2. 27.09 the Foraging and Movement Festival in Paide

27.09 the Foraging and Movement Festival in Paide

3. Sep 2025

🍂 September 27, 2025 — We invite everyone to Paide for the Foraging and Movement Festival! 🍂
The festival brings together different languages, traditions, and stories, opening a sporty weekend.
It’s a family-friendly day full of exciting activities, the joy of movement, discoveries, and tastes. All peoples living in Estonia are warmly welcome!

🍂 From 10:00 to 16:00 there will be an autumn market at Paide Central Square, Tallinna Street, and the Wittenstein Activity Museum.
The fair will feature handicrafts, farm products, forest goods, preserves, world cuisines, street food, and other interesting items perfect for an autumn fair.
Vendors, please contact: +372 5549899 or info@wittenstein.ee.

🍂 At Paide Central Square you can enjoy exciting performances:

  • The day will begin with Arhailised Mehed, Albu Simmeldajad, and Albu Ärmoonikud.

  • 11:00 a.m. Organ Concert at Paide Holy Cross Church
  • At 11:30, slackline world champion Jaan Roose will walk high above the ground on a rope across the central square – from the tower of Paide Holy Cross Church to the SA Järvamaa building.

  • 12:00 – Sing Along style concert with GERLI PADAR and piano accompaniment

  • 13:00 – Ruslan ja Rute Trochynskyi concert

  • 14:15 – “LOTTE and ROOSI” concert – Gerli Padar and Camilla Parmas

  • 15:00 – Live Saxophone + EDM – Gunnar Laanejõe & Alessandro Minimo (UKR)
    Program subject to change.

For children, there will be farm animals, bouncy castles, face painting, kids’ runs, and more fun activities.

🍂Next to Paide Muusikakool

At 10:30 begins the competition ‘Paide’s Most Beautiful Dog.’
Categories: Child and Dog, Above- and Below-the-Knee Dogs, Best Trick Dog.
The dog sports Hoopers and Rally Obedience will be introduced.
Info and pre-registration: Paide Dog Club NGO, Tel. 5168333, Marika.Helenurm@gmail.com, or on-site from 10:00. Participation fee: €10.”

🍂 At Wittenstein Activity Museum:

  • Master workshops led by craftspeople of different nationalities from 11.00-16.00.

  • Kazimiera Vellemaa makes hanging flower baskets from grass.
  • Natalia Haug makes Embroidered Doves – Symbols of Peace and Love. In this workshop, we will create textile doves – symbols of peace and love. We will decorate them with beads and colorful pearls, reflecting on the meaning of each color in Ukrainian culture.
  • In blacksmith´s chamber Tõnu Traks introduces blacksmiths work

  • Mushroom exhibition

  • Vegetable preserves competition – for participating please bring your vegetable preserve to the administrator table (Tallinna tn 9/11, Paide) in the previous day or by 11.00 on 27th of September. 

  • In Wittenstein Activity Museum the Folk Costume Advisory Center has prepared an exciting program:

    11:00–12:00 Lecture by Lembe Maria Sihvre on historical aprons worn in Estonia

    12:00–12:30 Mari Pukk from Hylda OÜ introduces the restoration of patterns from historical aprons and kerchiefs in the museum’s collection

    13:30–15:00

    • Demonstration workshop: sewing an apron with a reconstructed pattern from Türi parish (led by Margot Marks)

    • Sewing a tobacco pouch with tassels, based on a traditional Türi woman’s design (led by Tiia Kontus and Silvia Aarma)

    15:00 Presentation of the reconstructed apron from Türi parish (PM 328-E 53:2) and the Türi woman’s tobacco pouch (ERM 14861) to the Järva County Museum

The event is FREE!

From 10.00-16.00 Paide cafes offer:

  • Treeger Café (Tallinna tn 27) – rich selection of pastries

  • Central Square Café (Vee tn 1)– Armenian and Georgian cuisine

  • Borscht Café (Tallinna tn 3) – Ukrainian cuisine

  • Wabakohvik (Pikk tn 1) – healthy food

  • Emmeliine Café (Väike-Aia tn 20) – Estonian cuisine

  • In the Activity Museum yard (Tallinna tn 9/11) – foods from different historical eras of the Time Center

  • Kreisi Tavern (Rüütli 2) – traditional Estonian tavern food

🍂 As part of the 43rd Viking Window Paide-Türi Public Run:

  • 15:30 Paide children’s run – 1 km

  • 16:00 Paide children’s run – 2 km

  • 16:20 Paide children’s run – 0.45 km

  • 19:30 Paide Heart Jog

Runs will take place on Pärnu Street, in front of Paide Music and Theatre Hall.
More information and registration: https://www.rahvajooks.ee/et/

🍂 20:30–21:30 – Opening concert of Viking Window Paide-Türi Public Run at Paide E-Piim Sports Hall.
Performance by STEFAN!

This event is part of the Estonian Folk Culture Centre’s activities supported by the European Social Fund and the Ministry of Culture (ESF-KUM) under the program of supporting community activities that promote integration.