Reading Together returns to Oodi Library (Helsinki) on April 5 to celebrate the 2025 International Children’s Book Day. This wonderful event will feature workshops, music, and storytelling in 14 languages. 

This year’s program includes storytelling in Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian/Montenegrin, English, Farsi, Hindi, Italian, Kannada, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. 

For the second year in a row, students from the Global Music Department of the University of the Arts Helsinki (Uniarts) will enrich each reading nest with traditional music. 

And to complete the program, we couldn’t miss out on workshops and activities. For the first time, these activities will be facilitated primarily in Vietnamese. 

This fun multilingual event is part of our project Lukupesä, whose main goal is develop plurilingual reading practices in heritage languages. Reading Together joins the celebration of the 2025 International Children’s Book Day, organised globally by IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People). The main theme will be “The Freedom of Imagination”.  

Let’s come together to celebrate the richness of diversity through children’s literature, and the love for reading in our heritage language.  

We look forward to seeing you at Oodi! Keep reading and don’t miss the program, co-created by artists and 15 associations, organisations and companies.