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By Guðrun Henrysdóttir In 2014 Absalon Church situated in the district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen closed after almost a century of service. Shortly after businessman and founder of Tiger, Lennart Lajboschitz, bought the church and made it a culture house or as it is called in Danish, “folkehus”. As such, Absalon intends to function as “the extension of your own living-room”, with daily communal dining, baby-yoga and swing dance, to name a few of the scheduled activities (www.absaloncph.dk). A considerable…

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By Riia Marette Mäkilä “By virtue of being made by women, and worn on the body, clothing is an intimate catalyst for the exploration of history.” Rachel Redman, Curator I was very excited to go and see the new exhibition ‘Labour of Love: New Approaches to Palestinian Embroidery’ in the Palestinian Museum, as I have seen Palestinian embroidery being sold in shops and on the market throughout the West Bank. Embroidery has its own language – every embroidered dress tells…

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By Charlotte Juul Olsson, Ditte Nikolajsen Volfbrandt and Lasse Ringø Hansen On a cold sunny day in the beginning of March we visited the exhibition Stop Slaveri! at the Workers Museum in Copenhagen. The exhibition took us on a chronological tour towards today’ slavery through slavery in history. More particularly through stories and experiences of Denmark as a colonial power and a slave nation told by the enslaved themselves. We quickly realised that the exhibition played with our ignorance by…

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By Sarah Plauborg and Jamie Lee Jackson   Amidst the busy buzz and humming of the streets of Nyhavn, we stand quietly gazing up at the bright orange structures. Standing there, the smell of hot dogs and fresh vanilla ice cream cones fills the air. Unrelenting tourists flood by with their oversized cameras and snap an endless number of photos of the structure. The orange jackets rest jaggedly against one another in droves. It is as though the slightest disturbance…

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