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WHAT’S ON STOCKHOLM: October 2019
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WHAT’S ON STOCKHOLM: October 2019

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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

Chromatics Berns Stockholm

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

iranska filmfestivalen Iranian film festival Stockholm 2019




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”.

Chelas restaurant Enchiladas tacos Stockholm

 

Unique Stockholm Restaurants With A Great Wine List

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.

wine restaurants in stockholm red wine white wine food
Photo by Kamil Kalbarczyk

 

Find out more about upcoming events in our Events Calendar.

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  • All day
    01/03/2019-03/03/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm Feminist Film Festival is the largest film festival for women’s films in Scandinavia. Screening films by women directors from all over the world: both features and shorts, fiction as well as documentaries. Alongside their diverse program they will also be hosting a variety of panels addressing gender equality in film, masterclasses, workshops and more.

    The festival will take place Feb 28 – March 3, 2019.

  • 18:15 -23:00
    01/03/2019
    Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden

    Post Malone is one of the world’s greatest artists right now. With millions of  Streams and sold out concerts around the world, Post Malone is heading for his first major arena tour. With the album “beerbongs & bentleys” and world hits like “rockstar”, “Psycho” and “Better Now”, the coming arena tour in Europe will be something very special!

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  • All day
    02/03/2019-03/03/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm Feminist Film Festival is the largest film festival for women’s films in Scandinavia. Screening films by women directors from all over the world: both features and shorts, fiction as well as documentaries. Alongside their diverse program they will also be hosting a variety of panels addressing gender equality in film, masterclasses, workshops and more.

    The festival will take place Feb 28 – March 3, 2019.

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  • All day
    03/03/2019-03/03/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm Feminist Film Festival is the largest film festival for women’s films in Scandinavia. Screening films by women directors from all over the world: both features and shorts, fiction as well as documentaries. Alongside their diverse program they will also be hosting a variety of panels addressing gender equality in film, masterclasses, workshops and more.

    The festival will take place Feb 28 – March 3, 2019.

  • 19:00 -23:30
    03/03/2019
    Debaser Hornstulls Strand, Hornstulls strand, Stockholm, Sweden

    At the beginning of the decade, the music world seemed to be dominated by lo-fi dream-pop written in youth home studios and a revival that wanted to push the borders of nostalgia even further. But no one really managed to represent the genre as well as Jack Tatum’s Wild Nothing, where the mix of 80’s throwback and janglepop created their own little sub-genre in the otherwise supersaturated sphere. Since the 2012 Nocturne, Wild Nothing has repeatedly renewed itself without losing its own identity and with this year’s newly released Indigo he continues where Nocturne ended. Here we are offered a retrorevivalism that dares to be honest with its influences and represents them with pride.

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  • 19:30 -22:00
    04/03/2019
    Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden

    The global hip-hop icon Nicki Minaj today brings her world tour to Stockholm at the Ericsson Globe on March 4.

    Minaj has decided to move on with new creative solutions for her world tour, which gives the fans a complete “Royal” experience. As if that was not enough, the Chicago rapper Juice WRLD is also added to the tour – whom has had a breakthrough year with the debut album “Goodbye & Good Riddance” (which sold Platinum) and the multi-platinum selling singles “All Girls Are The Same” and “Lucid Dreams “.

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  • 19:30 -22:00
    05/03/2019
    Annexet, Arenatorget, Johanneshov, Sweden
    Anderson Paak and The Free Nationals

    Anderson .Paak  with his Andy’s Beach Club World Tour arrives to Annexet in Stockholm on March 5! With the latest hit album Oxnard (released by Dr. Dres Aftermath Entertainment), .Paak has consolidated his place as one of the most interesting artists of our time.

    Recently he achieved great success as a guest on Saturday Night Live and with the success of the album Oxnard (.Paaks first on Dr. Dres Aftermath Entertainment) his rise continues. The album landed directly on Billboard Independents first place and it has already been streamed over 100 million times.

    The album has the living legend Dr. Dre as executive producer and guest of artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, J. Cole, Q-Tip and Pusha-T. It’s an album that is innovative, unique – and 100% Anderson .Paak – one of the most creative (and acclaimed) artists of hip hop in recent years.

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  • 18:30 -23:59
    06/03/2019
    Debaser Hornstulls Strand, Hornstulls strand, Stockholm, Sweden

    Buffalo Stance exploded like a long-awaited bomb when released in 1988. It was eclectic, feminist, rocky and raw. And Neneh Cherry was the perfect star with her crossed arms and her extraterrestrial coolness. But despite the fact that the debut album Raw Like Sushi has topped lists all over the world, Cherry’s subsequent career did not follow the typical template for a successful artist. Instead, through the decades, she has exhibited a rare musical integrity and consistently treating her music as art rather than a commodity. Perhaps it’s no wonder that she grew up with Don Cherry’s free jazz legend and spent the first half of the 80’s in different postpunk constellations in London.

     

    In 1996, came the record Woman, with the finely-blended 7 Seconds together with Yousso N’Dour among others. Then Neneh Cherry was singing with Cher, and Chrissie Hynde, guest starring with Gorillaz, Kleerup and Teddybears. In 2012 she also released The Cherry Thing, along with the experimental jazz band The Thing and 2014, it was finally time for the first 18-year solo album: Blank Project. Along with producing Four Tet and Jazzelectronica duo Rocket Numbernine, she had delivered yet another uncompromising work that cemented Neneh Cherry roll as a styling icon. The collaboration with Four Tets Kieran Hebdan and Rocketnumbernine gave her more flavor and Neneh Cherry chose the same constellation in the creation of her new amazing record Broken Politics (2018). The British minimalist is recognized, but when the breakpoints between the personal and the political are to be explored, the appropriation is more thoughtful and cautious.

  • 20:00 -23:59
    06/03/2019
    Regeringsgatan 74, 111 39 Stockholm, Sweden

    Few bands have managed to leave such a massive mark in pop history as The Lemonheads – without having to compromise themselves. And even though it has been almost ten years since The Lemonheads released the album “Varshons” they are more current than ever. On February 8 they released, the new album “Varshons 2” – a kind of sequel to the previously acclaimed album.

     

    330 SEK + service fee
    Great Hall, 18 years old
    Support: Karl Larsson

  • 20:00 -22:00
    06/03/2019
    Berzelii park 9, 111 47 Stockholm, Sverige

    One of the most successful comedians in Britain is doing her first European tour and will be visiting Stockholm on the 6th of March with her “Control Enthusiast” show.

     

    “The comic laureate of unglamorous-but-glorious womanhood” -The Guardian

    Tickets 325 SEK

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  • 20:00 -23:30
    08/03/2019
    Berzelii park 1, 111 47 Stockholm, Sweden

    Many have probably seen the clip where Pharrell Williams cries to Maggie Rogers song Alaska. The viral video was the start of what developed into a truly brilliant artistry. With an unique fusion of folk music and R&B, Maggie Rogers has proven that her style is here to stay.

     

    Support: Mallrat

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  • 18:00 -23:00
    11/03/2019
    Hovet, Johanneshov, Sweden

    Florence + The Machine is one of the most influential artists of our time, and now comes to Stockholm for their biggest gig in Sweden so far. June 29th, Florence + The Machine released the new album High As Hope, containing the previously released singles ‘Hunger’ and ‘Big God’.

    High As Hope is as intimate as grand and took the band both to new latitudes and back to the roots. The new album contains collaborations with, among others, Kamasi Washington, Sampha, Tobias Jesso Jr., Kelsey Lu and Jamie xx, and as Florence Welch describes it, “a pure expression of who I am now, as an artist and an honest one . ”

    The British artist Florence + The Machine has seduced fans as critics with her previous release, Lungs (2009), Ceremonials (2011) and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (2015), which has featured hits like ‘You’ve Got The Love ‘,’ Dog Days Are Over ‘,’ Shake It Out ‘and’ Spectrum (Say My Name) ‘and many more. Do not miss when Florence + The Machine returns to Sweden to invite old hits and new songs from High As Hope.

    Support for the show at Hovet is the Scottish trio Young Fathers, who have just released the celebrated album Cocoa Sugar.

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  • 18:30 -23:00
    12/03/2019
    Berzelii park 1, 111 47 Stockholm, Sweden

    It has been 25 years since the iconic album “Yes I Am” was released and now award-winning rock musician and composer Melissa Etheridge takes on an European Tour!

    She is known for songs like “I’m the Only One”, “If I Want To” and “I Want To Come Over”.

    With her gritty voice and personal lyrics, Melissa Etheridge has inspired an entire generation and is one of rock’s greatest and most stellar artists. In 1993, Etheridge was awarded her first Grammy Award for “Best Female Rock” with the single “Ain’t It Heavy” from the studio album “Never Enough” from the same year. In 2006 she also won an Oscar for best original song “I Need to Wake Up”, which was the lead motif of the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth” by Al Gore.

    On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the now-iconic rock album “Yes I Am”, Etheridge is launching an extensive European tour. The tour starts in Manchester on February 18, 2019, and visits cities such as Berlin, Copenhagen, Munich and Glasgow. On March 12 she appears at Berns in Stockholm.

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  • 11:00 -15:00
    16/03/2019
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    The largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Scandinavia takes place in Stockholm on Saturday 16th March 2019 at Kungsträdgården between 11:00 and 14:30.

    St Patrick’s Day is Ireland’s National Day and it has been celebrated with a parade in Stockholm since 2005. Each year it grows in size and impact. This year the parade-goers will gather at Kungsträdgården where there will be something of interest to everyone in the family:  Irish Wolfhounds, Connemara ponies, Irish Wheaten Terriers, pipers and drummers, while traditional Irish artists will entertain with music and song. There will be face-painting for the children and supporting businesses will be on hand with food and light refreshments for sale.

    A parade will then wind through the streets of Stockholm with special guests, The Irish UN Veterans Association Pipe Band, coming from Ireland along with the Stockholm Pipe Band playing pipe music for all of Stockholm to hear and enjoy.

    Following the parade, the day’s cultural activities will be finished off with some more music and a little Irish dancing, back at Kungsträdgården.

    The event is organised by The Swedish Irish Society, which has done so since its inception.

    Date: 16th March
    Congregating in Kungsträdgården: 11:00
    Parade: 13:00
    Returning to Kungsträdgården: ca 14.00

    Parade route:

    Kungsträdgården via Jussi Björlings alle
    Hamngatan
    Birger Jarlsgatan
    Sturegatan
    Linnegatan
    Sibyllegatan
    Väpnargatan
    Artillerigatan
    Strandvägen
    Nybroplan
    Hamngatan till Kungsträdgården.
  • 21:00 -03:00
    16/03/2019-17/03/2019
    Münchenbryggeriet Event & Konferens, Torkel Knutssonsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm Carnival party 2019, the 26th edition. SAVE THE DATE: Saturday March 16th. • 4 dancefloors, 100 artists, 10 DJ:s and 1500 Guests. The biggest Indoor Carnival in north of Europe. Samba-Soca-Salsa-Afro … carnival dance-beats Enjoy!

     

    Venue: Münchenbryggeriet
    Address: Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
    Subway: T-Mariatorget
    Doors open 9 PM (Music and dance until 3 AM)
    Showtime 10 PM
    Min age: 18 years
    Disabled access

    Producer is Bar Brasil Estocolmo and Johan von Friedrichs.

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  • 21:00 -03:00
    17/03/2019-17/03/2019
    Münchenbryggeriet Event & Konferens, Torkel Knutssonsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm Carnival party 2019, the 26th edition. SAVE THE DATE: Saturday March 16th. • 4 dancefloors, 100 artists, 10 DJ:s and 1500 Guests. The biggest Indoor Carnival in north of Europe. Samba-Soca-Salsa-Afro … carnival dance-beats Enjoy!

     

    Venue: Münchenbryggeriet
    Address: Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2
    Subway: T-Mariatorget
    Doors open 9 PM (Music and dance until 3 AM)
    Showtime 10 PM
    Min age: 18 years
    Disabled access

    Producer is Bar Brasil Estocolmo and Johan von Friedrichs.

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  • 18:30 -23:30
    19/03/2019
    Annexet, Arenatorget, Johanneshov, Sweden

    Dave Matthews Band will be performing on his first European tour since 2015, starting at Zenith in Munich on March 6, 2019.

     

    Dave Matthews Band have sold more than 24 million concert tickets since they started and over 38 million CDs and DVDs. The band’s many hit songs include “What Would You Say”, “Too Much”, “Everyday”, “American Baby”, “Funny The Way It Is” and “Crash Into Me.” This last song can be heard in the Academy Award nominated film Ladybird 2018.

    With the release of Come Tomorrow, Dave Matthews Band became the first band in history to have seven studio albums on a row raking No. 1 on Billboard 200. In a Critic’s Pick Review in the New York Times, it read “willed optimism fills the songs on ‘Come Tomorrow,’ while cynicism and irony are nowhere within earshot ‘while Rolling Stone said’ [Matthews gets] quiet and contemplative, and unusually sweet on songs both lush and ‘Black and Blue Bird ‘). “

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  • 21:00 -03:00
    22/03/2019-23/03/2019
    Debaser Hornstulls Strand, Hornstulls strand, Stockholm, Sweden

    Now there will be a big celebration for the pop icon Robyn.

    After a long-awaited comeback, Robyn has taken the world by storm. We fill the dance floor with her mighty song tax. There will be broken teenage hearts, surprises, singing and you will not dance yourself!

    So welcome to Robyn party but its just on Debaser Strand on March 22.

    DJs Boel Wincent with friend

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  • 21:00 -03:00
    23/03/2019-23/03/2019
    Debaser Hornstulls Strand, Hornstulls strand, Stockholm, Sweden

    Now there will be a big celebration for the pop icon Robyn.

    After a long-awaited comeback, Robyn has taken the world by storm. We fill the dance floor with her mighty song tax. There will be broken teenage hearts, surprises, singing and you will not dance yourself!

    So welcome to Robyn party but its just on Debaser Strand on March 22.

    DJs Boel Wincent with friend

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  • 00:00 -05:00
    30/03/2019
    Berzelii park 1, 111 47 Stockholm, Sweden

    KONTAKT | SPECIAL EDITION | March 30 at Berns in Stockholm.

    Open between 00: 00-05: 00

    Kontakt EP. 4 – LINE UP

    Nina Kraviz (трип)
    DJ Clea (Hot House Rec)
    Miss Dilemma (Swedish Techno)
    Linny Hex (Kvalia Rec)
    Johanna Beckman
    COBRAH (live)

    Kontakt is  organising a special edition of the club at Berns with no one other than NINA KRAVIZ. She comes to Sweden for a Scandinavian-exclusive show. The house will be filled to the width with big artists who will deliver the very best during five intensive hours on all floors inside Berns. This will be the ultimate round of KONTAKT, hope you are ready!

  • 11:00 -17:00
    30/03/2019
    Lövholmsbrinken 1, 117 43 Stockholm, Sweden
    Beer, Brewers, brunch, festival färgfabriken

    Brewers! And Brunch!

    Stockholm Brewers Festival is gathering some of their favorite local breweries and cooking up a storm with greasy ass pancakes, homemade sausages, tunes and beers on tap.

    Brewers and Brunch is proud to be a part of Färgfabriken’s spring market – one of Stockholm’s biggest markets for handmade goods, secondhand bicycles, cheese and freshly baked fika. Read more about the market here: http://bit.ly/2Ta7e4c

    Brewery line up:
    Brewing Költur
    NKB – Nordic Kiwi Brewers
    Tempel Brygghus
    Unibärsum Bryggeri
    Sundbybergs köksbryggeri
    Stockholm Brewing Co.

    Food:
    Greasy ass American pancakes
    Homemade sausage BBQ by Isak Wiig from the Swedish national culinary team
    Smörrebröd
    Freshly baked fika
    Pop-up cheese market

    Cheers!

    Färgfabrikens stora vårmarknad
    11:00-17:00 30 & 31 mars
    Färgfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken 1
    Entrance Färgfabriken Vårmarknad: 50kr

  • 18:30 -20:00
    30/03/2019
    Annexet, Arenatorget, Johanneshov, Sweden

    PAW Patrol Live inStockholm!

    Based on Nickelodeon’s success series, kid’s favorite dogs take the stage LIVE in an action-packed and musical adventure with high energy. Together with the audience, the dogs work hard to protect their little society. No job is too big, no puppy is too small! Community, social skills and problem solving are brought to fruition in a unique competing team work from the stage. All dogs and actors speak Swedish.

  • 19:00 -23:00
    30/03/2019
    Berzelii park 1, 111 47 Stockholm, Sweden

    After 1.5 years of touring over much of the world – including gigs at SXSW and the Red Bull Festival in Chicago – and the acclaimed album release “Araweelo”, R&B star Cherrie is hotter than ever. With her double Swedish Grammis nominated album – and a heart emoji from no other than Rihanna for the video “163 Forever” – Cherrie is ready for more. In March she brings her brother K27 for a Scandinavian tour and performs 11 concerts until the end of April.

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  • 11:00 -17:00
    31/03/2019
    Lövholmsbrinken 1, 117 43 Stockholm, Sweden
    Beer, Brewers, brunch, festival färgfabriken

    Brewers! And Brunch!

    Stockholm Brewers Festival is gathering some of their favorite local breweries and cooking up a storm with greasy ass pancakes, homemade sausages, tunes and beers on tap.

    Brewers and Brunch is proud to be a part of Färgfabriken’s spring market – one of Stockholm’s biggest markets for handmade goods, secondhand bicycles, cheese and freshly baked fika. Read more about the market here: http://bit.ly/2Ta7e4c

    Brewery line up:
    Brewing Költur
    NKB – Nordic Kiwi Brewers
    Tempel Brygghus
    Unibärsum Bryggeri
    Sundbybergs köksbryggeri
    Stockholm Brewing Co.

    Food:
    Greasy ass American pancakes
    Homemade sausage BBQ by Isak Wiig from the Swedish national culinary team
    Smörrebröd
    Freshly baked fika
    Pop-up cheese market

    Cheers!

    Färgfabrikens stora vårmarknad
    11:00-17:00 30 & 31 mars
    Färgfabriken, Lövholmsbrinken 1
    Entrance Färgfabriken Vårmarknad: 50kr

  • 11:00 -13:00
    31/03/2019
    Annexet, Arenatorget, Johanneshov, Sweden

    PAW Patrol Live inStockholm!

    Based on Nickelodeon’s success series, kid’s favorite dogs take the stage LIVE in an action-packed and musical adventure with high energy. Together with the audience, the dogs work hard to protect their little society. No job is too big, no puppy is too small! Community, social skills and problem solving are brought to fruition in a unique competing team work from the stage. All dogs and actors speak Swedish.

  • 18:00 -21:00
    31/03/2019
    Ericsson Globe, Stockholm, Sweden

    Joe Labero has taken Las Vegas by a storm. Now he is loading for an even cooler show – with a world premiere in Sweden.

    Labero’s magical world will fill the arena with fire-fighting world artists and Sweden’s most popular extreme sport acts – the YouTube phenomenon Rackartyvaen. Surrounded by an ocean as scary as beautiful, the dreadful gang will make you doubt the laws of physics with their stunts and motorcycles booming.

    Labero Inflame is astonishing entertainment – which rises on the rear wheel and smells gasoline. Everything is followed by camera teams on large-screen displays. A live action-thriller of life, a magical mega-experience.

  • 18:30 -20:00
    31/03/2019
    Annexet, Arenatorget, Johanneshov, Sweden

    PAW Patrol Live inStockholm!

    Based on Nickelodeon’s success series, kid’s favorite dogs take the stage LIVE in an action-packed and musical adventure with high energy. Together with the audience, the dogs work hard to protect their little society. No job is too big, no puppy is too small! Community, social skills and problem solving are brought to fruition in a unique competing team work from the stage. All dogs and actors speak Swedish.


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