Tallinn Music Week introduces best restaurants in town, popular street food, craft coffee, flashy cocktail bars and cooking workshops
Music and urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), celebrating its ten-year anniversary on 2-8 April, presents quarter of a hundred restaurants and cafes in the capital, cooking workshops and home dinners with Mexicans through the TMW Tastes programme. The menu of the TMW pop-up bar is planned by Renard Coffee Shop & Raba Peet.
The TMW pop-up bar that has become one of the most popular hotspots among the festival’s visitors in the last four years will again open its doors at the centrally located Design and Architecture Gallery. Renard Coffee Shop will offer a quality coffee from Scandinavia’s top micro-roasteries and culinary duo Raba Peet will take care of the taste experiences.
Keit Lillemäe, one of the founders of Renard Coffee Shop, a small coffee bar with a big spirit that operated near Telliskivi Creative City until January of this year, promises to create a lovely meeting place for the festival’s visitors: “TMW has always been a very inspirational festival for me. This time, the expectations are especially big and challenging. Together with my sister Kadi Maidre as the culinary duo Raba Peet we promise that nobody shall leave the cafe with an empty stomach.”
In addition to the pop-up bar, there are 25 eating and drinking spots in the TMW restaurants selection which offer special TMW menus carefully crafted by their head chefs as well as special offers to the owners of the festival passes.
Among others, the restaurants presented include the pre-eminent plant-based restaurant Von Krahli AED, healthy vegan buffet BlissTray, cozy cake shop & cafe Ristikheina Kohvik, brasserie restaurant and Golden Era-style cocktail bar Tabac, creative “fusion-confusion“ restaurant Kolm Sibulat, coffee pantry KOKOMO and a unique beer shop TapTap at Rotermann Quarter, restaurant Korsten, Armastus ja Hea Toit based at the Tallinn Creative Hub, and restaurant Sfäär with rooms inspired by the aesthetic universe of Estonian artist Tõnis Vint.
As part of the TMW and in cooperation with the Estonian Refugee Council, there will be cooking workshops followed by dinners “Let’s get to know each other!” held in the demo kitchen at Balti Station Market. Knowledgeable nutritionists can participate in sustainable brunches by Korilase Köök and fans of the Latin American kitchen can join home dinners “Taco night with Mexicans”. More info about special dinners on TMW website.
All TMW 2018 passes include special offers at the TMW Tastes restaurants. Clients of festival’s presenter Telia get a 20% discount on all pre-sale tickets and passes.
The project “Let’s get to know each other!” is financed by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and the Estonian Ministry of the Interior.
Music and urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place for the tenth time on 2-8 April, has added a new music night by FatCat’s 130701 imprint and Japan Sound Portrait project on 6 April at Loomelootsik house to its concert programme.
The TMW jubilee edition´s music programme on 5-7 April showcases almost 260 artists from 30 countries. The whole schedule of the music programme is available on the TMW website.
British label 130701, who has presented their artists at TMW festivals before, is now going to join forces with Japan Sound Portrait, a project by BBC Radio Three host Nick Luscombe and film director and Japanologist Neil Cantwell. Together, they will present the adventurous new music night on the second floor of Loomelootsik at Sadama subdistrict.
The 130701 artists include their latest signing, Swedish-Iranian pianist and composer Shida Shahabi, cello-playing explorer Resina, and an artist crossing organised electronical glitches with orchestral elements Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch. Japan Sound Portrait is represented by Hatis Noit, a Japanese vocalist deconstructing Western Classical, Japanese folk and nature’s own ambience atmosphere. In addition to these artists, the audience can also enjoy the awarded composer of electroacoustic music Simon Vincent and experimental harp-looper laboratory by the Estonian artist Liis Viira aka Liz Wirestring.
130701 maps the edges of the post and modern classical genre and has been described by the British music web Drowned In Sound as “something of a blueprint outlet for instrumental based musicians worldwide whose creations don’t quite fit safely into any genre or roster”. Its roster has included, among others, post-minimalism composer Max Richter, piano techniques’ experimenter Hauschka, who also performed at the TMW last year, and Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who recently passed away. Japan Sound Portrait is a joint Japanese music project by BBC Radio Three host Nick Luscombe and film director and Japanologist Neil Cantwell.
The 130701 and Japan Sound Portrait showcase takes place at Loomelootsik – a small limestone building situated at Lootsi street 8 at Tallinn city centre that used to house Tam Gallery and restaurant Neh. Since the beginning of this year, the first floor of the building with beautiful art pieces on the walls belongs to home restaurant ANNO and the second floor has a music studio and creative spaces.
Tickets for the TMW 2018 130701 / FatCat Records & Japan Sound Portrait new music night are available for 12 euros at Piletilevi. Tickets cost 15 euros at the venue on the concert night.
Access to the concert is guaranteed with the TMW 2018 Festival Pass, Conference + Festival pass and Priority Pass. The TMW passes can be purchased from the web store.
The TMW music programme on 5-7 April showcases almost 260 artists from 30 countries at almost 20 clubs and concert venues in Tallinn. The whole schedule of the TMW 2018 festival is available on the website.
The music and city culture festival Tallinn Music Week that celebrates its 10-year jubilee on 2-8 April also features a film programme. During the festival week, five documentaries will be screened at “Sõprus” Cinema, covering topics from the natural environment and visions of the post-capitalist world to the heroes of the post-rock’n’roll era. Film screenings will be introduced by their authors and main characters as well as film critics.
TMW Films programme opens on Monday, 2 April with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, a sequel to the sensational documentary An Inconvenient Truth that was released a dozen years ago and featured Al Gore’s lectures on the environment. The environment is also in the centre of Chasing Coral, a film with astonishing scenery that explores whether and how it is still possible to save the coral reefs – the underwater miracles dying at record speed. The vast human flow of our times is mapped in Human Flow, directed by Ai Weiwei, one of the most vocal dissidents in China and a superstar of modern art.
The programme also features two documentaries on larger-than-life culture hackers: The Goodiepal Equation on the millionaire musician, artist and futurist Goodiepal van den Dobbelsteen, and More Than Life with a message of individualism on the left side of the norms from the last real Estonian rockstar, the frontman of Psychoterror Freddy Grenzmann.
TMW Films programme at “Sõprus” Cinema on 2-6 April
Monday, 2 April at 9 pm
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
Remember the year 2006? It had gotten so bad in terms of climate change that a whole film was put together from the former presidential candidate Al Gore’s lectures. An Inconvenient Truth became a sensation, educating, irritating and bringing together millions all over the world together for debate, rounding it up with an Academy Award for the best documentary feature. What kind of an impact did it all have and has anything changed since Gore asks a dozen years later in the appropriately-titled sequel An Inconvenient Sequel.
Tuesday, 3 April at 9 pm
The Goodiepal Equation (2017)
The environment is going down the drain and much of our culture has become numb entertainment for the masses. Do not worry, as along comes a self-titled renaissance-man, musician, artist, culture hacker and futurist Goodiepal. A man who hid money in the packaging of his albums. The film is as crazy and weird as its titular character – in the best possible sense. This is an unconventional portrait of an unconventional man, with the ability to cause both admiration and alienation, often at the very same time. By the way, during his travels all across Europe, Goodiepal also visits our very own Kumu art museum in Tallinn.
The author of the movie is Sami Sänpäkkilä, boss of the Finnish record label Fonal Records.
Wednesday, 4 April at 9 pm
Human Flow (2017)
While Europe still grapples with immigration, this is only a small part of a growing global refugee crisis. Millions leave their homes, be the reason decaying environment, war, poverty or just the promising call of a better life elsewhere. Ai Weiwei, one of the most vocal dissidents in China, itself the frontrunner of instate migration, and a superstar of modern art paints an epic yet thoughtful picture of the vast human flow. To make this overarching and truly global film, the crew travelled through 23 countries.
Thursday, 5 April at 7 pm
Chasing Coral (2017)
A decade and a half ago, Pixar’s Finding Nemo awed both the young and the old with its depiction of an astonishing underwater world. This beautiful animation might only be a fantasy in the near future though, as the world’s seas are in great trouble due to human activity, and the corals are dying at unprecedented speed. It was just a year ago the largest coral in the world, the Great Barrier Reef, was cautioned to be in a terminal condition. In this film filled with mesmerising images, a team of scientists, divers and photographers set out to discover, if and how these underwater miracles might be saved.
Friday, 6 April at 7 pm
More Than Life (2018)
Freddy Grenzmann is the last Estonian rockstar. He is a poet and a singer in the punk-rock band Psychoterror. The term rockstar stands for a phenomenon that is outside the norms of tradition and is larger than life. What can be said about Freddy is that he is not normal neither on stage nor in life.
His creation and life are the same. He seems to be someone with everything always at stake, constantly walking on the edge. What makes Freddy interesting is not social or textual love for the game, but the quantity he has put into the game, the probability of losing oneself totally and the depth of indicative humane or metaphysical anguish. This is a story about the last rockstar and poet, his work and anatomy of a punk band.
The cast includes members of the band, Freddy Grenzmann, Lauri Leis, Margus Müil, Sven Liba, Sven Kimmel and special quest stars Hasso Krull, Koit Raudsepp, Marko Mäemets, Marko Mägi, Raul Saaremets, Raul Velbaum, Siim Nestor, Valner Valme, Villu Tamme and others.
Authors: Indrek Spungin and Taavi Arus
More information about TMW Films
Tickets to the TMW Films programme screenings are available online at Piletilevi and on the spot at “Sõprus” Cinema for 5 euros.
Film screenings are free of charge for the Priority Pass’ holders. Priority Passes can be bought for 150 euros from the TMW web store.
The tenth edition of the music and city culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), unveils key topics and presenters for this year’s festival and the new economy conference Creative Impact along the next batch of speakers. The two-day conference, taking place on 6th and 7th April at Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel) will focus on new economy, the future of music, better cities, and design thinking.
TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass is available for €250 until midnight 13th March at TMW web store. From Wednesday 14th March TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass will cost €295. TMW 2018 is presented by Telia Eesti.
Telia will present topics related to inclusive digitalization and Sustainable Development Goals at the conference. Henriette Wendt, Telia Company Senior Vice President and Head of Cluster, and Anne Larilahti, Telia Company Head of Sustainability Strategy will cover the group´s sustainable business practices across its markets. Telia and TMW will also address the behaviour of children in the digital era within Telia’s #suurimjulgus (#greatest courage) campaign aimed to increase awareness of cyber-bullying.
“It’s a joy as well as a logical next step for us to present TMW after being a partner of the festival for years”, says Katrin Isotamm, Head of Communications at Telia Eesti. “We share the same values and the same big goals – sustainable vision for society and business, inclusion and equal opportunities, human-centred innovation. We both want to make Estonia a better and more prosperous place to live.”
A special focus on environment will be visible throughout the festival, within its #hoolin #ICare campaign as well as at the conference. Siim Kiisler, Estonia’s Minister of Environment, who has been elected as the next President of United Nations Environment Assembly, will join the opening panel. The Estonian Ministry of Environment is currently drafting the priorities of the upcoming assembly for the next UNEA meeting in March 2019. Topics around Sustainable Development Goals and environment concern every single human being. This is why it makes complete sense for the Ministry to partner up with the city festival – to raise awareness on issues that are crucial to all of us around the globe,” explains Ado Lõhmus, Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment.
TMW is proud to announce the partnership with Luminor – a new generation financial services provider for the local way of life and business. Luminor will present the special “new economy” track of the conference including discussions and practices across various disciplines, from a speed-meeting session for financing potential advice to digital innovations. Tõnu Palm, the Chief Economist of Luminor will give a presentation on trends in the financial industry.
“Luminor’s #DareToChange slogan is also bringing us together with the ever-advancing TMW team“, says Mirjam Mikkin, Marketing Manager at Luminor Estonia. “Regardless of all the changes, or exactly because of the changes, we do share common values. We would like to bring a sense of down-to-earth entrepreneurial thinking to the TMW conference – from the macroeconomic environment and digital innovation to the advantages of design thinking.
The “better cities” track of the conference will be presented by Telliskivi Creative City – TMW’s long-term partner and the biggest hub of creative industries in Estonia. The focus on cities will investigate night-time economy, urban transformation, mobility and the FinEst Bay Area concept and vision of Tallinn-Helsinki twin city by Peter Vesterbacka.
Future skills, civic initiative, gender politics and sustainable development will be the commonly occurring keywords of TMW jubilee edition conference.
A selection of new speakers at the TMW 2018 Creative Impact Conference is also announced.
Andres Sevtsuk, an assistant professor of urban planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design with deep technical expertise in spatial analytics and urban technology will deliver a keynote speech about the future of cities looking into the possible sustainable development strategies for urban planning. Andreina Seijas J., a Venezuelan communications professional, public policy analyst and design expert will delve into how cities can become safer, more inclusive and productive by creating quality spaces for work and leisure during the night. Andreina has also worked with Sound Diplomacy to produce “A Guide to Managing Your Night Time Economy” that will be launched during the TMW conference.
Mobility is the lifeblood of our cities and essential for urban life. Peter Vesterbacka will present the FinEst Bay Area concept and vision of Tallinn-Helsinki twin city. Panel to follow will discuss how innovation can transform cities and regions, joined by the Estonian Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure, Kadri Simson.
As part of the international Keychange Project aiming to empower women in the music industry, 60 female musicians and creative industry professionals gather to participate in the special Creative Lab, which runs alongside the TMW conference. Artist ambassador for the campaign, Grammy-winning musician and producer Imogen Heap will speak about her work with Mycelia and an all-in-one hyper-connected ’Creative Passport’ – a new digital identity standard for musicians.
The initiator of a “man free” Statement Festival for women, non-binary and trans persons, Swedish comedian, radio presenter, podcaster and writer Emma Knyckare speaks out about the origins, practicalities and ambitions of the upcoming festival.
London and Los Angeles-based writer, editor and journalist Steph Kretowicz, the author of novel ’Somewhere I’ve Never Been’, will touch upon the issues of gender and postcolonial, transnational feminism and challenging gender paradigms.
The conference panels will also delve into how to clear the status of the long-awaited copyright reform, analyse the state of cryptocurrencies and new sources of revenue in the digital age. In addition to the creative industry analyses and solution-oriented practices, the conference also offers inspirational stories by creative minds across cultures and generations.
The president of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid will open the TMW 2018 Creative Impact conference at the Tallinn Creative Hub on 6th April.
The complete programme of the TMW 2018 conference and festival will be published during March.
More info about the confirmed speakers and Creative Impact conference
The core of the TMW jubilee festival taking place from 2nd to 8th April 2018 is music festival by nearly 250 artists from different genres from all over the world and the entrepreneurial conference focusing on the impact of creativity that includes cross-sector discussions on future skills, design thinking, future cities, gender equality and sustainable development next to music industry topics. The TMW city festival offers free city stage concerts, public discussions, a selection of the nicest eateries as TMW Tastes, a specially curated arts and youth programme, Design Market and various activities in the public space.
TMW is founded and run by Shiftworks, previously known as Musiccase. The new name of the company traces the collective actions of reinvention, turning creative, cultural and communication tools into effective soft power engine.
TMW 2018 is presented by Telia.
TMW 2018 is powered by Nordic Hotel Forum, Eesti Meedia, Enterprise Estonia and Telliskivi Creative City.
TMW 2018 partners are the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Luminor, Viru Keskus, Music Estonia, Solaris, Tallink, Taxify, Moe Vodka, La Muu. TMW 2018 is supported by Go Group, ERR, R2, Rada7, RGB, The Estonian Design Centre, Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center, Estonian Academy of Arts, Festivality, Kokomo, The Estonian Children’s Literature Centre, Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation, Cinema Sõprus, The Estonian Ministry of Culture, the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Tallinn City Enterprise Department, European Regional Development Fund, Tallinn Department of Culture, The European Commission, Ministry of the Environment, Interreg Europe.
TMW 2018 international partners are: Ebba Lindqvist PR, Chimes, Radio Helsinki, British Council, Embassy of Sweden in Tallinn, Finest Sounds , ETEP – European Talent Exchange Propgramme, Keychange.
TMW 2018 website is created by Velvet and Festivality, visual identity by AKU.
TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass is available for €250 until midnight 13th March at TMW web store. From Wednesday 14th March TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass will cost €295.
Conference + Festival Pass grants access to the TMW conference, music festival and delegates’ bars as well as to the database of registered participants.
The new music and urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place for the tent htime on 2-8 April, will once again include a special programme of contemporary arts curated by the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center (ECADC). The gallery evening with extended opening hours called Tallinn Tuesday presents exhibitions from Estonian and international artists, guided tours and musical performances. As part of the TMW Arts, the Estonian art future talents will be introduced and the public can vote their favourite.
TMW Arts kicks off on Tuesday, April 3rd at 5-9 pm with a gallery evening called Tallinn Tuesday that includes a special programme and extended opening hours. The participating galleries are Gallery Positiiv, Okapi Gallery, EKA Gallery, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, and Vaal Gallery. The programme includes a variety of exhibitions introducing new projects by both Estonian and international artists. There will be guided tours at the galleries throughout the evening; in addition, visitors can meet the gallerists and artists as well as enjoy musical performances.
Andres Teiss’ street photography exhibition ‘Being. Coming. Going’ is on view at Gallery Positiiv on Roo street. The artist, mainly know as a press photographer, describes his relationship with photography: “Pictures from different moments of life have been following me my whole conscious life. Maybe it is my way to cope with the surrounding chaos.” In addition to Teiss’ exhibition, visitors can also see and hear a sound installation by Taavi Tulev at the gallery on Tallinn Tuesday.
The joint exhibition by Anonymus Boh and Taje Tross, presented at the Okapi Gallery in Tallinn Old Town, shows large-scale photographic panoramas from the series ‘Multiverse Realities’. The works address the subcultures and communities that parallel the mainstream of our society, and the aims and behavioural patterns of which create a basis for completely new communities. On Tallinn Tuesday, there will be a performance at the gallery by Risto Puurunen, a member of the Finnish avant-garde pop group Cleaning Women.
The exhibition ‘Sticky Moment’ by Czech artists Anna Slamova and Marek Delong is open to visitors at the EKA Gallery near the Freedom Square. The works of the duo mainly address different emotional expressions and their acceptability in art. On Tallinn Tuesday, the exhibition will be introduced by EKA gallerist Keiu Krikmann.
The international group exhibition ‘Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation’, curated by Margot Samel, is on view at Temnikova & Kasela Gallery. The exhibition explores the language of cartoons in the context of contemporary art trends and trans-media identity policy. In addition to the Estonian stars Kris Lemsalu and Priit Pärn, the participating artists include Ella Kruglyanskaya from Latvia, Rhys Coren from the UK and Jonathan Ehrenberg, Emily Mae Smith and Ken Tisa from the United States. On Tallinn Tuesday, the exhibition will be introduced by Lilian Hiob from Temnikova & Kasela Gallery.
The roundup of Tallinn Tuesday is finalised at 9 pm at Vaal Gallery with a solo exhibition ‘Mercy’ by painter Mauri Gross. The artist describes the exhibition and its title: “The word mercy is so all-embracing that talking about it would take the force from it – the fig leaf falls from the loins and the remaining does not matter. Rather, the focus should be on fine-tuning, to support the inner monologue of the exhibition and to get a visual experience through minimalism and the overly narrative title.” On Tallinn Tuesday, the artist will be present at the gallery and there will be a guided tour of the exhibition.
All these exhibitions will remain open after Tallinn Tuesday and can be visited at the galleries’ regular opening hours during TMW week, from Wednesday, 4 April, to Sunday, 8 April.
An Estonian Art Future Talents competition will take place from 26 March to 6 April, and it invites everyone to get acquainted with young talented artists and choose their favourites on the contemporary art platform www.NOAR.eu.
TMW Arts programme is created in cooperation with the Estonian Contemporary Art Development Center.
The tenth edition of the new music and city culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), unveils the next batch of speakers for Creative Impact conference. The two-day conference, taking place on 6th and 7th April at Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel) will focus on the future of music, new economy, better cities, and design thinking. TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass is available for €250 until 12th March (from 13th March €295) at TMW web store.
Future skills, civic initiative, gender politics and sustainable development will be the commonly occurring keywords of TMW jubilee edition’s conference along with its four lead topics – the future of music, new economy, better cities and design thinking.
In a technology-centered world, soon we’ll only be as good as the skills we possess. Therefore it’s reassuring to hear from those who have a pretty good view on how we can expect the future developments to form. Kathryn Myronuk, a leading expert on exponentially growing technologies and one of the founding members of Singularity University at NASA Research Park, is to open the discussion on the future skills and learning. Kathryn Myronuk will appear at TMW in collaboration with Latvia’s Digital Freedom Festival.
How to stay competitive in an increasingly digitized world? Hyper Island’s Anna Hagensgård will introduce new ways of thinking and learning within Ideation and Concept Development workshop – a process for groups to work creatively and collaboratively to generate creative ideas.
Is humankind heading towards a bodyhacking augmentation and transhumanist future? Scott Cohen, the co-founder of Cyborg Nest will introduce North Sense – a little gadget about to prompt the evolution of human ability.
As the industry’s understanding of Big Data matures, we are entering the next data learning cycle. Recently the Data revolution has been implemented at the forefront of sustainable development in order to solve problems revolving around climate change, water security, poverty and gender equality. In collaboration with Estonian Roundtable for Development Cooperation, the TMW conference is aiming to clarify how to use Big Data in solving humanitarian and development problems.
Where’s the underground revival now and what’s the essence of significant nightlife? During the last few years, a number of phenomenal nightclubs and other central hubs have been shut down in metropolitan areas all over the world. A discussion about the future of club culture will be held between club reps from Georgia’s famous Bassiani techno club to Serbia’s DIY cultural space Drugstore Beograd.
But how to sustain development and make a change when you have nothing? Ruth Daniel, a cultural producer, activist and CEO of the multi-award winning organization In Place of War will tell us how to help the community and grassroots organizations in some of the most challenging contexts in the world – in places of conflict and areas of suffering.
How to stick to your guns in today’s music industry and maintain the ability to keep signing the next big band? Louder Than War’s John Robb will find it out in conversation with the co-owner of the iconic independent music group Rough Trade Jeanette Lee who has played in Public Image Limited and managed bands from The Cranberries to Pulp.
How to battle gender stereotypes and inequality within the music industry? It takes the high art-humour sensibility and wit of US-based Estonian producer, writer and environmental advocate Maria Minerva aka Maria Juur to tackle such burning topic.
In connection with the international Keychange Project which aims to empower women to transform the music industry, Berlin-based music software and hardware company Ableton will have its presence at Tallinn Creative Hub throughout the two-day conference. Ableton Playground will be hosted by electronic music producer and DJ Flore Morfin and feature product stations equipped with Live 10 and Push. Ableton’s Head of Documentation Dennis DeSantis and cyber-pop talent Chagall, a well known Ableton user will also talk about creative strategies for electronic music producers with Ableton Live.
The conference panels will also delve into what makes cities competitive, clear the status of the long-awaited copyright reform, and analyze the state of cryptocurrencies and new sources of revenue for the digital age. In addition to the creative industry analyses and solution-based practices, the conference also offers inspirational stories by creative minds across cultures and generations.
The president of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid will open the TMW 2018 Creative Impact conference at the Tallinn Creative Hub on 6th April.
The complete programme of the TMW 2018 conference and festival will be published during March.
More info about the confirmed speakers and Creative Impact conference.
Throughout the festival’s nine-year existence, the TMW conference has hosted numerous high-profile music industry experts and pop mavericks, including the founder of Sire Records Seymour Stein, influential managers Simon Napier-Bell and Peter Jenner; acclaimed music writer and cultural critic Simon Reynolds, musicians-turned authors like Viv Albertine of The Slits and Bob Stanley of St Etienne. Since 2016 the TMW conference has expanded from music industry topics towards a wider social agenda, featuring also speakers like the US-based entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi Ulukaya, gene researcher Lili Milani, MEP Julia Reda, artist and activist iO Tillett Wright and many other visionaries from different areas.
The core of the TMW jubilee festival taking place from 2nd to 8th April 2018 is music festival by nearly 250 artists from different genres from all over the world and the entrepreneurial conference focusing on the impact of creativity that includes cross-sector discussions on future skills, design thinking, future cities, gender equality and sustainable development next to music industry topics. The TMW city festival offers free city stage concerts, public discussions, a selection of the nicest eateries as TMW Tastes, a specially curated arts programme, Design Market and various activities in the public space.
The new music and city festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place for the tenth time from 2nd to 8th April has announced new additions of this year’s music programme, including Estonia’s premier indie rock band Ewert and the Two Dragons presenting their upcoming release, acclaimed jazz musicians Maria Faust and Kira Skov and Kristjan Järvi’s international supergroup Absolute Club.
TMW 2018 festival pass at €60 (from 21st February €70) and the combined festival and conference pass at €250 are on sale at the TMW web-store. Single tickets are available at Piletilevi.
The anniversary programme of TMW focuses on a two-day entrepreneurship conference in Tallinn Creative Hub and the music festival with 250 artists from all over the world performing in about 20 clubs and venues from 5th to 7th April. Today TMW has announced 20 new acts from 8 countries.
Producer and conductor Kristjan Järvi’s Absolute Club will open the TMW2018 music programme on 5th April at the Russian Cultural Centre. In celebration of Estonia 100, the opening concert by Sunbeam Productions will take the audience into the club sounds from many different eras – from Birdland to Studio 54 and Palladium in London, from the Roaring Twenties’ jazz to today’s ambient, house and hip-hop. Combining new original music by the New York based Absolute Ensemble, Kristjan Järvi, experimental pianist Francesco Tristano, guitarist Gene Pritsker, and Estonia’s DJ and producer Sander Mölder, acclaimed jazz vocalist Kadri Voorand, and electroacoustic musician Mick Pedaja will create the musical “Wonder Land” – a land of possibilities that overlooks all borders and barriers, creating a new environment for imagination.
Single tickets for the opening concert at 40-55€ are on sale from today at Piletilevi.
Access to the opening concert is granted for ticket holders as well as TMW Priority Pass holders and the combined Conference + Festival Pass holders. The simple festival pass doesn’t grant access to the opening concert.
On Saturday, 7th April Russian Cultural Centre will be taken over by Made in Baltics agency and Sony Music. The Estonian “esoteric rock” band Miljardid will perform from their latest album full of sublime art-pop hits that won three titles at the recent Estonian Music Awards, Ewert and The Two Dragons, the winner of TMW 2011 artist prize, will premiere pieces from the soon-to-be-released fourth full-length album and Rasmus Rändvee makes his first appearance as a solo artist just after releasing his new single in March. Inspired by the likes of Charlie XCX and Grimes, singer-songwriter Iiris will also perform her new blissed out take on electronic pop.
Jazz musicians Maria Faust and Kira Skov will perform their joint musical and multimedia endeavor entitled “In the Beginning”, based on their album with the same name at the Swedish church on Thursday, 5th April. The “post-religious” masterpiece has been nominated for music awards both in Estonia and Denmark.
The programme curated by the Berlin XJAZZ festival on 5th April on Philly Joe’s has added the Luxemburg group KLΞIИ – moving between melancholy and dark tones and featuring a piece called “Tallinn”, as well as a group of brightest young Estonian jazz musicians Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz to the line-up.
For the fourth time the Fenno-Ugrian association presents the music by Fenno-Ugric peoples at the TMW. The Black Hall of F-Hoone will be the venue for one of Finland’s leading contemporary accordionists Maria Kalaniemi and harmonium player Eero Grundström, both inspired by the lush nature of North Karelia. From Karelia comes the best-known folk ensemble of the region Sattuma, from Sweden the Estonian-Swedish duo Unejõgi that combines mythical runic songs with electronica. The North Sami rapper Ailu Valle and South Estonian singer songwriter Mari Kalkun will engage in a rare and extremist musical dialogue.
The showcase of Intsikurmu and Telia on 6th April at the Green Hall of Telliskivi has added the melodic and powerful “dogmarock” trio Nelson Can from Denmark into their line-up.
The two-day art pop showcase CryptoMarket at Kuku Club has added two artists from Slovenia. On Friday, 6th April the young and fierce underground band from Ljubljana Lynch will join the line-up with a set full of poise and power. Saturday, 7th April will see a self-proclaimed Slavic gangsta-geisha pop artist КУКЛА enter the stage of CryptoMarket, channeling both Milošević-era Serbian female singers and R&B goddesses of the Bush-era America.
New artists added to TMW 2018 line-up:
Absolute Club (US/EE)
Ailu Valle & Mari Kalkun (FI)
Ewert and the Two Dragons (EE)
Folktrio AR-GOD (EE)
Fransesco Tristano (LU)
Iiris (EE)
Kadri Voorand (EE)
Kira Skov / Maria Faust – In the Beginning (DK/EE)
KLΞIИ. (LU)
Kristjan Järvi (EE)
Lauri Kadalipp Social Jazz (EE)
Lynch (SI)
Maria Kalaniemi & Eero Grundström (FI)
Miljardid (EE)
Nelson Can (DK)
Rasmus Rändvee (EE)
Sander Mölder (EE)
Sattuma (RU)
Unejõgi (SE)
КУКЛА (SI)
All artists of TMW music programme confirmed as of 20 Feb 2018
TMW 2018 music festival takes place from 5th to 7th April. The remaining artists of the music festival along with the venues, special events and free City Stage concerts will be announced during February and March. The complete programme of TMW 2018 and the application of My TMW will be published online during February and March.
The core of the TMW jubilee festival taking place from 2nd to 8th April 2018 is music festival by nearly 250 artists from different genres from all over the world and the entrepreneurial conference focusing on the impact of creativity that includes cross-sector discussions on future skills, design thinking, future cities, gender equality and sustainable development next to music industry topics. The TMW city festival offers free city stage concerts, public discussions TMW Talks, a selection of the nicest eateries as TMW Tastes, a specially curated arts programme, Design Market and various activities in the public space.
TMW 2018 is presented by Telia. TMW 2018 partners are the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Enterprise and Nordic Hotel Forum. Festival’s website is created by Velvet and Festivality, visual identity by AKU.
TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass for €250, Festival Pass for €60 (from 21st February €70) and Priority Pass for €150 are available in the web store.
TMW single tickets for €10-20 are available at Piletilevi.
Single tickets for the opening concert at 40-55€ are on sale from today at Piletilevi.
Conference + Festival Pass gives access to the music festival, TMW conference and delegates’ bars as well as to the database of registered participants. Festival Pass grants access to all concerts and includes special offers to other festival parts. Priority Pass grants priority access to all TMW music festival events, including the opening concert and to the delegates’ bars as well as personalised programme recommendations.
All TMW 2018 passes offer discounts in the TMW Tastes participating restaurants and special offers of other festival parts. Clients of Telia receive additional benefits.
The new music and city festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place for the tenth time from 2nd to 8th April has announced a new batch of this year’s line-up. TMW 2018 festival pass at €60 (from 21st February €70) and the combined festival and conference pass at €250 are on sale at the TMW web-store. Single tickets are available at Piletilevi.
The anniversary programme of TMW focuses on a two-day entrepreneurship conference in Tallinn Creative Hub and the music festival with 250 artists from all over the world performing in about 20 clubs and venues from 5th to 7th April. Today TMW has announced 49 new acts from 11 countries.
Live Nations Baltic has added the internationally acclaimed Austrian duo Cari Cari, the Estonian heritage rock band Põhja Konn and the rawk’n’rowl gang Dead Furies to the line-up of the music festival’s opening night at Von Krahl on 5th April. The German XJAZZ Festival hosts the electro-acoustic trio Karja/Ruben/Kuusik and the “Young Jazz Talent”-awarded Janno Trump with his ten-piece groove orchestra Trump Connection from Estonia, the trailblazer of the 21st century Polish jazz movement, Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet and the melancholic electro-pop duo Ätna from Germany in the jazz club Philly Joe’s. The Made In Canada night at Sinilind has added the new school rap and dark R&B duo Samurai Champs to its line-up.
TMW showcases will take over more than a dozen venues all over Tallinn on Friday the 6th April. The Weekend Festival Night at Club Hollywood presents the Finnish DJ JS16, the producer of the millennium hit “Freestyler” by Bomfunk MC’s, as well as Arop, the author and the performer of phenomenal “Kiki Miki”, the Best Song of Estonia 2017. The Üle Heli festival showcase in the Black Hall of Telliskivi has added the ruler of the Finnish electronic music scene Kaukolampi as well as the Estonian audiovisual experimental units V4R1 and Ulmer & Wondering 0 to the night’s lineup.
The new additions to Telia and Intsikurmu Stage at the Telliskivi Green Hall include Estonian funk and soul super-group Gram-of-Fun and the jazz-to-futurist-pop act State of Zoe. The drum and bass night at Sinilind has added Lithuanian dnb veteran DJ Intakx. Estonian Funk Embassy hosts the forebears of underground Estonian jazz-funk Estrada Orchestra and the retro-hop combo Doktor Normal at Erinevate Tubade Klubi in Telliskivi.
On Saturday, 7th April TMW will spread from Telliskivi quarter to the main square of Tallinn, Vabaduse Väljak. Eesti Kontsert presents a unique programme “Seven tears” of music composed in the 16th century England and 21st century Estonia at the St. Nicholas’ Church. The Belgian ensembles Haftcraft and Astria Oboe Trio will perform “Lachrimae or Seven Teares” by John Dowland and the new composition by Tõnu Kõrvits, illustrated by a video installation by Mark Raidpere, created specially for the event.
The popular Sveta Bar of Telliskivi will host the warm up party of the Station Narva festival that will kick off in the Estonian border city of Narva in September 2018, presented together with the legendary alternative Art Club RoRo club from Narva. The most popular Narva acts – rock band AveNova and rapper Propazha – will be joined, among others, by the heroes of Estonian melancholic rock Sõpruse Puiestee from Tallinn and the punk disco gang Wet Red from Moscow.
Telliskivi Green Hall will play host to a showcase introducing the upcoming summer festival Sume, presented by Telia. Among others, those taking to the stage include Dallas Kalevala, the new „sub-arctic pop music“ project by the members of Finnish alt-rock band Lapko, Icelandic horror-rapper Fever Dream, master of minor key instrumentals Mauno Meesit, the singer-songwriter Mick Pedaja et al.
In addition to those previously announced, Latvian Positivus Festival and I Love You Records Night at Kino Sõprus features Swedish psychedelic pop-goth band The Hanged Man and alt-rock trio Sibyl Vane, the finalists of Eesti Laul, the Estonian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The ranks of artpop showcase CryptoMarket, taking place in KuKu Art Club, were bolstered by the addition of Kate NV, also known as the front-girl of Russian post-punk band ГШ /Glintshake, mining the far corners of J-pop, bubble gum, and blissed-out electronica. The World Clinic night at Kivi Paber Käärid bar will host the new eponymous band of PK Keränen, founding member and singer of Finnish indie icons 22-Pistepirkko, and the Russian Theatre Night is one step closer to being complete with the addition of the theatric dream pop of Latvian Elizabete Balčuse.
In addition to the aforementioned events and promoters, those contributing to TMW’s extensive musical programme include dark music festival Beats From The Vault, Blues Estonia agency, the Estonian Choral Association, Fenno-Ugria, and Damn.Loud agency in collaboration with Finnish metal festival Tuska. For the first time, the festival includes juke and footwork showcase Booty Powder, and as per tradition, the line-up features an impressive selection of hip-hop and d’n’b artists.
Artists added to TMW 2018 line-up:
[EX] DA BASS (LV), Afro Tallinn Beat Orchestra (EE), Anton Sevidov (RU), Arop (EE), Astria Oboe Trio and HaftCraft Ensemble (BE), Ätna (DE), Avenova (EE), Avoid Dave (EE), Cari Cari (AT), Dallas Kalevala (FI), Dead Furies (EE), Doktor Normal (EE), ELIZABETE BALČUS (LV), Estrada Orchestra (EE), Gram of Fun (EE), Intakx (LT), JS16 (FI), Junk Riot (EE), Jüri Pootsmann (EE), Kate NV (RU), Kaukolampi (FI), Kermo Hert (EE), Laura Põldvere (EE), Lexsoul Dancemachine (EE), Maian (EE), Marianna Liik (EE), Mauno Meesit (EE), Mees Inc. (EE), Metsakutsu (EE), Mick Pedaja (EE), PK Keränen (FI), Põhja Konn (EE), Propazha (EE), Púr Múdd (EE), Rämmar DJ’s (EE), Reket (EE), Samurai Champs (CA), Sibyl Vane (EE), Sõpruse Puiestee (EE), State of Zoe (EE), The Hanged Man (SE), The Second Level (FI), Trio Karja/Ruben/Kuusik (EE), Trump Conception (EE), Ulmer & Wondering 0 (EE), V4R1 (EE), Wet Red (RU), Wojtek Mazulewski Quintet (PL), Wooden Whales (RU)
All artists of TMW music programme confirmed as of 13 Feb 2018
TMW 2018 music festival takes place from 5th to 7th April. The remaining artists of the music festival along with the venues, special events and free City Stage concerts will be announced during February. The complete programme of TMW 2018 and the application of My TMW will be published online during February and March.
The core of the TMW jubilee festival taking place from 2nd to 8th April 2018 is music festival by nearly 250 artists from different genres from all over the world and the entrepreneurial conference focusing on the impact of creativity that includes cross-sector discussions on future skills, design thinking, future cities, gender equality and sustainable development next to music industry topics. The TMW city festival offers free city stage concerts, public discussions TMW Talks, a selection of the nicest eateries as TMW Tastes, a specially curated arts programme, Design Market and various activities in the public space.
TMW 2018 is presented by Telia. TMW 2018 partners are the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Enterprise and Nordic Hotel Forum. Festival’s website is created by Velvet and Festivality, visual identity by AKU.
TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass for €250, Festival Pass for €60 (from 21st February €70) and Priority Pass for €150 are available in the web store.
TMW single tickets for €10-20 are available at Piletilevi.
Conference + Festival Pass gives access to the mu sic festival, TMW conference and delegates’ bars as well as to the database of registered participants.
Festival Pass grants access to all concerts and includes special offers to other festival parts.
Priority Pass grants priority access to all TMW music festival events, including the opening concert and to the delegates’ bars as well as personalised programme recommendations.
All TMW 2018 passes offer discounts in the TMW Tastes participating restaurants and special offers of other festival parts. Clients of Telia receive additional benefits.
The tenth edition of the new music and city culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place from 2nd to 8th April in Tallinn, Estonia has announced a new batch of this year’s line-up. The TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass for €250 and Festival Pass for €60€ (from 13th February €70) are on sale at TMW web-store. Single concert tickets on sale at Piletilevi.
The core of the weeklong TMW anniversary festival is the Creative Impact conference at Tallinn Creative Hub and music showcases across multiple venues in the city on three nights from 5th to 7th April by 250 artists from all around the world. 100 new artists from 22 countries have been announced today.
As part of the European Keychange project two tough female Icelandic artists are joining the programme: Fever Dream and Hildur. Femme-powered horror rapper Fever Dream, inspired by both Peaches and Tyler, the Creator, challenges patriarchy and calls herself “the champagne of Iceland”. Hildur, a multi-faceted rising pop star with a promising solo career that is spiked with an Icelandic Music Award for Pop Song of the Year 2017, is just as passionate in her fight for equal rights. Akua Naru, a rapper whose music career started in the Pentecostal congregation in Connecticut, has gained attention with her ability to integrate historical narratives into her music with unmatched eloquence and criticism of gender and race stereotypes. The Saint Petersburg duo tema kresta preaches a unique “socialism of the scriptures” avoiding capital letters as their existence itself supposes division by significance. From Moscow comes the unpredictable female trio Mirrored Lips, a fascinating crossover of poetry, free jazz and hardcore punk.
Högni from Iceland, known as a member of GusGus and Hjaltalin will present his new solo album “Two Trains”, embracing the spirit of the original European avant-garde. Whilst his compatriot, a d’n’b and ambient producer Subminimal dives into deep groove and dark sub-base, then Belgium’s finest indie rock band Intergalactic Lovers plays with the formulas of classic postpunk.
One of the favourites of the world’s jazz stages, Israeli duo Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat demonstrate virtuous cello and vocal abilities, the Belarus group Shuma a symbiosis of electronic music and pagan songs, and the Danish death metal monster BAEST a raging sound of the ‘buzzsaw’ guitar and windmill headbanging skills.
Maria Minerva, a producer, writer and environmental advocate will arrive in her native Estonia from the US with her ever-evolving concepts and sounds. Maria was named one of the seminal Los Angeles artists by The Guardian in 2017. Among the Estonian additions to the programme is the post-genre maverick Mart Avi, the favourite of TMW’s international delegates last year, as well as Regret – now based in the UK at hacking the drag, pop and punk culture and the popular folk band Curly Strings. From the very lively Estonian hip-hop scene the rapper Seaduskuulekus and producer Shromik will present their solo projects. Also among the Estonian artists: Girls In Pearls – a synthpop group and semi-finalist of the Estonian national selection for Eurovision, the soulpop band Rake, the folk act Duo Malva & Priks with their thick and electronically seasoned tunes, the internationally acclaimed Children’s Choir Ellerhein and many others.
TMW 2018 is curated by a wide range of collaborators, including some new showcases and venues. The dark music festival Beats From The Vault displays the selection of artists from industrial to drone, Berlin XJAZZ Festival presents their line-up of Estonian and international jazz artists, Blues Estonia agency offers an assortment of blues and rock combos, Estonian Choral Association a lineup of our finest choirs. Sveta bar is the venue for juke and footwork showcase Booty Powder whilst the legendary KuKu Art Club hosts the two-day art pop spectacle CryptoMarket.
The traditional TMW co-organizers on board are Raadio 2, Viljandi Folk, Üle Heli Festival, Manka Boutique Pop Festival, World Clinic, Intsikurmu Festival, Weekend Festival, Live Nation Baltics, Estonian Funk Embassy, Russian Theatre, Fenno-Ugria, Damn.Loud Agency in cooperation with the Finnish Tuska festival as well as the Latvian Positivus festival with I Love You Records label. Also in the line-up will be hip-hop and d’n’b stages and two of the festival’s showcases will be presented by Telia.
TMW 2018 new artists:
1teist/2EXXXA (EE), Akua Naru (DE), Alaska Dreamers (LV), Alluri (IN), Aslamin (BY), Autism (LT), BAEST (DK), Bakey x Kakora (BY), Blackberries (DE), Booty Powder DJs (EE), Bucharest (IL), Colors of Today (EE), Crash Test Money (EE), Curly Strings (EE), Dead Janitor (SK), Deceitome (EE), DJ 4-got-10 (EE), Duo Malva & Priks (EE), DZEAHEL (BY), Elysian (EE), Fever Dream (IS), Firejosé (EE), Forrò Mior (PT), Fractale (IT), Frankie Animal (EE), Girls in Pearls (EE), Helsinki-Cotonou Ensemble (FI), Hilbert’s Problems (EE), Hildur (IS), Hommage (EE), Högni (SE), Inner (FI), Intergalactic Lovers (BE), James Wolfgang Rassakas (EE), Jasperino (EE), Jazzamboka (CA), Kadajane (EE), Kammerkoor HELÜ (EE), Kapela Maliszów (PL), Kolchak (RU), Kurara (RU), Lastekoor Ellerhein (EE), Laura Annika Quartet (FI), Lepatriinu (EE), Little Destroyer (CA), Lootus (EE), Maïa Vidal (ES), Maija Kauhanen (FI), Majestim (EE), MANKY (DK), Maria Minerva (US), Mart Avi (EE), Mathias Landaeus FROM THE PIANO (SE), Maya Belsitzman & Matan Ephrat (IL), Meriheini Luoto (FI). Mirrored Lips (RU), Modest Intentions (EE), Monetochka (RU), MostBand (EE), myspace01 (EE), Nebo-Zemlya (EE), NEØV (FI), Omertà (LV), Petlia Pristrastiya (BY), Pieneņu Vīns (LV), Podruga (LV), Polifauna (LV), Poly Sone (FI), Port Mone (BY), Rainer Ild (EE), Rake (EE), Rando Arand (EE), Regret (UK), Restless (EE), Rick Feds (LV), Rotten Sperm (EE), Ruckus (EE), Seaduskuulekus (EE), Show Me a Dinosaur (RU), Shromik (EE), Shuma (BY), Sociasylum (EE), Solo Ansamblis (LT), Söndörgő (HU), Spasibo (RU), Steps to Synapse (EE), Subminimal (IS), Surf Philosophies (SE), Svjata Vatra (EE), Tallinna Muusikakeskkooli noortekoor (EE), tema kresta (RU), Tesa (LV), The Gentleman Losers (FI), The Kitchen Brothers (EE), The Queen of Spades (EE), TMF (EE), Treeeye (LV), Tronden (EE), We Stole the Show (US), Yohan (EE)
See the artist pages of TMW 2018 confirmed artists here
TMW 2018 YouTube playlist
TMW 2018 Spotify playlist
TMW 2018 music festival takes place from 5th to 7th April. The remaining artists of the music festival along with the venues, special events and free City Stage concerts will be announced during February. The complete programme of TMW 2018 and the application of My TMW will be published online during February and March.
The core of the TMW jubilee festival taking place from 2nd to 8th April 2018 will be music festival by nearly 250 artists from different genres from all over the world and the entrepreneurial conference focusing on the impact of creativity that includes cross-sector discussions on future skills, design thinking, future cities, gender equality and sustainable development next to music industry topics.
The TMW city festival offers free city stage concerts, public discussions TMW Talks, a selection of the nicest eateries as TMW Tastes, a specially curated arts programme, Design Market and various activities in the public space.
TMW 2018 is presented by Telia. TMW 2018 partners are the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Enterprise and Nordic Hotel Forum. Festival’s website is created by Velvet and Festivality, visual identity by AKU.
TMW 2018 Conference + Festival Pass for €250, Festival Pass for €60 (from 13th February €70) and Priority Pass for €150 are available in the web store.
Conference + Festival Pass gives access to the music festival, TMW conference and delegates’ bars as well as to the database of registered participants.
TMW single tickets for €10-20 are available at Piletilevi.
Festival Pass grants access to all concerts and includes special offers to other festival parts.
Priority Pass grants priority access to all TMW music festival events, including the opening concert and to the delegates’ bars as well as personalised programme recommendations.
All TMW 2018 passes offer discounts in the TMW Tastes participating restaurants and special offers of other festival parts. Clients of Telia receive additional benefits*.
*Clients of Telia can buy up to 2 TMW Priority Passes with a special discount code, up to 2 festival passes and up to 2 joint passes of the conference and festival. Telia clients can also buy discounted single tickets. The 20% discount applies to pre-bought tickets.
Additional info here.
The tenth edition of the new music and city culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), unveils the first speakers along the core agenda of its Creative Impact conference. The two-day conference, taking place on 6th and 7th April at Tallinn Creative Hub (Kultuurikatel) will focus on the future of music, new economy, better cities, and design thinking. TMW 2018 is presented by Telia.
TMW 2018 Creative Impact conference will be opened on 6th April by the President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid
TMW 2018 Festival + Conference Pass is available for €175 until 1st February (included).
The previously mainly music-focused TMW conference has looked in depth into the added value of creativity, as a result of which the festival has framed four lead topics for the jubilee edition’s conference, namely the future of music, new economy, better cities, and design thinking. Civic initiative, gender politics, future skills and sustainable development will also be the commonly occuring keywords.
The digitalisation-based new economy has thrown us into global competition, which simply calls for design thinking. Under the leadership of Jane Oblikas, the former CEO of the Estonian Design Centre, TMW has assembled a special design thinking block, featuring both inspiring speakers as well as practices like designing the future vision of Estonia’s easternmost city Narva. Among others, the muscle of design thinking will be trained by Arne van Oosterom, the founder of the DesignThinkers Academy, the internationally acclaimed creative business school Hyper Island, and nudging expert Sille Krukow.
As for the future of cities, the conference will delve into what makes cities competitive and how to measure the quality of public spaces. Among others, speakers on this topic include Elka Gotfryd of non-profit organisation Project for Public Spaces, who has been active in Jerusalem and New York in the fields of placemaking and community planning, and urbanist Teele Pehk, CEO of the Estonian Cooperation Assembly.
A city’s breadth of its arts and nightlife scenes can often be the factors that make urban life exciting and enjoyable. The founder of the non-profit initiative Creative Footprint Lutz Leichsenring along Amsterdam’s first nachtburgemeester – or night mayor – Mirik Milan will speak up against gentrification. The topic will be suitably introduced by Sound Diplomacy’s presentation of the “A Guide to Managing Your Night Time Economy” that will see the light of day during the TMW conference.
Estonia might be the first country to offer cryptocurrency as a way to reward its e-residents. Talking about the possibility of Estcoin and its future plans will be Kaspar Korjus, the managing director of the e-Residency program who leads the Forbes “30 Under 30“ list in the field of Technology and Finance.
As part of the international Keychange Project which aims to empower women to transform the music industry, 60 female musicians and creative industry professionals gather to participate in the special Creative Lab, which runs alongside the conference. The programme is supervised by business management mentor MBE Remi Harris and consultancy specialist Tamara Gal-On.
Music-based panels will also clear the status of the long-awaited copyright reform and the future of the European music industry, analyze new sources of revenue for the digital age and map out emerging markets in Asia and the former socialist states.
In addition to the creative industry analyses and solution-based practices, the conference also offers inspirational stories by creative minds across cultures and generations.
The president of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid will open the TMW 2018 Creative Impact conference at the Talinn Creative Hub on 6th April.
The complete programme of the TMW 2018 conference and festival will be published gradually during February and March.
More info about the confirmed speakers and Creative Impact conference
Throughout the festival’s nine-year existence, the TMW conference has hosted numerous high-profile music industry experts and pop mavericks, including the founder of Sire Records Seymour Stein, influential managers Simon Napier-Bell and Peter Jenner; acclaimed music writer and cultural critic Simon Reynolds, musicians-turned authors Viv Albertine of The Slits, John Robb of The Membranes, and Bob Stanley of St Etienne. Since 2016 the TMW conference has expanded from music industry topics towards a wider social agenda, featurings also speakers like the US-based entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi Ulukaya, gene researcher Lili Milani, MEP Julia Reda, a business angel from Silicon Valley Fadi Bishara, artist and activist iO Tillett Wright and many other visionaries from different areas.
The core of the TMW jubilee festival taking place from 2nd to 8th April 2018 is music festival by nearly 250 international artists from different genres and the entrepreneurial conference Creative Impact. The TMW city festival offers free city stage concerts, public discussions TMW Talks, a selection of the nicest eateries as TMW Tastes, a specially curated arts programme, Design Market and various activities in the public space.
TMW 2018 is presented by Telia. TMW 2018 partners are the Estonian Ministry of Culture, Estonian Enterprise and Nordic Hotel Forum.
TMW 2018 Festival + Conference Pass is available for €175€ until 1st February (from 2nd February €250) in the web store.
Conference + Festival Pass gives access to the music festival, TMW conference and delegates’ bars as well as to the database of registered participants.
Festival Pass for €60 (from 11th February €70) and Priority Pass for €150 are also available in the web store.
Festival Pass grants access to all concerts and includes special offers to other festival parts.
Priority Pass grants priority access to all TMW music festival events, including the opening concert and to the delegates’ bars as well as personalised programme recommendations.