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64 international is quite directional. This was done due to the need to understand all of the bookings of Estonian groups happening during the three years of the Finnish festivals.

We can see that the division of booking comes more and more scattered among the Finnish festival pool (diagram 19). The maximum amount of Estonian programme per festival is four per year as the minimum is zero bookings. As the maximum median (in diagram 20) per festival is three performances. Most of the festivals have not booked Estonian performances, making the Estonian performances 2 % of the whole amount of booking. In fact, only three out of 15 festivals had booked an Estonian performance during the three operative years. From those three festivals, one had just one booking in three years, as the rest two had an Estonian performance or several in all three operational years.

Diagram 21: comparing Estonian programming to the whole of international programs 95 %

5 %

The amount of Estonian programs out of the whole international programming of Finnish Festivals based on MEDIAN of 3 operative

years of the Finnish pool

International Estonian 0 2 4 6 8 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

International MEDIAN compared to Estonian MEDIAN of programming in the Finnish festival pool

65 Estonian programme booked to the Finnish festival pool

"Ritariromaanin sivuja" /Kuninkaallinen kirahvi –teatteriseura (Giraffe Royal,

Narva, EST) 1

Clown Power – clownery laboratory, Giraffe Royal Theatre (EST) 1 Clown-power (Street Theatre), Giraffe Royal -teatteri (Narva, EST) 1 Hourailua kahdestaan (Teine taevas-teatteri, Sillamae, EST) 1

Moraali: Ugala Teatteri (Viro) (EST) 1

MYSTERY, Giraffe Royal (EE) 1

Opening on the Street On the way to the heart ”La strada cuore … ” Giraffe Royal

theatre (EST) 1

Dreams of a storyteller - Giraffe Royal Theatre, Estonia (EST) 1 Workshops

Workshop: Kangro/Ulfsak/Epner (EST) 1

WORKSHOP: Klovneria, St. Varkki (Giraffe Royal, Narva, Eesti) (EST) 1 WORKSHOP: Clownery-workshop/ Giraffe Royal, Estonia 1 Concerts/Music

Slava and Friends (EE) - jazz band 1

TRAD ATTACK! (EE) ”SHIMMER GOLD” TOUR - band 1

Side programme

Lecture - Ugala Theatre (EE) 1

Table 9: Estonian programming booked to Finnish festival pool in 3 operative years

Year Performances Entries Average

2016 1 10 0,1

2017 4 15 0,26666667

2018 7 15 0,46666667

2019 2 5 0,4

Table 10: The Estonian programme in Finnish festival pool divided to years

When compared to the international programming in general, the amount of Estonian programme is 5 % of all of the international bookings (diagram 21). In 2018, when Estonia was celebrating their 100 years since independency, there was a bit more Estonian performances booked (table 10). In 2018, there were all together seven performances of the whole amount of 14 Estonian performances booked to Finnish festivals.

66 The festivals that had booked the most Estonian performances during the three operative years were the Black and White Theatre Festival with a consistent booking of Estonian performances with nine in total, the ART-MASTER festival showcasing international Russian theatre and the Hango Teaterträff with the focus on Finnish- Swedish theatre. The groups, performers and workshops booked were Kangro/Ulfsak/Epner (a workshop), Giraffe Royale (performances and a workshop, all together 8 out of the 14), Teine Taevas theatre from Sillamäe, a lecture and a performance from Viljandi’s Ugala Theatre ass well a performance from two Estonian bands: Trad Attack and Slava and Friends (see in table 9).

When viewing the collaborative projects between Finnish and international actors (minus the Estonian-Finnish collaboration at this point), this is a crucial point of discovering whether the organisations have a mindset to enter international cultural cooperation.

When we look at the diagram 22, we can state that less than half of the Finnish festival pool truly engages into, or enables, cultural cooperation by hosting collaborative groups. There are clear distinctions between festivals, as the highest amount of collaborative bookings is done by one festival with the median of 4 such projects. The maximum of projects is five in a year, as the minimum again is zero. The festival that has the most of such projects and hosts them as a core activity (not only books but organizes the projects), is the R.E.A.D Reading EuropeAn Drama Festival. As presented on their sites, “The festival presents new European drama bringing together international theatre workers and makers that live in Finland.” (see more on values of the Finnish festivals from appendix 2).

67 Diagram 22: the collaborative projects in the Finnish festival pool 3 operative years

When looking into the Estonian-Finnish collaboration (in table 11), we can find a total of two projects in the Finnish theatre festival pool. In Lainsuojattomat Festival 2017, a group called Jalostamo2 from Finland and Eesti Draamateater from Estonia presented a joint performance Kädettömät (Käsist seotud) which translates to “tied hands”. It was written by the Finnish play writer Anna Lipponen and performed by actors from both theatres (jalostamo2.com). The other performance presented was hosted by Tampere Theatre Festival, called Just Filming. It was a Finnish-Estonian- Hungarian collaboration with Finnish director Kristian Smeds, actress Annamária Láng from Hungary and actor Juhán Ulfsak from Estonia (Eesti Institute, n.d. -d).

The Jalostamo2 and Eesti Draamateater play was supported by Estonian Institute 0 0,5 1 1,5 2 2,5 3 3,5 4 4,5 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

MEDIAN of Finnish Festivals collaborative projects of 3 operative years 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

Collaborative performances (FIN-other country) in the Finnish Festival Pool in 3 operative years

68 in Finland, as the Filming project was supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Estonia, Finnagora, Estonian Institute in Finland, Goethe-Institute Finnland and Balassi Institute in Helsinki. We can claim that the Estonian institute in Finland serves as a supporter to groups aiming to conduct collaboration between Finland and Estonia.

Table 11: The Finnish-Estonian collaborative projects in the Finnish Festival pool

When looking more closely into any other signs of cooperation, I found some other remarks of previous cooperation. A play PELKO/FEAR presented at Hango Teaterträff 2019 by Finnish performers Valkeapää and Hoffrén was coproduced with the Estonian contemporary performance venue Kanuti Gildi Saal, and also funded by TelepArt money by the Finnish Institute in Estonia (Finnish Institute in Estonia, n.d. -b). Turku International Puppetry Festival TIP Fest explained they have done cooperation many years with the NUKU (puppet) Theatre, and the organizers of Nuq Treff and the NUKU theatre leaders have visited each other many times (S. Soni, personal communication, March 8, 2018). R.E.A.D Reading EuropeAn Drama festival has hosted an Estonian performance in 2014, it was Piret Jaaks - To See Pink Elephants. This performance was supported by the Estonian Institute (R.E.A.D. Program, n.d.).

Total number of collaborative (EE-FI) performances the last 3 years

0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2019: 0, 2018: 0, 2017: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2019: 0, 2018: 0, 2017: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2018: 0, 2017: 0, 2016: 0 0 2019: 0, 2018: 0, 2017: 0 0 2019. 0, 2018: 0, 2017: 0 1 2019: 0, 2018: 0, 2017: 0 1 2018: 0, 2017: 1, 2016: 0 1 2018: 0, 2017: 1, 2016: 0

69 4.3.3. The Programming of the Estonian festival pool

When looking at the diagram 23, we can see an estimation of how Estonian theatre festivals book their programme. Surprisingly the biggest wedge goes to international booking with 45 %, as the domestic booking is 31 % of the whole booking average. The side program is the third biggest variable. Finnish bookings are 5 % of the average and the collaborative projects are 0-2 % of all the average booking.

Diagram 23: The Estonian Festival pool’s booking based on 13 festival’s 3 operative year averages The domestic booking information of the Estonian festival pool is presented in diagrams 24 and 25. As we can see, there is data presented from years 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, so the dispersion of entries between the years is quite big. The maximum number of domestic programming in one festival per year was 26, and some festivals even had a year with zero domestic programming.

From diagram 25 we can see, that the majority of the Estonian festivals move around five to eleven domestic programmes per festival. The actual average of the median is 5,69. Table 12 shows the difficulty of comparing the years with one another due to the dispersion. We can however state that most of the data collected comes from

31 % 45 % 2 % 5 % 0 % 17 %

The MEAN of Estonian Theatre Festival's booking based on the sample of 13 festivals 3 operative years

70 years 2017 and 2018, which was also the years of 100 years of independence in both Finland and Estonia.

Diagram 24: The Estonian Festival pool’s domestic bookings from 3 researched years

Diagram 25: Median of Estonian Festival’s domestic program from 3 operational years 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

The amount of domestic performances in Estonian Festivals from 3 operative years

Third 2018-2019: 72 Second 2016-2018: 75 First 2014, 2016, 2017: 80

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

MEDIAN of Estonian Festivals domestic program from 3 operative years

71

YEAR Entries Performances AVERAGE

2014 3 7 2,33333333

2016 9 54 6

2017 10 68 6,8

2018 12 70 5,83333333

2019 5 28 5,6

Table 12: The Estonian festival pool’s domestic booking by year

The international booking of the Estonian festivals is higher than the domestic, which is highly interesting, especially when compared to the Finnish pool. Diagram 26 presents more closely the international booking by the 13 Estonian festivals. What is quite extraordinary, is that all of the Estonian festivals had at least one international performance in three years, as the Finnish festival pool had festivals that had no international bookings during the three operative years. Also, the amounts of international programme per year in the Estonian pool are significant: when the domestic programme vary from 72 to 80 performances and events altogether (diagram 24), the international bookings go from 101 to 112 altogether. The maximum number of international core program is 26 in one festival, which is the same maximum as the domestic programme of the Estonian festivals. Per year the minimum of international bookings is also zero, so not all festivals are so focused in booking international. However, even these festivals have had one performance in three years that is calculated as international.

Diagram 26: the Estonian festival pool’s international performances in three operative years 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

The amount of international performances in Estonian