Crispy leaves rustle at our feet and the first fresher winds are announcing that winter is coming soon. Life starts retracting indoors, but not only homewards… This is also a time for indoor music and film festivals, dining out at cozy restaurants or attending fairs like the Baking and Chocolate Fair. Oh yes, this is also the time we like to dress up like ghosts and pumpkins and go trick-or-treating. Let us guide you to some of this months event highlights, things to see and do in Stockholm.
Every event is linked to a page with more detailed info, just click on the title!
SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS
Halloween at Gröna Lund 2019
The entire amusement park with attractions is open, where the smaller kiddies area is adapted for younger visitors with pumpkins, witches, ghosts and children’s performances every day. In the greater area the more courageous visitors will be able, among other things, to take part in the haunted ship that returns and you will get to meet a mysterious sect.
When: 18-20 October, 25 October – 3 November
Where: Gröna Lund
Cost: 399SEK – 430SEk
MUSIC
Stockholm Jazz Festival
One of Sweden’s oldest festivals and one of Stockholm’s biggest events. Now in 2019 the festival is back on 11-20 October – and bigger than ever, spreading jazz on over 60 venues around Stockholm.
When: 11-20 October
Where: Different venues in Stockholm
Cost: Price of tickets varies per concert.
Ariana Grande @ Globen
When: 7 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 675SEK – 875SEK
Chromatics w/ Desire @ Berns
When: 5 October
Where: Berns
Cost: 370SEK
Cher @ Friends Arena
When: 17 October
Where: Friends Arena
Cost: 2375SEK – 3400SEK
Michael Bublé @ Globen
When: 23 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 650SEK – 1450SEK
UB40 @ Berns
When: 27 October
Where: Berns
Cost: 570SEK
Eros Ramazzotti @ Globen
When: 30 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 437SEK – 775SEK
ART
Affordable Art Fair
When: 10-13 October
Where: Nacka Strandsmässan
Cost: 95SEK – 350SEK
Opening Reception: Peter Blake
When: 3 October
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE
Opening: Anna Camner / Toni R. Toivonen / Ann-Sofie Claesson
When: 3 October
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE
Iranian Film Festival 2019
When: 12-13 October
Where: Biograf Skandia
Cost: 120SEK – 295SEK
FOOD AND DRINK
Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2019
When: 3-5 October
Where: Nacka Strandsmässan
Cost: 250SEK
Bak- & Chokladfestivalen – The Bake & Chocolate Festival
When: 10-13 October
Where: Stockholmsmässan
Cost: 93SEK – 390 SEK
Chelas – There’s a New Mexican in Town
Located at the trendy Hornstull neighbourhood of Södermalm, at Verkstadsgatan 4, you’ll find Chelas, Stockholm’s newest Mexican restaurant. Chelas opened its doors in July of 2019. The name comes from the Mexican slang word for beers and a phrase the Mexicans use when they want to socialise with friends and family: “Saca las chelas”. Literally translated it means “Bring out the beers”, but it can actually be better interpreted as “Let’s have some beers and hang out”.
The wine culture in Sweden is expanding, especially with the increase of vineyards in Skåne in the south of the country. In fact, 42% of all alcohol sales in Sweden consist of wine, and this is very different from brännvin, the traditional Swedish drink that translates as burn-wine. You can of course buy wine from the state owned Systembolaget. However, the only other place that you can buy wine and enjoy a glass is in licenced restaurants and bars that serve food. There are some great restaurants in Stockholm that unite their food and wine menu in perfect harmony, taking equal consideration to both.
Find out more about upcoming events in our Events Calendar.
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KTH Fireworks Concert 2018
Brinellvägen 8, 114 28 Stockholm, SwedenBegin the new academic, work or play year 2018/19 magnificently, with KTH’s traditional fireworks concert on 5 September 2018 at Borggården. Free entrance.
KTH’S first fireworks concert 5th of September 2018 at 19-21
Händel’s Fireworks Music and more performed by 150 musicians and 60 choir singers in the KTH Courtyard.
Conductor: Gunnar Julin
Conference: Cecilia Rydinger Alin
Pyrotechnist: Peter NordinA royal music fireworks at a royal courtyard!
One hundred and fifty-fifth blowers and percussionists in a music fireworks with rockets, fountains and Roman lights – what Händel offered his London public in 1749 and Rio’s Olympics in 2016, KTH offers now to Stockholm every year since 2005. The Royal Pyrotechnic College’s courtyard is the given place.
KTH has been on Stockholm’s cultural chart for a long time. For hundreds of years, the college has lived up to its proud motto – Science and Art – and this night Pauliina Sairan’s soprano voice, Josefine Andersson’s mezzorous and Zaza Gagua’s bass voice from Opera School will show how willing science and art are united. This year, Kongl also participates. The technology choir in its own concert department and in G F Händel’s famous Halleluja chaser from Messiah.
Five orchestras will merge into the concert’s spectacular final number. In the Fireworks Orchestra 2018, blowers, percussionists and double bassists participate
• KTH Academic Chapel
• Gustavsberg’s wind band
• Naked Symphonic Band
• Stockholm Music Year Three Crowns
• Upplands-Bro sextetGunnar Julin, Music Director
Royal Institute of TechnologyProgram and Hours:
At 18.30, Upplands-Brosextetten, led by Per-Åke Lilja, welcomes you all at KTH Entré.
At 19.00 Gustavsberg’s wind band, conductor: Per-Olof Ukkonen
At 19.15 Nacka Symphonic Band, conductor: Elisabeth Gustafsson
At 19.30 Stockholm Music Year Three Crowns, conductors Nils-Gunnar Burlin and Hans Nordmark. Song Isa Lybeck Shield.
at 19.45 Kongl. The technology choir, conductor Rikard Lindberg KarlssonAt 20.00 CET PRICE!
At 20.05 The Great Fireworks Orchestra at KTH 2018 is due to be presented
(* Arr Jerker Johansson)
– Svante Pettersson: Gothic summer night *, trumpet soloist Stig Persson
– Johan Julin: Kadettmarsch “Nothern Stars” *, performances
– Evert Taube: Calle Schewens False *
– Johann Strauss: “I’ve left you alone” * Orlowskis aria ur
operetta Läderlappen, soloist Josefine Andersson, mezzosopranoAt 20.20 KTH’s Rector Sigbritt Karlsson
At 20.24 Jerome Core: “Old man river” * from the theater boat, soloist Zaza Gagua, bass
– Emmerich Kálmán: “Heia, heia in den Bergen” * ur operetten Csardasfurstinnan. Soloist Paulina Sairanen, soprano, Kongl. Teknologkören
– Richard Rodgers: “Some Enchanted Evening” from the musical South Pacific. Arr William J Duthoit
– Gustav Peter: Memory of Circus Renz. Arr Peter Fister. Xylophone soloist Seppo Asikainen
– Georg Friedrich Händel: Hallelujakör from the oratorium Messiah
Arr Anders Högstedt. Kongl. Teknologkören.At 20.45 Georg Friedrich Händel: The Music of a Royal Fireworks *
– Owe Green: By the end of the day. Jägarhorn: Anna Åkesson
