7 Dec 2025
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Interview: Léa Mysius, director of “Ava” at Stockholm Film Festival

In connection with the Stockholm International Film Festival, long feature film debutant Léa Mysius visited the Swedish capital presenting her film Ava and Your Living City had the chance to converse with her about directing and about having such a successful breakthrough with Ava. The film is also featured as the face of this year’s festival, om posters and […]

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Friday Playlist Music New Music Friday

Fresh Swedish Sounds: 10 Music Videos Not To Be Missed

The autumn may be here, but our Swedish musical favorites keep churning out loads of great music. And since so many of them have also been putting their visuals on the tunes, we decided to put together another round-up of recent Swedish music videos you definitely should not miss.  So crank up the volume and put […]

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Culture What's on: Stockholm

Art To Ring In Impalpable Wintry Cheer

The selection of art to see us through Stockholm’s change of fall into winter reminds me of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s “The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descended into the Heavens” – a continuous wall to ceiling manifold mirroring of her distinctive yellow-and-black whimsical bulbous gigantic pumpkin sculptures encapsulating us in a hilarious expansive 3D room […]

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Shopping Wine

10 French wine picks – all available in Sweden

The most prominent wine importers in Sweden were present at a wine-tasting event at Grand Hotel and Your Living City was invited. We took the opportunity to taste and find the most savoury, priceworthy and high-quality wines available in Sweden, so we can give you our recommendations. These are wines that you can enjoy in the […]

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Culture Movies

Stockholm Film Festival Director Git Scheynius Talks Gender Equality in the Movies

For nearly 30 years, Git Scheynius has been passionate about increasing female representation in the film industry and she knows what it takes to achieve this seemingly lofty goal. When it comes to gender equality in the movies, there’s a lot of talk about the wage gap between male and female actors, but there isn’t […]

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Beerfest! Stockholm’s best beer spots

If you are also a lover of the liquid gold that is beer, then you’re going to love this round-up of the best beer spots in Stockholm. We have carefully handpicked these bars and restaurants, because of the focus they have on beer both local and from every corner of the world; the large array they offer of […]

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Culture What's on: Stockholm

Art Transcending Boundaries

We hope that social, gender and national boundaries imbue those within a sense of cohesion, but then there is always the bird in its golden cage. And we assume those kept out often struggle for acceptance, but community norms would never continually evolve to yet higher planes on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs if the givens […]

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Affordable Art Fair Stockholm 2017

Affordable Art Fair is an event that exists all around the world where art is available for buying right on the spot. It stands for it’s quality and value and has a price range between 500kr-50,000kr. It is a very fun event where the visitors can see art, buy art, learn more about art and listen to art. […]

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Comedy Swedish Culture What's on: Stockholm

How To Become Swedish In 60 Minutes

Your Living City was invited to an extraordinary show, which ironically was about the most ordinary thing we have in our lives… the Swedes. Yes the Swedes and Swedishness, something we who live in Sweden deal with every day of our lives, but sometimes something so difficult to understand. If you, like me, have left your homeland and […]

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Art Camera Diaries with Karen

Camera Diaries – Light painting Stockholm

If you’ve ever been to magic show, you’ll be accustomed to seeing the magician perform fantastic tricks, but never sharing the secrets behind them to the audience, let alone to other magicians. Well the world of photography is not so different. Some of the best photographers may create a stunning image by combining camera techniques, light effects and […]

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