Kaikukortti

The Kaikukortti card can be used to get free tickets to, for example, festivals,concerts, dance performances, sport events or the theatre or to pay for adulteducation centre courses. Kaikukortti is non-transferrable and free of charge. Kaikukortti is valid for one year at a time.

Further information: Kaikukortti brochure

In addition to Vaasa’s Kaikukortti offering, you can also use Kaikukortti to get tickets to cultural events organised by other localities.

Further information: www.kaikukortti.fi/en/localities and www.facebook.com/kaikukortti

You are eligible for Kaikukortti, if:

• you are a client of an social welfare, healthcare and wellbeing actor that is a member of the Kaikukortti network in Vaasa.
• you cannot afford entrance tickets or courses due to financial constraints; and
• you are 16 years or older.

Kaikukortti is distributed by the social welfare, healthcare and wellbeing actors operating in Vaasa listed in the webpage and the brochure.

• Ask the staff for your Kaikukortti card.
• You don’t have to present proof of your income to obtain the card.

You can use Kaikukortti to get a ticket for the cultural venues that are part of the Kaikukortti network, such as festivals, summer theatres and museums. Kaikukortti applies to most of the cultural services offered by these venues.You can also use Kaikukortti to participate in and most of the adult education courses offered in Vaasa. The Kaikukortti venues are listed in this brochure.The Kaikukortti venues in the Kaikukortti network state on their own websites which events, shows or courses Kaikukortti can be used for. You can also telephone them and ask them which of their services are covered byKaikukortti.You can also use your card in the other Kaikukortti localities. Further information and links to the Kaikukortti pages at the websites of other participating localities: www.kaikukortti.fi/en/localities

Kaikukortti pop up: Tickets to the three museums of the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki (Ateneum Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma and Sinebrychoff Art Museum) are also available with Kaikukortti as well as Amos Rex museum and the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki (2024). Kaikukortti is also valid in Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre in Vantaa.

With Kaikukortti you can get a ticket through the Kaikukortti venue’s own ticket sales channel. Be prepared to show your Kaikukortti and its code (number and/or letter combination) when getting the ticket. You cannot use Kaikukortti to get tickets from an online shop. The number of available Kaikukortti tickets may be limited.

If you get a ticket through Lippupiste or another commercial ticket broker, you have to pay a service charge even though the ticket itself is free of charge.

It is possible to get tickets directly from most of the Kaikukortti venues without having to pay a service charge.

If you want to take a course at an adult education centre, enrol for the course as usual in advance and then contact the office of the given centre to give them your Kaikukortti code. There may be a limited number of Kaikukortti course places available

Bring your Kaikukortti with you

Bring your Kaikukortti with you when attending a event or course. The staff may request to see it. They may also ask you to prove your identity.

If you are interested in going to an event with a small group or an employee,you should ask if an employee of a community distributing Kaikukortti would like to attend the event with you.

The social welfare, healthcare and wellbeing actors that distribute Kaikukortti also have Kaikukortti cards for communities. Employees, volunteers and other representatives of communities can use Kaikukortti for communities to get a free entrance ticket for themselves and their clients who are under 16 years old when organizing a small group visit for one or more clients.Clients aged 16 or older must bring along their own Kaikukortti cards when attending the event. A small group can consist of, for example, 2-5 persons. Kaikukortti for communities can’t be used for the adult education courses

Free entrance for assistants

Assistants to persons using the Kaikukortti card are always entitled to free admission. The assistant may be, for example, an assistant of a person with physical disabilities, a guide of a visually impaired person or an instructor of a person with developmental disabilities. An interpreter may be a Sign Language interpreter, a speech-to-text interpreter or a communication assistant. The holder of the Kaikukortti card needs to get a separate ticket for the assistant or interpreter.

Tickets for children

If you have children or grandchildren under the age of 18, you can also use your Kaikukortti to get tickets for them when you attend the event together.Children or grandchildren may not however attend the adult education courses with you (note possible local exceptions).

You can ask a voluntary culture companion to go with you.

Further information:

044 763 1066

kirsi.wik@sprvaasa.fi

Your name will appear only on your personal Kaikukortti card. Your name,date of birth, personal ID number, address or phone number will not be entered in the Kaikukortti register. When you receive your Kaikukortti you will be asked certain personal background details, such as your native language. Submission of these details is voluntary. The actors in the Kaikukortti network will not register your name, address or phone number when you obtain a ticket with Kaikukortti.

The adult education centres are an exception, they require personal details for enrolment on their courses. The Kaikukortti privacy policy is available (in Finnish) at www.kaikukortti.fi/en/privacy-protection