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 29.04

1. Gressholmen is the place to be when the sun is up and shining. Take bus 60 from Jernbanetorget to Vippetangen , and then take boat NR 93 to island of Gressholmen.
You can check how to get it at http://trafikanten.no/

2.Decadence and Decay exhibition on Wednesday at 19:00 at Atelier Nord , Jade Boyd experiments in the project room with a collection of audio-visual contraptions and effects. The peculiarity of this exhibition is that the images are transmitted between camera, screen, projector and fed back on themselves, resulting in gradual deterioration. For more info: http://www.anart.no.
Free of Charge.

3. This Wednesday at Stenersens museum you can see an exhibition " 2 Move/ Migratory Aesthetics". Migratory Aesthetics concerns the movement of people and the movement of images and how both movements, real and imaginary, provoke 'movements of sprit' or 'emotions'. It is, then, a double movement: images which move and which move us. The aesthetic dimension of the exhibition develops in two directions: the influence of immigrants in the culture of host countries, especially in the public space; and the influence of these countries in the subjective relationships of immigrants with their homelands.

I'ts until 11. Mai 2008. and cost 25NOK for students or 45NOK for not students.
The address is Munkedamsveien 15, Oslo.
For more info Check http://www.stenersen.museum.no/

4. Monday 5 of may Noble peace center will have a conference about the freedom of Internet. Here you can expect to hear more about control and censorship of Internet. Just to give you the impression of what you can expect I will just name some of the names that will participate in the conference:
Jimmy Wales, grunnlegger av Wikipedia
Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Oxford University / OpenNet Initiative
Zena el Khalil, kunstner og blogger fra Libanon
Parvin Ardalan, cyber-feminist fra Iran
Øystein Alme, forfatter og redaktør for “Voice of Tibet”
Knut Aasrud, CEO Microsoft Norway
Hilde Tonne, Executive Vice President, TelenorProfessor
Jon Bing, Universitetet i Oslo / Teknologirådet

It's free of charge.
For more info, please check: www.nobelpeacecenter.org/
or the plan of the seminar: http://teknologiradet.no/FullStory.aspx?m=28&amid=5029

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

PULSE 15.04

Concert with Atlas Orientalsk: classic Arabic music, Andalusian flamenco and Moroccan rhythms. Thursday 17th at the theater Boat MS Innvik. Doors open at 20,00, entrance 80NOK.
www.msinnvik.no

Africans in Norway: Thursday 17 th until 25 th August at Folkemuseum opens the exhibition Africans in Norway. For more info check www.AFRIN.org

Flew market at Blitz: it is organized by RadiOrakel and you can find Cd's, records, clothes and other stuff. It opens at 12.00. http://www.blitz.no/

Spring walk at Huk, Bygdøy: take bus number 30 to the last stop and meet the guides from the Museum of Natural History. the tour starts at 11.00 and last for two hours.

Loppemarked season

Hello lovers and haters,
I hope you enjoyed our little segment about loppemarkeds this week! I did indeed talk with Peter Watz from www.loppemarked.info about how to break into the flea market scene. If you didn't get a chance to hear him here's a little about what we talked about:
1) The best bargains can be found earlier in the day, so consider setting your alarm clock and getting up *gasp* EARLY this weekend. There are also many tasty treats to be had, so roll your sad-hungover self out of bed, and get your morning waffles at the flea market.
2) If you're a secret treasure hunter, be a discerning shopper. Look at a tags on clothing... old designer clothing can be worth a fortune. Also, check old books to see if they have been signed by the author because that will increase their value exponentially. Remember: their is a myth that an old Edvard Munch painting was found at flea market in Oslo, and sold for a fraction of the price to a clever buyer. This could be you!
3) As a rule, the best finds can be found on the outskirts of the city. This is where rich pensioners are starting to retire and give away all their things!
4) Top tip for this weekend. The best bicycles this weekend can probably be found at the flea market in Ekeberg hageby. These should sell from anywhere between 100 and 300 NOK... quite a deal if you ask me! More information can be found at the loppemarked website, but Ekeberg can be reached either by bus 34 (Ekeberg Hageby) or by the trikken.
Alright kids, this should be plenty of advice. And keep in mind: all of the proceeds from the loppemarkeds go to charity, so spend freely. It's one the only shopping experiences in Norway that shouldn't hurt your pocketbook too much!
Best of luck,
G-to-the-wizzle (aka Gwyneth).
ps. Consult www.trafikanten.no to figure out how the heck to get to these flea markets.