[SKRIVA] Stockholm Culture Night

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "fictionmags@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <fictionmags@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:04:14 +0200
Since a number of years, one Saturday evening in April has been designated 
Stockholm Culture Night. Both public and private institutions are open until 
00.00 and present a program of 350+ events, most of them free of charge.
  Here, briefly, my adventures during the just passed Culture Night:
  * A quick stop at the Royal Mint Museum which now had the 1940's as theme. 
You could buy old German 10 Billion mark bills from the early 1920's for just 
10 crowns! A bargain. It was a 150 m long line to get into the nearby Tessinian 
Palace, even longer than the line to the much, much bigger Royal Palace (maybe 
100 m line). But had no time for that.
  * Because I went to the Nobel Museum, where the translator and well-known 
book reviewer from TV Yukiko Duke talked about the Japanese skiffy related 
author Haruki Murkami, known for 19Q4 and often mentioned as Nobel nominee. 
Duke said he was somewhat controversial due to being so influenced by "American 
popular culture". She especially likes the short stories of this profilic 
writer. The Swedish translations of him are better than the English.
  * Then I saw old cartoons from the DDR on the German Goethe Institute, from 
the early space age. One about Santa Claus flying a pedal driven helicopter to 
the Moon hunting for Sputnik. Another one was a propaganda piece about stupid, 
clumsy Americans flying to the Moon, just to find that the Soviets are already 
there. After this there would be something on the French Library (incl cognac 
tasing) but I seem to have had the wrong adress. Just as well, I was pressed 
for time.
  * By chance I stopped by Dagens Nyheter's (newspaper) outdoor stand where the 
often brilliant reviewer Fredrik Strage was interviewed. Many oneliners. The 
audience laughed a lot. Strage was the one who once apologised  for giving the 
crappy medieval knights film "Arn" a too good review, by standing outside a 
cinema and hand out 100 crown bills to those who admitted the film was a turkey.
  * On to the City Museum where I saw both the "Stockholm in Comics" exhibition 
and the "Stieg Larsson corner" (Stieg Larsson walks have become an extremely 
popular tourist trap, but all of them miss the old SFSF HQ on Pontonjärgatan 
45). Later I saw a 18th Century dance performance there by the group "Gustavs 
skål", dressed up in clothes from the period. There's a substantial 
dress-up-like-in-the-1700s movement here.
  * And finally, I saw the photo exhibition about the cult series on TV, Tårtan 
("The Cake"), by sf-fan (his first novel was skiffy) Carl Johan De Geer. He 
said Swedish TV treated the Cake guys like shit, with a slave contract that 
gave them nothing when the series became Big Cult. Carl Johan himself played 
the ape in the series, fixed the props and took photos, which now were for sale 
(as a small compensation for not getting TV money from all the re-runs) 
  * A quick stop on the way home in a local library, where an amateur rock band 
played (which I didn't stay for). Later they'd have a panel discussion about 
"sexy fiction", but I thought I had had enough for the evening and sex in 
fiction is so cliche.
  Murakami, DDR cartoons, Strage, old dances and De Geer were things rather 
worth while. These Culture Nights are a very good initiative. There were *lots* 
of people on town - and they seemed to enjoy it all. But I probably missed ca 
344 events of the 350...
--Ahrvid

Ps. CC: to SKRIVA. (One reason to write this in English is to be able to link 
to the report from an @SFJournalen tweet, which are in English.)

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