What's On, stockholm - December

Nobel Week Lights
Nobel Week Lights is a festival lighting up Stockholm during the darkest time of the year – a free cultural experience for everyone.

The light festival is presented by the Nobel Prize Museum and invites both international and local artists, designers, and students to create public light artworks inspired by the Nobel Prize. The light installations illuminate the Nobel Prize laureates’ scientific discoveries, literature, and peace work, while at the same time giving us the opportunity to see the city and the urban environment with new eyes together with loved ones.

The Events look really great this year - from a Light run, a literature night  and even an illuminated kayak tour  - check them out !

Dates: 7 to 15 Dec
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Fitness Festival
Fitnessfestivalen is the Nordic region’s largest event for exercise, fitness and active health. Welcome to a bubbling and thundering folk festival that attracts a large training target group between 15 and 70 years. It brings together consumers committed to fitness and exercise for three packed days – a meeting place you don’t want to miss. Contact us today for more information and secure your best seat now.

Dates: 6- 8 December
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The 'Living Advent Calendar' at Gamla Stan
A fabulous tradition in the old town, Master Olofs Garden, where you can experience 15 minutes of real-life Swedish culture every day in December up till Christmas! There's a map of addresses where you can visit at 18:15 and see a shutter open, followed by songs, plays or music.

More information will be up on their website soon
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Stockholm International Poetry Festival
On Thursday the 28th of November, the Stockholm International Poetry Festival 2024 is held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. On the 27th and 29th of November there will also be orgainsed conversations about Nordic-Arctic poetry at the Tranströmer Library in Stockholm.

This year’s festival features poets from all over the world, with an emphasis on Nordic-Arctic literature. One of our inspirations is a song by the Iglulik Inuit shaman and oral poet Uvavnuk, who is said to have been struck by a comet  and started singing a song-poem known as »Uvavnuk’s Song«, »Earth and the Great Weather« and »The Great Sea« – the latter version in translation by Jane Hirschfield.

Dates: 28 Nov
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Stockholm Dog Fair
During two intense days, tens of thousands of dog lovers gather to experience a big dog show! There're competitions in dog sports and a fair which puts your four legged friend at the heart of the show. 

Dates: 14-15 Dec
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Stockholm Santa Run
Charity Run with Santa Theme - For the past 11 years, the association Together we make a change has organized the charity run Stockholm Santa Run. The event, organized entirely on a voluntary basis, involves all participants dressing up in Santa costumes and running/walking/jogging a 3 km, or 6 km, route in Stockholm’s city center - the funds are  distributed among organizations such as the Red Cross, the Activist Fund, the Childhood Cancer Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, and the City Mission.

This year’s big news is that they have started a collaboration with the Swedish Red Cross! “Together we are stronger”. The funds will go to both the Swedish Red Cross’s local work in Stockholm and their international efforts.

Dates: 1 Dec
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A Christmas Carol at Folkoperan
The classic A Christmas Carol makes a fond return at the Folkoperan. The Christmas tale "A Christmas Carol" is one of Charles Dickens' most popular stories, and a full 200 years after Dickens' birth, there is still great interest in his both humorous and serious story about bitter Ebenezer Scrooge. 

Dates: 5-22 Dec
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Lucia at Skansen
The first Lucia train at Skansen was held as early as 1893 - join the hundreds who have enjoyed the spectacle since! You can see Lucia processions from different time periods in this beautiful environment - and explore traditional Sweden.

Dates: 13 - 15 Dec
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