Screening of the programme “Stalking Eastern Europe” film “The Sky Calls”
Monday, May 6th
20:00
Cinema theatre Elektriteater
Tartu Elektriteater presents: screening of the programme “Stalking Eastern Europe” film “The Sky Calls” (Ukraine, 1959; directors Mikhail Karyukov, Aleksandr Kozyr)
The film and the “Stalking Eastern Europe” programme will be introduced by science fiction literature expert Jüri Kallas. The introduction will be in Estonian and the film in Russian with subtitles in Estonian and English. Ticket €7, see elektriteater.ee
A dance performance: „Ma jään kaevu / juurde igavesti jooma“ (“I Will Stay at the Well / Drinking Forever”)
Monday, May 6th
19:00
Tartu New Theatre
Tartu New Theatre presents: „Ma jään kaevu / juurde igavesti jooma“ (“I Will Stay at the Well / Drinking Forever”)
A dance performance based on the poetry of Ene Mihkelson. Introduction and ticket information: https://www.uusteater.ee/lavastused/maret-joosep-ene
The dance performance ““I Will Stay at the Well / Drinking Forever” is based on Mihkelson’s poetry collections from 1978-2010 and aims to spatially recreate the lyrical tone of the poems, where the experience of the sole reader becomes more important than the story.
“If I bump against the air, then finally I can pass through it” writes Mihkelson herself. This is the poetry of inevitability, the expression of which is also inevitable.
We express endless movement, discontinuity and the search for continuity, dead ends and memory traces that merge into each other.
We give up words to experience poetry.
“The performance is English-friendly, there is no spoken text.”
Grand Futurological Congress: Halyna Kruk (Ukraine)
Monday, May 6th
19:00
The University of Tartu Library conference hall
Internationally acclaimed Ukrainian poet Halyna Kruk will converse with Maarja Kangro, the translator of her poems. Kangro was awarded the August Sang Translation Award last year for translating Kruk’s poem “The History of Humanity.” They will discuss how war changes the perception of the future and the vision of the future. Kruk’s poetry will be heard in Ukrainian as well as Estonian translation. The conversation will be in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Estonian.
Author’s Evening with German Writer Julia von Lucadou
Monday, May 6th
18:00
TYPA Gallery
The author of the dystopian novel “The High-Rise Diver” (“Die Hochhausspringerin,” Hanser 2018) will be in conversation with University of Tartu lecturer Hella Liira, with Estonian translation by Maarja Jakobson. The author’s evening is part of the Goethe Institute’s program “Ministry of Curiosity.”
Creative Writing Workshop “Writing as a Time Machine” with the Writer of the Day Meelis Friedenthal
Monday, May 6th
18:00
The University of Tartu Library Kodavere Room
Creative Writing Workshop “Writing as a Time Machine” with the Writer of the Day Meelis Friedenthal at the University of Tartu Library Kodavere Room
A 211. birthday: Kierkegaard of Denmark and the World –an event dedicated to the life and work of Søren Kierkegaard
Monday, May 6th
17:00
Culture Club Salong
On the 5th of May 1813, just as the Danish state goes bankrupt in the wake of the Napoleonic wars, Søren Kierkegaard is born. Instead of following in his father’s footsteps as a sock merchant, and despite dying at the age of 42, the melancholy, guilt-ridden and profound “Søren Sock” becomes one of the great European philosophers of his century, also known as the “father of existentialism”.
For his birthday, we will look at his life and work from different angles. At the University of
Tartu, Igor Ahmedov is writing his PhD on the topic of Kierkegaardian Theology of Education,
where he explores the idea that God is Education in the work of Søren Kierkegaard. American poet, translator, and Kierkegaard admirer Ilya Bernstein will read not from Kierkegaard’s ‘Repetition’, but from his own eponymous prose poem. Bernstein’s Danish translator and Danish language lecturer at the University of Tartu, Mie Mortensen, will introduce Kierkegaard’s role in Danish identity and the forms of repetition and education inherent in translation. The discussion will be held in English, moderated by Øyvind Rangøy.
The event is organised within the framework of the event series Café Norden by The Nordic Council of Ministries office in Estonia in cooperation with Tartu University’s Department of
Scandinavian Studies (Skandinavistik).
Grand Futurological Congress: Tõnis Vilu (Estonia)
Monday, May 6th
17:00
The University of Tartu Library conference hall
In the past fifteen years, Tõnis Vilu has been perhaps one the most influential poets in the Estonian literary landscape. He will deliver a presentation examining the development of a poet’s “late phase work” through various case studies, and why such a distinction arises. Can this life trajectory also be projected into the future – predicting a creative turning point? After the presentation, Vilu will converse with poet Jüri Kolk. The conversation will be in Estonian, with simultaneous interpretation into English.
Opening of Prima Vista 2024, the Grand Futurological Congress and the Translation Agency
Monday, May 6th
16:15
The University of Tartu Library
Opening of Prima Vista 2024, the Grand Futurological Congress and the Translation Agency
Literature Competition “Page by Page” / “Seitenweise” Estonian Final
Monday, May 6th
12:00
Tartu City Library Hall
As part of an international book project, young German learners read Martin Muser’s novel “Sest” / “Weil” and prepared creative works (video, poem, play, or comic) based on the book. The novel is a psycho-thriller about power, violence, and fear. The creative works of Estonian participants will be presented in Tartu. A jury will decide which participating students will attend the winners’ meeting in Berlin. The competition, initiated by the German Central Agency for German Schools Abroad (ZFA), aims to motivate young language learners to commune creatively with German youth literature. Participants are aged 15–18.
Meeting with Ketlin Priilinn
Monday, May 6th
10:20–11:05
Ilmatsalu Basic School
Priilinn has authored books for children, young adults, and adult readers, and has translated four works from English to Estonian.