On January 12, the cooperate festival of Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music and In Graafika, coordinated by Estonian Arnold Schoenberg Society, begins.
Various exhibitions are open in Pärnu City Gallery, Theatre Endla, Pärnu Central Library, Port Artur Shopping Centre, Pärnu Art Hall, Pärnu House of Artists and Pärnu College of the Unversity of Tartu. Concerts and performances will be held in Pärnu Old Town School, Tõrva Church-Chamber Hall, St. John’s Church in Tartu, St. Kanut’s Guild Hall and St. Nichola’s Church in Tallinn.
The symposium for musicologists and art researchers, held on January 16 and 17, is dedicated to modern art from the aspect of perception.
In Graafika brings to Estonia ambitionally and controversially named groupings of artists from different parts of America.
„Ajamasin” [Time Machine] by the professors of higher schools of art of USA, coordinated by the Estonian Centre of Litography, will be presented in the halls of Endla Küün. Among the others, grand old lady of Estonian graphic art – Vive Tolli – makes the connections between different generations, in Pärnu House of Artists, the graphic artist and painter Raul Meel keeps his annual exhibition.
This year, the festival is focussing to the correlations of modern music, theatre, dance and visual arts with human senses. Finally, a multimedial work of art „ACTION IN CUBE II: Dimensions” as a result of cooperate workshop with different artists and musicians will be performed.
Another very important side of the festival is an educational program for the pupils of Pärnu Old Town School, Pärnu Sütevaka Gymnasium of Humanities and Pärnu Kuninga Street Basic School.
Additional information: http://www.schoenberg.ee, http://www.nongrata.ee
Malle Maltis