Nordic Weeks in St. Petersburg
Nordic Weeks in St. Petersburg
For the seventh time Nordic Weeks will be held in St. Petersburg from the 20th of September to the 10th of October.
Nordic Weeks will have over 30 events ranging between everything from concerts, film screenings and ecological events to architectural and educational fairs.
Danish Cultural Institute put this year’s programme together in collaboration with the general consulates of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in Russia, the Icelandic embassy in Russia as well as The Finnish Institute. It includes a variety of cultural activities, among which is an exhibition of award-winning arts and crafts by Danish designers, including the Hetsch medal recipient, which is organized by Danish Cultural Institute in collaboration with Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA) and the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. There will also be a screening of this year’s Danish film, Land of Mine, directed by Martin Zanvliet, at the Nordic Film Festival. You can attend the Nordic jazz concert, the Nordic Architecture Days and a seminar on Nordic welfare.
Furthermore Danish Cultural Institute will present green mobility projects at the international innovation forum and at Nordic Green Festival, which is organized in collaboration with the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg, at the Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg. Emphasis will be on the green mobility of Nordic lifestyles, including bicycle culture and recycling.
Danish Cultural Institute will contribute to Nordic Weeks to create a space for dialogue and cultural exchange between the Nordic countries and Russia. The institute is hoping the activities at this year’s Nordic festival with enrich others culturally and promote understanding between cultures.
The opening ceremony takes place on the 22nd of September, where there is a unique opportunity to witness a jazz concert by musicians from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, among them the Danish drummer Stefan Pasborg. On Saturday the 24th of September the Nordic general consulates are having an open house, where there will be literature meetings, language training, presentations on educational opportunities and more.
Nordic Architecture Days are being held for the first time from the 29th of September to the 1st of October in cooperation with Project Baltia, the architectural review that covers North-Western Russia, Finland and the Baltics. The Nordic Architecture Days will include free open lectures at the New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre with well-known experts from all five Nordic countries talking about “Architecture and Nature”. From Denmark Mikkel Frost of Cebra will be participating.
The Nordic Film Festival will be held from the 7th to the 9th of October at Avrova Cinema, where the five best award-winning Nordic films will be screened for the audiences.
The different national programmes of the Nordic Weeks hold great possibilities for delving in to the five countries cultures and expressions. Denmark is presenting, among other things, a design exhibit and invites the attendees of the Nordic Weeks to participate in the international photography festival Get Photo from the 6th to the 9th of October, where Danish photographers Adam Jeppesen and Jens Erdman Rasmussen will give workshops, hold photography exhibits and lectures and review portfolios.
By participating in Nordic Weeks it is the intention of Danish Cultural Institute to celebrate cultural diversity by fomenting understanding and inclusion in meeting different cultures.
Nordic Weeks provides a unique look into Nordic art and culture, as well as the many opportunities and solutions that the Nordic countries represent, and is a platform for long-term collaborations with relevant cultural actors in Russia.
To read more about the festival or to see the programme, click here.