Next Week: Civilization Festival, Outdoor Pic Theatre Midnight Run!

I am on opor-garai side yesteryear side week... off to Kingdom of Spain for a friend's birthday. I wanted to exit you lot alongside some tips of fun things happening inwards the metropolis during my absence!
GAT Stage, kulturfestivalen.stockholm.se
First upward is the fun Kulturfestivalen (Culture Festival). I am sorry to fille this! This festival runs from 13th through the 18th of August too encompasses all things cultural. Best of all... it is all free! No admission fees. It is a picayune difficult to write close since in that place are therefore many things going on, but basically the festival takes identify inwards the downtown expanse roughly the squares Gustav Adolfs Torg, Brunkebergstorg too Sergels Torg. The plan (click here) runs from midday until belatedly inwards the evenings too you lot tin bathroom honour something for every taste... cabaret, opera, salsa, literature, street performances, dance, Bollywood, vintage punk reinvented, nightclubbing too much, much more. The best affair is to banking enterprise lucifer the plan linked to a higher identify too selection your favorites. If I was inwards Stockholm this week, I wouldn't fille disco legends The Pointer Sisters! Side yesteryear side alongside this festival is some other ane called We Are Sthlm. This ane is aimed at the youngsters (13-19 yrs of age) alongside lots of alive music too takes identify inwards Kungsträdgården from the 13th to the 17th of August.
Source: The Pointer Sisters
If painting present identify is to a greater extent than your cultural loving cup of tea, too therefore you lot are inwards for a treat. The Stockholm Film Festival has their annual Outdoor Summer Movies side yesteryear side week. They volition survive showing a groovy painting present every even out (August 14th to 18th) under the stars. And it is free! The even out starts alongside fun activities at 6pm too the painting present starts showing at 8:30pm. Popcorn, soda popular too other snacks are sold there... but you lot tin bathroom pack your ain picnic basket. Be aware that some of the movies stimulate got an historic stream limit. Movies include The Fly, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind too The Kids Are All Right. All movies are inwards English linguistic communication alongside Swedish subtitles except for Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Royal Affair on the 14th (Danish alongside Swedish subtitles). This all takes identify inwards Rålambhovs Park on Kungsholmen.
Photo yesteryear Yanan Li, Stockholm's Visitors Board
Finally... Saturday, August 17th is the engagement for the annual Midnight Race (Midnattsloppet). This is a belatedly even out 10K race roughly the isle of Södermalm (where the Rival Hotel is located). More than merely a run, it ever has a festival similar atmosphere... alongside DJ's too Samba & Dixie bands playing along the route. There is a costume contest equally well! So, fifty-fifty if you lot aren't running (36,000 others are!), come upward downward too cheer them on piece enjoying some groovy music too festivities! The principal race starts at 9:30pm too ends when it ends... though the finishing work is on the street Hornsgatan. Just a few blocks from the hotel! One give-and-take of caution: don't invention on travelling roughly Södermalm yesteryear auto or jitney this even out equally many roads volition survive cordoned off. Stick to walking or the subway.

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