The Helsinki University Science Fiction Club

The Helsinki University Science Fiction Club (HYSFK) was founded on October 13th 1987. The club’s mission is to promote science fiction and fantasy at the university and to function as a meeting place for scifi and fantasy fans.

We hang out at the club every Thursday and some of our other activities include organizing movie and board game nights, running our reading group and writing group and publishing our own magazine Marvin. The club also participates in organizing Finncon and other scifi and fantasy events that take place in Helsinki.

Stay up to date on all our events by following our announcement channels (mailing list, Facebook, Discord).

Upcoming events in the early autumn of 2024

(Held at our club room “Cat” at Mechelininkatu 3D unless otherwise specified.)

Mon Sept 2nd 6 pm Opening Carnival Afterparty by the geek societies
Thu Sept 5th 6 pm Star Trek Day
Thu Sept 12th 6 pm Newcomers’ Night
Wed Sept 18th 4-8 pm Fresher Adventure checkpoint
Thu Sept 19th 7 pm Book Club: “Better Living Through Algorithms” by Naomi Kritzer (link)
Sat Sept 28th from 12 noon Writing Retreat and The Prisoner Marathon
Thu Oct 3rd 6 pm Board Game Night
Thu Oct 10th 7 pm Book Club: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Thu-Sun Oct 24th-27th Book Fair at Messukeskus
Thu Oct 31st 7 pm Book Club: On the Shoulders of Otava by Laura Mauro

We also have writing group meetings every Wednesday at 6:30 pm on the HYSFK Discord, and our regular club nights every Thursday starting at 6 pm at the club room. More irregularly we have movie nights, game nights, writing retreats, presentations, excursions and other cool stuff. We will continue coming up with more events throughout the autumn, so stay up to date by following our regular announcement channels (mailing list, Facebook, Discord).