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    This week’s Oulu2026 Cultural Personality is Antti Leikas. He is “a man, a father, a writer, the chairman of the Oulu Writers' Club,...

This week’s Oulu2026 Cultural Personality is Julian Owusu. He is a dancer, a dance teacher, a provincial artist, a polyglot, a big brother, and when...

  The Austrian city of Linz, with a population of around 200,000 was nominated European Capital of Culture (ECoC) for 2009 together with the...

  This week our Oulu2026 Cultural Personality is Roope Sulkala, 29. He is an event organizer, gig promoter and restaurant entrepreneur from...

  Aapo Rautio, 20, is an air guitar player, musician and filmmaker from Oulu.   Aapo, how does your life look like and feel at the moment,...

  The biggest city in Turkey, Istanbul, with a population of over 15 million inhabitants, was one of the three European Capitals of Culture...

  The Hungarian city of Pécs was one of the three European Capitals of Culture (ECoC ) in 2010, together with Essen (which included the Ruhr...

Writer Erika BenkePhotographer Janne-Pekka Manninen   A scientist opens a freezer and drags a heavy rectangular block of ice to the middle of a...

Four of the Baltic sea countries; Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Russia are also Arctic states with Arctic regions and the Barents Euroarctic region...