The Culture Columnists give you some cultural advices for the rest of the week.
Any plans for studying this weekend? Skip them. There’s so much to do that you can’t waste time behind your desk! The weekend brings two big events: Festival 60val and the Culture Night.
For starters, 60val brings 60 different student events to the Lundagård park on Friday and Saturday, both with the goal of giving students a great time and of showing to all non-students in Lund (yep, they exist) what student life is able to produce. Friday afternoon brings, amongst others, music of a student orchestra and in the evening two spex (theater) groups will give a short presentation. Saturday offers to more open-air music and theater. The complete program is here; ask a friend or Google to translate.
Whenever you’re done with 60val, you can straight head over to the Culture Night. Curiously, it already starts at 09.00 in the morning. Again the program list is way too long to translate here, so just a few highlights: a ‘night flee market’ from 3-10 PM (Spolegatan 5), a concert of an Indian choir in the Allhelgona Church at 7 PM, a Latin-American night in Folkets Hus (Kiliansgatan 13), art-house movies for half the price at Kino all day (Kyrkogatan 3), free entry to open-air museum Kulturen from 6 PM onwards, several stages at the Mårtenstorget with live performances and a food market at Stortorget. Hard to choose, no?
Text: Paula Dubbik
Monday 23rd September
Nordisk Panorama: The Best Nordic Shorts and Documentaries
9:30-10:30, Spelgeln A, Malmö – Two documentaries to choose from that are part of the ‘Young Nordics’ series, films from young people and children’s perspectives.
Eagle Boy – Sage is eight years old. He is a Salish Native American boy, and has lived in the Flathead reservation in America all his life. Now he must move to Tromsø in northern Norway.
Leaf – A reserved and sensitive boy sees the world through the eyes of his mischievous imaginary friend. As adolescence approaches, a shadow falls on their friendship.
19:00-20:10, Spelgeln A, Malmö – A documentary from the ‘Eco Matters’ series, films that reflect the human being within the ecosystem and discuss the complex existential questions we are facing today.
Days in Maremma – The farmers in a small Italian village have severe economic problems. To avoid bankruptcy they rent out their fields to one of the world’s largest solar panel companies and by doing so start ruining the local environment and instigate a local war.
Tuesday 24th September
Nordisk Panorama: The Best Nordic Shorts and Documentaries
17:00-18:40, Spelgeln B, Malmö Under African Skies
25 years after the release of the record Graceland, Paul Simon returns to South Africa for a reunion concert that reveals the turbulent birth of the album. With the compelling perceptions of anti-apartheid activists and music legends such as Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, Paul McCartney, and David Byrne, Under African Skies is both a buoyant chronicle of artistic achievement and a profound reflexion on the role of the artist in society.
Text: Kate Monson
