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Estonian conductor Maria Seletskaja becomes the music director of the English National Ballet

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. […]

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The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival brings delightful evenings in November

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

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Estonia celebrates the Finno-Ugric Peoples’ Day

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,

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The art of survival – Tartu’s long road towards the European Capital of Culture

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.

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Pictures: Estonian projects nominated for the 2024 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture

Six new architectural projects from Estonia have been nominated for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. A total of 362 works from 38 different European countries are nominated for the 2024 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe on 13 October announced. Six new projects from Estonia

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Marita Liivak paints Lasnamäe

Estonian World talked to Marita Liivak, a young rising star of the Estonian art scene; her latest exhibition, “Lasnamäe – Beginnings and Endings”, is inspired by the infamous Tallinn neighbourhood. Marita Liivak studied at Tartu Pallas Art School and the Accademia di Belle Arti Catania, in Sicily, Italy. She has developed her own particular style

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The pseudo-historic "Fishermen's village", a Prussian-style replica, in Königsberg. Photo by A. Savin.

Estonia may start using the name Königsberg instead of Kaliningrad

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

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The interiors of Estonia’s embassies on display in Tallinn

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

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