sTYYlish May Day Eve 2025
May Day is coming again, are you ready?!
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.
May Day Eve starts with TYY and organisations giving out punch around the campus area. TYY's own Punch Stand is at the University Hill. Please check your own organisation's punch times below. You can also hear the kick-off of the sTYYlish Ticket chase at the University Hill at noon. Spot a TYY board member in a Vappu suit on campus and win tickets to various cultural events in the Turku area.
At 16.45, a traditional May Day Parade leaves from the University 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 student caps (ylioppilas- or teekkarilakki). 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 teekkaricap on the other side of the road as well.
WHAT: May Day Punches, the Ticket chase, flag parade and the "cappings" of May Day
WHEN: 30.4. ~11-19.30
WHERE: University campus (outside spaces), Turku Art Museum Hill and The Lily of Turku statue
Schedule:
11.00–13.00 TYY's own May Day Punch stand @ University Hill
12.00 sTYYlish Ticket chase @ Campus area
16.45 May Day Parade leaves from the University Hill
17.30-18.00 Student caps on and a speech from the TYY executive board chair @ Art Museum Hill
18.30-19.00 Washing and giving the student cap to the Lilja statue @ Runeberginpuisto
19.00 Teekkarikomissio (technical students association) give a cap to the Paavo Nurmi statue @ Aurakatu x Hämeenkatu
Picture explained:
1. Educarium and Publicum courtyard:
2. Between Arcanum and Calonia:
3. Behind Arcanum (alongside Vatselankatu):
4. University Hill:
5. Student House B:
6. The surroundings of the cathedral:
1. Educarium and Publicum courtyard:
Suomen Yhteiskunta-alan Ylioppilaat Turku Ry 10 am - 1 am
Index yhteistuntatieteet ja kasvatustieteet 10 am - 12 pm
Opex ry 10 am - 2 pm (or until punch ends)
Dialectica ry 11am - 1 pm
Putex ry 11 am - 1 pm
Sosiaalitieteiden Klubi 11 am - 1 pm
Turun Auskultantit ry – TurAus ry 11 am - 1 pm
Collegium musicum Turku ry 11 am - 1 pm
Soihdunkantajat 11 am - 1 pm
I/O-Speksi 11 am - 1 pm
Katko ry 11 am - 2 pm
Fobia ry 11 am - 2 pm
Spektri ry 11 am - 2 pm
Mingbai ry 11 am - 3 pm
Turun yliopiston raskaan musiikin ystävät TYRMY 12 pm - 2 pm
Turun Wappuradio ry 12 pm - 3 pm
P-klubi 12 pm - 2 pm, punch station at Tuomaanpuisto barracks buildings
2. Between Arcanum and Calonia:
Sugri ry 9 am - 1 pm (moving punch station)
Taloustieteen Klubi Ry 10 am - 12 pm
Affekti ry 10 am - 1 pm
Museion ry 10 am - 1.30 pm
Humanitas ry 10 am - 1 pm
Anglica ry 10 am - 2 pm
Kritiikki ry 10 am - 2 pm
Kutu ry 10.30 am - 12.30 pm
ISHA Turku 10 am - 2 pm
Vare ry 10 am - 2 pm
Palladion ry 11 am - 1 pm
Kääntöpiiri ry 11 am - 1 pm
Germanica ry 11 am - 1 pm
Kanta ry 11 am - 1 pm
Forum romanum ry 11 am - 1 pm
Mimesis ry tentatively 11 am - 1 pm
F-piste 11 am - 1 pm
Pappagallo ry 11 am - 2 pm
Mañana ry 11 am - 2 pm
3. Behind Arcanum (alongside Vatselankatu):
Kinokopla 11 am - 1 pm
4. University Hill:
Akateeminen partiokilta 10 am - 11.30 am
Turun Yliopiston Kemistit TYK ry 10 am - 1 pm
ESN Uni Turku 10 am - 4 pm
Student union TYY 11 am - 12 pm
In Vitro Aboensis IVA ry 11 am - 12 pm
Skandica ry 11 am - 1 pm
Hybridi Turku ry 11 am - 1 pm
Synapsi ry 11 am - 1 pm
Pulterit ry 11 am - 1 pm
Turun Korkeakoulujen Reserviläiset 11 am - 1 pm (or until punch ends)
Adaptus ry 11 am - 1 pm (or until punch ends)
LoimuTKU 11 am - 1 pm
Turun yliopiston matemaattisten ja fysikaalisten tieteiden opiskelijoiden yhdistys Delta ry 11 am - ~12 pm (or until punch ends)
Statistika ry 11 am - until punch ends
EGEA Turku ry 12 pm - 1 pm
Asteriski ry 13.37 pm - until punch ends
5. Student House B:
Akateeminen Aurajokilaivuriyhdistys ry 8.59 am - 10 am
TPO Turun yliopiston Pohjalainen Osakunta 10 am - 1 pm
Terrakoti 11 am - 2 pm
Turun yliopiston Satakuntalais-Hämäläinen Osakunta ry (SHO) 11 am - 2 pm
Turun yliopiston Savo-Karjalainen Osakunta 11 am - until punch ends
6. The surroundings of the cathedral:
Digit ry 10.30 am - 1 pm
Optima ry 11 am - 1 pm
Asklepio ry 11 am - 1 pm
Nucleus ry 12 pm - 2 pm
Efficio 11 am - 1 pm
Technica ry 12 pm - until punch ends
Materiaalitekniikan kilta Adamas ry 12 - until punch ends
Konetekniikan kilta Machina ry 12 pm - 2 pm