23 Oct 2026
Culture
Culture Swedish Culture Uncategorized What's on: Stockholm

November’s Art Inspirations

We continue to use the fascinating theme of Swedish-based artists and their art in determining November’s selection of exhibitions. This time with a focus on the myriad range of mediums, techniques and points of inspiration employed, along with the messages they endeavour to communicate. And hopefully, these in turn will inspire many of you to […]

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Festivals Music

The Stockholm Jazz Festival

So the Stockholm Jazz Festival has come and gone.  Ten glorious days where you get to sample the very best that the jazz world has to offer right now.  Consider it a crash course in Jazz greats then and now.   Now if you happen to be one of those who missed all of it because […]

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Emeli Sandé in intimate settings at Nalen

The Scottish-Zambian singer ended her tour with the Stockholm show at Nalen. The beautiful venue provided a fitting setting for her soulful vocals. She would easily have been able to fill a larger hall in Stockholm, but the intimacy gave the audience an extra dimension to the live experience. Emeli Sandé released her debut album […]

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ON TV: Spectacular crimes in the land of the Midnight Sun

Fans of Nordic crime series have something spectacular to look forward to this autumn, when SVT’s new series Midnight Sun premieres on the 23rd of October. We had a little chat with two of the actors from the series, Gustaf Hammarsten and Sofia Jannok when SVT presented this season’s TV productions.   Måns Mårlind and […]

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Art Culture

From the gallery wall to your wall – It’s Affordable Art Fair!

There’s nothing art cannot achieve, from reproductions of reality, to artists interpretations of reality, from painting to photography… Whatever its form there’s something about art that captivates us all and makes us want to own it. And that’s why it’s so good to have Affordable Art Fair making it possible to own an unique art piece […]

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Wine

Australian wines for the autumn days

Your Living City was invited to try some of the wines that represent the flavours of Australia in Sweden. We were joined by Somelier Octavio Hernandez, from Monks Wine Room in Gamla Stan and asked him to make a selection of the best Australian wines to enjoy during the autumn days. “In this windy, cold and somewhat rainy […]

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Comedy Culture Theatre What's on: Stockholm

Improvised Troubadour Tales

International Theater Stockholm is bringing us Troubadour Tales – a new improvised show about dreams. It will run alongside their improv classic Lost in Translation this fall. What is Troubadour Tales? “Troubadour Tales” is a completely improvised show that explores how the pursuit of our dreams drives our lives. And all the obstacles we are willing to […]

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Culture Music

Maia Hirasawa releases first album in Swedish

Swedish-Japanese singer-songwriter Maia Hirasawa has just released her first ever album in Swedish, Vacker och ful. But her international fans need not worry, she’s not abandoning English or Japanese. Maia Hirasawa tells Swedish was actually the first language she started writing songs in at age 22. But when she learned to play the guitar, the […]

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Culture Uncategorized What's on: Stockholm

October’s Art Highlights

The art highlighted for October is about all things Swedish, with a few outside the country thrown in as contrast for good measure, or as instigators to muse more deeply on the ideas and ideals conveyed by the creative Swedes. Concurrently, the created artworks on display transverse from the modern to the contemporary, varying greatly […]

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PREMIERE of Living the City: Stockholm’s Top 5 Cocktails

We’re premiering the first episode of our brand new video series Living the City. In our first episode we present to you Stockholm’s Top 5 Cocktails and see five different cocktail experts prepare for us the cocktails that Stockholmers love the most. Our cocktail experts are: Samuel Wiktorsson preparing a Smoked Old Fashioned at Ebenist Antonio Sorbo […]

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