LIVE in the Library Garden 2:4 – ANYA, Ursula Andkjær Olsen and others.

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 singer and musician ANYA, poetry by Tom Kristensen, premiere of new Ursula Andkjær Olsen work and the speech of the day.

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Read more about the participants here

ANYA

ANYA debuted in 2015 with the critically acclaimed EP The Credit, which included songs like 'Snap Back' and 'Need to Know', which received extensive radio play. In 2019, ANYA released her debut album Faith and has since established herself as an important artist on the Danish pop scene with a string of singles.

In 2020, the singer chose to explore her songwriting in Danish with the EP Nøgen, which she released independently.

Ursula Andkjær Olsen

Ursula Andkjær Olsen (b. 1970) holds a Master of Arts in Musicology and Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen. From 1997-1999 she attended the Danish Academy of Creative Writing, and in 2000 she made her debut with the poetry collection Lulus sange og taler. In the following years she published, among other things, the poetry collections Atlas over huller i verden and Havet er en scene, for which she was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and awarded by the Danish Arts Foundation.

Since then, she has collaborated on works with, among others, the visual artists Stense Andrea Lind-Valdan and Sophia Kalkau, and in 2017 she was ready with her first novel, Krisehæfterne.

Over the years, she has received a number of awards and recognitions, including the Carlsberg Idélegat 2001, the Dan Turell Prize 2006, the Edvard Pedersens Author's Prize 2007 and Montana's Literature Prize 2013. In addition, in April 2017 she received the Danish Arts Foundation's lifetime honorarium, in 2018 she became a member of the Danish Academy, and on 1 August, 2019 she took office as principal of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing.