INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF Chamber of Commerce WEEKEND SUGGESTIONS Week 33

HI EVERYBODY! Up for a fun run this weekend? Take a look at this colorful race that takes place this Saturday!

Color Me Rad, Holmenkollen, 20th August at 09-13 Color Me Rad is a 5km fun run that starts in a flurry of colors and continues with color guns and color grenades before ending with a party after the finish line. You start the race wearing a white t-shirt, and throughout the course you will be covered with blue, green, pink, purple and yellow, until your face, t-shirt and body are completely covered in fun colors. Click here to sign up and read more. The run starts at Holmenkollen. Photo:visitoslo.no

INN EVENTS 21st August – INN Event: A hike to Ullevålseter with DNT" We are pleased to invite you and your family to join us for a typical Norwegian weekend activity. Together with the Norwegian Trekking Association, DNT, we will hike from Sognsvann to Ullevålseter, with a stop at Oslo´s geographical center on the way. We will then continue towards Ullevålseter where we will have a nice break. You may bring your own food or buy lunch at Ullevålseter. Read more and sign up here.

INN WELCOME TO NORWAY SEMINAR New in Norway and curious about the country and its people? Sign up here for our popular «Welcome to Norway» Seminar, a one-day practical introduction to living and working in Norway and Oslo. The next seminar will take place on August 18. Free of charge for all INN Individual Members. For INN Corporate Members/OCC Members the price per person is NOK 4000 and non-members NOK 5000, including a welcome package and lunch. OSLO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EVENTS Both Oslo Chamber of Commerce and INN members are welcome to these events: 1st September – Medlemstreff (in Norwegian)

13th September – Global Economic Outlook

15th September – International Forum – The Kongsberg Group

28th September – Introduksjonsmøte nye medlemmer (in Norwegian)

UPCOMING EVENTS

Os!o innovation week, 17th -21st October The theme for Oslo Innovation Week 2016 is “Powercouples.” The global economy needs a bridge between large, established companies and the startup scene. Innovation, particularly radical innovation, happens when connecting previously unconnected bodies of knowledge. By organising workshops, debates, hackathons and crowdfundings, they are creating a meeting place where these powercouples can start to grow: Startups and corporates, people representing different fields of innovation, science and research all join forces to tackle the big problems and challenges. Let’s create powercouples! Click here to read more and see the full program.

(Photo: proffesionalwomen.no) MAJOR EVENTS/FESTIVALS Findings festival, Bislett stadion, 19th – 20th August Findings Festival is going down for the third time this summer. Two days of live shows with a lineup including Alan Walker, David Guetta, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Kygo, Lemaitre, Oliver Heldens, and Röyksopp will make this a very memorable summer weekend in Oslo. Click here to buy tickets. Address: Bislettgata 1 How to get there: Tram no. 17/18 or Bus no. 21 to Bislett (Photo: Findings Festival) The Mela Festival, Rådhusplassen, 19th -21st August Annual multicultural festival at Rådhusplassen (City Hall Square). Oslo Mela is one of the largest events of its kind outside the Asian subcontinent. Mela means “meeting point”, and has roots thousands of years back in South Asia. In its modern form Mela is a festival based on artistic and cultural expressions, food and stalls with information and goods of all kinds. The festival is popular with all age groups and the entrance is free. Click here to read more. Photo: Jean Marie Muggiano

Oslo Chamber Music Festival, 18th -27th August Oslo Chamber Music Festival presents music from Medieval times to the present day. Concerts with Norwegian and international top artists are held at Oslo’s best concert venues, including the Royal Palace, The Opera House, Fortress, and Oslo Concert Hall. A complete festival program is available here.

Photo: Oslo Kammermusikkfestival

EXHIBITIONS

Friis/Winkelmann/Aune, Kunstnerforbundet, until 11th September Kunstnerforbundet gallery presents three parallel exhibitions: Marianne Friis: Forandelig (textiles), Verena Winkelmann: Sone (photographs) and Gunnar Aune (coal drawings). Click here to see more information.

Photo:visitoslo.no

Syria is my only home, Nobel Peace Center, all fall season More than five million children have been forced to flee their homes due to the war in Syria. They have lost their homes, their family members and their friends. They have lost their safety. Most of them are refugees within their home country, but 2.4 million Syrian children are living outside Syrian borders. Many have fled across the the border to the small neighbouring country Lebanon, where they live in poor settlements, lacking almost everything they had before the war broke out. In the exhibition Syria is my only home, children tell their own stories about life in the shadow of war. The photos are taken by the children themselves and in short films they tell about their life in the tent camp and what they miss from their lives before the war. Please note: The exhibition is shown in one of The Nobel Peace Center’s smaller exhibitions rooms, and will occasionally be closed on weekdays as the room is used for educational purposes. Read more about the exhibition here. Photo: visitoslo.no

CONCERTS Ida Nielsen, Nasjonal Jazzscene Victoria, 20th August at 22 After having studied Prince’s funk for many years, the Danish bass player Ida Nilsen was invited to jam with Prince in 2010. She subsequently became a regular member of his New Power Generation, and of his side project PRINCE & 3RDEYEGIRL. Nielsen has also been working on a new solo album where funk is the foundation, which also includes elements from hip hop, reggae and world. The concert is part of the 2016 Oslo Jazz Festival. For more information and tickets, click here. Photo: Visitoslo Jack Vreeswijk, Rockefeller, 19th August at 19 Club night for those who enjoy Wyclef over Basshunter, Michael Jackson over Lady Gaga, and funky dancing over anything else. Jump on the Soul Train. Click here for tickets. Address: Torggata 16 Photo: visitoslo.no THEATRE & SHOW Borkman, Nationaltheateret, 18th -20th August Former bank manager John Gabriel Borkman has served a sentence for embezzlement. Humiliated and bitter, he and his wife Gunhild have isolated themselves on separate floors of their house, and have no contact with each other. Throughout this time of crisis, their son, Erhart, has been taken care of by Gunhild’s twin sister, Ella Rentheim, whom John Gabriel once chose not to marry, as a trade-off for prestige and power. Now Ella is fatally ill, and has returned to adopt Erhart and give him her own name. Gunhild refuses – Erhart is the person who must rebuild the honour of the Borkman family. But John Gabriel has in his solitude made other plans for his son’s future. Leading German director Jan Bosse is known for developing an anarchistic joy in his productions, where the audience becomes an integral part of the performance. In this production of Henrik Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman, Amfiscenen is changed to a public space, where the audience is a part of the story. Borkmann by Henrik Ibsen. Adaptation by Gabriella Bussacker and Jan Bosse. Click here to buy tickets. Address: Johanne Dybwads plass 1 Photo: Øyvind Eide

FAMILY & CHILDREN

Children’s Pirate Cruise (in Norwegian), 21st August at 12 & 14 Pirate cruise for children. Best suited for Norwegian speaking participants. Click here to buy tickets. Start at Rådhusbrygge 3.

Photo: VisitOslo

GUIDED TOURS Walking tour (No./Eng.): Oslo Promenade, until 9th September at 17.30 Oslo Promenade is a two-hour guided walking tour of Oslo on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in summer. The walk will take you past Akershus Fortress, across “Kvadraturen”- the old part of Oslo, and up the Karl Johan pedestrian street towards the Royal Palace. The tour starts on the sea side of City Hall at 5.30 pm and ends outside the National Theatre at 7.30 pm. Guiding in English and Norwegian, booking not necessary. Photo: VisitOSLO/ Matjaz Intihar

SPORT Football: Vålerenga - Bodø/Glimt, Ullevål stadion, 19th August at 18 Football match between local team Vålerenga and Bodø/Glimt. Click here to buy tickets.

Photo: www.vif-fotball.no USEFUL INFORMATION

MOSA: Norwegian courses starting in September. Sign up for MOSA´s courses before 1st September and get 10 % discount. To sign up, click here. EATING OUT Mathallen Mathallen Oslo is inspired by the great European food courts. Here you can find specialty shops, cafés and great places to eat. Throughout the year, it is also a venue for different festivals and events celebrating food, drink and good experiences. Mathallen Oslo is the place to go for everyone who appreciates high quality food and drink and something unique. They offer fish, meat, vegetables, baked goods, coffee – everything brought to them by the best suppliers and distributors of Norway, as well as some imported products. The atmosphere and products reflects the passion for good food and beverages. Mathallen is a place for both the everyday consumers and professional chefs to buy foods from Norwegian small-scale producers and importers. Everyone is welcome to taste, shop, drink, to share knowledge and experiences and to find inspiration. Photo: Mathallen Read more about Mathallen here. Address: Vulkan 5

Thai Fair, Youngstorget, 20th August at 11.00 – 20.00 Authentic Thai food, handcrafts and products together with music and dancing.

FIRST NIGHT MOVIES

Star Trek Beyond (US) The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test. With Chris Pine, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Sofia Boutella, Idris Elba.

Photo:imdb.com

The Swedish Theory of Love (SE) Internationally is seen as a perfect society, a raw model and a symbol of the highest achievements of human progress. The Swedish Theory of Love digs into the true nature of Swedish life style, explores the existential black holes of a society that has created the most autonomous people in the world.

Photo: dokfilm.no

War Dogs (US) Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America’s allies in Afghanistan. With Jonah Hill, Miles Teller.

Photo: wardogsthemovei.com OUTSIDE OF OSLO Henning Kvitnes and Claudia Scott at Høytorp Fort, Mysen, 19th August Henning Kvitnes with band featuring Claudia Scott. Henning Kvitnes is one of the artists who are part of season 5 of “Every time we meet” on TV. Kvitnes is one of the most popular artists in his genre, and has for years been providing one big hit after another. This summer he brings with him Claudia Scott, full band and all his schlager directory to hold an outdoor concert at Høytorp Fort! Tickets are bought on site.

Photo: visitoslofjord.no

We wish you all a lovely weekend!

Best regards, The INN Team

INN® - International Network of Norway OSLO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Phone:+47 22 12 94 00 inn.chamber.no