23 Oct 2026
Culture
Art Creative Arts Culture What's on: Stockholm

YLC’s Picks: Stockholm Art Exhibitions

Spring heralds in a selection of art exhibitions that promises something for everyone. With artists hailing from within Sweden, Europe and beyond, they are serving up drawings, collages, sculptures, video art, silkscreen prints, paintings, photographs and textile appliqué works spanning the extensive continuum of poetic to political.   Exhibition: Mother of Pearl and the others […]

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Culture Music Swedish Culture

Melodifestivalen: Your Guide to the 2016 Final

The travelling music extravaganza we lovingly know as MELLO is reaching its climax on Saturday the 12th of March. Here’s your guide to the big final of Melodifestivalen! Melodifestivalen is a very big deal in Sweden. Even though it is the Swedish qualifications round for the Eurovision Song Contest, it is bigger than Eurovision – […]

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Culture Featured Music Uncategorized

Sónar kicks off the music festival year in Stockholm

Stockholm was visited by Sónar, the famous Barcelona festival during the 26th and 27th of February. This edition took place at Nobelberget, which is an industrial complex, located in Sickla on the south side of the city. The festival presented a total of 28 DJ and band performances spread across three stages. It was a […]

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Creative Arts Culture Galleries

Aguéli & Klee’s Defiant Gardens

 At a time when Western modern society was beginning to take shape, when trains and machines of all kinds sped up life and travel, and when looking for the spiritual or esoteric was still a common preoccupation of its people, these very elements catalyzed the compelling art crafted by the Swedish Ivan Aguéli (1869-1917) and […]

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Café Culture Dining out Swedish Culture

My Favorite Cafes – In and Around Stockholm

One of my absolute favorite things about Sweden is the Swedish fika, or coffee break. Swedes have utterly perfected this fika thing, which actually encompasses much more than simply taking the American “ten minute coffee break” at work. It is a social institution, utilized by friends, family and the work place alike, and almost always […]

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From the film Sonita.
Culture Movies What's on: Stockholm

Tempo Documentary Festival to explore ¨Power¨ – March 7-13

We had a chance to do an interview with Melissa Lindgren, program director and curator of Tempo Festival, to get full insight to a festival that is unique in its type in Stockholm and in Sweden. Tempo is a cross-disciplinary festival, that focuses on documentary story telling, representing film, audio, trans-media and photo, and it […]

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Culture Featured Music

Your Living City’s Ultimate Music Festival Guide 2016

We have put together a pretty amazing music festival guide for your convenience – so you don’t have to look anywhere else to get ideas and make plans for your festival year.  We have included the best music festivals taking place in Stockholm this year – plus as a bonus we’ve added a couple of […]

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Community Culture Music Swedish Culture

Time to kick off the Melodifestivalen circus!

In case you haven’t understood it as yet, Melodifestivalen is a BIG DEAL in Sweden . Last year’s final was the most watched TV programme of the year, all categories, with almost 3,8 million viewers (of a 10 million population). In comparison, the Eurovision Song Contest final – with a Swedish winner – “only” had […]

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Design Fashion & Beauty Lifestyle

Meet the Swedish Fashion Talents 2016

We have many fashionistas among our readers who are always following closely what’s new in the world of fashion. You might recognise that Sweden has always been a constant contributor to trends with the country’s characteristic eclectic and minimalistic style. Perhaps you’ll want to think twice on this one, as this year’s Swedish Fashion Talents […]

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Community Extraordinary Expats Theatre What's on: Stockholm

A Place To Be You – Improv in Stockholm

Josh Lenn from International Theater Stockholm tells how improv helped him connect with people in Stockholm and how it’s all grown into a vibrant community. Moving to Sweden from San Francisco seven years ago was a huge challenge for me. Leaving the community I had behind and not understanding the Swedish cultural codes, at times […]

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