{"id":133927,"date":"2024-05-28T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=133927"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T06:54:26","slug":"literature-lovers-descend-on-tallinn-for-theheadread-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/literature-lovers-descend-on-tallinn-for-theheadread-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature lovers descend on Tallinn for the&#8221;HeadRead&#8221; festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The 7-day long Estonian Literature Festival \u201cHeadRead&#8221;, which translates into English as \u201cGoodRead\u201d, will take place in various venues across Tallinn during the next week (May 29-June 2). The festival offers literature enthusiasts a varied programme including meetings, conversations, music, theatre and literary walks from more than 30 international and local authors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The festival will kick off with a poetic bang tomorrow evening (May 29), with the S\u00f5prus Cinema in Tallinn\u2019s old town playing host to the premiere of <b>Vladimir Loginov<\/b>\u2019s experimental film on the poetry of <b>Sveta Grigorjeva<\/b>. The opening day\u2019s events, however, will have a focus on the young, with performances from the graduating class of the Theatre School of the Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium (VHK),<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>as well as conversations at the Estonian Children\u2019s Literature Centre, including with internationally respected Estonian author <b>Leelo Tungal<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Foreign guests to the week-long festival include British historian, author and TV presenter <b>Lucy Worsley<\/b>, Sami author Tina Marnesk, and French contemporary youth theatre author <b>Nathalie Papin<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">You can find out more about the festival and its full programme on the official \u201cHeadRead\u201d website <a href=\"https:\/\/headread.ee\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The 7-day long Estonian Literature Festival \u201cHeadRead&#8221;, which translates into English as \u201cGoodRead\u201d, will take place in various venues &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":133939,"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":[47],"tags":[16229,21934,21935,21936,21937],"class_list":["post-133927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-literature","tag-headread-2","tag-leelo-tungal-2","tag-literature-festival","tag-lucy-worsley"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133927","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=133927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133929,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133927\/revisions\/133929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}