Your Tallinn hit list: the top 5 events this week

14 September 2026 – 20 September 2026

Not sure where to be this week? Every week, in partnership with Gamma, we present a hand-picked selection of the five most compelling events taking place in and around Tallinn – it’s time to plan your week with purpose.

Pickle based comedy show

Heldeke!, Tööstuse 13, Tallinn

Tuesday, 15 September, from 7pm

Liam Duffy’s Pickle Based Gameshow arrives at Tallinn Fringe fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, Gothenburg Fringe, FinFringe, and Mayhoots Comedy Festival, which means it has been road-tested across Europe and the pickles have survived every single stop.

The premise is exactly what it sounds like and somehow better than you are imagining: two lucky audience members have their intelligence, perseverance and crunch put to the test through a series of games that engage all the senses and abandon most of the rules. Your host is Liam Duffy — complex, intelligent, sleazy, hilarious and hairy (by his own description). Whether to take one is a decision only you can make, and you will almost certainly not regret it.

Sauna social and bar

Heldeke!, Tööstuse 13, Tallinn

Wednesday, 16 September, from 5pm

Tallinn Fringe Sauna Social is exactly the kind of event a festival needs and rarely thinks to organise — a relaxed evening where artists and audiences can actually talk to each other, in a sauna, with over 100 whiskiehs available at the bar for when you emerge. Two unisex sauna sessions run from 17:30 to 19:30 and 20:00 to 22:00, with limited tickets per session to keep things comfortable. The bar is open with a full craft beer, wine, spirits, cocktail and extensive non-alcoholic drinks list for those who prefer their hydration less peaty.

The founders room

SecretBar, Roosikrantsi 3, Tallinn

Friday 18 September, from 7pm

The Founders Room is a curated gathering built around a simple premise: everyone in the room has a voice and everyone leaves with something useful. No stage, no audience, no keynote speaker talking at a crowd — just founders sitting together, sharing what is actually working, and saying out loud what most networking events never quite get to.

The format is structured enough to be productive and open enough to be honest. Peer hot seats put your business, product or online presence in front of the room for raw, unfiltered feedback from people who understand the specific pressures of building something. FalAgency runs a live audit of how your business shows up digitally and what needs to change, shares practical growth insights and leaves room for the kind of open networking where real conversations happen rather than business cards get exchanged. Your next breakthrough might already be in the room. The point of the evening is to find it.

Metal saturday

Rock Club Tapper, Tallinn

Saturday, 12 September, from 7pm

Zord, Pornogeneraattori & Wasteland Six at The Krypt and the venue, the only horror-themed bar in the Baltics and winner of Rock FM’s Event Organiser of the Year award, is a fitting home for an evening of this particular intensity.

Hungarian thrash metal band Zord, founded in Miskolc in 2000, make their Krypt debut as part of their Puritan Fury tour — three critically acclaimed albums and a relentless European touring schedule behind them, uncompromising old-school technical thrash metal with an aggressive edge that has earned them a solid underground reputation across the continent. Joining them from Finland are Pornogeneraattori, founded in the 1990s in Valkeakoski, who play aggressive old-school punk and hardcore and are, by most accounts, the best-kept secret in the Finnish punk scene — back active since 2025 and as productive as they have ever been. Opening the evening are Tallinn’s own Wasteland Six, a groovy metal band founded in 2023 whose apocalyptic battle narratives, heavy riffs, and commanding stage presence have established them as one of the more exciting acts to emerge from the local scene in recent years.

Seashore sailing

Peetri 12, Tallinn

Sunday, 20 September from 7am

Tallinn Coastal Sailing departs from Noblessner Marina for a relaxed journey along the Tallinn coastline, with room for up to six guests on board — intimate enough to feel like a private experience rather than a tour. The route heads into Tallinn Bay and follows the shoreline toward the harbour, offering a perspective on the city that most visitors never get: the towers of the Old Town rising above the coast, modern waterfront areas unfolding along the shore and the busy harbour entrance where ferries and cruise ships arrive from across the Baltic Sea. The pace is unhurried, the views are open, and the sea breeze tends to take care of the rest.

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