We have compiled a comprehensive programme both for the participants in the Convention and for those accompanying them.
Our intention in drafting the programme has been to meet the expectations of members who want to learn and experience something new to enhance their professional skills, and also to provide a good experiential background to the training and discussions during the workshops organised together with the WFTGA.
In 2011 Tallinn will be the European Capital of Culture, and naturally this became the underlying idea for our whole programme.
The Theme for the Convention – Culture as a Unifying Guide – is that although people in the whole world have different backgrounds, history, traditions, values, religious beliefs etc., as long they love and cherish their own and want to share it with other people, they can understand and respect what is strange and different. In this way culture acts as a guide – helping people to find their way in understanding the world.
In our Programme different aspects of Culture appear in various formats such as lectures, tours, performances, film, work-shop discussions and evening events, and even during free time, throughout the whole convention. So that guests do not lose their bearings amongst everything that is going on, the organising team has given each day a keyword or theme.
Monday – Medieval Culture, (format: lecture, tour, medieval dinner)
Tuesday – National and Traditional Culture, (lecture, work-shops, bus-tour, museum visit, film)
Wednesday – Contemporary Culture, (lecture, work-shops, free time and free entrance to all Tallinn museums, evening entertainment in the Culture Cauldron)
Thursday – Alternative Culture, (lecture, work-shops, free time and free entrance to all Tallinn museums,)
Friday – The Role of the Culture Guide in Today’s Changing World (work-shop discussions, conclusion at plenary session).
Tallinn Guide Association is committed to providing the best possible presentation of the host country during the Convention and offering an even deeper insight with the pre and post tours. The added value for the participants coming from faraway countries is offered by the programme of the post tour where, in cooperation with the Latvian Guide Association, we have included a visit to Riga, the largest city in the Baltic States.
