Call for Donations: Give Old Music Items a New Life as Festival Decorations

The visual world of the brand-new Tartu Punch festival, taking place on July 3–4 at Tartu Laululava, is built on contrasts — old and new, retro and futuristic, ordinary and extravagant. To bring this vision to life, the festival is launching a donation campaign inviting people to contribute unused music-related items for the creation of the festival’s visual environment.

Open Call:

Do you have retired music-related items collecting dust or rust in a corner of your room, attic, basement, garage, storage space, or somewhere else entirely? CD or vinyl records, cassette tapes, speakers, radios, tape recorders, musical instruments, posters, record sleeves, cables, headphones, disco balls — or maybe even old televisions or something more unexpected? Instead of sending them to the landfill, donate them to our deco team! They have a special talent and a strong desire to reincarnate these forgotten objects into festival decorations at Tartu Punch. Please write to: karentammsaar@hotmail.com and let us know what kind of treasure you’re sitting on and where it’s located. Please include a photo of the items in your email if possible. We are endlessly grateful in advance!

“Music doesn’t exist only on stage, but also in the things surrounding us — objects, memories, visual rhythms,” explains deco team lead Karen Tammsaar. Tartu Punch’s artistic vision draws inspiration from the physical traces of music culture and the sounds of urban space. Through reuse, the fading becomes alive and modern again, finding new life in installations and spatial design.