Adelaide-Estonian Community Christmas Party
Sunday 9th December 2012 at 4pm
Estonian House – Eesti Maja
Please join us in celebrating the festive season – Estonian style!
The event will feature:

•  Traditional Estonian Christmas Dinner by Vikerkaar Folkdancers
•  Dessert, Tea and Coffee by Naisring
•  Imported Estonian Drinks at the bar
•  Performance by ‘Hapukoor’, Adelaide’s Local Estonian Choir
•  Poem reading/short play
•  Pastor Palm’s Christmas Message
•  Kids’ Corner – Estonian Christmas Cards/Crafts
•  Christmas Raffle

All Welcome – Free Entry! Food & Drinks available to purchase.
Note: Father Christmas may visit with presents for good Children! Please book in if you’re bringing kids! Email silvi@simplifi.com.au before 25/11/12 with Children’s names and ages. Thanks!

Download the flyer – Adelaide Estonian Community Christmas Party

ADELAIDE EESTI SELTS PRESENTS

PIRUKAD BAKING PIRUKAD BAKING DAY
EESTI MAJA
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25TH 2012• 10AM

Come and join in for a Pirukad Baking Day at Eesti Maja, just in time for Christmas! All you need to do it register your interest and we will send you an list of ingredients you should bring on the day. There will be some experts from our fabulous Naisring on stand-by to help out so don’t worry if you’ve never made them before.

Register with Jaan Oks jaanoks@internode.on.net or call/text 0411874659

forEST
Estonian contemporary jewellery

Linda al-Assi, Anni Kagovere, Merle Kasonen & Maarja Niinemägi

Estonian artists exhibiting in Australia is rare and yet an exhibition of Estonian contemporary jewellery has found its way to Sydney. How this came about was through the friendship between the Australian artist, Shirley Cho, and Estonian artist, Anni Kagovere. The two artists met in Japan as recipients of the Monbukagakusho (Japanese Government) Scholarship, both completing their MFA degrees at Tokyo University of the Arts.

The idea for the exhibition, forEST, followed after Shirley returned to Australia and prepared for her role as guest curator of PLATFORM at Sydney’s Gaffa Gallery. PLATFORM is a space promoting the work of local and international artists from various arts disciplines and for the program, Shirley invited Anni to form a small group of artists from Estonia to have an exhibition of contemporary jewellery in Australia. The four artists: Linda al-Assi, Anni Kagovere, Merle Kasonen and Maarja Niinemägi previously studied at Estonia Academy of Arts, majoring in jewellery and are actively making and exhibiting their work in Estonia and abroad.

Considering the unusual circumstances as to how this exhibition came about and the rare opportunity for Sydneysiders to see the work of emerging Estonian artists, this exhibition will be one not to be missed!

forEST has been assisted by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Merle Kasonen, Linda al-Assi and Maarja Niinemägi are members of the jewellery studio Gram.
www.gram.ee

Opening: Thursday, 1 November 2012

Exhibition: 1 – 13 November 2012

PLATFORM
Gaffa, 281 Clarence Street, Sydney CBD, NSW 2000
Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-5pm

More information about the exhibition, the artists and images can be viewed on the website http://www.gaffa.com.au/#171288

For more details about the artists or exhibition please contact the curator, Shirley (Email) onepapercrane@gmail.com

Esto Café No 18

Joint Sydney Eesti Selts & Sõrve Sõbrad event

Friday 9^th November 2012

6:30-11pm at Sydney Estonian House (141 Campbell St, Surry Hills)

$20 per person

BBQ with home made salads + dessert

(vegetarian option available – please let us know with RSVP)

Special offer: Bring a friend of family member who hasn’t been to an Estonian House event before and you both receive a FREE drink (booking is required).

Please RSVP by Tuesday 6^th November.

Facebook – Sõrve Summer Camp

Email – admin@sorve.org.au

Mobile – 0458 140 662 (Sõrve)

When

Sunday, November 12th at 2pm

Estonian House Adelaide , 200 Jeffcott St, Adelaide

$5 entry includes tea/coffee and cake

About the movie, “George Ots”:

Peeter Simm’s biopic recounts the life-story of the legendary Estonian opera singer Georg Ots (1920-1975), whose captivating baritone made him a household name throughout the former Soviet Union. Ots’s story is told from his former wife’s point of view in a chronological and linear style, beginning with his first wedding in 1941 and ending with his death in 1975. The film not only relates Ots’s stratospheric rise to fame, but also provides a vivid account of his turbulent marital life and his dealings with the Soviet state. Although it is clear that Simm pursued all of these story lines to provide a complex portrait of the Estonian artist, the three narrative threads unfortunately rarely come together. As a result, it often seems that Ots led three discrete lives: as a self-made man and cultural icon, as a self-styled political dissident, and as a man ultimately unlucky in love. Of these, the most successful narrative line focuses on his personal life.

Georg Ots

People’s Artist of the USSR (21 March 1920, Petrograd, Russian SFSR – 5 September 1975, Tallinn, Estonia) was an Estonian opera singer.Ots was also a welcomed performer in all the major opera houses of the former Soviet Union, being especially popular at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. His repertoire included the roles of: Eugene Onegin, Yeletzky, Escamillo, Renato, Don Giovanni, Papageno, Rigoletto, Iago, Porgy, Figaro, and the title role in Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon. Ots sang in Estonian, Russian, Finnish, German, Italian and French, and was fluent in all six languages. Ots’s most famous role, with which he is often identified with, was the leading character in Anton Rubinstein’s opera The Demon.

The Estonian Film Festival Australia (EFFA) and Sydney Eesti Selts (SES) are proud to present….

KiNO! #12 @ Estonian House Sydney on Friday, the 26th of October!

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18:30 – 19:00
‘6 tundi’ (6 Hours) – [G] 2005

Genre: Documentary

When the summer months arrive in Tallinn, thousands of people on board cruise ships arrive in the Port of Tallinn to see the sights on offer. Most of them American.
Generally they will stay in Tallinn for only six hours.
Awaiting their arrival in the Port are infinite bus drivers, guides and tour organisers. With cruise passes in hand, major attractions, eating and drinking are to be had, with most leaving with full bellies and pleasant memories. But Tallinn is just another stop on their long journey.
After a long days sight-seeing the tourists are tired and the stress of the day fades away from the local tour operators.
What do the tour guides show?
In fact; what did they talk about?
Who are the people that provide the service for “same-day” tourists?
And who are the tourists???

Director: Rein Kotov

Staring: Tourists

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19:00 – 19:30
A short intermission where you can grab some finger food and a drink from the bar.

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19:30 – 21:30
‘karu süda’ (The Heart of the Bear) – [R] 2001

WARNING: SOME FRONTAL NUDITY AND SEX SCENES.

Genre: Drama

Time and a reliable courier will hopefully deliver this special copy direct from the director. As we understand it, this is the first dvd sub-titled copy made especially for KiNO! @ Estonian House Sydney. We pull out all the stops for you people 🙂

This is the story of a young Estonian man who goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to find his true self far from civilisation.
The natives he encounters introduce him to the myths of the north and the ways of the wild.
Along the way he will encounter the most mysterious creature of all – the woman! The first: a young village teacher who wants to be a good wife to him. The second: a wild and untameable native. Others will try and fail along the way.
When an accident occurs one day out in the wilds, he burdens himself with a guilt he feels he can never recover from. However, the natives he befriends are forgiving and he is given a chance of finding his inner balance.
A romantic drama with mythical elements and breathtaking landscapes.

For those of you who caught Lennart Meris film ‘Dances to the Milky Way’ a few KiNO!’s ago, you would have had the chance to see the funeral of the bear, a relevant reference point in this film ‘karu süda’.

Director: Arvo Iho

Stars: Rain Simmul, Dinara Drukarova and Ilyana Pavlova
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And remember:
bring a friend, bring a relative even if they are non-Estonian speaking because ALL FILMS HAVE ENGLISH SUB-TITLES!!! EVERYBODY is invited!

Doors open from 6pm.

Come see both films OR arrive later to see the feature film.

$7 – SES members (please display membership card at the door)
$10 – non-SES members
**Join SES on the night for $40 and pay $7 for all Kino nights!**

Remember to keep your door ticket as one lucky viewer will win free entry for next months KINO night!!!

Whether its for one film or both your donation towards cultural activities of SES is appreciated.

Finger food and bar service will be available on the night.

All proceeds from the door go towards KINO @ Eesti Maja and the Estonian Film Festival Australia December 29th and 31st, 2012.

KEVADPIDU!
November 3rd, 2pm at Sydney Estonian House (141 Campbell St, Surry Hills)

Come and spend a great afternoon with folk dance, song and Estonian food in preparation for Estonian Festival in Sydney!

• Performances by “Lõke” and “Virmalised”
• Handicrafts exhibition and stalls – handmade ceramics, shawls, kitchen goods, piparkoogid (dough), jewellery
• Raffle with great prizes!!
• Savoury snacks, cakes and drinks available.

Tickets $10
The event is organized jointly by Estonian Society of Sydney and Handicraft Group and is a fundraiser to purchase new sound equipment for Sydney Estonian House.

Everybody is welcome – bring your friends along!

KEVADPIDU – Nov 3rd, Sydney Estonian House

Sorve Bingo @ Sydney Eesti Maja
Sorve Sobrad Fundraising Event

Saturday 6th October 2012
4pm – first game starts at 4:15pm

– snack food and beverages available – including Estonian black bread sandwiches
– lots of prizes to be won
– games, raffles and lots of fun for the whole family

Sydney Eesti Maja – 141 Campbell Street, Surry Hills

Please RSVP by Monday 1st October 2012
Email – admin@sorve.org.au
Mobile – 0458 140 662

This year’s Baltic Ball will be held as a Masked Ball on Saturday, 22
September at 7.00 p.m. at the Lithuanian Club, 16 Meredith St Bankstown.