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Lundagard.net takes a summer break

By Filip Rydén

June 16, 2017

Summer is here and most students have handed in their final exams. It is also time for us at Lundagard to kick back and take a break for the summer. We will be back in full force by late August and arrival day! Have a great summer! ...

Analysis Culture

Welcome to Sweden

By Evan Farbstein

May 23, 2017

If you’re in Sweden and you aren’t Swedish, chances are you’ll be a bit confused about Swedish holidays and the traditions associated with them. Why, for instance, are people dancing around a pole shaped like a penis on the longest day of summer? Why are people going to ...

Culture Entertainment

From Feministic Rage to Madness

By Filip Rydén

May 12, 2017

Jealousy, murder, and desperation. Lundagård‘s reviewer Tindra Englund think that Lund’s Student Theatre’s (LUST) Medea is an excellent cure for those who have been overdosed with student humour. Text: Tindra Englund – Translation: Viktor Jönsson Some light flares on the poorly furnished scene, the wind howls and all ...

Culture

The Dreams of Art

By Lundagård

May 5, 2017

A Friday evening in the middle of March, a queue of people curled from Lunds konsthall. The press viewing of the exhibit “We have a dream” had started, the destination I was expectantly headed towards. Text: Isabel Vinterbladh – Translation: Viktor Jönsson Everyone dreams of something. Peace, passing ...

Culture

Miss Goody-Pants Strikes Back

By Lundagård

April 7, 2017

In her renowned book “Duktiga flickors revansch” (‘The Vengeance of Good Girls’), Birgitta Ohlsson says that being good must be valued more. Lovisa Svedlund gets to the bottom of the “good girl”-dilemma. Text Lovisa Svedlund – Translation Cecilia Eriksson Late one night, a politician is called up to ...

Culture

Global but Intimate

By Lundagård

March 28, 2017

An indie band performs in a living room in Milan, a pianist performs a piece of music in a small apartment in Vesterbro in Copenhagen and a singer-songwriter plays in a gallery with a breathtaking view of Berlin. What do these performances have in common? They are all ...

Culture News

An Image of an Image of an Image: The Re-Created Durban Art History Room at Malmös Konsthögskola

By Evan Farbstein

February 6, 2017

MALMÖ: It was with Professor Sarat Maharaj’s encouragement – and memory – that Malmo Art Academy’s “Teaching Studio” room was changed into a replica of another classroom, many years and kilometers away. ...

Culture Entertainment

Discover the Culture in Helsingborg

By Lundagård

November 14, 2016

Breakout Sweden The room is dimly lit and filled with objects, locked drawers and cabinets that at first glance seem unrelated to each other. With these conditions we proceed into the next room – and in the end will deactivate a missile that is set to obliterate Helsingborg. ...

Culture Student life

How to Get Your Dream Costume

By Tindra Englund

September 30, 2016

Halloween is rapidly approaching and the amount of fulsittningar (an informal sittning) is never ending. Lundagård has met some of Lund’s experts to get new inspiration and love for costumes. ...

Column Culture

Advice from a Burn-out

By Lundagård

September 13, 2016

The lack of teacher led hour contributed to Tove Swartling-Eriksson burn-out. Once there, she received a lot of useless advice about how she could feel better. Now she wants to greet new students welcome to the University with a few advices on how to handle stress. When I ...