Every other Saturday morning, the Embassy sends a cultural newsletter. From live music and theatre to film releases, art exhibitions and more, this is your guide to Norwegian culture in the UK over the coming weeks.
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Dates for your Diary: Norwegian culture listings in the UK
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Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery is the first exhibition in the UK to focus on this important, but sometimes overlooked, aspect of Munch's work. The exhibition shows how Munch painted portraits as commissions and for personal reasons, with many pictures doubling up as icons or examples of the human condition despite being based on the direct observation of named individuals. Until 15 June.
Iconic portraits from the pages of trailblazing magazine The Face are celebrated in a major exhibition, as fashion, music and pop-culture take center stage at the National Portrait Gallery, featuring images from celebrated photographer Sølve Sundsbø. Until 18 May.
Oliver Lovrenski's debut novel Back in the Day is released in English by Penguin imprint Hamish Hamilton, translated by Nichola Smalley. A sensation in Norway upon publication, Lovrenski gives voice to young men growing up in a brutal and chaotic world, shot through with rare empathy, irrepressible wit and gut-punch pathos.
A contemporary reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic, Ghosts, directed by Artistic Director Rachel O’Riordan, is at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre until 10 May.
Rock band Bokassa are on tour with 7 dates in the UK.
▶ 19- 25 April, London, Manchester, Bristol
A major player in the recent jazz house explosion, Dublon is coming to the Soul City Club Night at the Jazz Café in London, YES Pink room in Manchester, and Strange Brew in Bristol as part of a European tour.
▶ 19 - 20 & 26 April, Edinburgh & Dundee
Gro-Marthe Dickson is bringing her Scot trad project 'Letters to Christina' to Scotland for the first time, with performances as part of the Northern Streams festival at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh on 19 & 20 April, and in Dundee on the 26th.
▶ 22 - 23 April, London
Norwegian experimental theatre-makers Susie Wang brings Burnt Toast to Battersea Arts Centre, a play that combines reality and surreal horror to create an experience that challenges the boundaries of human nature.
▶ 24 - 27 April, Chepstow, London, Liverpool
Following the release of their new album The Century of the Self, Airbag are playing 3 dates in Wales and England.
▶ 3 - 4 May, Glasgow
Music from Norway is on the lineup at Tectonics Festival, with Øyvind Torvund's symphony being performed by Kjetil Møster, Jørgen Træen, Jennifer Torrence and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as well as separate concerts where the artists will be performing during the festival.
▶ 3 May, London
AURORA is playing the OVO Arena Wembley.
▶ 3 May, London
Nils Petter Molvær is playing two shows at Ronnie Scott's together with Jo Berger Myhre and Erland Dahlen.
▶ 8-17 May, London
Jon Fosse's Einkvan (Everyman) comes to Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill - a guest play from Det Norske Teatret, directed by Kjersti Horn. Einkvan is a beautiful hybrid of contemporary art and theatre, interlocking the intimacy of film with the immediacy of live theatre.
▶ 8-11 May, Various
Pom Poko are playing dates in Bristol, Oxford, Wrexham and Bedford.
▶ 8 May, London
Inspired by his summer trips to Norway and lifelong friendship with Grieg, Delius' The Song of the High Hills is on the programme as the Bach Choir perform with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall.
▶ 9 May, London
Norwegian DJ, producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ora the Molecule is playing The Grace in Islington.
▶ 17 May - 10 August, Bristol
Kari Steihaug and Lise B. Linnert are among the artists included in the exhibition Soft Power: Lives told through textile art at the RWA in Bristol.
▶ 21 May, London
Jenny Hval is playing the Islington Assembly Hall, with music from her new album Iris Silver Mist.
▶ 21 May, London
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is performing with Bertrand Chamayou at Wigmore Hall. György Kurtág’s lifelong love for the music of Schubert forms the backdrop to this delectable collaboration between Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou, two performers who share a fascination for the infinite tonal gradations and inflections that can be coaxed from the piano.