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2008

What’s on in Aalborg...
Here you will find information about major annual events such as Carnival in Aalborg, Aalborg Opera Festival and much more. You will find information about concerts and shows in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre, at Gigantium, and Skraaen etc. And about theatre and musicals at Aalborg Theatre.

A host of wonderful experiences – have a great time!

 

Until November 30
Kildevæld og Kosmos – senses exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition where children can use all their senses. You can take a journey with Zarina Katharina II where you walk from room to room. Each room has its own atmosphere and traces that leads into yourself.
Explore the world of the Lilliputians, through cosmos, over the rainbow and into space.
Place: Nordjyllands Kunsmuseum 

October 6, 20:00
That’ll Be the Day
Directly from London – the rock ’n’ roll show that makes the audience laugh and remember the good old days. The repertoire, which includes more than 80 of the greatest hits from the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s, will start a party where legends such as The Beatles, Buddy Holly, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and many more will be brought back to life on stage. Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

October 10
Culture Night 2008
Over 100 arrangements in just one night! Look for great stories, serious art, crazy angles and surprising juxtapositions.
Place: Aalborg

October 10
Culture Night in Nibe
This years culture night offers a programme with many different cultural events for children as well as adults. The culture night is arranged by local organisations and institutions as well as several individual artists. The shops will also be open this night to offer many cultural activities.
Place: Nibe

October 11, 21:00
Concert with the Danish band Saybia
Place: Studenterhuset

October 11 – November 9
Hjerter (Hearts)
Girls aged 4-5 at the children house Tiziana in Aalborg have worked with the theme ’hearts’, both as a symbol and as the physical heart. Tiziana’s work is inspired by institutions in the Region Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy.
Place: Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum

October 13, 20:00
Marilyn
Marilyn is a ballet in two acts about the sex symbol Marilyn Monroe accompanied by music from her great musical movies and from the great singers from that time such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davids Junior and Nat King Cole.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

October 14, 8 pm
Vienna Philharmonic
There is perhaps no musical ensemble more consistently and closely associated with the history and tradition of European classical music than the Vienna Philharmonic. This Concert will be directed by Christoph Eschenbach and will be the orchestra’s only concert in all of Scandinavia.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

October 15, 20:00
Caroline Henderson
Caroline Henderson has published her 8th solo album No. 8, an album with closeness and a very personal expression which has excited admiration in Denmark as well as abroad, where she has been on tour in both Asia and Europe. Her album Love or Nothing reached the top 20 jazz-list in France and gave her a Danish Music Award for Best vocal jazz CD 2007. In Aalborg she will be accompanied by her regular trio, the bass player Anders Christensen, the pianist Nicolaj Hess and the drummer Mikkel Hess.
Place: Skråen

October 16 -19
Disney High School Musical – The Ice Tour
Aalborg will be the only Danish city showing Disney’s world famous ice show High School Musical.
Place: Gigantium

October 17-19
Antique and design 2008 in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre
This is the 16th time that Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre invites to the exclusive Antique and Design fair in Aalborg, where you will find everything from furniture to silverware in the 40 different stands.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

October 18, 21:00
Dan Baird & Georgia Satellites
The American The Georgia Satellites has been one of the great classical blues and rock orchestras within the last 25 years.
Place: Skråen

October 21, 20:00
Majbritte Ulrikkeholm – Sange fra Jorden (Songs from Earth)
A meditation concert for contemplation and reflection. Majbritte Ulrikke’s songs will be accompanied by keyboard, flute, shaman drums and harmonics by the world musician Søren Frieboe. Besides, in the repertoire there will also be a selection of old spiritual songs from different places in the world – but in a new and different set-up.
Place: Huset

October 26, 14:00
Blues brunch: HP Lange and The Delta Connection
HP Lange plays root blues with his own special finger-pickin’ technique, and has since the mid eighties delivered about 100 concerts per year, both in Denmark, the rest of Europe and in the US. HP Lange has released several albums and has several times been nominated for Danish Music Awards, of which he has won two. A few years ago he started the band ‘The Delta Connection’ together with the American double bass player Paul Junior and the drummer Mads Andersen. The repertoire is based on root-blues and is a mix of their own songs and interpretations of songs from Mississippi and Louisiana. The latter is especially inspired by names such as R. L. Burnside, Cedric Burnside, Kenny Brown and John Mooney.
Place: Huset

October 30, 20:00
Evita
Times Square Productions visits Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre with Andrew Lloyd Webbers and Tim Rice’s world famous musical Evita, about Eva Perón’s moving life as Argentina’s first lady.
The musical tells the story about the ambitious beauty’s road from the provinces and to the role as Argentina’s first lady next to the dictator Juan Perón, and until she dies of cancer 33 years old.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

October 30, 20:00
JazzSelskabet Aalborg: Express
Since the beginning of 1982 and until their break-up in 1992, Express delivered concerts all over Denmark together with two albums of originality and quality. The reformed Express is an interesting meeting between new and old jazz- and fusion musicians that try something different than the traditional and commercial.
Place: Huset

November 1, 20:00
Sissel Kyrkjebø
Sissel Kyrkjebø is the greatest singer in Northern Europe and back on the performance stage. Her tour of Denmark in the fall brings her to Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre. It is primarily northern songs that are represented in Sissel’s repertoire and the Nordic nature runs through her bight and clear voice that has charmed her fans everywhere.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

November 5, 20:45
Champions League
AaB - Villarreal FC
Place: Energi Arena Nord

November 6 – 8
Aalborg Metal Festival
Place: Studenterhuset

November 8, 19:30
The Magic Flute
Mozart’s opera is the marvellous story that takes place in the eastern lands of the Queen of the Night and the priest Sarastro. We will meet the bird catcher Papageno, prince Tamino and princess Pamina, who is daughter of the Queen of the Night.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

November 25, 20:45
Champions League
AaB - Celtic FC
Place: Energi Arena Nord

November 28, 18:00
Christmas Market in Aalborg City
The Christmas market opens Friday November 28th, 18:00, and is an annual tradition in Aalborg. This year there will be even more Christmas cabins in the centre of Aalborg, more Christmas trees, more lights and more entertainment. The Christmas market in Aalborg City is like walking into a Christmas wonderland. Experience the smells and use all of your senses, we guarantee that you will get into the Christmas spirit. The Christmas market in Aalborg city is open every day until Christmas eve.

November 28
Christmas Night
The shops in Aalborg city are open till 22:00 this day. There will be a wonderful Christmas spirit in all of the shops where the service-minded shop assistants will help you find the perfect Christmas presents for your loved ones. The large Christmas market in the centre of Aalborg will officially open at 18:00 where there will be sweet Christmas experiences for everyone.
Place: Aalborg City

November 29
The skating rink opens
The large and fine skating rink in C.W. Obels square opens November 29 and is open every day in December. You can rent ice skates by the skating rink. Welcome to a winter wonderland in Aalborg.
Place: C.W. Obels square

November 29, 11:00
The arrival of Santa Claus
Saturday November 29, Santa Claus arrives is Aalborg City directly from Greenland. His great ship will be put in at the quay at Aalborg Harbour 11:00, where thousands of children and adults will greet the cheerful Santa Claus. The mayor of Aalborg will officially welcome Santa Claus.
Around 11:30, Santa Claus and the mayor will ride their sleigh around the city and end by Santa’s house at ‘Gammeltorv’.
Place: Aalborg City

November 29, 15:30
Lighting of the Christmas tree
The big and beautiful Christmas tree from Aalborg’s friendship town Frederiksstad will be lighted Saturday November 29 at 15:30. At 15:00 the elf orchestra of Aalborg will provide entertainment by the Christmas tree.
Place: Nytorv

November 29, 20:00
Zirkus Nemo Galla Show 2008
Famous Danish circus with live animals and world artists.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

December 1, 20:00
A Tribute to The Blues Brothers
Put on your glasses and your hat and get ready for a party! The men in the black suits and the sunglasses are back in Aalborg on their tour of Europe with a show directly from the famous West End in London.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

2009

January 30, 20:00
Havana Rumba
The new and young generation in Cuba dances rumba. You can experience these young Cuban dancers and musicians for the first time in Denmark, with the dance that was created in the street.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

February 2, 20:00
Daddy Cool – Musical in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre
Shaftesbury Theatre in London stages the new and exciting musical Daddy Cool in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre.
The musical is based on Boney M’s popular classics. Experience the well-known songs such as: Rivers of Babylon, Brown Girl in the Ring, Ma Baker, Girl You Know It’s True, Where Do You Go, One Way Ticket and Mary’s Boychild.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

February 8, 20:00
Zorba - Il Grecco
Sofia National Opera presents the ballet Zorba – Il Greco, which has received great success all over the world since the first show in 1988. With more than 3 million people in the audience, it was one of the most popular ballets in the 20th century.
The ballet will be accompanied by Theodorakis Orchestra from Athens.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

February 17, 20:00
Shaolin Galla
Have you ever experienced foreheads breaking through bricks, steel plates and iron bars or sticks breaking in two using the neck? Now you have the chance in the amazing Shaolin Kung Fu galla-show Shi Fu – Part II.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

March 13 - 22
Aalborg Opera Festival 2009
Place: Aalborg

March 14, 19:30 
The Love Potion – Opera in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre 
Den Jyske Opera and instructor Andrea De Rosa presents the comical opera The Love Potion, which was staged in Milan in 1832 for the first time. The opera will be performed in Italian with Danish subtitles.
Place: Aalborg Congress and Cultural Centre

March 15, 20:00
The Seven Deadly Sins/ Trouble in Tahiti
Music dramatic Theatre presents an exciting “2-in-1 performance” with The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill and Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein.
The Seven Deadly Sins is a “singing” ballet in seven images based on the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
Trouble in Tahiti was composed in 1952 as a comment to the 1950’s in the United States by the world-famous Leonard Bernstein, who among other things is known for the musical West Side Story.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

March 16, 20:00
Boris Gudonov – Opera in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre
A great experience is to be expected when The National opera Theatre of Ukraine stages the famous opera Boris Gudonov by Mussorgskijs under the direction of Vladimir Koschuchar. The opera is among the greatest works in the literature of opera and represents the spirit and soul of the Russian people.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre

April 18, 19:30
Figaro’s Wedding – Opera in Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre
The Royal Danish Theatre presents Mozart’s intelligent and comical satire about love’s true nature in a new setting by Kasper Bech Holten. Experience Palle Knudsen as Count Almaviva, Ylva Kihlberg as the Countess, Gisela Stille as Susanna and Johannes Mannov as Figaro.
Place: Aalborg Congress & Culture Centre



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September 30
Champions League
AAB - Manchester United
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