3.6.–7.6.2025
Several locations

Kiasma Theatre’s annual festival of urban art and culture will be held for the 26. time this year.

Tuesday 3.6.
18.00 Lez Dance – Dyke Camp
Kiasma Theatre

Wednesday 4.6.
16.00-18.00 Chih-Tung Lin: Free Personal Attention
Kiasma Theatre’s foyer

17.00 Moe Mustafa: Fragmented Geography
Kiasma, Seminar room

20.00 Tiia Kasurinen: Songbird
Kiasma 

Thursday 5.6.
15.00 Harald Beharie: Undersang
East Helsinki

16.00-18.00 Chih-Tung Lin: Free Personal Attention
Kiasma Theatre’s foyer
 
17.00 Moe Mustafa: Fragmented Geography
Kiasma, Seminar room

19.00 Double Bill / Nach: Cellule & Hozan Omar: Layers
Stoa, Theatre hall (Itäkeskus) 

Friday 6.6.
15.00-18.00 Krump Workshop: Eloquence of the imaginary by Nach
Stoa, Music hall (Itäkeskus)

16.00–21.00 Call out Suomi 3×3 Breaking Edition
Kiasma Theatre

Saturday 7.6.
15.00 Double Bill / Nach: Cellule & Hozan Omar: Layers
Stoa, Theatre hall (Itäkeskus) 

16.00–21.00 URB Stage
Kansalaistori

URB festival’s 26th edition

URB has given the voice to the city, and been a reflection of its pulse and diversity for 26 incredible years already. The first festival was arranged in year 2000 – we cannot believe that the festival has filled already quarter century old! URB festival is produced by Kiasma Theatre, which is part of Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and Finnish National Gallery.

The URB 25 festival invites you to experience performances that draw from the creators’ own roots, but open up to a broader interpretation of the state of the contemporary world. The URB 25 festival programme is curated by Jonna Strandberg, Yilin Ma, Lucian Lovén, Gabriel Karhu & Aarni Pieski. 

During the festival, urban culture takes over different stages and surprising places – culminating in a free outdoor concert at Kansalaistori. Welcome to celebrate the diversity of art!

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URB festival’s partners are Cultural Centre for Eastern Helsinki Stoa and supported by City of Helsinki and The Finnish Cultural Foundation with their Taide2 project for Young Curators’ project.