Jyväskylä Arts Festival
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Jyväskylä Arts Festival (Finnish: Jyväskylän Kesä) is an arts festival celebrated annually at Jyväskylä
, Finland
since 1956. It has since become one of the biggest arts festival
s in Finland. Close to 40 000 people took part in the event in 2009.
Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä is the capital of Central Finland and the largest city on the Finnish Lakeland, north-east of Tampere and north of Helsinki, on northern coast of lake Päijänne. The city has been continuously one of the most rapidly growing cities in Finland since World War II. The city is surrounded...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
since 1956. It has since become one of the biggest arts festival
Arts festival
An arts festival is a festival that focuses on the visual arts in all its forms, but which may also focus on or include other arts.Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions and are not to be confused with the commercial art fair. Artists participate in the most important of such festival...
s in Finland. Close to 40 000 people took part in the event in 2009.