Culture

Estonian Maria Seletskaja, a former ballet dancer turned conductor, has been appointed the new music director of the English National Ballet. Seletskaja will work closely with Aaron S. Watkin, the artistic director of the institution, in overseeing the creative direction and quality of music at the English National Ballet and the English National Ballet Philharmonic. […]

In the cold and dark Estonian November evenings, the Black Nights Film Festival – known as PÖFF, for short, in Estonian – lends its helping hand to those who seek escapism from a world that appears to grow more unstable by the hour; from 3-19 November, the cinemas in Tallinn screen over 200 films from

Estonia is celebrating the Finno-Ugric Peoples’ Day, also called the Tribal Day, in a nod to the country’s Finno-Ugric roots on the third Saturday every October; the theme of this year’s Tribal Day is “Courage”, referring to difficult times and the courage to persevere. Based on a decision of the fourth Finno-Ugric Cultural Congress in 1931,

With less than three months left until 2024, the journey that started in the spring of 2017 is reaching its crescendo – finally, the European Capital of Culture year in Tartu and Southern Estonia can begin; the road to 2024 has been full of twists and turns, a true testament of the arts of survival.

Estonian photographer Tõnu Runnel has published “Eesti”, a book of Estonian photo stories; an album of everyday life in Estonia, the book is published in both Estonian and English. Tõnu Runnel is a photographer who debuted on the pages of this very magazine in 2017. His contribution included photo stories such as Eesti blues, Eesti

Liis Koger, an Estonian painter and poet, is to showcase her artworks in New York City from 6 to 20 October; it’s her first ever personal exhibition in the United States. The 33-year-old artist has a degree in painting and fine arts from the University of Tartu, having also minored in theology and enrolled in

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian parliament has made a proposal to the Language Committee of the Estonian Language Society to consider starting to use the name Königsberg instead of Kaliningrad in Estonian. The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Marko Mihkelson, said the Committee had found that using the Soviet-era name Kaliningrad in

An exhibition of the interior architecture of the embassies, residences and other representative offices of the Republic of Estonia is open at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, compiled by curator Karin Paulus together with the Estonian Association of Interior Architects. Foreign diplomatic missions are a vital investment for Estonia and the interiors of the country’s