Narva 2025

• The leading theme of Narva’s year as Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture is to discuss the challenges and prospects of the Finno-Ugric movement in the modern world.
• In particular, the cultural capital year will shine a spotlight on the cultural heritage and languages of Votic, Izhorian and Ingrian Finnish people, who have traditionally inhabited Narva and/or its surrounding regions.
• The central event of the year will be an international forum dedicated to the future of the Finno-Ugric movement, to be held in late August.
• Narva’s cultural capital year is led by House of Ingria (Ingeri Maja), a cultural centre promoting the history and culture of indigenous Finno-Ugric peoples of Ida-Viru county and the historical Ingria.

• The opening ceremony on 1 March began with a Finno-Ugric procession along the promenade of Narva river to the Town Hall where the symbol of Finno-Ugric Capitals of Culture – Tsirk-bird- was handed over by representatives of URALIC Centre and Friends of Kindred Peoples to Katri Raik, the mayor of Narva. The opening ceremony was followed by a concert by Finno-Ugric performers from Estonia and Finland at the Narva College of the University of Tartu.
• On 11-12 April, the 13^th Mikael Agricola conference, dedicated to the author of the first Finnish-language ABC and the first translator of the New Testament into Finnish, was held at the Narva College of the University of Tartu.

• Narva’s selection as the Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture 2025 received wide coverage by local, regional and Estonian national media in June 2024.
• The daily TV news programme “Aktuaalne Kaamera” of the Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) ran a story about the opening ceremony of Narva 2025
• According to the House of Ingria staff, the cultural capital year has increased interest among the local, mostly Russian-speaking population, in their possible Finno-Ugric roots

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