{"id":13790,"date":"2026-04-01T15:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/kasvatus-ja-koulutus\/soisalo-institute\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:35:53","slug":"soisalo-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/en\/education-and-training\/soisalo-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"Soisalo Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Soisalo Institute offers diverse hobby and study opportunities for people of all ages at the adult education centre, as well as artistic subjects at the music school and in the visual arts, crafts and dance schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Soisalo Institute operates as an educational institution maintained by the City of Varkaus in the Joroinen, Varkaus and Hein\u00e4vesi areas, and, with regard to basic education in the arts, in the Lepp\u00e4virta area, and, with regard to the music school, also in Pieks\u00e4m\u00e4ki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adult education centre<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone can enrol on all courses regardless of municipal boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-dg-arrow-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opistopalvelut.fi\/soisalo-opisto\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adult education centre course offering<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"dg-spacer tiny\" style=\"height: 25px !important;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Basic education in the arts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start an artistic hobby at the Soisalo Institute! Places are filled in order of enrolment. An interest in the subject is enough, and we also offer a chance to try things out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-default\">\n<li>Music school in Joroinen, Varkaus, Pieks\u00e4m\u00e4ki and Lepp\u00e4virta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dance school in Joroinen, Varkaus and Hein\u00e4vesi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Craft school in Joroinen and Hein\u00e4vesi<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visual arts school in Varkaus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"dg-spacer tiny\" style=\"height: 25px !important;\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list is-style-dg-arrow-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soisalo-opisto.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Soisalo Institute website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-bottom-right-border-radius-big is-style-content-paddings has-warm-gray-light-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1668845b wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Soisalo Institute, Joroinen office<\/strong><br>Lentoasemantie 130, 79600 Joroinen<br>Open Tue and Thu 9.00\u201311.00 and 12.00\u201315.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Customer service<\/strong><br>tel. <a href=\"tel:0407138660\">040 713 8660<\/a> (Mon\u2013Tue and Thu 9\u201315)<br><a href=\"mailto:soisalo-opisto@soisalo-opisto.fi\">soisalo-opisto@soisalo-opisto.fi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"align wp-block-digitaali-yhteystieto\"><div class=\"dg-contact-list\">\t\t<div class=\"dg-contact-card\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__titteli h4 mb-1\">Opistosihteeri<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__nimi\">Kati Arola<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dg-contact-card__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/wp-content\/themes\/Digitaali\/images\/icons\/icon-phone.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"tel:+358407138631\">+358 40 713 8631<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dg-contact-card__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/wp-content\/themes\/Digitaali\/images\/icons\/icon-email.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"maddr\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"L\u00e4het\u00e4 s\u00e4hk\u00f6postia kati.arolasoisalo-opisto.fi\">kati.arola<span class=\"at\">soisalo-opisto.fi<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"dg-contact-card\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__titteli h4 mb-1\">Rehtori<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__nimi\">Jukka Tuohino<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dg-contact-card__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/wp-content\/themes\/Digitaali\/images\/icons\/icon-phone.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"tel:+358407138630\">+358 40 713 8630<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dg-contact-card__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/wp-content\/themes\/Digitaali\/images\/icons\/icon-email.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"maddr\" role=\"link\" aria-label=\"L\u00e4het\u00e4 s\u00e4hk\u00f6postia jukka.tuohinosoisalo-opisto.fi\">jukka.tuohino<span class=\"at\">soisalo-opisto.fi<\/span><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"dg-contact-card__osoite\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dg-contact-card__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joroinen.fi\/wp-content\/themes\/Digitaali\/images\/icons\/icon-location.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Taipaleentie 24<br>78200 Varkaus<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soisalo Institute offers diverse hobby and study opportunities for people of all ages at the adult education centre, as well as artistic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14221,"parent":13922,"menu_order":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13790","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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