LIVE in the Library Garden 4:4 – Mathilde Falch, Martin Glaz Serup, Søren Frank + TBA
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 singer and musician Matilde Falch, poetry by Bodil Bech, world premiere of a new Martin Glaz Serup work and the speech of the day by professor of Danish and Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen, Søren Frank.
Read more about the participants here
Mathilde Falch
Mathilde Falch has spent the last 13 years building her career by playing wherever she could – on the streets, in people's private living rooms, in large venues and on festival stages. At the age of 19, Mathilde Falch founded her own small record label 'Just For The Record', from which she has self-released all her music.
Martin Glaz Serup
Martin Glaz Serup (b. 1978) has a versatile writing career. He has published a wide range of children's books, chapbooks, criticism, prose and poetry books, several of which have been translated and published in several places around the world.
He has also helped to found the journals Apparatur and LitLive, as well as the literary blog collective Promenaden. He has also taught at, among others, the Danish Academy of Creative Writing, from which he himself graduated.
In 2006 he received the Michael Strunge Prize for his poetry, in 2008 the University of Copenhagen's Gold Medal for his thesis Poetry and Relational Aesthetics and in 2012 the Danish Arts Foundation's three-year working grant. In 2015 Serup was awarded a PhD degree from the University of Copenhagen for his thesis Cultural Memory and Conceptual Testimonial Literature. Serup has also been the chairman of the Danish Gertrude Stein Society since 2016.
Søren Frank
Søren Frank works at the intersection of literary analysis, literary history and literary theory, with a primary focus on the history of the novel and novel theory. He is an expert in blue humanities and researches the relationship between the Anthropocene and a blue literary history.
He holds a PhD in literary studies from the University of Southern Denmark, has held research stays at Stanford University, and was chairman of the advisory board of the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Prize for 12 years. He has also received the Carlsberg Foundation's Semper Ardens monograph grant, is a member of Academia Europaea, and joined the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen in 2024 as a professor of Danish and Nordic literature.
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.
