21 Nov 2024
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SWEDISH FILM FROM SCRATCH: The Origins

Before Ingmar Bergman, before the Nordic Noir (and the Millennium Trilogy), and much before Snabba Cash, there was already a flaming film industry created by the Swedes. If you want to know a bit more of the roots of the Swedish film industry, here you have a few recommendations on the early cinema in Sweden, […]

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The 30th Stockholm Film Festival Award Ceremony and Winners

On the evening of November 15, the winners at the 30th Stockholm International Film Festival were presented at Göta Lejon. The festival’s big winner was the director Melina León, whose movie Song Without a Name was awarded the prestigious Bronze Horse for Best Film and Best Cinematography. Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s documentary One Child […]

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STOFF X – Stockholm Fringe Festival turns 10

YLC was present at the opening night of the 10th edition of  STOFF – Stockholm Fringe Festival at Orion Theatre on September 3rd. It was a very emotive night with brave and edgy speeches, stories and performances from some of the invited artists to this year’s festival alongside the organisers and other special guests. In […]

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Pakistani Truck Art comes to Stockholm

If you’ve ever been to South Asia, you will have seen the trucks covered in colorful works of art. Three world famous Pakistani truck artists are right now on a tour in Europe and will be coming to Stockholm as well.   This form of art has long traditions going back hundreds of years, as […]

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Europe’s largest legal graffiti walls hidden in Snösätra, Stockholm

The Snösätra neighbourhood in Rågsved, Stockholm – a once dead industrial area – has been transformed into a graffiti paradise when the property owners gave permission for the grey dilapidated walls to be taken over by colourful graffiti that now not just brightens the day of anyone passing by but also attracts visitors to this […]

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Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

Hark A Merry Art’mas!

As sure as winter ‘s arrival is the heralding by Christmas of good tidings and even better cheers to birth us yet another joyous New Year… …let’s build that momentum in our hearts and spirits by indulging in Your Living City’s year end art choices as magical as a yuletide of Stockholm capped with snowy […]

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Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

The Hunt For Art October

Looking for art to grace the walls of your castle? Or as a special gift for your love ones or best of friends? Besides heading for the Affordable Art Fair Stockholm at Augustendalstorget 6, 131 52 Nacka Strand from 11 to 14 October, why not make additional beelines to Your Living City’s picks of art […]

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Art Culture What's on: Stockholm

A Fall Of Art

A season that transits us from the warmth of summer into the chilly depths of winter, the glorious autumn colours that magically spell the corresponding layers of emotions and purposeful activities are espoused by explorations of the materiality, methodologies and meanings of contemporary art… A season with hoovering hues that epitomizes our quest to move […]

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Your Living City’s favourite Stockholm photos

At Your Living City Stockholm we keep a finger on the pulse of the city’s heartbeat, bringing you the best that Stockholm has to offer, today we would like to bring you some of our favourite views of the Scandinavian capital, created by Stockholm-based photographer and artist Karen Pérez Guzmán. Karen also goes under the […]

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Summer Pleasures of Art

  Summer! Time to luxuriate outdoors…  … contemplating the numerous art displayed in parks dotting Stockholm city central in their relations to nature and surrounding architecture personifying Sweden’s iconic modernist age as one golden era. …watching Swedes sunbathe on lush green lawns at lunch break and bathe in the glory of how far feminism has […]

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