HELLO COPENHAGEN

This is just to let you know that the following  week, the Hello Copenhagen editorial team will be moving to Roskilde Festival. Not really to blog a lot, but mostly to have fun and hear some great concerts.

So, the lack of upcoming events is not because we have fallen asleep, but because Roskilde will be the place to be. You can still get one-day tickets.

Besides all the great concerts you can find in the official programme, there are also many other things to experience such as spontaneous parties, random happenings and crazy people. In other words: we like Roskilde Festival.

If you are an early bird at Roskilde and have some spare time, check this out:

27-30 JUNE: CONTEMPORARY ART
@ Expression stage, Camping East
In the introducing days, Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art presents a programme of performance and sound art in connection to one of their previous exhibitions centered on ‘action’. Check out the performances where action is art.

29 JUNE: PECHA KUCHA NIGHT  #14
@ Expression stage, Camping East // 13:00-14:30
The usual concept of 20×20 has gone festival. The presenter has 20 slides of 20 seconds to tell the audience about their passions and creative ideas. Come and hear something about poetry, the pool, street art, the Roskilde Festival school and much more. The shows are usually great and I think this will be no exception. After the presenters, there will be a shout out, where the audience is invited to go on stage and present their input in 20 seconds.

30 JUNE: ROSKILDE TWEETUP
@The Swimming Lake, Agora K, Camping East // 15:00-18:00

If you are a Twitterholic, then go meet fellow tweeps and maybe find yourself a new friend IRL. #RoskildeTweetup will on this #RF10 support the cause ‘Denmark against Landmines’. Be fast to get one of the highly attractive TweetUp t-shirts. http://roskilde.tweetup.dk/

30 JUNE: SUPERBACON & WAQAR PARTY
@ Roskilde Skate, Camping West // 21:00-24:00

Wednesday parties rock at Roskilde Festival. Top DJs Kasper Bjørke + Tomas Barfod + Waqar have been invited to bring you a killer 3-hour rave. Superbacon has previously been throwing parties in Berlin, Brussels and Copenhagen and will tour clubs in Europe during summer.

1 JULY: FLASHMOB
@ around the bridge between camping East and West // 16:00-16:02
Be around the bridge five minutes to 4. At 4 o’clock a person will shout “Der kommer spyd!” (Coming spike) and everyone will fall to the ground. Afterwards the same person will shout “false alarm” and everyone just stand up and walk away. Pure fun :-) Continue on and enjoy the festival.

Take care now.

Exactly one year ago my friend Charlotte and I launched Hello Copenhagen for the first time – with some help from Genau.

The idea was to bring the other side of Copenhagen out in the open to those people new to the city, or to those being just a bit too lazy themselves to keep updated. Well, actually this is still the idea, and I hope you can use it.

In the meantime, Charlotte has left Hello Copenhagen. But lucky for me, new cool people have joined the site: Mai Ji and Ronni – crazy, energetic lovers of Copenhagen. And maybe, more people will join us soon to keep everything up and running.

All in all, after one year Hello Copenhagen is still here – curious and adventurous as ever, just wanting to show you the best of Copenhagen from our odd point of view. And most importantly, we have a great time doing it!

We look forward to see what 2010 has in store – and we’ll see you around…

Anne

The UN Climate Change Conference is filling up Copenhagen with lots of people from all around the world. We really like the fact that Copenhagen for once is embracing the rest of the world. But if you are not all about politics, bureaucratics and cool cash, there are also other ways to engage and experience the climate debate.

Besides the events Expanded Space and July in December, here are a few events during the climate conference in Copenhagen:

PEOPLE’S CLIMATE SUMMIT
The People’s Climate Summit is a counterpart to the UN conference in Bella Center. The alternative summit serves as a civil, NGO-driven event and is the largest climate event in Copenhagen besides the official COP15.

The summit is open for concerned citizen from around the world and everyone are welcome to go here and take part in the debate together with activists, academics, artists and writers and many others.

@ DGI Byen, Tietgensgade, Copenhagen
7-18 December // free of charge
www.klimaforum09.org
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VESTERBRO SUSTAINABLE TOUR
Take a walking tour together with Copenhagen X and hear about urban development, bicycle policies, sustainability and Copenhagen as an environmental city. The tour starts at the City Hall Square and continues to the meat city area, Otto Krabbes Plads, Hedebygade and ends up at Vesterbro Square.

Meet up at the Future Cities Pavilion on the City Hall Square.
7-18 December  //  free of charge
Departure everyday 12:00-14:00 in English // 14:00-16:00 in Danish
www.copenhagenx.dk

FUTURE CITY
The Danish Architecture Centre is hosting this exhibition that show technological and other sustainable solutions already implemented in the battle against climate change. Take a bike ride around the cities of Barcelona, London, LA, New York, Mexico City, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Sao Paolo and Toronto.

@ Copenhagen Live, City Hall Square, Copenhagen
7-13 December // open 12:00-20:00 // free entrance
www.dac.dk
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PENGUIN GREEN MACHINE
Interactive exhibition placing focusin on the new sustainable area in Nordhavn. Go for a guidet segway tour, build your own future city, visit Penguin Army’s time machine and make a wish for a green future.

@Kalkbrænderihavnen, Sundkregskaj 17 by Kromann & Reumert
12 December // 10:00-16:00 // free of charge
www.penguinarmy.dk
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… also, don’t forget to turn off the lights during Earth Hour 16 December at 19:00 hrs