Barlast is releasing their second album in 2019 and is playing a concert at the Opus Jazz Club as a part of the record release tour. Barlast (Swedish for ballast) creates spacious new music. The silence can be heard between the notes. Everything unnecessary is stripped away. Only the name remains as ballast. The Finnish group Barlast released their debut album Ihantola (LLS03/Texicalli Digital) in February 2017. Most of the album was recorded in the round attic tower of the 110 year old Ihantola building in Helsinki. If you listen closely, you can sometimes hear the soundscape of the hip

The 8th Finnish Film Days takes place on the 6-10th of February 2019 at Toldi Cinema! Finnish Film Days offers ten first-class film screenings and more special program, such as festival sauna and heavy metal concert, than before. The festival´s curator András Horváth says that this year´s program consists of ”movies with all sorts of rhythm, colour and pace, so that everybody could find their favourite ones. Sometimes these movies can be a bit witty or sour humoured, sometimes just simply strange but also hilarious, full of life and thought-provoking. And often all this in one!”

New Jazz From Finland is arranged for the second time in Budapest in December. New Jazz From Finland is a collaboration between FinnAgora and Budapest Music Center and brings exciting contemporary acts from the Finnish jazz scene to Hungary. This year Mopo and OK:KO are booked for shows at Budapest’s Opus Jazz Club. Mopo is a collective of three talented musicians from Finland. The energetic trio saw the daylight in the fall of 2009, when the musicians brainstormed as a result of a bar-fight. Mopo ("a moped") accelerates easily from zero to speed of light, but mostly the trio steps on the gas

In the prestigious Faur Zsófi Gallery opens the exhibition called OFFSPACE – The Art of Infinite Space by Finnish artist Jussi Niva and Hungarian artist Zsófi Barabás. Jussi Niva, who graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts1989, works with paintings that challenge the border between two and three-dimensional. This particular technique makes the geometrical shapes of his paintings to change depending on where the viewer is standing. Niva´s paintings were exhibited already in 1992 at Documenta, one of the most important contemporary art exhibitions in Europe. After that he has had

So you like your food delivered to your door. Awesome. How about your art? The creative pioneers from Wolt Finland and Kallan & Co. are visiting Budapest Design Week 18.10 to share their visions about bringing art closer to home. Design Delivered is a first of its kind initiative, living on the borderline between state-of-the-art food delivery and contemporary design. Due to big interest in the Wolt project Design Delieved the evening discussion is already sold out, but the event will be filmed and shared in FinnAgora's media channels after the event. More info coming soon. Information