26 January: the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a world-renowned orchestra that plays on original instruments to bring out the very best of classical music as it was intended to be heard. The Orchestra is led by the players themselves and they have no permanent music director - but they work with some of the world's greatest conductors and soloists across a wide range of music. The OAE performed in Tallinn Estonia Concert Hall within the Mozart Festival programme. For more information on this concert see here. For more info on the Orhestra of the Age of Enlightenment see www.oae.co.uk.

26-28 February: premiere of Wolf by ZUGA United Dancers (idea Tiina Mölder, performed by Kaja Kann and Bush Hartshorn). Two generations, two cameras. Bush and Kaja will spend one week in an isolated house in the forests of Estonia. How will they bring this experience onto the stage of Kanuti Gildi SAAL? Findo out more: www.saal.ee/en/etendused/260206.html.

13-14 March: Estonian museum professionals meet at the new Kumu Art Museum for a two-day seminar on contemporary museum management. The seminar will be led by museum professionals and marketing experts from the UK and it will focus on museum marketing, advocacy and fundraising, giving the participants a good overview of contemporary policies and methods of the mentioned areas of museum management. The UK lecturers and workshop leaders will be Kate Carreno from The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Henrietta Hopkins and Anita van Mil from Hopkins van Mil and Mark Suggitt from Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage.

18 March - 21 May: Wendy Ramshaw's Picasso-inspired jewellery at the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial. UK jewellery designer Wendy Ramshaw is the special guest of the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial with five pieces from her Picasso's Ladies series. She has been fascinated by Picasso's paintings of his women since the 1980s and has created a series of jewellery, altogether 66 pieces inspired by Picasso's art work.

21 April Soweto Kinch concert within the Jazzkaar music festival programme. Soweto Kinch is an exceptionally gifted, self-taught musician specialising in the alto saxophone - drawing equally from swing-era, be-bop and post-bop schools and also combining straight ahead jazz with funky hip-hop and rap. Read more.

26 April: A new event series- Antenna - has its premiere at the Kumu Art Museum. Antenna is a music video showcase featuring recent innovative music videos by British directors, from new faces like Nima Nourizadeh to established directors like Dougal Wilson. In addition, there will be an interview with a director of a video at each screening. In this case, it is a directing collective, Shynola, whose work includes videos for Radiohead, Beck and more. Read more.

4-5 May: Welsh authors Christopher Meredith and Niall Griffiths visit Estonia and meet the audience at the Prima Vista Literature Festival in Tartu, presenting their work and talking about contemporary Welsh literature. Outside the festival programme, the authors meet the audience in Tallinn University.

11-13 May: Musicians Jenna Reid, Grant Nicol and Mark Laurenson from the Shetland Islands join Estonian singer and songwriter Anu Taul for three concerts during her tour around Estonia.

2 June: Kumu Art Museum will keep its doors open throughout the night for music and film lovers. The keyword is WARP Records, one of the most versatile and successful independent recod companies introducing new trends in music. On stage in Kumu Art Museum: Plaid, Jamie Lidell, Vex'd and many Estonian DJs and performers. the extra film programme from WarpFilms will include short films Warp Vision, the scandalous Rubber Johnny by Chris Cunningham and My Wrongs by Chris Morris.

28 June-2 July: British playwright Mark Ravenhill visits the Baltoscandal Theatre Festival in Rakvere with his play Product. Ravenhill, one of the most well-known British playwrights today, is familiar to the Estonian audience from his much talked about debut Shopping and Fucking and a later play Some Explicit Polaroids. Product is different though: the play, in fact a monologue performed to a silent actress and the audience, will star in Ravenhill himself. The playwright appears in the role of a script executive who tries to convince a young actress to play the part of a woman falling in love with a suicide bomber. Read more about the festival: www.baltoscandal.ee.

29 June - 2 July: The programme of the X International Muhu Future Music Festival “Juu Jääb”includes performances by two UK artistis, DJ Amar Patel and DJ Graymatter. The Future Music Festival combines the beautiful surroundings of the island Muhu with the best classical, jazz and worldmusic artists for the tenth time already. Festival concerts as well as the jazzsessions are held at Muhumaa’s historic places - Muhu’s St Catherine’s Church, Nautse Mihkli’s farmyard and on the small Ruhnu island. Read more about the festival: www.nordicsounds.ee.

20-23 July: Shetland Islands' group Filska on stage at the Viljandi Folk Music Festival. Filska is a Shetland dialect word meaning ‘mischievous’ and ‘high spirited’. Filska is also a Shetland-based fiddle/folk group who will be playing at the Viljandi Folk Festival this summer. The line-up includes Jenna Reid; fiddle, vocals & accordion, Bethany Reid; fiddle, vocals & piano, Gemma Wilson; fiddle & vocals and Andrew Tulloch; guitar & vocals. They have penned many of their songs themselves, introducing a contemporary take on the traditional music of the island.

20 October: Alexander Mustard, winner of the portrait category in 2005 visits Estonia for the opening of the exhibition in Kumu Art Museum. His portrait of the blue snapper could well be one of the most well known images from the exhibition - it has been reprinted on exhibition posters around the world. Come and meet Alexander Mustard at the exhibition in Kumu Art Museum. The photographer will introduce his own work but will also speak about the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

22 November: From the ancient Shetland Islands off the northern tip of Scotland, four musicians crackling with energy come to Tallinn, bringing with them the joyous and achingly sad strains of the centuries-old Celtic folk music tradition. Adding a visual aspect, a documentary silent film from the 1920s depicting everyday life on the Shetlands will be shown on a special screen. Find out more from the Black Nights Film Festival website.
The Island Tapes are:
David Allison: guitar, artistic director
Allan Neave: guitar
Alyth McCormack: Gaelic song
Ian Melrose guitar, dobro and large tin whistle : Viru Centre, Tallinn