TYY Opening Carnival 2025

The traditional Opening Carnival by University of Turku and TYY is held on Tuesday 2 September 2025 in front of Educarium and Publicum. We warmly welcome all organizations and other exhibitors to participate. In the evening, TYY organizes a great interdisciplinary party sTYYlish opening in Night club Marilyn, Night Club Vegas and Forte at 9 pm.

The green area next to Educarium and Publicum is also in our use. If you'd like to organize some activity for new students to try out (for example athletic/hobby organizations and organizations with a traditional outdoor game), you can place your stand there.

The event area will be extended to Arcanum and Calonia square if the number of exhibiton points exceeds the capacity of Educarium square.

During the event, there is other activity on-going. University’s annual rewards for the personnel, student union’s wind orchestra Sohon torwet plays, University’s rector has their opening speech for the semester and TYY board’s chair has their speech.

If your association is interested, we are to have short open mic -speeches (0-2 minutes). If you want to participate, let us know about this in the form. You can also sign up for an open mic presentation this year with another organisation (stage time will be determined accordingly).

Participation in the opening carnival is open to all and does not require any special registration. Through this link you are only registering to hold an exhibition stand at the carnival. (More information in your organisation's inbox.)

Link: https://www.tyy.fi/fi/avajaiset2025

Registration is now open. Registration closes on Tuesday 19 August. Further instructions for organisations participating in the event and open mic will be sent out in August.

For questions, please contact TYY board member Iiro Myllymäki (tyy-kulttuuri@utu.fi) or event producer Roosa Varjonen (tyy-tapahtumatuottaja@utu.fi).

Other then TYY organisations can contact directly the event producer (tyy-tapahtumatuottaja@utu.fi).