27.9.2024

Baby’s Day 2024

From 10 am to 7 pm

Welcome to attend the Baby’s Day event in Art and Culture Centre Kalevan Navetta on Friday, Sept. 27, from 10 am to 7 pm. The event is free of charge. 

Note: The language of the event is Finnish. You may, however, attend the event in all languages. Before checking in the workshops, please, do check with the guide if Finnish language is required.

Every baby and every family is unique! Baby’s Day is celebrated nationally for the eighth time. The Baby’s Day event celebrates all babies and highlights families with babies as important members of our society.

This year, the theme of the Baby’s Day in Kalevan Navetta is babies and nature.

The Baby’s Day programme includes workshop experiments, art exhibitions, knitting and clothing sales. Adults arriving with children under the age of 2 can visit the exhibitions at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki free of charge throughout the day.

MUSKARI POP-UP from 10 am to 12 pm, KAMMIO (Chamber) 1st floor

Muskari, musical playschool for small children, can be attended together with an adult. In Muskari you get to know instruments and sing and play together. On Baby’s Day, we organize 20-minute pop-up workshops. The Muskari pop-up workshops start at 10.00, 10.30, 11.00 and at 11.30. Each workshop can be attended by 10 families at a time. The event is free of charge.

BABIES’ COLOR BATH – POP UP 10 am to 12 pm, ITIKKA 2nd floor

The babies’ color bath is a visual art workshop for the baby’s family, the main focus of the work shop is to let the baby experience materials and colors together with an adult. In the Baby’s Day color bath, we will work on artistic cards that families get to take home. The paints are food-based, so please inform the instructor of any possible allergies when you arrive at the workshop. The workshop operates on a non-stop basis and the workshop is attended on a first-come, first-served basis. When attending a pop-up color bath, you should wear clothes in which possible stains do not bother you. Babies’ color bath is suitable for babies 4 months and up.

BABY-FRIENDLY EXHIBITION VISIT WITH A GUIDE from 10 am to 12 pm, HALLI 2nd floor and VINTTI 3rd floor

During the first two hours, there is more light than usual in the showrooms and the volume is quieter. The personnell of the Kunsthalle Seinäjoki will be present together with the barn cat Muu-Mau. The guide will be happy to tell you about the exhibitions on display. You may ask the guide if there is anything you wish to know about both the art exhibitions and Kalevan Navetta.

FREE ADMISSION TO THE ART EXHIBITION WITH CHILDREN UNDER 2 YEARS OLD from 10 am to 7 pm, HALLI 2nd floor and VINTTI 3rd floor

Adults arriving with a child under 2 can visit the exhibitions on display at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki for free all day from 10 am to 7 pm.

Exhibitions on display:

Tove Kjellmark’s exhibition: Horse, robot & immeasurable is on display on the 2nd floor, in the exhibition space Halli. The exhibition examines the relationship between human and horse. The exhibition features hybrid sculptures, videos and drawings.

Jacob Juhli’s Imagine a Tree exhibition is on display on the 3rd floor, in the exhibition space Vintti. The artist has transformed the Vintti into an imaginary forest where various hybrid creatures live. The installation invites viewers to consider what is natural and what is artificial.

Experiencing art exhibition with a baby

Babies and families with babies are always welcome to Seinäjoki Art Hall’s exhibitions. The exhibition premises are located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Kalevan Navetta, which can be reached by elevator. There is barrier-free access to the exhibition premises and you can take strollers/prams to the exhibitions. The childcare room is located on the 1st floor next to the info desk.

During a visit to the exhibition, you may choose to examine just the works that your baby is interested in. Babies are often interested in contrasts, lights, shadows and shapes, as well as people. The exhibition spaces can be dark, and often include different sounds which can seem exciting to a child. Please, feel free to describe to your child, in your own words, what  you see and experience in the exhibition.

Children’s sounds are allowed in the exhibition space: they are part of life. So you don’t have to worry about keeping quiet at the art exhibition.

However, please do remember that you must not touch the artworks. If there are objects in the exhibition you are allowed to touch, the objects will always be specifically indicated.

COMMUNITY KNITTING AND KNITTING TIPS from 10 am to 2 pm, in various parts of Kalevan Navetta

On the day of the event, clothes will be knitted for the babies in the spirit of Knit in Public Day. Also sharing of knitting instructions and yarn tips.

IHKA CLOTHING -POP UP from 10am to 7pm, Taito Shop 1st floor

Children’s clothes from the Finnish company Ihka Clothing are on sale at Taito Shop all day.

 

The event is organized by:

Seinäjoki cultural services, Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Seinäjoki Civic College and Taito Etelä-Pohjanmaa ry.

National Baby’s Day is coordinated by VauvaSuomi association.