Events calendar and archive: squ.at/r/ip9
Makamik was an anarchist collective organizing events till 2025 in Helsinki.
Originally squatted in 2013 and since legalized Squat Makamik was an anarchist and antiauthoritarian social center and space for free art in Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki, based on anticapitalism and safer space principles. You can read about the first phase of Makamik (2013~2019) on the archived old blog. In 2019-2020 there came a lot of new people and energy into the collective and we can say that a new phase began then.
The house was destroyed in a fire in suspicious circumstances after a long harassement campaign by the far-right in late winter 2023 but the collective that was running the house continued organizing for almost three years after that, squatting spaces, organizing communal events and fighting for a more humane world. Makamik organized many kinds of events such as peoples kitchens, gigs, workshops, cross-disciplinary art, parties, movie nights and exhibitions.