Week 9: Tastings, pub quiz, exhibitions

AND a huge Arts&Crafts Workshop Guide!

Feb 22, 2025

Welcome back, dear reader!

You know I’m all about those offbeat, under-the-radar happenings, so here I am with yet another week’s worth of events — From an interesting talk about aging to a pub quiz, from kids’ paper weaving to workshops at Glyptoteket I’ve dug up some events hopefully to keep our international community a bit closer to the local scene.

But more importantly, there’s a Workshop Guide down there! If you’re into making things with your hands (or just like the idea of it), I’ve put together the ultimate list of literally all the arts and crafts events happening regularly in Copenhagen’s culture houses and libraries. We’re talking sewing, knitting, crocheting, painting, repair cafés, drawing, upcycling — basically, if it involves fabric, thread, paint, yarn, work tools or glue, it’s probably in there. These events happen regularly, so if you miss one, there’s always next week. They’re also a great way to meet like-minded people (read: potential new friends), and since most of them are packed with Danes, they might even give you a little push to practice your Danish — if you’re up for it. Either way, you get to make cool stuff and meet locals, so it’s a win-win!

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And without further ado, here’s this week’s happenings:

TALK — What is Aging?

Do products really work? And what can we actually do to slow down or even reverse the aging process? This talk by Associate Professor Andrea Heinz will provide you with answers to these questions and take you on a tour through the science of human aging.

📆 24 February, 18.30-20.00 / 💸 95 DKK / 📍 Haderup Auditorium at Panum, Kbh N.

FOOD — Moldovan Food and Wine Evening

This event is a bit on the expensive side but there might be some of you who’d like to explore the diverse grape varieties of Moldova, distinctive fermentation methods, and terroir. Menu includes 5 traditional dishes and 5 different wines.

📆 25 February, 18.00-21.00 / 💸 500 DKK / 📍 Not Your Usual Wine Bar, Kbh K.

CRAFTS — All Crafts Are Beautiful

Bring your arts and crafts project to Ungdomshuset’s open DIY creative space. The hosts are well equipped to help with you with fiber arts and paints, but you are also welcome to do something completely different. There are plenty of supplies at the youth house, including 2 sewing machines, lots of fabric, yarn, crochet and knitting needles, and plenty more.

📆 Every Thursday, 18.00-21.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Ungdomshuset, Kbh NV.

QUIZ — Pub Quiz

Have you been thinking about going to a pub quiz with your friends but don’t know where to find one? Well, here’s one :) There’s 3 rounds of questions, winning team gets a 300kr bar tab, loosing team (lowest score) gets a consolation prize of a round of small drafts.

📆 27 February, 17.00-20.00 / 💸 80 DKK per team / 📍 Bicycle Cidery, Kbh Ø.

CONCERT — Satellite Synthesizer

Experience the exciting debut of a brand new concert form where music and technology meet and sound is created in space. Satellite Synthesizer presents a unique sonic journey where sound is created using a specially set up network of satellites 36.000 km above the earth. The guest musicians' sound is sent out into the satellite system and returns transformed - shaped by the long journey of over 200.000 km outside the Earth's atmosphere.

📆 28 February, 20.00-22.00 / 💸 225 DKK / 📍 Planetarium, Kbh V.

TASTING — French Wine Days 2025

You can taste more than 200 wines at the French Wine Days. When you arrive, you will receive a tasting program with all the exhibitors and their wines listed, as well as a nice wine glass to take home. Plenty of free bread will be provided to reset your taste buds between the many wines.

📆 28 February-1 March / 💸 290 DKK / 📍 Pressen, Kbh K.

FILM — Turkish Film Days

4 Turkish films with English subtitles. Two of the screenings with Q&A with the director.

📆 27 February-2 March / 💸 Free / 📍 Park Bio, Kbh Ø.

DANCE — Salsa Night

Whether you are an experienced dancer or just starting out, ElStudio's social evenings are open and fun for everyone. No partner needed – just bring your enthusiasm and dancing shoes.

📆 1 March, 20.00 / 💸 60/70 DKK / 📍 Nordhus, Kbh N.

FOR KIDS — Paper Weaving

You will have the opportunity to create your own design with inspiration from the female designers in the exhibition DANISH MODERN. In the workshop you will work on creating woven works in paper with stripes and checks and work in different paper qualities and use different colours to create patterns.

📆 1 March / 💸 50 DKK / 📍 Designmuseum, Kbh K.

WORKSHOP — Golden Cloud

A workshop at the same place but this time it’s also for adults. Veronica Hodges works with installation works inspired by nature. She will create a collective work together with the museum's guests, which is part of a larger project entitled The Golden Sky. You don't take your creation home, but it is part of a collective work that will continue to live on at Designmuseum Danmark.

📆 1-2 March, 11.00-13.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Designmuseum, Kbh K.

WORKSHOP — Patterns and Monsterst at Glyptotek’s Clay Studio

Get your hands into the clay and use tools to make beautiful patterns and strange creatures. Find inspiration in the museum’s floors, ceilings, and walls, filled with whimsical details. Your clay prints will be displayed on a huge exhibition wall, together forming an impressive joint work of art.

📆 1-2 March, 11.00-15.00 / 💸 150/120 DKK incl. museum ticket / 📍 Glyptoteket.

FILM — Film Noir Marathon

Brainstorm, dir. William Conrad, 1965. Tarnished Angels, dir. Douglas Sirk, 1957. Detour, dr. Egdar G. Ulmer, 1945. All films on 16mm. Your ticket is good for all 3 films and you can attend or not attend individual films as you wish.

📆 2 March, 13.00-18.15 / 💸 70 DKK / 📍 Husets Biograf, Kbh K.

COMMUNITY — Clothing Swap & Sewing Salon

Instead of throwing away clothes that are too big, too small, out of fashion or have broken, you can stop by the swap market and sewing salon at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge. Here you can get help to upcycle and repair your clothes, or you can explore the swap market and find just what you were missing for your warm winter look.

📆 2 March, 11.00-14.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Kbh S.

EXHIBITON — “ArtxScience: Where art and stem cell research meet”

How do you unite science and art? With ARTxSCIENCE, the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, brings a unique insight into the world of stem cell research. The exhibition not only conveys the aesthetic dimensions of the research, but also its potential to revolutionize the treatment of complex and incurable diseases.

📆 Until 11 March / 💸 Free / 📍 Kulturhuset Indre By, Kbh K.

EXHIBITION — “Lene Adler Petersen - Space and Things”

Experience one of Denmark's most prominent feminist artists, whose unique universe explores the home as a feminist battleground full of beauty, freedom and revolutionary action.

📆 Until 10 May / 💸 95 DKK / 📍 The Black Diamond, Kbh K.

EXHIBITION — “Are You a Living Thing That Is Dying or a Dying Thing That Is Living?”

The exhibition showcases a mesmerising site-specific installation uniting two new expansive silk paintings with three-dimensional textile works, a new animation and a series of intricate drawings. With luminous colours, flowing patterns and poetic handwritten texts, British artist Emma Talbot creates vibrant, imagined worlds based on her personal thought processes and the shared human experience of being alive today.

📆 Until 31 August / 💸 140/95 DKK incl. museum ticket / 📍 Copenhagen Contemporary.