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

what's on stockholm autumn october

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.

< 2019 >
September 02 - September 08
  • 02
    02.September.Monday
    No events
  • 03
    03.September.Tuesday
    STOFF X Stockholm Fringe festival

    STOFF X

    17:00 -23:59
    03/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    STOFF•X is the 10th edition of Scandinavia’s oldest fringe: Stockholm Fringe Festival!

    They’re celebrating a very special birthday with a theme! This year’s programme features fresh performances and visual art made exclusively by female, non-binary and trans artists!

    Catch new work from cutting edge talents via their website www.stockholmfringe.com

    WHAT? A multidisciplinary performance arts festival with exciting work from local and international artists, Peaches inclusive (See Peaches at Stoff-X for more info)!

    Think theatre, music, visual art, dance, art walks, performance, workshops, film, debates and “other”! Nearly 100 free and ticketed events for all ages!

    WHERE? 14 places and spaces in and around Stockholm with the following spots in focus:

    Bagarmossens Folkets Hus
    Bångska Våningen Stureplan
    c.off
    Cosmopolite
    Högkultur – Scen och möte
    Orionteatern
    Pershagen Gallery
    Secret location (Private apartment)
    StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm
    Street (Various locations)
    Stockholms dramatiska högskola
    Teater Tre
    Ö2
    Zita Folkets Bio

    WHEN? 5 days from the 3rd to the 7th of September!

    WHO? 80+ companies from Sweden and around the world!

    HOW? Box office via Kulturbiljetter!

  • 04
    04.September.Wednesday
    STOFF X Stockholm Fringe festival

    STOFF X

    17:00 -23:59
    04/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    STOFF•X is the 10th edition of Scandinavia’s oldest fringe: Stockholm Fringe Festival!

    They’re celebrating a very special birthday with a theme! This year’s programme features fresh performances and visual art made exclusively by female, non-binary and trans artists!

    Catch new work from cutting edge talents via their website www.stockholmfringe.com

    WHAT? A multidisciplinary performance arts festival with exciting work from local and international artists, Peaches inclusive (See Peaches at Stoff-X for more info)!

    Think theatre, music, visual art, dance, art walks, performance, workshops, film, debates and “other”! Nearly 100 free and ticketed events for all ages!

    WHERE? 14 places and spaces in and around Stockholm with the following spots in focus:

    Bagarmossens Folkets Hus
    Bångska Våningen Stureplan
    c.off
    Cosmopolite
    Högkultur – Scen och möte
    Orionteatern
    Pershagen Gallery
    Secret location (Private apartment)
    StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm
    Street (Various locations)
    Stockholms dramatiska högskola
    Teater Tre
    Ö2
    Zita Folkets Bio

    WHEN? 5 days from the 3rd to the 7th of September!

    WHO? 80+ companies from Sweden and around the world!

    HOW? Box office via Kulturbiljetter!

  • 05
    05.September.Thursday
    STOFF X Stockholm Fringe festival

    STOFF X

    17:00 -23:59
    05/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    STOFF•X is the 10th edition of Scandinavia’s oldest fringe: Stockholm Fringe Festival!

    They’re celebrating a very special birthday with a theme! This year’s programme features fresh performances and visual art made exclusively by female, non-binary and trans artists!

    Catch new work from cutting edge talents via their website www.stockholmfringe.com

    WHAT? A multidisciplinary performance arts festival with exciting work from local and international artists, Peaches inclusive (See Peaches at Stoff-X for more info)!

    Think theatre, music, visual art, dance, art walks, performance, workshops, film, debates and “other”! Nearly 100 free and ticketed events for all ages!

    WHERE? 14 places and spaces in and around Stockholm with the following spots in focus:

    Bagarmossens Folkets Hus
    Bångska Våningen Stureplan
    c.off
    Cosmopolite
    Högkultur – Scen och möte
    Orionteatern
    Pershagen Gallery
    Secret location (Private apartment)
    StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm
    Street (Various locations)
    Stockholms dramatiska högskola
    Teater Tre
    Ö2
    Zita Folkets Bio

    WHEN? 5 days from the 3rd to the 7th of September!

    WHO? 80+ companies from Sweden and around the world!

    HOW? Box office via Kulturbiljetter!

  • 06
    06.September.Friday

    Sthlm Street Food with Food Truck-tournament

    11:00 -19:00
    06/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    The successful Sthlm Street Food food festival is back, taking over Kungsträdgården, which will be filled with food trucks, flavours and smells from all corners of the world, entertainment, street art and beautiful festival atmosphere.

     

    In parallel with the festival, a Food Truck-tournament will be arranged, here, several food trucks compete to prove who makes the best dishes in different categories and after the  competition, everyone is welcome to shop from all the participating cars between. 11:00 and 19:00.

    ölfestival beer festival stockholm

    Beerfestival

    14:00 -20:00
    06/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Textilgatan 31, 120 30 Stockholm, Sweden

    Gothenburg’s finest breweries come to the capital.

    Over 15 different breweries and 50 different beers to try. Everyone will be there on Friday and Saturday 6-7 September at the Fabriken Event in Hammarbysjöstad.

     

    Try the latest brew from Sweden’s best beer city.

     

    Buy your tickets at alesandbrews.com

    STOFF X Stockholm Fringe festival

    STOFF X

    17:00 -23:59
    06/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    STOFF•X is the 10th edition of Scandinavia’s oldest fringe: Stockholm Fringe Festival!

    They’re celebrating a very special birthday with a theme! This year’s programme features fresh performances and visual art made exclusively by female, non-binary and trans artists!

    Catch new work from cutting edge talents via their website www.stockholmfringe.com

    WHAT? A multidisciplinary performance arts festival with exciting work from local and international artists, Peaches inclusive (See Peaches at Stoff-X for more info)!

    Think theatre, music, visual art, dance, art walks, performance, workshops, film, debates and “other”! Nearly 100 free and ticketed events for all ages!

    WHERE? 14 places and spaces in and around Stockholm with the following spots in focus:

    Bagarmossens Folkets Hus
    Bångska Våningen Stureplan
    c.off
    Cosmopolite
    Högkultur – Scen och möte
    Orionteatern
    Pershagen Gallery
    Secret location (Private apartment)
    StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm
    Street (Various locations)
    Stockholms dramatiska högskola
    Teater Tre
    Ö2
    Zita Folkets Bio

    WHEN? 5 days from the 3rd to the 7th of September!

    WHO? 80+ companies from Sweden and around the world!

    HOW? Box office via Kulturbiljetter!

  • 07
    07.September.Saturday

    Sthlm Street Food with Food Truck-tournament

    11:00 -19:00
    07/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    The successful Sthlm Street Food food festival is back, taking over Kungsträdgården, which will be filled with food trucks, flavours and smells from all corners of the world, entertainment, street art and beautiful festival atmosphere.

     

    In parallel with the festival, a Food Truck-tournament will be arranged, here, several food trucks compete to prove who makes the best dishes in different categories and after the  competition, everyone is welcome to shop from all the participating cars between. 11:00 and 19:00.

    ölfestival beer festival stockholm

    Beerfestival

    14:00 -20:00
    07/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Textilgatan 31, 120 30 Stockholm, Sweden

    Gothenburg’s finest breweries come to the capital.

    Over 15 different breweries and 50 different beers to try. Everyone will be there on Friday and Saturday 6-7 September at the Fabriken Event in Hammarbysjöstad.

     

    Try the latest brew from Sweden’s best beer city.

     

    Buy your tickets at alesandbrews.com

    STHLM TECH FEST 2019

    17:00 -21:00
    07/09/2019-11/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    In 2019, Stockholm’s tech ecosystem continues to grow with more VC funds, more incubators and accelerators, more and much bigger co-working spaces, more startups fundraising, many more new angel investors, and more excitement about the future.

    So it’s only natural that STHLM TECH FEST 2019 have more of everything that makes this ecosystem awesome…

    Last year the festival had a much loved Job Fair, so this year they’re making it bigger and better with many more categories… Design, Security, Product, A.I., Backend, etc.

    Two years ago they also had the Safari, with sold out information-filled networking events all over the city. This year they double the Safari events and host them in better and more central locations like ALMA, WeWork, Hobo Hotel and many more.

    This year new addition is a hackathon, but not just any hackathon – The World’s Largest Hackathon for Women at City Hall.

    And perhaps best of all, this year SLUSH is bringing their much loved networking and matchmaking system (for the first time anywhere) to STHLM TECH FEST.

    STOFF X Stockholm Fringe festival

    STOFF X

    17:00 -23:59
    07/09/2019-07/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    STOFF•X is the 10th edition of Scandinavia’s oldest fringe: Stockholm Fringe Festival!

    They’re celebrating a very special birthday with a theme! This year’s programme features fresh performances and visual art made exclusively by female, non-binary and trans artists!

    Catch new work from cutting edge talents via their website www.stockholmfringe.com

    WHAT? A multidisciplinary performance arts festival with exciting work from local and international artists, Peaches inclusive (See Peaches at Stoff-X for more info)!

    Think theatre, music, visual art, dance, art walks, performance, workshops, film, debates and “other”! Nearly 100 free and ticketed events for all ages!

    WHERE? 14 places and spaces in and around Stockholm with the following spots in focus:

    Bagarmossens Folkets Hus
    Bångska Våningen Stureplan
    c.off
    Cosmopolite
    Högkultur – Scen och möte
    Orionteatern
    Pershagen Gallery
    Secret location (Private apartment)
    StaDemonia Tattoo Stockholm
    Street (Various locations)
    Stockholms dramatiska högskola
    Teater Tre
    Ö2
    Zita Folkets Bio

    WHEN? 5 days from the 3rd to the 7th of September!

    WHO? 80+ companies from Sweden and around the world!

    HOW? Box office via Kulturbiljetter!

    Peaches at Stoff-X

    18:00 -21:30
    07/09/2019
    Katarina Bangata 77, 116 42 Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm Fringe Festival (STOFF-X) in collaboration with Orionteatern and House of Producers (HOP) present: Peaches Christ Superstar – 7th Sept 2019.

    One of the world’s most influential female artists at Orionteatern at one of Stockholms’s most exciting stage art venues.

    Electro-rock provocateur Peaches performs Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar in a reverent, revelatory one-woman tour-de-force.

    An unlikely scenario: the whole of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar performed by one woman accompanied by a single piano. Even more unlikely when that woman is Peaches, the electro-rock provocateuse who has made sexual frankness her calling card.

    With extraordinary emotional and dramatic power, Peaches sings each of the nine principal roles. Building on the work’s own brand of subtle subversiveness, Peaches’ tribute to a score she has loved since she was a teenager is a chance to see the star and the musical in an entirely new light.

    Peaches Christ Superstar with Peaches

    Piano: Mathias Susaas Halvorsen
    Light: Roz Malyon
    Costume: John Renaud, Mundi
    A Production of HAU Berlin.

    One show only.

  • 08
    08.September.Sunday

    STHLM TECH FEST 2019

    17:00 -21:00
    08/09/2019-11/09/2019
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    In 2019, Stockholm’s tech ecosystem continues to grow with more VC funds, more incubators and accelerators, more and much bigger co-working spaces, more startups fundraising, many more new angel investors, and more excitement about the future.

    So it’s only natural that STHLM TECH FEST 2019 have more of everything that makes this ecosystem awesome…

    Last year the festival had a much loved Job Fair, so this year they’re making it bigger and better with many more categories… Design, Security, Product, A.I., Backend, etc.

    Two years ago they also had the Safari, with sold out information-filled networking events all over the city. This year they double the Safari events and host them in better and more central locations like ALMA, WeWork, Hobo Hotel and many more.

    This year new addition is a hackathon, but not just any hackathon – The World’s Largest Hackathon for Women at City Hall.

    And perhaps best of all, this year SLUSH is bringing their much loved networking and matchmaking system (for the first time anywhere) to STHLM TECH FEST.


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