Circostrada Network is a European platform for the street arts and circus, dedicated to information, observation and professional exchanges. Representing more than 50 members from 17 countries, the network is working to develop the structuring and recognition of these sectors in Europe. HorsLesMurs, French national information centre for street arts and circus arts, is the general secretariat of the network. Created in 1993 by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, it supports artistic activities through observation, documentation, training, expertise, research and publishing.
www.circostrada.com

Kim & Buran from St Petersburg were also praised „They made a really good atmosphere and I liked the spirit of the drummer.“
Estonian AudioKinetica group was praised for their „nice visuals and awesome bass player.“ It was also called „experimental and art-like“. VonKuusk received a nomination among three best artists with a comment „very interesting, definitely would like to hear them again“. Also nominated was Vul Vulpes „It was simple and sincere. The music has room for improvement, but there was a certain honesty in the performance. Not trying overly hard and skipping all the cheesy elements that many performers in the festival use.“

Another delegate says: „Vul Vulpes's music was wonderful! Her music sounds like what is popular in the Los Angeles independent scene right now, and I feel that she will do well internationally.“

Algorütmid was named as a „highly potential band“. „Algorütmid successfully blends music technology and genres. They have a completely new sound, and have a lot of international potential in both the Industrial scene, and the Electronic Dance Music scene.“

Skype's Go Change The World Award winner was chosen jointly by Tallinn Music Week’s international delegates, press, Skype team members and the Estonian audience. Elephants From Neptune, the audience vote winner, was followed closely by Sibyl Vane, Nevesis, Tenfold Rabbit and KGB. Most nominations by delegates in addition to the winners were given to Odd Hugo, Argo Vals Band, Kannabinõid and Tenfold Rabbit.

Elephants From Neptune have shaken the Estonian music world in recent years with their merciless riffs and a sound loaded by robot-rock, indie, blues and psychedelic noise. They call themselves an „anomaly from the sandy beaches of Võsu“. This spring has been very active and successful. In April Finnish Fullsteam Agency signed them to join a list of Finnish acts like Disco Ensemble, Rubik, Michael Monroe and the currently most successful Estonian band Ewert and The Two Dragons.

„It’s one of the best new bands that I have listened to since a long time. Their talent is immediately noticeable and we believe that they have great potential outside of Estonia,“ says the fresh agent of the band, Toni Ritonen.

Also the experienced rock manager and promoter of London’s Club Radio Free Europe A P Childs has no doubt about the great future of the latest Skype award winner: „A great sounding band, superb live and will most certainly follow Ewert and the Two Dragons and break borders.“ Lithuanian music journalist Ramunas Zilnys (Lietuvos rytas) says: „There's been quite a few years since the Baltics have seen an act with such drive and passion for good ole rock.“

At the moment Elephants From Neptune is recording the second part of their EP trilogy. The result can be heard soon on presentations in Tallinn, Tartu, Viljandi and London. The first concert of the Elephants in London took place on 26th April in The Miller club.

„Tallinn Music Week certainly was very successful for us this year. We made many contacts, most importantly the start of cooperation with the Fullsteam Agency. This year’s main aim is to present the band strongly to our Northern and Southern neighbours. Several concerts have already been planned – the first one is in London today. We’ve been in the studio a lot during the last few months, so the second part of the EP trilogy is about to be released. At the end of the year we’ll start working on the second album. Skype award money will be invested in our new studio,“ explains the manager of Elephants From Neptune, Karl Sirelpuu.

Tallinn Music Week 2009 Skype award winner was Popidiot, in 2010 Iiris, in 2011 Ewert and the Two Dragons and in 2012 Talbot.

Tallinn Music Week 2014 will take place on 27-29 March. Artists’ applications round starts in the autumn 2013.

The first day of Stalker Festival (28.09) will be filled by SOUND EXCHANGE focusing on Estonian and Lithuanian electronic music. SOUND EXCHANGE www.soundexchange.eu is organised by German curators and dedicated to experimental music of Eastern Europe through concerts, workshops and exhibitions in seven cities. The concert in Kultuurikatel presents LOKAALRAADIO – SYMBOLISTICA by Raul Keller and Hello Upan. Lithuanian best known electronic musicians are joined in projects  Ventas Organ / Synthesizer and DIISSC ORCHESTRA: "VENTA". Taavi Kerikmäe, Priit „Julm“ Juurmann (BROKEN TIME ORCHESTRA) and Tencu are inspired by the Estonian electronic music pioneer Sven Grünberg  in remixing "Küsi eneselt / Ask Yourself". Workshops and exhibition will also take place during the festival.

The main day of Stalker festival offers a total sense experience where the guest will enter his own „perception zone“, leave the everyday humdrum behind and discovers himself in a unique environment focusing on music, architecture and a strange world of its own where the everyday rules are void. Music and other disciplines overlap and create a new world of perception. Contributing to this experience will be King Midas Sound (UK), Jan Bang (NOR) with Robert Jürjendal (EST), MIM project “Threshing Mongrels”, N!XAU (Kiwa, Joel Tammik, Nebukat, Mava), Muschraum (Sander Saarmets, Kaur Garshnek, Silver Ulvik), Andres Lõo & Talis Paide, Oktaf „Music Inspired by Harold Budd“: Marsen Jules Trio (GER), Mart Avi & Ajukaja with Steve Vanoni, Astrowind „Kaidanovsky“ (LAT) and many others.

Maria Arusoo is curating the visual concept of the whole building to be directly linked to the music but at the same time give a life of its own to the amazing space that in its current shape will be open for the public for the last time before major reconstruction works.

Stalker Festival 2012 artistic director is Aivar Tõnso, curator of the visual concept Maria Arusoo, main artist Marit Ilison.
Before and during the festival Vaba Linn / Free City seminars and workshops will take place as well as the opening seminar of Tallinn Creative Hub Development Centre. Stalker Festival will become an annual highlight of the Kultuurikatel programme.

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Every day players with the right answers will enter a lucky draw with prizes like tickets for Nõmme Jazz, Leigo Lake Music, Jazzkaar Autumn Jazz opening concert C-Jam „From Rodgers to Rannap“, Roof top concert by Ingrid Lukas and Chalice, Seaplane Harbour, Viru Hotel KGB Museum, Kumu and Eckerö Line. Main award is an iPhone that will be raffled on Sunday afternoon on the main stage of Tallinn Maritime Days.

CultureWalks can be downloaded for free in all iOS and Android devices – smartphones, iPods, iPads, etc. The app is in English and offers six different routes in Tallinn, Estonia and two in Turku, Finland – both European Capitals of Culture of 2011. The chosen paths will take users away from the most traditional and obvious tourist attractions like the Tallinn Old Town that can be found and explored easily by tourists with existing audio guides and good signage.

Instead the app helps to discover surrounding areas like Kalamaja, Pelgulinn, Kelmiküla, Kassisaba, Kadriorg, Uus Maailm, Tõnismägi as well as Rotermann quarter and Maakri Street. Quite a few of these routes might be hiding surprises even for locals. Each route consist of approximately twenty objects that are being introduced by texts and photos. The app follows the position of the user on the map of the route from object to object. One route takes approximately two to three hours to complete. The map is integrated in the app so after having downloaded it once, there is no need to pay the costly data roaming fee.

CultureWalks can be downloaded in PlayStore, AppStore, and our website: http://culturaltourism2011.kultuurikatel.ee/

The application was created by Regio AS in cooperation with Mobi Solutions OÜ and Solness Arhitektuurikirjastuse OÜ.

CultureWalks has been developed as part of Cultural Tourism 2011 / Developing Cultural Tourism as a joint network in Capitals of Culture 2011. The leading partner of the project is Turku Touring/Turku city, partners Tallinn Creative Hub (former foundation Tallinn 2011), foundation Turku 2011 and Tallinn Cultural Heritage Board. The project is being financed by Central Baltic Interreg IV A programme.

The hen house’s architectural solution is connected to other projects taking place in the garden. The chicken have a separated area and a shed. Their garden consists of metal pyramids that create a functional unity between the garden and shed. The pyramids are used to attach the net around the garden as well as to separate different areas with different soil. Visitors can sit nearby and watch the chicken. The organisers hope that the chicken will settle in well and start laying eggs that can be used in the café for omelettes and cakes. Visitors are asked not to feed the chicken. In the autumn the birds will be returned to Kuusiku farm.

The timber structures of the hen house have been built by team members with the help of tools of Tallinn Creative Hub and OÜ Jimmy. Metal parts were provided by AKM Metall. Welding work of the pyramids was done by blacksmiths Märt Vaidla and Nils Hint of Weiderwerk OÜ. The net is an old trap donated by the Museum of Coastal People.

Team members are young architects, landscape architects and designers from Estonian Academy of Arts: Grete Veskiväli, Mari Hunt, Kaisa Kangur, Triin Orav, Juula Saar, Aet Ader, Liisi Tamm and Isabel Neumann.
Also the team has received great support from Ahti Sepsivart, Siim Orav, Johannes Veskiväli, Inga Piirsalu, Evi Napp, volunteers of Tallinn Creative Hub and Velonaut.

Estonian Poultry Society helped to find the chicken that are owned by Piret Purru-Lemetti, Kuusiku farm. Food was provided by Kristin Nelke-Heinroos from Kiti Kanala Söödatuba.

Other supporters: Eesti Kultuurkapital, OÜ Murumari, Tallinna Vesi, OÜ Õuemeister, Puumarket, OÜ Forsten, Sadolin, Väo Paas, Dan Sukker, Keskkonnainspektsioon, Eesti Loomakaitse Selts, OÜ Rauning, Kadarbiku talu, Grüne Fee and Ellington.

The design of the exhibition will be created by Dutch artist Jan Scheernhoorn. He bases his work on the room itself that emerges as an integral part of the art work presented. Light designer Oliver Kulpsoo also uses completely unusual solutions for this exhibition.

In addition to the fragility of the material itself also some topics addressed by the artists involve fragility i.e. of the environment (Mare Saar, Ivo Lill), civilization (Rait Rääts), human soul (Kai Kiudsoo-Värv, Kati Kerstna); or the fragility of social order and architecture (Tiina Sarapu, Helena Kreem) – topics, that will be presented with the material epitome of fragility.
Glass will be presented in various ways – in its everyday, tense and controversial fragility that the artists face daily, talking about topics that touch them through the material and its most characteristic feature.
Tallinn Creative Hub keeps developing the combination of glass and music created in World of Glass in a new international network of artists and musicians.
The exhibition is a culmination for the international series of exhibitions „Estonian Glass“ that has been presented in Gernheim glass museum in Germany and Riihimäki glass museum in Finland.

Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

Participating artists:
Sofi Aršas, Merle Bukovec, Piret Ellamaa, Riho Hütt, Liisi Junolainen, Andra Jõgis, Mikk Jäger, Viivi-Ann Keerdo, Kati Kerstna, Kai Kiudsoo-Värv, Helena Kreem, Eve Koha, Kai Koppel, Eeva Käsper, Anne-Liis Leht, Ivo Lill, Maie Mikof-Liivik, Külli Nidermann, Herbert Orgusaar, Kairi Orgusaar, Rait Prääts, Kateriin Rikken, Kristi Ringkjob, Peeter Rudaš, Mare Saare, Maret Sarapu, Tiina Sarapu, Kalli Sein, Caspar Sild, Eili Soon, Maarja Treufeldt, Kristiina Uslar, Eero Vaikre.

Curator: Kati Kerstna
Design: Jan Sheerhoorn (Netherlands)
Light design: Oliver Kulpsoo
Organization: Estonian Glass Artists Association,  MTÜ Seni
World of Glass: Estonian Academy of Art glass art department, Tallinn Creative Hub
Supporters: Estonian Cultural Endowment, Estonian Artists Association and Akzo Nobel Baltics OÜ

Grand Fragility 9 June – 22 July 2012 in Tallinn Art Hall

The main presenters at FREE CITY Kat Braybrooke from England and Massimo Menichinelli from Italy will talk about open-source information, knowledge, and data, how this change in availability of information has key influence in improving education, economy, government and science. Maria Ritola from the Finnish think-tank Demos talks about her experience in addressing the urban space through different open-source models. Local experiences of open-source Tallinn will be shared by Regina Viljasaar from Linnalabor. The first day will be moderated by one of the leading figures of Estonian open-source Henri Laupmaa.

The second day of FREE CITY will use a hands-on approach to the open-source urban space in workshops and dialogue where the participants can create new prototypes and ideas to connect open-source thinking model and urban space. In ten different workshops we want to encourage creation of grass root initiative projects, introduce simple means and technologies for influencing, investigating and changing the urban space. Initiative is always supported by dialogue, so FREE CITY is creating an environment for one day where young people, students, experts and decision makers will combine their input into creating new ideas, services, prototypes and experiments.
B210 workshop will draw urban space with GPS; Hobilabor’s workshop focuses on open-source QR code as an effective way of communication in urban space. Memokraat workshop led by Tarmo Jüristo will create an open-source city model. Open Knowledge Festival working group will develop a concept of open design.

The project is supported by Archimedes European Youth.

More info: vabalinn.kultuurikatel.org

FREE CITY is being organised by Tallinn Creative Hub (former Tallinn 2011) that focuses on integrating new technology into the cultural and educational activities of Kultuurikatel. FREE CITY has been created as a key project of Kultuurikatel aiming to develop into an international network of events that involves university and high-school students, experts and visionaries, decision makers as well as universities, technology companies, community movements and international networks focusing on development of the society.

Contact:
Herkko Labi
herkko@kultuurikatel.org
+372 54555500.
FREE CITY project manager

The first day of FREE CITY focuses on the opening of the subject through lectures and presenatations, also looking for an active dialog for finding new insights and perspectives in the question – What is possible to think in the context of “free city”? The second day of FREE CITY dedicated to 10 workshops and workgoups for developing new prototypes, ideas for services and ad hoc initiatives. Check the program here.

FREE CITY is funded by FND Archimedes Youth in Action Programme.

For participation register yourself: vabalinn.kultuurikatel.org

FIRST DAY / 26th April / Rävala 8 conference hall (www.r8.ee)

15.00 Doors open
16.00 Greetings by the moderator – Henri Laupmaa (Hooandja, Estonia)
16.15 Start speech: Tarmo Jüristo (Memokraat, Estonia)
16.45 International experience: Kat Braybrook, Open Knowledge Festival/Fabstar.org (UK) ja Massimo Menichinelli, Aalto University Media Factory (Finland)
17.15 Local experience: Linnalabor (Estonia)
17.45 Pause for fresh air ja snack buffee for the mind
18.15 City and the opensource: Maria Ritola, Demos.fi (Finland)
18.30 Webcommunication in cityspace: WEB_0 / Jekaterina Lavrinec (Lithuania)
18.45 Kickstart your project: Hooandja
19.00 Conclusion by moderator

SECOND DAY / 27th April / Rävala 8 classrooms and offices

10.00-13.00 First session
13.00-13.30 Lunch buffee
13.30-16.30 Second session
16.30-17.30 Presentation of the projects

Workshops by Memokraat, MIM, Hobilabor, B210, EMT, BFM Ristmeedia õppetool, Open Knowledge Festival & Aalto University Media Factory, Street Messages, Sophie Usunier, Galerii Tank.

What kind of ideas are we looking for?

With the open call we wish to find programme partners who would develop ideas and arrange public cultural, educational and social activities on the grounds of Katlaaed (address: Põhja pst 35, area 5950 m²)

Katlaaed should be open to the public from May 27 to September 30 2012.

We welcome ideas for one-off events as well as long term projects:

• Cultural ideas - concerts, performances, exhibitions, cinema screenings, literature events etc., especially unusual formats that would enrich and enhance the general cultural space with its novelty.

• Educational and scientific ideas – workshops, courses, seminars and other open learning formats.

• Social ideas – especially ideas to create a community garden at Põhja pst 35, but also all other ideas related to community and social activities (café, playground etc.)

Deadline for applications is 13 April 2012.

Who can participate?

Everyone is welcome to participate – private persons, groups, organizations, companies without tax arrears.

Please include the following information in the application:

• Title of the project
• Description of the idea (max 4000 characters)
• Detailed schedule
• Marketing and  communications plan
• Detailed budget (costs and funding plan)
• CVs of team members and partners
• Description of target groups

Additional illustrative materials can be presented if you like.

Please send the concept to the e-mail address katlaaed@tallinn2011.ee, subject Open Call “Katlaaed“.

What will happen to the ideas?

A jury has been appointed to evaluate the ideas. The jury will select the winning project and the result will be published at the end of April on the website of Tallinn Creative Hub Foundation www.kultuurikatel.ee. The winner will sign a contract with Foundation Tallinn Creative Hub.

Tallinn Creative Hub offers a free of charge fixed term lease contract for the area of Katlaaed to do the proposed activities, communication support, project management consultation and contacts.

For more information about the conditions of the application please e-mail katlaaed@tallinn2011.ee or phone: +372 56 2011 13  http://www.kultuurikatel.ee/katlaaia_ideekonkurss
NB! You can visit the area and buildings, please phone: +372 56 201100 or e-mail: jimmytiko@gmail.com