WALESTONIA FESTIVAL DAY AT THE NORWEGIAN CHURCH IN CARDIFF
17.10.2008
To celebrate the longstanding relations between Wales and Estonia a WALESTONIA FESTIVAL DAY will take place at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff Bay on Friday, 17 October. A great chance to experience all things Estonian – music, dance, culture and food as part of the WALESTONIA FESTIVAL 2008.
There will be a photo exhibition by Estonian photographers Age Peterson, Birgit Püve and Annika Haas displayed in the Church Gallery upstairs and plenty to taste and learn about Estonia downstairs during the whole day between 10am and 5pm. Entrance to the Norwegian Church Arts Centre is FREE.
The highlight of the day will be an evening concert by the Estonian-Welsh duo Sild and Estonian folk trio Klapp including the official opening of the exhibition. Martin Leamon (guitar & bouzouki) and Sille Ilves (fiddle, vocals & hiiu-kannel) formed Sild, a unique Welsh–Estonian collaboration in 2001 since then their constantly evolving music has developed into a truly original fusion of two different musical cultures. Support comes from Klapp, a trio who are inheritors of the dance music traditions of the South East Estonian region of Setumaa.
A series of events will take place this autumn in Wales celebrating the Welsh and Estonian shared heritage of expressing national identity through the arts. To mark the 90th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia more than 30 concerts, performances, exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and other joint Welsh and Estonian projects take place in Cardiff, Penarth, Swansea, Newport, St Donat, Aberystwyth, Llanfyllin and Hay-on-Wye as part of the WALESTONIA FESTIVAL.
The Right Honourable Rhodri Morgan AM, First Minister for Wales:
"The WALESTONIA Festival brings together two small but proud countries who enjoy celebrating their distinctive national cultures and who therefore can understand each other in a way other bigger countries cannot. We welcome the fact that Estonia chooses to mark its 90th anniversary as a republic with celebrations in Wales. As First Minister I have had the pleasure of visiting Estonia and in welcoming a number of its senior political leaders to Wales."
Please see the festival website www.walestonia.com or the Norwegian Church Arts Centre website www.norwegianchurchcardiff.com for further information.
 
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