Tallinn European Capital of Culture

Stories of the Seashore Capital of The Republic of Area: 159.2 km² Coordinates: 59°26’ N 24°45’ E However, there is still a paradox Average temperature: Tallinn welcomes that Tallinn has to struggle with to from -4°C (in Feb) to +16,7°C (in Jul) you! this day. Tallinn is a seaside city, Tallinn is the capital of Estonia and but it is still not fully open to the Population (as of 01.09.2009): 405 562 in 2011, it will also be the European sea. It seems that the people of Tallinn live with their backs turned (overall population of Estonia: 1,340,415) Capital of Culture alongside Turku in Finland. It is the biggest cultural towards the sea. They do have event in the history of Estonia. their reasons – in recent history, Nationalities: Estonian 52.3%, Russian 38.5%, access to the beautiful beaches Ukrainian 3.9%, other 5.3%. The brochure you have in your surrounding the centre of Tallinn hands right now gives information was difficult for both political and about roughly a quarter of the economic reasons. But whatever entire Tallinn 2011 programme. It the reasons, the Capital of Culture tells you about new initiatives and wants to look into the future and recent activities without which solve this paradox: improve the city the cultural life of Estonia cannot environment and bring the city and be imagined and which deserve to the sea together again. We want be placed under the spotlight of Tallinn to proudly tell its seaside international attention. stories as part of the Capital of Cul- Tallinn lies on a historically unique ture programme and also beyond crossroad by the sea. It is the 2011. place where Eastern and Western Many events of the Capital of Cultu- cultures meet, a place of encounter re will take place by the sea, but the between Northern and Central interpretation of its main theme Europe, a city that has interesting will not just be literal. The sea will stories to tell. Its Old Town is part figure in the entire programme and of the UNESCO World Heritage. It its presence will be felt at all events has grand Song Festivals that show and venues. the lasting love for music and the desire for freedom Estonians have. Tallinn as the European Capital of Global statistics show that people Culture will tell stories by the sea, here go to the theatre more often open itself up to the sea and to and read more books than anywhe- what lies beyond. In 2011 Europe’s re else. Culture in Tallinn is interwo- best stories will be told in Tallinn. ven with the present day and rapid development – Tallinn is the cradle Jaanus Mutli, Member of the Board of Skype, and wireless Internet access is as taken for granted as Mikko Fritze, Member of the Board the air that we breathe. And you do Jaanus Rohumaa, Director of not have to go far to find yourself in Programme Department the midst of a beautiful landscape. Tallinn has managed to always maintain its image of being both tolerant and obstinate. Green Marketing Volunteers Young Audience Our desire is for the European The ideal volunteers for the Capital Programme Capital of Culture to leave the lar- of Culture are helpful, good-natu- How do you educate young audi- gest possible cultural footprint, and red and reliable. And, of course, ences? How do you support and the smallest possible from an eco- conscientious and flexible. They develop the generations that will logical point of view. Culture cannot put their heart in their work and do create culture in the future? This remain healthy if the nature around everything they can to make this is the focus of the Young Audience it is unhealthy. We are trying to event a success. We are happy to Programme of the Capital of Culture find the most environment-friendly say that we are very close to achie- aimed at giving schoolchildren the methods for producing and carrying ving our goal when we look at the chance to take part in different out what needs to be done. We use many volunteers we have already cultural events. They will visit per- natural paint, local and recycled found. They are the people that will formances, concerts, meet artists, materials. We give preference to make it all happen. Volunteers – we take part in discussions, write local designers and labour. We want are finding more and more of them essays and fill in questionnaires. to make things that will be used for and they are always welcome – are We will set up permanent relation- a long time rather than increase a natural part of Tallinn, as the ships with Estonian schools and the already huge pile of useless pride and joy they take in their different youth organisations. The souvenirs burdening the world. We activities is what makes the city a study programme created in the want every one of our souvenirs to true European Capital of Culture. course of the developments will not have its story and reason and, most And joy is the main thing! focus on 2011 alone – inclusion of of all, an inventive solution. young people in cultural events will We stick to these principles and fol- continue in the future as well. low them in our everyday activities: we recycle our rubbish, use paper sparingly and prefer to get around on bicycles, public transport or our own two feet. We have decided to give a good example and we want Tallinn to be the Capital of green Culture in Europe.

Opening ceremony

The European Capital of Culture in Tallinn will be opened with a grand show by the sea and celebrations in different city districts on New Year’s Eve. Festivals

Estonians have many Shrove Tuesday traditions. But people of other Maslenitsa nationalities living in Estonia also have their own traditions on that folk culture / days of feast day. What food do Russians eat on Shrove Tuesday? What games Venue: The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds do they play and what dances do they dance? What is the secret in and city districts baking giant blinis? Why are scarecrows, stuffed with hay, set on fire Distance from the sea: 500 m at the end of the celebrations? Maslenitsa is the best way to learn Organiser: NGO Minu Liin about Russian Shrove Tuesday traditions. It is a great festival for everyone. Time: 28 February - 6 March 2011

Naissaar or Nargen is an island a couple of nautical miles away from Nargen Festival Tallinn. Hardly anyone lives there. However, world-famous conductor classical music / contemporary classical Tõnu Kaljuste has made the impossible happen – one of the most music / folk music exotic concert halls in Europe, Omari Barn, is situtated in Lõunaküla Venue: Naissaar Island, Noblessner on the island. Nargen Festival, which was created by Kaljuste, began foundry and other seaside venues on Naissaar and spread all over Estonia to become the main event in Distance from the sea: up to 200 m our musical culture and is now becoming one of the most important Organiser: Foundation Lootsi Koda festivals of its kind in the Baltic Sea region. The principle of the festival is that all venues must be accessible by sea. And just like the post-industrial Noblessner foundry, they are indeed. In 2011 the Time: June to September 2011 festival will offer its audiences a water carnival and excellent music www.nargenfestival.ee from all over the world.

Pirita Convent, a pearl of northern Gothic architecture, has been Birgitta Festival overlooking Tallinn Bay for more than half a millennium. Imposing classical music / opera / staged oratorio ruins were all that was left of the convent after the wars and fires of / ballet / big scale event the 16th century. They were brought back to life in 2005. The histo- Venue: Birgitta Convent rical ruins near the sea are now the venue of one of the most unique Organiser: Tallinn Philharmonic Society music festivals in the Nordic countries – Birgitta Festival. The main Distance from the sea: 700 m concept of the festival is to present the latest and the best pieces in the world of music theatre: ballet and opera, staged oratorios and Time: August 2011 other extended musical compositions. www.birgitta.ee Tallinn Maritime Days

Tallinn is a city by the sea, but that we live in a seaside city and renovated by the talented archi- its people seem to be living with find out how the sea influences tects of KOKO Arhitektid. These their backs turned towards it. our identity. A big step forward highlights will be accompanied Paradox. One likely reason is will be taken in 2011. The seasi- by various other events. that the seaside was a restricted de with a new beach promenade zone during the Soviet era and will be open for visitors, the new was hard to access. The capital of grand exposition of the Estonian culture and the Tallinn Maritime Maritime Museum will open in cityscape / days of feast Days want to solve this paradox the hangar of the post-industrial Venue: Seaside in Tallinn and invite the people of Tallinn to Seaplane Port (regarded as an turn their faces towards the sea international architectural mirac- Distance from the sea: up to 300 m again. We want to acknowledge le in the 1920s) which will be Organisers: Foundation Tallinn 2011, Tallinn City Government, , , Estonian Historic Ships Society www.tallinnamerepaevad.ee

Time: 15–17 July 2011

Welcome address by the Director of the Maritime Museum Urmas Dresen:

Tallinn is close to the sea and However, as Tallinn is still a also far from it – the sea is right seaside city, the mission it gives here, but one doesn’t feel its us for the next few years is to presence unless one travels bring together the two elements along Road every day. The that fundamentally belong Maritime dignified historical Old Town has together – sea and land – not by no contact with the sea and our force, but as a well done work of ports have not become organic craftsmanship. Museum parts of the city, because there are areas in between which are rather unattractive.

Festivals Festivals

Design Night has been the showcase of new Estonian design for Design Night many years and will be a part of the European Innovation Festival in design / cityscape 2011. In its workshops, seminars and exhibitions, Design Night focu- Venue: Tallinn ses on universal design known as design for all. How do you design Organiser: Estonian Association of and plan a city so that it meets the expectations and requirements Make Space! How can a place in a rapidly developing city remain a cosy and warm of different people, such as cyclists, parents pushing prams, people bohemian nest? Uus Maailm is a prime example of the initiative Designers cityscape / new housing / community / with special needs…? The culmination of Design Night is a gala of Tallinn’s citizens, and in some ways, it resembles certain parts days of feast Time: late September 2011 evening where awards will be presented to Europe’s most design- of Copenhagen or Berlin. Wooden architecture and its location in conscious companies. Venue: Uus Maailm (New World – the area Eastern Europe make Uus Maailm special. Information boards will www.disainioo.ee www.edl.ee between Tehnika and Kesk-Ameerika be set up in the district by 2011 and several site-specific art projects Streets and Pärnu Road) and playful permanent installations will also be brought to life. Circus is an old and respectable art form that has always attracted Distance from the sea: 2000 m Walking these streets during their autumn festival or stopping by at Youth Circus Festival young people. Youth is largely the basis of the aesthetic freshness Organiser: NGO Uue Maailma Selts the community house – it is an experience in itself. youth / new circus / days of feast / big and modern approach of the new circus. The aim of the Youth Circus scale event Festival, which brings six to eight of the most important young Time: 2011 Venue: European circus troupes (Albert & Friends from London, WOK Leuven www.uusmaailm.ee Distance from the sea: 700 m from Belgium, Zirkus Elleboog from Holland, and others.) to Tallinn, Organisers: Foundation Tallinn 2011, is to improve the circus training of young people. The artists will NGO Tsirkusestuudio Folie work with young Estonian circus performers and put on their very best shows for audiences in Tallinn. Performances by more than 350 artists will give the people of Tallinn a thorough and glamorous overview of the latest trends in European circus. Leading European circus performers will also offer workshops to exchange knowledge Time: July 2011 and bring new impulses to local circuses.

One of the most important festivals of contemporary dance in Nort- August hern Europe will be held in Tallinn for the twelfth time in autumn DanceFestival 2011 2011. This curated festival has a broad understanding of dance contemporary dance – Thomas Hauert, Jo Strømgren, Xavier Le Roy and Pyotr Mamonov Venue: Tallinn theatres and cityscape have all performed here in the past. The organisers always come up with courageous and inventive ideas for their programme – in 2011 Organiser: Kanuti Gildi SAAL they will take the performances to different districts of Tallinn and make dance visible everywhere in the city. The best representatives Time: end of August 2011 of contemporary dance in Estonia and internationally renowned www.saal.ee dancers will meet.

Andrei Tarkovsky filmed his cult classic ‘Stalker’ in Tallinn in the late Stalker Festival 1970s. Stalker Festival will visit the former film sets in 2011 to bring contemporay art / cityscape back the Zone, the ideal space depicted in the film, where the wildest Venue: area around Kultuurikatel dreams of modern stalkers promise to come true. Sound, visual Distance from the sea: 200 m and film artists will try to find an equivalent for the aspirations and Organisers: curators Andres Lõo, Franz fears of 21st century people, both in relation to Tarkovsky’s film and Pomassl and Anna Ceeh outside of it, under the title “Final Stop”. The introductory event of the Stalker Festival is a celebration of the genius loci and will be held Time: beginning of September 2011 on 3 December 2010. www.kultuurikatel.eu Plektrum Festivals Festival

Plektrum Festival studies the points of contact between people, modern technology, education and culture. The festival consists of concerts and parties, sessions by VJs and DJs, per- formances, workshops and lectures. In the past the festival has focused on the subjects of virtual and artificial life. It now takes a step forward. In 2011 the festival asks: “What is life?” It is a simple question, but the most significant one. What is life like in the 21st century? Bioethics and its depic- tion in art is the main theme. Should we do certain things just because we can? Is there room for ethics in scien- ce? Does the joy of discovery justify everything?

Technology / art / music / education Venue: Tallinn City centre Distance from the sea: up to 1500 m Organiser: NGO Plektrum Festival www.plektrum.ee

Time: end of September 2011 Sports Tallinn Marathon

Marathon is for people with 2011. Tallinn Marathon wants was initiated with the Capital of stamina and in a way reflects to become a well-known and Culture’s support and it is a good the beauty of effort. Marathon popular marathon on a par choice for professionals and runners are special people, and with the ones in Berlin, London amateurs alike as there are also as their sport is so demanding, and New York. Tallinn is small shorter races that runners can they are united by a global compared to these big cities, take part in, including a track for network of friendship. They but the biggest running event in children. meet at different competitions, the Baltic States will greet the talk about their memories and 15,000 participants arriving from recreational sport / cityscape / big experiences. different countries with a unique scale event Many big running events have track that takes them past the Venue: Tallinn taken place in Tallinn before, medieval Old Town, through but a new level will be reached many parks and along the beau- Distance from the sea: up to 3000 m tiful coastline. Tallinn Marathon with a full-length marathon in Organiser: NGO Spordiürituste Korraldamise Klubi www.jooks.ee

Time: 11 September 2011 Sports

Ever since the earliest professional competitions sport has united European Athletics people. The European Athletics Junior Championships are one of Junior Championships the biggest international competitions ever held in Estonia, if not youth / big scale event the biggest. In 2011 Tallinn will see Hundreds of young European Venue: Kadriorg Stadium athletes, tens of starts, commentators, spectators from Estonia and the whole Europe. Tallinn may be the city in which a future record, Distance from the sea: 1000 m new star or legend is born. Organiser: Estonian Athletics Association

Time: 21–24 July 2011 www.tallinn2011.org

Simpel Session is a name known to everyone in the world of extreme Simpel Session sports. The biggest extreme sports event in Europe has been held in youth / extreme sports / big scale event Estonia for ten years. Hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions Venue: , cinemas in Tallinn of people watch it on the Internet. More than 180 skateboarders and Distance from the sea: 500 m BMX magicians gather in Tallinn and thousands of young spectators Organiser: NGO Elamussport arrive to admire their skills. An international festival of BMX movies will take place for the first time in Eastern Europe at Simpel Session Time: 20-23 January 2011 2011. www.session.ee 11th Youth Song and Dance Celebrations

On the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds some 35 000 young people will gather to perform songs, dances and choir music / folk dance / big scale music representing Estonian tradition and culture. event Venue: The Tallinn Song Festival Estonians say: song and dance celebration. Grounds These are beautiful words. Distance from the sea: 500 m As natural as speech. Organiser: Estonian Song and Dance Celebration Foundation It is a holiday of song, a celebration of song and dance, visited by people all over the country. Time: 1–3 July 2011 It is the family reunion of a very old nation. It is a big, big holiday of the heart, people have been waiting for it, preparing for it – it is a moment of togetherness, a big ship of joy and hope that carries us across the rocks. - Doris Kareva

Singing together comes naturally in Estonia and it is a tradition that has existed here for thousands of years. So Song Celebration is an indispensable part of Estonian national culture. It is in a way a testimony of democracy – thousands of people attend voluntarily for the sheer joy of singing. Singing together has supported Estonian people in hard times and expressed their desire for freedom. These celebrations were important in the 19th century when Estonia was emerging as a nation and at the end of the 1980s, when we had our singing revolution and sang our way to independence. Music/ Opera Music/ Opera

Erkki-Sven Tüür is one of the internationally best-known contempo- A New Piece by rary Estonian composers and a leading name of the record company Erkki-Sven Tüür ECM. Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is the most renowned contemporary classical music / choir Estonian musical collective in the world. Tüür will write a new piece music / world premiere for chamber choir and chamber orchestra in 2011 to celebrate Tal- Venue: Estonia Concert Hall linn becoming the European Capital of Culture. The premiere of this new piece performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Distance from the sea: 1000 m with Riga Sinfonietta conducted by Daniel Reuss, will be broadcast Organiser: Estonian Philharmonic all over Europe as part of the Musical Tallinn programme of Estonian Chamber Choir Public Broadcasting. The chamber choir will then perform the piece with different chamber orchestras in many locations across Europe. Two women – one old, the other young – accidentally meet on farm Time: 10 March 2011 Purge in a coastal village in Estonia soon after the country regained its www.epcc.ee contemporary opera / world premiere independence in 1991. Their stories are tales of similar destinies, Venue: Estonian National Opera painful memories of tragic young love and choices that affect the Distance from the sea: 1000 m lives of their loved ones. How does violence and its experience Nyyd Festival What is the future of symphonic music in the world? Is it a dead Organiser: Estonian National Opera during the era of totalitarianism change a person and a small genre or are reports of its death greatly exaggerated? Nyyd Festival, nation? The hard times are over, but memories of the past still haunt contemporary classical music the pride of Estonian new music, will try to answer this important Estonian people and need to be purged. The opera is based on the Venue: concert halls in Tallinn question in 2011. The festival is a gathering of remarkable persona- novel Purge, written by Sofi Oksanen, a cult writer from Finland with Organiser: Eesti Kontsert lities – the world´s leading conductors who are also top composers, Estonian roots. Her novel has sold 100,000 copies in Finland, in a amongst them James MacMillan with the BBC Symphony Orchestra population of 5 million, and it has already been translated into 26 Time: 3, 4, 5, 18, 19 and 20 and others. They will conduct the best orchestras in the world and languages. The novel has also won several major awards. Estonian February 2011 perform their works which are changing the methods of expression composer Jüri Reinvere, who lives in Berlin, will co-write an opera Time: 20-30 October 2011 used in symphonic music as part of the “Symphonies of the Future” www.opera.ee www.reinvere.fi that is based on Oksanen’s novel. www.concert.ee programme in Tallinn. Tallinn Music Week The pop music scene in Estonia is small, but bursting with energy. Parsifal Parsifal was the last opera written by Richard Wagner and premiered Tallinn Music Week brings all important players to Tallinn to perform in 1882. It is one of the most complex pieces in the world of opera. contemporary pop music / showcase to music producers and managers from all over the world and spread classical music / opera It is a serious challenge for any opera in the world, and the Estonian Venue: venues in Tallinn the word about our music. This may open the doors to a bright Venue: Noblessner foundry National Opera has taken on the challenge for the year Tallinn Distance from the sea: 1000 m future for many Estonian bands. The showcase festival is held over Distance from the sea: 17 m becomes the European Capital of Culture by staging the opera in the Organiser: Musiccase Ltd two busy days and nights in the best live clubs, theatres and bars of Organiser: Estonian National Opera post-industrial Noblessner foundry right by the sea. Nicola Raab, one the city and gives local music fans and international professionals a of the brightest young stars amongst European opera directors, will Time: end of March 2011 thorough overview of the most recent Estonian pop music. start working on this piece that combines medieval mythology and Time: 25-28 August 2011 modern music. The conductor is Arvo Volmer, music director and www.tallinnmusicweek.ee www.myspace.com/tallinnmusicweek www.opera.ee principal conductor of the Estonian National Opera. Afro- Music/ Reggae Opera

The goal of AfroReggae is simple legendary as such top Brazilian important cultural events in Tal- and highly complicated at the musicians as Gilberto Gil and linn already in 2010. Everything same time – to help children Gaetano Veloso have performed will culminate in a concert of top at risk find their way to a more on stage with the youngsters Brazilian AfroReggae performers secure world and to give them of AfroReggae. They recently in Tallinn in 2011. the courage to change; to find recorded their own version of their way to a life that is free of John Lennon’s classic ”Imagine” violence and crime. The achie- with Yoko Ono. vements of the programme, In Tallinn, AfroReggae will focus youth / contemporary world music which started out in the favelas on children at risk just like / big scale event in Brazil, are well known all everywhere else. In 2010 and Venue: districts of Tallinn over the world. The tool used by 2011 local and Brazilian trainers AfroReggae for all this is unique Distance from the sea: will run workshops to teach how up to 3000 m – it’s music. to make drums and to make AfroReggae has branches music on them. Drum groups Organisers: People’s Palace everywhere in Brazil. They call will be showing their drumming Project (London), Tallinn Centre themselves “warriors of peace”. skills and their courage to tell for Children at Risk, Tallinn Youth Their concerts of drum groups their stories through music by Work Centre and other youth work are extremely popular and even being surprise guests at several organisations www.afroreggae.org

Time: 2010–2011 Language/ More languages are dying in the world today than ever before. They Literature Cemetery of Lost say that every language comes with its own mind, its own way of Languages thinking. When a language is lost, the mind disappears as well. folk culture / contemporary art Without a trace. This is the case with many Finno-Ugric languages. Time: summer 2011 But they are not the only ones – languages are disappearing on all continents. This is why something unique will be created in Tallinn Venue: Tallinn in 2011 – a memorial to languages that have ceased to exist. Langu- Organiser: Foundation Tallinn 2011 ages that have disappeared, making the world a poorer place. The form of the cemetery – an audio installation, crematorium of words Time: summer 2011 or something completely different – will be decided in a competition. www.tallinn2011.ee

The vernal equinox is World Storytelling Day. Estonia has been Storytelling Saves the celebrating its own storytelling day on 30 November for many years. World Storytellers from Estonia and the rest of the world will meet in folk culture Tallinn to carry on the old tradition of storytelling.The subject that Venue: Tallinn unites the stories told in 2011 is the sea. The period between the two dates in spring and autumn will be full of meetings with storytellers Organiser: Foundation Tallinn 2011 and visits to their workshops. Time: 21 March– 30 November 2011 Tallinn Literature Festival HeadRead

Literature moves forward Harju Street, Vabaduse Square them, to Tallinn for a moment in through writing. Some people or at Nigusliste Museum. time. Listening to the words of a write, others read. But not only. Children’s mornings with philosopher, who believes that Writers do actually exist and writers, book presentations, the limits of language determine you can meet them, listen to poetry slams, discussions. the limits of the world, makes us them and talk to them. Writers People who cannot and people wish that these perfect senten- who are already recognised who somehow still manage ces could diversify and broaden as well as young talents will to live without literature will the worlds of as many people as attend the biggest literature meet at the festival. Beware – possible.” event of Estonia and showcase literature is infectious. Jan Kaus of Estonian literature - Tallinn “We want to bring a number of Literature Festival HeadRead. writing people, who do not just There will also be some world- want to write perfect senten- big scale event famous guests. You can meet ces but have managed to write Venue: the Old Town of Tallinn them in the literature tent in Distance from the sea: up to 1500 m Organiser: Estonian Writers Union www.headread.ee

Time: May 2011

Language/ Literature Triin Loosaar, ”Adversity”, 2009. ”Adversity”, Loosaar, Triin Rannala Photo: Tanel

Eksperimenta! is for school- children what the Venice Bien- Sally Studio, ”Art of Fire”, 2006. Photo: Ilmi-Laur-Paist nale is for professional artists. Eksperimenta! How do you bring together contemporary art and today’s youngsters? How do you introdu- ce contemporary art to the study programmes of schools? How do you teach creativity in this day and age? The goal of this inter- national triennale of contempo- rary art made by schoolchildren is to achieve permanent changes in the way young people in Euro- pe are educated in art. In 2011 all this will take place in Art Tallinn. Internationally renowned curators will lead the event. Par- ticipants include young artists from 12 countries who’s work has to pass through preliminary selection. And there will be lots of young talents.

youth / contemporary art / big scale event Venue: Tallinn Song Festival Grounds and Maarjamäe Castle Distance from the sea: 500 m Organiser: Sally Studio www.eksperimenta.net

Time: 26 April - 14 June 2011 School of Music and Arts Pardaugava, Riga, ”Bee attack” School of Music and Arts Pardaugava, Art

Ars Ornata Europeana is an event that celebrates contemporary Ars Ornata Europeana European jewellery and is held in a different European city each jewellery / exhibition time. The last three exhibitions were held in Zurich, Lisbon and Venue: Noblessner Shipyard area, Manchester. The theme of the Ars Ornata Europeana held in 2011 in Tallinn Art Hall, etc. Tallinn is UltraMarine. At least 5 exhibitions will be held in 2011: the Distance from the sea: 50–1500 m curated thematic exhibition UltraMarine, an exhibition of contem- Organiser: NGO Ars Ornata 2011 porary Estonian and Portuguese jewellery in the Tallinn Art Hall, an exhibition of the jewellery created by 7 European jewellery students. The ÕhuLoss group of Estonian jewellers will show its creations and there will be an overview of contemporary wrought iron items in Estonia. The thematic exhibition will be set up in open air in a Time: June 2011 special architectural structure created in the Noblessner Shipyard www.arsornata.ee area by the sea. Maarja Niinemägi, ’Blue’, 2007.

Imagine that you are having a chat on your favourite subject with Black market for Useful some top international expert and the subject is something that Knowledge and is a burning issue for the whole of society. Black markets where knowledge is passed on among people during a session of over 6 Non-Knowledge hours have been held in different cities for many years. Up to 120 installation / education / big scale event international experts meet over a thousand visitors, each of whom The Route French artists Brunel and Pannetier, with a background in architec- Venue: Kultuurikatel (Tallinn), Turku, can enter in direct dialogue with one or several of them for half an ture, are interested in space, memory and identity. They investigated research / contemporary art / how these three meet on the border of the Schengen zone. Now they St Petersburg hour. The most recent Black market events were held in Jaffa, Liver- documentay / exhibition / film pool, Vienna, Graz and Istanbul. An issue that is important for the will take the coastal route to travel from Turku to Tallinn, stopping Distance from the sea: 200 m Venue: Tallinn, Turku, St Petersburg host city is selected for discussion. And if you do not want to have a in St Petersburg and some smaller places on the way. They will talk Organisers: Mobile Akademie, Organisers: Foundation Atelier LIMO, to the people who live by the sea, make new experiences, gain new Foundation Tallinn 2011, dialogue yourself, you can just join the spectators and listen to the conversations on headphones and with simultaneous translation. Foundation Tallinn 2011, memories. How will Turku become Tallinn as the people they meet Foundation Turku 2011 Foundation Turku 2011 change? Atelier LIMO will bring its observations to viewers in the form of an exhibition and a film. Time: October-November 2011 Time: 2011 www.mobileacademy-berlin.de www.atelier-limo.eu

Linnalabor unites people with academic and artistic backgrounds Exhibition of Aerial It is a paradox that the most threatened and polluted places in Tunnel Project who are interested in urban issues, cities and the changes that the world often have some mutated beauty. Yann Arthus-Bertrand cityscape / contemporary art / affect them. In 2011 these people will give a new, brighter look to Photos by comes from a family of jewellery manufacturers with a centuries’ exhibition the confusing and dull pedestrian tunnel under the Gonsiori and Arthus-Bertrand long tradition. Therefore, it may not come as a surprise that despite Venue: Laikmaa - Gonsiori crossing Laikmaa crossroads. Different artists, designers and architects being a world name in aerial photography for decades, he often photography / exhibition / cityscape Distance from the sea: 1000 m will compete to give the bleak space a new form and make the city chooses beauty and the proximity of danger as the theme of his pho- Venue: Tallinn to exhibitions. Beauty is not always a sign of death, of course, but Organiser: Linnalabor around us livelier and more humane. Organiser: Foundation Tallinn 2011 the threat may be close and must be acknowledged. His excellent Time: 2011 series of photos will be displayed in Tallinn in 2011. Time: 2011 www.linnalabor.ee www.yannarthusbertrand.org Art Urban Istallations

Festival How do you improve the way specially commissioned work. A context. The objective is for people experience city space? team of art critics and architects the author to feel the specific About a dozen architectural has gathered to organise the place, whether it is installations, that form a festival and each of them will or Lasnamäe. The authors network and allow people bring with them experience of the installations should to see the city in a different, from different projects – the Gas consider what is already there more interesting way, will be Pipe at the Venice Architecture in the locations as well as the established in Tallinn during Biennale, the Maritime Museum traditions, habits, requests and the Urban Installations Festival. in the Seaplane Port, the problems of the people living in Are they scent installations or reconstruction of the TV tower the districts. As both result and inflatable sculptures, can you and the Artishok movement of process are important in this climb inside or on top of them, artists and critics. project, everyone can follow the listen to them or play with Besides being inventive, the design and construction of the them? This will become clear works that will be installed installations in the festival blog. through a competition directed in the city will have a specific at architects and artists and cityscape / contemporary art Venue: Tallinn Organisers: NGO KAOS Curated by: Margit Argus, Margit Aule, Maarin Mürk, Ingrid Ruudi

Time: summer 2011 Performing arts

For centuries, theatres have been built of stone. And then Theatre NO99 Straw Theatre NO99 gets this crazy idea and does something unique: builds a theatre performance art / contemporary art / using an unexpected and environment-friendly material – straw. It contemporary theatre asks the people in the city for their help and together, they build the Venue: Skoone Bastion biggest straw building in the world. NO99 since the beginning of its Organiser: Theatre NO99 activities has emphasised that the most important and beautiful Distance from the sea: 400 m thing about theatre is that it is performed and then disappears leaving no physical trace. The straw theatre is also built for one Time: 1 May - year only, and it will act as the stage for the most remarkable 30 September 2011 experimental productions by European and Estonian artists. www.no99.ee

Does such a conventional and expensive cultural catapult as conven- MIM goes sustainable tional theatre want to adapt to modern times and would it even be research / contemporary theatre able to do so? Above all, theatre is a body of energy – unfortunately Venue: Kultuurikatel still brimming with pointless waste and solutions that have not been Distance from the sea: 200 m properly thought through. Taavet Jansen and MIMproject will launch Organisers: Taavet Jansen, Maike Lond a fight against this dinosaur of waste and, as a result of two years and MIMproject of research and experiments, they will bring out a production where together with the audiences physical energy is turned into mental Time: May 2011 energy whilst taking the use of fossil resources to the minimum. www.mimproject.org Alexander Pepelyaev: The Dancing Tower Performing arts

Alexander Pepelyaev is the The idea of the Dancing Tower is was never built but is always number one artist in Russian inspired by vertical movement mentioned. contemporary dance theatre that can be pictured as mental Alexander Pepelyaev and has cooperated with artists or physical. Dance as a form of in Estonia for many years. Ori- art intermediates and combines ginal choreography, combining both of these. contemporary dance / music / human beings with modern The Dancing Tower can therefore installation technology and unexpected in- be seen as a spiral or helix that Venue: Kultuurikatel terpretations of classics – that’s constantly changes its shape. Pepelyaev. The theme he has Organisers: Aurinkobaletti (Turku, The best-known sources of inspi- selected for his new production, Finland), Dance Theatre Apparatus ration of the Dancing Tower are which will be prepared in coope- (Moscow, Russia) ration with a well-known ballet 1. the Tower of Babel, famous for Distance from the sea: 200 m troupe from Finland, has - no its demolition and creating the suprise - a mythological twist to ‘confusion of languages’; www.kultuurikatel.eu it. A tower is built on the coast of 2. the molecular structure of Tallinn Bay. In the tower, people DNA; Time: May 2011 dance. They are trying to reach new heights. Both mentally and 3. Vladimir Tatlin’s monument physically. to the Third International that Film

In summer the Nordic countries experience white nights. But in PÖFF 15 winter? Winter is long and dark. However, sometimes the ray of a film / festival / big scale event film projector brings us some light. The Tallinn Black Nights Film Venue: cinemas in Estonia Festival aka PÖFF was initiated 15 years ago and has since become Distance from the sea: up to 200 000 m the biggest and most important film festival in North-Eastern Organiser: NGO Pimedate Ööde Europe. And with good reason – its programme brings together East Filmifestival and West, Europe and Asia, different film schools and genres, many Estonian cities, the cinematic art of almost 75 countries, 60,000 vie- wers and more than 500 films. 15 years after the start of the festival, Time: November - December 2011 when Tallinn will be European Capital of Culture, is the perfect time www.poff.ee to let cinema carry you further from home than ever before.

There was a time when all films were silent. Yet even after the arrival Silent Pictures Go Loud! of sound, silent films still maintained a certain charm and an air silent movies / contemporary pop music of mystery – giving the film a different soundtrack makes the film / world music itself a bit different every time it is shown. Carefully selected classic Venue: Kultuurikatel silent films and famous musicians of different styles from different Distance from the sea: 200 m parts of the world will meet in Kultuurikatel by the sea in 2011. The Organiser: Foundation Tallinn 2011 films will maintain their original form and it is only the soundtracks specially created during a year of work by invited musicians that will Time: February 2011 change. Viewers can expect surprising contrasts and harmonies. www.kultuurikatel.eu European Film Academy Awards Gala

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Ever since cinema was born in Europe, Believe it or not: In our minds we are the old continent has been one of the already rehearsing our love song to centres of cinema as an art form. On the long and dark Estonian December a November night in 1988 a number nights. of illustrious European cinema artists /.../ gathered in Berlin and brought to life the European Film Academy. Following In December 2010 we will bring 800 st- this memorable moment on occasion rong voices of European cinema to Tal- of the very first European Film Awards linn to join your choir. The songs they there has been an annual awards cere- will be singing are telling about magic mony, travelling to different European places in the most diverse European cities and returning to Berlin every landscapes, about the fates of human other year. In 2010 this glamorous beings that may happen far away but event will take place in Tallinn. Among through the images that cinema is able the many guests for the gala will be to create, suddenly still feel so close. winners and nominees, directors, /.../ actors, and producers, EFA Members Thus the night of Saturday, 4 Decem- and critics – all of them united in their ber, will witness the creation of a new enthusiasm for European cinema. The mixed multilingual choir - truly Europe- 23rd European Film Awards will also an, truly Estonian. extend a friendly hand to the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and be the opening event of Tallinn 2011 European Venue: Nokia Concert Hall in Capital of Culture. Solaris Centre Extract from the greeting of the Euro- Organisers: European Film Acade- pean Film Academy my, NGO EFA 2010 We from the European Film Academy Distance from the sea: 1000 m wish to recommend ourselves as mem- www.europeanfilmacademy.org bers of your 2011 European Capital of www.europeanfilmawards.eu Culture Choir! /.../ Time: 4 December 2010 PUBLIC HOLIDAYS IN spring to late autumn, high-speed TAXI simple, cost-effective way to exp- vessels also operate on the route, lore Tallinn on your own, choosing Useful 2011 reducing travel time to just an hour Taxi stands are located at major the sights that interest you most. January 1 New Year’s Day and a half. intersections and in front of bigger There’s simply no better way to information hotels. Passengers can choose February 24 Independence Day Ferries between Tallinn and Stock- make your stay in Tallinn personal, from any of the available taxis at economical, and unforgettable. 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