Sustainability

Our Environmental Pledge

The Environmental Pledge of the Turku Music Festival declares that we aim to act in the most responsible and sustainable way possible in all our operations. We wish to make a contribution to the future of our environment. We are committed to the environmental programmes of Visit Finland and EcoCompass.

Under our Environmental Pledge, we undertake to minimise our waste output by having paperless events wherever possible, by enhancing recycling for both our production team and our audiences, by reusing materials and by providing easily accessible recycling points at our venues. In subcontracting, we undertake to select high-quality products and services with environmental certificates, to use recycled materials and to favour local services. We encourage our partners to do the same.

A ticket to a concert or event of the Turku Music Festival always includes free travel on Föli local buses. The Festival encourages audiences and employees alike to use public transport. Moreover, audience members have the option of buying an Environment Ticket, which includes a contribution to the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (the contribution percentage varies by concert).

We undertake to instruct our staff and our partners on how they can comply with our environmental values and our Environmental Pledge. We will continuously update this Environmental Pledge with our team.

Our goals for the next three years are:

1. No more concert-specific programme leaflets
We will print one programme book at the beginning of each season, containing the principal information on each concert. The full programme details will always be available on our website, www.tmj.fi.
2. Developing publicity on corporate responsibility
We wish our audiences, partners and employees to know what our values are.
3. No more year-specific T-shirts or other clothing
We will no longer be printing branded clothing except what is necessary for our staff, and these items will be printed without year numbers, so that they can be used over several years. We will only use responsible partners when selecting fabrics, providers and printers.
4. Active encouragement for audience members to use public transport
We will engage in closer cooperation with Föli and other public transport operators.
5. Training our team in corporate responsibility and environmental protection
6. Making corporate responsibility a key pillar of our foundation’s work

Want to hear more about our sustainability activities? Contact us!

Eveliina Salminen
Sales and Marketing Manager

+358 (0)40 524 5531
eveliina.salminen(at)tmj.fi

Principles for a safer space

At the Turku Music Festival, we welcome everyone just as they are. We have a zero tolerance policy for discrimination of any kind at our events, and we will have misbehaving guests removed if necessary. We aim for all our guests to feel safe when attending our events, so that they can relax and enjoy classical music to its full effect.

Achieving a safer space and non-discrimination is a process, and we are aware of this. Please let us know if there is something that we could do better. Feel free to contact us at info@tmj.fi.

We wish everyone equally welcome to the Turku Music Festival!

For this purpose, we have established the following ground rules for all our events:

Respect the physical and mental personal space of others. You cannot know what another person’s boundaries are unless you ask. For instance, ask before touching another person.
Listen and change your behaviour if someone indicates to you that your behaviour is making them feel uncomfortable.
Respect everyone and make no assumptions. Do not make assumptions about anyone’s gender, sexuality, nationality, ethnicity, religion, values, socioeconomic background, functional capacity or health. Respect pronouns and names. Also be aware of your own rights.
No body shaming. Do not make comments on other people’s bodies.
Respect others in their opinions, beliefs, experiences and differing views. Do not mock, insult, demean, dismiss or embarrass anyone with what you say or do.
Take responsibility for your actions and behaviour. Be aware of how your actions affect others, even if you have the best of intentions.
Give space. Allow everyone to participate in the conversation. Do not dismiss other people’s opinions or talk over them. Respect the privacy of others and treat sensitive topics with respect.
Intervene if you see harassment and ask the person being harassed whether they need help or support. Do not remain a bystander.
Apologise if you have hurt another person, whether deliberately or unintentionally.