Events this weekend

This weekend will be packed with awesome stuff to do, so there is not much time to explain!

Friday

Icons in Tivoli

Iconic and much-hated-with-love-by-most-Danes-rappers and guys with feelings, Nik & Jay will be performing in Tivoli tonight. There will be equal amounts of people truly wanting to see the show and people who are there to have a laugh. Doesn't matter if your Danish is not very good yet - the lyrics are simple and you might even have heard them before while staying here. Put on your whitest sneakers, tilt your cap, find red wine and Blå Kings and party.

Entrance: Same as entrance to Tivoli. The show starts at 22.

Zulu Sommerbio

Tonight is the last night with the awesome concept, Zulu Sommerbio, which is a touring outdoor summer cinema! It is free to go and tonight the movie will be a surprise! Bring bunches of blankets and a nice sweater to keep warm with cold beer and popcorn together with a packed Fælledparken!

The movie starts at 21.15 and you can hardly miss the place!



Saturday

STRØM FESTIVAL

Refer to my post about Strøm Festival from the other day! Saturday is the biggest day of the festival!

The Unofficial Strøm After Party (with a Gameboy-soundsystem!)

A GAMEBOY SOUNDSYSTEM! I SAY GO! The party is called Frossen Fisk (Frozen Fish) and it goes down in Basement! There will be other electronic and rave names performing too. Free drinks the first hour! Entrance is 40 kroner! Time is from 23-06. The address is Enghavevej 42. More on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/529279677127619/?ref=2

Galore Urban Art Festival

Galore is an annual free urban art festival set in Valby, more specifically at Toftegaards Plads. S-trains go almost to the door (Valby Station). Entrance is free, beer is 20 kroner and they have a kickass pulled pork burger! The art is of higher quality each year, both the indoor exhibitions and the live street art outside. There are bands performing, and tomorrow from 15, there will be wrestling.

More on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/377832398990147/?fref=ts




Saturday is the last day of the festival, which can also be visited friday!

Sunday

One Love Walk

Sunday gives you a reggae-parade, One Love Walk, as warmup to the Scandinavia Reggae Festival. The parade will go from Christiania to Nørrebro, music will be provided by Karmakanonen (the slightly psychedelic, heartshaped bike-soundsystem) and various Danish reggae/dancehall artists (Pharfar, Raske Penge, Kaka and Youngblood among others). The parade is from 15-19 and it's free to follow them! More on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/555149894546989/


Best weekend wishes,
Nanna

Tivoli's 170th birthday

Hope you don't suffer too much because of the Danish summer weather! In case it decides to behave well, you can go to Tivoli tomorrow (thursday) to celebrate it's 170th birthday! When Tivoli first opened in 1843, all it had was a rollercoaster an a carousel - luckily, there's a bit more going on there today!

There will be lots of stuff going on, mostly with the Tivoli Guards! Most importantly, there will be fireworks at 22:45 - which you can watch for free outside the gardens, so if you happen to be around the centre of Copenhagen, look to the skies at that time. 

Unfortunately, Tivoli is still as expensive as always to go to - no birthday offers. :)



Best,
Nanna

STRØM FESTIVAL

The festival season in Denmark is not over yet!

This is the week of the Strøm Festival, one of the more recent festivals. It started in 2007 and is mainly centered around electronic music. The festival is running for one week (this week) and there are tons of free events every day. Because this festival is not just about partying and concerts - they also have workshops, master classes and artist talks... and of course outdoor concerts in Enghaveparken. Artists are both local and international! The programme is really big, so I've collected links for each day this week. The events are not just late - some starts as early as 10 in the morning. 

Today:
http://www.stromcph.dk/tuesday/

Wednesday:
http://www.stromcph.dk/wednesday/

Thursday:
http://www.stromcph.dk/thursday/

Friday:
http://www.stromcph.dk/friday/

Saturday:
http://www.stromcph.dk/saturday/
Note: The music in Enghaveparken is 20 kroner in entrance!

Sunday:
http://www.stromcph.dk/sunday/

Download the app to follow the festival more easily: http://www.stromcph.dk/app/

I went last year to the saturday event and it is really, really recommendable! Even if it rains!


Concert from last year's Strøm in Enghaveparken


Light installation art in Enghaveparken from last year's Strøm 


See you saturday,
Nanna

Slightly improved

I've tried to clean the looks of the blog a bit. No major changes, since after messing around with layout a couple of days, I realized that I really like the way it was.

New additions are;

Pages!
To the right, above the archive, I've collected pages that are relevant and otherwise completely impossible to find again after first reading them. I've collected all Spotlights, bars and cafés respectively, and found the short trips from the archives (currently working on a couple more trips for you).

Follow by email!
Since I will not be picking any of you up in the airport this year, and therefore not have a golden opportunity to give you my hand crafted link notecards that day, I've added the follow-by-email gadget. Get the new posts in your inbox, no spam.

Plus some more width (since editing from mobile platforms always was a pain in the brain and not respecting my layout at all), larger types and improved contrast. 

Any suggestions for an improved blog will be recieved happily!

I missed you all!

Best,
Nanna

See you in August

Tomorrow early morning I will be on my way to Spain! So this will be the last post before mid-August. What should you spend your time on then, if you are not lucky enough to go to Roskilde Festival this week? Or if the weather stays like it is today and you have to stay in Denmark?

I have collected a list of other festivals in the time where I am out traveling!

Here we go!

Copenhagen Jazz Festival

From July 5th to July 14th!

Lots of lovely jazz music in Copenhagen for an entire week! Most events are free, and those that are not, are not very expensive.

Web page: http://jazz.dk/Program#q=&d=&t=&v=&s=&e=&u=

CPH Opera

From July 28th to August 4th

I did not know that Copenhagen had an opera festival, but it is a great opportunity to learn about it or learn more

if you are already a fan. You will need a ticket for most of the events, but there should be some free ones too.

Web page: http://copenhagenoperafestival.com/en/calendar/

Fringe Jazz Fest

From July 5th to July 14th

Specialized in New Orleans music: jazz, blues, brassband, funk and swing. It is sure to bring some warmth to 

Copenhagen and sure to make you move your feet. Most events are free!

Web page: http://www.fringejazzfest.dk/

Bas Under Buen

July 20th

A whole day of free concerts, mostly dubstep, bass and dancehall! Right outside my window! I went last year and

it was a blast! Outdoors and for free.

Web page: https://www.facebook.com/events/262288420576273/?ref=22

Henry's Dream

From July 18th to July 21st

A new music/performance festival outside of Copenhagen (specific location is yet to be revealed). 575 kroner for 

a couple of days as a part of Henry's dream. That's really all I know!

Web page: http://www.henrysdream.dk/

Musik I Lejet

From July 18th to July 20th

Set in the beautiful Danish summer paradise Tisvildeleje beach, this lovely festival presents a pretty solid lineup

for the two days it lasts. It looks soo awesome and comes in a lot cheaper than Roskilde with only 150-225 kr.

Web page: http://www.musikilejet.dk/program2013

Open Air in Ørstedsparken

From July 25th to July 27th

Cold beer, three movies and popcorn at Copenhagens LGBT film festival, but don't worry - its for everybody!

Stay tuned at their web page for info!

Web page: http://mixcopenhagen.dk/

Also be sure to check out the slightly more expensive festivals Vanguard Festival and Trailerpark Festival!

Enjoy the Danish summer,

All the best,

Nanna

What's up with all the young people with hats on?

Why are they everywhere now?
And why are they drinking the whole time?

Ahhh, confusion!

Well, they are happy and drunk because they finished their 3 years in Gymnasium, Technical Gymnasium or a bunch of other schools similar to that. Here is an illustration of the various types of hats! The most common are the red and blue. The black depends on either family traditions or traditions on the school you graduate from. Some schools dedicate the black hat to mathematical students, some to greek/latin students, some to elite students. The illustration i borrowed from Politiken.dk.



There are plenty of traditions for the hats. Your friends should bite the black part of the hat and then write something inside the hat for you. Your final grade will be written in the middle of the inside of the hat where there is usually a gold version of your schools logo. If your boy/girlfriend write their name in the gold, you will eventually marry them. There is also a "secret" part of the hat for dirty messages. Ooohh! There is a ton of other rules about cutting out stuff of the hat. Bathe naked, cut a wave in the inside of the hat. Drink a case of beer, cut a square in the inside of the hat. Watch a sunrise, cut a triangle. And about 50 other ones, differing from school to school.

They will be happy and proud to tell you about their hats, and even more so if you congratulate them. It is common for strangers to congratulate the new students on their hats. This week, most of them has been partying all day and night since they finished their final exam.

Tomorrow and saturday, it will get even more weird. They usually gather at their school in the morning for their graduation ceremony - after that, decorated open trucks will wait for them and they will go and visit everyone from their class in the truck. Where I'm from, all the students then drive to the fountain downtown to dance around it. The student with the highest grade average will be thrown in the fountain! In Copenhagen, they will dance around Storkespringvandet on Strøget! After that, the tour starts! A drink and a snack at all the places, then back to the truck with music playing and beer provided by the girl in class with the largest head and the boy with the smallest head.

The truck is usually decorated by the class a year below the graduated class. They also provide a case of beer. Birch branches, flags, balloons and banners are the common decorations. The banners are usually naughty! Some of them tells dirty stories of the graduated class, most of them tell the cars passing by to honk for the students to flash. Therefore, a lot of honking is to be heard on the Danish roads tomorrow!

There are usually some 20 students in each class, so the driving takes all day and usually they continue until the morning after. Therefore many of the bars in Copenhagen will be even more fun to go to! More people partying like crazy! They might be young but they are also a lot of fun - at least to observe!

Mystery solved!




"We puke in your back yards"
Best,
Nanna

Thursday: Afterparty w/ the Odd Future crew @ Rust

If you want to experience a wild afterparty show by the OFWGKTA crew (and party with them), better hurry up and get tickets. The party is thursday, this week, midnight at Rust, KBH. Less than 100 tickets left! Get them here: http://www.billetlugen.dk/musik/30215/odd-future-official-afterparty/



YAY,
Nanna