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EVENT DETAILS🗓 Saturday 11.4.2026
⏰ 13:00–18:00
📍 Oodi Library – Children’s Area (3rd floor)
🎟 Free entry
Join us for an afternoon filled with stories, music, and languages from around the world!
This year’s program brings together multilingual storytellers, musicians, and families to celebrate children’s literature and the joy of reading across cultures.
READING TOGETHER PROGRAM 👇🏽
1:00–1:45 — Opening Concert in Hindi
International Kids Choir by ISM
Conductor: Myra Owens
Piano: Abigail Wiegand
📍 Main Stage
2:00–3:00 — Multilingual Reading Nests (with live music):
2:00–3:00 — Italian
Stories: Tania Carluccio
Music: Constanza García Correa
📍 Event Room
2:00–3:00 — Tatar & Swedish
Stories: Milena Parland
📍 Balcony
2:00–3:00 — Hindi
Stories: Arti Sudhindraa
Music: Paudel Apeal
📍 Tove Jansson Room
2:00–3:00 — Storytelling in Finnish
Story: Marjo Räti
📍 Purple Table
3:00–4:00 — Ukrainian
Stories: Nadiia Fedorova
📍 Balcony
3:00–4:00 — Portuguese
Stories: Luciana Faria
Music: Dickson Uthui
📍 Event Room
3:00–4:00 — Arabic
Stories: Nisreen Alhalabi
Music: Set Alsham R. & Arada Shamia
📍 Tove Jansson Room
3:00–4:00 — Latvian
Stories: Myra Owens
Music: Abigail Wiegand
📍 Purple Table
4:00–5:00 — Spanish
Stories: Martha Vera
Music: Yoandy Jimeno
📍 Event Room
4:00–5:00 — Bosnian–Croatian–Montenegrin–Serbian
Story: Dušica Božović
📍Tove Jansson Room
4:00–5:00 — Storytelling in English
Story: Myriam Munezero
Music: Humphrey Mbaruku
📍Balcony
5:00–6:00 — Closing Event in Swahili — “Hadithi za Pwani” (Stories from the Coast)
Musicians: Baraka Issabu, Humphrey Mbaruku, Arman Soltani
📍Main Stage
🤝 In cooperation with
Oodi Library, Multilingual Library, Global Music Department (UniArts Helsinki), International School of Music, Ad Astra, APPF, Brazilians in Finland, Croatian–Montenegrin–Serbian Club, Circolo degli Italiani in Finlandia, Suomen Italian Opettajien Ry, Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Helsinki, Saksham, Familia ry, Finnish–African Society, Association of Ukrainians in Finland, Think Africa ry, White Hands ry.
Supported by the City of Helsinki, Svenska Kulturfonden, and TAIKE.
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Event Venue
Keskustakirjasto Oodi, Töölönlahdenkatu 4,Helsinki, Finland
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