LIVE in the Library Garden: Luka Holmegaard, Goss, Gry Jexen and Andreas Jebro
We celebrate the open, free-minded city of Copenhagen in the historic library garden with music, statements and new poetry.
Royal Danish Library's successful summer stage LIVE in the Library Garden returns with lots of music, poetry and performance. Three Thursdays from late August to early September, you can meet actors, poets, speakers and musicians at the historic, secretive garden behind The Black Diamond in Copenhagen. Buy refreshments at the café's pop-up bar, and feel free to bring your own picnic blanket.
Over the past decades, openness and free spirit have become a landmark and symbol of our city, and it is precisely the free spirit of Copenhagen that will once again be the headline for the artists, poets, musicians and speakers you can meet in the garden behind The Black Diamond.
This year, the Royal Danish Library has taken the initiative to have new Danish poetry written as a response to the Copenhagen reality here and now. This afternoon, you can meet author Luka Holmegaard, historian and author Gry Jexen, pop artist Goss and actor Andreas Jebro.
Luka Holmegaard
Luka Holmegaard (born 1990), non-binary Danish writer graduated from the Writers' School, who debuted in 2015 with the novel EMMA EMMA and has since published the critically acclaimed novel Graceland (2017), which was nominated for Politiken's Literature Prize, among other things. Holmegaard has contributed to various journals, published a number of essays and a radio drama on AKT1. In February 2020, Luka Holmegaard was current with the book LOOK, which has been nominated for Politiken's Literature Prize 2020.
Gry Jexen
Gry Jexen is a historian, author and podcast host, she has been behind the popular book, Kvinde kend din historie. Gry Jexen works to write the women into the story in a positive and modern way. She does this as a podcast host and on her Instagram profile, both with the name Kvinde kend din historie. In her dissemination, Gry Jexen works to break boundaries of where and how history can be disseminated.
Goss
Mads Damsgaard Kristiansen (former Reptile Youth) has begun a new chapter with the solo project Goss. In late 2020, Goss released the extremely critically acclaimed debut album 'Group Therapy' which in Soundvenue's (Danish music magazine) words "should cement him as one of the most exciting pop artists in Denmark". Since 2017, Goss has been on a journey that has included sold-out concerts, a European support tour for world star Mura Masa and performances at Roskilde Festival, Heartland Festival and more. On the latest album I Feel Like Planet Earth, he continues to build on country pop – this time with a universe of lyrics that revolves around both his own and the planet's unstable condition.
Andreas Jebro
Andreas Jebro graduated from the acting school at Aarhus Theatre in 2007. Permanent employee at Aarhus theatre 2007 - 2011. Permanent employee at Aalborg theatre 2011 - 2015. Has participated in more than 50 performances since graduating. In 2014, he won Årets Reumert as Male Supporting Actor of the Year for his role in the comedy The Spanish Fly at Aalborg theatre. In 2017, he won Male Lead Actor of the Year for his role in Christian Lollike's reinterpretation of Erasmus Montanus at Aarhus theatre and Sort/Hvid.
