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On view are his new large-scale pantings, a surrealist self-portrait sculptural installation and a short film Fish, which was screened at the 64th International Oberhausen Short Film Festival last year and is presented to the local audience for the first time.

Jacqueline Molnár currently lives in Barcelona and Budapest. She has illustrated many animated cartoons and more than 40 children’s books. In her work she uses different techniques: collage, aquarelle, tempera, acrylic painting, photography etc. She also writes fairy tales herself. Her book Robots (Robotok) with her own illustrations came out in 2017.

How do the advertisements we consume daily affect our behavior and establish certain gender roles? Can self-care become an empowering alternative to consumption? Or another clever advertising strategy that furthers oppression?

In an inspired and passionate mash-up of her own words, contemporary interviews and the films she wrote about, Rob Garver has crafted in this feature documentary a remarkably captivating portrait of a tough grande dame of cinema.

Introduction by Tõnu Karjatse.

The exhibition Dear Algorithm, will be staged as a choreography of everyday movements: the window display becomes a shop front for hybrid-organic clothing sculptures, the gallery attendant simultaneously serves as perception manager, a library section will give further instructions on subverting social expectations, conditioning principles and behavioural patterns, a video installation presents three nonhuman actors that aim to grapple with and relate to human working environments, and lastly one may encounter some other-than-human entities that are in no one’s pockets.

Series Pimekontsert (Blind concert) will bring to the audience A+ category artists, who’s person won’t be revealed until they take the stage. “The idea of blind concert was to offer our jazz fans a monthly amazing concert experience by top musicians who are carefully selected and deeply loved by audiences, and to spice it up with a little thrill,” says Philly Joe’s programme director Lauri Kadalipp.

Johannes Luik will create an installation – a psycho sculpture – that reflects the essence of the memories of the future:

“Currently, my home, the place where I live, is not my real home. When I think about home, I see a constantly changing image – a collection of my experiences and preferences – a memory of the future. Such an image about my home exists in my mind in supreme perfection – always the way I want it to be.”

On the occasion of the centenary of the Art Museum of Estonia, an examination of the museum’s collection will be organised in the Kumu’s Great Hall, the geographic and temporal dimensions of which extend from the international to the local, from the Middle Ages to the present day. All of the popular approaches to art history owe their emergence to the museum. But what happens when artists intervene and provide their own versions of an era, a work or a movement when an artist functions as a curator?

Curator: Eha Komissarov

On five July evenings the Naissaar island will host a lightshow concert performance Laser and Lenses, in which the author Dominy Clements continues to explore the life of Bernhard Schmidt, the world famous optician from Naissaar. The performance is a sequel to Clements’s opera An Enlightened Disciple of Darkness of the 2013 Nargenfestival, staged in Noblessner’s foundry and showing Bernhard Schmidt’s whole life. Laser and Lenses concentrates on one single day in 1935, the last year in the life of the famous optician. The main character’s dreams and experiences, spellbinding music and organ sound landscapes will meet on the stage with the laser harp’s rays in the focus of the stunning show. Oliver Kuusik as Schmidt will bring the main character close to the audience from the darkness of the past, inspired by his blood relation to the famous islander.

A sense of Hanseatic times can be felt in Tallinn Old town during the Medieval Days.

The Town Hall Square will be filled with medieval merchants and craft shops. Musicians and dancers from near and far will perform. A medieval parade will take place. You can find the village of masters and children’s area with study rooms, knight school and many other things on the hill of St. Nicholas’ Church. In addition, you can take part in many excursions, apprentice rooms and theatre performances.

Traces project is an experimental collaboration between two sisters, touching upon the same topic, whilst interpreting it in their own characteristic medium. The end result is a conceptual dialogue between paintings and photographs, allowing the works to develop new meanings within a site specific installation – a curated journey through the translucent layers of time.

The exhibition is a sequel to the sisters first collaborative exhibition Traces in Tallinn Portrait Gallery, 2018

A film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia

This coming summer the XII Global Estonian Cultural Festival, otherwise known as ESTO 2019, will cross the symbolic “Finnish bridge” between Finland and Estonia and arrive on Estonia’s shores.

The festival, which is part of the Republic of Estonia’s 100th anniversary celebration and carries the theme “Our Future”, will focus on youth.

You can find the programme on the ESTO 2019 website http://estofestival.com/en/.

The exhibition explores the father son relationship and the influence they have had on each other. For the son, the most important period was his childhood that shaped him into the person he is: all the images and memories from that time pass through his mind every day. For the father, it was the big change that shifted the focus of his life: children introduced a new variable that influenced his decisions.

On the occasion of the centenary of the Art Museum of Estonia, an examination of the museum’s collection will be organised in the Kumu’s Great Hall, the geographic and temporal dimensions of which extend from the international to the local, from the Middle Ages to the present day. All of the popular approaches to art history owe their emergence to the museum. But what happens when artists intervene and provide their own versions of an era, a work or a movement when an artist functions as a curator?

Curator: Eha Komissarov

On the 6th of July, another Tahkuna Briis cultural festival will take place in and around Tahkuna Lighthouse.

Already for the fourth time, the event brings together musicians from the island and from the mainland and traditionally, there is also an art program.

Performers:
Faun Racket
Lauri-Dag Tüür
Mauno Meesit
Valev Sein and Raul Keller

DJ: MRT / Kiimsask / REC

Installations from Kordon residency.

Photo exhibition Bus Life.

The main idea of the 27th Song Celebration and the 20th Dance Celebration is My Fatherland is My Love. These words have a personal meaning for each and every one of us.

Used by the poet Lydia Koidula, these words have now become a timeless anthem for love of the fatherland that has brought people together in hard times to care for their land and continually recreate it. Each and every one of us has a special relationship to our fatherland. Love and fatherland are such broad and multi-layered concepts that they only find substance through personal devotion and expression.

The head conductor of the 27th Song Celebration Minu arm is Peeter Perens.

The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street, said Robert Doisneau (1912-1994), a French photographer famous for his poetic, gently humorous and timeless moments taken on streets around Paris and its suburban areas. Doisneau’s ability to find and capture subtle personal emotions and simple yet meaningful episodes of quotidian Parisian life has been admired by millions. No wonder he is considered as the pioneer of the modern documentary and street photography.

Kachanovskaya’s affectionate approach to painterly traditions stems from her diverse art education in Estonia and St Petersburg. But the content of the works is connected to the negative emotions that she has developed through the actual life of an artist and the role of artists in contemporary society. In her first personal exhibition in Tartu, Kachanovskaya creates a small world where the heritage of classical paintings intermingles with installation and video works inspired by the conservation of art.

With the current exhibition, the artist is observing the borders of the personal and the public, dreams and waking, the permanent and the changing. Anna Kaarma focuses on the living environment of the district of Lasnamäe in Tallinn – the architectural and social superstructure is being unravelled to fragments charged with personal meanings and experiences.

World premiere was on January 15, 1890 at Mariinsky Theatre

On her christening day Princess Aurora is cursed by the wicked fairy Carabosse: one day the Princess will prick her finger on a spindle and die. But the kind Lilac Fairy tempers the curse so the Princess will instead fall asleep for 100 years until Prince Désiré will break Carabosse’s wicked spell. With a classical score by Tchaikovsky, new redaction of Petipa’s choreography by Thomas Edur and fantastic design by Peter Docherty, the ballet will offer a visual feast to all lovers of magic and fairy-tales.

Fashion show held by Pallas University of Applied Sciences.

Mood-Performance-Tants is a fashion show that has been held by Pallas University of Applied Sciences for 20 years already. Originally meant for showing the textile department’s collections it has now grown into a truly unique production that combines interesting fashion experiments with elements of dance and performance. The audience is presented a visual feast that differs from all other fashion shows in both its fashion collections as well as the setup.

A dance performance born in the quiet of Estonia and raised on the loud streets of Palestine.

In a world where noise has become the norm, it is the silence that terrifies us. Noise is a physical meeting of sounds, bodies, space and vibrations; soaked and served with all kinds of noise we have grown accustomed to, regardless of their disruptive effect on our lives.

Tallinn Street Food Festival celebrates its 6th birthday! The festival has selected caterers, who combine quality ‘classical’ street-food with fresh, surprising and exotic flavours.

Carlitos is a seventeen-year-old youth with movie star swagger, blond curls and a baby face. As a young boy, he coveted other people’s things, but it wasn’t until his early adolescence that his true calling – to be a thief – manifested itself.

Director: Luis Ortega
Cast: Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Daniel Fanego

Every spring, thousands of people have enjoyed concerts behind the maritime museum of the beautiful captains’ village. In addition to beautiful music, the audience is attracted by a wonderful view of Käsmu Bay, delicious food, divine drinks and a good company.

Is Toomas Vint a landscape painter?
If an artist paints the landscape what do they see and imagine during this – are there just endless roads, summer horizons, colours of the forest, celestial rhythms of clouds, or parks in seasonal games?

On March 5 this year, the artist turned 75.

Retrospective is a collaborative exhibition by witnesses to the permanently transient immeasurable manifestation of the omnieternally disappearing and emerging chaos. As a spontaneously flowing spatial installation, the exhibition aims to look back upon the perpetual conflict between humanity and the universe, which has been tormenting men from the moment the first human hand reached for a stone axe. 

Participating artists: Martiini, Salme Kulmar, Marja-Liisa Plats, Helle Ly Tomberg, Paul Lepasson, Uku Pira, Martin Rästa, Siim Lill, Kersten Kõrge, Gabriela Liivamägi

When they were in disfavour during the Soviet era, the literary figures Elo and Friedebert Tuglas found refuge in their garden: gardening helped alleviate their bitterness.

The photographic artist Tanja Muravskaja searched in the garden of the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre for the Tuglas’s presence and the meaning of the garden exile today.

Curator: Elnara Taidre

Eight years after their separation, Abel meets Marianne again, at Paul’s funeral.

Abel sees this tragic event as a good omen. Paul’s death will allow him to win Marianne back. That is, unless Joseph, Paul and Marianne’s son, and Paul’s sister Eve, acting behind the scenes, don’t succeed in destroying Abel’s hopes…

Director: Louis Garrel
Cast: Louis Garrel, Lily-Rose Depp, Laetitia Casta

The subject of the exhibition is the body and the experience of this self-existence and being a part of the world.

Nine young artists interpret how bodies interact with each other, what are the characteristics of the body, and what, in which form, leaves marks in the body. The selection of the materials and techniques used can be somewhat surprising.

Participators: Georg Arnold, Kristina Kask, Endel Maas, Terje Meisterson, Tauris Reose, Kristin Sepp, Oleg Šubitšev, Mart Talvar, Taavi Teevet 

The film-maker Emily Railsback and sommelier Jeremy Quinn provide intimate access to rural family life in the Republic of Georgia as they explore the rebirth of 8,000-year-old winemaking traditions almost lost during the period of Soviet rule. By using unobtrusive iPhone technology, Railsback brings the voices and ancestral legacies of modern Georgians directly to the viewer, revealing an intricate and resilient society that has survived numerous foreign invasions and repeated attempts to erase Georgian culture. The revival of traditional winemaking is the central force driving this powerful, independent and autonomous nation to find its 21st-century identity.

Free admission!

The street market at the Widget Factory is a day full of street festival atmosphere that brings together recycled goods, designer’s market, street food and a cultural programme.

Street Market is a bow to local creativity – to design and handicrafts, to clever recycling and environmentally friendly lifestyle.

The festival program concentrates mainly on young opera singers and audience members! PromFest grew out of Klaudia Taev International Competition for Young Opera Singers, which was created in 1996 and remains one of the main events of the festival. All rounds of the competition will be open to the audience!

How To Build A Garden Gnome is a dance performance by Kadri Sirel that is a fairytale-coated manual, which centres on the human desire to build. To build roads, houses, but also goals and dreams. The protagonists of the story are the bodies, the wood, the object to be built and of course – the mysterious garden gnome.

Embassy of Italy in Tallinn presents Italian Film Days at Cinema Sõprus from 20th to 24th of May 2019! All films are screened in Italian with Engish subtitles. All screenings are free of charge!

May 20 at 6 pm. The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro / Alessandro D’Alatri / 2017 / 97 min
May 21 at 6 pm. Il deserto dei tartari / Valerio Zurlini / 1976 / 140 min
May 22 at 6 pm. Italo Barocco / Alessia Scarso / 2014 / 104 min
May 23 at 6 pm. Un ragazzo d’oro / Pupi Avati / 2014 / 102 min
May 24 at 6 pm. La città ideale / Luigi Lo Cascio / 2012 /105 min

The books of Scottish writer and storyteller Janis MacKay are for both children and adults. His imaginative works are inspired by the folklore and nature of the homeland, combine skillfully new and old while dealing with topics that matter to each of us.

His book Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest that was recently published in Estonian, will be discussed, as well as The Accidental Time Traveller, a book that won the Best Scottish Children’s Books Award of 2013. Come and see what other fascinating characters will be talked about!

Orient festival, the first and the biggest festival in the Baltic states dedicated to the non-European, mainly Asian music, will take place again after a two-year break this spring.

The festival will open on May 23 in the glass hall of the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds with the Primitive Power of Tuva concert. 22 throat singers will perform, presenting the unique shamanist musical mysticism of South Siberia.

‘NuQ Treff’ keeps the finger on the pulse of contemporary puppet, object and visual theatre, searching for an inspiring dialogue between form and content, tradition and innovation. The program of the upcoming festival is for both children and adults. Alongside international productions, the program also includes NUKU theatre’s shows that focus on the balance between content and form. Almost 20 productions from France, Israel, Russia, Finland, Germany, Slovenia, Great Britain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia are being showcased at ‘NuQ Treff’.

Together with numerous churches in Europe, the churches in Estonia open their doors to all the visitors in the evening of 24 May.

During the Night of Churches one can observe the everyday life of various confessions, receive answers to questions, discover the art treasures hidden in churches and enjoy the music in a relaxed atmosphere. There are activities for big and small, from quiet meditations to the conquering of towers.

On Friday, 24 May at 11 am, all the admirers of literature and coffee are welcome to the offices of the Estonian Institute (Suur-Karja 14, Tallinn) for a morning get together.

Poets Adam Cullen (1986), Veronika Kivisilla (1978) and Indrek Koff (1975) will read their poetry in Estonian and other languages. In addition, the Chairman of the Council of the Estonian Institute, Eero Raun, will perform his sonnets that will be taken out from the drawer for the first time. The audience is sure to hear English and French in addition to Estonian. This is an exciting experiment in a broader sense: how does a poem for one voice and several languages sound?

On May 25, there will be a street art tour at Telliskivi Creative City. The tour will be held in English. On the tour, you will get to know how and when the paintings were created and what they are about; the artists will be introduced; you will hear about what happened in the creative city before the street art period; we will talk about history and the cradle of street art – graffiti, and will look at old photos.

“Sireleis” is a collection of the best of unpublished songs in the last six years. It is a notional sequel to the albums “Nõgesed” and “Nelgid”.

Most of the tracks on the new album have been written simultaneously with the songs on the first two albums of the trilogy and recorded between April 2013 and January 2019. That is why the final album of the trilogy continuous the tone and thoughts and sound of the two previous albums. On the other hand, “Sireleis” is a completely fresh and independent album that does not repeat the previous albums. Selected songs from the albums will be performed at the presentation.

These are mostly authorial paintings, where the performance art carried out in the global space reaches a flat reality through painting. There are also just descriptions of conditions (Rehabilitation at Pärnu Hospital) and mystical realism (The Meaning of Life = 111). Since 2000, Joonas has used an abstract concept which, in his estimation, is ideal for the present and which he also exhibited at the first Aledoia painting set in 2001 at Raatuse Gallery in Tallinn.

A diverse selection of short stories from contemporary Estonian comic creators, inspired by the genuine traditional ghost and spooky stories, will be exhibited. The new exhibition continues and broadens the series of stories from Estonian folklore, which was presented in 2014–2016 in Tallinn and Tartu, as well as in Helsinki and Brussels comic festivals, in Berlin at the Estonian Embassy and at the Greifswald Festival.

Participating artists represent different generations and handwritings in the Estonian comic and illustration landscape. The exhibition will include works by Veiko Tammjärv, Urmas Viik, Stella Salumaa, Anna Lauretta Eespere, Toom Tragel, Anti Veermaa, Mark Antonius Puhkan, Raul and Romet Esko.

Exhibition on farm architecture in Estonian films.

Most Estonian film directors, cinematographers and film designers have shot scenes on a farm. Yet, the story of Estonian film has not been told through farmhouses so far – and vice versa. But physical locations have left behind a visual trace evident to generations of audiences. Rural architecture, often the focal point in films, carries the most diverse range of emotions and stories. The farms seen are personal, documentary, artistic, symbolic and political. The rural architecture recorded in Estonian films can be seen as a phenomenon in itself, which continuously creates and visualises the archetype of life on Estonian farmsteads and in Estonian society in general.

Mäetamm has been a resident artist at the Tartu Art House since 4 March and has used this time to discover and map Tartu for himself. The artist, who is originally from the south Estonian town Karksi-Nuia, has recollected memories associated with Tartu that are often tumultuous and frequently unpleasant. He has also made drawings of various places that are characteristic of Tartu or of the shadowy non-Tartu.

It’s impossible to recall late 70s New York without recalling Studio 54, the legendary Manhattan night spot where celebrities, socialites, the straight, the queer and the beautiful danced, drank, perhaps got high and, most importantly, were seen. It was the epicentre of 70s hedonism: a place that not only redefined the nightclub but also came to symbolise an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society: they became the kings of Manhattan, and then lost it all. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first stretched across the club’s hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.

Introduction by Olav Osolin.

Free admission!

The screening of Priit Pärn, Priit Tender, Kaspar Jancis and Ülo Pikkov’s animation series Frank & Wendy (2005).

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlot49j4wA4

Free admission!

Kalamaja Days will be held for the eleventh time.

★ Great artists
★ Experience the tastes at the street fair
★ Youth area and exciting workshops
★ Courtyard cafés
★ Powerful afterparty
★ And other exciting things

Programme

May 18, Saturday
SALME CULTURAL CENTER AND NEARBY
11 am – 9 pm Programme on the main stage
11 am – 6 pm Street fair (handicraft, food, drink)
12 noon – 6 pm Children’s area
7–10 pm Long table party

May 19, Sunday
SALME CULTURAL CENTER AND NEARBY
10 am – 6 pm Street fair (handicraft, food, drink)
11 am – 6 pm Programme on the main stage
12 noon – 6 pm Children’s area and sport activities

ALL OVER KALAMAJA
10 am – 6 pm Courtyard cafés

The exhibition Published by Lugemik. Printed matter from 2010–2019 presents for the first time all the titles published by Lugemik in the last decade.

The 81 exhibited publications include artists’ books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, theatre texts, readers and other printed matter such as posters, postcards, zines, etc.

As an independent art publisher, Lugemik has mapped a large part of the Estonian contemporary art and design landscape through numerous collaborations with artists, designers, theorists, and cultural institutions, resulting in a variety of printed matter. The exhibition strives to talk about the aspect of translation in Lugemik’s practice, and will also reflect on topics related to book-making, such as graphic design, contemporary methods for art reproduction, and various forms of collaboration.

Movement workshop: Instinctive Me is meant for those who are not willing to do sports, go to a gym or take group dance lessons but who are interested in the body and its biomechanical qualities.

In this workshop, there will be breathing, reacting, activating and relaxing muscles and accepting of the gravitational force.

Hopefully, the participant gets a confirmation that fighting the social comfort and sweeping sweat of one’s forehead after a physical effort, achieving a state of instinctive Me is possible.

The workshop is taught by Karl Saks who is a recognized dance and sound artist. He gives classes of dance technique and movement improvisation at the Viljandi Culture Academy and teaches outside Estonia.

Registration HERE!

Go to AHHAA’s new exhibition and check out
the space satellite Sputnik (yes, the one that has actually been in space!),
a real space suit,
bits and pieces of Moon that were gathered during the lunar missions,
telescopes and other various space studying instruments from ancient times to the current age.

Amélie Ravalec’s documentary is a journey into art, madness and the unconscious. An exploration of visionary artists and the creative impulse, from the Flemish Masters of the Renaissance to the avant-garde movement of Surrealism and the unsung geniuses of Art Brut and Outsider Art.

Featuring artists Hieronymus Bosch, Francisco Goya, Vincent Van Gogh, William Blake, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali and many more.

A performance by Heleliis Hõim and Irmeli Terras.

A person never wants to feel that they are truly alone. You want to feel protected and guided by some higher power or feel that your choices are directed by someone else because the most terrifying realization is that you are alone and that you alone have the responsibility to choose. According to the theory of the origin of beliefs, worshipping objects bestowed with a greater power, i.e. fetishism is the oldest kind of religious belief. What do we do with these objects? What do we use them for? In the contemporary consumerist world, this is pure imagology and often carries a promise of a better life and a better me. We have returned to polytheism and reach out to our gods. “I believe in things, I want things, therefore I am.”

“The Red Cube” installation by Manuel Lima (1981, Brazil) is an installation for multiple red light bulbs and sound. For every five minutes, there is a different light-sound composition that explores the diverse symbolic meanings of the color red interposed with the ontologic notion of the red itself devoid of symbolic or metaphoric associations.

Director: Chuck Smith

Shot when she was just 18, Barbara Rubin’s orgiastic Christmas on Earth (1964) shocked NYC’s thriving underground film community. A mythical Zelig of the Sixties, she introduced Andy Warhol to the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan to the Kabbalah, and Allen Ginsberg to life on a farm. For years, 95-year-old film-maker Jonas Mekas (1922‒2019) saved all of Barbara’s letters and cherished her memory. Working with Mekas’s footage and other rare footage from the 1960s, the documentary reveals the impact that Barbara Rubin had on an underground world that was dominated by men, and reveals how and why one of the freest spirits of the sixties disappeared into legend. It’s a fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking woman who truly believed that film could change the world.

Introduction by Estonian filmmaker Piibe Kolka. The film is not suitable for minors.

The 16th Tartu International Literature Festival Prima Vista is bearing the subtitle Far from Funny. The festival offers the guests and audience an opportunity to discuss the borders of humour as well as ways to interpret the concepts of funny and serious.

The festival program will include Russian philosopher and satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky, writer and screenwriter Jean-Philippe Toussaint from Belgium, Ralf Rothmann and many other writers from across the world.

A concert where film-like alternative pop meets with danceable rap.

ENSO and maestro Neeme Järvi will end the season in a grand and earnest way, focusing on the temporality of our earthly life, resurrection, and eternal life. The most important vocal symphonic works of Johannes Brahms will be performed – the monumental A German Requiem and Schicksalslied (‘Song of Destiny’), which is only 15 minutes long, but has been called the little brother of his main requiem. Our southern neighbours’ state choir Latvija, with whom ENSO has worked together successfully for nearly 40 years, will also join ENSO for both performances.

Müürilille Flea Market begins its 11th outdoor season on May 11 in the courtyard of Widget Factory. The flea market includes second-round clothes but you can also find design and craft items, books, household goods, and other interesting things.

Concert by Triin Ruubel Quartet:
Triin Ruubel (violin)
Joosep Reimaa (violin)
Sandra Klimaité (viola)
Theodor Sink (cello)

Introduction by Peeter Volkonski.

Shostakovich’s string quartet series is reaching its end and the stellar violinist, soloist, and chamber musician Triin Ruubel’s quartet will be performing the series’ final concert.

Dara O’Brian is one of the most recognisable faces on British TV, as the host of the hugely successful Mock The Week, Star Gazing Live, Robot Wars and Go 8 Bit.

Catch one of the most charismatic, intelligent, fast-talking and downright funny live performers who is bringing you his brand new show.

Exhibition ‘Music Machines’ held in Design and Architecture gallery, Tallinn during the World Music Days will introduce sound objects-machines. In a way, all of them represent an experiment in order to visualize/embody sound through the technological spectrum.

Improtest is a concert series that brings improvisational music from local and foreign authors to the local audience.

Kristin Kuldkepp is a free improviser on double bass and live-electronics. She is engaged in the work with movement sensors, human movement studies and research of instrumental gestures in free improvisation. The research has led to free improvisational solo set-up pieces for double bass, multichannel live-electronics and video but also to collaborations with other art disciplines.

Zsófia Szilágyi‘s ‘One Day’ will be screened at Cinema Artis on the occasion of the Day of the Hungarian Film. After screening, every Hungarian movie fan is welcome to a small reception.

With ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, director Stanley Kubrick redefined the limits of filmmaking in this classic science fiction masterpiece.

To begin his voyage into the future, Kubrick visits our prehistoric ape-ancestry past, then leaps millennia into colonised space, and ultimately whisks astronaut Bowman into unchartered realms of space, perhaps even into immortality.

The beloved songs by Curly Strings performed in new arrangements by Tõnu Kõrvits, Rasmus Puur, Tauno Aints and Arno Tamm.

Eeva Talsi (vocals, violin)
Villu Talsi (vocals, mandolin)
Jaan Jaago (vocals, guitar)
Taavet Niller (vocals, double bass)
Estonian National Youth Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Jüri-Ruut Kangur

During the three days of ‘Sabatants’, you can dance polkas, waltzes and reilenders and many other old dances that are still popular and beloved in Estonia today.

If you have never experienced anything like this before, then during the day you will learn the steps at the workshop and then have fun at the evening dance clubs. If you feel like a fish in the water while you’re on the dancefloor, you can concentrate on enjoying the dances and superior your skills.

Morning seminars are cosy meetings where you can always learn something new and share your experiences with others.

During her world tour, Laurel Halo, an American musician residing in Berlin, presents the mix released in the legendary DJ-Kicks series. In addition to the world’s most renowned clubs and festivals (De School, Berghain Säule, Primavera Sound), Halo also lands in Tallinn’s tiny Kauplus Aasia.

Also music by Goodness resident DJs Raul Saaremets and Ats Luik.

On May 3-4, 2019, Mooste breathes in a folk rhythm, because the Estonian Folk Music Arrangements Festival celebrates its anniversary.

The program includes concerts at Mooste Folk Chamber, Mooste chambers’ day and Night Concert at Mill Theatre. There will also be musical night hike around Lake Mooste. In every few hundred meters, a new music collective welcomes the hikers.

The exhibition at the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn displays both the individual works of Tommy Cash and Rick Owens, as well as their jointly executed artworks for the show.

Although different in practice and background, Cash’s and Owens’s interests overlap considerably: Cash’s visuals feature a great deal of aestheticised uncanniness, whereas Owens’s practice carries a kindred approach to the balance between functional design and the pure manifestation of form. This exhibition aims to emphasise their artistic positions, which, although originating from different realms of culture, boldly shape the larger picture of the visual arts today.

The Dance Week is a week-long event introducing dance art to Viljandi county by filling the area with various approaches and performances of dance. There are dance events for everyone, for those who are interested in seeing, watching, hearing or discussing dance, and of course, for those who want to dance.

Tartu Artist in Residence Bita Razavi will open the doors of her studio to the public for the first time on Thursday, the 25th of April at 7 pm and will talk about her project Raua 16. Come to Raua 16 to share your experience and stories of renovation and hear others’ over a glass of wine.

Raua 16 studies the materials and methods used for renovation and interior design in relation to the recent history of the region. Razavi peels an empty and partly renovated apartment in Tartu to excavate different layers of its renovation.

An extraordinary form of musical theatre, where the audience sits in a circle around a confessional with blinders on. The libretto of this piece is based on the motifs of the seven deadly sins. Different sounds (whispers, gusts of wind, car noises) and music (singers performing segments from liturgical works) approaching and moving away, running over the listener or sneaking up on them from under the chair. Even scents play a role. You will feel a faint touch or a drop falling on your arm… The senses are alert and the subconscious produces fantastic images.

Ruta Vitkauskaite (Lithuania)
Jens Hedman (Sweden)
Asa Nordgren (Sweden)

HÕFF introduces to Estonian and foreign audiences the largest possible contemporary range of horror, fantasy, and cult movies. Although a number of horror and fantasy film festivals are organized in the neighbouring countries of Estonia, HÕFF is unique, as it focuses on a high-quality programme and shows the best movies from the world’s most prestigious genre festivals. Most of the films have not been featured in Estonia and it is unlikely that they will be shown outside of HÕFF.

In order to respond to the wishes of the audiences, the festival will last for 4 days again; the legendary HÕFF march across downtown Haapsalu will be revitalized; the first Estonian Nazi zombie film will be premiered; horror video games can be played and there will be many other exciting activities around Haapsalu.

Supilinn Days bring spring to the shores of Emajõgi and Supilinn district. There will be communal work, fair, music for every taste, literature and lectures, open yards and home cafés.

The goal of the Tallinn Coffee Festival is to advance the coffee culture and to introduce the exciting world of coffee. Over two days people can get to know many different and special varieties of coffee, learn about the ways of making coffee and what equipment to use, enjoy a good music and a lively programme. On Saturday, there are also exciting activities for families with children.

More than 50 companies participate in the event, who will also offer tea, chai, cocoa, syrups and much more. World famous brands and local roasteries are represented. Besides hot drinks, to complete the taste delights, there are also several pop-up cafes and places to eat.

Telliskivi Creative City celebrates its 10th birthday! A lot has happened over the past ten years, the former factory landscape has changed and grown a thick cultural layer.

The jubilee will be celebrated with the community and for ten days in a row. The old times and events will be revitalised, and what happens in between the city walls on a daily bases will be shown. On different days the focus is on art, children, music, theatre and dance, skateboards and bikes, films and architecture and much else. The city’s distant and recent history will also be packaged up in several interesting ways.

On Friday, April 26 at 6 pm there will be the opening of Sigrid Viir‘s exhibition ‘False Vacationer’ at EKKM.

At the heart of Sigrid Viir’s solo exhibition are today’s blurred boundaries between work and vacation. False Vacationer is a voyage through the entirety of the EKKM, starting from the external facade of the building and leading through the three storeys inside, posing questions about attitudes, habits and insecurities common these days in the holiday and work culture. The viewer can choose whether they come to the exhibition in ‘work’ or ‘holiday’ mode and that choice determines what route they will take through the building, accompanied by an audio guide. But does a ‘pure’ vacation, true catharsis await the viewer anywhere along the way? And how contemporary would the fairy-tale about holidays sound like?

The Finale of the contest for young composers: DYCE – Discovering Young Composers of Europe.

Four concerts by four ensembles in the four partner cities with a streaming broadcast from each concert hall to the other three. Audiences will accordingly be able to listen to the 3 best pieces from each region, i.e. 12 pieces: 3 in live by ensemble U: in Tallinn and 9 in streaming. The audiences will be able to vote and select 4 winning scores from the pieces they listened to (live and in streaming), 1 from each European region. The four winning composers will be commissioned to compose a new piece for 2020.

Ensemble U:, Tallinn
Cikada, Oslo
Divertimento Ensemble, Milan
Ensemble Taller Sonoro, Sevilla

The film evening will include two documentaries from the past couple of years with a similar poetic style – they were both realised in the genre of cinema povera. The worlds described in these films are also in some respects similar, concerning the daily lives of people committed to Christianity.

The program includes Andri Luup’s Father Guy (Isa Guy) and Ingel Vaikla’s Roosenberg. The screening of the films will be followed by a conversation with the directors, moderated by Jaan Tootsen.

Best British author films from the 70s.

In these days when the British are threatening to break up with the European Union once and for all, it is high time to remember the golden age of almost half a century ago, when they were just joining the European Economic Community, the grass was still green and everyone was focusing on the bright future.

SCHEDULE

15 Apr at 6.30 pm Sunday, Bloody Sunday (1971)
16 Apr at 8 pm Barry Lyndon (1975)
17 Apr at 8.30 pm Performance (1970)
18 Apr at 6.30 pm Family Life (1971)
19 Apr at 7 pm The Wicker Man (1973)
20 Apr at 7.30 pm O Lucky Man! (1973)
21 Apr at 6.30 pm Get Carter (1971)

A retrospective of the work of the Latvian artist Gustav Klucis (1895–1938), one of the greats of Constructivist and Russian agitprop art.

The exhibition provides a survey of the artist’s experimental work, which employed innovative graphic design and photo montage in the service of both propaganda and the avant-garde.

Curator: Iveta Derkusova (Latvian National Museum of Art)

Kris Lemsalu and Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia invite everyone to the presentation of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale on 15th of April at 11 at ARS project space (ARS Art Factory, Pärnu mnt 154).

The project will be presented by commissioner Maria Arusoo.

A decadent breakfast with Bekker cakes and sparkling wine will be served.

The inauguration of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale will be on 10th of May at 17 with Kris Lemsalu’s solo show Birth V – Hi and bye. The exhibition opening will be accompanied by a performance by Kris Lemsalu, Roman Lemberg, Michael Kleine, Kyp Malone, Michiko Takahashi, Carola Caggiano.

Considering Lasnamäe, the first things that spring to mind are the rows of prefabricated buildings and the wastelands interspersed between them. As a manifestation of a characterless, purely utilitarian space in the cityscape, it continues to be an important and intriguing environment for us, the young people born in the former Soviet Union or right after its collapse. The impersonal nature of Lasnamäe provides us with breathing space, creating a gap into which it was possible for us to write our story. It is our conceptual playground between the real playgrounds and rows of windows, where memories and the emotions they conjure intertwine with the foreign, thereby making it familiar.

Participating artists: Anna Kaarma, Lee Kelomees, Tõnis Laurson, Tiiu Lausmaa, Janne Lias, Riin Maide, Vassa Ponomarjova

The minimalist glass exhibition looks at cases studies of boxes, parcels, trunks, presents, cases, packing, sending and opening. For Sarapu, glass is mainly an installation or a sculpture material and she is captivated by geometrical shapes and simple abstract forms. She wants to enjoy clarity, order, emptiness and to create more of it. The first version of the exhibition Case Study was in Hop Gallery in Tallinn in November 2017.

Tiina Sarapu (b 1971) has graduated from the Department of Glass of the Estonian Academy of Arts and worked there in 2003–2017 as a lecturer. In addition to Estonia, she has had personal exhibitions in Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy and Denmark. Amongst many other accolades, in 2007 she received the Kristjan Raud Award.

What happens when a screenwriter starts to live-out his own script?

Imant is commissioned to write a con-artist story for a TV series. As research for his script, he tries out his fictional cons in real life – all for academic reasons, of course! “A Hobo walks into a bar with a doggie on a leash…” is how the first con starts, so Imant steals the little doggie of his neighbour. As Imant progresses in his script – he is drawn deeper into the world of con-artistry and crime.

Although made with private funding by young film professionals, the film overthrew financially local big-budget supposed-to-be-hit-of-the-year on the local market as well as became a box office hit number 1 in Latvia, leaving behind such Hollywood franchises as Star Wars and Fifty Shades of Grey.

The film is in Latvian with English subtitles.

New collaboration performance by Ruslan Stepanov and Artjom Astrov at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava.

“For this newly commissioned production at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava we’re joined by Viljandi Culture Academy dance theory lecturer Kai Valtna and dance technique teacher Raido Mägi, who are partnered in dialogue with their student Anumai Raska. The piece takes victimhood as its focus, projecting it on both performers’ and audience’s bodies, while, at the same time, drawing parallels with historical interpretations of freedom andindependence.”

A rising figure on the French, Swiss and European jazz scene, the trio lead by promising French pianist Gauthier Toux has developed a unique jazz sound, complex and lyrical, blended with many influences ranging from pop to hip hop.

The trio has performed more than 150 concerts since it was created in October 2013 in Lausanne, Switzerland. 3rd release The Colours You See is out on UK label Naim since May 4th, 2018.

Line up:
Gauthier Toux (piano)
Simon Tailleu (bass)
Maxence Sibille (drums)

Tallinn International Festival Jazzkaar celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, paying homage to the very first festival in 1990 with new albums from the cream of Estonian jazz as well as concerts of the current top jazz musicians in the USA. The main performers of this year’s Jazzkaar are Bobby McFerrin, John Scofield, Joshua Redman and Judith Hill.

The programme of Jazzkaar 2019 includes over 60 concerts. The festival welcomes to Estonia the current stars of the international jazz scene who can be also heard at the main European jazz festivals such as EFG London Jazz Festival and North Sea Jazz.

The main hub of the jubilee festival will be once again Telliskivi Creative City (Telliskivi Loomelinnak) in Tallinn, however, jazz will be brought further away from the capital city as well.

It’s time to take a journey to the early 90s, blow the dust off the vinyls and remind the good old part of the rave culture – jungle music! And who would be a better guide than Estonian jungle pioneer Lu: k! Lovin U? La:v? You know, right?

Studios, Kalev K, and Moose who have been involved with the local jungle scene for a long time will bring along their old favourites.

Eddie Izzard is about to take on the universe again as he introduces us to his new International comedy tour ‘Wunderbar’. Eddie is back to his roots with an all-new rather personal show which expands on his own very unique, totally surreal view of life, love, history and his ‘theory of the universe’.

Tõnu Kõrvits, the beloved composer, celebrates an important milestone with his friends and creative partners with a personal concert that highlights the colours and diversity of his work.

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Also participating: Riho Sibul (guitar), Ulla Krigul (organ), Virgo Veldi (saxophone), Lena Willemark (vocal)
Conductor Tõnu Kaljuste

Programme: Tõnu Kõrvits. ‘Hymn to the Blue Sky’, ‘Chorales of Thule’, ‘Song of the Sun’, ‘Leaving Elba’, ‘Kreek’s Notebook’

On the 11th April, The Day of Hungarian Poetry will be celebrated. On the occasion, the Institute and the Department of Finno-Ugric Studies of the University of Tartu will present its ‘Post-it Poetry’ installation, displaying hundful poems on colourful notes. You can read, enjoy and take away your favourite quotes!

mÜraton is a Thursday night, where five extraordinary performances of experimental sounds can be heard. The performers include Ryosuke Kiyasu (Tokyo), Zherbin (Helsinki), Sama Sasha (Helsinki), Hello Upan (Tallinn) and MIMproject (Tallinn).

The cooperation between the Saaremaa Museum and the Danish Cultural Institute has been fruitful and several Danish collectives have performed previously in Saaremaa. This time Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir will perform. The Danish Cultural Institute and Mogens Dahl are proud to present Brahms’ A German Requiem performed by a supreme Danish-Latvian artistic team.

Performers
Soprano: Elina Shimkus (LV)
Baritone: Kalvis Kalniņš (LV)
Mogens Dahl Kammerkor (Mogens Dahl Chamber Choir) (DK)
Piano: Tanja Zapolski & Rikke Sandberg (DK)
Conductor: Mogens Dahl (DK)

The first Estonian Food Film Festival offers gastronomical film experiences. A sneak peek is taken at the activities of culinary geniuses and also at the downside of the food industry. The movie experiences are considered successful if you feel hungry. If your stomach turns then it’s a different kind of worthy movie experience.

‘tegeele’ is an abstract choreographical thriller where the protagonist finds herself in situations in which previous experiences are of no help, exiting is impossible and all doors are closed. As it is suitable for a thriller all the knots will be untied at the end – outer threat will become inner being. But before that can happen, the protagonist has to face challenges and understand if falling down is scarier than falling up. She has to discover whether when she is not here, is she then there or is she not at all? A person who closes a door is not the same one who opened it.

Next event by Estonian Electronic Music Society invites you to a curated talk with Estonian electronic music pioneer Sven Grünberg. The talk will focus on his electronic compositions, synthesizers and technologies used over the years. Sven Grünberg’s musical examples will be played on vinyls. The talk will be held by Taavi Kerikmäe.

The Tallinn Handicraft Fair is a great craft event which aims to popularize handicrafts.

On Thursday, 11 April at 5 p.m. exhibition of four Finnish female artists ‘Rooms of Light’ will be opened in the large gallery of the Tartu Art House. The exhibition of three painters, Saija Koponen, Anne Tompuri and Sofia Wilkan and the photo and installation artist Johanna Ilvessalo explore the confluences of light, shadows, darkness, cosmical, metaphysical, mystical and natural.

Textile artists group exhibition Binding matter observes the nature and meaning of materials. Balancing on the borders of textile, design and art, the participating artists discover the connections, features and meanings between different fibers and substances. The exhibition focuses on experiments and combinations of materials, through which modern materially overloaded world is being critically rethought.

Participating artists: Ingrid Helena Pajo, Katarina Kruus, Ann Müürsepp, Frank Abner, Triin Talts and Liina Leo. They’ve been brought together by studies at the Estonian Academy of Arts textile and product design departments, whilst sharing a common interest in environmentally friendly and sustainable art.

Erinn M. Cox: “We are all born with a knowing pain in our soul, and this innate understanding is loneliness: a deep ache for an other to fill the cavity we cannot otherwise fill, a sincere desperation that wholly longs for someone to alleviate the paralyzing fear of dying alone. When the other, it seems, is and has always been absent, the suffocation of loneliness becomes far more than a feeling – it becomes a relentless pursuit for a chosen other with a bittersweet and intoxicating need that is exciting and devastating. And it is this longing, this intense and unforgiving emotion, that will slowly and decidedly kill us.”

Erinn M. Cox is a jewellery artist from the United States, currently residing in Tallinn, Estonia. She holds a BFA in sculpture and photography from Florida State University, an MFA in sculpture and installation from the Memphis College of Art and is currently pursuing a MA degree in Jewellery at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

The exhibition Gene-ius takes us far into the past, deep within, and hopefully forward. Genes are a part of our inner space which you cannot negotiate.

Genes determine our appearance and also partly what our health will be like during our lives. The journey of investigating our genes is full of wonderful discoveries and is also useful!

Step inside a cell and see what you can find there. Keep track of a volunteer donor’s 22nd chromosome. Find out if you may have an increased risk of falling ill with type 2 diabetes or if you like the taste of Brussels sprouts. Let the waves of the DNA sequencing ball ocean wash over your head!

On Tuesday, 2 April at 6 pm Aki Kaurismäki’s film On the Other Side of Hope (Toivon toisella puolella; 2017) will be screened at SuperNova cinema.

The film screening is held for educational purposes – brief commentary before and discussion after the film.

English subtitles.

Free entrance!

Director: Victor Fleming

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Leslie Howard

On the eve of the American Civil War, rich, beautiful and self-centered Scarlett O’Hara has everything she could want – except Ashley Wilkes. But as the war devastates the South, Scarlett discovers the strength within herself to protect her family and rebuild her life.

Length: 3 h 58 min

In English, no subtitles.

On April 4–7 comedy film festival Wilkom takes place in Viljandi, bringing the best comedy film of last year and several special programs.

During the three days, eight new films will be screened in the main program of Wilkom and there will also be a special program of the French legend Pierre Richard.

France is strongly represented at this year’s festival. Sink or Swim talks about a synchronized swimming team made up of middle-aged men and the bloody crime action Rebels addresses your sense of humour in the same way as Quentin Tarantino. The program of Wilkom also includes the Spanish basketball comedy Champions, that won the Spanish National Goya Best Film Award in February, and the gem of American black comedy, Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You.

On the 4th of April at 6 p.m., there will be a book presentation and performance by Netti Nüganen at Tartu Art Museum as part of the exhibition i’m vomiting i’m crying i’m vomiting i’m crying you are my sister you are my sister.

The performance is put together from different characters appearing in her videos. Engaging with rhythm and timing, Nüganen will translate the videos exhibited in the halls into live acts, questioning the necessity of a living body and impropriety of the exhibition space – where to locate oneself? Displacing usual performing elements of the storyline, the artist creates an uncanny atmosphere.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring poetry and prose by Estland and Nüganen and photo documentation of the exhibition by Marta Vaarik. The publication is designed by Brit Pavelson.

The presentation of Boris Groys’s book The Total Art of Stalinism and an open lecture by Vitaly Komar, a conceptual artist living in New York.

The Total Art of Stalinism, published for the first time as an Estonian-language book by the Tallinn University Press, is the best-known work of the Eastern European art theorist Boris Groys (1947). When it first appeared in 1988 in German under the name Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, the essay was held to be ‘too controversial’ in the East as well as in the West to be ‘taken seriously’. However, as it tends to be with groundbreaking texts, the true value of the work is starting to reveal only now, 30 years after its first publication, when the Soviet project is becoming part of history. The book presented at the exhibition Sots Art and Fashion has also remained one of the most seminal takes on Moscow Sots Art.

Vitaly Komar (1943), like his creative partner Alexander Melamid, is a Moscow-born conceptual artist who emigrated to New York in 1978. Komar is one of the founders of the Sots Art movement of the 1970s, a form of Soviet Nonconformist Art that combined elements of Socialist Realism and Western Pop Art in a conceptual framework. His work uses the iconography and propaganda symbols of Soviet Russia to deconstruct the established myth. In 2004 the artists’ duo separated and both are working independently now.

We are over the moon to announce that Xiu Xiu will be performing a live show in Tallinn on Friday the 5th of April at Sveta Baar.

Accompanying them will be the majestic Mart Avi, our mysterious local contemporary artist who has just released his critically acclaimed album.

XIU XIU
https://xiuxiu.bandcamp.com/
Xiu Xiu began in 2002 to try to make music for people opposed to and opposed by the horror and disquiet of life.

Xiu Xiu is Shayna Dunkelman, Angela Seo and Jamie Stewart. Each member, a respected and extraordinary artist in their right, together have never played with more intensity, dedication, and doomy love/hate.

The group draws upon musical traditions of British post-punk, 20th century classical, industrial noise, experimental and traditional percussion music, 50s rock and roll, field recordings, queer dance-pop, and kosmische.

MART AVI
https://martavi.bandcamp.com/
A true child of post-genre, Avi hooks up neo-glam aesthetics with unmapped sound territories for an age yet to come, playing around with his persona, real, imagined, on or offline.

Performers: Pavlo Balakin (bass), Sten Lassmann (piano)

Programme: Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein, Glinka, Sviridov

Russian romance reflects a lot of emotional nuances, fast shifting moods, and reveals the Russian soul in its full sensuousness. Each romance tells a touching story: encounters and divisions, honor and glory, delicacy and sincerity, love and passion, doubts and regrets. The music is complemented by the work of Russian poets, which is read in both Estonian and its original language.

In 2019, Vanemuine Theatre celebrates the 80th anniversary of ballet in Vanemuine. It has been colourful, interesting, creative, often complicated but endlessly beautiful time.

The birthday gala is a bow to both the audience and to the theatre – the programme includes significant and historical numbers (also from the productions by legendary ballet masters such as Ida Urbel and Ülo Vilimaa) and the newer hits that have won the hearts of the audience.

In 2019, the aim of the Tallinn Music Week (TMW) is to offer a festival experience that is more compact and concentrated than before. This time the confirmed list of artists will exceed 200. The other parts of the program will also be compressed while the main festival locations will only be a short walk from one another. One inseparable part of TMW is a conference not only about the music industry but also more broadly about creativity as the catalyst for a new economy. The festival program also includes free city concerts, the open discussion series ‘TMW talks’ and other different undertakings including art projects and people initiatives in the city space.

A musical based on SIKSA’s “Stabat Mater Dolorosa” is a performative dream of making a movie come true, where both the dream and the movie are like chewing gum that has been tasteless for too long.

Siksa (Alex Freiheit: scream and lyrics & Piotr Buratyński: bass guitar noises) is the most divisive Polish artist in recent memory, whose radical and brutally honest performances are smashing the patriarchy one gig at a time.

In this concert series, Ensemble Triskele introduces Swedish and Estonian Swedish music that has influenced Estonian folk music a lot, especially in Western Estonia and the islands.

The ensemble has been active for over 20 years and has worked through music traditions of different countries and peoples. They have created their own unique sound and impressive collection of instruments.

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Lennart Meri, his documentary ‘The Sons of Torum’ (1989/2014) will be screened at SuperNova Cinema.

An ancient Khanty bear feast ritual, estimated to be about 3000 years old, was filmed in Western Siberia, in Khantia-Mansia, at the Agan River, a tributary of the Ob, in September 1985 and in August 1988. Participants in the ceremony held at a Khanty summer camp included singers of old songs who travelled to the ritual place from several hundred kilometres away.

The Estonian National Male Choir (conductor Mikk Üleoja) and the Estonian Police and Border Guard Orchestra (conductor Hando Põldmäe) will be performing the four-part composition for male choir and brass band.

The composition is called ‘Taevalikud sõnumid’ (‘Heavenly Messages’) and it was created by Pärt Uusberg in 2014 to the text by Hando Runnel.

The aim of the festival is to map the Estonian audiovisual landscape (film, video art, documentary anthropology, and virtual media) and offer insights into what happens elsewhere in the world on the non-commercial experimental level.

New collaboration performance by Ruslan Stepanov and Artjom Astrov at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava. The piece takes victimhood as its focus, projecting it on both performers’ and audience’s bodies, while, at the same time, drawing parallels with historical interpretations of freedom and independence.

There will be a guided tour at the exhibition “Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect. Anu Vahtra: Completion through removal”, with the New Zealand-born architect Mark Wigley and Estonian artist Anu Vahtra. The tour will be held in English.

Performers: Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) and Kalle Randalu (piano)

Conductor Markus Poschner

Programme:
Beethoven. Piano concerto no 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Beethoven. Symphony no 8 in F major, Op. 93

World Film Festival is an event dedicated to the documentary cinema. The festival develops an interest in anthropological, analytical approach to cultures and societies, welcoming film entries from all over the world.

Our film programme turns attention to cultural exchange as well as cultural representations of everyday life across the world. World Film Festival takes place annually since 2004. It is a meeting point of documentary filmmakers with anthropological spirit.

On Monday, March 18, 2019 at 6 p.m., Inga Heamägi opens her personal exhibition PS. The Psalms and Prophet Jonah in the Belly of the Whale at Draakon Gallery.

“The meaning of the title of the exhibition – PS – is ambiguous – first, PS is postscript or an afterthought. Second, it means Psalms or songs. Today, PS is also a powerful programming language. And finally, PS is also the official abbreviation of the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia. The second part of the title – The Psalms and Prophet Jonah in the Belly of the Whale is inspired by, or rather, it is my response to the global migration crisis and its consequences, but specifically about one of the world’s most tragic events – the story of a three-year-old Syrian boy Aylan Kurd, in September 2015 in Turkey.

The annual exhibition of Estonian Painters’ Association

How to carry on creative work in a situation where ideals and reality seem to meet on the crossroads? Is this apparent position of a loser really the reality or should the artist indeed let some hot air out of the dream balloon every once in a while and come in terms with what is given here and now?

The reality, itself a construction of our senses and conceptions, aims instinctively towards ideals. How to coordinate one’s thoughts and find an ideal in the turbulent modern world where reality is everything but encouraging, where the criteria of morality and ethics have transformed? Sculptor Louise Bourgeois has said that to be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Do painters have the luxury to dwell in their inner world or is this the decisive moment to manifest one’s message?

So, what’s going on? The Rabbit and The Bear look how The Wolf has set up the drum set. They join him to help. And make slapstick jokes while doing so. Everyone seems to be embarrassed.

Try to imagine this: Ahto falls out of the wedding cake and the tambourine starts to rattle, Rivo joins him with hand puppets and I adjust my hairstyle. This Third Man still does not understand a thing of what is going on and looks worried. I send him my energy in support. But it’s Ahto who gets hit with it and starts ‘bossa nova-ing’.

Performers:
Ahto Abner (drums)
Rivo Laasi (bass, electronics)
Tarvo Kaspar Toome (guitar, electronics)
That Third Man

The exhibition brings together the creative themes of an artist that has been seeking the elementary essence of painting for several years, and sheds light on issues yet to be resolved, will be open at Tartu Art House. The exhibition is curated by Siim Preiman

Mihkel Ilus has been working in a uniformly monochromatic pictorial language since his 2017 exhibition Stick It In Your Wall at Hobusepea Gallery. Resisting a conventional manner of depiction, Ilus separates the classical tools of the painter from each other and creates independent objects using oil paint, timber painting frames and primed canvas. In addition to the physical composition of the painting, Ilus has also questioned its surrounding conceptual rules or etiquette. Could a bucket made of primed canvas placed on the gallery floor be called a painting? And what if it was filled with sawdust? What about gallery walls that are left empty to accommodate the effect of the painting? Are walls also part of the painting?

At the age of 84, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.

But without a definitive Ginsburg biography, the unique personal journey of this diminutive, quiet warrior’s rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans, until now.

Free of charge!

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia invites you to a screening The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Inspired by science fiction as a thought experiment on the future, the program draws connections between the increasingly rapid technological progress and man-made environmental damage. With a diverse selection of filming styles and techniques, it maps the emotional atmosphere of our present – the almost hallucinatory interplay between utopia and destruction, and the wild mood swings between the promise of a sustainable future and a dystopian existence in the hands of technology and human exceptionalism.

“The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel” is the opening sentence in William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, published in 1984.

Curated by Vanina Saracino
Artists: Mark Leckey, Basim Magdy, Kristina Õllek, Agnieszka Polska, Semiconductor, Andrew Norman Wilson

The screening will be followed by a discussion with artist Kristina Õllek and Vanina Saracino.

Free of charge!

How to hammer nails into wood? How to learn to speak? How to open a door? How to show empathy? How to correctly pull on a sock and get rid of all the suffering caused by guilt?

Learning is something that already begins from an embryo and continues for decades until the human molecules dissolve into non-existence. We are not born human; we learn to become so. We learn how to turn our obscure biological body of cells into a human being. Pouring the foundation. Cleaning the bathroom so there aren’t any unsightly stains. Brushing teeth at the right angle. Expressing love. Having the right breathing while giving birth and maintaining our dignity on our deathbed. Come. We know.

In Estonian.

Director: Peter Farrelly

When Frank Anthony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen), a New York City bouncer from an Italian-American neighbourhood in The Bronx, is hired to drive and protect Dr Don Shirley (Mahwershala Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book — a travel guide to safe lodging, dining and business options for African Americans during the era of segregation and Jim Crow laws — to steer them to places where Shirley will not be refused service, humiliated, or threatened with violence.

The ENSO chamber music concerts, which have received excellent feedback from the audience over the seasons, will continue with the Slavic/Italian chamber music evening Serenade for Spring.

The String Sextet by Borodin, of which only the first two parts have survived, and Serenade for Strings by Dvořák are among the most famous chamber music works of the composers.

Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence is the last chamber music piece written by the composer. At the concert, it will be performed by a string orchestra. Its light-heartedness and joyfulness strongly contrast with the moods of the opera The Queen of Spades, which was completed at the same time.

4th concert of the Romanticism series:
Alexander Borodin’s String Sextet
Antonín Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings
Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence
ENSO string orchestra