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18:30 – 19:00
Priidik is a young boy alone.
Priidik’s dad, a single parent, disapproves of what he thinks is Priidik’s boundless imagination and does his best to prepare Priidik for his first day of school and to grow up a little.
When visiting Priidik’s mothers father (his grandpa), Priidik accidentally finds an old book in his grandpa’s antique shop. One that can magically fix things.
After realising the power the book yields, he decides to use the book to revive a dead butterfly who was killed due to his fathers inattention.
The first day of school arrives and without his dad’s knowing, Priidik wishes to say good-bye to his lost mum and passing childhood with the help of the book.
‘The Day I Grew Up’ is a heart warming story of letting go and is beautifully shot.
Starring: Rain Simmul , Erik Toomet-Björck, Aarne Üksküla
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19:00 – 19:30
Intermission where you can grab some finger food and a drink from the bar
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19:30 – 21:00
‘New World’ is a thoroughly entertaining documentary shot over 4 years recording the events of the New World Society that took place in Kesklinn, Tallinn.
The story involves a bunch of young idealistic types who decide they want to start an NGO (non-government organisation) so they can turn back the clock a little and make their neck of the woods car free. And hopefully care-free.
By doing so they hope to take control of their part of society, the part usually neglected by politicians and big business, and change the feel and attitude of where they live from a primp-n-proper up-and-coming neighborhood where no one really talks to each other, to one that is a little more loose where everybody knows everyone’s business, but get along.
Or as car free as possible.
After gaining some initial exposure and funding from the government, ‘New World’ was the name given to the area where the story takes place, in a house-come-community drop-in center.
But like all things (business), the community becomes dependent on the governments funding as it seems everyone wants to be a part of the party, but no one wants to pay for the party.
To get the house running requires bottomless energy and a drive (usually reserved for selfish and immature teenagers) to meet the ultimate objective which is set by the stories main character Erko Valk.
Whilst he is the nucleus of the story, it’s the stories of the other people around him that become interesting in the quest to meet Erko’s objectives, as well as the ensuing internal conflicts which occur because of his style of leadership.
Starring: Toomas Hendrik Ilves (as el-Presidente)
Watch the preview below
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And remember: ALL FILMS HAVE ENGLISH SUB-TITLES!!!
EVERYBODY is invited – bring a friend, even if they aren’t Estonian!
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. Saku now available!
All proceeds from the door go towards KINO @ Eesti Maja and the 2012 Estonian Film Festival Australia
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About KiNO! at Sydney Eesti Maja
Situated at 141 Campbell Street Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
Kino @ Sydney Eesti Maja is a non-profit organisation raising money for the Estonian Film Festival Australia (EFFA).
The inaugural EFFA will begin in December of 2012.
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Estonian Design and Handicraft Afternoon
Saturday 4 February 3-5pm
Eesti Konsulaat
11 Langsford Street
Claremont
Everyone welcome
Bring along your own projects and ideas of what you would like to learn
For more information contact Anu van Hattem on anuvanhattem@aol.com , or 9384 2757
Kaia Kanepi has won her 2nd title, defeating Hantuchova 6-2 6-1 in one hour and 14 minutes.
Watch her post game press conference below, or find out more about Kaia on her official website.
Estonian tennis star is through to the final of the Brisbane International after a convincing win over Italy’s Schiavone,6-3, 6-0.
Read about the match here Kanepi to face Hantuchova in final.
Kanepi will play Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) on Saturday night. Watch the match live on 7 two at 8pm (EST).
Coverage over the holiday break will be sparse, but please continue to send in any news, events or interesting articles and we will try to get them up as soon as possible.
We will be back in the New Year and aim to improve the site based on all the great feedback we received in the survey.
In October we had an Estralian Bushdance with live music from Bruce and Haruna. The Club has never been so packed. All the people didn’t fit in and some had to enjoy our bushdance from outside. Later in the evening everyone came out to dance – even the chef and the baker-girl. We will have to hold the next Bushdance in the big hall. The next big event will be the Estonian Club’s Christmas party with Estralian Bushdance on the 22-nd of December. We will sing some Christmas carols and we expect Santa to attend as well. Anyone who doesn’t
have a family or friends to share Christmas with is welcome to drop presents for their friends or for the E-Club team into Santa’s bag. The E-Club team has prepared a nice Christmas present for all our fans which is on sale for only $8 per item. During December everyone will have an opportunity to buy gingerbread dough made by our head baker Merka.
The XXIV Eesti Päevad Estonian Festival will take place in Sydney at
the end of 2012, what will be the highlight?
Peeter Muttik, the head of Eesti Päevad: The highlight will be the
opportunity for people of all ages to experience Estonian culture in a wide
variety of forms ranging from traditional to contemporary. The programme devised
by the organising committee includes choral music, theatre, folk dancing and
music, performances aimed at kids, contemporary rock and jazz. We are not
intending to run this festival on the „business as usual” principle. We are
aware that we are competing for the entertainment-cultural dollar in a
competetive market and propose to offer an interesting programme of quality
events.
**CHANGE OF MAIN FEATURE FILM FOR FRIDAY THE 16TH OF DECEMBER**
Due to the sudden and totally unexpected arrival of our special guest on the same day of our next KiNO! night, the main feature documentary/drama we will be showing in our guests honour will be ‘August 1991‘.
“Who is this special guest we write of?”, we here you ask. Well, in a MAJOR coup for KiNO! (and after a few hasty emails…) we feel privileged to announce that Ilmar Raag will pull himself out of jet-lagged sleep to come and say ‘tere!’ to our appreciative KiNO! audience. Ilmar is an Estonian film script-writer and director (Klass 2007 – which screened at the Sydney Film Festival), ex-head of ETV in Tallinn, Ööülikool lecturer-contributor (for Vikerr Raadio) and all round know-all of Estonian film. Whether Ilmar will stay around to watch ‘August 1991‘ for the ‘000th time, we don’t know, but we do intend to hold a little Q&A before we roll the films for the night.
Whether you have or haven’t seen ‘August 1991‘ before, don’t miss out because aside from watching a great documentary/drama on the re-birth of Estonia, this is an extremely rare opportunity to not only meet the director of the film, but listen to one of the truly influential people of Estonian entertainment and one of the few people in Estonian putting film out there and on the map.
We will still be showing ‘Shift’ before ‘August 1991‘ as well as offering the regular drinks and delicious nibblies. Who know’s, there might even be a surprise in the fridge if were lucky…
As usual, doors open at 6pm. See you there
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About KiNO! at Sydney Eesti Maja
Situated at 141 Campbell Street Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
Kino @ Sydney Eesti Maja is a non-profit organisation raising money for the Estonian Film Festival Australia (EFFA).
The inaugural EFFA will begin in December of 2012.
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Information on amounts consumed, effects, precautions, facts, particularly
for young people and where to get help can be found at a new website (www.alkoinfo.ee).
This is important news to drive home to Estonians. In case they
were in denial. “Meil on ka üheksa diagnoosi, kus sõna “alkohol” on juba tõve
nimes sees,” märkis Jesse. – “We have nine diagnoses, in which the word alcohol
is part of the disease name,” notes Jesse. One of them being alkohoolne
kardiomüopaatia or “alcohol-related” cardiomyopathy; heart muscle disease caused
by alcohol toxicity.
Dress code was definitely business suits, so no palazzo pyjamas or
designer-torn jeans. A specially chartered ferry-sized vessel picked us and the
other “chosen” ones from the Harbour Master Steps in front of the Museum of
Contemporary Art and carried us to the harbourside entry to Garden Island. Don’t
think you can do this in your private yacht or row-boat. There are men there to
politely discourage you from doing anything so foolhardy. In fact, all
participant were well known and documented.
The inaugural eesti.org.au website survey is coming to a close. Our aim is simple, to use your feedback to continously improve the website.
The survey has been extended to this Sunday, Dec 4.
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