Meet our Cultural Personalities
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality:Havina
The Cultural Personality of the Week is the indie band Havina. Hailing from Oulu, the band makes highly evocative music in Finnish. Havina is...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Sanna Korpi
The Cultural Personality of the Week is Sanna Korpi, who originally hails from Oulainen. Sanna Korpi completed her vocal teacher training at the...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality:Tessa Astre
The Cultural Personality of the Week is Tessa Astre, a multidisciplinary artist and art teacher. Tessa teaches comics and animation at the Liminka...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Iina Palokangas
The Cultural Personality of Week is Iina Palokangas, a singer-songwriter, music teacher, and cultural producer from Oulu. Singer-songwriter music...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality:Kristian Heberg
Our Cultural Personality of the Week is Kristian Heberg, a 33-year-old professional choir director from Oulu. Heberg conducts the Cassiopeia choir,...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Nelli Milan
Our Cultural Personality of the Week is Nelli Milan, a singer-songwriter and producer. Music and writing songs are something Nelli has been...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Peltokurki Duo
Our cultural personality of the week is the Peltokurki duo which is formed by Anna Peltomaa and Emma Kurkinen. Both of them are music creators and...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: The Vaara Collective
Our Cultural Personality of the Week is the Vaara Collective. Vaara is an independent team of practitioners and artist collective in the performing...
Oulu2026 Cultural Personality: Luovat Askeleet
Our Cultural Personality of the Week is Luovat askeleet, a multiprofessional, cross-disciplinary artistic group comprised of Johanna Aromaa,...