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At the international music and city festival Tallinn Music Week (TMW) last week, representatives from the UNESCO Cities of Music - Tallinn, Norrköping, Katowice and Veszprém - discussed the role of culture and music in addressing the refugee crisis.

The traditional Tallinn Day dictation will take place this Friday, 13 May, starting at 12 noon on Town Hall Square. Everyone interested in the Estonian language, students and adults alike, is welcome to test their language skills.

Tallinn Day will be celebrated for the 21st time on Sunday 15 May, but the first events to mark the city's birthday will take place on Friday 13 May.

Due to the Europe Day concert by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tallinn city centre, the intersections of Rävala puiestee with Lembitu and Lauteri streets and the squares of Teatri and Islandi will be closed to traffic today, 9 May from 6.30pm until midnight.

Filtri tee in the Kesklinn district will be closed to normal traffic on Sunday and Monday, 8 and 9 May from 9am to 11pm on the section from the Tallinn Central Bus Station to Veskiposti street. Restrictions do not apply to public transport and local residents.

From May, Tallinn's free Museum Sundays will be joined by The Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Põhja-Tallinn and the Gallery of Kaja Cultural Centre in Mustamäe.

A total of nine youth festivals will take place across Tallinn during the summer, focusing on extreme sports, street art and dance, and music. The summer of festivals kicks off on 14 May in Männi Park as part of Tallinn Day.

Although bulky waste is covered by the organised waste collection scheme and need to be handed over on a separate agreement with your waste collector, Tallinn residents will again be able to drop off bulky waste free of charge at all waste collection stations in Tallinn for a week (9-15 May) as part of Environment Month.

The Tallinn European Green Capital 2023 bureau opened an exhibition on Tallinn's biodiversity in Tammsaare Park, which will remain open until the end of May. The exhibition highlights Tallinn's more special and unusual species and their habitats.

This weekend, Tallinners can get involved in a series of community clean-ups and help make the city cleaner as part of the Let's Do It campaign. Helping hands are welcome in Põhja-Tallinn, Haabersti, Kesklinn, Nõmme and Kristiine districts, and activities take place on Friday and Saturday.