All around the year, Cultural Centre Valve works as a venue for festivals from a variety of different disciplines of arts and culture. In addition to event spaces Valve offers PA-systems and presentation technology, ticket sales services, production cooperation, as well as a variety of other support services to organize events.
Get to know the festivals on their own websites!
- National Monolog Contest (in Finnish) in February
- Oulu Music Festival in March
- Children’s Theatre Festival huhtikuussa
- Lumotut sanat – Children’s and Youth Literary Arts Week (in Finnish) in April-June
- Oulu Pride from end of July to start of August
- Oulu August Festivals in August
- Literary Art Festival Muusajuhlat in August
- Oulu Music Video Festival in August
- New Literature Festival Oulu in September
- OuDance Festival in September
- Kehä – One-to-One Art Festival in September
- The Irish Festival of Oulu in September
- Oulu Comics Festival in November
- Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival in November
- Lumo Light Festival Oulu in November