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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Nytorget Festival
Nytorget 6, 116 40 Stockholm, Sweden17 -19 August is the time for Södermalm’s biggest folk party:
-Nytorgsfesten-A three day festival filled with spectacles and noise in the heart of Söder.
There will be carnival trains, live music, DJs, market streets, fun fair, food trucks, flea market, art shows, midnight race and more.Nytorgfesten is a festival for the whole family and with free entrance in all areas and all days. Activity and game schedule is announced on a regular basis.
In mid-August, in connection with the midnight race, the Södermalm Music Association organizes Nytorgsfesten 2018.
The Nytorg festival was organized for the first time 1995 – 1997 at Nytorget with over 25,000 visitors , it then moved to Riddarholmen 2001 – 2004 and then Skeppsholmen 2011.
And now it’s back at Nytorget and this year the festival has expanded its area to Parkteatern in Vitabergsparken and Blecktornsparken. Everywhere you will be delighted to music, food experiences, flea market, art, yoga, fun fair and more.
New for this year is also the collaboration with the immeasurably popular photography exhibition, Planket STHLM
Thirty Seconds To Mars @ Grönan Live!
Lilla Allmänna Gränd 9, 115 21 Stockholm, SwedenEverybody was completely euphoric about their gig in 2013. But they are also one of the world’s best live bands. Now the latest single “Walk on Water” has been released, and on August 20, we will once again be able to reach some kind of concert experience when the Thirty Seconds To Mars once again sets itself on Stora Scenen.
You can not buy a ticket for a specific concert without buying an entrance to the park, or the Gröna Card which gives you free entrance throughout the season. Please note that pre-purchased tickets do not provide a guaranteed place so we recommend that you arrive in the park in good time.
Tickets online are only sold via Gröna Lund. In Stockholm, you can buy the Gröna Card at Pressbyrån and 7-Eleven. You can not buy a ticket for a specific concert without buying an entrance to the park, or the Grona Card.
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- 2525.August.SaturdayNo events
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Fasching at Vitan
Tengdahlsgatan, 116 41 Stockholm, RuotsiThe jazz club Fasching takes Vitan under the Park Theater’s flags taking modern jazz to new heights.
Free entree!
Ann-Sofi Söderqvist Jazz Orchestra
The composer, organizer and trumpeter Ann-Sofi Söderqvist comes to Vitabergsparken with its big band ASJO – Ann-Sofi Söderqvist Jazz Orchestra, which consists of 19 of Sweden’s absolute premier jazz musician.
“It is particularly well-arranged music that balances the familiar sound of a big band with originality and Söderqvist’s great fingertips for their fellow musicians.” DN
Ann-Sofi Söderqvist – compositions, conductor
Lena Swanberg – singer
Anders Åstrand – vibraphone / percussion
Amedeo Nicoletti – Guitar
Oskar Lindström – piano
Pär-Ola Landin – bass
Rasmus Svensson-Flash – drums
Magnus Blom – altsax, flute
Johan Christoffersson – altsax, flute
Karl-Martin Almqvist – Tenor Saxon, Clarinet
Robert Nordmark – Tenor Saxon, Clarinet
Alberto Pinton – Barite Ash, Bass Clarinet
Patrik Skogh – trumpet, flygelhorn
Karl Olandersson – trumpet, flygelhorn
Tomas Florhed – trumpet, flygelhorn
Nils Janson – trumpet, flygelhorn
Dicken Hedrenius – trombone
Karin Hammar – trombone
Mimmi Hammar – trombone
Magnus Werner – bass trombone / tubaOddjob
Since the Grammis-winning debut, Oddjob has distinguished itself as one of Sweden’s bravest jazz bands, daring to interpret everything from soundtracks to some of Clint Eastwood’s biggest movies, to Swedish folk and coal tradition, and on the latest disc, the Weather Report is interpreted.
Oddjob has a boiling turn, their music is constantly renewing, and their music is always exciting, innovative, outwardly swift with telepathic interaction beyond the usual.
Goran Kajfes – trumpet, effects, congas
Per Ruskträsk Johansson – Saxophone, bass clarinet, percussion
Peter Forss – bass bass, double bass, synthbas
Daniel Karlsson – piano, organ and synth
Lars Skoglund – drums, percussion
Outdoor cinema with Bergman's immortal classic in the film city
Greta Garbos väg 3, 169 40 Solna, SwedenSolna City and the Filmstadens Kultur Foundation invite you to an outdoor cinema night in the Film City.
Bring the picnic basket – and the chess board – and see Bergman’s immortal classic under the sky in Filmstaden.
This year, it is 100 years since Bergman was born, and of course you can celebrate it in the Film City – this was where Bergman made most of his films. The seventh seal of 1957, where Max von Sow’s Knight challenges Death (Bengt Ekerot) at bay, is regarded as one of the masterpieces of film history.
Be sure to experience the film in the film city – the place where it was mostly recorded.
Before the show starts, Filmstadens Kultur will hand for the sixth in a row a scholarships to a film maker who has not yet been film-muted.
Time and place: Sun 26/8 at 20, Filmstaden, T-Näckrosen.
THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)
Direction and script: Ingmar Bergman
Acting: Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Bengt Ekerot, Gunnar Björnstrand, Nils Poppe, Gunnel Lindblom, Inga Landgré, etc.
Duration: 96 minutes
