Pick of the Week: Culture Night

This week’s top picks are focused on the upcoming culture week in Copenhagen. With more than 500 programmed events, it’s going to be a jungle out there this Friday – but no worries, we will steer you towards our top 3 events, ensuring that you don't have the agony of decision, which can be bewildering.

Culture Night started in 1993 and is supposed to stimulate your cultural curiosity, with over 500 institutions taking part. The University of Copenhagen, as one of these institutions, has itself loads of stuff going on come Friday.

Senses sharpened at Night of Culture

See the University Post photo story from the University of Copenhagen Night of Culture events here.

Photos by Afton Halloran.

Here is your guide to the Night of Culture

The Night of Culture festival has been an annual Copenhagen event since 1993. This year, on 15 October, more than 200 museums, churches, exhibition halls, galleries and institutions (including the University of Copenhagen) will open their doors to the public.

The whole city is abuzz on the Night of Culture, with the public gaining access to places and experiences that would otherwise be closed to them.

Here is a University Post special! A guide to the University of Copenhagen events for those of you who don't speak Danish.

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Night in the Botanical Gardens

The main walk-street Strøget is packed. I make my way through, heading to the Botanical Gardens. Drum ‘n Bass is heating up the cold autumn night. I follow the music and suddenly find myself in the middle of some kind of happening called Yabba Yabba.

See the picture gallery from my night out here

Life Science pumped up the music

Curiosity is written all over the faces of the hundreds strolling in the premises of the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen (U of C) Friday late afternoon.

They are hurrying to see the exhibitions and demonstrations held at the Frederiksberg campus. Clad with pink and brown t-shirts with the university emblem, the faculty staff have pulled out all the stops in a bid to quench the thirst of the inquisitive minds flocking inside.

University all set up for Friday event

For this year's 'Night of Culture', the university is opening its doors, with a whole host of events all round the city. The University Post is, of course, no exception.

The Night of Culture is a newer Copenhagen tradition, with more and more institutions, museums and organisations taking part.

The University Post hosts a quiz evening down at the Studenterhuset, with a bunch of great prizes from 20.30 to 22.30. Come along down and say hello.

Something for everyone

The Faculty of Life Science hosts an impressive list of interesting things to warm up your Friday night with:

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