Halloween weekend, beyond the costume parties
Stockholm · 30 October–1 November 2026
Halloween is on Saturday, but this guide leaves the costume-party circuit to one side. There’s a new room to listen to at Fylkingen, Dirty Three and Olof Dreijer competing for your Saturday, and a Sunday split between Hong Kong cinema and Egyptian zār.
Friday 30 October
Open the archive at ArkDes
ArkDes, Skeppsholmen · Friday or Saturday, 13:00–15:00 · Free
ArkDes’s Unboxing sessions bring drawings, sketches and photographs out of a collection of four million objects. Curators open new folders each week and talk through what they reveal about architecture, design and building. It’s a chance to get close to the working material behind buildings; staff on hand speak Swedish and English.
Unboxing
Fylkingen makes its new home part of the music
Fylkingen, Saltmätargatan 2 · Friday–Saturday, from 19:00
Fylkingen’s two-day reopening programme asks what an instrument can be. Julia Giertz and Cara Tolmie combine live and synthesised voice with sounding objects and the room’s resonant frequencies; elsewhere on the bill are Juli Deák’s flute experiments and a collaboration between upsammy and Valentina Magaletti. Follow the programme’s timetable when choosing your evening: these names span the two-day event.
Extended Instrument
Saturday 31 October
Dirty Three return to Debaser Strand
Debaser Strand · Saturday, listed at 19:00
Debaser hosts the Melbourne trio behind Love Changes Everything, their first album in more than a decade. Warren Ellis’s violin and viola meet Mick Turner’s guitar and Jim White’s drums; the record moves between abrasive ensemble playing and quieter, looping passages. This is the Saturday pick for following a band through changes of texture and mood.
Dirty Three
Olof Dreijer brings Loud Bloom to Slaktkyrkan
Slaktkyrkan · Saturday, 20:00–01:00
One half of The Knife brings his first solo show to Scandinavia. Loud Bloom puts pulsing club rhythms alongside experimental sound and strong melodies, with music released since Dreijer’s solo return in 2023. This and Dirty Three are competing Saturday choices: pick the electronic live show here, or make Debaser the centre of your evening.
Olof Dreijer
Sunday 1 November
A people’s history, told through records and film
Fasching · Sunday, 13:00; doors 12:00 · 50 kr + service fee
Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson uses archival film, sound clips and images to trace music made under authoritarian rule. The presentation moves through scenes in places including Ethiopia, Cambodia and Brazil, following both attempts to control music and the people who evade them. Expect a talk, slideshow and screening here, rather than a conventional concert.
A People’s History of Music
Spend Sunday afternoon in Wong Kar-wai’s Hong Kong
Bio Skandia · Sunday, 14:00 · 102 minutes
Chungking Express follows two lovelorn police officers and the women who enter their lives, turning chance encounters into a portrait of loneliness and desire in Hong Kong. Wong Kar-wai’s film is also a reason to hear California Dreamin’ in a cinema again. This overlaps with the Mississippi Records presentation, so treat the two as alternatives; check subtitle information when booking.
Chungking Express
End the weekend with Mazaher’s zār
Fasching · Sunday, on stage 20:00; doors 18:00 · Standing 250 kr + fee
Um Sameh, Um Hassan and Nour El Sabah are among Egypt’s remaining practitioners of zār, a tradition carried through voice, layered percussion and dance. Fasching’s account describes music learned across generations without notation, with women at its centre. It gives Sunday evening a different focus from the weekend’s club and concert bills: a living musical practice shaped by ritual and community.
Mazaher
About this guide
Written with AI from the linked event descriptions and source pages. No personal attendance is implied. Times, prices and availability can change; check the source before booking.