26.9.2024

Baby’s Day 2025

Every baby and baby family is unique and worth of celebration!

We are celebrating National Baby Day! The event highlights families with babies as important members of our society. The Baby Day event will be held on Friday, September 26th from 10 am to 12 pm.

Program

Music play school: pop-up workshop

10 am to 12 pm
Kammio, 1st floor

Music play school, is a music hobby for young children, which is attended together with an adult. In music play school, you get to know musical instruments and sing and play together. On Baby Day, we organize 20-minute experimental workshops. Workshops start at 10 am, 10.30 am, 11.00 am and 11.30 am.

Max 10 families per workshop. The workshops will be filled on the day of the event in the order of arrival with your own registration number. You can pick up your registration number from the Kaleva Navetta information desk on the day of the event from 10 am.

Baby circus sessions

10:30–11:00
11:30–12:00
Hugo Hall, 2nd floor

The Louhimo Children’s Cultural Centre’s baby circus sessions are an interactive moment for babies and parents, where they move together through circus activities. The activities, exercises and tricks take place on the baby’s terms and are guided in such a way that the participants do not need to have previous experience of similar activities. The baby circus session and the movements performed together are designed to support the development of the baby’s motor skills, sense of touch and balance, and to provide stimulation for the child and parent to do things together.

The baby circus sessions are for babies aged 4 months to 12 months who can hold their own heads. The activities are designed so that one adult and one baby act as a participant pair. The activity involves a lot of floor-level activity, sitting or lying down, and the activity involves lifting the baby. It is a good idea for adults to wear flexible clothing suitable for light movement. The baby circus sessions are directed by circus director Tanja Holm.

A maximum of 10 baby + adult participant pairs can participate in one baby circus session. Sessions will be filled on the day of the event in the order of arrival with your own registration number. You can pick up your registration number from the Kaleva Navetta information desk on the day of the event starting at 10 am.

Baby-friendly exhibition visit with a guide

10 am–12 pm
Hall 2nd floor and Vintti 3rd floor

During the first two hours, there will be more light than usual in the exhibition spaces and the volume will be quieter. A guide will be there together with Muu-Mau. The guide will be happy to tell you about the exhibitions on display and you can ask the guide any questions you may have about the art exhibitions and Kaleva Navetta.

Adults accompanying a child under the age of 2 can visit the exhibitions at Seinäjoki Art Hall for free all day from 10 am to 7 pm.

Babies and families with babies are always welcome at the exhibitions at Seinäjoki Kunsthalle. The exhibition spaces are located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Kaleva Navetta, which can be reached by elevator. The exhibition spaces are barrier-free and you can bring strollers to the exhibitions. The childcare room is located on the 1st floor next to the information desk.

During the exhibition visit, you can view works that your baby is interested in. Babies are often interested in contrasts, lights, shadows and shapes, as well as people. The exhibition spaces may be dim, and there are often different sounds in contemporary art exhibitions, which can seem exciting to the child. The adult can say aloud to the child what they have seen and experienced. Children’s voices are allowed in the exhibition space, because they are part of life – you don’t have to be completely silent at an art exhibition! Remember, however, that you are not allowed to touch the artworks. If you are allowed to touch the objects in the exhibition, this will always be explained separately.

Taito Shop

10 am-7 pm
Taito Shop store, 1st floor

The store, located in the lobby of Kaleva Navetta, offers wonderful gifts for a new family member. On display are, among other things, Jujuliini baby gauze and pillowcases, Skandino first dishes, baby books illustrated by Heli Pukki, and lots of beautiful baby and christening cards. Also on display are high-quality merino wool yarns and lovely knitting ideas for various baby accessories, knitwear, and blankets.

The event is organized by the Kaleva Navetta Art and Culture Center. The national Baby Day is coordinated by VauvaSuomi ry.