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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Pixies @ Cirkus
Cirkus, Djurgårdsslätten, Stockholm, SwedenWhen the band was formed in the mid 80s out of the punk era, no one could have imagine that now, thirty years later, they would be accounted as one of the most important acts of the late 20th century. Without Pixies no Nirvana, no Blur, no Weezer, maybe not even a Radiohead. What a sad world we would have lived in. Now the band is getting ready to release their seventh full-length album.
My Dad Wrote A Porno
Berzelii park 9, 111 47 Stockholm, Sverige“It will leave you crying with laughter” – GQ
Their critically acclaimed HBO special is a hit with over 180 million viewers and their previous world tour sold out everywhere. Now the gang behind the podcast “My Dad Wrote a Porno” is back with a brand new live show.
Imagine how you would react if your dad wrote an erotic novel. Many would had probably stopped their heads in the sand and never ever utter a word about it. Jamie Morton did the opposite and started a podcast instead. With him on this embarrassing journey, he has his best friends James Cooper and Alice Levine. For all of us who are not in the same situation as Jamie, it is hysterically fun to listen to how they go through chapter by chapter and break down daddy Rocky Flintstone’s (which of course is a pseudonym) work to understand how he could imagine it was a good idea to write the book “Belinda Blinked”.
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Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2019
Augustendalstorget 6, 131 52 Nacka Strand, SwedenSweden’s first and biggest Beer & Whiskey Fair. Now for the 28th year in a row.
26 – 28/9 & 3 – 5/10 2019
Stockholm Beer & Whiskey Festival, is the fair that has started the whole fair trend, both in Sweden and internationally.
A manifestation for increased knowledge about good drinks, under nice forms in fantastic surroundings. Master Classes, International Contests, Deli and Food Court.
Opening: Anna Camner / Toni R. Toivonen / Ann-Sofie Claesson
Karlavägen 9, 114 24 Stockholm, SwedenAnna Camner / Toni R. Toivonen / Ann-Sofie Claesson
Galerie Forsblom Stockholm
October 4–November 10, 2019Opening in the presence of the artists
Thursday October 3, at 5–7pmAnna Camner: A Plague I Call a Heartbeat
Anna Camner’s paintings invite reflective contemplation. They are precise close-up studies of materials, textures and surfaces, but it is difficult to determine just what these materials are; natural, or fabricated, alive or dead. The paintings are usually small and to perceive their details, they must be seen up close in an intimate encounter with the artwork. With technical brilliance, Camner uses the possibilities of painting to create pictures that could hardly be achieved with a camera.
Camner (b. 1977) graduated from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, in 2003. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo shows in London and New York and recently in a group show in Mumbai, India. In conjunction with the award of the prestigious annual Beckers Art Award in 2017, her work was exhibited at Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden.
This is Camner’s first exhibition at Galerie Forsblom.
—Toni R. Toivonen: The Last Presence
Toivonen’s work stem from a physical process of decay where deceased animals like dogs, hares, cows and horses, are transformed into artworks. Toivonen places the animal onto a sheet of brass and when putting it to its final rest, the procedure becomes a burial. By time, the animals decompose into a nature morte, a still life, where they are captured in their last presence.
Toni R. Toivonen (b. 1987) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2016. He has been exhibited extensively in Finland as well as internationally in Berlin, Vienna, London, and New York. His works are included in public collections at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, the Sara Hildén Museum of Art in Finland and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland. In 2019 Toivonen received a grant from the Greta and William Lehtinen Foundation.
—Ann-Sofie Claesson: One Life
Ann-Sofie Claesson’s artistry is anchored in universal themes such as time, memory, identity and family. At Galerie Forsblom a new series of paintings is presented, based on black and white photographs that pays an homage to her grandmother. The surface of the paintings has a texture reminiscent of organic patterns. Fleeting moments and memories linger in Claesson’s works along with the transient nature of time and life.
Claesson (b. 1992) graduated from the University of the Arts Helsinki, 2018. She has exhibited in the studio at Galerie Forsblom in Helsinki and in group exhibitions including Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Borås Museum of Modern Art, Sweden and Amos Andersson’s Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
Opening Reception: Peter Blake
Västra Trädgårdsgatan 4A, 111 53 Stockholm, SwedenWetterling Gallery is proud to present the exhibition ‘Joseph Cornell’s Holiday’ by Sir Peter Blake. The American artist Joseph Cornell (1903- 1972) has been a great inspiration for Peter Blake. Cornell is sometimes referred to as Americas first surrealist, working with shadow boxes in which he arranged fragments of found objects. He also made films and collages. Joseph Cornell lived a rather isolated life taking care of his mother and disabled brother, basically never leaving the New York City area.
In the exhibition ‘Joseph Cornell’s Holiday’, Peter Blake sends out Cornell on a travel through Europe. In a large number of paper collages Blake lets Cornell visit places he couldn’t travel to in his own life.
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Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2019
Augustendalstorget 6, 131 52 Nacka Strand, SwedenSweden’s first and biggest Beer & Whiskey Fair. Now for the 28th year in a row.
26 – 28/9 & 3 – 5/10 2019
Stockholm Beer & Whiskey Festival, is the fair that has started the whole fair trend, both in Sweden and internationally.
A manifestation for increased knowledge about good drinks, under nice forms in fantastic surroundings. Master Classes, International Contests, Deli and Food Court.
Dj: Rigo Topaz
Ringvägen 98, 118 60 Stockholm, SwedenRigo Topaz – known from Latin Kings, Infinite Mass, Swedish Tiger Sound and steady guest artist in Teddybear’s STHLM – Djing at Eatery Social for an evening of Hip hop, reggae, RnB and dancehall.
Guest bartender Paulo Rodriguez takes over Vato’s bar and promises drinks that will get you dancing. DJ Topaz from 8pm.
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Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2019
Augustendalstorget 6, 131 52 Nacka Strand, SwedenSweden’s first and biggest Beer & Whiskey Fair. Now for the 28th year in a row.
26 – 28/9 & 3 – 5/10 2019
Stockholm Beer & Whiskey Festival, is the fair that has started the whole fair trend, both in Sweden and internationally.
A manifestation for increased knowledge about good drinks, under nice forms in fantastic surroundings. Master Classes, International Contests, Deli and Food Court.
Chromatics w/ Desire @ Berns
Berzelii park 1, 111 47 Stockholm, SwedenChromatics embarks on an extensive European tour. The Double Exposure Tour reaches its second stop, in the European half, Stockholm for an evening out of the ordinary. Chromatics will be making its first Swedish gig in seven years, will perform favourites from Night Drive, Kill For Live, Cherry and Dear Tommy. Backed by Johnny Jewels films mixed by video artists Danny Perez, all possible boundaries between concerts, scenes and screens are blurred.
With them this evening they also have Montreal-based Desire. There will be just as many parts of italo-disco and dream pop as a minimalist wave and kraut rocking the evening with Under Your Spell, which featured in the movie Drive.
Chromatics recently released the single Time Rider, a metaphor of the bridge between the future and the past. Now you can finally experience it live.
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