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On 10 March, the photo exhibition "I Choose Life", depicting Ukrainians who fled to Estonia from the war and their stories, will open on Vabaduse Square. It is a social and cultural project created by Ukrainian war refugee photographers.

The first free Museum Sunday of 2023 will take place this Sunday, 8 January. The initiative will be joined by the Nõmme Museum, located in the former station building.

Tens of thousands of people have had the chance to visit Tallinn's museums free of charge during the year since the city's Museum Sundays programme was launched in 2022.The most important cultural investment this year is the construction of the Tallinn City Theatre, which will be completed in 2023.

On the last day of the year, 31 December at 22:00, a grand free concert will start in Vabaduse Square. Estonia's best-loved artists Anne Veski, Karl-Erik Taukar Band and 5MIINUST will perform, and at midnight there will be a light show.

Tallinn's successful school concert programme, a collaboration between UNESCO City of Music Tallinn and Eesti Kontsert, has come to an end this year, but will continue in 2023.

From 19 December to 4 January and from 4 March to 31 May, the exhibition "A year in Tallinn 2022" will be open from 19 December to 4 January.

The City of Tallinn is providing €68,480 to 14 ventures as part of this year’s last round of grants for cultural non-profit activities.

Tallinn City Government has confirmed Lennart Sundja as Director of the Tallinn Philharmonic from 1 June.

The City of Tallinn is awarding a total of €110 307 to 19 organisations in the second quarter of the cultural non-profit funding round. In addition, a total of €69 491 in operating grants will be awarded to 60 Song and Dance Festival groups.

Tallinn has set up a website to bring together information on various free cultural and leisure activities for war refugees from Ukraine.