sTYYlish May Day 2023

Get your mead brewing, find your student caps from the dusty shelves, sew all your patches, fetch you picnic blankets from the summer storage... It's time for May Day to start again!

May Day or "Vappu" is the Finnish version of Labour Day that we celebrate to honour working people. It is also the biggest student festival of the year, bringing together tens of thousands of students and other citizens of Turku.

April 30, May Day Eve starts with our organisations giving out punch around the campus area of the University of Turku. TYY's own Punch Stand is open in the University Hill at 11-13. At noon, you can join the sTYYlish Ticket Chase ft. Kesärauha to win a one, two or three day ticket to Kesärauha festival. 

At 16.45, a traditional May Day Parade leaves from the Universisty Hill towards the Turku Art Museum Hill, where the whole city gathers to listen to music and a speech from the Chair of the TYY Executive Board. At 6 sharp, we all put on our students caps (ylioppilaslakki). The moment when thousands of students and alumni with their caps have gathered at Aurakatu is by far the most impressive part of Vappu, so you definitely don’t want to miss this moment! After the "capping" (Fin. "lakitus"), Vappu celebration continues in the Runeberg Park where dental students will wash The Lily of Turku statue and give Lily a student cap. At 19.00 the Technology students of Turku give Paavo Nurmi a student cap as well.

May Day is coming, no cap!

WHAT: May Day Punches, flag parade and the "cappings" of May Day

WHEN: 30.4. ~11-19

WHERE: University campus (outside spaces), Turku Art Museum Hill and The Lily of Turku statue