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If a picture says a thousand words, Ninna Thorarinsdottir has already produced a small encyclopaedia on Water for Development, the topic of this year’s World Water Week. Ninna is a Göteborg-based designer and illustrator from Iceland and one of the artists at the conference, which is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. Her project, RainWall, is […]
Australian Stockholmers Dan Paech and Dee Forker are launching what they plan to be a series of running events under the name of Stockholm Trail Racing. The first race will take place on September 6th at Hellasgården. Dan Paech is the man behind Run With Me Stockholm, who organise guided tours where tourists can hook […]
The Swedish Cricket Federation celebrates its 25th Anniversary, as well as being accepted as members of the Swedish Sports Confederation, with a special cricket match at Gärdet in Stockholm on Saturday the 22nd of August. The match pits Embassy staff from different cricket playing countries against Swedes, who have learned cricket in Sweden. Cricket was […]
Aftonbladet’s Rockbjörnen Awards celebrate live music and are voted on by the readers. This year’s award show was brought to Kungsträdgården during the We Are STHLM festival and attracted a large and predominantly young audience. We present some photos by our resident rock photographer Nina Uddin.
This year’s Stockholm Culture Festival puts the spotlight on the UK and offers all forms of culture from music to contemporary circus to dance – all for free. We’ve put together some of our top picks from the programme day-by-day. Tuesday 11th August The opening day’s must-see act is the Tensta Gospel Choir, who are […]
Once again August is promising to be an awesome month when it comes to live music and festivals in Stockholm. We’ve put together our best picks of outdoor events you should not miss this month. Stockholm Music and Arts Music and arts take over Skeppsholmen once again, as the festival celebrates its fourth year at […]
Meet Linnea Södahl – a song-writer starting to make her mark in the Stockholm music scene, and an artist in her own right. She’s one quarter Swedish, one quarter Finnish, one quarter Danish and one quarter Norwegian – so let’s just call her Nordic, shall we? Oh, and she was born in South Africa, out […]
For over 70 years Parkteatern has allowed Stockholmers and its heaps of summer visitors to enjoy the fine arts in a very Swedish way: always outside and always for free – a contained manifestation of Allemansrätten. Naturally, then, YLC recommends that you take in at least one Parkteatern show before the warm blues and greens of summer shift to the chilly red […]
Stockholm has seen some amazing races already this year but if you haven’t taken part in one yet, don’t panic: there are still loads of races coming up! From running during midnight to running through mud, here are our tips for 10 of the best races coming to Stockholm in the second half of 2015. […]
It’s high time to bring out some party tunes for your summer! Here’s our all-Swedish, all-awesome playlist of fresh new music to get your summer party dancing! This Spotify playlist includes the latest from Sweden’s pop princess Zara Larsson as well as the hip hop queen Linda Pira. We’ve also got Alcazar doing a gem […]
