In Startup Spotlight we zoom in on numerous Estonian start-ups, to find out more about their business model and how they operate. This time we’re featuring the financial technology platform Investly. Investly launched its peer-to-peer business lending platform in August last year while on the Startup Wise Guys accelerator program. We spoke with the company’s founder […]
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The Tallinn Music Week (TMW), the annual music conference and showcase festival, will bring 90 speakers from around the world to Tallinn, the Estonian capital. The TMW, running from 25-29 March, is a music industry conference and one of the biggest indoor festivals in the Nordic and Baltic region. The mission of the festival, taking
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“House of Unconsciousness”, an Estonian animation about “the dreams of chimney sweepers”, has won a Grand Prize at the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF). The animation, directed by Priit Tender, is a psychedelic drama about a chimney sweeper and a burning woman. The film is apparently based on a long-term study of the dreams that
An exhibition at the Gabo Manchano Gallery in London is showcasing the art by emerging Estonian artists Lilian Hiob, Saskia Järve, Mauri Gross, Gerli Kont and Ulla Juske. The exhibition, organised in collaboration with Leyden Gallery and called ERROR, will showcase the interplay where each artist observes the faults made unintentionally through their own artistic
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Estonian artist Kiwa is to give a performance and a lecture in New York on 24 March, titled “Hippies without acid – in memory of A. Hoffmann”. According to one of the curators of the event, Mary Jordan, the Estonian multimedia artist Kiwa will be giving an audio-sound performance, followed by a presentation on Soviet
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An oak tree in the Estonian island of Saaremaa has been voted the European Tree of the Year. Nearly two hundred thousand people from all over Europe took part in the voting of the European Tree of the Year contest. The winner, with 60,000 votes, is a 150-year-old oak tree on a football field in
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On 21 March, the Stonewall Chorale, the first US gay and lesbian choir, will present “From Estonia with Love”, a concert that features works by two of Estonia’s most esteemed composers, Arvo Pärt and Tõnu Kõrvits, and will be performed at New York’s Church of the Holy Apostles. Featured on the program is Pärt’s Berliner Messe (Berlin Mass)
Culture Trip, the UK-based digital platform for global culture and lifestyle, has included the modern art museum Kumu in the Estonian capital among the best contemporary art galleries in Europe. “One of the many emerging contemporary galleries in Eastern Europe, the Kumu in Tallinn, Estonia, sets itself apart from many with its excellent curation and gorgeous new
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Greater part of the Estonian public is waiting anxiously for the Academy Award ceremony, taking place in Los Angeles on Sunday. It’s the first time that the country of 1.3 million has managed to get one of its films nominated for an Oscar. The Estonian-Georgian movie, “Tangerines” (“Mandariinid” in Estonian), was nominated for an Oscar
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Compared with last year, Estonia has improved its position by one place in the Reporters Without Borders world press freedom index 2015. The index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria that include media pluralism and independence, respect for the safety and freedom of journalists, and the legislative, institutional and
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