Festivals - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

of specialists and other interested people are engaged in ensuring the success of the
event in terms of art, music, the media, children’s activities, heritage, the environment,
drama, literature and technology.
Supilinn Days has brought about an “awakening of Supilinn,” which has spread to a
number of other districts of Tartu and they have started to organise their city district
days as well. www.supilinn.ee
Regiöö, Festival of Archaic Art in Tartu, Estonia
Regiöö is an international and interdisciplinary festival of archaic art, which presents
the worldview and traditions from Estonia as well as the Baltic area in general through
music, dance, traditional food and handicraft. The event focuses on the special features
of the Estonian local cultural heritage amidst the archaic traditions of Europe.
During this festival a song-bridge takes place, available to internet users all over the
world, and presents Estonia as a region with innovative thought. Here the archaic
supports of the cultural ground meet with innovative technology, thus generating an
information technology space for our ancestral worldview.
The target group of the event is everyone who values unique heritage of their ancestors,
and its applications designed for the future.
In the centre of the Festival of Archaic Art stands the runo song in its original, syncretic
environment – daily routines, tools, clothing and food intertwined with music and
singing. In their concerts and workshops the specialists of different fields will help us
create this kind of environment.
The patroness of the festival is ethnomusicologist Ingrid Rüütel.
Regiöö 2003 consists of the following components:
Concerts of archaic song, folk hymns and runo song transformations from
different countries;
Workshops: Singing of runo songs with the specialists, who also explain mythological
backgrounds of the songs;
Storytelling workshops: Fairytales and other stories from Estonian tradition as well
as other countries;
Dancing corner - Free stage: Old songs, dances and round dances from Estonia
and other countries;
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Joint singing with the help of RealVideo: Joint singing of archaic songs via internet
bridge between Tartu and its partners.