Events

Come meet other student event organizers and JYY's event representatives at Ilokivi Venue for a relaxed coffee and chat session. You'll have the opportunity to brainstorm event ideas with other organizers and ask practical tips from professionals.

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 most dangerous band in Finland, Kissa, is coming to celebrate their album release with Joni Ekman Group. Get ready for a journey through pop, rock, and everything in between – this is a show you don't want to miss!

Come meet other student event organizers and JYY's event representatives at Ilokivi Venue for a relaxed coffee and chat session. You'll have the opportunity to brainstorm event ideas with other organizers and ask practical tips from professionals.

On April 4th, Ilokivi Venue is throwing a big celebration as the Jyväskylä-based rap artist BOLO hits the 5-year milestone in his career as an artist and drops his first self-released album, VISIO! 🏆 To mark this moment, Ilokivi Venue is hosting a rap night on, bringing together a killer lineup of music, good vibes, and strong hip-hop energy.

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!

The first Sweet Burlesque Nights event of the year takes over Ilokivi Venue with sparkle and glitter, as the animal-inspired burlesque show takes the audience through savannahs, seas and farms.

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.

Come spend an unforgettable black metal night and prepare to dive deep into the world of darkness! Curse Upon a Prayer, Chamber of Unlight, and Mimorium will take the stage at Ilokivi Venue.

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.

Tiikerin vuosi is celebrating their album release at Ilokivi Venue on May 9th. During the night Nelosolut and Säätövara will also be getting up on the stage. This gig promises an excellent and unique night full of Finnish rock music.

In its unique David Lynch memorial concert, the Gasthaus Orkesteri takes their audience on a journey into the original, intense atmosphere of the director legend's works.