Tartu Hanseatic Days will be held 17.-19.07.2009

In addition to fairs and festivities, Tartu Hanseatic Days also feature various workshops where festival goers get the chance to test their creativity and skills as well as ponder over the present and the future.


At 10 June 2009 Estonian Air started selling tickets on the Tartu-Stockholm route. Estonian Air will start operating between Tartu and Stockholm from 24 August 2009 four times a week on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flight time is one hour and 30 minutes.

The Tartu Spring Days is a festival within the Tartu Student Days and features a variety of cultural, athletic and entertainment events.

Tartu - the city of good thoughts - will be taken over by a cheerful student spirit for a while week, leaving no one in the city untouched.

The Spring Days programme includes the following traditional events:

The opening of the festival (delightful music and dancing in the Town Hall Square)

Nightly Singsong (Kassitoome Valley)

Quiz (a fun quiz on students’ knowledge before the exams)

Day Club (best place to meet your friends and schoolmates during the festival – the Pirogov Park)

Beach Aerobics (with instructors)

Student Singing (a tradition singing competition, established 30 years ago, with the main emphasis on creativity)

Extreme Sports (an obstacle track both on land and in the water)

Relay Race in costumes (a chance to run around the Vabaduse Square in a crazy outfit)

Splash (a fun boat cruise in the foaming waters of Emajõgi)

Walpurgis Night fire-show (a spectacle with fire and music)

Magic Garden benefit concert

Night Dancing (a dance party right in the streets; a chance to learn new or recall familiar dances)

Bambus (a competition with self-made vehicles; the race will reach its full speed driving down the Vanemuine hill)

Fear Factory (a day filled with horror and ghastly challenges; crybabies should stay home – fearless men and women are welcome)

Let’s Rock (presenting the Estonian rock treasury)

Let’s Folk (all active and future folk artists are present; there just isn’t a bigger folk concert in Tartu)

Check the site for further information:

http://www.studentdays.ee

The biggest skiing marathon in the Baltic States. Participants can choose between 63km and 31km tracks that travel through the diverse landscapes of South-Estonia. Main events are held on the 15th of February 2009, children events take place a day before at Tartu, Tähtvere Spordipark.

http://www.tartumaraton.ee/index.php?lang=eng&www=XGKC5J70p2JLdO%2CMVfHRQsKosK6

Tartu Town Hall transforms into a Christmas City before Noel, where people bustle about daily. Traditional concerts are held every Advent Sunday in ST.John`s Church. The lighting of an Advent candle takes place in the town hall during sunset alongside collective caroling.People get a last chance to buy nice gifts to delight close friends and enjoy Christmas-time foods and drinks during the Christmas City fair. Kids and childlike grownups get the chance to take part in children´s programmes and dwarf workrooms.

Tartu 2008

From November 9th to 15th,  Tartu is hosting a festival celebrating the national cuisines of Tartu twin towns. Top chefs from the twin towns of Tartu are presenting dishes characteristic of their national cuisine at our restaurants and cafés and also teaching the secrets of cooking to the local chefs. Each restaurant and café will also organise an event where the culture of the respective country is presented to the public. This year there will be chefs from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy and Holland.

http://www.tartu.ee/?lang_id=2&menu_id=11&page_id=3979

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8th international street dance festival which is the most important one in the Scandinavian and Baltic countries  where one can see performing  the best breakdancers of eleven different countries.

Mixed choirs' festival with 2500 singers from Nordic-Baltic states: big open-air concert with common repertory from Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (in original languages!), competition, concerts, workshops, seminars.

http://www.kooriyhing.ee/eng

The Hanseatic Days is a summer party for the people of Tartu and also for the visitors to our city. In the history of Tartu there is a lot worth remembering – from individual events, to different buildings up to inventions and historical events that changed the world. All this does not end with this year or this decade – therefore, this year’s Tartu Hanseatic Days also involve the future for the children, the future inhabitants of Tartu.

http://www.hansapaevad.ee/?s=35

Antonius Guild Court Yard Lutsu 5 Tartu

www.antonius.ee

The St. Anthony´s Guild, an association of crative men and women skilled in everything from pottery to hat making, will hold this medieval-style festival in its downtown couryard.

You can expect medieval musicans and performers, food and drink, and of course more traditional handicrafts than you can shake a stick at, you can probably even buy a stick here. Entrance is free.

From 5th to 11th November 2007 Tartu is hosting a festival celebrating the national cuisines of Tartu twin cities. Top chefs from seven twin towns of Tartu are presenting dishes characteristic to their national cuisine at our restaurants and cafés and also teaching the secrets of the preparation to our local chefs.

http://www.tartu.ee/?lang_id=2&menu_id=11&page_id=3979

Time: 17.08.-20.08.2007

Place: River Emajõgi and river banks

Info: www.hansapaevad.ee

TTT, april-june.pdf

Tartu gets back to its old Hanseatic roots by reverting to the time, centuries ago, when it was part of Hanseatic League.

www.tartu.ee/hansa

June 30 - July 02, Town Hall Square and Tartu Song Festival Grounds

www.Gaudeamus.ee

Established here in Tartu in 1956, this wide-ranging folk song and dance event traditionally brings together Students from the three Baltic Countries.

Starting from Friday evening, the programme includes concerts, brass bands, torchlight processions.

The event culminates in the Song Festival where around 6,000 performers are expected to gather to sing and dance.