Ensemble Nylandia and responsibility

Ensemble Nylandia wants to offer everyone a safe and enjoyable space in its events and productions. We aim for our events to be easily accessible and approachable to all listeners. Out aim is to create a space where our audience and artists are met as equals, and where there is no place for discrimination or harassment.

Principles of a safer space

The organisers and musicians of the event, as well as the audience, can work together to foster the safety of work situations and concert experiences. Everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy music in peace. Please allow this opportunity for others and yourself by giving everyone space and avoiding the following things:

• Discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, cultural background, language, skin color, health, body or religion

• Assumptions about others' gender, background, sexuality, ability to function or wealth

• Physical or verbal abuse

• Touching anyone without permission

• Photographing or recording anyone without permission

If you experience or witness threats, discrimination, harassment or other problematic situations, report it to the staff of the event or production. If your own actions attract criticism, please be ready to listen and change your behavior.

Accessibility

We want our music and events to be easily accessible and approachable to everyone. The majority of our events are held in accessible spaces (e.g. churches, parish facilities, museums, theaters and galleries) and we clearly inform you in the event text if an individual venue is not accessible. We also organise concerts aimed spesifically for different target audiences, such as children or the elderly.

In addition to churches and concert halls, we bring music experiences to casual and easily approachable everyday environments, such as cafes, outdoor parks, libraries and swimminghalls, especially through the Café Barock concert series. Our concerts are reasonably priced, and we offer discounted tickets to most events for students, seniors and the unemployed.

Environment and sustainable development

We promote culturally sustainable development by bringing history alive into a tangible and audible experience. As a branch of music, early music strengthens the common European cultural heritage all the way from the Middle Ages to current day. Ensemble Nylandia's artistic activities also regularly include programs that reach beyond the canon of European classical music, happily combining and crossing the lines of different cultural and historical aspects of music and art with ease.

We strive to organise our events on an environmentally sustainable basis. Our events and rehearsal periods are organised in places that can be easily reached by foot, bicycle or public transport.

To avoid unnecessary paper products we focus our marketing on digital medias and enable our musicians to use digital sheet music materials by lending tablets with page change pedals to those who wish.

We collect leftover program leaflets and sheet music for paper recycling. All in all we use and produce very little concrete materials, and when we do, we favor responsibly produced things. Nylandia's t-shirts and canvas bags are certified Fair Trade products.