Fancy trying Irish dancing? Dark Green School of Irish Dancing runs a class for complete beginners aged 16 and over at DGI Byen (Spejlsalen) in Copenhagen. Lessons are on Thursdays from 19:15 to 20:00. The fee covers the whole season, from Thursday 27 August to Thursday 10 December 2026, with a break for the autumn […]
Københavns Folkeuniversitet runs a guided reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses over eight Tuesdays, from 20 October to 8 December 2026, from 16:15 to 18:00. The course is taught in Danish and led by ph.d. Mathias Hindkjær Overgaard. Ulysses retells Homer’s Odyssey as a single day in Dublin. The course looks at the novel’s inventive language […]
Le Chéile – Making Communities is an exhibition on shared ideas in Irish architecture today, featuring Níall McLaughlin Architects, Clancy Moore Architects and Cotter & Naessens Architects. It fills the main event space at CAFx – Copenhagen Architecture Forum from 5 November to 22 December 2026. The opening is on Thursday 5 November from 16:30 […]
CPH City Toastmasters holds its meetings in English, and guests are welcome. The club meets on the third floor of Vesterbro Bibliotek og Kulturhus. After the meeting on 10 December, it meets again from 7 January 2027, and there is more on the club’s Toastmasters International page.
Tokyo four-piece bed blends techno, pop, punk and classic rock. Its debut EP 円相 | Enso is due out later this year. Danish/British artist pixel.daddy opens the night. Tickets: DKK 120, students DKK 60
Olga Myko brings her electronic, pared-back pop to Ideal Bar at VEGA. The Swedish-Ukrainian artist, whose real name is Olga Sundin, first made her name writing songs for other artists, including Molly Sandén, IVE and Rita Ora, before stepping out under her own name. Her songs deal with lopsided relationships, protecting yourself and change, set […]
Portuguese art-pop singer-songwriter Leonor Arnaut, who is based in Copenhagen, headlines with Saltmother (Amanda Appel). DJ Atusa completes the bill. Tickets: DKK 110, students DKK 80
Spanish singer, songwriter and trombonist Rita Payés plays Store VEGA with fellow Spaniard Lucía Fumero on piano and guitar. Payés blends jazz, bolero, bossa nova and pop in romantic, melancholy songs that draw on her Catalan roots. She grew up with two performing musicians as parents, played in the Sant Andreu Jazz Band as a […]
Dublin rock band Fontaines D.C. play Royal Arena on Sunday 8 November at 20:00. It is their biggest indoor show in Denmark so far, following a sold-out K.B. Hallen concert in 2025 and a set on Roskilde Festival’s Orange Stage. Fronted by Grian Chatten, the band made their name with the post-punk albums Dogrel, A […]
Studieskolen in Copenhagen runs paid Danish courses for foreigners at six levels, from complete beginner (A1) to advanced (C1). A new round starts about every six weeks. Besides regular classes there are conversation-only classes, faster crash courses, online classes and courses that prepare you for the official Danish tests. The courses are aimed at people […]
Amager Toastmasters holds an open club meeting in English, and more than three quarters of its members are expats. Guests are welcome, it is free, and you register on Meetup. The meeting is in room 12 on the second floor of Skolen på Islands Brygge.
Speak to Lead Toastmasters holds its club meetings in English, and more than half of its members are internationals. Guests are welcome to simply turn up, and it is free. The club meets in Kultursalen on the first floor of Kulturstationen Vanløse, and there is more on the club’s website and on Meetup.
El Puerto Tango Collective is an Argentine tango community in Copenhagen. Every Tuesday evening there are classes and social dancing, and it is a place where locals and internationals meet. More information: elpuertotango.com.
CPH City Toastmasters holds its meetings in English, and guests are welcome. The club meets on the third floor of Vesterbro Bibliotek og Kulturhus. After the meeting on 10 December, it meets again from 7 January 2027, and there is more on the club’s Toastmasters International page.
Kennedy’s Irish Bar on Gammel Kongevej in Vesterbro holds a traditional Irish music session every second Thursday, from 18:00 to 21:00. All are welcome, whether you want to bring an instrument and join the session or just listen. There is no entry fee. Follow the pub on Instagram (@kennedys.irish.bar) for updates. Details: ICAD event page.
Irish rap trio KNEECAP bring their Fenian Tour to K.B. Hallen in Frederiksberg on Thursday 12 November at 20:00. It is their biggest indoor headline show in Denmark to date, after a Roskilde Festival performance and two sold-out nights at Store VEGA the year before. Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí combine the Irish […]
Ten-piece free jazz/doom-punk group Hands On Fire play their debut album release show. They are joined by entrance/d, a project founded in Hong Kong in 2025, playing here as a duo, and the night is presented by Final Descent with Movement Shaped Like A Heart. Tickets: DKK 120, +1 til studerende Gratis (a student +1 […]
Amager Toastmasters holds an open club meeting in English, and more than three quarters of its members are expats. Guests are welcome, it is free, and you register on Meetup. The meeting is in room 12 on the second floor of Skolen på Islands Brygge.
UK singer-songwriter Martin Luke Brown brings his new album ‘life & death etc’ to Copenhagen. Support comes from 22-year-old Hetta Falzon from Somerset. Tickets: DKK 150, students DKK 100
Speak to Lead Toastmasters holds its club meetings in English, and more than half of its members are internationals. Guests are welcome to simply turn up, and it is free. The club meets in Kultursalen on the first floor of Kulturstationen Vanløse, and there is more on the club’s website and on Meetup.
El Puerto Tango Collective is an Argentine tango community in Copenhagen. Every Tuesday evening there are classes and social dancing, and it is a place where locals and internationals meet. More information: elpuertotango.com.
In this hands-on workshop at Zoku Copenhagen, Andrea Ferreira and English Job Denmark help job seekers, professionals and entrepreneurs find their own voice on LinkedIn and build their personal brand. You’ll set up your own AI-powered LinkedIn writing assistant as a ChatGPT Project, so bring a laptop and access to a ChatGPT account. Doors open […]
Doubting Ivan is a new play written and performed by Irish writer Oisín Robbins, presented by H2O at its theatre on Hørsholmsgade. The play is performed in English and runs from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 November, with curtain up at 20:00 each night. It is a dark, intimate and playful modern take on The […]
The event is in Danish. For the 10th year, Mino Danmark and Mino Ung mark International Men’s Day with Minoritetsmændenes Kampdag, celebrating men from ethnic minorities and the challenges and opportunities they meet in Danish society. This year’s themes are fatherhood, masculinity, role models in sport and equal access to apprenticeships, explored through personal stories […]
CPH City Toastmasters holds its meetings in English, and guests are welcome. The club meets on the third floor of Vesterbro Bibliotek og Kulturhus. After the meeting on 10 December, it meets again from 7 January 2027, and there is more on the club’s Toastmasters International page.
Pure Viking Blood is a stand-up comedy show in English by Ulug Bek, a comedian from Uzbekistan who has made his home in Denmark. The show is about the long, and often unsuccessful, effort to become properly Danish: the language, the bikes, the calendar week numbers and the unwritten rules of the Danish workplace. It […]
Mathias Hammer opens the afternoon at Studieskolen with a talk on Christmas songs that turn up in many languages, and on whether music can connect people across them. Afterwards Studieskolen’s teachers host Christmas rooms with festive traditions and music from many countries, from Latin America to Denmark. There’s also a language-exchange corner for anyone looking […]
Amager Toastmasters holds an open club meeting in English, and more than three quarters of its members are expats. Guests are welcome, it is free, and you register on Meetup. The meeting is in room 12 on the second floor of Skolen på Islands Brygge.
This Tysklandssalon, part of a monthly series of evenings about German culture, society and politics, is a conversation about colonialism and literature. Guest host Jessica Ortner, a researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, talks to German author Amanda Lasker-Berlin about her 2021 novel Iva atmet. The book is a family story about Germany’s colonial […]
Speak to Lead Toastmasters holds its club meetings in English, and more than half of its members are internationals. Guests are welcome to simply turn up, and it is free. The club meets in Kultursalen on the first floor of Kulturstationen Vanløse, and there is more on the club’s website and on Meetup.
El Puerto Tango Collective is an Argentine tango community in Copenhagen. Every Tuesday evening there are classes and social dancing, and it is a place where locals and internationals meet. More information: elpuertotango.com.
CPH City Toastmasters holds its meetings in English, and guests are welcome. The club meets on the third floor of Vesterbro Bibliotek og Kulturhus. After the meeting on 10 December, it meets again from 7 January 2027, and there is more on the club’s Toastmasters International page.
Kennedy’s Irish Bar on Gammel Kongevej in Vesterbro holds a traditional Irish music session every second Thursday, from 18:00 to 21:00. All are welcome, whether you want to bring an instrument and join the session or just listen. There is no entry fee. Follow the pub on Instagram (@kennedys.irish.bar) for updates. Details: ICAD event page.
Irish vocal quartet Landless sing centuries-old folk songs in close harmony at ALICE on Nørre Allé on Friday 27 November. Doors open at 20:00 and the concert starts at 21:00. The concert is presented with Final Descent. Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch met on Dublin’s traditional singing scene and have sung […]
Irish punk band Gurriers return to Copenhagen on Saturday 28 November for a show at Loppen in Christiania, sharing the bill with Enola Gay. The concert starts at 21:00. The Dublin group broke through with their 2024 debut Come And See and have since appeared on Later… with Jools Holland, played Glastonbury and supported Turnstile […]
Proud Phoenix Comedy Showcase is the new monthly ticketed show at Proud Mary, taking over from the pub’s former weekly Monday new-material night. Each edition has three hand-picked stand-up comedians performing their best material, and this time it’s Henrik Danielsen, Liam Duffy and Paul Johnstone. Tickets are on Billetto, and the organisers ask you to […]
Amager Toastmasters holds an open club meeting in English, and more than three quarters of its members are expats. Guests are welcome, it is free, and you register on Meetup. The meeting is in room 12 on the second floor of Skolen på Islands Brygge.
Speak to Lead Toastmasters holds its club meetings in English, and more than half of its members are internationals. Guests are welcome to simply turn up, and it is free. The club meets in Kultursalen on the first floor of Kulturstationen Vanløse, and there is more on the club’s website and on Meetup.
El Puerto Tango Collective is an Argentine tango community in Copenhagen. Every Tuesday evening there are classes and social dancing, and it is a place where locals and internationals meet. More information: elpuertotango.com.
Ṣumūd is an Arabic word for steadfastness and resilience, and it is the name DFUNK, the youth organisation of the Danish Refugee Council, has given its two-day cultural festival at Union & Alice. The festival celebrates the diversity of Arab culture and the communities that come together across boundaries, with music, art, literature, talks and […]
CPH City Toastmasters holds its meetings in English, and guests are welcome. The club meets on the third floor of Vesterbro Bibliotek og Kulturhus. After the meeting on 10 December, it meets again from 7 January 2027, and there is more on the club’s Toastmasters International page.
Ṣumūd is an Arabic word for steadfastness and resilience, and it is the name DFUNK, the youth organisation of the Danish Refugee Council, has given its two-day cultural festival at Union & Alice. The festival celebrates the diversity of Arab culture and the communities that come together across boundaries, with music, art, literature, talks and […]
Monthly English-language stand-up open mic hosted by Jefferson Bond: new comedians testing material alongside established acts warming up for bigger shows. About 2 x 45 minutes with a break. Age 15+. The show is recorded. Tickets: https://www.comedyzoo.dk/event/2006552