City of Jyväskylä

Linkki's Elf Hat day is coming back again. The fifth-ever Elf Hat day will be celebrated in the Jyväskylä, Laukaa, and Muurame local transport of Linkki on Saturday, 10 December.

Independence Day, 6 December 2022, will be celebrated in Jyväskylä with a program organized by the City of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä Garrison, and Jyväskylä Parish.

Rally success ranking as the biggest of all time will be celebrated at a party open to all-comers on December 16 at Paviljonki, Jyväskylä.

The opening hours of integration services will change from 5 December 2022. The integration services are closed on Friday afternoon, 2 December.

The art competition organized by Kangas Service Ltd to choose artwork for Kankaanaukio (Kangas square) has now ended. The competition winner is Haikara (Stork), designed by Teija and Pekka Isorättyä.

Save the Children association of Jyväskylä will present Aurinkopaja- Sun workshop with the Year 2022 Childish Act recognition on Monday, 21 November. Ukrainian youth will also be able to watch the Finnish premiere of the film Outside (Olha Zhurba, Ukraine, 2022) at the Arktisen Upeeta film festival on the previous Sunday.

The Finnish round of the World Rally Championship, or Secto Rally Finland, returned this year to its full four-day glory after the difficult coronavirus period. A total of 230,000 spectators were recorded in Jyväskylä and Central Finland, the visitor record was broken in Harju, and the Finnish World Cup Rally left a jackpot of income behind for the Jyväskylä region and Central Finland.

The City of Jyväskylä will organise a joint World Rally Championship celebration for Kalle Rovanperä, Jonne Halttunen and the Jyväskylä-based TOYOTA GAZOO Racing team on Friday 16 December 2022 at Paviljonki, Jyväskylä. 

The Viitaniemi outdoor ice rink in Jyväskylä will be open for skating in week 46. Other outdoor ice rinks in the city will open from week 48.

The time has come again to propose and choose the 2022 Jyväskylä sports event.

The war in Ukraine has affected us in many ways, and the desire to help has been manifold. Thoughts and emotions have been channelled into a wide range of works and activities, including making things with our hands. How can we capture this time and our collective work for future generations and as material for researchers?