Hello March, we’ve been waiting for you! Always hoping that this month will bring the blooming of an anticipated spring, lots of events and happenings lining up to take us into bright rides of joy and expectation. Here’s a round up of hand-picked events and experiences for you to glide into spring in style.
SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS
With the hosts Sina Valiollah and Nazanin Nour, an entire sparkling evening with ice dance shows, traditional jumps of fires, children’s activities, fragrant food and fantastic artists from all over the world – including Jasmine Kara and Süperstar Orkestar!
When: 17 March
Where: Skansen
Cost: FREE
FAIRS & FESTIVALS
Tempo Documentary Festival 2020
Tempo is Sweden’s largest festival for documentary expression. This year Tempo’s theme is Family and the program is filled with interesting touches in the innermost sphere.
When: 2-8 March
Where: Different cinemas across the city, visit their website for full events’ listing.
Cost: 260SEK
Sausage Festival Stockholm 2020
It is again time for the Korvfestivalen – Sausage Festival. The festival takes place at the prestigious Münchenbryggeriet in central Stockholm.
When: 6-8 March
Where: Münchenbryggeriet
Cost: 160SEK-180SEK
Photography fair 2020
For three days you will experience a photo party filled to the brim with inspiration, product news and seminars.
When: 27-29 March
Where: Stockholmsmässan
Cost: 40SEK-230SEK
Färgfabriken Market
The market at Färgfabriken is one of Stockholm’s largest markets for design and crafts.
When: 28-29 March
Where: Färgfabriken
Cost: FREE
TRANS CULTURE FESTIVAL
A four day festival of creating trans magic together.
When: 28-31 March
Where: Different venues across the city, check the event for full listing.
Cost: FREE
Stockholms filmfestival Junior 2020
For over 20 years, Stockholm’s Film Festival Junior has introduced, inspired and engaged children and young people in the fantastic world of film.
When: 30 March-4 April
Where: Skandiabiografen
Cost: Check website for updates pricing
MUSIC
Miriam Bryant @ Annexet
When: 4 March
Where: Annexet
Cost: 545SEK-590SEK
Miss Li @ Cirkus
When: 5 March
Where: Cirkus
Cost: 590SEK
Yotto @ Slakthuset
Finnish Yotto is one of Northern Europe’s bigger new names and is really making an international career right now.
When: 6 March
Where: Slakthuset
Cost: 200SEK
Stockholm Women’s International Jazz Festival 2nd Edition
The second edition presents some of the most creative composers in international jazz. The 2020’s program highlights musicians from different countries (Japan, Canada, Denmark, Sweden) who know and play with each other in different constellations
When: 7 March
Where: TeaterStudio Lederman
Cost: 180SEK -200SEK
Little Dragon @ Berns
From the start, Little Dragon has done everything in its own way with an always forward-looking electronic pop. with the two most distinctive elements being the unmistakable groove and Yukimi Nagano’s comforting voice which is an instrument in itself.
When: 9 March
Where: Berns
Cost: 380SEK
Princess Nokia @ Vasateatern
When: 10 March
Where: Vasateatern
Cost: 380SEK
The 1975 @ Annexet
The band is touring in support of A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships (Dirty Hit / Interscope Records), which Pitchfork declared “outrageous and eclectic” and Rolling Stone hailed as “spectacular”.
When: 13 March
Where: Annexet
Cost: 645SEK
Bryan Adams @ Globen
Canadian rocker Bryan Adams has been topping the charts since he released his first album in 1980.
When: 14 March
Where: Globen
Cost: 545SEK-920SEK
Fletcher + L Devine
Fletcher is an American singer-songwriter who was one of iHeartRadio’s Artists to Watch 2019 and she has made waves especially with her single Undrunk. L Devine is an up’n’coming English pop singer.
When: 16 March
Where: Debaser Strand
Cost: 275SEK
Kleerup
Kleerup has become synonymous with Swedish electro pop.
When: 21 March
Where: Debaser
Cost: 220SEK
Sinatra & Friends – Göta Lejon
Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. will be transforming Göta Lejon in Stockholm into the glamorous Las Vegas hotel scenes in the early 1960s, when it was The Rat Pack who owned the town and the charts.
When: 24 March
Where: Göta Lejon
Cost: 595SEK-805SEK
From The Soul – live music
Scandic Malmen invites you to a club night with live music.
When: 26 March
Where: Scandic Malmen
Cost: 50SEK-250SEK
Jon Hopkins – Polarity Tour
Jon Hopkins announces Polarity – a new tour for 2020 – which follows on from the incredibly successful Singularity tour.
When: 26 March
Where: Göta Lejon
Cost: 530SEK
Lamb of God + Kreator
When: 27 March
Where: Fryshuset Arenan
Cost: 495SEK
Amelie Lens
No one can have avoided how Antwerp-born Amelie Lens has completely taken over the global techno scene in recent years! She plays with such explosive energy that it is difficult not to get caught up in total trans.
When: 27 March
Where: Berns
Cost: 325SEK
CLUBBING
Club Common People 3 år – Live: ASH
Forget about Tinder, go offline and celebrate with a spectacular party, good drinks, new acquaintances and the occasional flirt.
When: 7 March
Where: Debaser
Cost: 280SEK
Stockholm Gathering Ep. 11
Provoking the ordinary nightclub landscape and elaborating it with house music.
When: 28 February
Where: Café Opera
Cost: 350SEK
SHOWS
Slow Fashion Show: Performance shows & Panel discussion
This show aims to spread awareness about the SLOW and SUSTAINABLE fashion industry and promote ECO-FRIENDLY ways in production.
When: 3 March
Where: A house
Cost: FREE
The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit – The Concert
Film & live music, “The Lord Of The Rings & The Hobbit – The Concert” brings the original “Pippin” – actor Billy Boyd to Stockholm and Göta Lejon.
When: 19 March
Where: Göta Lejon
Cost: 350SEK
CULTURE
About photography and sculpture in war and peace
A guided tour of picture reports of war and peace in the Moderna Museet collection!
When: 31 March
Where: Moderna Museet
Cost: FREE
Find out more about upcoming events in our Events Calendar.
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Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance. - 0404.December.Tuesday
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance. - 0505.December.Wednesday
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
Jazzy Wednesdays
Tegelbacken 6, 111 52 Stockholm, SwedenVisit Bar 360 for the ultimate after work experience. Listen to some nice live jazz while enjoying the food and drinks from Sheraton Stockholm Hotel’s Paired menu.
Slayer @ Hovet
Hovet, Johanneshov, SwedenIconic band Slayer says goodbye after nearly 40 years as thrash metal giants. For the last tour of the band they will take a stop in Sweden and play at Hovet in Stockholm on December 5th. With them as special guests, they have no less than Lamb of Good, Anthrax and Obituary!They are the creators of one of the most brutal and aggressive music ever created. Slayer is one of four bands that has defined a whole genre – and has become a benchmark for how to make metal. After almost 37 years, the band has released 12 studio albums and won a lot of prizes (including two Grammy Awards). The records have sold gold several times and the band has even got its own show at the rich Smithsonian Institute.
It’s a band that has been on the front of hundreds of metal and rock magazines and toured the world over thousands of dedicated fans. There is also a band that has been in deep sorrow, with the guitarist and co-founder Jeff Hanneman’s tragic death in 2013.Now the story of Slayer is over. And for their final goodbye they bring Lamb of Good, Anthrax and Obituary.
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Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
MGMT @ Nobelberget
Sickla industriväg 6, 131 54 Nacka, SwedenMGMT took the world by storm when in 2007, they gave us a new soundtrack to our lives. We were thrown into a coming-of-age drama called “Oracular Spectacular”, an indy rock pearl marked end of the 21st century, with songs that worked equally well for the party and on the way to school, as in the aftermath of a broken heart. Since then, Andrew VanWyngarden and Benjamin Goldwasser have only taken us deeper into their psychedelic and synthetic world, where this year’s “Little Dark Age” has both revamped the project as much as it felt like a homage to all the band ever created.
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Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
ROMA Film Premiere
Hornstulls strand 3, 117 39 Stockholm, SwedenPanoramica Film Festival’ first premiere this autumn in collaboration with Bio Rio cinema is the latest film by Alfonso Cuarón and his “return” to Mexican cinema with the film ROMA.
Rome is the most personal film of Accademy Award winner director Alfonso Cuarón. This time he returns to his native Mexico with his first Spanish-language film since “Y tu mamá también”.
In the film we meet Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young woman who works as a domestic employee with a family of the middle class of the Rome quarter in Mexico City. Cuarón recovers the inspiration of his own childhood in this loving tribute to the women who raised him, and creates a living and emotional portrait of family problems and social classes in light of the political changes of the seventies.
Rome won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival this year.
The tickets can be found here:
https://www.biorio.se/#/movie/840NOTE:
With the 2018 annual card the ticket costs 100 kr instead of 125kr. NOTE: Only applies when the purchase is made. - 0808.December.Saturday
Skansen's Christmas Market
Djurgårdsslätten 49, 115 21 Stockholm, SwedenSkansen’s Christmas Market is an unbroken tradition ever since 1903. In the town quarter, the Christmas market, is alive during the weekends leading to Christmas Eve. The craftsmen work there in their workshops and houses. On top of the market, the Christmas atmosphere features Christmas decorations, sweets, Christmas presents, straw loaves and other classic craftsmanship of the highest quality.
Are you hungry? There are lots of delicious food to eat on site, like traditional meatballs, wild burgers, donuts and much more. Join the Christmas party, dance around the tree and see how Christmas was celebrated sooner in Swedish houses and farms. Warm welcome!
For faster entry, pre-book the entrance ticket via the ticket link above.
Christmas at Drottningholm
Drottningholms Slott, SwedenOpen: Saturday 10-18, Sunday 10-17
There are limited parking spaces on Drottningholm, please go to the municipality of Brommaplan.
During two magical days a Christmas fair will take place in this amazing setting with emphasis on Swedish crafts and food.
Here you will meet a multitude of Sweden’s absolute best craftsmen. Everything from blacksmiths, candle holders, straw lifters, textiles and others. In the food stall, small-scale food manufacturers tastefully prepare their delicious traditional dishes with cheese, bread, mustard, fish, eggs, ham, etc.
Drottningholm Castle
The castle is open during the fair. Walk in the stunning castle on your own or follow on a guided tour. Also shows to delight the entire family and chores for children. See times at www.drottholmholmsslott.seSlottsboden
In the gift shop Slottsboden (located in the white building by the water) you will find Christmas presents with royal ties. The products are uniquely crafted with inspiration from the royal collections.Drottningholmsteatern and the Theater Bode are open during the fair.
Theater Constance
Classical, kitschigt and kul. Lots of decorations and Christmas presents for all ages and in all price ranges. Opening hours same as the Christmas fair.
Sergelgatan's Christmas market
Sveavägen 17, 111 57 Stockholm, SwedenAn indoor and outdoor Christmas market full of all your classic Christmas goodies!
Ho Ho Ho!
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
Boy George & Culture Club @ Fryshuset
Mårtensdalsgatan 6, 120 30 Stockholm, SwedenThis summer, Boy George & Culture Club performed at Götaplatsen during the EuroPride week in Gothenburg. It was a show filled with hits and memories that became one of the best nights of the summer.
This fall, Boy George and the band Culture Club release new album – for the first time in 20 years. The reggae-inspired single “Let Somebody Love You” was released in July, and their new album “LIFE” was just released in October.
Grammy winners, Boy George and Culture Club have sold more than 50 million records with hits like “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me,” “Karma Chameleon,” and “I’ll Tumble 4 Ya” since the band was founded in 1981.
Boy George is known as one of the world’s most iconic artists. George was awarded the “Novello lifetime achievement award” in 2015 for his efforts in the music industry.
Their latest performances are praised with amazing reviews, and we expect nothing else during their visit to Stockholm!
Age limit: 13 years
Doors: 18.30 | On stage: 19.30
Presented by Maloney Concerts & Culture Company
BICEP dj set
Slakthusgatan 6, 121 62 Johanneshov, SwedenAcclaimed duo BICEP from Belfast, Ireland, will finally come to Sweden for its first major gig on December 8.
The duo has had a brilliant year with magnificent sold out live shows and dj-sets around the world’s prime festivals and clubs! Now BICEP finally comes to Sweden with an exclusive performance to show Swedeb how the real house is played.
Support during the evening is none other than Very Addictive from DISK Records.
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Skansen's Christmas Market
Djurgårdsslätten 49, 115 21 Stockholm, SwedenSkansen’s Christmas Market is an unbroken tradition ever since 1903. In the town quarter, the Christmas market, is alive during the weekends leading to Christmas Eve. The craftsmen work there in their workshops and houses. On top of the market, the Christmas atmosphere features Christmas decorations, sweets, Christmas presents, straw loaves and other classic craftsmanship of the highest quality.
Are you hungry? There are lots of delicious food to eat on site, like traditional meatballs, wild burgers, donuts and much more. Join the Christmas party, dance around the tree and see how Christmas was celebrated sooner in Swedish houses and farms. Warm welcome!
For faster entry, pre-book the entrance ticket via the ticket link above.
Christmas at Drottningholm
Drottningholms Slott, SwedenOpen: Saturday 10-18, Sunday 10-17
There are limited parking spaces on Drottningholm, please go to the municipality of Brommaplan.
During two magical days a Christmas fair will take place in this amazing setting with emphasis on Swedish crafts and food.
Here you will meet a multitude of Sweden’s absolute best craftsmen. Everything from blacksmiths, candle holders, straw lifters, textiles and others. In the food stall, small-scale food manufacturers tastefully prepare their delicious traditional dishes with cheese, bread, mustard, fish, eggs, ham, etc.
Drottningholm Castle
The castle is open during the fair. Walk in the stunning castle on your own or follow on a guided tour. Also shows to delight the entire family and chores for children. See times at www.drottholmholmsslott.seSlottsboden
In the gift shop Slottsboden (located in the white building by the water) you will find Christmas presents with royal ties. The products are uniquely crafted with inspiration from the royal collections.Drottningholmsteatern and the Theater Bode are open during the fair.
Theater Constance
Classical, kitschigt and kul. Lots of decorations and Christmas presents for all ages and in all price ranges. Opening hours same as the Christmas fair.Sergelgatan's Christmas market
Sveavägen 17, 111 57 Stockholm, SwedenAn indoor and outdoor Christmas market full of all your classic Christmas goodies!
Ho Ho Ho!
Stortorget's Christmas market in Gamla Stan
Stortorget, Stockholm, SwedenStockholm’s Gillet arranges Stockholm’s oldest Christmas market with a range of high Swedish quality. Every year many people traditionally visit the market with family, relatives and friends. Do it you too!
Open daily 11-18 until 23 December.
Free entrance.
Christmas Market at Filmstaden
Greta Garbos väg 3, 169 40 Solna, SwedenFilmstaden’s Christmas Market will take place on Sunday, December 9 between 12-16. Experience a classic Christmas market in a classic style on film’s historical grounds!
Step through a snow-covered portal, where stars such as Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman walked and directors, such as Victor Sjöström and Ingmar Bergman walked through.
The area is open with classic market, flea, horse & carriage, open artist theater, and more.
Tunnelbana: Näckrosen (via the blue line towards Akalla)
Take the film city exit.
Bus: line 515 (Odenplan-Sundbyberg station)
get off at Näckrosen
Car: Råsundavägen 150 (parking outside the area)BICEP dj set
Slakthusgatan 6, 121 62 Johanneshov, SwedenAcclaimed duo BICEP from Belfast, Ireland, will finally come to Sweden for its first major gig on December 8.
The duo has had a brilliant year with magnificent sold out live shows and dj-sets around the world’s prime festivals and clubs! Now BICEP finally comes to Sweden with an exclusive performance to show Swedeb how the real house is played.
Support during the evening is none other than Very Addictive from DISK Records.
