Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart and minister Jaan Tammsalu will light the first Advent candle on Sunday, 27 November at 4pm on the Christmas tree in Town Hall Square.
Although bulky waste is covered by the organised waste collection scheme and need to be handed over on a separate agreement with your waste collector, Tallinn residents will again be able to drop off bulky waste free of charge at all waste collection stations in Tallinn for a week (9-15 May) as part of Environment Month.
The architectural competition for the extension of Tallinna Reaalkool – Tallinn Secondary School of Science – has been won by an Estonian architecture office Molumba with the design R². Construction is scheduled to start in 2024.
Tallinn Central Library, Tallinn City Museum and Tallinn Literary Centre are collaborating to offer the public a new, free opportunity to experience culture - borrowing museum tickets.
The City of Tallinn is awarding a total of €110 307 to 19 organisations in the second quarter of the cultural non-profit funding round. In addition, a total of €69 491 in operating grants will be awarded to 60 Song and Dance Festival groups.
To create a nine-kilometre-long park area on a limestone cliff bordering Lasnamäe, Kesklinn and Pirita, a call for ideas was carried out among Tallinn residents. The results will be presented today, 31 March, from 5 pm to 7 pm, at Tallinn Song Festival Grounds (Lauluväljaku Klaassaal). The presentation can also be followed online.
The Tallinn City Government has allocated €39 000 from its reserve fund to the Tallinn Culture and Sports Department to recognise to support athletes from Tallinn and their coaches who performed successfully at the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Today, 24 March at 14:00, Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart will acknowledge and congratulate the Olympic athletes and their coaches at a formal ceremony in the Town Hall.
As of 4 pm yesterday, 10,026 Ukrainian war refugees, 42% of whom are minors, have been registered at the Tallinn reception centre opened on 2 March at Niine Street.
With the arrival of spring, this year's season at Tallinn's ice skating rinks are coming to an end, only to start again at the beginning of next winter. By the end of the season, the city's ice rinks will have been visited around 110 000 times.