Estonian LineDance Festival - Pärnu, Aug 4&5th

    We had a great time this week-end with all the participants of the linedande Festival in Pärnu. thanks to some our volunteers, we could have this video. One more is coming and I'll post it when I will receive the link.

Just a little bit more...

Hello dear readers,

    Just a reminder about our Linedance Festival. I've juct checked and we should have a normal weather, not so hot but not rainy. So please come and join us. 

    Not only we will have this record attemps but also a nice concert on sunday in Vaalikaar. Our visitors will be able to buy food and drinks from Kaia and her kitchen. I've been here 6 months and not a single time she disappointed me with the food she made for us in the organisation. 

    So please come, better if you register before but not necessary. Check our facebook page to know the latest updates.

A little help for my friend Gaia

Hello dear readers,

Today I bring you the video of my friend Gaia, an italian volunteer in Tartu. Her project is to make videos of NGOs, organisations, youth centers, etc, etc to make them visible. I asked for her help to shoot the video of our linedance festival and in particular of our Guiness world record attempt. She kindly accepted to do it so I return the favor for her project.

Please people of Estonia, share it, like it or sleep on it if you like but Help her. She needs our help.

Estonian Linedance Festival (Aug. 4th & 5th, 2012): record broken!!!

Dear Readers,

We received a thrilling news a few days ago. A group of people in the USA broke our record by around 200 people, the official number being 2569 beating our record of 2354 people. So now we definitely need our 3000 people to come!!!!

Please register now in our website (linefest.com) for the chance to get a  discount for registration before July 1st!!! You can contact us through our website, or write us directly at kaie@estonianlinedance.com or info@noorusemaja.ee or simply drop me a email.

Come one, join the fun!!!!

Share the news with your friends, colleagues, families.

We can accomodate people in wheelchairs if needed!! 

Estonian LineDance Festival (Aug 4th & 5th, 2012)

Hello everybody,

     As Summer is coming very fast, you have to decide what to do for your holidays. Here is an excellent idea. You can come and enjoy a few days in the Estonian summer capital dancing with lots of people. We need your participation as we want to beat a guiness world record, the longest single line dance. So please visit our webpage to register or send me an email,  we will do you best to answer you as fast as possible. Do not hesitate to share the poster or any information about our festival to anyone who might be interested.

Promotional video for the Estonian Linedance Festival (August 4&5th, 2012)

To my friends around the world and the others, here is a small promotional video about the LineDance Festival Nooruse Maja is organising. It will happen on August 4&5th this year in Pärnu. You will have the chance to be part of a world record, the longest single line of dancers!! We want to overdance our own record so help us beat it!!!!

For more informaiton, visit: www.linefest.com All the information needed to get registered is there!! No matter if you're valid or in a wheelchair, you can come.

The city of Pärnu

After a few weeks of adaptation in the city I will stay during the coming months, I will present you the city of Parnu or Pärnu as they write it in Estonian.

5th city of the country, Pärnu is located on the Baltic Sea in the South West of Estonia. Due to her location, she was a key port for the german Hanseatic League since the port was free from ice during winters. More recently, since the middle of the 19th century, she became a famous spa and seaside town. The first spa opened in 1838 and in 2004, the Tervis spa was then the largest of its kind in the Baltic states. The tourism industry strongly developed since the 2^nd independance and they were the first city in the region to obtain the Blue Flag which states the quality of its waters.

The city was also the stage of some landmark events for Estonia. The first ever newspapers in Estonian, the Posttimees, was published there in 1857. The Manifest for independance of the country was read in front of the Endla Theatre on February, 23rd 1918. There is a copy of the speech on the former location of the Endla theater. Every year, they organise the Ice Festival with sport events (ice hockey, cross country ski, ice fishing, basket ball, etc), ice sculpture, music and singing events, etc. The city or organisations from the town organise lots of festivals especially during summer time like the GrillFest (June 8th and 9th), the Porcelain Days (July, 27-29th), the LineDance Festival (August, 4-5th), etc. 

 the coat of arm, the official logo and the flag of Pärnu

Pärnu in facts :

Inhabitants : 44,024 (2009, numbers from the 2012 census unknown)

Area : 32,2 km²

128 km from Tallinn and 180 km from Riga (Latvia capital)

Official website of the city : http://www.parnu.ee/lang/eng/

Tourism information: http://www.visitparnu.eu/

Wikipage : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A4rnu

A little bit of auto-promotion: Wheelchair dancing.

As I can go to any class to check them and see for myself what they were doing, I went to a class given by Kaie, the folk and line dance teacher. I was surprised to see the doors of the dancing hall open during a workshop, something that normally doesn’t happen to avoid the noise in the other class. But it was for a good reason. That afternoon, the dance class wasn’t for valid but for wheel chair people. That is really cool of the teacher to organize such activities even though she is valid, she also uses a wheel chair to dance like them.

The Silver Wheels dancing in a contest

Even when Nooruse Maja is organising their annual Linedance festival, they are not left on the side of the road. No pun intended here but one the main event of the festival is a single line dance on a road in the countryside. It could be perfectly understandable for the organizers not to care about wheel chair people but they decided to include them in the program, in the dancers. They accounted for 1% (29 people for 2354 dancers) of the total participants for the Guinness world record they achieved in June 2008. Record we hope to break this year with more than 3000 people. I’ll be there to tell you all the latest news about it and more!

The Silver wheels during the Line Dance Festival

For pictures of wheel chair line dance, go there. For the linedance festival, click here.

Pictures courtesy of Kaie Seger, dance teacher at Nooruse Maja.