Activities

The Flow Festival area offers a wide range of activities organised by our partners. Check out the program:

Polestar

At the heart of the Suvilahti festival area, you’ll find the Tiilikello x Polestar art space, featuring the latest artwork Gasp, by Dutch environmental artist Thijs Biersteker. The artwork uses real-time air pollution data to illustrate the presence of fine particles in the air. The artwork features mesmerizing drops of oil dripping into water, whose quantity adjusts dynamically to the current pollution levels. In the same space, festival Polestar will showcase the new Polestar 3 electric car to festival visitors.

YouTube

Flow Festival, YouTube and Musiikkiala.fi are organizing together the Flow Talks Music panel discussion about the internationalization of Finnish music. The panellists of Flow Talks Music are Sari Multala, Minister of Science and Culture, Nasima Razmyar, Member of Parliament and Chairperson of the Finnish Music Foundation, Mikko Manninen, Executive Director of Music Finland, Heidi Jern, Public Policy Manager of Google Finland, Teemu Brunila, internationally acclaimed musician and songwriter, and Elina Aspelin, communication agency Splash One’s Country Manager.

Helsingin Sanomat

Helsingin Sanomat brings its popular concept of immersive journalism to Flow Festival’s Saturday as part of the Flow Talks program. The Black Box (Musta Laatikko) provides high-quality journalism in a live presentation, delivered by HS journalists and photographers. On stage, Helsingin Sanomat’s Asia correspondent Mari Manninen will present on Hong Kong’s coffin homes, Children’s News reporter Panu Jansson will explore the metaverse, and HS’s lifestyle editorial’s producer Laura Kangasluoma will delve into the challenges of phone communication.

Vaasan

Vaasan takes festival guests on a trip to Asian street kitchens as top chef Mikko Kaukonen’s pop-up restaurant, The Bao, created for Vaasan Street Food, arrives at Flow. On the menu, you can choose from three different super-delicious bao buns that are either vegetarian or pescovegetarian. To taste them all, try The Bao’s tasting menu. The Bao also offers loaded fries with an Asian twist.

Discover The Bao’s menu.

Tasteland – Oddlygood, Gold&Green

Are you a flexitarian, vegan, vegetarian or frankly just a tastytarian? Oddlygood offers world-rocking plant-based food for everyone. At Flow, the colorful and playful hangout place Oddlygood Tasteland 2.0 centers around experientiality and mouth-watering, tasty flavors. Enjoy refreshing and delicious ice coffees made with Oddlygood Barista products to cool off during a hot summer day.

Discover Tasteland’s menu.

Champagne Bar & Lounge by Lanson

Flow Festival’s iconic Champagne Bar & Lounge brings festival-goers into a bubbly atmosphere. In addition to the extensive champagne selection at Lanson’s flagship bar, the enchanting venue located in the Balloon 360° area offers the most relaxed parties throughout the weekend, as daily changing club concepts take over the decks.

Helsingin kaupunki

The city of Helsinki brings its iconic LED-letters to the Suvilahti area, where you can capture your Flow moments in front of them, in the world’s best capital city. Additionally, the city of Helsinki provides water points in the area where you can refill your water bottles. Water points are located near the festival’s main entrance and near the toilets. All water points are marked on the festival area map.

Pohjois-Karjala

WELCOME TO THE EDGE: NORTH KARELIA’S SHOWROOM

In this extraordinary space, Pohjois-Karajala invites you to ponder and challenge yourself: what kind of life do you want to live? How will you choose to shape your time, work, and space?

In this showroom you will meet stunning creations from three young, talented Finnish Redesigners who were inspired by a journey to North Karelia and all its edges.

You will also be offered a chance to rediscover your relationship with nature and yourself. Dear friend, here your own personality can shine through unashamedly.

Opening hours:

Friday 16:30-23
Saturday 14-23
Sunday 13-23

Find more information here.

Batiste

Welcome to the Batiste Tent at the Gold Area, where you can refresh your festival hairdo with Batiste dry shampoos and Tangle Teezer hair brushes. We have big mirrors and sun loungers for a relaxed chill-out moment. We are open Fri 15-20, Sat 14-20 and Sun 13-20. See you there!

OMAVAPE

OMAVAPE e-cigarette store

Opening hours:
Friday: 3-11 pm
Saturday: 2-10:30 pm
Sunday: 1-9:30 pm

Radio Helsinki

Radio Helsinki will be recording a festival special in the area, which can be heard on the channel on Monday 21st of August from 16-19.

WWF

At the WWF Lounge you will find a brand new covered dining area for eating and chilling near the Black Tent venue. Check out the location on the area map.