out.

Kolibrí dives into Indian culture for the second time with this dynamic and engaging workshop, designed for non-walker babies. A fun opportunity to discover traditional Indian rhythms with your babies, 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.

Tips:

– Ideal for caregivers and babies up to 12 months old (non-walkers). A baby carrier or wrap is recommended, although you can also enjoy the workshop with your baby in your arms.

– 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.

In her first year at Kolibrí, Donna Roca (PH) invites you to an eco-friendly craft workshop. Join us to learn how to create personalised bracelets using recycled magazines and newspapers.

This fun experience will give families a chance to promote creative recycling, share their hopes for the future, and turn them into colourful designs. We’ll provide all the materials you need, but feel free to bring your own items to recycle!

Delado Duo – Rodrigo Rodríguez (CL) and Sanna Karlsson-Sutisna (FI) – will bring families together in a vibrant community with an exciting dance and musical workshop. Embark on this fun musical journey where you’ll learn the origins of music, its movements, and rhythms through instruments like the Peruvian cajón, djembe, dundun, and pan flutes.

Explore how Latin American and African cultures have made their way to Finland, creating a unique and diverse fusion, just like our contemporary society. Let the adventure begin!

The repertoire includes Finnish, Swedish, Dyula, Spanish, Quechua, and Mapuche. The workshop will be mainly in Spanish, Finnish, and Swedish, with other languages available if needed.

Jaranas del Norte is back to celebrate Kolibrí’s birthday in the most fun way: a fandango! Join us at this party where we’ll celebrate in the jarocho fandango style, to the rhythm of café con pan!

‘Fly, fly, Kolibrí! Fandango party’ will take us to the Mexican countryside of Veracruz, where we’ll enjoy the different musical instruments, rhythms, and melodies of son jarocho, its traditional musical style.

An interactive and visual concert with illustrations, traditional dance, and most importantly, audience participation! We can’t have a fandango without you.

Dance, sing, and play percussion at this party, where son jarocho will bring us together to celebrate the community values, inclusion, and multiculturalism of Finland.

Repertoire will be in Spanish and English. Interaction with audience in English, Spanish, Finnish, and Swedish.

Kolibrí Festivaali 2025 Guest Artist, Mar Benegas (ES), will speak about the importance of poetry in early childhood – and why it’s essential to make it accessible to children.

As Benegas herself puts it: “Poetry is a little music box that rocks us to sleep, a pair of eyes that transforms the world, and the voice and playfulness of childhood. It’s the birdsong and the heartbeat. The rhythm that flows through the world and sinks its roots into timeless times. To play, to sing, to feel, to look at the world with wonder: every age has its poem, and every poem has a tiny heart that makes it sing”.

This masterclass is ideal for students of Hispanic Studies, nursery and primary school teachers, as well as all kinds of educators and parents who want to spark a love of poetry in children.

Mar Benegas’ participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the collaboration of , .

From voice and lullaby to story, from story to book, and from book to the world.

Kolibrí Festivaali 2025 Guest Artist, Mar Benegas (ES), will lead a practical and reflective session exploring early childhood and its deep connection with literature.

She’ll be joined by italian author Arianna Squilloni, founder of the publishing house A buen paso. Squilloni will talk about the birth and transformation of Benegas’s books published by her publishing house.

From oral tradition to the written word, the Spanish author will share hands-on examples for reading with young children. What kinds of books and stories suit each stage? How – and why – should we tell them?

Because reading before knowing how to read is more than just reading – it’s about creating a place in the world, a safe space where children can feel seen and begin to understand. Because from birth to age 99, everything begins.

This talk is ideal for teachers, storytellers, cultural workers and facilitators, parents, and anyone interested in bringing literature and reading to life in early childhood.

Mar Benegas’ participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the collaboration of the . This activity is a collaboration with

What would a city dreamed by children look like? In this workshop, you can experience it! In its second year at Kolibrí, artist Nataliia Deineka (UA) will offer a space where both adults and children will create their dream city.

With different templates of houses, trees, and windows, and using their favourite colours, each child will be able to create and colour their ideal home. Let’s build together a magical Dreamtown full of children’s wishes!

Get onboard an exciting adventure where wishes, stories, and dreams come to life! Anar Ensemble will create a shared space where you’ll enjoy with your child a journey through different lovely activities:

– Storytelling in Farsi/Dari and English.

– Draw and paint a collective “Wish map” full of children’s dreams.

– Discover and engage with traditional Persian instruments, like qanun.

Have fun in this experience, where we’ll explore that home is somewhere here and there, shaped by the wishes we carry.

Kolibrí Festivaali 2025 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.

Kolibrí Children’s Book Fair will spotlight the works of illustrator and writer Gusti (AR), creator of the Kolibrí 2025 image, and poet Mar Benegas (ES), our 2025 Guest Artist. You will have the opportunity to buy their books at the fair and have them signed by both authors!

For the first time, Kolibrí will welcome a guest publishing house: A buen paso, the publisher behind many of Mar Benegas’ books.

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

This activity is thanks to a collaboration with , .

Shall we give this puppet a little ‘tache? With two nice bows, we’ll make arms that match! Join us for this interactive, musical storytelling session led by Mar Benegas (ES), the Guest Artist of Kolibrí 2025. She’ll sing “¿Le pondremos un bigote?” from the La Cereza collection, published by Combel.

There’ll be illustrations, music, games and lots of fun rhymes to spark children’s love for books and support their language development. And yes – grown-ups will have fun too!

Mar Benegas’ participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the collaboration of the

Vera Lapitskaya arrives at Kolibrí with a family workshop to bring wishes to life through movement, play, and shared creativity. A space to explore new ways of interacting through movement and dance, staying sensitive to each other’s needs, and connecting with new friends. Vera is an expert teacher in inclusive dance workshops, where everyone is welcome, regardless of their abilities. Let your imagination take you somewhere unexpected!

This year, the Book Fair will focus on the work of Mar Benegas, Guest Artist for Kolibrí Festivaali 2025. The Spanish writer, author of books like “Dice el sol Dice la luna” and “¿Nicolasa, y tu casa?”, will sign books at our fair. Don’t miss it!

Also, for the first time ever at Kolibrí, we’ll have a Guest Publisher House! You’ll have the possibility to buy Mar’s books at the Book Fair, thanks to a collaboration with her publisher house .

Mar Benegas’ participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the collaboration of the

If you could invent an animal with your child, what would it be like? A bird’s head, a lion’s tail…? Find out in Ximena Gamboa’s first workshop at Kolibrí! The Mexican artist will introduce us to the magical world of ‘alebrijes’. These fantastic creatures, made up of parts from different animals and fascinating colours, represent creativity, imagination, and the expression of Mexican folk art. Jump into Mexican culture with your family and create your own ‘alebrijes’!

This activity is supported by the .

Kolibrí dives into Indian culture for the second time with this dynamic and engaging workshop. A fun opportunity to discover traditional Indian rhythms 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.

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.

“Arriving in the world, stepping out to explore it, and greeting others to make new friends”. Italian author and founder of the publishing house A buen paso, Arianna Squilloni, joins Kolibrí for the first time with an interactive storytelling session.

“A participatory gathering to read together, chat, and ask all the questions that come to mind. A journey that unfolds through four books and countless curious connections”. Don’t miss it!

This activity is thanks to a collaboration with .

Don’t miss the adventure of a forgetful little frog and the funny characters she meets along the way — all to find her friend Nicolasa’s house! Could Nicolasita be living behind the tiny little stone?

A joyful storytelling session with songs, led by Mar Benegas (ES), the guest artist of Kolibrí Festivaali 2025. Enjoy a fun time with your children while learning how to tell this delightful children’s poetry book, together with the award-winning Spanish author. Let’s go find Nicolasa’s house!

Mar Benegas’ participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the collaboration of the

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 the ‘bochinchero’ (noisy) car? Discover it all in this fun concert with Leandro Roco and Laura Havu, which we were lucky to experience at Kolibrí 2016!

After their last appearance in 2022, Leandro and Laura are back with a musical party for the whole family. Dance and sing with your children to popular and children’s songs in Spanish. Magical melodies that will make us dream and long for what moves and fills us.

This activity is possible thanks to the support of the .

Argentinian author and illustrator Gusti Rosemffet will facilitate a professional workshop for educators working with people with disabilities.

This hands-on and theory-based session introduces the inclusive art education approach developed by , a non-profit art school based in Barcelona. Co-founded by Gusti, Windown offers creative spaces for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.

As Gusti puts it: “Art is a fantastic tool with no instruction manual. In art, disability does not exist. Anyone can use it, regardless of age, skin color, gender, or disability.”

Join Gusti to explore how art can be a tool for inclusion, expression, and empowerment, fostering the unique abilities of each participant while raising awareness of social exclusion.

“No to disabilities, yes to abilities.” – Gusti

⚠️ Very limited spots with a waiting list. You can register filling out the .

For more information, write to us at:

Gusti’s participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the support of the . This activity is also a collaboration with .

The Helsinki of dreams is created together! What would make Helsinki a better place for all of us? Create something new with Legos on the map of Helsinki. Let’s get creative!

There will be information available about OmaStadi which is Helsinki’s way of implementing participatory budgeting. In OmaStadi, you can submit proposals and, through voting, decide how the city uses €10 million.

Submit proposals online between 22.9.-5.10.2025. More information: .

This activity is possible thanks to the support by and

The Sámi culture is coming to Kolibrí Festivaali for the first time! Sámi artist Petra Biret Magga-Vars and her daughters bring us a wonderful activity where we will discover the traditional Sámi yoik!

As Petra tells us: “Joik is not singing, but describing an object, person, animal, place or event through melody and sound. We want to share an interactive moment where yoik is the focus. Through Sámi songs we will also learn the Sámi language”.

Let’s yoik animals, people and learn easy phrases in Northern Sámi. A unique experience you can’t miss!

This activity is possible thanks to the support by the

Painting while playing or playing while painting? Both! A workshop to enjoy, create, and express ourselves freely. From a very young age, all children deserve moments in community.

All families are welcome to Gusti’s workshop, the illustrator of the Kolibrí 2025 image. We will explore colour, imagination, music, and play in a very cosy space. Don’t miss it!

Gusti’s participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the support of , .

Laura Zubillaga (AR) and Daniela Alatorre (MX) return to Kolibrí to celebrate its 10th anniversary with a beloved activity that was part of our first edition! This creative experience allows you to imagine, build, decorate, and play with your own birdhouse using different pieces of wood. It’s a fun activity to explore creativity through the warmth of wood. Let’s create the wish house of our dear hummingbird as a family!

This activity is thanks to a collaboration with

Connect with your baby through movement, love, and gentle touches. In her first year at Kolibrí, Mercedes Balarezo will lead a lovely workshop where you’ll strengthen your bond with your baby through dance, touch, and heartwarming Latin American songs. Join us and make every cuddle count!

Tips:

– Ideal for caregivers and babies up to 12 months old (non-walkers), as well as pregnant people and their companions.

– The workshop will be conducted in Spanish, with the option to translate into English. Perfect for families who speak Spanish or want to introduce their babies to the language.

– A baby carrier or wrap is recommended, although you can also enjoy the workshop with your baby in your arms.

Name of the activity: Gusti – Book signing session at the Children’s Book Fair

This year, the Book Fair will focus on the work of Gusti, Illustrator of the Kolibrí Festivaali 2025 image. The Argentinian writer and illustrator, author of books like “Mallko y papá” (Océano Travesía) and “No somos angelitos” (Océano Travesía), will sign books at our fair. Don’t miss it!

Gusti’s participation in Kolibrí Festivaali is thanks to the collaboration of the .

The Sámi culture is coming to Kolibrí Festivaali for the first time! Sámi artist Petra Biret Magga-Vars shares her traditional crafts workshop:

“Reindeer are a key part of Sámi culture and lifestyle. Through reindeer, we’ve learned to observe nature and its changes. Each reindeer antler is unique. If you look at a herd of reindeer, no two antlers are the same.

We humans are also different, but we belong to the same colourful herd. Each of us has our own language, culture, and customs. I bring you greetings from my reindeer in the north, who donate their antlers to the workshop participants.

In the workshop, we’ll make a ŠIELLA good luck charm with reindeer antler and wooden beads, to remind us of the importance of nature and the human community, which is like the reindeer herd. Bures boahtin! – We welcome you!”.

This activity is possible thanks to the support by the

Vera Lapitskaya arrives at Kolibrí with a family workshop to bring wishes to life through movement, play, and shared creativity. A space to explore new ways of interacting through movement and dance, staying sensitive to each other’s needs, and connecting with new friends. Vera is an expert teacher in inclusive dance workshops, where everyone is welcome, regardless of their abilities. Let your imagination take you somewhere unexpected!

Let’s celebrate together the end of Kolibrí Festivaali 10th Anniversary! Welcome to this special birthday party where the multicultural band KAÔS will take us into a musical journey from Europe to Middle East and Asia. A repertoire for families with lullabies and beautiful popular songs in Portuguese, Japanese and Farsi.

Come blow out the candles at this unique birthday party and let’s wish together!