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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Clarion Hotel Stockholm turns 15 years
Ringvägen 98, 118 60 Stockholm, Sweden15 years ago, Clarion Hotel Stockholm first opened the doors on Ringvägen 98. In the middle of Skanstull, Petter A. Stordalen made the building that would become Södermalm’s live meeting place. Many thought it was crazy to build a hotel on a highway – but here it stand 15 years later.
4 million guests have passed through its doors – this will be celebrated with a big party! Their anniversary coincides magically with the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo celebrated around the world. Since Latin America lives in the heart of Clarion, they want to celebrate this with Mosquito in the form of a rarely seen Fiesta! They invite you to a weekend with music, dance, art and community on Söder’s pearl.MOSQUITO – HOTEL TAKES OVER 5 MAY
On the 5th of May, the Music collective Mosquito, led by DJ Thomas Gylling’s, will take on a plethora of dancers, musicians, DJs, artists, drummers and a boozing carnival feeling. 18:00. In the restaurants, bars, the reception, the ramp and in the hotel’s all corners and crutches, it will be danced and partyed until late night under the direction of Thomas Gylling and his many secret guests …
Kl. At 19.45, Thomas Gylling and Petter Stordalen will together officially start the party in the lobby.
Outside the street there will be a food truck for all hungry and Eatery Social Bar stands as usual for the most amazing Margaritas!
Bars are open at. 15:00 to 1:00.
The terrace by Eatery Social Skanstull, their outdoor bar overlooking the Arctic Circle, will be open to guests between kl. 20:00 to 23:00.BIRTHDAY BUBBLES 5 MARCH
What is a birthday without Champagne ??! Moët & Chandon have created a separate bar for all connoisseurs serving oysters and champagne.
You can find the moetbar in room 7062 at. 15:00 to 22:00.FOR THE LOVE OF BEER 4 May
All beer lovers are welcomed to an After Work in collaboration with The The Brooklyn Brewery, New Carnegie Brewery and Carlsberg. The Carnegie Brewery Beertruck brings two exciting news on the crane and even more beer in the bar. The foodtruck will be on the street serving Mexican food! Find Brooklyn Brewery’s own hangout in a bar upstair with DJ Gonzalez behind the turntables and the bar full of Brooklyn Beer. Of course, representatives from Brooklyn are in place to chat with beer and hang out with you.
In the livingroom you can celebrate Friday with Carlsberg and their activity corner. Here you can also challenge your friends in fussball, ping-pong or video games.ART FOR THE MASSES 4 & 5 May
From Friday 16.00, the wall in the lobby changes shape and becomes a graffiti wall for the weekend where artists from Graffitisthlm work on an artwork that will be ready on Saturday morning for all guests to view. In room 7074, GraffitiSthlm puts out paintings inspired by Graffiti’s world and of course they are also in place for a guided tour between 15.00 – 19.00 for those who wish.
Daytime Saturday May 5, the 56 stunning Nordic artworks that Clarion Sthlm houses will be exhibited and here art director Martin Wickström will host a guided tour of the hotel’s entire floors to tell us about the artworks and the artists behind them.
Art migration starts at. 14.00 from reception.
