Every second Saturday morning, the Embassy sends a newsletter to let you know about Norwegian cultural highlights you can enjoy in the UK. From live music and theatre to film releases, art exhibitions and more, this is your Norwegian cultural guide for 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.
'Girl, 1983' by prolific writer Linn Ullmann is now available in the UK, published by Penguin's Hamish Hamilton imprint. Set in Oslo, New York and Paris, Girl, 1983 is a raw and haunting exposure of beauty and forgetting, desire and shame, power and powerlessness.
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. Until 10 August.
Nocturne - a new, original musical created by composer and lyricist Hedda Rustad Carlsen, writer and art director Hannah Debansi and writer Leah Sperring comes to Brighton Fringe (31st May & 2nd June) and Wandsworth Fringe (10-12 June). The musical is rooted in Norwegian folklore and folk music, inviting you on a mysterious and inspiring journey.
▶ 5 June, London
Musician, producer and songwriter from Bergen Fredrik Svabø is playing The Waiting Room.
▶ 7 June - 14 September, Liverpool
Born in Stavanger in 1988, Linda Lamignan is one of the artists showing at this year's Liverpool Biennial. Through video, sound and objects, Lamignan explores notions related to storytelling and translation, transformation and love.
▶ 24 June, London
As part of her residency at the venue, Vilde Frang is performing music by Robert Schumann together with cellist Maximilian Hornung and pianist Denis Kozhukhin at Wigmore Hall.
▶ 27 June, London & 29 June, Glastonbury
Girl in Red is playing BST Hyde Park and Glastonbury Festivals.
▶ 4 July, Colchester & 5 July, Lytham St Anne's
Dagny is playing as support for Justin Timberlake at Chelmsford City Racecourse and Lytham Festival.