INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF NORWAY Oslo Chamber of Commerce WEEKEND SUGGESTIONS Week 43 HI EVERYBODY! Watch out for strange things happening in Oslo next week. It’s Halloween on 31st October! But the TusenFryd Amusement Park will be all dressed up for Halloween on Saturday 28th October. Zombies and monsters will be let loose and special creepy attractions will mark the occasion. Come dressed in your Halloween costume and you can enter the park free of charge! Click here for directions to the amusement park. It will be a great last day of the season. You should also keep some sweets and candy at hand on the day – you never know who will come knocking at your door………. Enjoy our weekend suggestions! USEFUL INFORMATION Be visible - wear reflectors – reflectors save lives 3 tips: 1. Hang reflectors between head and knee height 2. Choose reflectors that move when using them - easier to spot from cars 3. Attach reflectors on your jackets pockets and bags Reflectors are availableonline , in pharmacies and in many shops Photo: Tryggtrafikk.no Remember to turn your clocks back one hour on Sunday 29th October. It’s the official end of summer. INN EVENTS 26th October – Building a new social network - How Norwegians socialize 3rd November Friday Vibes Remember to check out our calendar for upcoming INNEvents Follow INN on and INN WELCOME TO NORWAY SEMINAR New in Norway and curious about the culture, 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 seminar for October is FULL, next seminar will take place 9th November. 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: 22nd November - Open Innovation – How to promote innovation – breakfast seminar 30th November - International Forum incl. Christmas Dinner MARKETS Farmers Market, Valkyrie Plass, 28th October Market where you can buy fresh products directly from the farmers themselves. Buy local foods from the people who grew and made them! Vestkanttorvet Bric-a-brac/antiques market, Saturday 28th October Oslo's oldest and largest market, with furniture, china, glass, kitchenware, paintings, silver, jewellery, clothes, glass and all kinds of collector's items. The bric-a-brac/antiques market is located on the corner of Professor Dahls gate and Neuberggata, not far from Vigeland Park. Open on Saturdays from Mar-Dec. Birkelunden bric-a-brac market, Sunday 29th October Photo: VisitOslo.com Outdoor market at Birkelunden with used items from the 40s to the 00s. The market is open on most Sundays throughout the year from 12 noon until 7 pm (until dark in the winter season). Sunday market around Blå, 29th October Every Sunday, throughout the year there is a handicraft and second-hand market around Blå at Grünerløkka: Knit wear, jewellery, ceramics, glass, wool, clothes, toys, paintings, bags etc. UPCOMING EVENTS Oslo World 31st October – 5th November Oslo World (prev. Oslo World Music Festival) is one of Europe's leading world music festivals and gives the opportunity to hear fantastic voices from all corners of the world. The programme also includes meetings with designers, architects and actors. This year’s festival theme is avant-garde at the periphery. The organisers have invited artists and activists who are in the frontline, who are pioneers, who promote radical ideas, who are unconventional and who create important meeting places. Photo: VisitOslo.com Click here for tickets. Kathy Griffin – Laugh Your Head Off Oslo Konserthus 27th November After two Emmy, one Grammy, and a few decades as a popular TV host and stand- up comedian, Kathy Griffin is now ready for her first world-wide tour. Kathy holds a Guinness World Record for the highest number of broadcasted stand-up shows, and has more recently enjoyed great success with the docu- series «My Life on the D-List» and her own evening talk show «Kathy». Tickets. Photo: VisitOslo.com Nobel Peace Prize Concert 2017 Telenor Arena 11th December Join in the celebration of peace and the global work done for peace, with a concert in tribute of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Laureate – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The concert will consist of performances by a number of big, international artists. Names of artists and host will be published later this autumn. Tickets. Photo: VisitOslo.com FESTIVALS Oslo Early Music Festival The festival is a new addition to Oslo's extensive festival selection. It features music based on historically informed performances, where musicians use the kinds of instruments that the composers originally wrote their works for. Oslo Early aims at becoming an annual event where the best performers in Norway gather and perform, together with international guests. Tickets for individual concerts are sold at ticketco.no. Photo: VisitOslo.com Oslo Bellydance Festival: 1001 Nights Oslo Konserthus, Mundedamsveien 14 The festival is an annual event organised by Oslo Bellydance Studio, and has been drawing crowds since 2001. The show 1001 Nights features international and Norwegian belly dance stars on stage with sparkling costumes and creative choreographies. Tickets available at Ticketmaster. Photo: VisitOslo.com EXHIBITIONS Cronqvust/Bjørlo/Munch – Head by Head Munchmuseet, 28th October -22nd October, 10:00-16:00 Per Inge Bjørlo and Lena Cronqvist are two of the most pivotal artists in the Nordic region. Their meeting with Munch results in a powerful exhibition that studies and illuminates the loneliness, the fragility and the sorrow within human existence. Since the 1980s, the often-painful existence we have as human beings has been the driving force behind Bjørlo’s art. Cronqvist became a pioneer with the way she incorporated her own private experiences in to her work in order to expose her own sorrow and pain. The exhibition is with a selection of works by Edvard Munch. The result is an exhibition that invites us to reflect upon the deepness and universality of loneliness and impermanency. Address: Tøyengata 53 Photo: VisitOslo.com CONCERTS Dianne Reeves Bærum Culture House, 26th October at 19:30 Dianne Reeves figures among the truly great jazz voices of our time. She grew up with a bass-playing uncle and a love of some of the great female jazz singers, in particular Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Over the last few years she has toured the world. Her last release, Beautiful Life, won her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2015. Click here for tickets. Photo: baerumkulturhus.no Address: Claude Monets allé 27, Sandvika Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces – Finlandia Ridehuset, Akershus Fortress 27th October at 19:30 The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces celebrates the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence with an all Finnish concert evening. The program features: Fredrik Pacius: Overture to Kung Karls hunt Bernhard Crusell: Clarinet Concerto in F minor (excerpt) Sam Sivho: Muistoja Pohjolasta Aulis Sallinen: The Palace Rhapsody Photo: VisitOslo.com Jean Sibelius: Finland With conductor Markus Lehtinen and sololist Captain Olav Bakke on Clarinet. Click here for tickets. Address: Akerhus Fortress The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Cosmopolite, 27th October at 20:00 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are finally in Norway with their Heresy II Heritage Tour. Do not miss this unique and entertaining concert experience where singing and playing Britons interpret Tchaikovsky, Nirvana, Otis Redding and spaghetti-westerns – among other things. Click here for tickets. Address: Vogts gate 64 Photo: VisitOslo.com Oslo Django Club: Gildas Le Pape Smelteverket, 28th October at 17:00-19:00 The Norwegian string swing and gypsy jazz band Touché Monet pays tribute to guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt with a series concerts that showcase some of today's greatest musical talents. At this concert the featured artist is Gildas Le Pape. He moved from Paris to Oslo in 2007 to become the guitarist of the black metal band Satyricon. After many years of recordings and tours all over the world, he returned to playing jazz guitar. Today he is one of Norway's foremost string Photo: VisitOslo.com swing guitarists, and is part of several notable jazz constellations. Free entrance. Visit the event’s Facebook page for information. Address: Vulkan 5 Babylon Brothers Herr Nilsen, 28th October at 22:00 Babylon Brothers is a firework of a jazz rock band led by guitarist Staffan William- Olsson. Staffan was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, but moved to Oslo in 1986 since then he has been a key person in the jazz community here. His team comprises drum virtuoso Erik Smith, on keyboards Frode Østang Mangen and bass player Tom Erik Antonsen. The music style can be placed somewhere between Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton and George Benson. Click here for tickets. Photo: VisitOslo.com Address: C.J. Hambros plass 5 Nico & Vince Sentrum Scene, 28th October at 20:00 Nico & Vince are back at Sentrum Scene after playing a sold out show there last year. This time, they have got the fresh track Intrigued with them, a song that has been very well received by critics. The Norwegian duo achieved world fame after Am I Wrong dominated the charts in 2014. They have had many hits after that in the UK and America. They have toured the world filling venues like Madison Square Garden, London O2 and Marine Stadium in Tokyo. Click here for tickets. Photo: VisitOslo.com Address: Arbeidersamfunnets plass 1 L’Arpeggiata – Teatro d’amore Universitetets aula, 29th October at 20:00-22:00 The World-renowned early music ensemble L'arpeggiata, led by lute player Christina Pluhar, will perform in Oslo for the first time.