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6 Denmark’s a great place to raise a family! Generous parental leave and the affordability of its daycare make it a truly child-friendly country

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8 The weather has been crazy of late.

Tuesday’s snow followed a March that was not only the sunniest since records began, but the driest

LIFESTYLE

15 The dearth of fried chicken joints is often remarked upon by new residents, so we’ve tried to make it easy for you by reviewing the capital’s best

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HRISTIAN Prudhomme, the general director of the Tour de France, flew into town exactly 100 days ahead of the Grand Départ, to open Denmark’s latest cycling super-highway: a 31 km route linking the capital with Roskilde, the town where the second stage will begin.

Roskilderuten passes through the municipalities of Roskilde, Høje-Taastrup, Albertslund, Glostrup, Brøndby, Rødovre, Frederiksberg and Copenhagen.

Delivering the trophy UNDER Prudhomme's signal a peloton of cyclists left Roskilde carrying the official Grand Départ trophy to City Hall, where it will be displayed for the public to see.

Previously, it sat with Région Bretagne, the last 'region' to host the Grand Départ.

Another 49 planned ROSKILDERUTEN is the country's 11th super-highway, plotted like the others to suit the needs of commuters. It passes train and Metro stations, as well as planned light rail stops, so users can easily combine with other means of transport.

By 2045, the Capital Region aims to have 60 such routes covering over 850 km. Four more are expected to open this

year: Avedørerruten, Københavnerruten, Ørestadsruten and Lyngbyruten.

Funds to IS IN RELATED news, it is believed that two 23-year-old men, who were last week found guilty of attempted terrorism, were planning to target the Tour de France with homemade bombs.

A 40-year-old woman facing the same charge was acquitted, but found guilty of lesser charges, including sending 1,000 US dollars to Islamic State, which she was “neither for nor against”.

A note found on the woman’s phone contained information about the race stages. In her defence, the woman said the data was for her mother, who is a huge fan of the Tour de France.

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ments, making hundreds homeless, but nobody was injured.

The municipality is helping homeowners who were not insured. The building, meanwhile, will be demolished.

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An unholy blaze JUST A nine-minute cycle away, Hyltebjerg Church burnt down on March 21. It took firefighters a long time to control the blaze.

It is suspected the fire was caused by an electrical fault, although it has been difficult to investigate because the re- Flats are a complete write-off maining structure is unstable. key artefacts as he fled the church along with the entire choir.

A day after the fire, the local authorities Hundreds homeless Something they sung?

IN TOTAL, the fire destroyed 90 apart- THE CHURCH’S pastor was able to rescue agreed the church should be rebuilt.

WO BUILDINGS in the Copenhagen district of Vanløse were completely destroyed by fire in the space of just five days in late March.

However, inspectors were quick to rule that the March 25 blaze, which destroyed an apartment block at Grøndals Parkvej 6A, was not arson.

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WORK HAS started on Marmormolen, an eight-storey building overlooking the harbour in Nordhavn made entirely of wood. Initial plans designed by architects Henning Larsen were rejected due to safety concerns, but City Hall was won over by its highly sustainable features. The timber frame of Marmormolen, which will house AP Pension, will absorb CO2 rather than emit it.

AMAGER Fælleds Venner, which opposes extensive construction plans on the public common, has complained to the ombudsman about Miljøstyrelsen, the environmental protection agency. It accuses the agency of mocking the group’s attempts to count the number of protected great newts in the area, whilst failing to prevent the destruction of a major habitat – seven piles of garden waste.

Toxic sludge fears

Longer bathing season

SWEDEN wants Denmark to stop dumping sludge in Køge Bay because it is harmful to maritime life.

Derived from the Lynetteholm island site in Copenhagen Harbour, 228,000 cubic metres have been dumped since January 6, with 2.3 million more to follow. Sweden is worried its toxicity could “affect the Øresund's and Baltic Sea’s marine environment”.

Seven local municipalities agree.

THE SUMMER bathing season is being extended by an extra month until September 30 at the Islands Brygge, Fisketorvet and Sluseholmen harbour pools. City Hall found an extra 700,000 kroner in its budget to meet the costs.

Culpable for cycle checks

NO FOUL PLAY IN VANLØSE FIRES Inspectors rule out arson at apartment block blaze four days after church burns down

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Eight storeys and wooden

COPENHAGEN Police has conceded it did not have the legal authority to stop cyclists in February and check their bicycle serial numbers to see if they were stolen. In total, 3,800 cyclists were stopped and 30 charged. The police need a reasonable reason or suspicion to stop somebody. Some 20 percent of Copenhageners have had a bicycle stolen within the last year.

Climate and kids the winners

SOPHIE Hæstorp Andersen, the lady mayor, has secured the necessary support to allocate unused funds from the 2021 budget to three main beneficiaries: the climate, children and the disadvantaged. It is believed they will all receive three-digit million amounts. Transport safety near schools is a major priority.

Outdoor seating go-ahead

A MAJORITY at City Hall has backed 2.8 million kroner plans to permit outdoor seating in parking spaces across the whole city. Previously, only establishments in the city centre could take advantage. First they must apply, as seating won’t be possible on roads where there is a high demand for parking. All seating must be vacated by 22:00.

More trees for park

CITY HALL intends to plant 100 trees in Fælledparken – partly to replace trees blown down in the recent storms. The authorities will also chop down a few trees considered too old or riddled with disease.

Bolt’s into Frederiksberg

ELECTRIC scooter company Bolt has concluded a deal with Frederiksberg Municipality to operate in the enclave. Over the next few months, it will release 125 electric scooters.

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In the space of a month, the number of anticipated arrivals has jumped from 20,000 to 100,000 CHRISTIAN WENANDE

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N TOTAL, the government expects over 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to arrive in Denmark as a result of the war – well above the previously anticipated figure of 20,000.

Around 3.6 million Ukrainians have left the country since Russia invaded on February 24. The majority are women and children.

Schools under pressure AS MANY are expected to be children, the Danish school system can expect a significant influx of new students across the country.

The education minister, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, said the majority of the kids will initially be placed in introductory classes at schools, and she called on retired teachers and students to lend a hand.

The minister also urged individuals with a pedagogical background to assist – including part-timer workers going full-time.

to Denmark, the government calculated that the expense of taking in the refugees would land at around 2 billion kroner in 2022 and 2023.

It has yet to unveil how much that figure will increase should 100,000 refugees arrive.

In comparison, Denmark received around 20,000 Syrian refugees in connection with the 2015 Refugee Crisis.

New online job page A NEW WEBPAGE to help the refugees find work, JobguideUkraine.dk, has been launched by a joint co-operation formed by the government, labour market players, regions and municipalities..

‘Partnerskab om ukrainere i job’ (‘Partnership for jobs for Ukrainians’) will assist Ukrainian job-seekers, as well as prospective employers, highlighting the differences between the Danish and Ukrainian labour markets, as well as aspects Ukrainians might find unfamiliar.

“We hope that this page answers your questions and gets you off to a good start with finding employment in Denmark,” it states.

JobguideUkraine.dk offers language options in Ukrainian and English – but just Danish for the employer page.

people have been jumping at the opportunity to help in some way, whether it is driving supplies to the Ukrainian border, transporting refugees back to Denmark or hosting families fleeing the conflict.

And with thousands of refugees pouring into Denmark, the municipalities are desperate for help traversing language barriers in areas such as housing and schooling.

They need Ukrainian and Russian-speaking interpreters and translators – and the situation is so dire that they don’t even need to speak Danish!

When the war started, Aarhus Municipality only had one Ukrainian translator – a part-timer. But now it is looking for Ukrainian-English translators, which is pretty much unprecedented.

More weapons pledged

“DENMARK has the will and desire to help Ukraine further with weapons,” said PM Mette Frederiksen following an appeal from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for weapons better employed to attack than defend.

Denmark has already donated some 2,700 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.

Bunker questions

Meeting with UN head

BEREDSKABSSTYRELSEN, the emergency preparedness agency, recently called for a new overview of the number of bunkers in each of Denmark’s 98 municipalities in light of the War in Ukraine. The last check took place over 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, a DR survey reveals that some municipalities have enough places, but others not nearly enough.

LAST WEEK, the foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod, met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres in New York to discuss the War in Ukraine and the international response. Denmark has made significant contributions to the UN's efforts in Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, donating 105 million kroner in humanitarian aid.

China-related criticism

Bucha images condemned

A NEW REPORT from the Tibet Commission accuses the Foreign Ministry and PET security services of flouting the constitution by pressuring Copenhagen Police into quelling anti-China protests during Chinese state visits. The ministry, in particular, is criticised for the lengths it was willing to go to “maintain a good relationship with China”.

THE FOREIGN minister, Jeppe Kofod, has condemned the images emerging from Ukrainian settlements such as Bucha, which would appear to confirm Russia has perpetrated multiple war crimes. Kofod wants the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

Russia has denied responsibility, instead accusing Ukraine and NATO of staging such scenes as propaganda.

Busy in New York

DURING his visit to New York, Jeppe Kofod, the foreign minister, along with his counterparts from Albania, Colombia, the Marshall Islands, the Netherlands and Ukraine, presented a new initiative with the UN to bolster the evidence gathering and prosecution of Russia’s human rights and international law violations during its invasion of Ukraine.

Bill likely to rise a lot PREVIOUSLY, when it assessed that around 20,000 refugees would come

Translator dearth BEYOND the prospective employers,

Russian refugees too IN RELATED news, 25 Russians sought asylum in Denmark in March, taking the 2022 total to 32, compared with 17 during the entirety of 2021.

In Russia, it is now a criminal offence to refer to the Russian invasion of Ukraine as ‘war’, while President Vladimir Putin refers to his critics as “scum” and “traitors”.

Venstre foreign affairs spokesperson Mads Fuglede called for an EU-wide discussion regarding the protection of defected Russian soldiers and citizens.

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Tech diplomacy collaboration

FOLLOWING a pledge of 10,000 kroner, Rashed Bin Saad Rashed Alolaimi from Kuwait has been told he is no longer permitted to make donations to Danish mosques. The immigration and integration minister, Mattias Tesfaye, reasoned: “Donations from anti-democratic forces must be stopped before they succeed in creating division and hatred in Denmark.”

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to Parliament via a live video link on March 29 - making Denmark the 12th western power he has addressed in recent weeks. The speech was held in Landstingssalen – only Danish politicians are permitted to speak in Folketingssalen – and greeted with a long standing ovation from everyone in the room.

IN ITS annual threat analysis report, intelligence agency PET maintains that terrorism remains a serious threat to Denmark - most particularly from militant Islamic extremist groups such Islamic State and al-Qaida. Additionally, for the first time ever, anti-government extremism has made the list – partly a result of anti-government sentiment caused by the corona restrictions.

DENMARK and Australia have launched a global network connecting cyber and tech ambassadors from more than 20 countries to support collaboration between governments and frontrunning digital tech companies. The pair were among the first countries to appoint a cyber or tech ambassador to deal directly with the tech industry.

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Russian officials expelled

THE GOVERNMENT on Tuesday informed 15 Russian intelligence officers they have two weeks to leave Denmark. The officers have been working under diplomatic cover at the Russian Embassy. “They constitute a risk to our national security that we cannot overlook,” reasoned the foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod. Similar expulsions have taken place in other European countries.

Green goals of Dutch visit

ON JUNE 20, Denmark’s Crown Prince Couple will visit the Netherlands with a Danish business delegation to promote partnerships in green energy and digital medical technology. The pair will attend a conference in The Hague, visit a selection of companies and research institutions in Rotterdam and Leiden, and attend an official dinner.

Destroyers on routine visit

BOTH DENMARK and the US denied that the mooring of two US destroyers – The Donald Cook and The Sullivans – in Nordhavn, Copenhagen has anything to do with the War in Ukraine. The defence minister, Morten Bødskov, said “there is nothing unusual about it”, while The Donald Cook captain Matthew Curnen said the visit was a “planned, routine event”.

Official designation

DENMARK has officially designated Ukraine as a ‘neighbouring area’, freeing up another 2 billion kroner to support Ukrainian refugees on Danish soil. The funds will be sourced from the development aid budget that currently benefits Mali, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso and Syria – among others.

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Low childcare costs

"Right here, we could draw a line in the sand and make this the worst place for families. You and me kid."

Denmark ranked the fifth best country in survey that included parameters for safety, the affordability of childcare, happiness, health, education and parental leave

Could do better DENMARK was let down by a comparatively poor 6 rating for health – which might surprise new arrivals to the country, who have sat at the GP or in casualty and seen how most children tend to be treated within minutes of their arrival.

Otherwise, Denmark scored all 8s and 9s – its 9 for affordability of childcare was the equal highest and testament to how the absolute majority of the Danish population can afford the heavily subsidised daycare costs.

Nevertheless, in other areas it is being left behind by its Nordic cousins. For example, in Iceland close to 90 percent of fathers take their mandatory three months’ paternity leave.

Gender equality praised “SAFETY, concern for human rights, its environment for gender equality

and a well-developed public education system are among the factors that have made Demark one of the best countries to raise a family,” applauded William Russell.

It went on to praise the government for “promoting gender equality by offering an earnings-related, reasonably-priced daycare system and a very flexible parental leave policy” along with a society in which “working hours are short, and it’s perfectly okay to leave work at 3 or 4 o’clock to pick up your kids”.

Even health, despite the 6, got a good report: “There’s a good system for early childhood health. A nurse visits your home when your child is a baby. Later, there are regular checkups with a doctor.

If your child has the sniffles, you can take off work and stay home with her. The first two days are paid time off.”

Huge territorial interest

Most likely to have a passport

Nordic passport passage

APPLICATIONS to join the Danish Home Guard increased four-fold during the build-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and since the war started. Today there are around 13,000 active volunteers and 31,000 in the reserve forces. Meanwhile, BT reports that Danes have been busy hoarding non-perishable food items and first aid kits.

PEOPLE from Iraq, Iran and Bosnia-Herzegovina who resettled in Denmark are the nationalities most likely to acquire Danish citizenship, according to Danmarks Statistik. Between 50 and 64 percent have a Danish passport. People from Turkey (38), whose movement in the 1970s is considered the first major wave of nonEU arrivals, are the fourth most likely.

OF THE country’s 640,922 ‘immigrants’ (including descendants of immigrants), 197,100 have Nordic citizenship, according to Danmarks Statistik. Of these, 71 percent immigrated to Denmark with a passport that was not Danish. Some 166,600 got a residence permit through asylum/family reunification, 158,400 to work and 47,500 through study.

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ENMARK is one of the best countries in the world to raise a family, according to a ranking compiled by William Russell that took into account safety, the affordability of childcare, happiness, health, education and parental leave.

However, it lags behind its Nordic cousins Iceland, Sweden, Finland and Norway, which took the top four places in the survey.

The Netherlands, equal fifth with Denmark, was the top-ranked country from outside the region.

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PEOPLE in Denmark pay the seventh lowest costs in Europe for daycare for children aged 0-2.

Thanks to generous state subsidies, the cost is nowhere as high as the most expensive five: the Netherlands, Turkey, the UK, Slovakia and Greece. Ahead of Denmark were all the Nordic countries plus Germany and Austria. Sweden is the cheapest. The average is 400.49 euros per month – 8.66 percent of the parents’ salaries.

Waste sorting improvement

AROUND 3.7 million people in Denmark will be sorting their waste into nine categories by the end of this year – nearly two-thirds of the 5.8 million population. The Environment Ministry hailed the improvement, which will see the number of municipalities with the necessary infrastructure rise from 12 to 62 of the country’s 98.

Støjberg currently tagged

INGER Støjberg has finally started serving the two-month sentence handed to her by the Supreme Court on December 13, but not in prison. She is wearing an electronic tag around the ankle because she is employed for more than 20 hours a week: as an Ekstra Bladet columnist and the hosting of a dk4 radio program.

Violent crime breakdown

MOST CUSTODIAL sentences handed out to perpetrators of violent crime against private indi-

viduals were for periods under six months: 73 percent of the 1,433 guilty verdicts in 2021. In total, 11,337 violent crime cases made it to court, resulting in 6,462 guilty verdicts – a 12 percent fall from 2020.

New job for former minister

KRISTIAN Jensen's appointment as a special envoy Foreign Ministry, where he was charged with securing Denmark a seat on the UN Security Council from 2025-26, was an unpopular one with diplomats, as former MPs rarely make the crossover. So they will be happy to know he is becoming the CEO of Green Power Denmark at the end of April.

The average age of cars

THE AVERAGE age of a car was 9.4 years at the beginning of the year, ranging from 7.6 in Vallensbæk to 13.6 in Æro. The average for company cars is 4.5. There are six times as many private cars on Danish roads than in 1962: up from 470,000 to 2,787,600. Some 4.5 percent are electric or plug-in hybrids.

Diligent chargers

AN AUTUMN 2021 study involving over 36,000 motorists carried out

by Danmarks Statistik on behalf of the Tax Ministry reveals that the owners of plug-in hybrid cars tend to be diligent chargers and only use petrol when they are caught short. However, this happens regularly, and overall plug-in hybrid cars run on electricity around half the time.

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ENMARK was handed a familiar-looking World Cup group in the draw on April 1 - such a deja vu that it was a surprise that Sepp Blatter didn’t emerge from behind a curtain and bellow “April Fools!”

In 2018, they were drawn against France, Australia and Peru, and those exact three teams came out of the hat again for 2022.

The only difference is that Australia and Peru, along with the UAE, are in contention for just one place. The winners of the Asian play-off will play the fifth-placed side in South America in a winner-takes-all game.

The remaining team in the group is Tunisia, the second-highest ranked side in Africa.

In total, 29 teams were in the hat, as three places will be taken by the winners of playoff games not yet contested.

Good omen for France THE DRAW is an excellent omen for France. On the two previous occasions Les Bleus have lifted the trophy, in 1998 and 2018, they faced Denmark in the group stage.

However, Denmark have proved to

be something of a bogey side for the French over the years as well.

They knocked them out of Euro 1992 and in 2002 they hammered the final nail into the coffin of what was France’s first title defence.

However, this time they play the French second. First up is Tunisia on November 22, then the French on November 26 and finally the winners of the playoff on November 30.

But don’t forget: before the tournament they will have played the French twice in the Nations League.

Ideal timing for French game NOT MUCH has been made of Qatar’s geographical location besides it being far too hot to host a traditional World Cup in the summer.

But the kickoff times of the tournament are clearly confusing the world’s media, with many websites holding off from publishing the exact kickoff times – whose idea was it to hold the draw on Friday evening when most journalists are on the lash?

Qatar is currently just one hour ahead of Denmark, but by the time the World Cup comes along, it will be two hours ahead.

Denmark will accordingly face Tunisia at 14:00 CET, France at 17:00 and the final game at 16:00. The Saturday 17:00 kickoff time is definitely the one to look forward to!

As the tournament progresses, all the knockout games will kick off at either 16:00 or 20:00.

Grudge matches aplenty DENMARK'S group is not the only one with a familiar line-up from 2018, as Brazil, Switzerland and Serbia have been drawn together.

For those two European teams, it will be a repeat of their famous grudge match, when two ethnically Albanian players mimicked that country’s national flag in their celebrations.

Perhaps even more fierce will be Ghana vs Uruguay, a repeat of the 2010 World Cup quarter-final in which Luis Suarez deliberately handballed to prevent a Ghana winner in extra time. Intriguingly, Suarez will be the only survivor from that game.

Elsewhere, the USA have been paired with old adversaries Iran and England, while Germany vs Spain looks like being the pick of the group fixtures. In this tournament, there is no obvious Group of Death.

And should Scotland make it past Ukraine and Wales, they’ll face old enemy England, but maybe it should be Iran they’re worried about. Failure to beat the Iranians in 1978 cost the Tartan Army their best ever chance of making the knockout stage. In eight appearances, they’ve never made it past the group stage.

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MADS SØGAARD became the 16th Dane to play in the NHL after lacing up for the Ottawa Senators on April 1 in a 5-2 win against the Detroit Red Wings. The 21-year-old goaltender was drafted by the Sens in 2019. The 2.01-meter Dane made 27 saves on 29 shots in his debut.

Historic hockey ranking

THE MEN’S ice hockey team have been ranked in the top 10 in the world for the first time by the IIHF. A good showing at the recent Winter Olympics pushed them to 10th – the same ranking as the women’s team. Finland tops the men’s rankings ahead of Canada and Russia.

FCK pick up tasty winger

WITH THE Superlia entering its final stretch, FC Copenhagen have picked up 30-year-old Swedish winger Viktor Claesson on a free from Krasnodar. In almost 150 games for the Russian club, Claesson has amassed 43 goals and 31 assists. His contract will run to the end of this season.

Top handball everything

IN A WORLDWIDE vote organised by the International Handball Federation, Denmark took a clean sweep of the top players and coaches. Niklas Landin (24 percent) was voted the best male player and Sandra Toft (30) the best female player. Jesper Jensen was named best coach of a women's team and Nikolaj Jacobsen best coach of a men’s team.

FORMER Olympic wrestler Mark O Madsen has picked up another contract with mixed martial arts giant UFC. Madsen faces US fighter Vinc Pichel on April 10, but his extension will ensure he will get more fights in the future.

The 37-year-old’s foray into MMA has so far yielded 11 wins in as many fights. Madsen won a silver medal in wrestling at the 2016 Olympics.

Denmark out of top 10

THE DANISH men’s football team have dropped out of the top 10 in the FIFA World Rankings. The Dutch, who beat Denmark in a friendly, and Mexico have squeezed past, pushing Denmark down to 11th spot. Brazil tops the ranking ahead of Belgium, France, Argentina and England. Italy, ranked sixth, will be the only country in the top 16 not taking part in the 2022 World Cup. Eriksen’s magical return

HC ANDERSEN would have struggled writing a better fairytale than the one that saw Christian Eriksen score with his first touch just moments after returning for the national team for the first time since his cardiac arrest last June. Denmark lost the game 2-4 to the Netherlands on March 26, but three days later he scored again in a 3-0 home win against Serbia.

Transwomen fears

DANSK Atletik chair Bent Jensen has confirmed to DR that the example of Lia Thomas, a transwoman swimmer with the obvious physique of a man who has recently won events in the US, raises “a challenge and a serious problem”.

Jensen warns that “being physiologically a man for two or three years” will always provide an unfair advantage.

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Ten more nature parks

FOLLOWING the selection of five new national nature parks last year, another ten have been confirmed.

They are: Læsø Klitplantage, Hanstholm in Thy, Husby Klitplantage, Kompedal Plantage, Mols Bjerge, Nørlund Plantage and Harrild Hede, Hellebæk Skov and Teglstrup Hegn, Bidstrupskovene, and Ulvshale Skov.

How we long for March now that April is here with high winds, rain and even snow

2022 is turning out to be quite the record-breaker BEN HAMILTON

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ET THE official record books proclaim it: this past month was the sunniest and driest since records began in the late 19th century. It followed one of the wettest ever Februarys and one of the warmest ever Januarys.

In total, its 238.6 hours of sunshine eclipsed the 200 that shone down in

1943. While the 4.3 mm of precipitation (on March 30, some sleet was thrown in) bettered the all-time record of 7.0 mm set in both 1918 and 1969.

A sunny disposition GETTING the correct type of sunshine is no cakewalk. Sunrise and sunset do not qualify, as the sun is not powerful enough (needs to be over 18 watts per sqm), and the sky also needs to be cloudless for it to qualify as sunshine.

Over the last ten years, the average

amount of March sunshine has been 138.4 hours, and over the last 100 years, 122 hours.

Returning to Space

And not too wet either THE STRICT criteria makes it easier to break rainfall record lows, as a few drops on Møn won’t contribute to the total unless it’s reciprocated across the country.

Sleet on March 30 almost doubled the total, which stood at 2.8 mm at the beginning of last week, but it was not enough to deny last month its place in history as the driest ever.

ANDREAS Mogensen, the first Dane to go into Space, will soon be returning, but this time on a six-month ESA/NASA mission to the International Space Station (ISS) – either in July 2023 or more likely in 2024. Either way, he will be a head of mission and the pilot.

On his previous mission in 2015, he spent just 10 days on the ISS. Green transition union

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On March 28, Denmark became the world’s 15th country to reach the point of over-consumption BEN HAMILTON

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ENMARK has used its supply of naturally-produced resources for 2022, according to think-tank Global Footprint Network, which divides the world’s total output by its population to work out which countries are overconsuming.

On March 28, Denmark became the 15th country so far this year to reach the point of overconsumption. Last year, it reached the mark on March 26, but in 14th place.

The 14 countries that placed ahead of Denmark were: Qatar (on February 10!), Luxembourg, the Cook Islands, Bahrain, Canada, the UAE, the USA, Estonia, Belize, Kuwait, Trinidad & Tobago, Mongolia, Australia and Belgium. Finland placed 16th on March 31.

New improved MRI

The table of plenty has needed refilling every day since March 28

president Maria Reumert Gjerding isn't impressed.

“It's paradoxical. We usually talk about ourselves as a green pioneer country, but we are one of the most resource-intensive countries in the whole world,” she told Kristeligt Dagblad.

“It illustrates very well why we have a climate and biodiversity crisis. We live too much beyond capacity with our Deeply paradoxical DANMARKS Naturfredningsforening marked over-consumption.”

Waste production failings ACCORDING to Global Footprint Network, four Earths would be needed if every country over-consumed like Denmark.

It charges Denmark with reducing its waste production (of 845 kilos per person per year), which is the highest in the EU. It suggests Denmark should follow the lead of The Netherlands, which has set a target of reducing it to nil by 2050.

Bubble breakthrough

The stories within ice

Benefits of an education

BY STUDYING 800,000-year-old air bubbles trapped in ice, climate scientists from the University of Copenhagen have found that prehistoric plant life increased their oxygen production in response to increasing carbon levels in the atmosphere.

The mechanism does not prevent global warming but dampens it. The new knowledge will inform future climate models.

ICE DRILLING in Antarctica and Greenland has revealed traces of gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last Ice Age. Some 69 of them are larger than the Tambora eruption in Indonesia in 1815 – the largest in recent times. University of Copenhagen physicists hope the findings will shed light on how the climate responds when the radiation balance in the atmosphere changes.

CAPITAL Region residents with a short education perform worse than citizens with a long education across all well-being parameters, according to the 2021 Health Profile. Among the other findings: a quarter of women aged 16-25 are lonely and half feel stressed; and daily smoker numbers have fallen from 16 percent in 2017 to 13 percent in 2021.

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DENMARK'S eight universities have joined forces on a unique new project concerning the green transition in food. The START Center for Sustainable Agrifood Systems will be based at Aarhus University with the aim of strengthening collaboration within natural sciences, social sciences and humanities.

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A NEW MRI scanning method 10,000 times more sensitive than current techniques is being researched at Aarhus University.

The new method may be able to identify kidney disease earlier in diabetic patients, which could lead to better treatment options.

Rib incision bypasses

OVER THE past four months, surgeons at Rigshospitalet have performed 15 coronary bypass surgeries through an incision between the ribs, rather than by sawing open the sternum. The more demanding procedure reduces the recovery pain, need for rehabilitation, infection risk and hospitalisation time.

Earthquake understanding

UNIVERSITY of Copenhagen researchers have discovered that earthquakes cause tectonic plates to behave differently in their aftermath. The findings necessitate a rethink of the models used to assess the statistical risk of future earthquakes in ‘hotspots’.

Sea snail morphine

A UNIVERSITY of Copenhagen study claims the venom of ‘Conus rolania’, a Pacific Ocean sea snail found around the Philippines, acts as a potent painkiller in mice but with none of the addictive properties of morphine. Poison from another sea snail, Conus magus, is already used medically, but it’s expensive and cumbersome to administer.

Targeting green fuels

DTU, COPENHAGEN Airports, Dansk Industri and SAS are in talks to develop the green aviation fuel tech needed to fulfil PM Mette Frederiksberg’s promise that all Danish domestic flight routes will be green by 2025. To establish an R&D fund of 750 million kroner, Copenhagen Airports will draw a small contribution from each passenger.

Super-fast 3D printer

IN THEIR attempt to mimic a novel American 3D printing method called Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, two DTU students have built an even more effective printer that can print 3D elements in minutes instead of hours. However, it’s unclear whether the printer delivers the same, or an even higher, geometric precision than other methods.

Eelgrass breakthrough

SINCE 1900, up to 90 percent of Denmark’s eelgrass beds have disappeared. Not only do marine life depend on the eelgrass habitats, but the grass itself captures and stores carbon. The University of Southern Denmark has been re-establishing the beds in Horsens Fjord. After two years, the density of new growth is 70 times greater.

New neuroscience facility

THE DANISH Neuroscience Center, a new facility backed by Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, has been designed by Bjarke Ingels Group to integrate psychiatry with neuroscience under the same roof. The 250 million kroner, 19,000 sqm construction will be funded by The Salling Foundation and completed in 2026.

New AI centre opens

THE NEW Pioneer Center for Artificial Intelligence, where research will focus on AI solutions to “society's biggest challenges”, has opened at the University of Copenhagen Observatory. It’s Denmark's largest research centre for AI to date, bringing together Aalborg University, Aarhus University, DTU, the IT University of Copenhagen and the University of Copenhagen.

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PALADS PASTELS NOT PAST IT

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No Oscars for Denmark

DENMARK failed to win any Oscars, with ‘Flugt’ the biggest loser on the night, as it was up for three awards: Best International Film, Best Animated Film and Best International Film. But at least its disappointed director didn’t hit anyone on stage.

Cooking up another gold

DENMARK recently won gold in the Bocuse d’Or Europe, the biennial European championships for chefs. Sauce specialist Brian Mark Hansen and his team from Søllerød Kro emerged triumphant from a field of 17 teams with a menu based on potatoes produced in five hours. They, and the rest of the top ten, will compete in the world finals in Lyon next year.

SPOR line-up confirmed

Palads and its Technicolour Dreamcoat should have been killed: now all it needs is a ticket to Egypt

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ORDISK Film has reversed plans to demolish the iconic Palads cinema in Copenhagen and replace it with a multiplex in a proposed 18-storey building located at nearby Vesterport Station, reports Berlingske newspaper.

An upgrade instead INSTEAD it will modernise the cinema, which is famous for a pastel-coloured facade visible from many parts of the city centre.

The modernisation might require a few of the walls, which Poul Gernes painted in 1989, to be demolished, but not all of them as was outlined in plans drawn up by the Bjarke Ingels Group, which had the backing of City Hall’s Technical and Environmental Committee.

Widespread criticism “WE HAVE listened to the criticism and closed the BIG project,” confirmed Nordisk Film Biografer chief executive Asger Flygare Bech-Thomsen to the newspaper. "We want to build worldclass cinemas, and we will not be doing it on the cheap.”

In total, Palads has 17 screens, making it the biggest cinema in Copenhagen.

Nevertheless, it is a long way from being considered its best.

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THE SPOR festival, one of northern Europe’s leading eclectic music gatherings, has confirmed a diverse line-up for its 2022 edition, which will take place in Aarhus from April 27 to May 1. Among the venues are the ARoS art gallery, Dokk1 library, Sankt Lukas Church and the Godsbanen film and arts centre.

Tiësto’s in town!

TIËSTO, who many consider to be the world’s leading DJ, has confirmed he will be appearing at the AiaSound festival in Amager, Copenhagen from August 11-13. The Dutchman will be heading to Tiøren, a park off Amager Strandvej, where 30,000 festival guests will be in attendance. Tiësto last visited Denmark back in 2018.

New name for Golden Days

THE ANNUAL Golden Days festival, which has been delighting fans of history, culture and worldly knowledge since 1994, is changing its name ahead of its 2022 edition to ADBC. The name chiefly reflects its love of history and ease at reflecting on eras before and after Christ. This autumn’s ADBC festival, scheduled to take place from September 2-18, is entitled ‘Queens’.

Flawless fours for the Irish

ARE DANISH reviewers marking down the Irish? We know Ekstra Bladet critic Thomas Treo likes to trash U2, but two recent reviews of Irish productions, offering nothing but praise, only yielded flawless fours. Neither DR in its appraisal of Oscar nominee ‘Belfast’, nor CPH Culture in its review of Irishman Fergal O’Byrne’s new play ‘Rub-ADub-Dub’, offered any criticism.

Women face more barriers

A KVINFO survey reveals a skewed gender balance in the music industry in which women face significantly more barriers than men. Women are more likely to miss out on work (18 vs 4 percent), not be taken seriously (27 vs 1) and have their ability appraised based on their agenda (35 vs 4). They all get more sexist comments (56 vs 22) and cross-border behavior (64 vs 44).

More Michelin magic in Tivoli

FOLLOWING the success of its pop-up restaurants in Det Japanske Tårn last summer, Tivoli has confirmed that three Michelin-starred eateries are coming this year: Noor from Cordoba (two stars; July 2-28; Spanish), Dill in Reykjavik (one star; Aug 1-Sep 11; Icelandic) and Studio (one star; April 21-June 25; Danish).

Copenhagen AOC and Faroese KOKS visited last year.

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FROM BILLIONS TO ROUBLES PXHERE

The War in Ukraine is doing its best to sink the economy and all Danish companies with Russian interests

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HE DANISH government has presented three scenarios of how the War in Ukraine could affect the Danish economy: hard, medium and mild. Unsurprisingly, the hard scenario grabbed most of the headlines!

Inflation has already hit its highest level since 1989, and it will probably get worse, although it is unlikely it will match the peaks seen during the oil crises of the 1970s.

“The crisis is not going to pull the rug out from under the Danish economy,” promised the finance minister, Nicolai Wammen.

“The good news is that we are starting from a strong position. The bad news is that this will lead to higher inflation and lower growth. Freedom and the struggle for peace and stability come with a price. And we in Denmark are willing to pay that price.”

Pulling the plug costly COMPLETELY phasing out Russian gas will see energy prices rise even further, and it will also cause unemployment to rise.

The government has already agreed a second compensation payout, this time including households with higher monthly net incomes (up 100,000 to 650,000 kroner), although it has apologised that the first payment will not be made until August.

According to Dan Jørgensen, the environment minister, more efforts will be made to link Danish homes to district heating.

Advice over compensation ANY FURTHER escalation of the war will cause GDP growth to fall by about 3 percentage points and inflation to rise by about 3.5 percentage points, although the GDP in 2022 is expected to be roughly unchanged compared to 2021.

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Three on prestigious Time list

Inflation at 33-year high

ACCORDING to Time Magazine, three Danish companies are currently among the world’s most influential: Mærsk, Ørsted and Too Good to Go, a newcomer to the list. The three were respectively included in the Titans, Leaders and Disruptors categories.

Too Good to Go operates an app that links consumers with discounted food about to be thrown out.

IN DENMARK, inflation stood at 4.8 percent in February – the highest rate since 1989. In Sweden it was 4.3 percent – the highest rate since 2008. Inflation, already driven high by the corona crisis and poor crop yields, looks set to increase further due to the War in Ukraine.

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demic, will not be given. Instead more advice will be offered – particularly in regard to green transition options, job preservation, cyber security, how to deal with the sanctions, and how to recruit available Ukrainians.

The government has no plans to postpone working reforms, which is supposed to help businesses short of employees. However, part of the agreement was a lower monetary limit for foreign workers for a temporary period of two years, but it does not look like the blue bloc supports this.

Consumer confidence low PUBLIC optimism has been in freefall this past month. The latest Consumer Confidence Index figure from Danmarks Statistik showed levels were at minus 14.4 percent for March – the lowest it’s been since October 2008 when it was at -16.6.

Additionally, consumer expectations for Denmark’s economy in a year’s time have waned considerably.

Consumers expect their family financial situation to be substantially poorer a year from now – reflected by the indicators that show that it went from 0.5 last month to -26.0 today.

Carlsberg followed by Jysk THE PUBLIC also takes a dim view on Danish companies holding onto their Russian business interests, even though the likes of Ecco and Rockwool argue an exit will enable the regime to take them over and profit.

In the last fortnight, Jysk and Carlsberg have confirmed withdrawals - for the latter, such an exit was thought unthinkable given the 10 billion kroner it has invested in building up Russia interests such as the Baltika beer brand.

Most analysts concur that Carlsberg will be lucky to recoup even a fraction of the 20 billion kroner value of its assets in Russia.

Jysk, meanwhile, has reopened 13 shops in Russia to sell off its stock before permanently leaving the country.

Ban on currency trade FINALLY, the government wants a new law that would make it illegal to trade with Russia and Belarus using Danish kroner.

A similar ban relating to the euro currency has already been ushered in, but the krone’s fixed exchange rate makes it an attractive currency for those looking to circumvent the sanctions.

The government has requested that Parliament permit the rapid processing of the proposal.

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FOUR PENSION funds hold hefty investments in Barrick Gold, a Canadian gold mining company accused of using lethal force to protest its assets in North Mara in Tanzania, reports Danwatch. Together, the investments of Velliv, Sampension, Lærernes Pension and Lægernes Pension are worth 73 million kroner.

A nine-year-old girl is reportedly among Barrick Gold’s victims.

Rosey employment status

IN 2021, 755,000 PEOPLE aged 15-64 were outside the labour force. This corresponds to one in five people – the lowest share in the last ten years and down from 778,000 in 2020.

Nearly a third, around 226,000 of them, say they want a job, of which 47 percent are students and young people under the age of 20.

Asset rich nation

DANISH homeowners' total wealth in relation to property ownership increased by 239 billion kroner in 2021 to reach 4.399 trillion kroner.

Every property-owning family saw an increase of around 165,000 kroner in 2021 – almost double the rise in 2020 (87,000) and four times the 2019 increase (43,000).

Auctioneer sold

AFTER 75 years as a family business, Bruun Rasmussen Art Auctions have been sold to international firm Bonhams. In the future, it will carry the suffix ‘– Part of the Bonhams Network’.

Glossy results

VELUX owner VKR Holding has confirmed a record post-tax profit of 5 billion kroner on record revenue of just over 26 billion kroner – all in spite of challenges in the supply chain, such as delays and higher prices for raw materials.

Grocery price hike

THE SALLING Group – the owner of the Bilka, Føtex, and Netto supermarket chains – has blamed a grocery price hike of around 5 percent on rising energy costs for both suppliers and stores, although Netto prices have remained relatively steady.

Energy costs have added an extra 70-80 million kroner to Salling’s monthly bill. Similar rises have also been seen at the Coop chains.

Public finance surplus

IN 2021, THERE was a surplus of 58.7 billion kroner on public finances – quite the turnaround from the deficit of 4.3 billion in 2020. Revenue from corporate tax rose by 32.5 billion kroner and VAT by 18.9 billion. Higher revenue from the pension yield tax (63.1 billion) and the taxation of the frozen holiday money (11.9) also helped.

No longer nation’s richest

ACCORDING to Bloomberg's latest list of the richest people in the world, Peter Louis-Hansen, a co-owner of the Coloplast empire, has overtaken Anders Holch Povlsen to become the richest individual in Denmark. He stands in 283rd place, nine positions above Povlsen.

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WINNIE TANGO IN WINNIE'S WORLD There are business opportunities everywhere for expats in a new country, as we all have different backgrounds and skills to stand out: all you need is a crazy gut instinct to discover the gap in the market. Winnie’s real estate business is testament to how one can succeed. Follow her on LinkedIn at ‘Winnie Tang Tango’.

Sympathise with their journey I AM AN emotional entrepreneur and I especially sympathise with the plight of the Ukrainian mothers with little kids who have moved to Denmark, leaving behind fathers fighting for their country When I came to Denmark from Hong Kong a few years ago with my daughter, I remained persistent in my bid to create my own business in our new home country.

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failure before beginning another. I offered to help her to do this, but she was keen to keep on trying to find the 'right diet'.

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Finding the right approach WE ARRANGED a call on which we discovered his goals and his reason for acting now. It was clear his work was all-consuming, so we agreed he would just commit to creating a new habit concerning his phone and reconvene next month.

Around the same time I was contacted by a woman who had tried at least 12 diets with only brief periods of success. She was desperate and wanted a new diet and workout plan.

I explained that I wouldn't do this, as it would likely end up the same as the others. She needed to explore why every diet ended in

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Step by step MONTH 2 came for the CEO. Already he felt less overwhelmed.

He hadn’t realised how much his phone kept him in an alert state, which he medicated with food and alcohol.

I taught him some simple nutrition principles that he applied, and then for Month 3 we agreed he would eat three palm-sized portions of quality meat or fish every day, and we planned how this would work from sourcing to preparing to eating.

Months 4,5, and 6 followed with similarly small but practical and impactful new habits.

“I want it now!”

MEANWHILE I got another email from the struggling woman. She stuck to her latest diet for 15 days but then ate some cheese and

wine, which resulted in her giving up. I asked her why she thought this was a failure but she didn’t want to engage.

She wanted a workout she could do every day. I said she should find something that made her happy. She said she was going to try another plan the following week.

Three months passed and I heard from her again.She had signed up to a boot camp and had a full meal plan ready to go.

'THIS TIME’ she was going to stick to it until she had the physique of her youth.

One succeeded, one failed THE CEO could only commit to small incremental changes BUT ended the year 47lbs lighter.

The woman who wanted results yesterday and punished her every setback was one more year jaded, weary, and down on herself.

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now, and in my Winnie’s World I relish the opportunity to create something new and exciting.

Even if the new arrivals end up staying a short time, our society and business could end up benefiting from the presence of these talented people.

If we can lift them up and help them, they can become a huge opportunity for us.

A benefit to society SO WHAT can we do to help? Already, most of us have donated: mostly our money and time.

And money donations are always a great short-term help.

But more importantly, we have At least they weren't caught out by the weather to create a platform where we can merely refugees. I have talked to tial employer? The very least you help to realise their true value – many already, and quite a few can do is explore the opportunity particularly if they end up staying are educated and specialised of employing them. for a year or more. in their fields. Others are keen Visit my Facebook page ‘Jobs At the very least, it will support to work. Their strength reminds for Ukraininans in Denmark’ and their mental health if they feel me of that shown by President make a post about the kinds of they are being supported until Zelensky. employees you are looking for.

Together we can support the their country is back on track.

Meanwhile, it will also benefit Seek them out!

Ukrainians to create a great life society to see beyond them as SO WHAT can you do as a poten- in Denmark.

WAS CONTACTED by a busy CEO who told me: “I have been reading your blogs and the things you say resonate with me. I would really like your help but I’m incredibly busy and I can probably only commit to a one to two-hour block of time on the phone every month.”

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What can we do to make it a ‘winwin’ situation for them, business and society?

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any other virtue. Instead, it comes most easily when you are happy where you are but desire change.

It’s most difficult to create when you hate where you are and NEED a change.

That’s the secret: create a life of fulfillment and change will come more easily.

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PUTIN CHANGING OUR LIVES TOO

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HE WAR in Ukraine has impacted most of the world, even if it is a very local war that demonstrates the global village is more than a soundbite, it’s our reality.

U-turn in refugee attitudes PUTIN will lose the war, but it will take him a while to realise it. In the meantime, Denmark can expect 100,000 refugees to eventually arrive from Ukraine.

Many are already here.

It’s different from what we’ve experienced before, as they are almost all mothers and children, so not whole families, and they want to return home as soon as possible.

In a short space of time, they have turned the political attitude regarding foreigners upside down.

Very different in 2015 FRANKLY, there is no limit to the levels of friendliness they are encountering. One cannot help recalling the reaction to the Syrian refugees walking down the motorway in 2015. Back then it was a race to the bottom among politicians and journalists to see who could be the most negative and discompassionate.

The media has played a large role. The tales of mothers and children leaving their homes with just a weekend bag and a doll or a teddy bear, fleeing across borders into western neighbour states, has had a massive impact.

It’s a 180-degree turnaround in our attitude. We now wait to see if this sympathy will spread to the Syrian camp children or Afghan translators. At the very least, hopefully it’s a beginning for politicians to dare show their human side again.

Coping with an energy crisis BUT EVEN if the politicians are nervous about the arrival of the refugees, there are bigger problems to face.

The sanctions have exposed an energy imbalance in light of Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas. The prices have been hugely hiked and we could face shortages. But at least it has made us rethink

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our supply chains, so seen from a climate perspective, this is the makeover we needed anyway.

It’s time for nuclear energy to prevail. Some 50 years ago we denounced it in the same breath as nuclear weapons, but today we happily import nuclear energy and sleep safely at night under the nuclear umbrella of NATO. Even the gas fields in the North Sea, which were closed and sealed off, will probably be opened for a while to address the shortage.

Inflation a concern again THE ENERGY crisis has seen fuel prices sky-rocketing, along with most other goods, meaning inflation, an irrelevance for the last decade, is now a major concern again.

But there is one benefit: we will soon be able to say goodbye to negative interest rates on bank deposits – a hard nut to swallow, as it’s against everything we ever learned about money and banks.

Importance of institutions IF WE HAVE learned nothing else from the War in Ukraine, we now know how delicate our global harmony is and how necessary it is to build institutions to deal with a world of unpredictable leaders such as Putin, Orban and Trump. It underlines the importance of the EU. It has also reminded us of the importance of solidarity and, when the world is back on its feet, we can face climate change with renewed determination – together with Russia back in the loop as we are all citizens of this: our only world.

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PEN ANY Bible in the middle, and you get the Psalms – every time. It’s the song book of God’s people and holds all human life and emotion. They are songs of praise, ecstasy, tenderness, trouble and lament where we are invited “to sing our way through hell – and into heaven”.

Lament for all warzones HOW APPROPRIATE then that these are the songs that prefigure all the Easter ceremonies. On Maundy Thursday, following a joyful celebration of the institution of the Lord’s Supper and a reminder of Jesus’ Mandatum or commandment to “Love one another as I have loved you,” the church’s liturgy turns to much bleaker moments. It is forcing us into a life and death situation to hear the desolate cry of abandonment, anguish and fear.

The lament of Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, just before his crucifixion is ever more poignant given the lament of people in Mariupol, Kharkiv and Kyiv: “O Lord, God of my salvation, when at night, I cry out in your presence, let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.”

The most gracious thing the church is called to do is to intercede for others because we are joined with one another.

We sing lament songs because someone

else, somewhere else, is hurting. And as we sing – we bring their names, their situations and their lives before God. And ours too.

And this Easter, St Alban’s Church will be doing this with greater intensity than ever.

“Save me, save us, save them O Lord” in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, Myanmar and more.

Absolute trust in a just God THIS MUST be our response to the horrific images on TV as we show empathy, stand in solidarity and cry to heaven.

The psalms offer us story and history, past, present and future, all rolled into one. They demand to be on our lips in shared distress as we witness mass destruction. For God, mighty and faithful, hears and delivers.

The psalms are individual, communal and open-ended prayers adaptable to every person and situation worldwide.

They offer honest introspection in the company of others and the compassionate presence of God who hears and helps.

I wonder if you dare pray like this?

“Vindicate me. Repay my enemies for their evil. Put an end to them.” These are shocking, painful, honest words. But they reveal absolute trust in the God of justice.

God will not fail in a time of crisis, says the psalmist. The enemy will not prevail.

Actions have consequences – and God – who has the power to decide - will do so with justice and to set things right.

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God hears our prayer THE BIBLE is full of stories of people whose lives were threatened by their enemies – who called out to God in their need. Most especially at Easter we remember Jesus who lamented over Jerusalem, wept at the grave of Lazarus his friend, and called out in his hour of need: “Take this cup away from me.”

Jesus taught his disciples to pray with this same honesty in the Lord’s Prayer: “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven … Deliver us from evil.” In other words: be faithful; trust God. Even in the midst of opposition and suffering.

God’s power and purpose is greater than that of the enemy. Crying out to God in our distress is already to be in touch with the source of enduring life and strength. Death will never have the final word.

God is present and intimately involved in the world – even where brokenness and pain are real. After all, the cross and the resurrection are not separate but continuous and simultaneous realities.

As people of faith, we will always find it necessary to pray: a petition, praise and profession of faith woven together. Of this we can be sure. God hears our prayer – and is our helper. Through brokenness and war, may we glimpse life and eternity.

Happy Easter everyone.

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British writer and performer Adrian Mackinder (adrianmackinder.co.uk) and his pregnant Danish wife moved from London to Copenhagen in September 2015. He now spends all his time wrestling with fatherhood, the unexpected culture clash and being an Englishman abroad

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HE OTHER weekend I was hosting a TEDx event in Frederiksberg and, at one point, I asked an audience member how long they had lived in Denmark.

“Twenty-five years,” came the swift reply.

I then asked: “Why did you move here?”

They replied: “I ask myself that every day.”

An uncomfortable truth IT GOT a laugh, but I sensed an uncomfortable truth. I enquired if they liked living here. They shrugged: “Meh.” Another laugh. But it made me think: this person has been living here for a quarter of a century, and yet doesn’t seem that happy about it. This is a phenomenon I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about since I moved to Copenhagen over six years ago. I call it the ‘Reluctant Expat’.

The Reluctant Expat is someone who is unhappy in their adopted country, but due to complex factors beyond their control, they feel they cannot leave. I’ve met many here who share this sentiment. I’m sure you have too. You may be one of them. On many occasions, I feel that way too. This is not easy to write, but it is important to express, because I believe it is surprisingly common and yet rarely talked about.

The typical emotion that defines the Reluctant Expat is a sense of feeling trapped. More short-tempered, anxious and isolated, less patient, self-confident and in control. This is not about being out of your comfort zone, but being all too aware of where your comfort zone is, and being unable to reach it. It’s about knowing you will never fit in, but you try anyway – no matter how exhausting it can be.

Refugees of love HOW DO so many expats find themselves in this position? It’s usually because they fell in love with someone from a different country. So they move. They get married.

They have children. Time passes. Sooner or later, they realise they don’t like their adopted home, nor can they find fulfillment in their work or social life, but the commitments they made to their loved ones means they cannot leave.

Not all relationships survive this. I’ve met many expats – as again I’m sure you have too – who share the same story: they moved for love; it didn’t work out; they got divorced. But their kids are here and, understandably, they still want to be a part of their lives. So they stay. Even though the initial reason for moving no

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longer applies, they STILL cannot leave.

Limited sympathy I’VE ALSO met those who have no time for the Reluctant Expat. They find their negativity tedious. If you don’t like it, why don’t you just leave? Sounds so straightforward, right? But it rarely is. If it was, they would have left a long time ago.

For what it’s worth, I find that the expats incredibly enamoured with living here are usually always those who left a less favourable situation back home. And that’s fair enough.

But this is not always the case. Many were perfectly content where they were, but now find it a grind to feel the same about where they are.

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An Actor's Life

Looking out for each other THIS IS why the expat community is so vital. I believe we have a duty to look out for each other – even if that means just sharing our experiences, or lending a sympathetic ear. Because pretty much all of us get homesick.

We need to vent our frustrations. It helps us to feel connected, grounded and valued. So spare a thought for the Reluctant Expat. Because they’re not leaving anytime soon.

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The Road Less Taken JESSICA ALEXANDER PIXABAY

Straight, No Chaser STEPHEN GADD

The beach, the sea, the North Sea or the Atlantic? Your answer will reveal how homesick you feel

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LIFESTYLE: BEAUTY THE COPENHAGEN POST | CPHPOST.DK

8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022

BARBARA MENSAH ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL London-born Barbara Mensah, a professional international makeup artist for 12 years (and lash stylist for four), relocated to Copenhagen in 2017, where she is the owner of the Barbara Mensah Beauty Studio. The cosy, chic studio provides a welcoming, comfortable space for clients to spend their time getting glammed and pampered for all special occasions.

Shimmer and shine THE GLAMOROUS models on the Spring/Summer 2022 runways glittered and shone – some in the hair, some on the body and some delicately placed on cheekbones. Remember: a body shimmer gives you a radiant appearance. It comes in different forms, powder, spray and liquid … and let me tell you: it can take you from 0-100 in seconds with an undeniable glow.

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F YOU’RE anything like me, you’re most likely over the grey winter months and ready for some outdoor seated drinks, sunshine, and cute hair and makeup.

I’m not sure about you, but I’m already planning my spring outfits and hairstyles for events, and even scrolling through Instagram to see which seasonal nail designs are trending.

In this edition of the paper I’m going to take you through some of the coolest and doable spring makeup trends for 2022.

Fenty Bomb Shimmer Powder from Fenty Beauty Find at Sephora

Gloss those lips!

OH YES, the lip gloss is back. We’re talking the real weighty sticky stuff. A swipe of gloss instantly adds a natural shine, giving the illusion of healthy, full and sumptuous lips. This trend for Spring 2022 is possibly the easiest to try out and possibly a trend that will catch on.

Showstopper eyes WHEN IT comes to eyeshadow or liner, it’s a question of whatever floats your boat and how far you’re willing to go to stand out. Neon is trending among the daring makeup enthusiasts. Surely spring is a perfect time to bust open neon pink, greens, yellows and blues – both shadows and liners.

Lip Maximiser gloss from Dior Addict 290 kroner from Matas

Neon eyeshadow/liner from Barry M 29 kroner from Asos

It’s okay to blush!

YOU MAY ask: what is this new trend of blush contouring? It’s simply using blush in the areas where contouring or bronzers would usually be applied to generally sculpt the face.

With your blush and brush, apply to the hollows of the cheeks and forehead, and also as eyeshadow.

‘90s lined lips are back!

IF YOU made it through the ‘90s then you’ll definitely remember the lined lips. This trend is back in full force. The ‘90s lips trend is simply outlined lips filled in with a neutral lipstick suited to your skin tone. I’m totally here for this comeback trend.

Silk Glow from Iconic London 232 kroner from Asos

Be Legendary Liner and Prime Pencil from Smash Box 160 kroner from Matas

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LIFESTYLE: FOOD THE COPENHAGEN POST | CPHPOST.DK

8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022

CLAIRE TSANG TASTE-BUD Claire Tsang (clairesmile.com) was born and raised in Hong Kong, moved to the UK in her late teenage years, and then moved to Copenhagen to finish her education in visual communication, where her spontaneity has earned her the title ‘Slasher’. Not only is she a graphic designer (@clairesmile_dk), but she also works as a party planner, Zumba instructor (FB: Zumba Fun Claire) and podcaster (@omg_itsstillwednesday).

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T’S EASTER, so chicken seemed like an appropriate choice. It’s not like Denmark is a nation of bunny boilers …

When it comes to fried chicken, there’s a real dearth. Sick of KFC, a few expats and I have been on the hunt for a better option in Copenhagen!

There’s got to be something better here, which is not soggy and sad!

I asked my friend to go fried chicken-eating with me in town, so you don’t have to use up your calorie quota for the week.

This exercise gains calories FORTUNATELY, I love teaching Zumba Fitness, so the extra classes were a win-win situation!

But if you’re not convinced by my selection, let me know where your favourite is located?

Comment or tag us on Instagram at OMG! It’s still Wednesday! Meanwhile, I need a lie-down with a belly filled with fried chicken.

Questionable buns Poulette, Møllegade 1, Cph N THEY DON’T fry chicken pieces so we had their chicken sandwich and a side of chicken nuggets from their small menu. The upper chicken thigh was tender meat with a flour, egg and breadcrumb coating, homemade dressing and pickles (which were amazing!). However, personally I think the use of brioche buns was unnecessary, as it kind of overpowers the flavour.

VERDICT: It’s a very juicy burger but not my favourite kind of coating.

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Go hilli-wing city!

Crisp, Fælledvej 9, Cph N CRISP mainly does burgers but you must try the wings. They are fried with a lightly coated batter and you can choose from three finger-licking flavours: Korean, lemon pepper and BBQ. Although they are not the biggest wings in the world, they did a creative turn on the dressing. However, the ‘Korean’ is more Vietnamese, as it is with soya/ fish sauce, coriander and chilli.

VERDICT: I would go back just to snack on the wings.

 Inter-celery diversions AFC (Amass Fried Chicken) near Reffen, Refshalevej 167, Cph K WE’D HEARD so much fuss about this place, and we weren’t disappointed, but … The chicken on its own is definitely the best quality compared to all the others, but there’s an acquired taste with celery, so it’s not for everyone. We also tried the fried oyster mushrooms, but the overwhelming dressing on top just took over completely so I couldn’t taste the mushrooms at all. The price for a basket of four might sound reasonable at 135 kroner, but the pieces are really quite small.

Satisfied chicken joint longings Tasty Grill, Amagerbrogade 43, Cph S JUST FROM the look of the outside, this seemed like an ordinary kebab joint. In fact, you wouldn’t even know they have fried chicken. But when you take a closer look, you notice the fried chicken in their window. Freshly fried, they don’t make so many pieces at once as they want to keep them fresh. And the prices are amazing: 10 hot wings/four pieces of chicken for 49 kroner

Winning wings for sure DL Fried Chicken, Frederiksberg Allé 41 LAST BUT not least, as DL Fried Chicken was my favourite. Bang next door to the Frederiksberg Allé Metro Station, you can smell the fried chicken as you get off the underground. The wings, served with three levels of hotness using a special spicy powder, are addictive! Choose between ‘Enjoy the Meal’, ‘Feel the Burn’ and ‘Burn Baby Burn’.

VERDICT: Perfectly-fried crisp organic chicken, but sadly I’m not a fan of celery

VERDICT: I’d choose Tasty Grill over KFC anytime. Very crispy, non greasy, tender and juicy inside.

VERDICT: The crispiest coating – not too thin, not too thick – and it covers the whole wing, from the drums to the tips. Luckily, it’s not that close to where I live.

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GUEST OPINION THE COPENHAGEN POST | CPHPOST.DK

8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

ARMELLE DELMELLE Armelle was born and raised in Belgium in what she likes to say is a large family where everyone is given the same chances. In her free time, she reads or takes pictures (you can follow her on Instagram @armellespics). But mostly she enjoys her time with her growing family and friends. Over the years a few friends have come out to her. She has always believed that the best option for her is to be an ally or at least to try. That is why she keeps on learning about this kind of topic. There is always something new to learn and deconstruct; this is a neverending and empowering task.

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ANY PEOPLE are asking “Do transgender women belong in sport?”

Honestly, if it was only up to me, this question would not even be asked.

A transgender woman is a woman and deserves a place in women’s sport like any other woman or girl. That is my opinion.

More than muscles I SEE YOU coming with your muscle ‘facts’. But did you know that the hormones taken by transgender women while transitioning make them lose muscular mass?

So, can we maybe stop using that argument against people like Lia Thomas? She is not cheating. In fact, she had to wait a year into her hormone therapy to be able to compete again – and follow the rules.

So, what if – and this might sound crazy – she is just good at what she does? What if her times were just the result of her years of training before and after the start of her transition in 2019? I think it is sad that we only talk about her wins because she is transgender.

Hardly a worldbeater HER LATEST triumph, at the time of writing, was the 500-yard freestyle at NCAA. She finished the race in 4:33.24, and critics called that ‘record threatening’.

However, the current record was set in 2017 by Katie Ledecky who swam the distance in 4:25.06.

You want facts, then here is a big one: she was almost nine seconds slower than the record. In other words, she was closer to being caught by her competitors than breaking any records.

And if you look at her times before transitioning, she was much faster, so she has lost plenty of speed during the last three years.

On the weekend of her win, Thomas took part in two other races: the 200 and 100 yards in which she finished fifth and eighth. This shows she has a lot of work to do before we can really say she is dominating women's swimming.

No reason to stop HER NEXT goal, now that her university career is done, is to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Some people think she should not be allowed, but I am going to tell you why I think she should at least try.

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N MARCH 25, the same day as 90 percent of the infrastructure of Mariupol was declared destroyed, I looked out of the window at a frighteningly silent Copenhagen. There were no ruins nor bodies lying on the street. Life was still moving, prospering if anything.

Perhaps the officials of the Russian Federation don’t realise their actions destroy futures, perhaps they believe they are liberating (already free) people, and perhaps they just don’t care.

When will the reality of war become real not only to me, as a Ukrainian, but to non-Ukrainians?

A test we cannot retake WHILE war may be a concept the world is knowl-

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Luka is an 18-year old Ukrainian student living in Copenhagen who studies at the Copenhagen International School in pursuit of a degree in neuroscience. Over the last 18 years, he’s lived in four different countries: the United States, Russia, Ukraine and Denmark. In 2017 his family moved from Kyiv to Copenhagen due to his father’s employment at the World Health Organization. Luka has a younger brother and an older sister, who studies history and politics at the University of Edinburgh. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and engaging in an in-depth analysis of scientific journals regarding the nervous system as well as a variety of sports.

With a rich knowledge of Ukrainian history, Luka has been able to analyse the current events in Ukraine from a wider perspective. edgeable about, its reality is always new. As I enter my school, I see boxes of clothes, food, and essential supplies being gathered to be donated to Ukraine.

It seems that war is a part of everyday life in this day and age; however, I had never expected it to be this close to my life as it has been the past five weeks.

A child in Ukraine being killed every six hours gives one a different perspective, and things that used to matter now matter a lot less. What happens if Kyiv falls? Does their childhood disappear or become so altered they can no longer recognise reality like the children of Russia.

Meanwhile, Russia’s brutality ensures authori-

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has allowed trans athletes to compete since 2004, but we had to wait until Tokyo 2021 to see some of them: New-Zealander weightlifter Laurel Hubbard was the first.

In addition, the new rules set by the IOC do not even mention a maximum level of testosterone. The previously set level was to be under 10 nmol/L for a year – now what prevails is “health and bodily autonomy.”

Today, the only thing that could keep her from officially going to the Olympics is if someone could provide scientific proof that she has an unfair advantage. Good luck with that.

Closed minds destroying futures FINALLY, when it comes to the ‘solution’ of creating a specific competition for trans people, I once

again have to disagree. There is no real solution – especially when like me you consider there is no problem. Creating a specific competition might just end up creating more stigma and that is not what we want.

I am a feminist – call me a witch if you want – but I do believe that feminism should include anyone who identifies as a woman, with no regard to colour, sexual orientation, or if they are trans or not. If women's sport exists, then all women should be allowed to take part in it.

So, to hell with those who say they do not have a place in sport, because they do. Representation matters. By supporting them, you support the kind of future in which your kids might see themselves.

Would you like to tell them they can’t reach their goal because the gender they identify with is not the one on their ID card? Meditate on that.

tarianism is ever more on the rise, while seedbeds of democracy, like in Ukraine, are neglected by the West.

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LUKA PEREHINETS

Gasp, horror! Lia Thomas is taller than some men too

‘We stand with you’ PRESIDENT Biden arrived in Poland on March 26, where he visited the US troops stationed there and also met Ukrainian refugees.

He listened to their stories – most of them tragic. The children asked him to say a prayer for their fathers, brothers and sisters.

Ukrainians understand what President Biden calls the “stakes of this moment”, but we are still awaiting actions that will ensure his words are not merely an empty promise.

Dealing with the devastation

Peace talks or a distraction?

ON MARCH 29, Russia pledged to reduce the attacks on Kyiv, yet it seems the so-called ‘peace talks’ between Ukraine and Russia have turned into a game of cat and mouse. Russia’s promise is increasingly looking like an illusion to lure the citizens out of their homes in Mariupol and Irpin and continue their mass execution project.

As far as Russia is concerned, the talks are just a formality. For Ukraine, they’re a false promise. While the people of Russia have been paying with their money, the citizens of Ukraine are paying with their lives.

On April 1, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, described the talks as a means for “much more understanding”. Ukrainians are left wondering how ‘much more understanding’ is needed of these war crimes.

Nature is unquestionable PRESIDENT Putin has been embodied as the reincarnation of the Devil in the 21st century, and while that persona takes on more life as the weeks go by, very little is being done to disarm his authority and decrease his influence over the Russian people.

While the conventional wisdom of Putin has been portrayed as ‘largely miscalculated’, it seems his plan of whipping out Ukrainians as an ethnic group is moving according to plan.

It may seem that the Ukrainian troops have slowed down the Russian occupiers. But the reality is that Ukrainians continue to die and no comfort has been provided for the families who’ve lost their homes and loved ones.

A month has passed by, and their fate remains in the balance.

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8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022

BEANS WITH BENEFITS: ROASTING UP AN IMPACT IN VALBY ALL PHOTOS: IMPACT ROASTERS

Cutting out the middlemen enables coffee joint Impact Roasters to embrace direct trade by sourcing its beans straight from farmers in Ethiopia CHRISTIAN WENANDE

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ID YOU know that Denmark is among the biggest consumers of coffee in the world?

In 2019, the Danes ranked fourth overall – consuming about 8.7 kgs per person every year. Yeah, people here can drink coffee just about any time of the day and occasion.

Another aspect increasingly weighing on consumers' minds is responsible supply chain management – a company’s commitment to social and environmental efforts when dealing with suppliers.

Perhaps that is yet another reason why Valby-based Impact Roasters has swiftly risen to become one of the most popular coffee joints in Copenhagen.

Its coffee beans are sourced from Ethiopia, where Impact Roasters founder Daniel Balla Halalla hails from.

Impact Roasters negotiates bean prices directly with Ethiopian farmers, cutting out expensive middlemen and securing the farmers a good price for their crops.

The company’s embracement of fairtrade also helps foster education, job creation and social projects in Ethiopia. You can read more about that at impactroasters.dk.

From Addis Ababa to Valby SINCE opening its first shop in Valby in 2017, Impact Roasters has opened an additional two shops in prominent locations in the Valby and Frederiksberg areas.

It has just opened a new cafe at Flintholm Station on March 26 to supplement its existing locations at Valby Station and Langgade Station. Needless to say, it was a resounding success.

Halalla, who came to Denmark in 2012 after meeting his future Danish-Bosnian wife in Addis Ababa, grew up in the coffee-rich southern part of Ethiopia and was exposed to coffee farming and processing at a very early age.

When he moved to Denmark, he noticed that the coffee had a different flavour to it – as it was sourced from other parts of the world, such as Brazil.

Roasting up a dream WHILE studying economics at CBS, he began toying with the idea of starting his own Ethiopian coffee business in Denmark.

That idea ended up leading to running tests in Denmark and his first coffee shipment from Ethiopia arriving in Denmark in 2015, though it wasn’t all smooth brewing initially.

“It was a big challenge to begin with as we didn't know the market. But we opened up our first shop and roastery at Langgade Station in 2017 and then at

Halalla: an owner full of beans

Valby Station the following year,” Halalla told CPH POST. Things slowly gathered momentum from there, despite some expansion plans being put on hold due to the pandemic.

More than a cup of coffee HALALLA is currently in Ethiopia on a business trip – he travels there five to six times a year to oversee the coffee-processing aspect of the business.

It also allows him to keep tabs on his fairtrade model, which means working closely with the farmers and helping them to grow their businesses and communities.

“Creating long-term impact while delivering quality products to customers in Denmark: that’s what it’s about,” said Halalla.

“We want to tell our customers the story about how we bring coffee to Denmark: who are the farmers; who packs the coffee? That helps us make an impact.”

Pick up your CPH POST! ASIDE from roasting its own beans and selling quality coffee at its own cafes, it also sells to other businesses.

It also has a mobile coffee cart, so you might run into Halalla when he’s doing his rounds.

So stop by while satisfying your caffeine desires and have a chat.

More likely than not, he’ll be flashing his big, wide smile as you approach. Coffee with a conscience and good vibes … what else can you ask for?

Well … how about reading the Danish news in English as you sip away? Pick up a copy of the CPH POST at one of the three Impact Roasters cafe locations.

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8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022

ABOUT TOWN

PHOTOS BY HASSE FERROLD

The dean of the diplomatic corps, Romanian ambassador Mihai-Alexandru Gradinar, and his wife Andreea were among the guests of Bangladeshi ambassador M Allama Siddiki at a reception to mark the 50th anniversary of the South Asian country's independence. Also present (right) at the Marriott Hotel Copenhagen, where dignitaries listened to speeches by Ambassador Siddiki and Lotte Machon from the Foreign Ministry, were Indian ambassador Pooja Kapur and Hans Hermansen, the CEO of CPH POST

Christian Prudhomme (left), the general director of the Tour de France, had the honour of bestowing the experimental filmmaker Jørgen Leth (right) with his country’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in recognition of his work raising the popularity of the event in Denmark. Since 1988, Leth has been a valued commentator on TV2. The ceremony, which took place at the French Embassy on March 23, was attended by the French chargé d'affaires, Frederic Rimoux, and the former Danish PM, Lars Løkke Rasmussen.

Whilst in Copenhagen, Prudhomme opened the capital’s latest cycling super-highway (see Page 2)

The stars were out in force for the premiere of ‘Elsk Mig i Nat’, a new musical celebrating the music and vibes of the 1980s at the Scandic Falkoner Copenhagen on March 16. Among them were (left-right) Danish singer Anne Linnet, who had most of her hits in the ‘80s, and her partner; and Crazy Christmas Cabaret creator and star Vivienne McKee, and Helen Tennison, who is directing Vivienne’s next production, 'Shirley Valentine', at Teatret Ved Sorte Hest from April 23 until May 14 (see details on Page 20)

Ukrainian ambassador Mykhailo Vydoinyk was very much in demand with the media on the occasion of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address via a live video link to the Danish Parliament on March 29 (see Page 4). Zelensky urged Parliament to keep up the pressure on Russia and the Danish people to turn their 'hygge' into support by lighting a candle to honour the Ukrainians who have lost their lives in the conflict

Ajahn Jayasāro, who is considered to be the most famous monk in Thailand, was a special guest of Thai ambassador Sirilak Niyom (cente right) at Asia House Copenhagen on March.

He spoke on the subject of ‘Time and Place and Timeless Truths’. Also present were Niyom’s husband Theerakun Niyom (left), who is a former ambassador to China and South Korea, and South African ambassador Fikile Sylvia Magubane (right)

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8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022

What’s the opposite of ‘outgrown’?

Since its opening in 2013, the centre has streamlined its operations so effectively that it no longer requires a big working space ARMELLE DELMELLE

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HEN INTERNATIONAL House Copenhagen (IHC) opened at Gyldenløvesgade 11 in June 2013, just around the corner from Søpavillonen at the City Lakes, the idea behind the location was to have everything that international newcomers might need under one roof.

However, according to Trine Marie Ingeberg, who has been the head of IHC since its opening, the building has now served its purpose, as the project is moving locations this summer – to a new home just around the corner.

All about the appearance “AT THE beginning, a major element was its appearance,” she explained to CPH POST. In the future, IHC will need less space to provide the same service.

No need to panic though, as she assures internationals that they will still be able to find the same services as they do now, if they show up at the new location on a side-street adjacent to Gyldenløvesgade.

IHC would prefer to keep the ex-

A need to save money THE REASON for the move is simple: IHC needs to make some cuts.

Despite sitting next door to a huge complex of inter-connected buildings owned by Copenhagen Municipality, the one currently occupied by IHC is not owned by its overlords at City Hall. Instead, it is rented from ATP Ejendomme.

"The municipality has to save money, so it will be cheaper for us to move into a municipally-owned building than renting one,” explained Ingeberg.

Increasingly digital ACCORDING to Ingeberg, IHC continues to make digital improvements, and there is more streamlining ahead. After the big move, the next step will be to improve the ‘digital entrance’ to IHC. "We are working to make it even better. At the moment there are three digital platforms: SIRI, the municipality with the International Citizen's Service, and tax. This means you have to go through three different digital applications, but we want to have only one,” enthused Ingeberg.

“Our goal is to make it as easy and smooth as possible to come to Denmark and start your new life.”

A change in the vision A LOT HAS changed over the last decade, and this has affected the original vision with which IHC opened in 2013. A great many things can be carried out digitally before it meets newcomers to the city.

“When we opened, everyone came in physically. We were looking at each case for the first time when the person came in. Now we do it digitally,” said Ingeberg.

“We have a back office where we look at all the cases before people come in. Accordingly, we don't need so much space because they always have an appointment. They just come in and it takes five minutes.”

Everyone’s been there ONE OF the biggest drawbacks will be the loss of the huge welcome room, which IHC has used over the years to host countless events: from Christmas parties to informative talks about property, banking matters and culture.

But in the future, IHC expects to organise more online events.

“We will still have events where people can come and listen to experts, but I think we will become more and more digital. A lot of those events can be attended from your home, but there will still, of course, be somewhere you have to physically come,” concluded Ingeberg.

act location under wraps until they have an exact date for the move. An announcement is expected in May.

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VOLUNTEER NIGHT Volunteering is considered a great way to integrate: to meet new people, among them Danes, and perhaps work on your Danish skills. p19 Volunteer Night links internationals with organisations that do not require you to speak Danish.

Visitors will find out about a wide range of different opportunities to volunteer in their local community. And, there is an open bar!

Volunteer Night will take place on Wednesday 27 April between 17:00 and 20:00 at Studenterhuset (Købmagergade 52, Cph K).

The event is free but does require registration via ihcph.kk.dk

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WHY INTERNATIONAL HOUSE CPH’S NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE AT A SMALLER PREMISES

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8 APRIL - 3 MAY 2022

Shirley Valentine

April 21-May 14, performances Tue-Fri 20:00, Sat 17:00; Teatret ved Sorte Hest, Vesterbrogade 150, Cph V; 205 kr via teaterbilletter.dk The great Vivienne McKee and the London Toast Theatre are returning with Willy Russell’s 1980s crowd-pleaser Shirley Valentine. Come and meet Shirley in her kitchen as she talks to her only company: the wall. This voyage of self-discovery filled with infectious wit has been delighting audiences for nearly four decades. Coming slightly after ‘Educating Rita’ and Blood Brothers, it completed Russell’s trio of masterpieces.

“There’s a growing visibility of older women in life and the arts,” comments director Helen Tennison. “First performed in 1986, the piece is a reminder of how far women have come and how much further we have to go.” McKee will no doubt sparkle in a role many will agree she was born to play. (AD) CPH:DOX

Veras Vintage Market

online until April 10; Ticket and program at cpdox.dk CPH:DOX will be a hybrid festival in 2022. All of the films will be screened at cinemas while a selection of films will be part of a nationwide online festival (geo-blocked to Denmark). All movies are in English or with English subtitles.

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April 9-10, 17 & 24, 11:00-16:00, early entry 10:30 if you buy online; Nørrebrohallen, Nørrebrogade 208, Cph N; 25 kr, verasvintage.dk/entre Join Vera's #veravolution in the fight to reduce clothing waste. Buy second-hand clothes to benefit the environment from over 90 private stalls – or earn cash yourself with a stall. Alternatively, exchange old clothes of yours and get a discount on the ones you buy. (AD)

Create Unique Abstract Art

April 16, 17:00-20:00; NataWatts Gallery, Hyskenstræde 12, Cph K; 590kr, art-xp.com Play with colours and create your own piece of Scandinavian artwork using an easy-to-grasp Colorflow Ink Technique.

It’s mindful, soothing and playful – and anyone can do it! (AD) Caribbean Housewife Roast

April 13, 18:00-20:00; Kitchen Collective, Slagtehusgade 11A, Cph V; 350kr, thecaribbeanhousewife.com The Caribbean Housewife Roast returns! The pop-ups are held on the second Wednesday of every month in Kødbyen, offering a four-course menu with wine pairing showcasing female natural winemakers. (AD)

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Mountains on Stage

April 26, 19:00-22:30; CinemaxX, Kalvebod Brygge 57, Cph V; 200kr via mountainsonstage.com Enjoy a selection of the world's best films related to mountain sports such as skiing, mountaineering, climbing, or paragliding. (AD) CPH Art Space

April 15-17, 10:00-16:30; Docken, Færgehavnsvej 35, Nordhavn; 60kr at the door, 40kr online, under-16s free adm, cphartspace.billetexpressen.dk The former salt warehouse Docken provides the space for CPH Art Space, a gathering of 60 exhibiting artists and 100 Art Money artists. (AD)

Guided tour of Gamle Scene

Science and Cocktails

Cate Le Bon

April 10, 15, 17, 18 & 24, 11:00; Kongens Nytorv 9, Cph K; 135kr, under-12s: 75kr, kglteater.dk Come and discover the Royal Theatre's ‘Old Stage’, Gamle Scene. Experience the special atmosphere, the historic ceiling paintings, the swinging angels, and the traditional large prism chandelier in the theatre hall. Go behind the scenes where the stage technicians work and visit the large tailor's room where fairy-tale costumes for all the theatre's performances are made – where only the imagination sets the limits. (AD)

April 8, 20:00; Koncertsalen, DR Koncerthuset, Ørestads Blvd. 13, Cph S; tickets: 145-195kr, drkoncerthuset.dk Spend an evening in the company of Kathryn Paige Harden, the American psychologist and behavior geneticist who authored the book ‘The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality’. Astral Cinema and Niels Christian Cederberg will meanwhile spin some records in the foyer. (AD)

April 9, 20:00; Lille VEGA, Enghavevej 40, Cph V; 250kr, bit.ly/3BO7q0d Since Welsh singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon released her phenomenal fifth album, 'Reward', in 2019 she has been busy working on collaborations. At Lille VEGA she will be joined by avant-garde chamber pop soloist Mega Bog. (AD)

Reopening of footbridges

April 9, 11:00-14:00; Store Høj Sø, Kanonvej, Kastrup The Store Høj Sø Association invites you to a festive event to celebrate the reopening of the footbridges. It will take place at the bonfire site just west of Store Høj, a few meters from the lake.

Some food and drink will be provided and there will be activities for children.

Closed due to their state of disrepair, the public raised money to make the necessary adjustments. (AD) Lady in Red

April 28, 17:30-19:30; Brydes Allé 24A, Cph S; 375kr, art-xp.com Join Hira Sameer Ahmed for a cosy evening learning to paint the lady in red at her home studio in Amager. During this acrylic painting workshop you’ll be guided, step-by-step, in recreating the painting – starting from a blank canvas and finishing with a beautifully finished painting. (AD) Sunday in Sodom

April 21-27, 19:00, April 23, 15:00; Bastionene, Norra Vallg 28, Malmö; 180kr, kulturcentralen.nu or Playmate Theatre Malmö presents a powerful drama in English by Canadian dramatist Jordan Tannahill: the story of a mother (Vanessa Poole) trying to uphold her family’s traditions – with a hint of the Yiddish comic tradition.

Each show is followed by ‘Den du är’ (in Swedish) at 20:30. A percentage of the proceeds from the production will be donated to providing direct humanitarian support to the people of Ukraine. (AD)

Opera Tours in English

Saturdays and Sundays, 12:00; Ekvipagemestervej 10, Cph K; 135kr, under-12s 60kr, kglteater.dk Discover the Opera's beautiful foyer with its clean lines, Olafur Eliasson's light sculptures, and views over Copenhagen Harbour that embrace the shiny maple shell around the Main Stage. (AD) Moki Cherry

opening night April 7, 17:00; gallery open Tue-Fri 11:00-17:00: Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Glentevej 49, Cph NV; nicolaiwallner.com Swedish artist Moki Cherry works between mediums, bringing together art, architecture, design, and music.

On the opening night, there will be a musical performance by Naima Karlsson at 18:30. (AD)

Jason E Bowman

April 12-22, opening night 17:00, closed on April 15 & 16; LOKALE, Griffenfeldsgade 27, Cph N Internationally renowned artist Jason E Bowman will appear in person to deliver a talk on the opening night of his exhibition. (AD) Gravens Rand Quiz

April 12 & 26, 19:00; Søndre Fasanvej 24, Frederiksberg; entry 30kr Maximum of four per team, it’s 1,000 kroner for the winners and a crate of beer for second. Two beer rounds, and shots for last place!

Language Café

April 9 & 23, 14:30-17:00; Studenthuset, Købmagergade 52, Cph K; free Every other Saturday afternoon, join other language aficionados to learn new ones.

The list of languages spoken at the café is updated on the official Facebook event page. So what are you waiting for? (AD)

Open Mic @Cph Listening Room

Globe Quiz

April 10 & 24 19:30, sign up by 19:15; Onkel Dannys Plads 7, Cph V; free adm For years now, Cph Listening Room has hosted its weekly open mic for songwriters. If you want to sign up to perform two songs, you better be fast! There are only 14 spots left. In the middle a featured act takes place: Effy Simon (10) and 32w (24). (AD)

April 7 & 21, 19:15; Globe Irish Pub, Nørregade 43-45, Cph K; 50 kroner per person to enter Game night’s on at this pub on Nørregade! The winners will be awarded 1,000 kroner, and there are plenty of spot prizes too. (MB)

Copenhagen Sakura Festival

April 23-23, 11:00-16:00, Sun until 15:00; Langelinie Park, Nordre Toldbod 16, Cph K; free adm The Japanese Embassy invites you to celebrate the blooming of the cherry trees. Enjoy an afternoon full of Japanese traditions such as martial arts, origami and the famoust tea ceremony, all among the beautiful trees. (AD)

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Labour Day

May 1, all day; Fælledparken, Cph Ø Cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, the Labour Day celebrations – a rite of passage for so many – returns to the capital's most popular park.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub

ongoing, ends April 9, Mon-Fri 19:30, Sat 17:00; Krudttønden, Serridslevvej 2, Cph Ø; 205kr, teaterbilletter.dk; 85 min This weekend is the last chance to see this popular play.

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CRACKING THE CODA OF THE OSCARS: PAPER ONLY APPEARS TO BEAT ROCK BEN HAMILTON

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YOUNGSTER with a heart of gold, unrequited talent and responsibilities: she always puts others first. Hardly Oscar-winning material. At the very least, you’d imagine the central performance has to be stunning. After all, Miss Daisy needed a black chauffeur, and Rose a very big ship. But those closest to her are deaf: to her talent and literally. There’s the clincher!

Channeling Tupac THEY’VE been listening to too much heavy metal in Metal Lords (April 8 on Netflix). Oh, you thought I was talking about Coda, whose Best Film win was overshadowed by a game of Rock Paper Scissors that ended with Willard Carroll Smith II shouting what he imagined a black man from his wife’s home town Baltimore would say – like her childhood friend Tupac Shakur in fact.

Forgive the cheap Coda joke – with a budget of 10 million US dollars, it is the second least expensive film to win the biggest prize, after Moonlight, which only cost 1.5. Regular readers will know this column is obsessed with the Oscars. The truth is that the winter editions are so much easier to write because that’s when all the contenders are released. Come March/April and the latch is ‘sprung’ on all the duds looking for easier pickings at the box office.

Caged in by your talent THIS MONTH is an exception though, as it’s mostly A grade offerings alongside promising action films. Bridging the two is The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (April 21; 77 on Metacritic) with Nicolas Cage as …

Nicolas Cage, placed in a situation in which a super-fan turns out to be a Mexican badass (the always reliable Pedro Pascal) wanted by the CIA. So this is Curb Your Enthusiasm, but applied to a thriller not a comedy. But given we’re supposed to assume the likes of Superman or James Bond could conceivably die … it’s hard to imagine this

could generate the necessary jeopardy.

Hilarity, yes.

Many of you might be unaware of the true story underpinning Nitram (April 7; 83), but it gripped Australia once it had sobered up. Caleb Landry Jones and a resurrected Anthony LaPaglia, who’s always better in Oz than the US, excel in the tale of a young mass-murderer who killed 35 on a lazy Sunday afternoon in touristy Tasmania in 1996. The country was so drunk there were only five sober journos left to do the evening news, and four of them were sports commentators. One of them ended up doing a Top 10 Worst Australian Massacres Ever segment.

More sedate in comparison, but no less appreciated are Bergman’s Island (April 7; 81) starring Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread), the thoughtful tale of two writers on an inspiring Swedish island whose work starts to blur fiction; and C’mon C’mon (April 21; 82), the fourth film of Mike Mills (Thumbsucker, Beginners), a sweet guardianship tale starring Joaquim Phoenix as the put-upon uncle.

Incest in The Crown FANS OF the Harry Potter universe will welcome Fantastic Beasts 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore (April 7; Not Released Worldwide), in which Mads Mikkelsen has replaced Johnny Depp as dark wizard Grindelwald.

A Dane is also onboard to play the baddy in The Northman (April 13; NRW), which Viking enthusiasts have already praised for its period look. Alexander Skarsgård has Claes Bang in his sights in this revenge story, but check out the all-star cast! Nicole Kidman, Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Anya Taylor-Joy and Björk are only half the story.

Danish-American actor Viggo Morgensen, alongside Colin Farrell, is suiting up to play one of the rescuers in Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives (April 28; NRW), the tale of the famous rescue of a Thai football team in 2018, but the contribution of Danish divers Claus Rasmussen and Ivan Karadzic has been ignored.

Seriously: which one is the drug dealer?

Elsewhere, 65 (April 28; NRW) is a hushed-up Sony dinosaur thriller starring Adam Driver (the smart money is on this being postponed until next year). The Lost City (April 28; 60) is a Romancing the Stone copy with a toyboy spin, starring Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock. The In Between (April 8 on Netflix), a lightweight rom starring Joey King, will probably be streamed 100 million times and hailed a success.

Finally, Mothering Sunday (April 28; 64) is a between-the-wars, upstairs-downstairs relationship yarn starring Josh O’Connor and Olivia Colman – not as the lovers … that would be perverse after playing Charles and Queen Elizabeth in The Crown! Again she plays his mother.

Wired about this one OVER IN TV-land, we’re looking forward to We Own This City (April 26 on HBO Max), which takes the writers of The Wire back to Baltimore, their favourite stomp-

ing ground, to take a look at corruption within the police force. British dysfunctional spy series Slow Horses (released on Apple; 78), with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas, and Tokyo Vice (April 8 on HBO Max; 75), of which the first episode is directed by Michael Mann, also look highly promising.

Despite David E Kelley anthology series Anatomy of a Scandal (April 15 on Netflix; 48) being described as “a series that is planned to depict various scandals within the elite class of the UK” – so exactly like A Very British Scandal then – it looks pretty dependable, if its cast of Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend is anything to go by.

Staying in Britain, comedy series Hard Cell (April 12 on Netflix) will either be a baptism-of-fire or sink-like-a-stone moment for the career of creator and multiple role star Catherine Tate, and the jury’s out on whether the public will like The Baby (April 25 on HBO Max) or Joe vs Carole (April 14 on CMore),

the first fictional account of the Tiger King story. More are likely to follow.

Returning series include Better Call Saul (S6; April 19), Russian Doll (S2; April 20) and Ozark (S4B; April 29) on Netflix; and Wellington Paranormal (S4; April 1), The Flight Attendant (S2; April 22), Three Busy Debras (S2; April 25), Tin Star (S3; April 12), Home Economics (S2; April 29), Barry (S3; April 25) and Mayans MC (S4; April 25) on HBO Max. There’s a long list of documentaries with no explanation necessary: Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile (April 7 on CMore), Jimmy Saville: A British Horror Story (April 6 on Netflix), The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes (April 27 on Netflix) and Fantastic Beasts: A Natural History (April 2 on HBO Max).

The latter is narrated by Stephen Fry, whose ubiquitousness is beginning to grate. Let’s hope we’re not saying the same about Chris Rock in 12 months’ time.

Paul schrader live

live streamed interview with a film legend April 13 Cinemateket will host a live streamed interview with Paul Schrader in English before his film ’Night Sleeper’ starring William Dafoe.

See what’s on at cinemateket.dk or visit us in Gothersgade 55.

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ENGLISH JOB DENMARK Recruitment Announcements VISUAL MERCHANDISING MANAGER, PANDORA

COMMERCIAL MANAGER, MILK BASED BEVERAGES, ARLA

For this role, we are looking for an excellent team leader with great abilities in product styling, ideally in jewellery. You will head up our Visual Merchandising (VM) Implementation team.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial and independent Commercial Manager who strategizes locally and excels the great ambitions for the iconic brand Starbucks® RTD (Ready-To-Drink) business in Distributor Sales.

Location: Copenhagen Deadline: ASAP Contact: Alexander Kirk, Global Recruitment Manager, alkir@pandora.net

JUNIOR SOLUTION CONSULTANT, TIA TECHNOLOGY You will maintain technical design and develop or maintain system functionalities in the case where the Tia offering does not support the customer’s requirements of the shelf.

Location: Copenhagen Deadline: ASAP Contact: lisa.smith@sapiens.com

PRICING ANALYST, COMMERCIAL EXCELLENCE, DEMANT This position will provide you with a unique opportunity of working in the Strategic Pricing function. With your strong analytical skills, curiosity, and willingness to drive change, you will be key to ensure continuous development of Strategic Pricing in Demant.

Location: Smørum Deadline: 30 April 2022 Contact: Nino Garcia, Senior Manager, nnga@demant.com

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Location: Copenhagen Deadline: ASAP Contact: Toke Rasmussen, Director Commercial international, toke.rasmussen@arlafoods.com

MEETING & CONFERENCE MANAGER – OPERATIONS, VILLA HOTEL You are passionate and targeted, approachable and personal with a can-do attitude.

Location: Copenhagen Deadline: 15 May 2022 Contact: Nadia Benouddane, FnB Manager, nadia.benouddane@villacph.com

EXPERIENCED QUALITY PROFESSIONALS COME JOIN US, NOVO NORDISK Are you skilled in quality assurance then this is your opportunity to seize a life-changing career in Novo Nordisk Quality – where we have a passion for securing patient safety, product quality and compliance.

Location: Various locations Deadline: 30 April 2022 Contact: Anne Dam Poulstrup, adpu@novonordisk.com

SALES ENABLEMENT SPECIALIST, MILESTONE SYSTEMS You will successfully drive and support the global development, alignment, implementation and adoption of sales processes and business models from A to Z. Location: Copenhagen Deadline: 29 April 2022 Contact: milestonesys.com/career

ADVOCACY & COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR, RED BARNET Are you an advocacy & communications expert with a background in humanitarian work and with a passion for working to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children, youth and families in adversity?

Location: Copenhagen Deadline: 19 April 2022 Contact: Marie Dahl, MHPSS Collaborative Director, mad@redbarnet.dk

STUDENT ASSISTANT, ØRSTED We’re hiring 3 student assistants for three different roles within Corporate Information Security.

Location: Gentofte Deadline: 29 April 2022 Contact: Louise Degn, Security Advisor, +45 99 55 25 96

PURCHASING MANAGER, SHAPING NEW TOMORROW The primary focus in this role will be optimizing costs related to buying products by finding the best sourcing solution on materials, accessories and manufactures, as well as driving the process of how we work internally with developing products that match our quality criteria at the best possible price.

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LONDON TOAST THEATRE Performed in English

Vivienne McKee as

Willy Russell’s play

Infectious wit”

is for husbands, wives, sons, daughters,

Shirley Valentine wants

A thrilling

friends and lovers.

nothing more than not to

voyage of

Treat yourselves”

waste her life”

self-discovery”

April 23rd - May 14th 2022 Teatret ved Sorte Hest Vesterbrogade 150, Copenhagen V BILLET@SORTEHEST.COM

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