KENA

Want to learn Estonian? 🇪🇪 Here's your chance! Prof. Kadri Tüür invites you to enrol or audit her courses at the University of Toronto this fall semester! 🍁

Choose from three exciting courses:

🍎EST100H1 F: Elementary Estonian
🐦EST200H1 F: Intermediate Estonian
🎬 EST205H1F: Estonian Cinema

Enrol through Acorn 🌱 or e-mail [email protected] to audit!

EST100H1 F Elementary Estonian I

Monday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Learn essential Estonian vocabulary, basic grammar and develop elementary conversational competence. Popular songs, poetry, and structured dialogue are among the various tools for achieving these objectives. Students will learn commonly used phrases and expressions used in everyday situations, from greeting people to making purchases in stores, and ordering meals in cafes. The course is designed for students with either no fluency or minimum fluency in Estonian. 

Auditors welcome!

EST200H1 F Intermediate Estonian I

Tuesday 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Thursday 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

This course develops the student’s language skills via an exploration of Estonian culture - including its music, literature, film and media. Each of these areas will be examined through readings, writing about one’s impressions, and speaking about them to others in the class. The course consists of a combination of both classroom and web-based learning. The course is open to students with some fluency in Estonian.

EST205H1 F Estonian Cinema

Friday 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM 

This course provides an introduction to Estonian cinema: feature films, documentaries, and animation films. 

The topic of the course this time is: People on the move. We will explore a selection of films that include travelling, road trips, movement in sports, but also violent dislocations and deportations, all part of the Estonian experience. Taught in English, all films have English subtitles. The course involves each student watching some movies online outside scheduled classroom meeting times.

✨Thank you to everyone who came out to our Toronto Island BBQ! ✨🏝️

We had such a lovely time grilling 🍔, playing games🎯, and making s’mores 🔥! Perhaps we’ll make this an annual tradition? 🤔

A special shoutout to our volunteers and clean-up crew who helped us bring everything (and everyone) over on the pirate taxi and to clean up afterwards! 🏴‍☠️

Huge thank you to Estonian Central Council in Canada for funding this event. These sweet shots were captured by ruudi productions, who I’m told have another surprise up their sleeve 👀

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✨Suuuured tänud kõikidele kes tulid meie piknikule Toronto saartel!  🏝️✨

Naersime, sõime burkse 🍔, mängisime mange🎯, tegime s’mores🔥. Tänud meile grillimeistritele ja usinatele abilistele kes aitasid meil kraami (ja inimesi) piraadi taksoga kohale viia ja platsi puhtaks koristada. 🏴‍☠️

Mis te arvate, kas suvine piknik peaks toimima igal aastal? 🤔

Täname südamest Eesti Kesknõukogu Kanadas (EKN) toetuse eest. Imeilusad pildid tegid meile Ruudi
Productions, kellel on veel üllatusi teile!

✨BALTIC NIGHT✨ at Drom Taberna!

Join hypnosis negative (🇪🇪 🇨🇦), Honeypaw (🇫🇮 🇱🇹) , and Latvian Kitchen Party (🇱🇻) for a night of community dancing🕺, singing🎶, and jamming🪗! Have a song in your heart? Have an instrument? Bring it with you! Song "books" will be available to encourage you to sing along and learn some new tunes!

📍Drom Taberna , 458 Queen St W, Toronto
🗓️Monday, August 17th
⌛ Doors at 6:30pm, event 7-9pm
🎟️Tickets PWC

🪩😵‍💫➖Hypnosis Negative (Katariina Tirmaste - Estonia/Alan Mackie-Canada) – a psychedelic display of dance music the colour of the middle of the night and the texture of winding city streets. Fiddle and flute power a massive and fiercely danceable sound that sits at the unreal intersection of folk music, jazz fusion, and EDM, amplifying the spirit of old village parties through the loudspeaker of the 21st century.

🍯🐾🌿Honeypaw plays microtonal math-folk with the vision to create enchanting soundscapes inspired by their Finnic and Baltic cultures. Since 2019, Toronto based Interdisciplinary artists Jurgita Zvinklyte and Matti Palonen have been developing repertoire from early wax cylinder recordings and archival material dating back to the 1500s.

🇱🇻🍽️🕺Latvian Kitchen Party - A merry band of local musicians ready to make you sing and dance to some baltic tunes! They invite you to bring your instruments along and jam along :)

‼️GIVEAWAY‼️Together with Estonian Central Council in Canada we are giving away free KESKfEST tickets to the Noortemöll/Next Gen Party 🪩🕺🏻and Salakõrts 🍺(Friday August 21st ) for you and a friend!

The party kicks off beneath the KESKfEST festival tent with an electrifying pop-funk show from Estonia’s own Arg Part 🐤. The party continues across the street at Salakõrts (19+), with an afterparty & Beer Pong 🍺😎 Tournament / “Õlleturniir”

To enter,

✅Follow us KENA on social media
✅Fill out our member survey (link in bio)
✅♥️ This post
✅Tag a friend in the comments with whom you want to hit the salakõrts!

🤺Limit entry per person.
🥇Winners will be announced on Friday, August 14th!

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✨LOOS!✨EKN ja KENA loosivad välja tasuta KESKfEST piletid  Noortemöll/Next Gen Party ja Salakõrtsule (21.08) sinule ja su sõbrale!

Kuidas piletid endale saada?

✅Jälgi meid sotsiaalmeedias (Facebook/Instagram)
✅Täida meile KENA liikmeküsitluse (link bios)
✅pane sellele postitusele ♥️
✅märgi kommentaaridesse sõbra kellega soovid pidu panna!

🥇Kuulutame võitja välja 14.08
🥇Loosi saab ainult ühe korra ennast kirja panna

Join us for a summery BBQ on Toronto Islands Sunday August 16th at 3:00pm, shortly before KESKfEST celebrations begin! 🏝️✨

Come for the chance to meet up with Estonian youth from around the world, and stay for free food and games!

**Free food and drink will be provided to participants 35 and under who register beforehand and have signed up as KENA members for 2026 by filling out the membership survey. Register here:
https://forms.gle/rZZ3MRaKKJ7tjrZ96
Registration open until August 14th.

Summer is almost here and we're looking ahead to big events coming up! 🌞

Sign up to volunteer/attend - the deadline is June 16th! https://forms.gle/PQZ7BuQWG5UyGqQv5

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The first event is KESKUS International Estonian Centre opening 🎉 taking place in the heart of Toronto on August 20-23rd, 2026. With Estonian youth delegates coming from around the world, we're looking for youth in Canada to join us for the KESKUS celebrations and make everyone feel welcome in Canada!

In the week leading up to the opening (August 15-20), the Canadian Estonian Youth Network (KENA) and Estonian Worldwide Youth Network (ÜENV) will be organising some fun pop-up events and activities for everyone involved (including a picnic at the Toronto Islands!). 🧺🥂🍉Work with us to help introduce all the fun Toronto has to offer - your creative vision, presence, and ideas are most welcome! For example, coordinate a visit to a show or help us create a Toronto guide mini-zine.

The youth events culminate with an exciting KESKUS Noortekongress ('Youth Congress') 📢 on August 23rd which we kindly ask everyone to attend! More details will be coming soon (along with a potential name-change)!

Kotkajärve Metsaülikool (MÜ) 🌲🏕️⭐ takes place in the woods of Muskoka, Ontario, between August 24-30, 2026, in the days following KESKUS opening celebrations. is a unique annual week-long immersion program for anyone interested in exploring their Estonian heritage and nurturing their Estonian identity and language proficiency. The program offers an engaging line-up of lectures, workshops, folk dancing, sauna sessions, concerts, campfires and movie nights.

KESKUS opening events: https://www.estoniancentre.ca/opening

KESKUS newsletter sign-up: https://www.estoniancentre.ca/newsletter

MÜ registration (includes participation, accommodation, and food costs, as well as transportation to/from Toronto) : https://www.metsaulikool.ca/

👀👀👀 Plotting and scheming is underway for KESKUS opening (Aug 20-23) and Kotkajärve Metsaülikool (Aug 24-30)!

Together with the Global Estonian Youth Network (ÜENV) we have a few surprises up our sleeves... 🎩🧐🪄🕊️

Stay tuned for exciting opportunities coming your way - and let us know if you're already planning on attending! 🎉
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Thank you to everyone who came to our event last week!✨🎶 😌 Enjoy these beautiful shots taken by and .m 🥹

Thanks again to our co-hosts VEMU , our sponsor Estonian Central Council in Canada, our performers Honeypaw and Laura Legzdina, and our workshop instructor Dace Veinberga!

More to come!! 👀