Estonian culture in the world.
The Estonian capital, Tallinn, will bear the title of a UNESCO City of Music from 2022. The director-general of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on 8 November announced 49 new cities that were designated as members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Among them is Tallinn, which will bear the title of a UNESCO City of Music from 2022. […]
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Estonian director Jonas Taul’s debut film, titled “A Most Exquisite Man”, won the grand prix award – a Golden Gunnar – at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in Norway. The animation film, targeted at adults, tells a story of “a most exquisite man”, who has “fantastic abilities, incomprehensible talent”, he could even be called “a genius”,
The Estonian Film Institute has selected “On the Water”, a coming-of-age story directed by a veteran filmmaker Peeter Simm, as the country’s nomination for Best International Feature Film Academy Award. The story of “On the Water” is based on the book of the same name by Estonian writer Olavi Ruitlane, who also wrote the script for the film.
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The Union of Estonian Architects celebrated its 100th anniversary by selecting the country’s ten most important architectural objects of the century. The list of the most important buildings from an architectural perspective was announced at the union’s 100th anniversary gala event on 8 October. Andro Mänd, the president of the union, said in a statement
The Arvo Pärt Centre – the Estonian composer’s personal archive and information and music centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia – and the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre are holding a free international research conference dedicated to Arvo Pärt’s work and the cultural context surrounding it. The conference, “Arvo Pärt – texts and contexts”, taking place
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The Baltic Assembly Prize in Literature was awarded to the late Estonian writer, Vahur Afanasjev (1979-2021), for his novel “Serafima and Bogdan” – a story about Old Believers: Russians who fled to Estonia because of religious persecution. The jury noted the story of “Serafima and Bogdan” painted a vivid picture of the characters’ exceptional world: the villages,
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The jury of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards announced Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony as the winner of this year’s Orchestral Award for their recording of the complete symphonies of Franz Schmidt. Released in 2020 on Deutsche Grammophon – a German classical music record label and the world’s oldest surviving record company
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In connection with the celebration of the Estonian-born architect Louis Kahn’s 120th anniversary in 2021, Estonian World paid a visit to the Louis Kahn Estonia Foundation, discussing the foundation’s work and numerous events dedicated to Kahn in the Estonian island of Saaremaa and in New York City. The meeting place with the foundation’s members at
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The Estonian band, “The Women in the Kitchen” (Naised Köögis), the Estonian National Opera Boys’ Choir, the Estonian TV Girls’ Choir and the Pärnu City Orchestra have released a song and a video inspired by the global environmental concerns and climate change; the video of the song, “What World Will Be Left to Us”, has
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It took nine years of detective work to finish a documentary about Ahto Valter, the first Estonian to sail around the world; this layered story about a hero from a past era takes the viewer on a journey through time. This article is published in collaboration with the Estonian Film Institute. Ahto Valter (1912-1991) was the
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