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Join Pixelache crew to Plektrum Festival in Tallinn on Tuesday 13.9!
06 September 2011, Nathalie Aubret Event: Seminar at Plektrum Festival: Learning and Networking around the Eastern Baltic Sea

The Pixelache crew is heading for Tallinn next week on Tuesday 13.9, to attend Plektrum Festival and other events. Come along!

Most of us will leave with the Tallink at 10.30 from Länsisatama and stay overnight, going back to Helsinki on Wednesday during the day.

Contact office(((((at))))pixelache.ac if you are interested to join us!

More about the programme in Tallinn and other recommendations etc.



September 13 Preliminary Programme
* Early afternoon visit of Gateways Arts and Networked Culture exhibition at KUMU
* Late afternoon / evening Plektrum programme
17:30 Pixelversity event, Kanuti Gildi SAAL on PIKK 20 that is in old town. Free entry.
19:00 Meaning of life? - Aan N. Shapiro (USA) Kanuti Gildi SAAL Free entry.
21:00 Plektrum kino: Freakonomics" Kanuti Gildi SAAL Free entry.

Ferry schedules

Helsinki-Tallinn

Other events/places to check out in Tallinn

Katlaaed: community garden -urban garden (behind kultuurikatel near harbour)
Temnikova and Kasela Gallery (Lastekodu 1): exhibition of photographs by legendary movie-maker Andrei Tarkovsky Bright, Bright Day (Lastekodu 1).
Stress stations - urban installation
EKKM - Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia: guerilla style museum project (near katlaaed and kultuurkattel)
Tallinn Straw Theatre: place to check out before its destroyed in october
KUMU - Gateways Arts and Networked Culture exhibition
Ptarmigan Tallinn (at toompea, top of old town)

Restaurant recommendations

F-hoone
Leib
VonKrahl

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