Annikki Poetry Festival

See the lineup and the schedule of the festival! Please note that the festival’s ticket office can only accept cash. So please bring some cash to avoid inconvenience!

The Annikki Poetry Festival will be held on 11 June 2022 from 11 am to 10 pm in the courtyard of the Annikki Wooden Quarter in Tampere, Finland. At the festival, the present will engage in dialogue with the past under the theme On the Shoulders of Giants The festival will once again feature prominent international performers, a fine and surprising selection of Finnish poets as well as music, prose writers, children’s programme and visual arts.

The venue

The venue of the Annikki Poetry Festival is a 100-year-old wooden town quarter in the centre of Tampere city, which has served as a very special, warm and welcoming milieu for poets and audience to meet and mingle.