The Outsider Art Festival is seeking volunteers and partner organizations for the OAF 2025 festival. Individuals can apply as volunteers, and various organizations that share the festival’s values can apply to become partners. The goal of the partnership is to support the employment of individuals working on the margins. The festival employs people from the networks of OAF’s organizing partners: Pertin Valinta, the Autism Foundation, and Kukunori.
OAF offers volunteers the chance to participate in organizing festival events, gain experience in inclusive event production, and engage in meaningful encounters with the festival’s artists and working groups. Volunteers will also receive free tickets to festival events.
Volunteers will work alongside the artists and organizers of the OAF 2025 festival. Volunteers are needed for assisting tasks before, during, and after the festival. The festival will take place from August 14 to 24, 2025, in Helsinki and Espoo.
Using the application form, you can specify the types of tasks you are interested in and on which days you are available to help.
Fill out the volunteer application form here.
Partner organizations can suggest suitable forms of collaboration by filling out the partner application form here. Partners will be included in the True Equality program, organized together with OAF’s corporate partners. Read more about the program here.
If you have any questions about volunteering, please contact Liisa Paakkanen at: liisa@pertinvalinta.fi
If you have questions about partnership opportunities, please contact Pertin Valinta’s CEO, Teuvo Merkkiniemi: teukka@pertinvalinta.fi
