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Your Tallinn hit list: the top 5 events this week
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (473+ words) 30 March 2026 " 05 April 2026 Kartul, Kopli 16, Tallinn Tuesday, 31 March, from 7 PM Missed the January "new year, new me" wave? No worries, spring is here to let you start again. This'Begin Again Vision Board Night'is a cozy Sip & Paint experience where intentions meet…...
Alma Sooäär and the Kalamaja shop that refuses to disappear
3+ week, 4+ day ago (64+ words) Bianka Soe is an Estonian art historian, curator and cultural producer. She is the editor of the community book "hus on Kalamaja (Kalamaja in the Air) and writes art criticism and narrative cultural essays on the relationship between art, place…...
Your Tallinn hit list: the top 5 events - week 27
9+ mon, 2+ day ago (533+ words) 30 June " 06 July 2025 P'hjala Brewery, Peetri 5, Tallinn Tuesday, 1 July, from 6:00PM Canadians, Estonians and international friends are invited to raise a glass (or a pint) at P'hjala Brewery as Canada Day rolls into town with style and spirit. This free, all-welcome bash…...
Your Tallinn hit list: the top 5 events – week 49
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (343+ words) 1 December " 7 December 2025 Tak! Space, Telliskivi 62, Tallinn Wednesday, 3 December, from 6:30 PM Step into full holiday mode at the X-Mas Ball Workshop, where blank glass ornaments get a glow-up and you earn bragging rights. With festive snacks, warm drinks and specialised paints…...
Henry Sildaru wins Olympic halfpipe silver, confirming Estonia’s rising freestyle generation
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (637+ words) For many Olympic viewers, Henry Sildaru was a new name. By the end of Friday night in Italy, he was an Olympic medallist " and, more importantly for Estonia, a clear signal that the country's small but fast-evolving freestyle programme has…...
One of Europe’s largest battery parks opens in Estonia
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (277+ words) The battery park has a storage capacity of 200 MWh and is the first of two strategic projects designed to stabilise the regional power system following the Baltics" synchronisation with the European continental grid. The project was made possible by a…...
Estonian Drama Theatre opens performances to English-speaking audiences
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (276+ words) From February to April, three major productions will be accessible to non-Estonian speakers, with English subtitles or bilingual English'Russian translation. A limited ticket reserve has also been set aside specifically for foreign-language audiences, signalling that the initiative is more than…...
The Estonian passport more powerful than British or American
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (275+ words) By comparison, in the 2024 Henley Passport Index, the Estonian passport allowed access to 186 countries; it remains unclear which countries have since withdrawn visa-free access for Estonian citizens. In ranking terms, however, Estonia has improved: in 2024, its passport was placed ninth…...
Video: Team Rowtalia rows into Antigua, completing Estonia’s first Atlantic crossing
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (147+ words) Rowing from San Sebasti'n de la Gomera in Spain's Canary Islands to Nelson's Dockyard in Antigua, the crew covered roughly 4,800 kilometres (3,000 miles) across the Atlantic in just under 40 days, rowing around the clock in rotating shifts. Their arrival marked the…...
Estonian sci-fi classic Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel to screen at Berlinale Classics
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (314+ words) The film's atmosphere is reinforced by a production approach that combined location shooting with carefully constructed studio sets. Interior scenes were filmed in Tallinn, inside a newly completed Dynamo tennis hall, where filmmakers constructed a multi-storey hotel complex complete with…...