26 Jan 2025
Culture
Swedish Culture Tourist Information What's on: Stockholm

Lucia in Sweden: Light in Dark December

Come Friday Stockholm will be overrun with white-clad kids and girls with candles in their hair. YLC’s Judi Lembke explains Swedish Christmas, one tradition at a time…   We already know that winter in Sweden is cold, it’s dark and it sometimes feels like the sun will never show its face again. Here enters Lucia, […]

Read More
Creative Arts Music What's on: Stockholm

A Christmas Carol: English Classic, Stockholm tradition

Let us bring you the best of times this December with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol! YLC spoke to the cast and crew about the past, the future and the present of this marvellous show.

Read More
Culture Music What's on: Stockholm

YLC Gig List: December

Does your December need hotting up? Don’t miss our guide to the best concerts and festivals in Stockholm over the coming month! You’re welcome! Thur. 05/12 Cikatri$ @ Lilla Hotellbaren – Free entry. Punk act from France. Highly recommended to beat up the winter blues. Small Feet @ Sodra Teatern –  Free entry. Swedish trio performing […]

Read More
Café Culture Dining out Tourist Information

Posh Stockholm Eats on the (relative) Cheap

Eating out in Stockholm can be very expensive, even at lunch. But there are bargains to be had and we don’t mean the local burger kiosk or a cafeteria lunch. YLC’s Judi Lembke knows where to go! If you know where to go in the city –  there is no reason you can’t eat in […]

Read More
Art Creative Arts Culture

YLC Review: Paolo Roversi’s Secrets at Fotografiska

Staged yet so very, very simple – YLC’s Solveig Rundquist visits the Stockholm Fotografiska gallery to check out acclaimed photographer Paolo Roversi’s exhibition. Skeppsholmen is looked upon as somewhat of a high-cultural mecca in Stockholm, the scene of prestigious and bold art gallery Moderna Museet (The Museum of Modern Art), the Architectural museum, the East-Asian museum, […]

Read More
Creative Arts What's on: Stockholm

YLC Christmas Giveaway: The Nutcracker

On the 5th Day of December, YLC gave to me… Ballet tickets!

Read More
Creative Arts

YLC Christmas Giveaway: A Christmas Carol

Let us spirit you away to a chilly Victorian London with Dickens’ A Christmas Carol! YLC has two pairs of tickets to give away! There is no ‘Bah, humbug’ about it – YOU have a chance to win! The play opened for the first time in Stockholm  in 1988 and was the highlight of many Stockholmers’ […]

Read More
What's on: Stockholm

Christmas Markets in Stockholm 2013

December is just around the corner and the countdown of Advent will get underway, so now’s the time to bundle up in your warmest winter coat and stroll through the cheerfully lit Christmas markets in Stockholm with a warm mug of glögg.  The holiday season has officially begun here in Sweden and there’s no better […]

Read More
Creative Arts

YLC Christmas Giveaway: Lost in Translation

Come and brighten up your mellandagarna with Stockholm improv comedy show Lost in Translation! Win tickets to the show Dec 27th at 19.00 (or any show this spring)! Lost in Translation is the improv show that puts the experience of living in Sweden as a foreigner on stage. After completely selling out fourteen shows this fall, […]

Read More
What's on: Stockholm

What’s On and Where to Go: December

The most wonderful time of the year has arrived – dreary November giving way to December. That means snow, candles, cookies – and YLC’s very own gift to you, a grand guide of where to be and what to do this month! The Christmas Spirit Walk Whether this is your first Christmas in Stockholm or […]

Read More