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WHAT’S ON STOCKHOLM: October 2019
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WHAT’S ON STOCKHOLM: October 2019

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Crispy leaves rustle at our feet and the first fresher winds are announcing that winter is coming soon. Life starts retracting indoors, but not only homewards… This is also a time for indoor music and film festivals, dining out at cozy restaurants or attending fairs like the Baking and Chocolate Fair. Oh yes, this is also the time we like to dress up like ghosts and pumpkins and go trick-or-treating. Let us guide you to some of this months event highlights, things to see and do in Stockholm.

Every event is linked to a page with more detailed info, just click on the title!

 

SEASONAL CELEBRATIONS

Halloween at Gröna Lund 2019

The entire amusement park with attractions is open, where the smaller kiddies area is adapted for younger visitors with pumpkins, witches, ghosts and children’s performances every day. In the greater area the more courageous visitors will be able, among other things, to take part in the haunted ship that returns and you will get to meet a mysterious sect.

When: 18-20 October, 25 October – 3 November
Where: Gröna Lund
Cost: 399SEK – 430SEk

 




MUSIC

Stockholm Jazz Festival

One of Sweden’s oldest festivals and one of Stockholm’s biggest events. Now in 2019  the festival is back on 11-20 October – and bigger than ever, spreading jazz on over 60 venues around Stockholm.

When: 11-20 October
Where: Different venues in Stockholm
Cost: Price of tickets varies per concert.

Ariana Grande @ Globen

When: 7 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 675SEK – 875SEK

Chromatics w/ Desire @ Berns

When: 5 October
Where: Berns
Cost: 370SEK

Chromatics Berns Stockholm

Cher @ Friends Arena

When: 17 October
Where: Friends Arena
Cost: 2375SEK – 3400SEK

Michael Bublé @ Globen

When: 23 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 650SEK – 1450SEK

UB40 @ Berns

When: 27 October
Where: Berns
Cost: 570SEK

Eros Ramazzotti @ Globen

When: 30 October
Where: Globen
Cost: 437SEK – 775SEK




ART

Affordable Art Fair

When: 10-13 October
Where: Nacka Strandsmässan
Cost: 95SEK – 350SEK

Opening Reception: Peter Blake

When: 3 October
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE

Opening: Anna Camner / Toni R. Toivonen / Ann-Sofie Claesson

When: 3 October
Where: Wetterling Gallery
Cost: FREE

Iranian Film Festival 2019

When: 12-13 October
Where: Biograf Skandia
Cost: 120SEK – 295SEK

iranska filmfestivalen Iranian film festival Stockholm 2019




FOOD AND DRINK

Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2019

When: 3-5 October
Where: Nacka Strandsmässan
Cost: 250SEK

Bak- & Chokladfestivalen – The Bake & Chocolate Festival

When: 10-13 October
Where: Stockholmsmässan
Cost: 93SEK – 390 SEK

Chelas – There’s a New Mexican in Town

Located at the trendy Hornstull neighbourhood of Södermalm, at Verkstadsgatan 4,  you’ll find Chelas, Stockholm’s newest Mexican restaurant. Chelas opened its doors in July of 2019. The name comes from the Mexican slang word for beers and a phrase the Mexicans use when they want to socialise with friends and family: “Saca las chelas”. Literally translated it means “Bring out the beers”, but it can actually be better interpreted as “Let’s have some beers and hang out”.

Chelas restaurant Enchiladas tacos Stockholm

 

Unique Stockholm Restaurants With A Great Wine List

The wine culture in Sweden is expanding, especially with the increase of vineyards in Skåne in the south of the country. In fact, 42% of all alcohol sales in Sweden consist of wine, and this is very different from brännvin, the traditional Swedish drink that translates as burn-wine. You can of course buy wine from the state owned Systembolaget. However, the only other place that you can buy wine and enjoy a glass is in licenced restaurants and bars that serve food. There are some great restaurants in Stockholm that unite their food and wine menu in perfect harmony, taking equal consideration to both.

wine restaurants in stockholm red wine white wine food
Photo by Kamil Kalbarczyk

 

Find out more about upcoming events in our Events Calendar.

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  • 11:00 -20:00
    13/07/2018-14/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Here you can enjoy live music, tasty Thai food, Thai boxing (muay thai), Thai culture, you can also even leave the festival with air tickets and accommodations to Thailand and much more. Visit the Grill Streetfood tent for a wonderful experience and to enjoy a variety of different fresh grilles as well as BBQ serving together with the majority of Thai beers.

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  • 11:00 -20:00
    14/07/2018-14/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Here you can enjoy live music, tasty Thai food, Thai boxing (muay thai), Thai culture, you can also even leave the festival with air tickets and accommodations to Thailand and much more. Visit the Grill Streetfood tent for a wonderful experience and to enjoy a variety of different fresh grilles as well as BBQ serving together with the majority of Thai beers.

  • 12:00 -22:00
    14/07/2018
    Tengdahlsgatan, 116 41 Stockholm, Ruotsi

    Studio Barnhus is made up of Axel Boman, Kornél Kovács and Petter Nordkvist, who are all big names on the Swedish dance music scene. They are putting together a new one-day festival, which will take place on the 14th of July at Vitabergsparken’s amphitheater. 
    They are bringing Swedish and international acts and are hoping to make Parkfesten a Stockholm classic. Highlights include the future soul queen Fatima (UK/SE) and the techno-disco wizard FunkinEven (UK).
  • 15:00 -18:00
    14/07/2018
    Galärparken, Djurgårdsvägen, Stockholm, Sweden

    Jazz i Parken returns to Stockholm’s beautiful Galärparken for the 4th consecutive year. It is already one of the highlights of the summer in the city – great music with some of the best Swedish jazz bands, kids activities, arts market and great atmosphere!

    Tag along with your friends and family! FREE- ENTRANCE! 💚

    Programm between 15-18h

    🌿 SKROT – Blueprints / Children’s concert

    🌿 Instruments Building Workshop for children with SKROT

    🌿 Sisters of Invention

    🌿 Kakafoni

    🌿 Arts Market

    Jazz i Parken is an annual summer festival held in different cities in Sweden with free-entrance. The vision is to create an equal program and enable interactivity between the audience and the jazz world. The visitors enjoy a nice day out with live music as well as try out jazz instruments. The festival also focus in ecological and social values ​​with activities that include recycling, reusing, inclusiveness and accessibility.

    💚 EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

    With the support of Stockholms stad
    www.jazziparken.se
    #jazziparken

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  • 09:00 -12:00
    15/07/2018
    Ulriksdals slott, Slottsallén, 170 79 Solna, Sweden

    An opportunity to reconnect with your spiritual being!

     

    Healthy snacks break

    Workshop, connecting with yourself and your inner child & guided meditation.

    Total : 3 hrs

    Donation: 250 Sek

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  • 20:00 -21:30
    17/07/2018
    Kägelbanan, Mosebacke Torg, Stockholm, Sweden

    Café Tacvba “Niu Güeis Tour 2018”:
    Mexico’s biggest alternative rock band is coming Kägelbanan!

     

    Café Tacvba is Mexico’s leading all-rock band and one of the most influential alternative rock groups in Latin America. During his nearly 30 years of career, the band is constantly evolving and surprises its ever-increasing fans. They have won several Latin Grammy awards, a Grammy and their album “Re” was named in 2013 “Number One Latin Rock Album of All Times” by Rolling Stones.

     

    A constang throughout Café Tacvba’s career is renewal and a musical language that is constantly evolving through experiments and cooperation. The New York Times wrote “Cafe Tacvba has earned its reputation as Mexico’s most visionary rock band … treating rock as a genre worth sustaining only if it could be exploded, repeatedly.”

     

    – For us, it is about communicating with each other. We are all four composers and everyone has something to say. We build our ideas on our own and then take them to the group where we mix our styles, says the group’s keyboardist Emmanuel “Meme” del Real.

     

    Now Café Tacvba has launched its “Niu Güeis Tour 2018” which goes on long in the fall and takes them to Latin America, South America, North America and Europe. It’s the first time they come to Sweden and on Tuesday the 17th of July they play at Kägelbanan at Södra Teatern in Stockholm.

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  • 11:00 -01:00
    20/07/2018-22/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm’s boldest rock weekend in the middle of Kungsan, for the fourth summer in a row! Great rock, great food and ice cold drink.

    Rockfest 2018 Line-up:
    Mustasch, Hardcore Superstar, Spiders, Dead By April, Smash Into Pieces, The Hawkins, Sparzanza, Ballbreaker, Violet Janine, O.T.C.

     

    Welcome to a damn heavy rock weekend with free entrance in Kungsan!

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  • 11:00 -01:00
    21/07/2018-22/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm’s boldest rock weekend in the middle of Kungsan, for the fourth summer in a row! Great rock, great food and ice cold drink.

    Rockfest 2018 Line-up:
    Mustasch, Hardcore Superstar, Spiders, Dead By April, Smash Into Pieces, The Hawkins, Sparzanza, Ballbreaker, Violet Janine, O.T.C.

     

    Welcome to a damn heavy rock weekend with free entrance in Kungsan!

  • 12:00 -22:00
    21/07/2018
    Alstaviksvägen 10, 117 33 Stockholm, Sweden

    BIG BELLY SOUND together with CAPITAL SOUND SYSTEM present:

    Långholmen Oaks!

    A double open air  party at Grytan and the Amphitheater at Långholmen.

    Many know that BIG BELLY has built a fantastic sound this year. But what’s not as well known is that new CAPITAL SOUND (Gamla Garabedian Sound + Kalawanji / 1G) is in the process of doing the same! It’s going to be a completely insane audio rig, that will have its premiere this day = Soundsystem expo.

    This is Big Belly’s first outing with permission (despite 25+ open-airs in luggage under 6 years), which is historical in itself!

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    REGGAE – DANCEHALL – ROOTS – STEPPERS – DUB – SOCA

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  • 11:00 -01:00
    22/07/2018-22/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stockholm’s boldest rock weekend in the middle of Kungsan, for the fourth summer in a row! Great rock, great food and ice cold drink.

    Rockfest 2018 Line-up:
    Mustasch, Hardcore Superstar, Spiders, Dead By April, Smash Into Pieces, The Hawkins, Sparzanza, Ballbreaker, Violet Janine, O.T.C.

     

    Welcome to a damn heavy rock weekend with free entrance in Kungsan!

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  • 20:00 -22:00
    26/07/2018
    Lilla Allmänna Gränd 9, 115 21 Stockholm, Sweden

    He put the punks on the map, even with pop lovers, with songs like “Rebel Yell”, “White Wedding”, “Dancing With Myself” and “Cradle of Love”. In 2014 his biography “Dancing With Myself” was released, which quickly became a bestseller on the New York Times list. In connection with that, he also released his first album in over 10 years titled “Kings & Queens of the Underground”.

    In June 2015 he played for a packed Gröna Lund and now this icon’s icon will return. July 26 at At 20.00 Billy Idol again takes the big stage.

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  • 11:00 -22:00
    27/07/2018-28/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Putte i Parken isa free travelling festival that os doing three cities this year, Karlstad, Leksand and Stockholm. As the festival organisers want to reach their equality goals when it comes to the artists, the Stockholm edition gets an amazing all-female line-up. The highlights include some of YLC’s huge favorites like The Magnettes, Dotter, Esther Vallee and Orkid. It’s all for free, so get to the park to enjoy the music.

     

    LINEUP HIGHLIGHTS: Dotter, The Magnettes, Esther Vallee, Orkid, Joy, Shirin, Lilla Namo.

    WEBSITE: putteiparken.se/stockholm/

    ADMISSION: Free.

  • 20:00 -22:00
    27/07/2018
    Lilla Allmänna Gränd 9, 115 21 Stockholm, Sweden

    His father changed reggae history in the 70s.

     

    On July 27th, Ziggy Marley returns for the fourth time to Gröna Live with a long-awaited reggae vibe.

     

    Ziggy Marley, reggae legend Bob Marley’s eldest son, was born in Trenchtown, Jamaica in 1968. On his father’s advice he formed with the siblings Stephen, Cedella and Sharon the band The Melody Makers 1979.

     

    They played for the first time at Gröna Lund 1988, just eight years after Daddy Marley’s fourth and final play on tivoli. Since then, Ziggy Marley has returned to Gröna Lund twice in 1991 with The Melody Makers and 2011 as solo artist.

     

    You can not buy a ticket for a specific concert without buying an entrance to the park, or the Gröna Card which gives free entrance throughout the season.

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  • 11:00 -22:00
    28/07/2018-28/07/2018
    Jussi Björlings allé 5, Stockholm, Sweden

    Putte i Parken isa free travelling festival that os doing three cities this year, Karlstad, Leksand and Stockholm. As the festival organisers want to reach their equality goals when it comes to the artists, the Stockholm edition gets an amazing all-female line-up. The highlights include some of YLC’s huge favorites like The Magnettes, Dotter, Esther Vallee and Orkid. It’s all for free, so get to the park to enjoy the music.

     

    LINEUP HIGHLIGHTS: Dotter, The Magnettes, Esther Vallee, Orkid, Joy, Shirin, Lilla Namo.

    WEBSITE: putteiparken.se/stockholm/

    ADMISSION: Free.

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  • All day
    30/07/2018-04/08/2018
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    WITH ACTIVITIES ALL OVER STOCKHOLM!
    EuroPride House Stockholm July 30 to August 3
    EuroPride Park Stockholm August 1 to 4
    EuroPride Parade Stockholm August 4

     

    Starting off in Stockholm: The Swedish capital witch is famous for its closeness to nature, booming tech-scene, gender-fluid fashion, colourful LGBT community and the Nobel prize. And of course, the EuroPride Park, EuroPride House and EuroPride Parade.

     

    Att around Stockholm there will be pride hubs and pop ups where EuroPride visitors can meet and take part of different events. Last year there were over 600 programs items – events at Pride House, Pride Park, museums, clubs, lgbt organisations, etc.

     

    There will be more events and activities this summer all over the city including sports, activities for families and Stockholm sights. Read more about EuroPride 2018 Stockholm here.

     

    In Stockholm EuroPride will be hosted by Stockholm Pride, the largest pride festival in Scandinavia. More information about Stockholm Pride will be found here.

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  • All day
    31/07/2018-04/08/2018
    Gustav Adolfs torg 22, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden

    WITH ACTIVITIES ALL OVER STOCKHOLM!
    EuroPride House Stockholm July 30 to August 3
    EuroPride Park Stockholm August 1 to 4
    EuroPride Parade Stockholm August 4

     

    Starting off in Stockholm: The Swedish capital witch is famous for its closeness to nature, booming tech-scene, gender-fluid fashion, colourful LGBT community and the Nobel prize. And of course, the EuroPride Park, EuroPride House and EuroPride Parade.

     

    Att around Stockholm there will be pride hubs and pop ups where EuroPride visitors can meet and take part of different events. Last year there were over 600 programs items – events at Pride House, Pride Park, museums, clubs, lgbt organisations, etc.

     

    There will be more events and activities this summer all over the city including sports, activities for families and Stockholm sights. Read more about EuroPride 2018 Stockholm here.

     

    In Stockholm EuroPride will be hosted by Stockholm Pride, the largest pride festival in Scandinavia. More information about Stockholm Pride will be found here.

  • 19:30 -23:00
    31/07/2018
    Friends Arena, Råsta Strandväg, Solna, Sweden

    No additional detail for this event.

     


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