FinnAgora organizes in collaboration with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary a seminar on The Role of Minority Churches in a Multicultural Europe of the 21st Century. The event is held in honor of the visit of Finnish Archbishop Tapio Luoma on 15th of September at 14:00-17:00 hrs in Budapest. The event will be held at the premises of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Budapest at Szentkirályi utca 51. The program of the event can be found here . There will be simultaneous interpretation to Hungarian and Finnish at the event. You can register for the to info@finnagora.hu . Deadline for

The proportion of women in the traditionally male-dominated music industry is still relatively small. Women are a clear minority in leading positions in the field, not to mention the areas of songwriting, sound engineering or entertainment law. Structural problems are not solved by themselves; therefore, an active effort is needed to increase diversity within the sector. The theme of the Women Rock photo exhibition is therefore grit. Female role models of the music business are shown through the lenses of 7 Finnish photographers: Anni Ylkänen, Virve Kulmala, Janne Puronen, Mika Kirsi, Jessica

In the beginning of August two new interns started their internships at FinnAgora. Hanna-Mari Ristimäki will work as an EDUFI intern until the end of December. She will be assisting with the preparations for next year’s Finn Filmnapok festival as well as with FinnAgora’s communications. Mirjam Ekelund is a Svenska Kulturfonden intern. She will support FinnAgora’s event management and FinnAgora’s 20 th anniversary preparations until the end of June 2022. Both new interns are looking forward to new challenges. Hungary is a new country to both of them, although Ristimäki has visited Budapest

In the third episode of FinnAgora’s podcast, Point Taken, Rebecka Vilhonen talks to Finnish film director John Webster. John Webster is a well-established documentary filmmaker, whose films represent a wide range of subjects and themes. One of his more recent films, Eye to Eye, was screened during the Budapest International Documentary Festival (BIDF). In the podcast, Webster talks about his films and the humanity that he strives to show through them. You can listen to the episode here . The podcast is in English. Photo: Anna-Leena Hirvonen Nyström /SR Sisuradio

Metropolitan Ambrosius, born Risto Jääskeläinen, has been involved with many things in his life. “I come from a small village, Tohmajärvi, close to the border in the countryside. After elementary school I moved to Joensuu, where I graduated from high school. On the same year, I started my studies on theology at the University of Helsinki, and soon later, also my studies on political science.” “When I moved to Helsinki, I was not sure whether I would study theology or social sciences. I was interested in both – not because I wanted to prepare myself to a specific profession, but because I