LIVE in the Library Garden 1:4 – Dusin, Elias Sadaq, Christine Børge & Kristian Cedervall Lauta
Great musicians, poets, actors and speakers invite you to a poetic respite under the open late summer sky in one of Copenhagen's most beautiful and secret gardens.
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, you can, under the open sky and in the historic setting between Christiansborg Palace and the old library building, experience thought-provoking and beautiful performances delivered by a number of talented artists, poets and researchers.
This year's theme: Communities
This year, the theme for the four late summer evenings is communities. Our self-perception and our understanding of and for each other are created together. Communities can be political and activist. They can be a place of care and close relationships. Communities are a space for expression and unity – a collective place to be an individual.
In a chaotic time when we are rethinking our own communities, this evening we ask: What can we do together? Wrapped in music, poetry and performance, we create a space to explore this question and take a closer look at the meaning and possibilities of community.
Join us at LIVE in the Library Garden, where we emphasise the meaning of standing together and making change together.
There are benches if you are fast, but you are more than welcome to bring a blanket or a festival chair. Refreshments will be available for purchase from the café's pop-up bar. Our DJ will be playing soft beats both before and after the event, so hang out in the late summer sun.
Again this year we are holding LIVE in the Library Garden in collaboration with Copenhagen University Library, where the University of Copenhagen's research is communicated in interaction with art, poetry and music to increase the focus on the societal value of research.
What you will experience
Experience the musician Dusin, poetry by Charlotte Strandgaard performed by Christine Børge, premiere of a new Elias Sadaq work and the speech of the day by pro-rector for Education at the University of Copenhagen Kristian Cedervall Lauta.
Read more about the participants here
Dusin
Dusin is one of the most exciting live acts right now – they cemented that with a successful 2024, which brought a new album and an extensive Danish tour. On stage, Dusin manages to blur the line between audience and artist time and time again, and this creates an intense and present space where the atmosphere is released together.
Elias Sadaq
Elias Sadaq (b. 1994) is a poet and playwright who debuted in 2019 with the digital poetry collection Gadestreger. Today he studies Dramatic Writing at the Danish National School of Performing Arts, and the last five years have brought great achievements for Sadaq.
In 2021, he wrote and performed the theatre monologue The Sorrows of Young Elias at Folketeatret (the People's Theatre) in Copenhagen. In 2023, he wrote and directed the dystopian play The Foreign Legion, which was about war, sex and masculinity. In 2024, he published Djinn, a collection of poems about obsession and desire, for which he received, among other things, the Seahorse of the Year award from LGBT+ Denmark. And in 2025, you can experience Elias Sadaq's own dramatization of Djinn at Blaagaard Teater.
Christine Børge
Christine Albeck Børge (b. 1974) is a Danish actress and director with a diverse career in theatre, film and television. She graduated from the Odense Theatre School of Acting in 2000 and has since had roles in series such as Cry Wolf, The Bridge, Rita and Sygeplejeskolen, as well as roles in films such as Suicide Tourist, Love and Other Catastrophes and Baby Pyramid.
In 2024, she received the award for Best Actress at the Torino Film Festival, together with Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl and Karen-Lise Mynster, for their work in Madame Ida. In 2021, her documentary Livet mens vi dør (Life as We Die), which follows four women with incurable breast cancer, was nominated for a Robert. In addition, Christine Børge is an ambassador for the Danish Women's Society Crisis Centers.
Kristian Cedervall Lauta
Kristian Cedervall Lauta is pro-rector for Education and Professor of Jurisprudence. His research focuses on disasters, climate and risks, and how these are regulated and affect the law. His latest book, Katastrofer - og hvad de kan lære os om os selv (Disasters - and what they can teach us about ourselves), provides insight into disasters and how we as people and societies respond when they occur.
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.
