Composer Veljo Tormis’ Virtual Centre to Open
August 7, 2020 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of the late Veljo Tormis, one of the most unique and renown Estonian choral composers and will be celebrated worldwide with the opening of the Veljo Tormis Virtual Centre (https://veljotormis.com/en/). “
6th Annual Finno-Ugric Young Peoples’ Cultural and Film Festival
A creative festival for Finno-Ugric young people has taken off in Estonia.
This year for the 6th time, the Finno-Ugric film festival FUFF2020 took place within the framework of a larger thematic cultural festival from July 30 to August 1 at Sänna manor in South-Eastern Estonia. Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Udmurt, Komi and Mari youth took part this year.
See more online at fuff.ee and Facebook.
LHV Bank Keeping 300,000 Bees on Roof of Bank Building
As of this past spring, nearly 300,000 bees have been living on the mezzanine level of the 8th floor of the LHV bank building in Tallinn.
The first honey, over 100 kg, was extracted from the hives last week and almost 300 kg of “clean, healthy and delicious city honey” is expected to be harvested in total by the end of the season.
