What's on: 2-8 June
What to Do When You’re Not Elbowing Through "Distortion" Crowds
Hello lovely people,
This week, most other events seem to have cleared the way for the holy Distortion (4-8 June) happening all over Copenhagen. The streets will be full of drunk people pissing everywhere, and since I live right in the middle of one of those main streets, I’m especially looking forward to the lingering scent of piss for weeks to come *yayy*. I’m hoping for torrential rain, summer be damned.
All the street parties are free, and it’s already too late to buy tickets for most Distortion X events (the concerts and such) — last I checked, many were sold out. There’s still a chance to buy a food ticket for the long table event on Nørrebrogade (all tickets can be found at the Distortion link above), or, if you’re feeling fancier, there’s a backyard party at the French embassy. The ticket includes a two-course menu and a glass of wine (though I’m pretty sure no actual French person would call a sandwich a “course”).
Alright, that’s enough Distortion talk. Let’s look at what else is happening in the city this week:
FEST — SV-Festival
The SV festival takes place for a week every year in June in Sydhavn at local venues, cafes, schools, squares, streets, quaysides and other urban spaces. The focus is on new music and dynamic local culture in an all-age diverse music program. See the line-ups at the red link above.
📆 2-9 June / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh SV.
FILM — Interspecies Politics: Philosophizing with Dogs
Animal Antics '(Patrick Goddard) with introduction by Madeleine Kate McGowan and Mikkel Møller Roesdahl. A talking dog narrates Patrick Goddards darkly humorous film about the borders of human and animal. Madelaine Kate will introduce the film, focussing on the political possibility of cross-species encounters.
📆 2 June, 18.00-20.00 / 💸 100 DKK / 📍 Kbh V.
WORKSHOP — Listening to Stone
This workshop will explore listening to stone as an ecotheoretical imperative and experimental practice. Lukas Quist Lund will open the event with a listening calibration, a practice developed by the Bureau for Listening. In “Steps to a Geology of Mind,” Paul Harris will propose a petrification of thought, language, and the body; given that vitality is mineralogical, rather than raising rocks to the realm of the living, we should be lithifying life. In “Songs Beyond the Human,” Stefanie Heine will discuss how literature stages rocks and stones as witnesses through which radically non-human modes of archiving and Anthropocene haunting become audible.
📆 2 June, 14.00-16.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh S.
COMMUNITY — BlaBla Language Exchange
Recurring event every Tuesday where you get to meet new people and practice your language skills (if there are others who speak it, ofc).
📆 3 June, 20.00-22.30 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh N.
EXHIBITION — Reimagining Urban Futures
Experience an exhibition exploring sustainable urban development. Featuring research from the University of Copenhagen, it examines urban nature in Nordhavn and public space dynamics. Through visual storytelling, it invites us to rethink future cities.
📆 Until 30 Aug., 11.00-17.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh Ø.
TALK — Post-Future Essayism
Through involvement in marine biologists’ studying copepods in western Kalaallit Nunaat at a time when Danish colonial history and colonial relations have become part of public debates, this talk seeks to tie science-driven questions to heuristic and critical models of practice. That is, practices that are not usually associated with collaborative projects between art and science, and that ultimately seek to challenge the ideologies of knowledge production of Western science.
📆 3 June, 14.00-16.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh K.
DANCE — Wednesday Salsa at Fælledparken
Salsa Libre Copenhagen will be holding salsa events at the park every Wednesday until 18 June.
📆 4 June, 18.00-22.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh Ø.
COMMUNITY — Communal Meal
A communal dinner event for students only. It’s served every Wednesday and you might want to buy your meal ticket before the dinner starts.
📆 4 June, 19.00 / 💸 30 DKK / 📍 Kbh K.
COMMUNITY — All Crafts are Beautiful
Ungdomshusets open DIY creative space, open every other Thursday (Odd weeks).
The hosts are well equipped to help with you with fiber arts and paints, but you are also welcome to do something completely different. Feel free to bring your own projects, but there are also plenty of supplies at the youth house, including 2 sewing machines, lots of fabric, yarn, crochet and knitting needles, and plenty more.
📆 5 June, 18.00-21.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh NV.
QUIZ — Pub Quiz at Pinden Bar
Compete together as a team with 2-5 people. The quiz will be in English and there will be prizes for the first three groups.
📆 5 June, 19.00-21.00 / 💸 50 DKK / 📍 Kbh V.
GAME — Bingo Night
Student House of DTU at the Lyngby campus have collected very nice prizes from a lot of sponsors, so if you happen to live around the university, you have a chance to win some prizes playing Bingo.
📆 6 June, 19.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Lyngby.
FEST — Copenhagen Comics
A comic book festival for all who love comics and cosplay. The festival celebrates all kinds of comics. This year’s program includes Danish and international cartoonists and offers debates, interviews, exhibitions, live drawing and a whole program of drawing workshops for children and young people. In addition, there’s an area filled with cosplay and East Asian pop culture, as well as a lot of other exciting activities.
📆 7-8 June / 💸 150/250 DKK / 📍 Valby.
PARTY — Dancing Through the Decades
Do you wanna experience all your favourite old songs all at once? Then join Studenterhuset’s Dancing through the Decades party night! The concept: 1 hour = 1 music decade.
📆 7 June, 21.30 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh K.
DANCE — Summer Dance
A super fun hour of dance, play and movement for the whole family. Easy moves, great music, lots of good energy. Children and adults dance together, and are guided to do the same movements. There’s also zumba in June and yoga in August. Check the program for details.
📆 7 June, 10.00-12.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh NV.
SHOP — Sunday Market
Outside Pico Nordvest, you’ll find a selection of stalls with ceramics, jewellery, art, prints and other handmade items from local makers. If you make something you’d like to sell, you’re welcome to join in! It’s free to get a stall.
📆 8 June, 12.00-16.00 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh NV.
FILM — CineWine
The coziest of movie screenings and indie cinema in Copenhagen. CineWine is an event that wants to encourage people to watch quality movies that hold significance for cinematography and aims to connect people and create a community feeling. If you are a person who enjoys wine and good movies, this is the event just for you!
📆 9 June, 18.45-21.45 / 💸 Free / 📍 Kbh V.
That’s it from this week!
I also share extra events throughout the week on the Denmark Happenings Instagram — little gems that don’t make it into the newsletter. I’d appreciate it if you give it a follow!
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