Kalevan Navetta for children
The organizations and businesses at Kalevan Navetta organize versatile art and cultural activities for children and families. On this page, we provide information about events for children and families.
Muu-Mau is Kalevan Navetta’s very own barn cat and mascot for children. Muu-Mau – or “Meow-Moo” has lived in the building long before it became an art and culture center.
Muu-Mau Autumn and Spring Day are organised twice a year at Kalevan Navetta. The events are aimed at families with children offering art and handicraft workshops. The organisers of the event include Children’s Cultural Centre Louhimo, Näppi School of Crafts and Design, and Seinäjoki Art Hall. In addition to a selection of workshops, the event offers families with children the chance to explore the exhibitions on display at the Seinäjoki Kunsthalle free of charge. The goal of the events is to encourage children and adults to be creative together and express themselves through high-quality multidisciplinary art content.
What can we find in the sky? 🌙✨☁️
At Muu-Maun’s Fall Day, we’ll explore the worlds of birds and butterflies and learn about clouds and space! This free children’s event will take place on Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The event program features art and craft workshops organized by the venue’s staff, suitable for the whole family. Throughout the day, admission to the exhibitions at Seinäjoki Art Hall is free, and if you get hungry, the Äärellä restaurant will be serving tasty snacks for the whole family.
PROGRAM:
11:00–15:00 Workshop: Pet Clouds
Kässä-rooms 1–2, 1st floor
What would it be like to have a cloud as a pet? What kind of cloud could live with you? In this craft workshop for the whole family, we’ll explore clouds and let our imaginations soar! Come join us with an adult to make your own wonderful pet cloud to take home! You can take a photo of your finished cloud at the photo booth.
The craft workshop runs non-stop, and making a pet cloud takes about 20 minutes. The workshop is free of charge.
11:00–15:00 Workshop: Space Butterflies
Kässä-rooms 3–4, 1st floor
Are there butterflies in space? At least there are imaginary ones! Space butterflies love colors and are already waiting for beautiful hues to adorn their wings—come join us for some painting!
In this workshop, you’ll create your own imaginative space butterfly, which you can send flying into space or hang in your room. The workshop involves cutting, gluing, painting, and crafting.
- The workshop runs non-stop, and you’re welcome to join whenever there’s space available.
- Children under school age must be accompanied by an adult. Material fee: 4 € per butterfly.
11:00–15:00 Exhibition: Head in the Clouds
Itikka, 2nd floor
The “Head in the Clouds” exhibition brings the realm of clouds to the Itikka space on the 2nd floor of Kalevan Navetta. The exhibition dives into the world of clouds, sharing information and stories about them through photographs, paintings, and three-dimensional forms. The “Head in the Clouds” exhibition can be seen, heard, and felt. Come experience and explore the exhibition with the whole family. During Muu-Maun’s Fall Day event, a guide will be on hand to welcome all visitors in a way that’s appropriate for their age group.
11:00–15:00 Free admission to the Seinäjoki Kunsthalle
Exhibition Space, Hall, 2nd Floor
The group exhibition The Contamination of Time features paintings, media art, and installations. The works in the exhibition tell stories of distant stars and slowly evolving landscapes. The works also reach toward the future, and the exhibition explores how our own actions shape the future.
Exhibition Space Vintti, 3rd Floor
J.P. Köykkä’s exhibition Forms of Heritage features large-scale paintings, sculptures, and videos. The works play with different colors and shapes, and some of them almost seem as if they could extend beyond the walls and into another space. What does a painting look like that you can step inside?
11:15, 12:15 & 13:15 Art Adventure: Forms of Heritage
Vintti Exhibition Space, 3rd floor
Come along and explore J.P. Köykkä’s exhibition Forms of Heritage.
What all can you discover in the works when you look at them really
closely?
During the exhibition tour, we’ll explore Köykkä’s colorful and diverse art through a fun art bingo game. Together, we’ll look for different colors, shapes, and details in the artworks. After the tour, you’ll get to create your own art in a collaborative workshop inspired by Köykkä’s works. Everyone gets to add their own mark to the collaborative artwork using paper shapes, lines, and patterns. Throughout the day, the artwork will grow piece by piece as participants join in!
The program is suitable for the whole family and is free of charge. Each adventure lasts about 30-40 minutes.
12:00 & 13:30 Bird Disco
Hugo Hall, 2nd floor
Bird Disco is an interactive and communal performance based on the music of media artist Pasi Autio and the danceer-choreographer Saku Koistinen.
Bird Disco is an entertaining, accessible, and communal experience. It has captivated and engaged audiences at a wide variety of events, in diverse settings and situations, both in Finland and abroad. The performance is suitable for the whole family.
Children’s Cultural Center Louhimo is bringing the traveling exhibition to the Kalevan Navetta multipurpose space in Itikka for the first time, from October 17 to November 15, 2026. The exhibition is part of Louhimo’s 20th-anniversary program.
The Pää pilvissä exhibition takes us on a journey to the world of clouds. The exhibition offers information about clouds and features surrealistic three-dimensional clouds, photographs, paintings, puppets and silhouettes. There is also a cloud that you can crawl into and clouds that you can hold and hug.
If clouds made a sound, what would it be like? The music in the exhibition consists of the low growls of a foghorn, summery tunes of cumulus clouds, the melancholy of a grey altostratus cloud, the slowly retreating rumble of a thundercloud and the peaceful sounds of a light-reflecting cirrocumulus cloud. Can you match the music with the clouds?
The world of clouds is the atmosphere. There is a lot to be learned about clouds. How are clouds formed? What can clouds tell us? Can you predict tomorrow’s weather from the clouds? What sayings are there about the colours and shapes of the sky? Do the changes in the atmosphere affect clouds? What would life be like without cloud-shaped pollution? Do we have our heads in the clouds?
Each cloud on display has an interesting name, such as untuvapilvi (cirrus cloud), palleropilvi (cirrocumulus), harsopilvi (cirrostratus), hahtuvapilvi (altocumulus), utarepilvi (mammatus) and jalaspilvi (cirrus uncinus).
The exhibition also includes fairy tales and stories related to clouds, and you can learn about two artists famous for their cloud paintings: Fanny Churberg and René Magritte.
We hope that after the exhibition you will see clouds in an entirely new light. You may even take up cloudspotting!
Admission to the exhibition is free, and it is open to everyone.
The exhibition is open Mon–Fri from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sat from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Excluding any private events).
The Pikkuprovinssi Club stage comes to life through creativity and talent as local children’s and youth performing arts groups take the stage at the Hugo Hall on November 18, 2026.
This free event offers a wonderful array of artistic experiences presented by children and youth. Program details will follow.