23 Oct 2026
Culture
Community Culture Theatre Uncategorized What's on: Stockholm

IT’S an Improvible Mission – improv comedy in English

The producers of Lost in Translation bring you their new explosive improv comedy show – MISSION IMPROVIBLE. It’s a completely improvised spy action thriller in English! In a world where action movies have 100 million dollar budgets and computer generated 3D special effects, five improvisers face their biggest challenge yet. They will take on the […]

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Art Community Culture

RainWall: an interactive art project at World Water Week

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 […]

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Community Sports and Fitness What's on: Stockholm

Dan and Dee Launch a Trail Racing Event in Stockholm

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 […]

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Community Expat Traditions Sports and Fitness What's on: Stockholm

Celebrating Cricket in Sweden

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 […]

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Culture Music What's on: Stockholm

In Pictures: Rockbjörnen 2015 Award Show

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.

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Art Culture Music Theatre What's on: Stockholm

YLC’s Top Picks – Culture Festival and We Are STHLM

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 […]

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Culture Music What's on: Stockholm

Experience the Music Outdoors this August

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 […]

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Culture Music

Linnea Södahl on the life of a song-writer and singer in Stockholm

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 […]

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Culture Friday Playlist Music

Swedish Summer Party – The Friday Playlist

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 […]

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Books Culture Health

Interview: Christian Åkerlund, writer and psychologist

Psychologists have a professional training and clinical skill to help people learn to cope more effectively with life issues and mental health problems. They work with indivi­duals, families and groups. Most people who initiate counseling do not have a serious mental illness. They have life challenges or are going through difficult life-cycle transitions that may […]

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