Events

This year Tallinn is the European Green Capital and the city and the organizers of the festival have worked hard for two years to decrease the environmental footprint of the song and dance festival.

No single-use dishes

Such a large number of people have never been fed with reusable dishes in Estonia before—both performers and spectators get their food from reusable dishes.

We also encourage every visitor to bring their own dishes and water bottle and buy food and drinks directly in them. The event locations are equipped with public water taps.

Thanks to the reuse requirement, almost half a million disposable dishes remain unused. In this way, the generation of about three and a half tons of waste is prevented.

Recycling

A total of 70 waste collection points have been created in the Song Festival Ground alone, where you can find boxes for collecting waste by type.

In addition to the participants-visitors of the song and dance party, the traders themselves must also collect waste by type – from souvenir providers to caterers.

We collect metal and plastic beverage cartons, packaging, bio-waste and mixed household waste with the deposit packaging label separately.

There will also be volunteer green ambassadors at all events, who will explain to visitors how waste is collected by type and the return of deposit items works, where to find water taps, etc.

Transport

During the dance and song festival, public transport in Tallinn is free for everyone.

On Saturday and Sunday, Tallinn operates separate shuttle buses to both the dance and song party, so that people do not have to use personal cars. Buses run at 5-minute intervals.

By the end of the song festival, TLT will put out its entire tram fleet to help people from Kadriorg to the city center.

We have created bike parking lots to make it easy to come to the song party by bike.

We have also made agreements with electric scooter companies to create a separate place for scooter parking.

Greenery

To celebrate the European Green Capital Year and the 13th Youth Song and Dance Festival, the city of Tallinn, together with the Tallinn collectives participating in the festival, planted 150 trees in 22 different locations across the city in schoolyards, youth center areas, playgrounds and sports fields.

In addition, in cooperation with the Estonian Handicraft Teachers’ Society, the Estonian Folk Art and Handicraft Union and the organizing team of the youth song and dance party, 22 Tallinn schools made 76 flower boxes, where they planted native Estonian flowers. Two small park areas were formed from the boxes in the middle of the city.