Events

Tomi Haustola brings his unprecedented stand up show to Ilokivi Venue on 22.02.2025!
This is a unique stand up show, where Tomi will bring his own new talent and at least one other comedian on stage with him. The comedians will entertain with traditional stand up humour and will compete in roasting each other, there will be unexpected, but all the more fun moments!

Invention for Destruction, based on the books by Jules Verne is the most successful film of the former Czechoslovakia and an imaginative proto-steampunk adventure based on incredibly innovative visuals, in which a scientist and the apocalyptic device he has built are hunted by ferocious pirates as they battle giant monsters in the depths of the sea. 

Rekami & Are bring effortless beats and west coast warmth to Ilokivi when they arrive to celebrate their album Kabinettimusiikkia, released in December. The duo will be joined on stage by Finnish rapper Dapper Dan and the ever-confident showstopper Kriso. DJ Massimo, DJ Kapteeniupponalle and Loasteeze will also be there.

The un-crowned king of modern finnish folk music, Topi Saha, and the future of jytarock, Kaita Isäri Seppälä (solo), will conquer Venue on Saturday, March 1st.

Ilokivi Game Nights are back! During the spring of 2025 JYY collaborates with Ilokivi Venue to organize seven game nights. At the game nights you can play a variety of card, board and video games and meet new people.

Saikkua, kiitos! Part 1. –600 shows and 250 000 satisfied audience members!

It's going to be a blast! The hottest electronic music event of early spring takes over Ilokivi Venue on Saturday, March 8, 2025! Performers include Triple M, RVNGER, Rismo, NoGood, Danacat, NewB, Klaatu b2b Tens, and Mixtape Winner, guaranteeing a diverse selection of deep basslines and powerful rhythms.

As if in response to John Cassavetes' The Husband and Wife, HUSTRUER was the breakthrough film by the Norwegian Anja Breien. After 15 years at a class reunion, three old friends meet each other, and set off on a multi-day journey of hitting on men, sitting in taverns, laughing and reflecting on life as wives, mothers and as successful, unhappy, disappointed, lost and rediscovered people in their own right. 

Stand-up comedian Anders Helenius' show Jotain tekemistä tells the story of what happens when you suddenly have time to think after busy years. Time to think about things like the meaning of life, love, death, insomnia, health checks, robot cutters, gym workouts, and in general why we're all at least a little lost.

Welcome to celebrate the 91st anniversary of our Student Union at the Interdisciplinary Annual Sitsfest! JYY’s interdisciplinary annual sitsfest will be held on Wednesday 19.3.

The beloved songwriter Antti Autio's music, as it was composed—accompanied solely by guitar.

Welcome to celebrate the 91st anniversary of our Student Union! The annual gala will be celebrated as a cocktail party. The gala will include speeches and greetings, musical performances, the awarding of the Student Union’s academic badges of merit and a celebration of our beloved Student Union.

Danny Boyle, best known for Trainspotting, together with lead actor Cillian Murphy, brought his low-budget masterpiece, which updated the zombie film genre for the 21st century, to life in a way that will forever be etched in the minds of its viewers: Jim, a wheeled messenger who wakes up from an empty hospital, wanders the empty streets of London in a daze until he is attacked in a church full of corpses by the fast-moving, bloodthirsty undead and, among other things, by the dead. Godspeed You! The iconic survival horror, framed by songs from Black Emperor, bursts into full swing. The film is getting its second sequel this year, 28 Years Later, the follow-up to 2007's 28 Weeks Later. 

Ilokivi Game Nights are back! During the spring of 2025 JYY collaborates with Ilokivi Venue to organize seven game nights. At the game nights you can play a variety of card, board and video games and meet new people.

The sixth edition of RossFest is traditionally held again at Ilokivi Venue. Four bands will take to the stage during the evening.

Mysterion, a documentary film by Pirjo Honkasalo (e.g. 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Concrete Night), one of the most renowned, lauded and award-winning Finnish directors, follows life inside the walls of the Pyhtitsa Nunnery in Northeastern Estonia. Honkasalo's first film in 12 years, Orenda, starring Alma Pöysti and Pirkko Saisio, arrives in Finnish cinemas in April

We are in for a great night of metal, as Awake Again and IKINÄ, as well as a later to be released warm up act, will be taking to the stage at Ilokivi Venue!

Ilokivi Game Nights are back! During the spring of 2025 JYY collaborates with Ilokivi Venue to organize seven game nights. At the game nights you can play a variety of card, board and video games and meet new people. On Thursday, April 17th the game night is in restaurant Ilokivi.

Knipi, the master of Finnish songwriting, will bring an intimate and emotional tour to the stage in spring 2025, taking the audience on a journey through his musical career.

When you already know what the other person is going to say and you get upset when they take too long to get to the point...

When you find yourself in the middle of a situation where you've taken on five different jobs, all at the same time and in five different places....

You get a garage and a storage room and fill them with all the stuff you love that you found online and at flea markets...

This and much more is SUPERVOIMA! Fredi Lilius brings his hilarious comedy show to Ilokivi Venue on 25.4.2025!

The epic & satirical black comedy Underground, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes the year it was released, is an absurdist story set in the midst of the wars of Yugoslavia's disintegration, a glimpse into the brutal reality of Eastern Europe. Spanning three episodes through World War II, the Cold War and finally the war of disintegration, the story centres on the unbreakable friendship between two arms dealers, Marko and Blacky. 

Ilokivi Game Nights are back! During the spring of 2025 JYY collaborates with Ilokivi Venue to organize seven game nights. At the game nights you can play a variety of card, board and video games and meet new people.