Your Tallinn hit list: the top 5 events – week 6

9 February 2026 – 15 February 2026

Not sure where to be this week? Every week, in partnership with Gamma, we present a hand-picked selection of the five most compelling events taking place in and around Tallinn – it’s time to plan your week with purpose.

Texture Painting: Valentine’s Special

Ditch the roses and restaurant set menus. If you’re after something more hands-on this Valentine’s season – and ideally less cringe – this textured paste painting masterclass might be your move.

Expect a properly tactile session where you’ll play with dimensional materials, build up layers, carve patterns and experiment with relief. It’s all about texture and instinct: no rules, no prior experience required, just a willingness to get stuck in and a healthy disregard for keeping your hands clean.

You’ll be guided through the basics, then left to let your intuition take over. By the end, you’ll walk out with a finished artwork – choose a smaller canvas for something subtle or go big and make a statement piece worthy of prime wall space.

All materials are provided, along with snacks and drinks to keep things convivial. It’s relaxed, creative and quietly therapeutic – a low-pressure way to try something new, zone out for a couple of hours and celebrate Valentine’s without a single heart-shaped balloon in sight.

Friends don’t let friends pay full price. Use code GAMMA for 10% off.

Wine Degustation Date

Just before Valentine’s Day, TTW Rotermann is swapping predictable romance for something with a bit more bite. TTW Wine Date invites you to take wine out for the evening – no scoring sheets, no swirling theatrics, no anxious attempts to detect “notes of wet forest floor”. Just listening, feeling and letting the bottles speak for themselves.

At the helm is Mikk Parre, Estonia’s top sommelier and freshly crowned Best Sommelier of Europe, Asia and Africa 2024. His promise? A warm, candid and gloriously unpretentious conversation about wine and the emotions it stirs – less lecture, more late-night chat.

On the table: serious pours from Meursault, served with relaxed vibes and zero intimidation. Expect depth, elegance and the kind of atmosphere that makes you lose track of time – and possibly rethink everything you thought a wine tasting had to be.

Heldeke! Burlesque 

If your evening plans are feeling a bit beige, this burlesque night at Heldeke! is here to add sequins, sass and a welcome dose of the unexpected.

As the drinks start flowing and the room settles into Heldeke’s signature cosy-cabaret glow, the stage bursts into life with five glittering acts. Think classic old-school glamour, slow-burn striptease and a splash of delightfully oddball comedy – the kind that makes you laugh, gasp and text your friends “you will not believe this”.

Among the night’s scene-stealers: Joan J. Harlow and Foxy Suzy, bringing sparkle and swagger in equal measure, while Katarina von Schatz keeps the tempo tight and the innuendo flowing as MC.

Doors open early so you can grab a drink and soak up the atmosphere before the curtain rises at 7pm. And since Heldeke is famously intimate (read: blink and it’s sold out), booking ahead is less of a suggestion and more of a survival strategy. Missing out would be tragic. A little tasteful mischief, on the other hand? Highly recommended.

Tallinn Old Town Pub Crawl

Experience Old Town’s nightlife the fun way: five bars, five shots, zero planning required. The Tallinn Bar Crawl is your fast-track ticket to the city after dark – equal parts party, pub games and instant international friend group.

Things kick off with a welcome shot before the crew heads out to five hand-picked venues around Tallinn’s Old Town. At every stop: another complimentary shot, drink deals and a fresh change of scenery to keep the momentum building. Expect beer pong battles, bar games, spontaneous karaoke and those surprisingly effortless icebreakers that somehow turn strangers into “see you tomorrow?” by midnight.

The grand finale? Free entry to a nightclub, where you can skip the queue and dance deep into the early hours without worrying about cover charges. Come solo, bring your mates – either way, it’s low effort, high energy and a guaranteed upgrade on a standard night out.

Pro tip: arrive five minutes early. Nobody wants to miss the first round.

Bonus cheer: use the code Gamma for 10% off your ticket – consider it your first small win of the night.

Shrove Tuesday & Maslenitsa Celebration – Estonian Open Air Museum

If winter’s going out, it might as well go out loudly. At the Estonian Open Air Museum, the season gets a proper farewell as Estonian Shrovetide meets Orthodox Maslenitsa in one gloriously chaotic, butter-fuelled blowout.

Think sledging for luck (and future prosperity, obviously), old-school outdoor games that laugh in the face of frost, folk music drifting between historic farmhouses and quizzes to test your seasonal knowledge. There are horse-drawn carriage rides for the romantics, cheerful competition for the energetic and enough rosy cheeks to light up the Baltic.

Food-wise, it’s a full winter greatest hits album: cream-filled buns, steaming pea soup and pancakes flipping across different cultural kitchens, each with their own spin. This isn’t a polite heritage demo. It’s a living, breathing time-travel party where ancient traditions collide, winter is chased away properly and nobody leaves hungry.

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