20 Apr 2026
Culture
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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Community Cooking Culture Lifestyle Swedish Culture

Treat Baking Enthusiasts To A Cookbook On Scandinavian Baking

Have you delighted your friends with your homemade Swedish cinnamon buns, ginger snaps or rye bread? And they are now wondering what good recipe books on Scandinavian baking can they lay their hands on? Ones where this European region’s baking’s well-being is celebrated with cakes made with real butter? Ones where entire festivals are dedicated […]

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Creative Arts Movies Uncategorized

Stockholm Film Festival focuses on female directors

Sweden’s most important film festival is around the corner, as with every edition the festival opens submissions of films of all kinds, styles and origins. Today together with the face of this year’s festival poster, it has has been announced that 50% of the participant films in the Stockholm XXVIII Competition will be directed by women. The movie […]

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Creative Arts Travel

YLC Travel – 4 days of art at the Venice Biennale

So you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed about the fact that autumn has come and decided to settle in the Swedish capital. Perhaps you are still not ready to surrender to the chilly temperatures or the gloomy looking days. Well, why not brightenup the autumn with a quick and inspiring escapade that will lift […]

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Culture What's on: Stockholm

The Art of Positive Emotions

  When artists seek to take us beyond the norm, we encounter art that engages well beyond the visible and the audible. We become immersed in the works’ scent, thoughts, emotions, memories and esoteric through playful surrealism, creative energy, music’s spirit, the expectant ticking of serene silences… … and through it all the problems of […]

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Music Videos

Your Living City Music presents Trekillar live at Stortorget

Trekillar is a Mexican trio that plays traditional Mexican music, or as they like to put it themselves, they bring “your unusual Mexican sound”. Your Living City had the chance to catch them live at the famous Stortorget in the heart of Gamla Stan at an impromptu and unannounced performance that caught tourists and locals alike […]

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Wine

South African wines – the new wave in Sweden

Your Living City was invited to a special wine tasting with the main representatives of South African wines in Sweden. We had the chance to try out the novelties, the established wines and some other South African specialities. The wine market in Sweden has been in favor of traditional wines from well-known terrains such as France and […]

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Music New Music Friday

New Music Friday: Tove Styrke makes us wanna make mistakes

New Music Friday alert! One of our very favorite Swedish artists Tove Styrke has a new single out! A few months ago, Tove Styrke released her first new offering since her excellent 2015 album Kiddo. And she did everything right on that one. Say My Name garnered the interest of people like Lorde, Lena Dunham […]

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Festivals Music

In Pictures: Popaganda – the Summer’s Last Festival

Popaganda has become something of an institution in Stockholm, the pop fan’s dream that officially ends the festival summer. The festival started out 15 years ago at Frescati, but for the last 10 years the location has been Eriksdalsbadet in the southernmost part of Södermalm. And the location is just perfect for the last hurrah […]

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