LIVE in the Library Garden 4:4 – Frederik Mansø, Betty Bass, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Peter Laugesen
Beautiful musicians, poets, actors and speakers invite you to a poetic respite under the open late summer sky in what is probably Copenhagen's most beautiful and most secret garden.
Royal Danish Library's successful summer stage, LIVE in the Library Garden, returns with lots of music, poetry and performance.
Over four late summer Thursdays in August and September, under the open sky and in the historic setting between Christiansborg Castle and the beautiful old library building, you can meet actors, poets, speakers and musicians. The bar is open and we are serving up a treat of irresistible, thought-provoking performances.
This year's theme – change
The common theme of the four late summer afternoons is change. It is happening everywhere in society: in the climate, in the world order, geopolitically and in our perception of knowledge and how it is produced. Change can be too fast, too slow, too uncontrollable, but it is always underway. We can either be overwhelmed by it, deny it, or we can enter into it – and see it as a source of survival and innovation.
Changes can take most people's breath away - LIVE in the Library Garden is your breathing space, your source of fresh air and new perspectives.
There are benches for the early bird, but you are more than welcome to take a blanket or a festival chair under your arm. It will be possible to buy refreshments in the café's pop-up bar.
This year we are holding LIVE in the Library Garden in collaboration with Copenhagen University Library, where Copenhagen University's research is disseminated in interaction with art, poetry and music to increase the focus on the social value of research.
Participants
Experience singer and musician Betty Bass, poetry by Johannes V. Jensen performed by actor Frederik Mansø, world premiere of new Peter Laugesen work and the speech of the day by Mette Birkedal Bruun.
Part of LIVE in the Library Garden
Photo: Malthe Ivarsson
The event is part of LIVE in the Library Garden.
Experience music, statements and new poetry in the historic breathing space behind the library.