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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Vernissage • Cruising Pavilion x Boxen
EXERCISPLAN 2A, 111 49 Stockholm, SwedenCRUISING PAVILION ✖️ BOXEN
20 sep – 10 nov 2019, ArkDes, SkeppsholmenVERNISSAGE: 20 sep, 17.00-late
⭕️ 1700-1745 ○ DISCUSSION: ‘The Architecture of Cruising’ with Michael Bullock, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus Myrup, Octave Perrault, Charles Teyssou and James Taylor-Foster (Auditoriet)
👉 Register for the discussion: https://ui.mdlnk.se/Surveys/f1dec291-5624-4f3d-86cb-c06d647feab5
⭕️ 1800-1815 ○ INAUGURATION* (Boxen)
⭕️ 1900-2200 ○ BAR + Dgeral https://www.mixcloud.com/dgeral/*the exhibition will close at 20.00; bar and music continues until 22.00.
CRUISING PAVILION
Architecture, Gay Sex and Cruising CulturePresenting the many facets of cruising culture through the work of international architects, designers and artists, ‘Cruising Pavilion’ explores a sexual and spatial practice that spans historical and contemporary culture. Cruising is at once revealed as a resistance, an avant-garde and a vernacular, with an active relevance in and beyond LGTBQ+ circles.
more 👉 https://arkdes.se/en/utstallning/cruising-pavilion-architecture-gay-sex-and-cruising-culture/
Panoramica 2019 - Stockholm's Latin American Film Festival
Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, SwedenPanoramica – Stockholm’s Latin American Film Festival returns in mid-September with its largest edition so far. For six days you can enjoy a program that includes 19 feature films and 6 short films and a package of Afro-Latin American films that represent the best cinema in 8 countries in Latin America.
The Festival will take place in Bio Rio, Zita Folkets Bio, Skärisbiografen and Bio Valentino between September 17 and 22.
The theme of this year’s festival is BORDERS and in relation to the theme, there will be two seminars during the festival where Panoramica wants to highlight the groups that challenge the imaginary and material barriers that marginalise them in an increasingly polarised world.
As in previous editions, they have prepared parties, reflection seminars and other meetings with four participants from Latin America and much more.
More information and tickets about Panoramica:
www.panoramica.se
Creed Bratton: An Evening of Music and Comedy
Wallingatan 37, 111 24 Stockholm, SwedenMystical, eccentric, kindhearted and talented are words that have been used to describe the actor and musician Creed Bratton over the years. On September 20, he visits Stockholm to invite offer two things he’s really good at – laugh and music.
Creed Bratton is best known for nine seasons of the critically acclaimed American version of the TV series The Office where he plays a fictional version of himself. During the nearly eight years that the series was broadcasted, many became delighted with Creed Bratton as the company’s Dunder Mifflin’s Quality Assurance Manager: The manager who never remembers the names of his colleagues and neither was embarrassed for it nor for his many bizarre statements.
Although Creed Bratton is best known as an actor, he is also an established musician with a career that spans almost five decades, and he has no plans to stop. In April, he released his seventh album While the Young Punks Dance with ten new songs, produced by Dave Way and Dillon O’Brian.
Stockholm Jazz Orchestra plays Coltrane
Kungsgatan 63, 111 22 Stockholm, SwedenSongs like Naima, Giant Steps, Afro-Blue, My Favorite Things, In a Sentimental Mood, Central Park West, Impressions and many more will be featured in partially new arrangements.
John Coltrane is one of the greatest jazz musicians ever with a tremendously important role in the development of jazz. He died in 1967 at the age of 40 out of liver cancer. He became famous during his time in the Miles Davis group and appeared on the record “Kind of Blue” the world’s best-selling jazz record.
His own group had a super hit with the album “My Favorite Things” on Atlantic where the soprano saxophone played a leading role. The latter part of his career was devoted more and more to freer very spiritual jazz.
Coltrane also had classic collaborations with Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk and singer Johnny Hartman and others in 2016 he would have turned 90 years and he’s celebrated three years late but better late than never.
A concert with energy, swing and ecstasy with world-class soloists.
Stockholm JazzOrchestra celebrates 34 years in business in 2019 and has played all over the world. A large number of CDs have been released and many radio productions with the band have been heard mainly in P2. The band wants to present modern swinging big band jazz rooted in tradition with inspiration drawn from today’s jazz music. A new CD with music by Peter Knudsen was released in June this year, “Nature Spirits” on D.O records.
