Tallinn Music Week, which took place last week, hosted 276 artists from 32 countries. Until the midnight of April 5th, you can choose your favourite from the TMW website or in the app. The winner of the title will receive 1000€ from Telia to develop their musical career further. Bose Soundlink Mini II portable Bluetooth speakers will be awarded to one of the voters.

Choosing your favourite can be done at the TMW website or in the TMW app*. There are nearly 250 artists in the programme and you can choose any of them.

To vote in the web: log in to myTMW, go to artists and choose a rating from 5-stars for any artist you like to vote for.

To vote in the app: 5-star rating is under each artist profile. When you vote in the app, to register to win cool Bose speakers as a voter, please log in with myTMW or simply fill your profile in the app Settings.

You can rate as many artists as you wish, both in the web or the app.

The voting lasts from March 27th to the midnight of April 5th. The winners, both the artists and the voter, will be announced a week after the festival at TMW and Telia Facebook pages. In previous years, the winners have been Estonian rapper Metsakutsu and Lithuanian indie rock bands BA and Garbanotas Bosistas.

*Get the free TMW2017 app for Apple iOS or Android phones or search for “Tallinn Music Week” or “TMW 2017” at the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week, happening now in venues across town will host one of the most renowned Estonian composers Erkki-Sven Tüür for a discussion about his new album „Peregrinus Ecstaticus“, taking place on Saturday, April 1st in Mustpeade Maja Fraternity Hall at 5 pm at Klassikaraadio Contemporary Music Stage feat. C3 Festival showcase.

Released by the record label Ondine, the album’s conception and contents will be discussed by Erkki-Sven Tüür and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s first clarinet Christoffer Sundqvist. The conversation is moderated by composer Liisa Hirsch, who received the Heino Eller Music Prize in March for the outstanding quality and success of her compositions from previous years.

The new album features a clarinet concerto, commissioned by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, called “Peregrinus Ecstaticus” (“Ecstatic Pilgrim”), which premiered in 2013 at Helsinki’s Musiikkitalos. The piece also features a piano virtuoso Christoffer Sundqvist, who has inspired many contemporary composers with his playing. Sundqvist has said that he likes the strength and expressiveness of Tüür’s music.

In addition to “Peregrinus Ecstaticus”, the album also contains an orchestral piece called “Le poids des vies non vécues” (“The weight of unfulfilled lives”), which is dedicated to the people who died in the War of Independence and the First World War. The piece was commissioned by the Belgian National Orchestra to commemorate the passing of 100 years from the biggest carnage in the human history. Pieces were commissioned from all European countries that were affected by the war’s events.

The album’s swansong is a double concerto for violin and clarinet called “Noesis”, which features Christoffer Sundqvist and distinguished Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Hannu Lintu, who has been working as the orchestra’s main conductor since the 2013/2014 season. It is also his first concert as the main conductor of Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

The discussion about composer Erkki-Sven Tüür’s new album takes place on Saturday, April 1st in Mustpeade Maja Fraternity Hall at 5 pm at Klassikaraadio Contemporary Music Stage feat. C3 Festival showcase.

President Kersti Kaljulaid called the Tallinn Music Week (TMW) conference Creative Impact to set the bar high for the society. The conference on two days in two locations will address topics of the music industry and beyond. The festival programme is under way all around Tallinn.

President Kaljulaid said: “The TMW is a good test polygon of the new society. Here you can think away all contradictions and make room for all different opinions! Think about how to use technology to overcome contradictions and if that is not an option, then how to talk yourselves and your conversation partners through the contradictions so that finally they will simply dissolve. Show us what a resourceful spirit and flexible mind can achieve! Show us also what a real campaign of the ideas to the benefit of our city, our Tallinn, idealistically could be! Raise the bar high, and then it will be good to see in autumn whether the traditional form of debate – local government elections – can jump that bar! Give us a strong benchmark!”

She pointed out that the musical approach of TMW to cross borders and fences and even deny that they exist extends to its approach to the society as well.

Helen Sildna, the founder and head of TMW, set focus on the new venue of the conference in the Russian Cultural Centre: “The location carries a beautiful symbol for us. Creative Impact can bring together all communities, nationalities and ways of thinking. And this in fact is the core of our discussions here today.”

Among the TMW Creative Impact conference speakers are Minister of Culture Indrek Saar, London’s Night Czar Amy Lamé, the acclaimed music critic Simon Reynolds, an award-winning mastering engineer Mandy Parnell, Barbara Gessler from the European Commission, Estonia’s CIO Siim Sikkut, Head of Nordea Estonia Gerd Müller and CEO of Telia Estonia Dan Strömberg, as well as an impressive list of innovative entrepreneurs and visionaries from different sectors and many continents. The panel moderators feature top international journalists from Kate Connolly (The Guardian), Damien McGuinness (BBC), Elisabeth Braw (Nonresident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council) to John Robb (Louder Than War).

The complete conference programme

Please use the handy My Schedule tool to navigate between the venues and topics.

The complete list of conference speakers

One-day conference passes are available at TMW web store.

One Day Conference Pass for 125 EUR grants access to all the conference panels in Russian Cultural Centre and Nordic Hotel Forum.

One Day Conference Pass does not apply to TMW music festival or other events.

TMW 2017 delegate passes grant access to the conference seminars and priority access to the music festival as well as the database of registered contacts.

TMW 2017 Priority Passes for €150are on sale at TMW web store.

Marko Mäetamm’s solo exhibition “I’m Only Streaming” will be open at Tallinn City Gallery from 31 March. The painter, who has mainly been inspired by family life over the past decade, is now turning his attention to the wars, catastrophes and other emergencies raging around the world and the willing and unwilling powerlessness of normal people in regard to these subjects. The exhibition will open on Thursday 30 March at 6 pm and remain open until 30 April.

“After my largest solo show to date – “Home and Away” at Kumu in the summer of 2015 – I suddenly felt like, after so many years, finally something was detaching me from the hook of telling these family stories. I felt like as I was digging a hole through the bedroom floor and through the cellar deeper and deeper into the ground, there were so many interesting things happening around the house I would have liked to have processed.” reveals Mäetamm concerning the basis for his thematic shift.

When Marko Mäetamm had his last exhibition at the City Gallery 12 years ago, he probably wouldn’t have dreamt that the subject that he started working with at that exhibition, of home and family life as a model for larger socio-political and economic mechanisms, would become the basis for his work for the entire following decade. Now Mäetamm is back at the City Gallery and this time with quite a new direction. At the exhibition we will see excerpts from a travel diary, large paintings, comics, sculptural objects and much more. The abundance of pictures is dizzying and reminiscent of the endless streams on social media.

Art Hall curator, Siim Preiman, finds the key to explaining the exhibition in the title, “At first, Mäetamm’s humorous tone can be misleading and make us think it is a light-hearted joke. I think it’s the opposite – the artist focuses on the social justice warriors within us all, who just stream, like and tweet, but who are incapable of actually taking part in solving global problems.”

You can also buy Marko Mäetamm’s book TALES OF MESSENGER at the exhibition.

Marko Mäetamm will also perform with the band Karamell during Tallinn Music Week. Catch them on Friday, 31 March in Kuku Klubi at 8 pm.

Find the event in the schedule

Tallinn Music Week (TMW) has revealed the most comprehensive conference programme yet with the title Creative Impact. The TMW conference, boasting an international line-up of 87 speakers, will take place on 31st March and 1st April in two venues – the traditional Nordic Hotel Forum conference centre and the Russian Cultural Centre within a short walking distance.

The president of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid will open the conference at the Russian Cultural Centre (RCC) on Friday, 31st March at 10 to be followed by two days of discussions at two venues.

Helen Sildna, founder of TMW: “We have created the whole festival for learning and meaningful exchange. The festival is our expression of an integrated world, where we see swift and seamless connection points between arts, economy, innovation, openness, sustainability and creativity. A holistic vision of a society, where different disciplines learn from each other and add value. I believe this conference programme is really the best we have done so far. All topics we discuss are created in hope of triggering inspiration, collaboration and out-of-the box ideas.”

Some of the greatest stories of TMW conference from the movers and shakers of music industry’s technical side will be shared by an award-winning mastering engineer Mandy Parnell, a woman behind some top musical releases from Björk to Aphex Twin. The acclaimed music critic Simon Reynolds presents his new book Shock and Awe, a history of glam rock and art pop, examining even the uncanny reflections of glam in current politics. In a discussion on “forbidden songs” Norwegian singer-storyteller and activist Moddi will share his story of banned songs from Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer to Kate Bush’s Army Dreamers. Ivan Novak, the leader of Slovenian conceptual group Laibach will talk about his band’s struggle to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before performing in totalitarian North Korea.

TMW is proud to present the inspiring brand case study of Moomins from Finland – in a year when Estonia’s Nordic neighbours celebrate their country’s 100th birthday, but also to take a look at Africa to show how arts can change lives of whole communities in the slums of Kenya.

The mega panel on Saturday morning will try to tie all the topics and endeavours  – technology, sustainability, creativity – together into a vision of a future society, where different disciplines complement each other and knowledge doesn’t disappear between industry silos.

Among the TMW Creative Impact conference speakers are Minister of Culture Indrek Saar, London’s Night Czar Amy Lamé, Barbara Gessler from the European Commission, Estonia’s CIO Siim Sikkut, Head of Nordea Estonia Gerd Müller and CEO of Telia Estonia Dan Strömberg, as well as an impressive list of innovative entrepreneurs and visionaries from different sectors and many continents. The panel moderators feature an impressive list of top international journalists from Kate Connolly (The Guardian), Damien McGuinness (BBC), Elisabeth Braw (Nonresident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council) to John Robb (Louder Than War).

The complete programme is now available on the TMW website

Please use the handy My Schedule tool to navigate between the venues and topics.

The complete list of conference speakers

From today 27th March there are also one-day conference passes available at TMW web store.

One Day Conference Pass for €125 grants access to all the conference panels in Russian Cultural Centre and Nordic Hotel Forum.
One Day Conference Pass does not apply to TMW music festival or other events.

TMW conference is organized in collaboration with Music Estonia.

TMW conference rooms are furnished by Norr11 and Elke Mööbel

TMW 2017 delegate passes are available for €295 at TMW web store. Sign up as a delegate and buy your pass. TMW delegate pass grants access to the conference seminars and priority access to the music festival as well as the database of registered contacts.

TMW 2017 festival passes for €60 are on sale at TMW web store.

TMW 2017 priority passes for €150are on sale at TMW web store.

This year’s edition of TMW from 27th March to 2nd April will present the music festival line-up and two-day industry conference, a series of free City Stage concerts, TMW Arts programme, curated by the Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre, Design Market showcasing the most exciting Baltic and Scandinavian brands and designs, TMW Talks series with topics from music to science and societal issues, City Space activities in cooperation with the interior designers of Estonian Academy of Arts and a kids and youth special programme for the first time.

The Talks series of the urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place next week, will present city makers, question the future of music genres, and check if we can make the world a better place via sensible eating habits. The free public talks will take place every afternoon from March 27th to April 1st at the TMW pop-up restaurant housed in the Architecture and Design Gallery and at Café Must Puudel.

How big is the ecological footprint of digital music? Are we teaching the people of tomorrow the world of yesterday? What should be done in urban design to encourage more human touch in business? Who killed music genres? Most events will be held in English.

TMW Talks kick off on Monday at 17 at the TMW pop-up with a discussion “The antiquities of Baltic rock”. Held in Russian and led by music critic Artemy Troitsky a pan-Baltic panel will look into why the Baltic music scene managed to retain a different character even under Soviet suppression of popular culture. At 18.30 Must Puudel Café hosts the discussion led by ESTCube on space exploration and technology via artistic utopias.

The menu of the surprising talk cocktails for the week also includes “Sex & Plants & Rock’n’Roll”. Being a rock star used to be associated with substance abuse, now artists are considered cool for being vegan – Iron Man rock star Tanel Padar will share his insights along with sports enthusiasts and anthropologists.

TMW’s Ingrid Kohtla will moderate a discussion on the future of music genres between renowned pop culture scholars: Simon Reynolds, the author of eight books about pop culture, music journalist Kieron Tyler, and Kevin Cole, Senior Director of Programming at KEXP.

Laibach’s Ivan Novak, the master of Art, Propaganda and Ideology still manages to thrive using shock and provocation. Novak and film producer Uldis Cekulis will speak about their experience regarding a mysterious chain of events that led them to become the first Western band to officially perform in totalitarian North-Korea.

London’s Night Czar Amy Lamé will roast Estonian politicians’ vision of city development. Finnish songwriter Astrid Swan opens up about how in spite of a cancer diagnosis she managed to continue her creative career.

The sustainability block includes talks on how to change the understanding that progress means more production and how to change the world by changing eating habits.

The TMW Talks are held from 27th March to 1st April in two venues: 17-18 at the TMW pop-up restaurant in Architecture and Design Gallery (Pärnu mnt 6) and 18:30-19:30 at Café Must Puudel (Müürivahe 29).

TMW Talks schedule:

Monday, 27th March:
17:00-18:00 The antiquities of Baltic rock – TMW pop-up (Pärnu maantee 6) (RU)
18:30-19:30 ESTCube presents: Expanding human presence in the Solar System: culture, beauty and sustainability (Müürivahe 20) (ENG)

Tuesday, 28th March
17:00-18:00 Cultural value and waste – TMW pop-up (Pärnu maantee 6) (EST)
18:30-19:30 Telia Talk: Sex & Plants & Rock’n’Roll – Must Puudel (Müürivahe 20) (EST)

Wednesday, 29th March
17:00-18:00 Media of the future/the future of media – TMW pop-up (Pärnu maantee 6) (EST)
18:30-19:30 Planet on the plate – Must Puudel (Müürivahe 20) (ENG)

Thursday, 30th March
17:00-18:00 Who killed genre? – TMW pop-up (Pärnu maantee 6) (ENG)
18:30-19:30 Urban innovators, unite! – Must Puudel (Müürivahe 20) (EST)

Friday, 31th March
17:00-18:00 New dogs, old tricks – TMW pop-up (Pärnu maantee 6) (ENG)
18:30-19:30 Tanz mit Laibach – Must Puudel (Müürivahe 20) (ENG)

Saturday, 1st April
15:30-16.30 Astrid Swan – From the Bed to the Stage – the story of courage and re-invention, rebirth of an artist – Must Puudel (Müürivahe 20) (ENG)
17:00-18:00 24 Hour Party People. Amy Lamé and Estonian politicians’ visions of city development. – TMW pop-up (Pärnu maantee 6) (ENG)
18:30-19:30 Festival –  to be or not to be? – Must Puudel (Müürivahe 20) (ENG)

Schedule and more information about TMW Talks

TMW 2017 festival passes for €60 are on sale at TMW web store.

TMW 2017 delegate passes are available for €295 at TMW web store. Sign up as a delegate and buy your pass. TMW delegate pass grants access to the conference seminars and priority access to the music festival as well as the database of registered contacts.

TMW 2017 Priority Passes are on sale at TMW web store.

Tallinn Music Week (TMW) taking place next week from 27th March to 2nd April features a joint event from a pair of forward-thinking folk groups – Estonian Trad.Attack! and Ukrainian Onuka – in the Russian Cultural Centre on Friday 31st March.

Estonian power-folk threesome Trad.Attack! has just released a video for their single “Säde” (“Spark”), a new track off their upcoming album “Kullakarva” (“Shimmer Gold”) set to be released on May 19th this year. The album promotion tour takes them all around Europe and beyond right after sharing their new bombastic songs with the home crowd.

The aptly named threesome comes alive where the new and old collide and spark, taking the hauntological blasts from the past – scratchy archive recordings of long vanished village singers –, splicing the traditional instruments with electronics and pulling it all right into the 21st century. The multiple winners of Estonian Music Awards and Estonian Ethno Music Awards have toured from Scandinavia to Malaysia, including a show at the prestigious Womad Festival in Chile, since their first ever public performance at TMW exactly three years ago. These days their performances are like massive pop shows with disco balls and high energy, proving that it’s possible to pair folk-based music with a modern stage production, visuals and choreography.

On Friday 31st March. Trad.Attack! will be joined by their kindred spirits from Ukraine in the live concert with an impressive modern stage production. Mixing wisdom of the past with glacial synth-pop and sleek looks, Onuka will provide the perfect counterbalance to turbocharged Trad.Attack!.

Founded in 2013, Onuka has won several national music awards from “Discovery of the year” to ELLE style award. They have performed at festivals over Europe, including Sziget in Budapest and Eurosonic in Holland. On stage the group expands to seven musicians and varied tools from antique flutes to traditional Hutsul trembita. Combined with through cutting-edge technology and forward-thinking fashion sense, Onuka is a sharp example of folk-gone-futuristic.

Trad.Attack! and Onuka will perform at the Russian Cultural Centre on Friday, March 31st. Doors open at 20.00, concert starts at 21.00.

Entry with TMW passes or single ticket.

Single tickets for the concert are on sale through Estonian Piletilevi.

TMW 2017 passes are on sale at TMW web store.

Find out more about Trad.Attack! and Onuka.

Trad.Attack! – Säde

Onuka – Vidlik

This year’s edition of TMW from 27th March to 2nd April will present the music festival line-up and two-day industry conference, a series of free City Stage concerts, TMW Arts programme, curated by the Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre, Design Market showcasing the most exciting Baltic and Scandinavian brands and designs, TMW Talks series with topics from music to science and societal issues, City Space activities in cooperation with Estonian Academy of Arts and a special kids and youth programme.

Tallinn Music Week (TMW), the urban culture festival taking place already next week from 27th March to 2nd April will greet the spring outdoors. In cooperation with students of interior architecture, the walk from Old Town to Telliskivi will be illuminated and some ancient Soviet era garages will get a new lease of life. The urban space projects kick off on Wednesday and the public spaces in the city will be filled with music, food and arts until Saturday night.

Starting on Thursday the pedestrian path from the railway station to Telliskivi will be transformed into a bustling festival space with light installations, music and street food. Sculptor Elo Liiv has coached students of the Academy of Arts to build light and sound installations that create the entry to imaginary spaces. The historical Telliskivi water tower will get an innovative internal lighting. The brick wall along the path will be turned into a 12-meter painting of light and many more attractions of light will meet the festivalgoers. Artist Emer Värk is creating installations for the train station tunnel to guide visitors to the biggest dance marathon of the weekend Balti Jaama Tunnel.

The post-industrial Depoo food street will breath in the rhythm of TMW from the vintage train coach restaurant Peatus to the gourmet Renard Coffee Shop. Konteiner Bar will host a DJ night of World Clinic record shop owner Aivar Meos on 29th March. Both Friday and Saturday will bring more music to Konteiner and Peatus with house DJ Dave Storm, Estonian Funk Embassy and Polish duo Coals. The Depoo food street connects Telliskivi festival area with the 30-hour rave party at the pavilion of the railway station and adjoining tunnel by offering great late night food from Vietnamese, pies, fish’n’chips to many kinds of street food.

 

As part of TMW city space initiative the Soviet era garages in Tallinn city at Maakri Street 30 will get a new lease of life. The joint “garage hack” of students of interior architecture, urbanism, architecture and product design will open a ball pit for kids, a Veg Machine food truck and a pop-up bar. NGO Mondo will present a photo exhibition “Media4Development” on sustainable development with studies of illegal gold mines in Ghana, the damages of an earthquake in Nepal, the tiger leap of Afghanistan and more. A greenhouse exhibition will showcase all weird things that have been collected in the garages over decades.

One of the more peculiar actions of TMW will be the mystery garage concert, to be leaked only 24 hours before. Uber will help to find it. On Sunday finally, the pop-up garage bar will offer comfort food for festival marathon survivors.

 

The TMW city space actions aim to raise awareness and draw attention to things happening in the city and encourage people to contribute creatively and responsibly to city development as our common space.

In cooperation with the accessibility forum, TMW is promoting access to festival venues for people with special needs. The venues will also have special smart garbage sorting containers designed by interior architects Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam. The TMW Talks and conference programme include discussions on topics from “culture rubbish” to smart city planning.

TMW city space programme

Wed. 29.03
20.00-03.00 DJ-night in Konteiner Bar

Thu. 30.03–Sat. 01.04
Light installations on the pedestrian pathway to Telliskivi (Reisijate Street)
Emer Värk’s video and light installations in the pedestrian tunnel at the train station

Fr. 31.03–Sat. 01.04
Depoo food street and music programme

Fr. 31.03 Depoo DJ-s
18.00–20.00 Romet Preismann
20.00-22.00 Alo-Indrek Võsu & Taavet Bristol
22.00–00.00 Dave Storm
until 02.00 night food: Ahjupala, Päästke Willy, Konteiner, Peatus

Sat. 01.04 Depoo City Stage
13:00–14:00 Estonian Funk Embassy DJ-s on the roof of Konteiner
14:00–14:30 COALS (PL) concert on the terrace of Peatus
14:30–19:00 Estonian Funk Embassy DJ-s on the roof of Konteiner
until 02.00 night food: Ahjupala, Päästke Willy, Konteiner Peatus

Sat. 1.04–Sun. 2.04
Maakri 30 Garage Hack „Social Hub“

TMW 2017 festival passes for €60 are on sale at TMW web store.

TMW 2017 delegate passes are available for €295 at TMW web store. Sign up as a delegate and buy your pass. TMW delegate pass grants access to the conference seminars and priority access to the music festival as well as the database of registered contacts.

TMW 2017 Priority Passes are on sale at TMW web store for €150.

This year’s edition of TMW from 27th March to 2nd April will present the music festival line-up and two-day industry conference, a series of free City Stage concerts, TMW Arts programme, curated by the Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre, Design Market showcasing the most exciting Baltic and Scandinavian brands and designs, TMW Talks series with topics from music to science and societal issues, City Space activities in cooperation with the interior designers of Estonian Academy of Arts and a kids and youth special programme for the first time.

Presenter of the new music and urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW) taking place from 27th March to 2nd April, Nordea bank and its culture portal 5* have composed their own festival recommendations. The selection includes more than 70 artists, a number of TMW Tastes restaurants, chosen events from arts, film, talks, urban space and kids’ programmes.

TMW has grown from the showcase festival nine years ago into the biggest regional urban culture festival that includes a comprehensive music programme as well as public talks, contemporary arts and food. The selection by Nordea and 5* helps to navigate the festival’s 10 programme parts and 250 artists by fitting the most notable events into a handy schedule during the whole week.

“In Nordea, we have promised our customers to support them by decision making and to give our best advice. We are pleased to be able to go beyond matters of finance, thanks to our cultural partners,” says Nordea Estonia head of marketing Mirjam Mikkin. “Nordea 5* encourages everyone to find at least one event of the programme to bring some fresh experiences into the spring.”

The heart of the festival will be the pop-up restaurant at the Design and Architecture Gallery where soul-food restaurant Ungru from the island Hiiumaa is cooking up some local delicacies. The pop-up along with Must Puudel Cafe will host public talks on topics from garbage sorting to space technology and art utopias. Some of the most notable food events are the trash-to-dinner charity dinners by top chef Peeter Pihel.

Tallinn Tuesday invites to check out some of the most exciting art galleries within the special programme curated by Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre. The film programme’s highlight is the musical documentary “Liberation Day”, featuring the Slovenian industrial rock group Laibach in North Korea, followed by meeting with the film’s makers and main characters.

 

The City Stage programme includes yet another selection of new venues like the second-hand shop where gymnasium students are setting up their own TMW edition. The festival also involves young kids and several urban space initiatives.

The three-day music festival programme includes genres from folk to electronica, from indie to metal. Among the international brand names are C Duncan, Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten with Danielle de Picciotto, techno producer Pearson Sound and conductor Kristjan Järvi with a new contemporary classics project.

Nordea & 5* selection can be found at TMW website. All programme recommendations are marked by a blue star and clicking “view by sessions” reveals the selected artists and their events in the schedule. Find out more about the selected artists by following the blue star.

TMW 2017 festival passes for 60€ are on sale at TMW web store.

TMW 2017 delegate passes are available for 295€ at TMW web store. Sign up as a delegate and buy your pass. TMW delegate pass grants access to the conference seminars and priority access to the music festival as well as the database of registered contacts.

This year’s edition of TMW from 27th March to 2nd April will present the music festival line-up and two-day industry conference, a series of free City Stage concerts, TMW Arts programme, curated by the Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre, Design Market showcasing the most exciting Baltic and Scandinavian brands and designs, TMW Talks series with topics from music to science and societal issues, City Space activities in cooperation with the interior designers of Estonian Academy of Arts and a kids and youth special programme for the first time.

TMW 2017 is presented by Nordea bank, the sponsors are Telia and Spotify, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Enterprise Estonia, Eesti Meedia and Nordic Hotel Forum. Partners and supporters of TMW are Uber, Viru Keskus, Telliskivi Creative City, Solaris, Music Estonia, Tuborg, LaMuu, Fritz Kola, Tallinn City government. Tallinn Music Week’s international activities introducing Tallinn and Estonia as an attractive tourism destination of music and culture are supported by The European Regional Development Fund.

The urban culture festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW), taking place from 27th March to 2nd April includes a film programme of five documentaries on cult, propaganda, pop culture as well as the horrific impact of consumerism on the environment.

“One More Time With Feeling” from director Andrew Dominik – a stark, fragile and raw documentary – will screen on the opening night of TMW. The film probes the deeply personal circumstances surrounding the making of Skeleton Tree, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ 16th studio album. From the production team behind the Oscar-winning “Searching for Sugar Man” comes “We Are X”, a transcendent rock & roll story about X Japan, the world’s biggest and most successful band you’ve never heard of…yet. “Liberation Day” is a musical documentary about the North Korea tour of Slovenian industrial rock band Laibach – a fascinating game with the instruments of totalitarian propaganda. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with filmmakers Ivan Novak and Mina Špiler.

 

Two films will focus on sustainable development – the core theme of this year’s TMW. “Demain”, co-directed by ecological rights advocate Cyril Dion and actress-filmmaker Melanie Laurent starts out from the study according to which most of the human population will cease to exist by the end of the century. “Death by Design” by Sue Williams takes a look at the dark side of technological enthusiasm.

The TMW film programme was compiled in cooperation with Raadio 2.

The TMW environmental awareness initiative is supported by the Ministry of Environment, NGO Mondo, Representation of European Commission in Estonia, Estonian Government Office and Embassy of Sweden.

TMW film programme:
Sõprus Cinema, 27.03 – 1.04

Monday, 27.03 at 21.00 – „One More Time With Feeling“ (2016)

Tuesday, 28.03 at 21.00 – „Demain“ (2015)

Wednesday, 29.03 at 21.00 – „Death by Design“ (2016)

Thursday, 30.03 at 21.00 – „We Are X“ (2016)

Saturday, 1.04 at 13.00 – „Liberation Day“ (2016)

To be followed by Q&A session with filmmakers Morten Traavik, Uldis Cekulis, and Laibach members Ivan Novak and Mina Špiler.

Tickets are on sale at Piletilevi and box office at 5€.

TMW festival passes don’t apply for the film programme.

Read more about the films
Check out the cinema schedule

TMW 2017 festival passes for 60€ are on sale at TMW web store.

TMW 2017 delegate passes are available for 295€ at TMW web store. Sign up as a delegate and buy your pass. TMW delegate pass grants access to the conference seminars and priority access to the music festival as well as the database of registered contacts.

TMW 2017 Priority Passes are on sale at TMW web store for 150€. Priority Pass holders are asked to register for the opening concert by 20th March by e-mail.

This year’s edition of TMW from 27th March to 2nd April will present the music festival line-up and two-day industry conference, a series of free City Stage concerts, TMW Arts programme, curated by the Estonian Contemporary Arts Development Centre, Design Market showcasing the most exciting Baltic and Scandinavian brands and designs, TMW Talks series with topics from music to science and societal issues, City Space activities in cooperation with the interior designers of Estonian Academy of Arts and a kids and youth special programme for the first time.