TVO - A Students' Club for Ultimate Degeneration

What is TVO?

It looks like a rock club. Sometimes it seems to be a semi-secret student community lurking in its underground cellar club.

TVO is the most versatile club in Turku University. The purpose of this society is to promote students' possibilities to do whatever they like. The club is open every day and there are about one hundred events every year.

What to do?

You can, for example, play a pinball game, have a prolonged scientific debate or listen to a pseudoscientific monologue, drink coffee and tea, have a cold beer, or you can just pop in for a table soccer match.

For coming gigs and other events check http://www.myspace.com/tvoturku.

As a member of TVO, you can enjoy Finnish academic traditions which include decorous parties (the picture below), excursions around the province and yachting in the Finnish archipelago. In the traditional parties of TVO, the young students and the old scholars are happily mixed up together.

TVO is a nice place enjoy some idleness

It's good for your creativity. The TVO club room is like the living room for many students. Some of them have even been in residence there. Anyway, it's better than those quarters which most students can usually afford (ie. more than a place to sleep).

Equally TVO is a fine place for you if you like some hustle and bustle around you. Several times in a week some rock or punk bands from around the world will visit our living room, and occasionally there are a lot of audience as well. TVO has all the equipment needed to organise a party and we know how to use them as well.

How to enter the TVO?

You do not have to be a member of TVO to participate in most of the events or to visit the club room. Just stop by and check the place.

All students at the University of Turku or the Åbo Akademi University can join the TVO. But it's not for free, in 2009 the membership fee is five euros.

Hurry up!

TVO is facing eviction in 31st May 2010. The organisation will continue, but it is still unclear where and how.

Anything else?

Please ask!