FlowFestival

”Flow is not just a festival, but almost a movement of what the utopia could be” –Attitude

Flow is a premium music and arts festival that has been organized in Helsinki since 2004. Over the years, Flow has grown from a small club event to a pioneering festival with 90,000 visitors over three days.

The former power plant area of Suvilahti, located conveniently close to the Helsinki city center, provides a spectacular industrial canvas to Flow’s excellence in production and atmosphere, hosting an innovative and content-driven program that is an inspired mixture of popular culture and experimental arts.

Flow is committed to advancing justice, equity, and equality, and the festival takes into account its impact on local actors and the festival neighbourhood and environment, and it actively makes choices in order to minimize the negative effects of its production. Flow Festival aims to be the forerunner in advancing the sustainability of the event industry.

Sustainability

Flow was founded for the love of culture and has since made its mark in Helsinki’s cultural atmosphere. Culture and events have a remarkable positive impact on people’s wellbeing, which works as an incentive for Flow, but the festival also acknowledges its environmental consequences. On the other hand, this only emphasises the importance of operators like Flow, who both speak and act for more sustainable practices in the event industry.

For us, sustainability doesn’t mean diminishment of joy or entertainment. Instead it works as a starting point for us to build an even better, safer, and exhilarating festival experience for all our visitors, artists, and collaborators.

Additionally, Flow continuously aims to reduce the harmful impacts of production, but as festival production eventually causes emissions and producers negative effects on the environment, Flow has decided to reduce its environmental debt by donating to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation, based on the festival’s annual carbon and material footprint. In 2024, a donation worth of 4,9 hectares of old Finnish forest was given for Luonnonperintösäätiö, a Finnish foundation that permanently protects old-growth Finnish forests.

History

You will find more information about Flow’s history here.