Uppsala University celebrates 25th ‘Culture Night’

A selection of the University’s events, 14 September 2013:

(May be subject to change.)

University Main Building, Biskopsgatan 3

Entrance hall
17.00–22.00. #minuniversitetsstad, photo exhibition
Uppsala University’s Instagram challenge #minuniversitetsstad has been ongoing during the summer. Now a selection of the submitted photographs will be shown. The photographers have captured subjects which represent their take on Uppsala. Visitors of the exhibition can vote for which entries they would like to see in a printed calendar which will be made available for the new year. Come and vote for your favourites! Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson will officially open the exhibition at 17.00 together with Fredrik Ahlstedt, mayor of Uppsala.

19.45–20.00. Allmänna Sången performs Miserere by Gregorio Allegri

Café Alma
17.00–22.00. Uppsala-Ekeby Ceramics Exhibit

The Coin Cabinet
18.00–21.00. Open house. Guided tours by Annie Burman and Hendrik Mäkeler. Nobel medals and 17th century coins.

The Grand Auditorium
20.00. Can Wagner’s dark sides be entertaining?
A jubilee show with talks and singing. Erik Graune, acclaimed expert on Wagner and opera teacher, talks about Wagner from three aspects: the mother’s image, his worship of Venus and ‘the eternal wound’.

Singing by Swedish Wagner stars. Ivonne Fuchs, mezzo soprano, Daniel Frank, tenor and Stefan Lindgren, piano.

The Faculty Rooms
18.00, 19.00 and 20.00. Tours of the faculty rooms.

Lecture Hall IV IV
21.00 Lecture by this year’s Disa award winner

Botanical garden, Villavägen 8

The Baroque Garden
13.00–17.00. Kyudo – The Japanese martial art of archery.
Organized by Uppsala Kyudoklubb.

13.00–17.00. Try archery with real bows and arrows. Instructors from archery club Sturarna.

21.00. Fire show by Uppsala Waldorf gymnasium

The Orangery
Admission: 60 SEK, including exhibition leaflet.
11.00–21.00. Brick – Garden. The last chance to see Ulla Viotti�’s architectonic and elegant exhibition in the Orangery hall.

15.00, 18.00. Viewings of exhibition Brick – Garden with the artist Ulla Viotti.

20.00. Talks between artist Ulla Viotti and Anna Ehn at Uppsala local council.

Sorbusplan
10.00. Try Qigong for kids, the Biyun method where health and hapiness are achieved through play.

11.00. Qi Gong for adults. Organized by Gröna Draken

The kitchen garden
7.00–21.00 Come and see the colourful and varied autumn harvest at the kitchen garden. The exhibition will be open also on Sunday, 15 September.

13.00 Guided tour of the kitchen garden.

14.00–16.00. A cavalcade of cabbage. Come and try cabbage dishes made by Cajsas kök and ‘Flavours of the botanical garden’ by Triller Mat & Bröd. Find out more about the botany of vegetables.

15.00. Kids theatre Körsbärslandet with Teater Edvin

16.00. Cultivating without borders: only the imagination and the plants’ needs put limits on how you can grow your plants. See some crazy examples in this year’s harvest exhibition.

The Tropical Greenhouse
Admission 40 SEK
11.00–20.00. Learn more about healing and nourishing plants along the nature trail through the Tropical Greenhouse.

17.00–20.00. Listen to the sounds of the rainforest and enjoy the warmth of the greenhouse in the evening.

Café Victoria
Flavours of the Botanical Garden
11.00–19.00. Enjoy the menu for the day which is full of greens and sweets inspired by the Botanical Garden.

Carolina Rediviva, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 1

19.00–20.00. Folk music played on nyckelharpa and violin, and folk dancing with students from the Eric Sahlström institute in Tobo.

Dag Hammarskjöldbiblioteket, Klostergatan 3

14.00–17.00. At the centre of global events. Conflicts, coups d'état

16.00–16.40. The Cikada choir sing songs about and to love.

The Museum of Evolution, Villavägen 9

18.00–22.00. Sex at the Zoology department. Sexual diversity in nature. Study penises in alcohol and learn more about HBTQ in the animal kingdom.

The Linnaeus Garden, Svartbäcksgatan 27

Cultural potpourri in the Linnaeus Garden

Orangery
11.00–21.00. Experience music, dancing, a tea ceremony and kimonos. Performances by Uppsala Kammarensemble, Japanska föreningen and Vimus. Piano and violin by Kerstin and Gunnar Högmark’s students at Folkuniversitetet. ‘I Blomsterkungens sal’ with Clas Weiberg and Christina Sigvardsdotter Weiberg. Oriental dance show. Blå Congo. Jazz with Sextett 60.

12.00–13.45. Origami – paper folding for all ages.

13.45 and 14.50. Rakugo – Japanese one-man theatre

14.15 and 15.20. Japanese tea ceremony. Admission 20 SEK.

16.00–16.30. Kimono – Japanese National Dress

The garden
11.00–21.00. Open garden. Guided tours at 11.30, 12.30 (in English), 14.30, 15.30 and 18.00. You can also see the garden at dusk, lit up by lanterns.

‘Smultron’
Swedish songs and ballads
14.00–18.00. Knivsta-Sune sings traditional Swedish songs by Carl-Mikael Bellman and Cornelis Vreeswij.

The Linnaeus Museum – the professor’s home, which was used both for research, teaching and living.
11.00–21.00. Open house at the family Linnaeus with guided tours at 11.30, 12.30 (English), 14.30, 15.30 and 19.00.

Musicum, Kyrkogårdsgatan 4

Music at Musicum
18.30–19.30. Ensembles from the Royal Academic Orchestra

20.30–21.30. Ensemble from Uppsala University Jazz Orchestra

Museum Gustavianum, Akademigatan 3

11.00–24.00. 13 student nations in 13 hours. Admission: free.
Together with all of Uppsala's student nations we will offer a wide range of typical student nation entertainment such as comic plays and choirs singing, but also art exhibits, jubilee concerts, lectures and much more.

17.30. (1st floor) Annie Burman gives a tour on the topic ‘Baths, wine and sex spoil our bodies; but baths, wine and sex make up life’. From sculptures to coins, we are given an insight into the lives and beliefs of people in ancient history.

See Museum Gustavianum’s full programme (in Swedish).

Museum of Medical History, Eva Lagerwalls väg 8

15.00–18.00. Open house
Release of the book ‘Röster inifrån Uppsalapsykiatrin 1954–2009’, written by staff at Ulleråker’s hospital.

Studentbokhandeln, Sysslomansgatan 7

19.30. Award ceremony for the 2013 Disa Award, led by Vice-Chancellor Eva Åkesson. This year’s Disa Award winner will give a lecture at 21.00 in hall IV in the University Main Building.

More information can be found at the Uppsala Culture Night website.