Photo: Petter Foss / MFA.Photo: Petter Foss / MFA
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The 17th May - Norway's National Day - commemorates the signing of Norway's written constitution on 17th May 1814. This date is a public holiday in Norway and is celebrated extensively by Norwegians all over the world. The main event in London is the gathering in Southwark Park, SE16, with a children's parade, a marching band, games and speeches, but there is a full programme of celebrations at...

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The 17th of May is the National Day of Norway, the Constitution Day, and is traditionally celebrated with children’s parades, marching bands, national costumes, hot dogs and ice cream.

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Norway’s hottest and most in-demand artist Bernhoft heads to London’s Cargo on May 19 for a special one-off performance. After two number one albums in Norway, an appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show in the US and a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize concert, Bernhoft is set to take the UK by storm.

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On May 23, UCL are hosting a night of Norwegian noir with Thomas Enger, Gunnar Staalesen and Professor Hans Skei.

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Philco Fiction is touring Europe in May/June and returns to the UK with a string of gigs in London and Brighton

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Norwegians and friends of Norway in Scotland celebrate Norway's National Day in style with action-packed programmes in Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Glasgow.

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Auction history was made at Sotheby’s on May 2 when Edvard Munch’s iconic masterpiece The Scream sold for £73,921,284 marking a new world record for any work of art at auction. A group of at least eight bidders jumped into the competition, but it was a prolonged battle between two highly determined phone bidders that carried the final selling price to its historic level, after more than 12...

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When you watch Katzenjammer (“yammer”, not “jammer”) play live you understand why people would want to pick up an instrument and make a noise in the first place. So if you haven’t seen the band live yet you should catch them on their upcoming UK tour this month.

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Ja Ja Ja returns to the Lexington for the last time before the summer with Oslo based quartet Maribel on the line up.

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