About us
Archipelago Sea Jazz – a collaboration to create the most attractive archipelago festival in the Baltic Sea region
Archipelago Sea Jazz is a new, internationally appealing and ambitious festival series, built around the unique attraction of our archipelago and high-quality jazz music. It combines two new jazz festivals, Åland Sea Jazz in Mariehamn and Turku Sea Jazz with two well established festivals with a regular audience, Baltic Jazz in Dahlsbruk and Korpo Sea Jazz in Pargas under the common name of Archipelago Sea Jazz. For six summer weeks, this festival series offers excellent jazz and an atmosphere that will leave an equally vivid memory as the music itself!
This cultural endeavour is a cooperation between four municipalities, spreading vitality and promoting international tourism in the Finnish Archipelago Sea area and Finland Proper.
Our values
COOPERATION
Cooperation is the basis of all our activities. We favor extensive and far-reaching cooperation that benefits all parties.
OPENNESS
We act openly and reliably towards our staff, artists, audience, partners and all other stakeholders.
RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility is the core of our operations. For us, it means responsible leadership, salary, finances, and long-term work on sustainable development. Our event production is EcoCompass certified and we work closely with environmental foundations and organizations. Our festival series is committed to promoting inclusion. Everyone is welcome to our events, and we do not accept any form of harassment or discrimination. We also expect responsibility from our partners.
Mission
Archipelago Sea Jazz is a responsible series of four festivals that produces high-level musical experiences in the Finnish Archipelago Sea area. Through cooperation, we create an impressive, experiential whole that increases the attraction of the archipelago.
Vision
Archipelago Sea Jazz is a bold festival series and brand, known both nationally and internationally, as well as a sought-after partner within responsible companies. We operate on the front line in matters related to sustainable development.
Protecting the Baltic Sea is important to us
Environmentalism is an important aspect of the Archipelago Sea Jazz. We work with partners who share our values of protecting the Baltic Sea and the Finnish Archipelago Sea. The festival series and we as organizers wish to make culture services in the form of jazz music more easily accessible to everyone from local residents to tourists and summer residents. All in a sustainable way, based on our values.
For us, environmental responsibility means concrete actions in our own operations. We are committed to saving natural resources and increasing the positive impact on the environment. As a proof of this, we have been awarded the EcoCompass Certificate.
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Each festival in the series has an identity
The first festival in the series is the already well-established Baltic Jazz, taking place in the historical iron works village of Dalsbruk, Kimito island. The cosy, family friendly jazz festival offers a perfect blend of classical jazz, swing music and other types of jazz, bringing in both internationally renowned artists and local musicians.
Korpo Sea Jazz is a bold, modern and at times experimental jazz festival, hosting current, high profile Finnish performers. This intimate island festival invites you to leave the city far behind and experience the true rugged beauty of the archipelago, to get in touch with nature. A chance to enjoy both music and the sun! Each year a current jazz artist is invited as the artistic director of the festival.
Turku Sea Jazz is a new and fresh city festival. It’s an invitation to enjoy internationally renowned jazz artists, high profile Finnish ensembles and unique world music performers in the urban marine surroundings of Forum Marinum Maritime Center. It’s young and hip and reaches toward the archipelago. It’s in Turku and reaches for the world.
Åland Sea Jazz is a Scandinavian style festival that takes place in the beautiful city of Mariehamn, in Åland. This boutique festival offers the best of Nordic jazz in lovely marine locations. It’s intimate and atmospheric. It is small, yet so big.
Revitalising the archipelago with international attractions
Finland needs more internationally attractive festivals. Our beloved archipelago and the Finnish Archipelago Sea region are still a diamond in the rough. The ideology behind Archipelago Sea Jazz is bringing out artistically outstanding content in a fresh way by utilising the entire unique Archipelago Sea region all the way to the outer islands.
– We believe that the new festival concept combined with the cooperation between culturemakers and municipalities will boost the brand of our archipelago as a unique, internationally attractive culture and tourism destination, articulates the man behind the idea for Archipelago Sea Jazz, Jussi Fredriksson.
This innovative festival concept will also highlight Finnish creative work. – Our goal for the future is to have the archipelago festival present great Finnish music to an international audience, media and promoters, thus promoting the international success of Finnish artists. As the festival grows, it will also support small businesses in the archipelago and increase the public sector’s agility to create growth. Through our own actions we wish to promote activities that develop infrastructure in the archipelago in support of small businesses in tourism.
We Speak Gay & IGLTA
Finland is one of the safest and most LGBTQ+ friendly countries in the world. Our legislation does not accept any kind of discrimination based on sexuality or gender. There is still a lot more we can do and for that reason we have joined We Speak Gay community.
We are also a member in IGLTA, the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association.
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