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Pernilla August Honored with 2025 Pirate Prize for Cultural Contributions

The actress and director Pernilla August receives this year's Pirate Award. But I'm a Stockholmer, after all!.

Pernilla August Honored with 2025 Pirate Prize for Cultural Contributions

Meta Velander's Lifelong Dedication to the Stage

She had acting dreams already during her school days. But when the graduation exam was completed, her mother's demands were explicit: first, Meta Velander had to get a "proper" job.

Meta Velander's Lifelong Dedication to the Stage

The Poet Eva Ström Receives the Ferlin Prize

The poet Eva Ström is awarded the 2025 Ferlin Prize. According to the jury's motivation, Ström receives the prize for her "both concrete and ambiguous poetry that moves between the present and the past and for her dreamlike depictions of human relationships to life, death, and nature.

The Poet Eva Ström Receives the Ferlin Prize

Krauss and Krunegård sang for Brunnsgatan 4

Theater Brunnsgatan Four in Stockholm is threatened with closure when the rent is doubled. We literally have no money, says artistic director Martina Montelius.

Krauss and Krunegård sang for Brunnsgatan 4

The Elite of Artists Perform for Endangered Classical Theater

Lars Winnerbäck, Markus Krunegård, Melissa Horn, and Little Jinder are among the artists who will perform at a benefit gala for Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra in Stockholm. The reason for the gala and the need for more money is that the rent for Brunnsgatan 4 has almost doubled, combined with renovation work and grants that are stagnant, according to the theater.

The Elite of Artists Perform for Endangered Classical Theater