The DIGGILOO year 2022 was full of great happenings, inspiring meetings and new co-operating. In this article you find the summary of happenings in Tartu.
The New Cultural Club
In May, Tartu Youth Work Centre founded a cultural club for young people from 11 to 19 years. The Cultural Club provides an exciting way to explore cultural happenings, to learn organise cultural happenings to the other young people and to have experience in the team and voluntary work. The members of the Cultural Club have been active also in Diggiloo events throughout the year.
Read more in Estonian: https://tntk.tartu.ee/uudised/tartu-noorsootoo-keskus-kutsub-noori-osa-votma-kultuuriklubist/
Organiser: Tartu Youth Work Centre
International Day for Protection of Children
International Day for Protection of Children is celebrated annually on June 1st in Tartu. In the year 2022 the theme of Children’s Day was the mental well-being of children and young people. The city of Tartu was full of children and young people and lots of activities for them. For example, the young people could navigate with a help of a map in the heart of Tartu by following town´s Finnish spots – places, buildings and stories related to the common cultural history between Estonia and Finland. The orientation game ended to the library of Finnish Institute in Estonia, where young navigators got to know also from the DIGGILOO project.
Read Heidi Iivari´s blog on Children´s Day in Tartu: https://diggiloo.humak.fi/welcome-to-tartu-city-of-young-people/
Main organiser: Tartu Youth Work Centre with tens of partners
Read Hour
Read Hour is a Finnish reading campaign abroad. It challenges everyone, but especially the young people, to read for an hour on the 8th of September. Finnish Institute in Estonia introduced Read Hour for the first time in Estonia in 2021, where Tartu Finnish School participated in the Read Hour Live Show. In 2022 Read Hour took place in hole Estonia in cooperation of Year of Libraries 2022. People gathered to read at the squares in many cities. In addition, there were reading happenings in libraries and youth work centres, like Lille and Anne Youth Houses in Tartu. Youngsters from Cultural Club from Tartu Youth Work Centre shared reading tips, pictures and videos in Instagram #diggilooyouth.
Organisers & co-organisers: Finnish Institute in Estonia, Read Hour, Tartu Tammelinn Library, Tartu Youth Work Centre, Year of Libraries 2022
Street Artwork “Friendship”
Young people from Tartu and Tampere painted a large piece of street art on the supporting structures of Sõpruse Bridge (address Turu 22, Tartu). The designing and painting of 500 square metres of graffities were supervised by professional street art artists from both countries. The name of the street artwork is “Friendship”, and it is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the friendship between the cities of Tartu and Tampere and the 25th anniversary of Tampere Maja, the cultural House situated in Tartu. The opening of the street artwork was 10th of September by Tartu mayor Urmas Klaas, the greeting speeches were given also by Tampere deputy mayor Aleksi Jäntti, director of Tampere Maja Sakari Neuvonen, press counsellor of Embassy of Finland Sanna Immanen, director of Finnish Institute in Estonia Hannele Valkeeniemi, director of Tartu Youth Work Centre Margit Kink, project manager for DIGGILOO of Finnish Institute in Estonia Heidi Iivari, director of children’s and youngsters´ street art association SirkusRakkausPumPum Piritta Suominen. Live music was performed by young musicians Liisa Tulvik, Mirjam Elessawi and Jõrg, who also provided their music to the DIGGILOO´s QR code next to the street artwork.
The Virtual “Friendship” Bridge
Introduce your own music, art or poetry by QR codes! There is a wall next to the Sõpruse bridge´s street artwork, where everyone can add her/his own QR code sticker with a positive interpretation of the theme “Friendship”.
You can also listen to the music and poetry by Tartu youngsters recorded especially for the opening the street artwork. This DIGGILOO QR code can be also found next to the bridge and it leads you to the SoundCloud playlist: https://soundcloud.com/gruuviwabrik/sets/project-diggiloo The content of DIGGILOO´s QR code has been produced by Finnish Institute in Estonian in cooperation with Gruuviwabrik.
Organisers: Tampere Maja, SirkusRakkausPumPumPum, Finnish Institute in Estonia, Tartu Youth Work Centre, Gruuviwabrik. Supporters: City of Tampere, City of Tartu, Operaatio Pirkanmaa, European Capital of Culture Tartu2024, Embassy of Finland in Estonia
Podcast
Tartu youngster Grete Kull interviewed musician and music producer Liisa Tulvik and youth worker Elina Tall. Tulvik has an own studio Gruuviwabrik, where she recorded music of young Tartu musicians also for “Friendship” street artwork. Tall is an active youth worker leading Cultural Club in Tartu Youth Work Centre.
The podcast can be heart here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7AfomA6GB4
Organiser: Tartu Youth Work Centre
Mobile Orientation Game “Finland in Tartu”
Did you know that there are plenty of buildings, organisations and historical marks, which refer somehow to Finland in Tartu? One of the most active members in Cultural Club, Marii (14 years), created a mobile orientation game “Finland in Tartu” with a help of project manager Heidi Iivari (Finnish Institute in Estonia)andyouth worker Elina Tall (Tartu Youth Work Centre). In order to play, you just have to download the free Actionbound app at your mobile phone, add the name of the game “Soome kultuur Tartus” to Actionbound and start to play, when you are standing in the front of Tartu City Hall. The game is in English and Estonian and it takes around 30 minutes by walking in Tartu streets.
The game was played for the first time by the DIGGILOO partners visiting Tartu in September 2022. In the beginning of autumn holiday in October the game was introduced for youngsters and their families in social media. Tartu Youth Work Centre organised also the lottery with cool prizes among those who participated in the game.
Organiser: Tartu Youth Work Centre in co-operation with Finnish Institute in Estonia
The First Face-to-Face Meeting in Tartu
Organiser: Finnish Institute in Estonia
