November is that time of the year many regard as dark, but funnily enough, Stockholm gives us many sparkly and enlightened ways to have fun and keep our minds away from the gloomy weather conditions. Such as the Stockholm Film Festivals, where stars of the movie world shine on the red carpets of the city’s cinemas and the light of the projectors on the screens takes us to worlds we have only dreamed of. Stockholm itself also starts glittering, when the streets are dressed with the Christmas decorations. No, this is not a dark time, it’s a time to see the light in different shapes.
Here are some of the glittering events you should not miss this month!
SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS
Lighting of the Christmas lights in Stockholm City
Everybody is welcomed to this year’s opening of #Stockholmsjul with the launch of the Christmas lights in Stockholm City 2019.
In addition to the launch of one million LED lights on over 40 streets, places and squares, the city will offer wonderful Christmas atmosphere. Do not miss the premiere walk of this year’s Christmas lights!
When: 16 November
Where: Kungsträdgården
Cost: FREE
Christmas Market at Skansen
The Christmas market at Skansen has been a yearly tradition since 1903. The market square is filled with food, treats and decorations and the bonfires are lit. All the historical houses and farmsteads are decorated and in the town quarters you can meet skilled craftsmen. There will be craft demonstrations and live music in the buildings where the tables are also set for Christmas dinner. Young and old can participate in dancing around the Christmas tree and make their own Christmas decorations in the workshop.
When: 30 November
Where: Skansen
Cost: 60SEK – 140SEK
Peasful Christmas Market
For the second year in a row, Herman’s is holding a 100% vegan Christmas market, filled to the brim with delicious treats, healthy products, artworks, books and much more!
When: 30 November
Where: Hermans Restaurang & Trädgårdscafé
Cost: FREE
FAIRS
Sthlm Food & Wine 2019
Enjoy great flavours with close friends. Join the best tasting event in the Nordics.
When: 8-10 November
Where: Stockholmsmässan
Cost: 150-200SEK for one day, 250-280SEK for two days, children free
Stockholm Coffee Festival 2019
Swing by A-House on Saturday 9th of November to meet your favourite Swedish Roasters, try your hand and some cutting edge coffee tech, and enjoy a great time with fellow coffee lovers.
When: 9 November
Where: A house Stockholm
Cost: FREE
MUSIC
Elder Island @ Obaren
The Bristol trio ELDER ISLAND delivers a fantastic mix of dream pop and techno where mpc beats meet a myriad of synth, guitar, bass and cello.
When: 7 November
Where: Obaren
Cost: FREE
Avishai Cohen Trio @ Berwaldhallen
Renowned Israeli jazz bassist and composer Avishai Cohen returns to Stockholm along with a newly released record and a new trio! This time for a unique concert in one of the most pleasing stages in the city, Berwaldhallen.
Kontakt – The Black Madonna + La Fleur
When: 24 November
Where: Berns
Cost: 295SEK – 495SEK
ART
30th Stockholm International Film Festival
Between the 6th and the 17th of November, the 2019 Stockholm International Film Festival screens around 150 films from over 60 countries in the city’s cinemas and arranges quizzes, parties, seminars, Face2Face and more.
We have put together a guide with the films that are a MUST SEE at this year’s festival, including the best of the best from every film genre and you can find it here.
When: 6-17 November
Where: The festival takes place in the following cinemas: Skandia, Drottninggatan 82. Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1. Park, Sturegatan 18. Zita, Birger Jarlsgatan 37. Sture, Birger Jarlsgatan 41. Bio Rio, Hornstulls strand 3. Capitol, St. Eriksgatan 82.
Cost: Ordinary ticket: 100 SEK. Red Carpet ticket: 150 SEK. Capitol: 120 SEK. Day ticket: 70 SEK (valid Mon–Fri before 3:00pm). Red Carpet Deluxe: 160-500 SEK
Opening Reception: Love Lundell & C-print
This autumn Love Lundell will present a new series of works in the exhibition Sentimentally Yours, Red Forest at Wetterling Galllery. The series is about times of transition, the period between childhood and adulthood. Memories of sexual awakening and places connected to these memories. Or the emotion of being trapped in this stage of transition.
When: Opening Reception 7 November. Reception stays open the rest of the month.
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE
Exhibition – Theme: Stockholm at Nordic Art
Several of Sweden’s most interesting artists interpret Stockholm in their own way. Pia Erlandsson, Richard Vakil, Marika Lang, Maria Krull, Henry Bronett, BG Karlsson, Carolina Bååth, Viktoria Tikhomirova, Gunnel Wennberg
Large opening day Saturday 9 November 12-17 pm at Birkagatan 28 B.
When: 9-14 November
Where: Nordic Art
Cost: FREE
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
