Pulse, October 21

This week while making the Pulse I thought of finding the concrete ideas of what you can do the three coming days and all of them are free of charge

1. Seminar

Tomorrow, on Wednesday at 16.00 at Parkteatret there is a seminar «Alternatives to Military intervension», where 2 documentaries: «View from the Bridge» about Kosovo and «Pray the Devil Back to Hell» about Liberia will be shown and followed up by discussions.

Register at http://www.dokumentarkino.no beforehand if you are interested.

2. Movie

On Thursday there is a movie shown at Cinemateket at 16.30.This time it's My daughter the terrorist-In this intimate and personal portrait we meet two young female elite soldiers in Sri Lanka trained for the ultimate mission for the Black Tigers. We share their childhood experiences, their dreams and their families' loss. Left is the mother. What makes anyone want to blow themselves up for a cause? Some answers to this question might be found in the movie.

3.Movie

On Friday there is yet another movie- «I am because we are» shown at Literaturhuset at 18.30. Malawi is the second poorest country in the world. One million children are orphans due to HIV and AIDS in a country where poverty overshadows hope. I Am Because We Are sketches out how social and cultural traditions in Malawi help create serious problems for the society. We meet inhabitants, old and young, who talk about how traditions and silence contribute to the spreading of HIV, violence and oppression. I Am Because We Areis a documentary that does not only convey young people’s hopes and dreams for the future but also gives us an indication what the rest of the world can do to help. It is written and co-produced by Madonna, the pop artist.

4. Weekend

No ideas for the weekend?just relax and take it easy!

Pulse, 3d of June

Here comes your Oslo update on what to do next «hopefully» free for exams week.

1.The first event is a must go to in Oslo. The event I personally was waiting for at least the last half a year.It's National Music Day or Musikkfest:-)30 scenes, 12 hours of non-stop music, over the whole Oslo, absolutely for free.Sounds exciting check:www.musikkfest.no

2.The second event is a jazz festival.This year graduates from the Norwegian State Academy of Musicare giving concerts from 5^th till the 14^th of June.The palce is National Jazz Scene. Check www.nmh.no The event is free of charge.

3.The third event is Poetry in all world's languages.11 poets from Norway and 11 international ones. The event is today, Tuesday, the 3d of June at 20.00 It will take place at Litteraturhuset. It's free of charge.

4. The last event on agenda is a lecture, about “war and Peace in the 21^st century”.Tariq Ali-historian, author and a political activist, who has been active in political debate since Vietnam War.The event is on the 7^th of June at 12.00 at Litteraturhuset. It's free of charge.

Pulse 27.05

1. New short-movie programme is ready. The programme started on the 23d of May and will last until 26^th of June.You can watch it every evening at KLINGENBERGKJELLEREN at 17.40. The entrance is free of charge.

More info is available at www.oslokino.no/kortfilm/

2.The next event is a Guided tour in the Medieval part of Oslo. You'll visit Maria church, Hallvards cathedral and will be able to enter the Olavsklosterets medieval place.

The meeting point is at Ladegårdens garden.Time: Wednesday, 28^th of May at 18.00.

Price is 20/40kr. More info is available at: www.oslo.kommune.no/ladegard

3.The third event is a concert. Hermit will be playing at Chateau neuf's Betonghaven ao Friday, the 30^th og May at 19.00. The person behind the band name Hermit is Håvard Bævre.You may listen to his music at http://www.baunen.com/havard.html and if you like it come to Chateau Neuf.The entrance is free of charge

4.The last event on the Pulse agenda is Happy Days sound Festival on the 30^th and 31^st of May.It opend on Friaday at 19.00 at Record. The festival has Anger as the main theme. It'll be a combination of lectures on the topic and great variety of music:from punk to Norwegian homemusic.Detailed programme may be found at :www.happydays.no.

The festival is free of charge.

17th of May Pulse

Today’s Pulse is dedicated to the celebration of 17th of May:-)
In order to give you, international students, some ideas on what to do, where to go and what you absolutely HAVE to see on this day.
1. You first have to see children's parade.The massive Oslo parade, which is greeted by the royal family from the balcony of the Royal Palace, includes some 60,000 children from around 100 schools as well as marching bands.The children's parade starts at Festningsplassen and Youngstorget, enters the main street Karl Johans gate at Stortorvet by the Cathedral, passes the Parliament and the Royal Palace and ends up at the City Hall square. Best view: along Karl Johans gate and in front of the Royal Palace. The parade starts at 10.00, but be sure to get downtown early enough to get a good spot.
2.The next parade you also have to see is he parade of the "russ", i.e. the high school graduates. The Red Caps leaves Hartvig Nissens school - Gyldenløves gate - Colbjørnsens gate - Parkveien - Henrik Ibsens gate where they join the Blue Caps from Oslo Handelsgymnasium - Henrik Ibsens gate - Frederiks gate - Karl Johan - Roald Amundsens gate – Stortingsgata. It starts at 15.00
3.Another Oslo's 17th of May event is called “17th of May for all". The anti-racist organisation SOS Rasisme celebrates the day with outdoor concerts, stands and entertainment in the idyllic Kuba park by the river Akerselva. Those who initiated the festival wanted to show that the national day was a celebration not only for the ethnic Norwegian majority, but for everyone living in Norway.
The festival has always had free access for everyone. The audience record is about 15 000 people, most of whom sitting on the grass, relaxing, barbecuing and listening to great music.
All the events are free of charge

Pulse 22.04

Here comes your up-date of what to do in Oslo the coming (hopefully sunny) week.
1. The spring feeling is here so the first arrangement on your must –do- list is a celebration of the international Day of Dance at Parkteatret. You’ll be able to see both amateur and professional dancers perform.
The evnt is on Sturday, 26th of April ,from 13 p.m. It’s free of charge.
More info at www.parkteatret.no
2. The second event is an exhibition: Recycling the looking-glass / Trash art – Found objects takes as its starting point Trash art and Found objects, two different practices in art where the reuse and recycling of waste, discarded objects, metaphor and meaning are central elements. Internationally, Trash art and Found objects are among the predominant strategies employed in contemporary art and recent art history. The exhibition becomes a starting point, a platform that raises important questions relating to contemporary art in a globalized world. Recycling as a global phenomenon has cultural and social implications with political, environmental, and economic dimensions.Recycling the looking-glass opens up to local, national, and international perspectives. The exhibition’s environmental and ecological dimensions make it a prescient approach to contemporary global, burning questions.
It’s free of charge and available at Oslo Kunstforening until 30th of April.
More info available at www.du-store-verden.no
3. You, of course, have to have a movie on your list of events for the next week. The one offered by Cinemateket this week is “FACTOTUM (Bent Hamer)”. A Norwegian movie released in 2005 with English subtitles.
Henry Chinaski works in factories and warehouses to support what he really wants to do: drink, bet the horses, take up with women as rootless as he is and, above all, write stories that no one wants to publish.Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, Factotum is the story of a man living on the edge, of a writer who is willing to risk everything to make sure that his life is his poetry.
It’s at Cinemateket on Thursday, 24th of April at 16.30 and it’s free of charge.
More info is available at www.nfi.no
4. The last event is also an exhibition. “Our Holy Rooms”. Did you know there is a holy hindu lake in Oslo's forest, that Hell's Angels in Oslo have a sikh temple as their next-door neighbour, or that Norway in some connections is considered a buddhist country? The exhibition Our Holy Rooms gives you a chance to experience the religious diversity in Oslo under one roof.Our Holy Rooms is an exciting informative exhibition about religious minorities in Norway. Over two floors, the visitors can see reconstructions of holy rooms from six of Oslo's minority religions: A catholic church, an orthodox synagogue, a Pakistani mosque, a Tamil hindu temple, a Vietnamese buddhist temple and a sikh gurdwara.
The exibiton is at Intercultural Museum and is free of charge as well.
More info at www.oslomuseum.no

Starategic Pulse:-)

Time to get back to the traditional Oslo Pulse. Today the Pulse is a strategic one: it suits both the new international students and the old onesJ for those of you who don’t know where in Oslo you usually find something to do not spending a lot of money, today’s Pulse gives you an idea of four place of that kind. Those of you who are here from the last semester can take it as a ready made plan of activities for the coming week.

The first place as well as the first event is a concert at Chateau Neuf. On Wednesday Siri Nilsen is coming to BokCafeen(one of the bars there) with her ukulele. It starts at 21.00 and it’s free of charge. For more information check: http://www.studentersamfundet.no/

The next event is a jazz concert at The Norwegian State Academy of Music. It’s three variants of vocal jazz this time.The concert is on Thursday, 17th of January at 19.00 at Auditoriet an NSAM. It’s free of charge.
The NSAM is having a lot of concerts, so it’s worth checking their homepage at www.nmh.no

The next strategic place is AmatørenJStudents house at Sogn student residence. Each Sunday they show a movie at 20.00 .this Sunday it’s “ Mulholland drive” by David Lynch - A Love Story In The City Of Dreams. A woman in search of stardom. A woman in search of herself - in the city of dreams. A key to a mystery - lies somewhere on Mulholland Drive. Free of charge as well.

The last events for today’s Pulse is a movie at Cinemateket. Cinemateket is a part of the Norwegian Film Institute and has a project called “Contemporary Norway”, Almost each Thursday they show a Norwegian movie with the English subtitles. This Thursday it’s a documentary “Girls” by Hanne Myren. A documentary about the toughest girls in the 9th grade. About youthful presumption, loyalty, deceit, and female power structures at an age when everything is at stake. The film focuses on two groups of girls at a school in central Oslo: the tough gang, and the less daring girls from the west side. One girl is stuck between the two groups. Will she be forced to choose between the two gangs, decide which friends to abandon, and which identity to assume?
More info at www.nfi.no Free of charge

Last Pulse this Year:-)

Time for SIN’s Christmas Pulse:-)
If you are one of us who is staying in Oslo for Christmas and still don’t know what to do, I managed to find some ideas for you:-)
1. If you are not up to sitting at home on Christmas Eve and you are also one of those who want to make a difference, there is a possibility to participate in an event called “Alternative Christmas”. You can volunteer for helping those who don’t have a possibility for normal Christmas celebration (the drug users, alcoholics, homeless or just the ones who don’t have anyone to celebrate Christmas with).All the info is available at http://www.alternativjul.no/index.html. There you’ll find the timetable for shifts as well as how you can apply for being a volunteer. It’s going to take place at : Oslo Kongressenter in Folkets Hus at Youngstorget
2. While you are impatient and really looking forward to Christmas there is an International knitting exhibition. Well, it can also give you some inspiration on what to do on Christmas Eve. The exhibition presents an exciting meeting with a new, strong field of art. It deals with roles, expectations, traditions, breaches and provocations. Artists and craftsmen from Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland, Germany and USA show the diversity in knitting as an artistic language today. It’s at KunstindustrimuseetAddress: St. Olavs gate 1
Free of charge
3.The closing event for today’s Christmas Pulse is Frank Znort Lille Julaften. It’s a concert of Frank Znort Quartet at Blå, 21.00 on Sunday 23 of December.
Free of charge.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Stay tuned for Snakker ikke Norsk next semester:-)

Pulse Week 49

Time for traditional Oslo low-budget PulseJ
1. The first event is a guitar concert of a Japanese guitar player Tetuzi Akiyama with his Norwegian friends. The musical instruments represented in the concert will be: guitars, saxophone, trumpet and tuba. The 9th of December it’s posible to hear them live at the Norwegian Academy of Music at 19.00. Free of charge.
2. Are you up to yet another Norwegian movie with English subtitles? This time it’s a legendary “Cool and Crazy”, I would say a “must watch” in the Norwegian movies list. With Cool and Crazy one of Norway's most experienced and renowned feature film directors is bringing to the screen a world he knows and loves. And he does it in the spirit of the people he portrays, with irreverence and wit and highly charged. For some this will be a film about men. For others it will be about love. Or politics. Or fish. Above all it is about the dignity of ordinary lives lived under extreme circumstances. For those that loved Buena Vista Social Club - this is the answer. It’s in Cinemateket on Thursday, 6th of December at 16.30 Free of charge
3. The next event on my Pulse agenda today is a jazz concert of Papa k kvintett. Jazz and improvisation with inspiration from soul,ska,Dolphy, surf and William Blake.More info is available at myspace.com/papakkvintett The concert is on Thursday, 6th of December at Mogador Café at 21.00. Free of charge.Students at Oslo Art University College arrange their yearly Christmas marked. Just an idea for some Christmas presentsJ.It’s on 8th and 9th of December from 11 till 16.00 back Oslo Domkirke

A lot to do in Oslo the coming week for you international students:-)
The opening event for our Pulse is

1. free Guitar Impro Night at Sound of Mu!
Expect a big bunch of players for an intense collective improvisation!
Wednesday the 14 of november at 20:00 Markveien 58
More info you get at http://www.alexgunia.com
free of charge

2 The next event to come is also a concert:-) Tom Waits Christmas songs at Grünerløkka
It's not so long till Chhristmas:-)Use your chance to go to Shamrock and listen to Tom Wait's Christmas songs presented to you by Blow.
Wednesday 14 November at 21.30 at Shamrock
More info available at www.shamrock.no
Free of charge

3. The third event is a live radio show at Samfunnet at Oslo University college.
Radiotjenesten and Radio Nova invites you to a live radioshow.Bands, competitions, humor and craziness everything in 2 hours.
Thursday 15th of November at 19.00 at Studentersamfunnet Bislet. Pilestredet 52.
The event is free of charge.

4. The closing event for today's pulse is Christian Mortensens consert at The Norwegian State Academy of Music.Christian is a doublebass player and is giving a concert on Sunday 18th of November at 19.00.
The consert will take place at Levinsalen Free of charge
More info available at www.nmh.no

cultural blog

A promised link to a cultural blog where Alicia Betts has her section:
http://unllocunmon.com/blog/

Pulse 06.11

Yet another Tuesday! Time to get some ideas of what to do in Oslo the coming week on a vdery restricted student budget.

1.The first idea for you today is a seminar ” Living Where the Birds No Longer Sing: Rights-Based Approaches to Exclusion in Bangladesh” given by Dr. Tone Bleie, Professor, Institute of Planning and Community Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tromsø.
It’s on Wednesday, the 7th of November 10 a.m. - 12 noon., 4th floor seminar room, SUM, Sognsveien 68
Free of charge

2. It can also be a good idea to watch a Norwegian movie this week. As a part of Cinemateket’s project “Contemporary Norway”, this week comes a movie: “CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE by Marius Holst. The movie is based on a short-story by the famous Norwegian author Lars Saabye Christensen.Otto Olsen is the smallest boy on the soccer team and is finding it hard to gain acceptance from his team mates. His best friend, as well as most everyone in town, is leaving for summer holidays. The youngster is left behind to spend his vacation at home. At this sensitive, lonely moment, a charismatic stranger named Frank appears. It became a fateful summer for everyone.
It’s on 08.11.2007 at 16:30 at Cinemateket.
Free of charge

3. The third event is for those of you who want to practice their Norwegian and meet a well-known Norwegian author Erlend Loe. Some of you have to read his “Naiv. Super” as an obligatory literature for your Norwegian course. Why not go and listen what the author has to tell himselfJ
The meeting is at Biblioteket at Chateau Neuf on Thursday, 8th of November at 20.00
The event is free of charge

4.Now it’s time to get updated on the music life in Oslo.
On Thursday, the 8th of November you’ll have a possibility to attend a jazz-jam in Bokcafeen at Chateau Neuf. Students of the Norwegian State Academy of Music will play for you.
The event is free of charge and starts at 21.00


5.The last event is a concert of Dan Fagerquist, a swedish singer at Blitz.
We as SIN had an interview with Dan last weekJHe sings the songs of a legendary Russian singer Vysotskiy, but Dan does it in his own way!Got your attention?
Then come to Blitz, on Tuesday, the13th of November at 20.00
Entrance fee is 50kr.
That was it for today. Check your Pulse updates on www.snakkerikkenorsk.blogspot.com

Pulse 23.10

Oslo cultural life is pulsatingJand you get your update of it nowJ

1. The first event which opens the Pulse is a theatre performance “Invandrer” by Andy Smith. As the artist says himself ” innvandrer is an entertaining and engaging performance work that attempts to tell stories and recount the experience of movement from one country to another: of my move to Oslo and Norway, my thoughts and experiences of that movement, and my struggles with communication in this new context. The work will be performed in Norwegian with a little english, exploring the limitations and problems of language, as well as ideas of migration and immigration today”
So why not take all the knowledge you gained at your Norwegian lessons with you and go to UKS at Lakkegata 55 D
On Wednesday 24th of October at 19.00
It’s free of charge.
2 The next event to be announced is a Norwegian movie at Cinemateket. The “Junk mail”. This black comedy, with the not so reliable Roy as the protagonist, deals with love, hot money, cold spaghetti, karaoke and involuntary good deeds. Roy is a wreck of a love-starved mailman ruled by curiosity, a mean streak and a mighty ability to find himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. The movie is screened with the Norwegian subtitles. It’s on Thursday 25.10.2007 at 16:30
And it’s free of charge.

3. The event I’m going to talk about now is not free of charge, so it’s on the category of “low-budget” it’s a concert of mentioned earlier in the SIN program band Shctimm.
It’s at Mono on Monday, 29th of October at 21.00
The entrance fee is 70kr.


4. The last event on the Pulse programme today is another theater performance “Look at me! Look at me! : Confessions of a controversial shock artist”. In this performance lecture Kate Pendry will reveal some of the secrets and lies behind the scenes of her work, the violent reactions, the small victories over madness, how she deals with bad reviews and the curse of believing in your own publicity. Room for questions + answers, with prizes for interesting questions.
It’s on Mon 29. Oct 2007At 19:00, Teaterscenen Chateau Neuf
And according to the official site of Det Norske Studentersamfundet it’s free of charge

Pulse 16.10

Your weekly update of cultural life in Oslo comes here and nowJ
1. The first event on the Pulse agenda is a “seminar about Chinese art”. The seminar “ArtEduChina in Norway 2007” is focusing on the development of Chinese Art.
“The History and Development of the Chinese Artists Association” and “Chinese Painting: its tradition and its development into contemporary art” are just some of the topics covered by the seminar.
It’s tomorrow at the National museum Kristian Augusts gt. 23, 8 floor from 09.00 till 16.30.
More info available at: www.norskekunstforeninger.no
It’s free of charge.

2. The next event is also tomorrow and it’s a Light Music a film installation by Lis Rhodes. Made in 1975 Light music is one of the most celebrated works of British expanded cinema. This pioneering work explores and foregrounds the audio-visual intersections within the apparatus of cinema. Here sound translates to image and image becomes the sound.
It’s at Kunstnernes Hus Wergelandsveien 17
Wednesday, 17 October 2007 19:00 – 21:00
Admission is free
3. Have you already watched many Norwegian movies? If not that many and you are up to one, then go to Cinemateket on 18.10.2007 at 16:30 .The movie screened there this time is “Mars and Venus” by Eva Dahr.
The movie is with English subtitles as it’s a part of the project Contemporary Norway, which means thatThe Norwegian Film Institute will this season present English subtitled feature films and feature length documentaries from Norway from the last 25 years.
The event is free of charge.

4. And the last Pulse beat is not an event in itself, but more a reminder: There are three really important and great museums in Oslo: Stenersen museum, Vigelands museum and Munchs museet which have free entrance till 31 of MarchJDon’t miss your chance if you haven’t been there yetJ

Pulse 02.10.2007

Time for you to get updated in the cultural life of Oslo.
1. The first event for today is not free of charge, but I decided to have it anyway. It’s almost a must for those of you who are interested in seeing the world from a different angle.
It’s a movie festival “Films from the South” from the 4th till the 11th of October- the biggest movie festival in the North-Europe with focus on Asia, Africa and Latin America.
More info about the tickets, movies and places you find under www.filmfrasor.no

The rest of the Pulse for today is free of charge and it has something to do with Russia. It just a pure coincidence and not my identity speakingJ


2. Anyhow the first to come is a movie at Moloch filmclub.
The movie is called “Solaris” from (1972) and takes you on a trip to a mystery planet. The movie is black and white with the English subtitles.
Address for the Moloch is Gøteborggata 32
And it’s on Thursday 4th of October at 20.00
Free of charge

3. The next event his about the freedom of speech and Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. It’s an exhibition with the focus on what she was working for at Nobel Peace Center on Sunday the 7th of October at 15.00 o’clock.
Free of charge.

4. The last event is a concert of a Swedish singer Dan Fagerquist and you may have a question about it’s connection to Russia, but in this concert Dan Fagerquist is singing songs of a legendary Russian singer Vladimir Vysotskiy, translated to Swedish.
The concert is at Chateau Neuf’s bokcafeen on Monday the 8th of October at 21.00
Free of Charge.
Hope you’re going to take a look inside Russian culture this week.

SIN Pulse 25.09.2007

1. The first event for today is Finnmark day at Blå. It’s called en beat av Finnmark and offers you a meeting with a Norwegian country from the very far up north. It the programme: possibilities for you in Finnmark, tasting of food and of course music. The event starts at 13.00, concerts from 21.00.
Don’t miss it: Wednesday, 26th of September at Blå. Free of Charge.

2. The next event is called Architectures that dare. Spanish Cristina Díaz Moreno and Cristina Díaz Moreno have success with opening up the boundaries for traditional architecture and bringing in modern art, design and sociology.
Wednesday 26th of September at 18.00 at DoGA, Hausmanns gate 16
Free of Charge

3. Now it’s time for a concert on the Pulse.
Aksel Naas og His Notorious Bros. rocks the joint at Verkstedet Bar
You can listen to some of there music on myspace and if it sounds interesting go to Verkstedbar on Friady 28 of September at 22.oo
It’s free of charge

4. And to finish our Pulse today comes yet another concert. This time a quite international one.
“Walking in the world of opera and Latvian romances.”
It’s at The Norwegian State Academy of Music
Thursday 27th of September at 19.30
Lindemansalen