{"id":123623,"date":"2023-09-27T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=123623"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T09:36:11","slug":"the-biggest-cultural-event-of-the-year-in-parnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/the-biggest-cultural-event-of-the-year-in-parnu\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest cultural event of the year in P\u00e4rnu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">For three evenings in a row this week, the city of P\u00e4rnu will be ablaze with light and sound for the annual \u00d6\u00d6valgel (\u201cwhite night\u201d in English) light festival. After the sun sets on Thursday, Friday and Saturday visitors will be able to see a number of stories told through light, video projections and live performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The light festival \u00d6\u00d6valgel has become an annual institution in P\u00e4rnu, fast rising to become the biggest cultural event in the city, despite it only returning for the fourth time this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The festival, which traditionally takes place during the last weekend of September, will see light theatre shows performed at various locations around the city. The shows, which always have a living person as the main character include the performance \u201cDear Moon\u201d that depicts a person\u2019s search for inner strength. The performance also includes music from the popular Estonian folk band TRAD.ATTACK!.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The full programme of the festival, which is the same on each night, is available on the official <span class=\"s1\">\u00d6\u00d6valgel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oovalgel.ee\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">website<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Entry to the festival shows is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s4\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00d6\u00d6VALGEL AFTERMOVIE 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IsR1N58nwgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For three evenings in a row this week, the city of P\u00e4rnu will be ablaze with light and sound &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":107669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,24,47],"tags":[19582,287,13204,13300,15625,16244,19541,19581],"class_list":["post-123623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vapaa-aika","category-kulttuuri","category-culture","tag-video-projections-2","tag-trad-attack","tag-parnu-2","tag-culture","tag-folk-2","tag-light-festival","tag-oovalgel-3","tag-light-theatre-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123627,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123623\/revisions\/123627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}