Selection of events in Denmark 2007
A selection of events throughout Denmark for 2007 brought to you by 'VisitDenmark'Event: Winter Jazz
Date: 26 Jan - 4 Feb
City: Copenhagen, Odense,
A cross country jazz festival where the chilling season is met with warm and cosy live jazz at around 40 clubs all over Denmark and more than 200 concerts
Nytorv 3, 1450 København K
Phone:: (+45) 3345 4300
vinterjazz.dk
Event: Aalborg Opera Festival
Date: 1-12 March
City: Aalborg
In spite of Aalborg’s rather small size (about 150.000 inhabitants) the city is host to the only Opera Festival in Denmark. The festival takes place all over the city with music from several stages. Most of the performances take place indoors (viz. the Congress Centre)because of the rather low temperatures in Scandinavia, but you will also be able to meet the opera world ands its music at cafés and churches!
Europa Plads 4, 9000 Aalborg
Phone:: (+45) 9935 5566
aalborgoperafestival.dk
Event: Copenhagen Catwalk
Date: 28 March – 1 April
City: Copenhagen
A fashion festival for the general public in Copenhagen with events taking place in shopping centres and department stores along 'the red thread' formed by the Copenhagen Metro Line Stations from Bella Center to Frederiksberg. Spectacular fashion shows with the spring and summer collection. Programme is available from copenhagencatwalk.com
Vesterbrogade 4A, 1620 København V
Phone: (+45 33257400)
copenhagencatwalk.com
Event: International Days of Blues
Date: 27- 29 April
City: Odense
The Odense International Blues Days features local and international artists on 2 of Odense’s small charming music stages.
Østre Stationsvej 35, 5000 Odense C
Phone:: (+45) 6613 6020
bluesdage.dk
Event: Copenhagen Architecture & Design Days
Date: 4 - 6 May
City: Copenhagen
For 3 intensive days more than 30 different culture institutions, companies and organisations will be showing new sides of architecture and design in Copenhagen. You can experience a guided tour in design and craftsmanship in the 20th Century, or experience new architecture by the harbour front of Copenhagen.
Wonderful Copenhagen Gl. Kongevej 1 1610 Copenhagen V
Phone: (+45 33257400)
cphadd.com
Event: Copenhagen Marathon
Date: 20 May
City: Copenhagen
Copenhagen Marathon is one of Europes oldest city marathons. The organizers expect 7,500 runners to line up this year. The same traffic free course as last year is used, where the best features from the previous years are maintained. The course is split into 3 laps, each consisting of approximately 14 km. The first and third laps are almost identical, ensuring runners to pass through the admirable streets of Copenhagen and past the city's major sites.
Copenhagen Marathon participates in Marathon Denmark co-operation. marathondenmark.com
Vester Voldgade 1, 1552 København V
Phone: (+45) 3526 6900
copenhagenmarathon.com
Event: Carnival in Aalborg
Date: 20- 26 May
City: Aalborg
Each year, Aalborg - a middle-sized city in Northern Denmark - is the host of a surprisingly large carnival. The carnival parade is the largest in Northern Europe. About 100.000 people participate in the carnival every year, either as participants in the parade or as spectators along the route to catch a glance of this magnificent wave of people, colour and happiness. Every year the participants create their costumes according to a different theme. The theme for Carnival in Aalborg 2007 will be "Mascarade”
Hasserisgade 10, 9000 Aalborg
Phone:: (+45) 9813 7211
karnevaliaalborg.dk
Event: Riverboat Jazz Festival
Date: 28 June - 1 July
City: Silkeborg
Each year in the end of June Silkeborg becomes New Orleans and the Gudenå river turns into the Mississippi. Around 70 Orchestras from Denmark and Europe give 150 concerts around the city and on the boats, cruising the beautiful Silkeborg-lakes.
Åhavevej 2a, 8600 Silkeborg
Phone:: (+45) 8680 1617
riverboat.dk
Event: Days of Tordenskjold
Date: 29-30 June
City: Frederikshavn
Witness "Days of Tordenskold" - the year is 1717" in Frederikshavn (North Jutland) - a firework of continuous adventure. Experience historic groups from Denmark, Norway and Sweden units of three hundred men . "Days of Tordenskiold" offer a series of exciting events including interesting fencing demonstrations, a spectacular play especially written for the occasion, a one-hundred metre long banquet, Fashion Show featuring the latest trends of 1717 with some seventy performers, grand three-mastered training ships from Denmark and Norway some of which are carrying guns along with wooden vessels, authentic music from 1717 and authentic 1717 food served in the local pub "Den kække Kælling". The event takes place by the harbour and the authentic Powder Magazine helps communicate this vibrant story. The aim of the events is not a glorification of the war, on the contrary, it brings to life one of the many crucial incidents of the Great Northern War (1709-1720).
Kragholmen 2, 9900 Frederikshavn
Phone: (+45) 9842 3266
tordenskiold.dk
Event: Roskilde Festival
Date: 5-8 July
City: Roskilde
The trademark of Roskilde Festival is, and continues to be, lots of unpredictability, progressiveness and experimentation, combined with a small amount of predictability and "polishedness". Roskilde Festival is innovative and presents young talents of today and tomorrow. As the audience states, a visit to the festival should always be an exiting and surprising experience. Not too many big and predictable names on the bill, but many surprises and new names. When you buy your ticket for Roskilde Festival, you are supporting a good cause. Each year, Roskilde Festival donates any profits from the festival to humanitarian and cultural purposes. Camping is free with a festival ticket Roskilde is located 35 km from Copenhagen (30 minutes by train).
Programme is available from roskilde-festival.dk
Darupvej 19, 4000 Roskilde
Phone: (+45) 4636 6613
roskilde-festival.dk
Event: Tall Ships´ Race 2007
Date: 5-8 July
City: Aarhus
Tall Ships' Race is an event which take place every summer. 4,000 young people from more than 30 countries worldwide take part in The Tall Ships' Races in Europe with participation of between 70 and 100 vessels. This unique event combines four days of activities in each port with racing or cruising-in-company between ports. During the race series the young crews gain experience by sailing with fellow-crews at their own age from other countries while facing the physical and emotional challenges the ocean can provide. For the first time ever The Tall Ships’ Races will be held in Aarhus – Denmark’s second-largest city – which has one of the most beautifully situated and busiest traffic harbours in all of Northern Europe.
Midtermolevej 1, 8000 Aarhus
Phone: (+45) 8731 5015
tsr07.dk
Event: Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Date: 6-15 July
City: Copenhagen
Annual jazz festival which boasts both Danish and world renowned artists and bands. The festival takes place both indoors in clubs and venues and not least outdoors where various scenic places such as parks and squares are transformed into jazz venues! This summer a floating stage will be moored at the quayside of the Copenhagen Harbour across the Danhostel City Hostel as well! Every year features a wealth of upcoming and established international and Danish bands and musicians.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival is a participant in the JazzAround Denmark co-operation. jazzarounddenmark.com
Nytorv 3, 1450 København K
Phone: (+45) 3393 2013
jazzfestival.dk
Event: Cultural Harbour
Date: 3-5 August
City: Copenhagen
The Cultural Harbour has become a yearly recurrent harbour festival. Cultural and leisure time activities are made available throughout the harbour for the citizens of Copenhagen, tourists and others who wish to participate in or get acquainted with the cultural life of Copenhagen The Cultural Harbour means four days of dance, music, theatre, artistry and a variety of sports events, in the harbour as well as on the quay - all activities are at your disposal for free!
Islands Brygge 5, 2300 København S
Phone: (+45) 3366 3850
kulturhavn.dk
Event: Flower Festival
Date: 15- 18 August
City: Odense
Flowers, flowers everywhere! See, feel and smell the more than 180.000 flowers, plants and vegetables arranged in various beautiful fanciful tableaux and arrangements, according to a specific theme that changes every year. The Flower festival has 100.000 visitors every year.
Flakhaven 2, 5000 Odense C
Phone: (+45) 6618 8850
blomsterfestival.dk
Event: The Malmö Festival
Date: 17-24 August
City: Malmö
Few festivals are as popular and well attended as the Malmö Festival, with more than 1, 5 million visitors over eight great days. Every year the festival starts with the popular and mad crayfish party at Stortorget – quite an experience! Over the next days more than 250 live music performances and concerts will take place, along with several cultural events, a food festival, an amusement park, handicrafts and much much more. All events are free of charge.
205 80 Malmö
Phone: (+46) 4034 1271
malmofestivalen.se
Event: European Medieval Festival
Date: 24-25 August
City: Horsens
More than 100.000 musicians, knights, pilgrims, monks and visitors participate in the coming European Medieval Festival in Horsens. Tournaments with knights from different countries, shows and parades. For two days the entire city of Horsens is transformed into a village from the 15th century. The citizens, or more than 5.000 persons, dress up in the correct attire of the period as craftsmen, farmers, vendors etc. and line the streets with their stands, selling all kinds of authentic goods and foods.
Søndergade 26, 8700 Horsens
Phone: (+45) 7560 2120
middelalderfestival.dk
Event: Aarhus Festival Week
Date: 31 August – 9 Sept
City: Aarhus
This is a festival of major importance to all of Scandinavia, involving all of Aarhus. Several shows, theatre performances, concerts, opera, ballet, music, sport and much more all day long for all ages. Several performances are free. Program available in August. This year's theme: Dance!
Park Allé 2, 8000 Århus C
Phone: (+45 8940 9191)
aarhusfestuge.dk
Event: Night of Culture
Date: 12 October
City: Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Aalborg, Aarhus
More than 700 cultural offers all over the city will be available to the public from 6pm to 12 pm. Last year 60.000 curious and adventurous pass holders took advantage of the unique opportunity to experience an exciting evening of cultural exploration and to visit some of the buildings and institutions which are normally not open to the public. The programme includes all the major museums and exhibition halls, churches, libraries, schools, organisations, and a great number of venues which are normally not open to the public. But also public spaces are transformed into stages for musical performance, poetry reading, art exhibitions and more. Approximately 300 venues are ready to welcome you. Access is obtained with a Night of Culture badge which gives free admission to events and free public transport within Greater Copenhagen. Children under the age of 12 enter for free. Price per badge including a programme for the night: DKK 70 (10 Euro). English program, which consists of excerpts of the Danish program relating to events not determined by language. The badge and program are available at the participating museums, libraries and at S-train stations.
Gammel Kongevej 1, 1610 København V
Phone: (+45) 3325 7400
kulturnatten.dk
Event: Christmas in “Den Gamle By”
Date: 11 Nov - 30 Dec
City: Aarhus
The open air museum of The Old Town is made up of 75 different period houses. During the Christmas period the streets will be decorated beautifully, and 11 of the houses will be housing 30 different Christmas exhibitions. It all adds up to an exciting atmosphere with a true Christmas feeling. Christmas market every weekend in December where the houses come alive with period-dressed personnel.
Viborgvej 2, 8000 Aarhus
Phone: (+45) 8612 3188
dengamleby.dk
Event: Christmas in Tivoli
Date: 15 Nov - 30 Dec
City: Copenhagen
Christmas in Tivoli presents all the delights of Christmases past and present. Stroll through the miniature villages with shops full of gifts and goodies. Enjoy the beautiful scenery and enjoy a meal in one of the many restaurants. 20-odd rides are open as well as many games and shooting galleries. In the large tent at the centre of Tivoli you'll find the charming village of 'Nissekøbing', a winter wonderland of hundreds of mechanical pixies (in Danish 'nisser').
Vesterbrogade 3, 1630 København V
tivoli.dk
Event: H.C. Andersen Christmas Market
Date: 3/4 to 10/11 Dec
City: Odense
The old part of Odense where Hans Christian Andersen's childhood home lies, forms the setting of a period Christmas market with all the fun of the fair, illuminations, merry-go-round, and stalls selling goodies and presents. The Hans Christian Andersen Parade performs daily with the winter show
EventHouse - Odense Adelige Jomfrukloster Albani Torv 6, 5000 Odense C
Phone::(+45) 6551 4901
hcajulemarkedet.dk
For complete list of events in 2007 see visitdenmark.com
