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Steelfest Open Air is an annual black metal music festival located in Hyvinkää, Finland, 60 kilometres north of Helsinki. Founded by Jani Laine, the first edition occurred in 2012. It traditionally took place over two days in May at the Villatehdas venue from 2012 to 2019 before being halted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Upon its return, it ...
The Assembly demoparty 2004 in Helsinki Halli. The Assembly demoparty is an annual demoscene and gaming event in Finland. It is the biggest and the longest standing demoscene party. [1] The Summer event takes place every year at Messukeskus in Helsinki, between late July and early August, and lasts three to four days. [2] The 2020 edition was ...
[3] [17] [18] The Acts of Art Gallery was founded by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Gray to present the work of Black artists in a neighborhood “outside of the ghetto areas.” [19] "Rebuttal" featured the work of 47 black artists who opposed the “Contemporary Black Artists in America” exhibit. [20] [21] [22]
In Kallahti, a neighborhood of Helsinki, 9.8% of the population consists of Africans. [ 23 ] [ full citation needed ] On 31 December 2020, the region with the most people with a close African background [ a ] was Uusimaa with 39,987 people (2.4% of the region's total population), which is 69.6% of their total population in Finland.
Freestyle was a contemporary art exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem from April 28-June 24, 2001 curated by Thelma Golden with the support of curatorial assistant Christine Y. Kim. Golden curated the works of 28 emerging black artists for the exhibition, characterizing the work as 'Post-Black'.
People marching at the "Me emme vaikene" ("End the silence") demonstration against racism and fascism in the centre of Helsinki, Finland in September 2023. A 2011 poll showed that 66% of Finnish respondents considered Finland to be a racist country but only 14% admitted to being racist themselves. [1]
The American Negro Exposition, also known as the Black World's Fair and the Diamond Jubilee Exposition, was a world's fair held in Chicago from July until September in 1940, to celebrate the 75th anniversary (also known as a diamond jubilee) of the end of slavery in the United States at the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865.
Black Abstractionism is a term that refers to a modern arts movement that celebrates Black artists of African-American and African ancestry, whether as direct descendants of Africa or of a combined mixed-race heritage, who create work that is not representational, presenting the viewer with abstract expression, imagery, and ideas.