Your Tallinn hit list: the top 5 events – week 17

27 April 2026 – 03 May 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.

Tallinn Bla Bla Language Exchange

BlaBla Language Exchange is less classroom, more cheerful social whirl: a relaxed mingle where locals and internationals meet, chat, practise languages and generally have a good time. There are no fixed tables, no stiff formats and thankfully no flashcards – just conversation, curiosity and whatever language happens to emerge.

English and the local language usually do most of the heavy lifting, but if you are keen to practise something else, ask the organisers or hunt down a fellow participant who speaks it.

Register in advance here. When you arrive, please order a drink – the venue asks every participant to do so. Photos and videos may be taken for social media; if you would rather stay out of shot, just let the photographer know.

PoCoEKApop exhibition

Opening at 5pm on Wednesday 29 April on the Design Street of Solaris Centre, PoCoEKApop brings together the ceramics department of the Estonian Academy of Arts and PoCo, the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, in a collaboration as fresh as it sounds.

Ten young ceramicists were given an open brief: create an object striking enough to become the museum’s calling card – the first thing visitors see as they walk in, and the last thing to send them off on their way out. Before picking up their tools, each student plunged into research and visited the museum, searching for the artist, era or idea within pop art that spoke to them personally.

The result is a set of ten large-scale vases, each filled with floral arrangements by the flower artist Peter Boeijkens. Pop art aficionados will find references, winks and quiet nods to decode; everyone else will simply find something very beautiful to look at.

Neapolitan-style pizza pop-up

A pizza pop-up is exactly the kind of news a spring afternoon deserves. For the first time ever, Pitsahaagis – a Neapolitan-style pizza outfit usually found 30 minutes outside Tallinn – is rolling its custom-built pizza van straight to Brewklyn for a seasonal dose of fresh pizza, good drinks, Brooklyn-style atmosphere and seaside views.

The menu keeps things pleasingly simple: Pepperoni, Serrano Ham, Nduja, Tuunikala and Margherita. Most pizzas are €12, with the Margherita at €10.

Spend €9 or more with Pitsahaagis and you will receive a €2 coupon for one of more than 40 selected beverages at Brewklyn, which makes the whole thing even easier to justify. Seating is available indoors in the light-filled space or outside on the sun-drenched terrace, with a €7 drink minimum per person for those staying in. Takeaway is also available.

Slam: Wrestling Fiesta

Slam! Wrestling Fiesta returns to Tallinn, and this one is absolutely not for the faint-hearted. The evening promises two title matches, the revival of a historic tournament and one of professional wrestling’s most infamous match types: a Barbed Wire Death Match.

First, history gets its moment. The legendary George Hackenschmidt Invitational Cup is back, honouring Estonia’s own George Hackenschmidt, the first recognised world champion in professional wrestling history. The tournament plays out over a single evening, with semi-finals followed by a grand final. The rule is wonderfully unforgiving: lose once, and you are out.

The Slam! Women’s Championship will see title holder “Posh Princess” Kiara defend her belt against former champion “Queen of Sisu” Lexa Valo, in what promises to be the promotion’s biggest women’s division clash to date.

Then comes the main event: Estonian iron man Mikk Vainula challenges Canadian Slam! Champion “Back Breaker” Dylan Broda in a Barbed Wire Death Match. No rules, no mercy, and one fall to decide everything.

Tallinn Comedy Dating Game Show

The Comedy Dating Game Show is back at Heldeke!, and it is exactly as chaotic, ridiculous and entertaining as it sounds.

The premise is simple: if you are single and your friend keeps insisting they could find you the perfect match, this is their moment to prove it. Friends of the singles take the stage and answer game show-style questions on their behalf across two rounds. At the end, each single picks the contestant whose friend made the strongest case. Love may or may not follow. Laughs absolutely will.

Not single, or simply not brave enough to put your romantic fate in the hands of a mate with a microphone? That is what the audience ticket is for.

Hosting the evening is Žana – born in Bosnia, raised in Florida and based in Berlin – whose comedy style can best be described as Balkan pessimism locked in a wrestling match with delusional American optimism, with reggaeton playing somewhere in the background.

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