'Sex' directed by Dag Johan Haugerud - Photo:'Sex' directed by Dag Johan Haugerud
'Sex' directed by Dag Johan Haugerud

Upcoming Norwegian Music, Art, Drama & Cultural Events

Dates for your diary: our round-up of what to look out for including art, music, theatre, literature and more. This page is continuously updated.

Happening now

 

AURORA is performing at the Royal Albert Hall, O2 Apollo Manchester and Usher Hall in Edinburgh until 5 October.

 

7 - 20 October, Various

Norway's freewheeling Pom Poko combine their jazz school training and experimental leanings into equally sugary and explosive music. The band are playing 12 dates in the UK.

7 - 12 October, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol

Sylvaine is touring as support for Eivør, with 5 dates in the UK & Ireland.


8 October, London

Violinist Vilde Frang is performing in the first concert of her residency at Wigmore Hall.

10 & 11 October, London & Stourbridge

Electroacoustic jazz ensemble Oddgeir Berg Trio are performing at Jazzclub Hampstead and the Bonded Warehouse, Stourbridge.


12 October, London

Endre Ruset and Vilde Torset are taking part in the Nordic Poetry Festival at Rich Mix. 24 poets in 12 pairs, all from across the Nordic region present brand new collaborations of literary performance.


14 & 15 October, London

Directed by Dag Johan Haugerud and starring Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr and Siri ForbergSex has its UK Premiere at this year's BFI London Film Festival. The film is distributed in the UK by Modern Films.

15 - 20 October, Birmingham

Harald Beharie's solo performance Batty Bwoy will have its UK premiere at Fierce Festival in Birmingham. The work has found inspiration in mythologies, stereotypes, feelings, and fantasies of the queer body and identities, and queer voices in Norway and Jamaica. Jassem Hindi will also perform as part of the How Does It Feel? performance event.

16- 19 October, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester

Aadal are touring, with four dates in the UK.

16 October, London

Mariam Gviniashvili is a composer and visual artist who fuses electronics, 3D sound, and visuals to explore the relationship between sound, space, and visual expression. She will be performing at St Alfege Church in Greenwich.


18 October - 2 November, London

The Norwegian Ibsen Company makes a welcome return to The Coronet with a new production of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck. Using Ibsen’s original text, this brand new staging, which is performed in Norwegian with English surtitles, has a cast of some of Norway’s most celebrated actors, and is directed by Hedda Award-winner Alan Lucien Øyen.

21 - 25 October, London

At the London Literature Festival, join author Hanne Ørstavik for a special And Other Stories Book Club marking the release of her new novel, Stay with Me, with Catherine Taylor.

25 October, Stockton-on-Tees & 28 October, Edinburgh

Poet Endre Ruset is in conversation at Drake the Bookshop (25 October) and Typewronger (28 October) about his latest book to be translated into English by Harry Man, Noriaki.

26 October, London

Chu-Yu Yan (violin) and Eric McElvoy (piano) are performing at the Norwegian Church in London, with a programme to include Finzi's Elegy and Grieg's 2nd Violin Sonata. Tickets (£20) are available from griegsocietygb@gmail.com or on the door.


27 October, London

At the London Literature Festival, join author Hanne Ørstavik for a special And Other Stories Book Club marking the release of her new novel, Stay with Me, with Catherine Taylor.

30 October, London

Cellist Truls Mørk is the soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra as Karina Canellakis conducts Schumann & Bruckner at the Royal Festival Hall.

30 October - 3 November, Glasgow

Nordic Music Days is happening in Glasgow. The 2024 festival is a new collaboration between Scotland and the Nordics, with the ambition to build long-lasting, sustainable partnerships between musical organisations, communities and creative individuals and is the first time that the festival has been presented in Scotland.




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