Coming up Soon: Free career workshop, fabulous wines and fifties fun à la Grease

Forró Copenhague is launching its first festival! The most popular genre of music and dance in northeast Brazil is the star of three days of intensive workshops and parties, with live music, DJs, shows and many forrozeiros (April 22-24, 12:00-23:00; different locations; forrocphfestival.cris.dk)


A whole Sunday dedicated to tasting and learning about wine – particularly the differences between grapes, countries and production methods! Mingle with producers, importers, connoisseurs and wine lovers (April 24, 10:00-18:00; Kødbyens Mad & Marked, Flæsketorvet, Cph V)


Directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Salgado, this biodoc about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, famed for documenting disadvantaged societies, will be shown with English subs (April 24, 18:00; Trampoline House, Thoravej 7, Cph NV)


It will be ‘electrifying’ at Studenterhuset at this 50s event! Dress up like you’re in ‘Grease’ to hit the dancefloor and enter competitions with great prizes (April 23, 20:00; Studenterhuset, Købmagergade 52, Cph K; 50 kr incl 1 Pina Colada or beer; facebook.com)


Sample delicious cocktails, wine, delicacies, exciting workshops and cooking demos at the opening of Illum Rooftop (April 28-30, 10:00-22:00; Illum, Østergade 52, Cph K; book at dinnerbooking.com)


The Copenhagen Post and its columnist David Parkins (21st Century Alchemy, see page 11) are co-hosting a free workshop where you can learn about why you do what you do in your career (May 2, 17:00; International House, Gyldenløvesgade 11, Cph V; register at billetto.dk)




  • Diplomatic tensions between US and Denmark after spying rumors

    Diplomatic tensions between US and Denmark after spying rumors

    A Wall Street Journal article describes that the US will now begin spying in Greenland. This worries the Danish foreign minister, who wants an explanation from the US’s leading diplomat. Greenlandic politicians think that Trump’s actions increase the sense of insecurity

  • Diplomacy meets Westeros: a dinner with the King, Queen – and Jaime Lannister

    Diplomacy meets Westeros: a dinner with the King, Queen – and Jaime Lannister

    What do King Frederik X, Queen Mary, UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and Jaime Lannister have in common? No, this isn’t the start of a very specific Shakespeare-meets-HBO fanfiction — it was just Wednesday night in Denmark

  • Huge boost to halt dropouts from vocational education

    Huge boost to halt dropouts from vocational education

    For many years, most young people in Denmark have preferred upper secondary school (Gymnasium). Approximately 20 percent of a year group chooses a vocational education. Four out of 10 young people drop out of a vocational education. A bunch of millions aims to change that

  • Beloved culture house saved from closure

    Beloved culture house saved from closure

    At the beginning of April, it was reported that Kapelvej 44, a popular community house situated in Nørrebro, was at risk of closing due to a loss of municipality funding

  • Mette Frederiksen: “If you harm the country that is hosting you, you shouldn’t be here at all”

    Mette Frederiksen: “If you harm the country that is hosting you, you shouldn’t be here at all”

    With reforms to tighten the rules for foreigners in Denmark without legal residency, and the approval of a reception package for internationals working in the care sector, internationals have been under the spotlight this week. Mette Frederiksen spoke about both reforms yesterday.

  • Tolerated, but barely: inside Denmark’s departure centers

    Tolerated, but barely: inside Denmark’s departure centers

    Currently, around 170 people live on “tolerated stay” in Denmark, a status for people who cannot be deported but are denied residency and basic rights. As SOS Racisme draws a concerning picture of their living conditions in departure centers, such as Kærshovedgård, they also suggest it might be time for Denmark to reinvent its policies on deportation

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