10.12.19 ... Tallinn Fringe Festival kicked off this week, bringing around 40 shows, with performances including circus, burlesque, magic, standup, vaudeville, music and more
09.12.19 ... Minister of Culture Tõnis Lukas (Isamaa) and Estonian Employees' Unions' Confederation (TALO) management board chairman Ago Tuuling signed a salary agreement for cultural workers on Monday according to which the wage fund for people working at Ministry of Culture institutions is to increase by 2.5 percent.
07.12.19 ... ERR News now carries a button linking readers to ERR's Raadio Tallinn, which presents wall-to-wall music as an accompaniment to day-to-day activities such as being at work, home, driving, and all the other things, as well as late-night news in English and French.
06.12.19 ... Almost two kilometers of painted silk and 10,000 LED light bulbs have been used to create the Asian Lantern Festival which opened at Tallinn's Song Festival Grounds on Thursday.
06.12.19 ... Across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest villages in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on — from festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Now that the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has ended, it might seem like another lull period is due, but with Christmas, at least in the western calendar, less than three weeks away, there's a theme drawing together many of the latest events.
06.12.19 ... A foundation has been established to support Tartu with its European Capital of Culture 2024 planning and implementation.
06.12.19 ... Dragons and a sphinx are just some of the mythical creatures on show at this year's Gingerbread Mania exhibition in Tallinn which displays more than 100 artists' work.
05.12.19 ... The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra (ERSO) has a new musical director and chief conductor. Olari Elts, who has been with ERSO since 1998 and a guest conductor since 2007, is the new musical director and chief conductor, with an initial period of three years, according to an ERSO press release.
05.12.19 ... A huge hedgehog sculpture made for Burning Man festival by Estonians will be installed at Noblessner in Tallinn this weekend.
04.12.19 ... The festive season has begun and all around Estonia Christmas trees and windows are being decorated, Advent candles are being lit, and lights switched on.
04.12.19 ... Head of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELK) Archbishop Urmas Viilma gave an advent reflection at St. Mary's Cathedral (Toomkirik) on Wednesday. The English transcription follows.
02.12.19 ... British heavy metal band Judas Priest will perform at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds on Monday, June 1 next year.
02.12.19 ... Poet, publisher, essayist and national thinker Hando Runnel was presented with the Contribution to Estonian National Identity award on Sunday at a ceremony dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Estonia's national university.
29.11.19 ... Vaba Lava Theatre Centre sought €100,000 in funding from the City of Narva for the support of the activity of its Narva center, however the city did not include the line in its budget.
29.11.19 ... All across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest villages in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on — from festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are just a few highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
28.11.19 ... The Maritime Museum in Tallinn's Fat Margaret will open its doors to visitors on Friday at 10 a.m. and will remain open for 32 hours following two years of reconstruction.
28.11.19 ... "Konrad Mägi: The Light of the North," a new exhibition featuring the works of the eponymous Estonian painter, will be opened by President Kersti Kaljulaid at the Musei Reali di Torino in Turin, Italy on Friday.
26.11.19 ... Scottish actor Ewen Bremner gave an interview to ETV magazine show Ringvaade Monday evening, in which he talked about life during and after Trainspotting, and his latest movie, ERR's Culture portal reports.
25.11.19 ... The head of the Lihula and Hanila Museums, art historian Marika Valk, discussed plans to build a Baltic German history and culture museum on Vikerraadio's Kajalood, newspaper Lääne elu reported.
25.11.19 ... A recent day dedicated to the Estonian language held in Haapsalu celebrated both the current Year of the Estonian Language as well as the 150th anniversary of the publishing of Haapsalu native Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann's Estonian-German dictionary. In the spotlight at the event were student reports about the Estonian language and literature as well as projects that had participated in the nationwide "Ode to the Estonian Language" contest.
23.11.19 ... A 40-meter long dragon will feature in the Asian Lantern Festival in Tallinn alongside pandas, flamingos, and many other fairy-tale creatures from the start of December.
22.11.19 ... All across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest villages in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on — from festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are just a few highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
19.11.19 ... The 23rd annual Black Nights Film Festival, or PÖFF, opened on Thursday night, bringing hundreds of movies, shorts and animations from round the world to film goers.
16.11.19 ... Tallinn's Christmas tree was lit on Friday at the opening of the city's Christmas market.
15.11.19 ... All across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest hamlets in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on — from festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are just a few highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
14.11.19 ... On Friday, at 5 p.m. on the Town Hall Square, the lights of the Christmas tree will be lit and this year's Christmas market will open.
14.11.19 ... The two cities which will partner with Tartu during its stint as European Capital of Culture in 2024 have been decided.
10.11.19 ... Wrapping up on Sunday, the second annual New York Baltic Film Festival is currently underway, in the course of which Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania's best recent movies as well as a selection of classics have been screened.
08.11.19 ... All across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest hamlets in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on — from festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are just a few highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
08.11.19 ... The coalition government, or so far the culture ministry, is to look at potential developments to the iconic Linnahall complex in Tallinn, converting it into an opera house at an estimated cost of €170 million. Some opposition has been raised by finance minister Martin Helme (EKRE), however.
08.11.19 ... A total of 178 songs were submitted to the Eesti Laul 2020 song contest, 24 of which will be selected by jury vote to compete in the two semifinals to take place in Tartu next February.
04.11.19 ... The deadline for entries to the Eesti Laul 2020 song competition is this Wednesday at noon.
04.11.19 ... For visitors to ERR's News House at Kreutzwaldi 14, Priit Vaher may be a familiar face as concierge there. He has many more strings to his bow, however; as well as being a noted filmmaker, he is also an artist.
01.11.19 ... Legendary British actor, comic and satirist John Cleese is bringing his one-man show to Tallinn next May, for the first and, given the show's title, last time.
01.11.19 ... Tallinn Zoo (Tallinna loomaaed) is offering the chance to view feeding time for two different species, gray seals and pygmy hippos, starting Saturday and running every Saturday after that.
01.11.19 ... All across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest hamlets in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on. From festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are just a few highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
26.10.19 ... A retrospective of legendary British film director Alfred Hitchcock's work started Friday and runs through the next week, on the big screen at two locations in Estonia, ERR's culture portal reports.
25.10.19 ... All across Estonia, from the capital of Tallinn to the smallest villages in remote parts of the country, there is always something going on in the cultural sphere, from festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are some highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
24.10.19 ... An amateur archaeologist who found a rare third century gold bracelet on Saaremaa last month wants financial recompense for his find, ERR's online news in Estonian reports, despite the fact that under Estonian law he is not eligible.
23.10.19 ... A popular former nightspot in Tallinn's Old Town has filed for bankruptcy with Harju County Court, according to daily Postimees.
23.10.19 ... Wednesday, Oct. 23 is World Ballet Day with a host of live links from major ballet companies worldwide, and the Estonian National Ballet, part of the Estonian National Opera (Rahvusooper) is contributing to the event with a live link to the Opera and Ballet House in Tallinn, giving an insight into the lives of some of its ballet dancers, including classes, interviews with ballet dancers, and an interview with ballet director Linnar Looris.
22.10.19 ... Applications are open to artists wanting to enter Tallinn Music Week (TMW) 2020.
21.10.19 ... The Ministry of Culture said they did not have the funds to help Narva City Government buy a new piano.
20.10.19 ... Minister of Culture Tõnis Lukas (Isamaa) sent greetings to his Finnish and Hungarian counterparts on Saturday on the occasion of Finno-Ugric Day, which celebrates the cultures and languages of the Finno-Ugric peoples.
17.10.19 ... Tallinn's 17th Fashion Week started on Wednesday with the Gold and Siver Needle prizes being awarded to the best Estonian designers.
14.10.19 ... More than 33,000 people have visited the Arvo Pärt Centre since it opened a year ago on Sunday.
11.10.19 ... All across Estonia, from Tallinn to the smallest villages in the most remote parts of the country, there is always something going on. From festivals to workshops, exhibit openings to guided tours, and movie screenings to concerts. Here are some highlights of cultural events taking place in Estonia this weekend and next week.
09.10.19 ... Turning Tallinn's Linnahall into a conference and opera theater would cost between €160-170 million, plans drawn up by the Ministry of Culture estimate.
09.10.19 ... Poet, translator, literary critic and editor Liisi Ojamaa has died. She was 47.
07.10.19 ... ERR TV channel etv2 is broadcasting a human rights month (inimõiguste kuu) series of programs every Tuesday at 9.30 p.m., through October.
