Mani Nikel – Denmark

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About

This is a geometric light sculpture composed of an illuminated inner tetrahedron – a four-sided pyramid, enclosing a mirrored form. As viewers move around the work, their perception changes. The light gradually changes, creating reflections that multiply the space and fragment the mirrored images. The work explores geometry, illusion, and self-awareness through the interaction of light, reflection, and proportion.

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The artist

Mani Nikdel is an Iranian light artist based in Denmark. His minimalist light installations explore space and optics through simple geometric forms and visual illusions.

With a background in both art and technology, Nikdel aims to create subtle yet powerful experiences that evoke curiosity and wonder.

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Nirvana Keyvani Jam & Elion Ebrahimi (IR) // Ungt Lys

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About

This light installation consists of a mirror divided into suspended fragments that reflect and pass light between one another. Each piece reveals partial views of the space and the viewer. On the floor, a light projection traces the mirror’s original outline. The work explores interdependence and interaction, showing how a sense of wholeness emerges through relationships between light, body, and space.

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About Ungt Lys

Ungt Lys is a group of young members of the Danish Center for Light (DCL), working across various disciplines and sharing a common interest and passion for light design and light art. As part of the non-profit organization DCL, Ungt Lys aims to inform students and young professionals about the opportunities in the world of light.

The group is led by a board that organizes activities for the members of Ungt Lys.

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 FRONT404 – The Netherlands

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About

This is a long, interactive light installation where glowing vines spread across a tunnel wall. Light flows through the lines like sap, responding to the movement of cyclists and pedestrians. As people pass, new shoots appear; when the space empties, they fade. The work reflects the rhythm of urban life and the fragile balance between movement and stillness.

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The artist

FRONT404 is a Dutch artist duo creating interactive installations for public space. Their work uses accessible interaction, humour, and unexpected interventions to engage broad audiences internationally.

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Thanks to

I Light U

Frances Muriel Cosgrove (US), Patryk Kuziemski – (PL), Zacharoula (Zacha) Agoraki – (GR), Gosia Wybieralska – (PL)
// Ungt Lys

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About

CONFLUX is a projection-based installation that unfolds networks as a fundamental pattern in nature. Images of neural systems, mycelium, branching trees, and cosmic structures flow into one another, forming connections of nodes and links. The work invites viewers to reflect on how humans, technology, and environment are part of larger, interconnected systems shaped by mutual influence.

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About Ungt Lys

Ungt Lys is a group of young members of the Danish Center for Light (DCL), working across various disciplines and sharing a common interest and passion for light design and light art. As part of the non-profit organization DCL, Ungt Lys aims to inform students and young professionals about the opportunities in the world of light.

The group is led by a board that organizes activities for the members of Ungt Lys.

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Båll & Brand – Denmark

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About

In its ninth edition, this light installation of handcrafted laser machines projects a green laser beam across Copenhagen. The beam stretches between Tivoli, Danhostel, and Vor Frelser Kirke, drawing a temporary line in the urban landscape that activates and connects the city and its architecture in a new constellation. It invites us to look up and explore the city from new perspectives.

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The artist

Båll & Brand is a Danish audiovisual artist collective that creates light installations and scenography. With a site-specific approach, they combine aesthetics, technology, and science, where space, light, and sound come together in immersive experiences.

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Thanks to

Tivoli, Danhostel og Vor Frelser Kirke

Mihkel Pajuste – Estonia

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About

This video-based light installation features blue image sequences, slowly looping across the screen, accompanied by an ambient soundscape. In this almost meditative repetition, a magnetic attraction to blue is explored – both the colour and its physical properties, but also its state and emotional resonance. The installation invites slow perception, immersion and presence.

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The artist

Mihkel Pajuste is an Estonian designer and artist, working at the intersection of lighting design, visual communication and spatial art. With experience in both practice and teaching, his work investigates perception, digital processes and the relationship between light, material and space.

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Thanks to

Danish Architecture Center 

Båll & Brand – Denmark

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About

This is a site-specific light installation at Christiansborg, consisting of 22 upward-facing beams of light, placed in a precise, vertical arrangement that emphasizes the tower’s vertical orientation and shifts the room’s perspective. At the same time, the tower is illuminated from within.

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The artist

Båll & Brand is a Danish audiovisual artist collective that creates light installations and scenography. With a site-specific approach, they combine aesthetics, technology, and science, where space, light, and sound come together in immersive experiences.

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 Thanks to

Christiansborg

Mads Vegas – Denmark

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About

This upward-reaching light sculpture, consisting of curved aluminum structures and LED tubes that twist around each other, creates an interplay between elements, as if two forces meeting. The work is inspired by the early Børsspir, which until the fire in 2024 was a historic landmark in Copenhagen’s architecture.

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The artist

Mads Vegas is a Danish lighting designer and artist who works with interactive installations and site-specific light works in public spaces. His practice explores how light can transform spaces and communicate emotions in the interplay between technology, nature, and architecture.

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Hans E. Madsen – Denmark

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About

This is a sculptural light work defined by a glowing white neon outline of a boat, drawn clearly against the sky. The simple contour emphasizes form, direction, presence and lightness rather than mass. A possible intention is to evoke thoughts of navigation and passage, using the simplicity of light to connect maritime memory with openness, horizon, and movement.

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The artist

Hans E. Madsen creates site-specific light art that interacts with architecture in public places. With numerous projects for Copenhagen Light Festival and international exhibitions, this artist explores light as a spatial, sensory, and poetic medium that invites the audience into immersive, responsive environments.

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Jacob Tue Larsen – Denmark

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About

In the city’s light boxes, normally filled with advertisements and clear messages, a quiet counterpoint emerges. Outside the city, blurred landscapes appear without fixed landmarks and without a specific intention. The images point away from the city and invite personal interpretation, reflection, and recognition in an open, sensory space.

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The artist

Jacob Tue Larsen is a Danish visual artist who primarily works with photography in combination with sculpture, installation, and graphic media. His practice is characterized by experimental explorations of materials, media, and existential themes, rooted in the surrounding world.

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Agata Terpińska – Poland

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About

This is an interactive light object consisting of a reflective disc that rotates when physically activated. Light from an internal source is refracted and reflected, casting shifting colour patterns into the surrounding space. The work emerges through interaction, absorbing our energy and transforming it into movement, light, and colour.

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The artist

Agata Terpińska is a Polish lighting designer working with interactive installations and spatial light environments. With a background in interior architecture and lighting design, her practice explores optical illusion, movement, and the relationship between light, perception, and physical space.

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Egill Sæbjörnsson – Iceland
Originally commissioned by Therme Art

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About

Flying Waters projects free-flowing water jets onto building façades, forming shapes that interact with the architecture. Light and water challenge the senses, play with reality and illusion, and invite viewers to reconsider how we perceive everyday spaces and the forms that surround us.

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The artist

Egill Sæbjörnsson is an Icelandic multimedia artist and musician, based in Berlin. He works with light, water, digital media, and installations that challenge perception, engage with the absurd and the animistic, and explore the boundaries between the real and the illusory.

Therme Art

Therme Art is an international cultural initiative working through artistic and interdisciplinary collaborations across art, architecture, and science. Through projects, talks, and community-based initiatives, Therme Art explores the role of culture in wellbeing, with a focus on inclusion, sustainability, and social impact.

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Thanks to

Nordatlantens Brygge

Marcus Lyall – United Kingdom

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About

These are laser projections of simple, animated figures performing small, everyday and unproductive actions. The actions are derived from movements captured with motion capture, which are digitally translated. In contrast to our era of optimisation and productivity, it invites us to see the value and necessity in pause, reflection and actions without a specific purpose.

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The artist

The London-based artist, Marcus Lyall, explores how life experiences are converted into data in a technology-driven world. Their works often collect audience data through interaction. With a parallel career in live performance and music, the artist investigates the psychological dynamics between art, audiences, and large crowds.

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Thanks to

MÆRSK

Calidos – Catalonia, Spain

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About

This is an immersive light installation consisting of vertical, illuminated tubes arranged in a circular structure – a continuous space that one can step into. Inside, sequences of images and light are played, creating an illusion of movement and recalling early cinematic animations. The work invites an exploration of repetition, rhythm, and change, where light and movement transform the spatial experience.

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The artist

Calidos is a Catalan creative studio based in Barcelona, specializing in audiovisual production and interactive light installations. Since the mid-1990s, the studio has realized large-scale projects for festivals, institutions, and public spaces internationally.

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Senja Ruohonen – Denmark

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A small animated character moves across the walls and screens of the tourist office. Crawling, digging and unfolding light, Nisse explores the festival from within – tracing light as place, story and attraction.

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The artist

Denja Rouhonen is a Danish-Finnish artist based in Copenhagen, working with light and spatial installations. Her practice explores perception, sensation, and human experience through site-specific works, where light and space are combined to create atmospheres that engage with the unpredictable and the aesthetic.

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Thanks to

Funds & Sponsors

Čestmír Suška – Czech Republic

// ARTshifters

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About

This is a series of large sculptural forms made from repurposed industrial steel, perforated to allow light to pass through. By day the structures appear heavy and tactile; by night they transform into luminous, transparent forms. The possible intention is to explore transformation, sustainability, and the poetic potential of reused materials through light.

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The artist

Čestmír Suška is a Czech sculptor who works with recycled industrial materials in large, spatial forms. He is part of the collective ARTShifters and in his works engages with the interplay between nature and industry, referencing international contexts and the Czech sculptural tradition.

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Thanks to

Mariakirken

Lightspray Visual – Hungary
Location: Hotel Kong Arthur

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About

This projection work consists of composite, hand-drawn moving images that unfold on the surfaces of architecture, creating a lively dialogue between a visual narrative, the space of the place, and scale. Created with custom-built overhead projectors, the work combines the analogue and mechanical, emphasising light as a physical process shaped by time and human intervention rather than digital automation.

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The artist

Lightspray Visual is a Hungarian artist group creating analogue light art since 2010 using modified overhead projectors. Through kinetic motion, coloured light surfaces, and site-specific visuals, they produce large-scale installations and analogue–digital hybrid shows, developing new techniques showcased at numerous European light festivals.

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Thanks to

Hotel Kong Arthur

Light Design – Interactive Installation

Laurenz Theinert – Germany

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About

This light installation consists of overlapping fields of coloured light – an optical play where light itself shapes and dissolves space. The work explores the principles of colour perception: When light hits an object, it is partially absorbed while the rest is reflected as colour. As the light intensity gradually changes, the brain perceives it as movement, as if the walls were vibrating.

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The artist

Laurenz Theinert is a German light and media artist who works with photography, spatial light installations and live audiovisual performances. His works explore abstract perception and dematerialisation through specially developed tools, focusing on light as a time-based and compositional medium.

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Thanks to

Nykredit

Forenet Kredit 

Pavla Beranová (CZ) / ARTshifters

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About

With seven slender masts, this light and sound installation emerges like ships in a harbour. Beams of light are refracted through moving banners, sending colours in all directions and inviting us to lift our gaze towards the sky, while the sound element invites interaction. The composition connects wind, light and human presence in a dynamic and playful experience.

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The artist

Prague-based lighting designer Pavla Beranová works across theatre, architecture, and visual arts. As part of the ARTshifters collective, she develops sustainable light artworks for festivals worldwide. Her practice explores the poetic potential of light through scenography, installations, and innovative cross-disciplinary collaborations.

ARTshifters is a collective of cultural professionals and artists developing sustainable artworks for light festivals worldwide, creating fair opportunities for both artists and production.

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Thanks to

Nykredit

Ivo Opl

DJ AID KID

Adéla Klimková

Jiri Suchanek

Marcus McShane (NZ)

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About

This is a water-based light installation where illuminated words emerge just below the water surface. The water continuously shapes the text, influenced by the movement of the waves and the reflection of the water. At the same time, the words give the water a new, lively texture. We are invited to reflect on our communication, flow, and connection with the element of water.

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The artist

Marcus McShane is an New Zealand designer with over 400 theatre and installation works. His practice blends light, text, and sustainability, often using self-powered systems and recycled materials. His creations span theatre to public installations and have been presented at festivals across New Zealand, Europe, and the USA.

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 Thanks to

Refshaleøens Ejendomsselskab A/S

Lightspray Visual – Hungary
Location: Refshaleøen

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About

This projection work consists of composite, hand-drawn moving images that unfold on the surfaces of architecture, creating a lively dialogue between a visual narrative, the space of the place, and scale. Created with custom-built overhead projectors, the work combines the analogue and mechanical, emphasising light as a physical process shaped by time and human intervention rather than digital automation.

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The artist

Lightspray Visual is a Hungarian artist group creating analogue light art since 2010 using modified overhead projectors. Through kinetic motion, coloured light surfaces, and site-specific visuals, they produce large-scale installations and analogue–digital hybrid shows, developing new techniques showcased at numerous European light festivals.

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Thanks to

Refshaleøens Ejendomsselskab A/S

Kerneydelsen – Denmark

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About

This is a sculptural light installation centered on a tilted triangular form made from recycled materials and illuminated from within. Beneath it stand small human figures, positioned in varied relationships to the light. The work examines enlightenment as both guidance and power, inviting reflection on knowledge, inclusion, and how light can illuminate, but also overshadow.

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The artist

Signe Marie Schmidt-Jacobsen and Majken Madsen are Danish artists working together as Kerneydelsen. Their collaborative practice combines participatory art, pedagogy, and socially engaged processes, often involving children and non-art audiences in public space.

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Thanks to

Kofoeds Skole

Tokyo Blue – Denmark

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About

As a monumental and glowing industrial landscape, the work emerges in the urban space. Created in collaboration with children of the area, the installation draws connections to the local history and the value of cabbage, as cabbage fields from the 1500s once shaped the region. The work translates stories into a shared luminous project and invites reflection on humanity, time, and place.

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The artist

Tokyo Blue is a Danish artist collective with roots in art and design. The group creates site-specific installations that are based on the space, history, and the context of the place. Their work is characterized by a fascination with light, colors, and sensoriality. ‘Sol over Kål’ was created in collaboration with children and young people from Kulturpiloterne and Skolen på Islands Brygge.

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Thanks to

Statens Kunstfond

Amager Vest Lokaludvalg

Københavns Kommune

Interactive installation
Arthur Steijn & co. – Denmark

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About

Arcs of light hover above the canal, reflecting on the water, while your facial movements control the animation. Smile, open your mouth, or tilt your head, and the light follows, changing color and shape. The work explores interaction and the connection between person, light, and surroundings, inviting play and presence.

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The artist

Arthur Steijn is a Dutch-born, Denmark-based artist and associate professor working with interactive installations and digital light. His practice combines artistic research, teaching, and long-term exploration of responsive environments. 

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 Thanks to

Ørestad – Grundejerforeninger og Vandlaug

Eliska Kovacikova – Slovakia

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About

A site-specific sculptural light installation constructed from curved, compressed wooden elements forming a dense structure. Light emerges from within, filtering through cracks and surfaces. A possible intention is to explore confinement and protection, using light as a counterpoint to weight and darkness, evoking bodily presence and a longing for openness and transformation.

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The artist

Eliska Kovacikova is a Slovak visual artist who works with sculptural installations in wood, light, and spatial composition. Her practice explores silence, tension, and bodily perception, creating sensory, immersive environments.

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 Thanks to

Ørestad – Grundejerforeninger og Vandlaug

Nicolas Paolozzi / Module – France

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About

This is a network of illuminated lines stretched through space, forming a three-dimensional web. Paths and intersections define movement and orientation. The possible intention is to visualize connection and interdependence, using light to map relationships between bodies, routes, and the surrounding environment.

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The artist

Nicolas Paolozzi is a French artist-architect and founder of MODULE, producing monumental light and sound installations for public space. His work focuses on modular, reusable structures and immersive environments.

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 Thanks to

Ørestad – Grundejerforeninger og Vandlaug

Alexander Reichstein (Finland)

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About

In a stream of illuminated human silhouettes, this light and sound installation stretches over several hundred metres. Displaced, on their way to a new, unknown existence, they wander in the dark accompanied by a soundscape of voices recounting experiences of fleeing. The work invites us to reflect on collective experiences and where we are headed.

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The artist

Alexander Reichstein is a visual artist based in Finland, born in Moscow, who works with sculpture, installation, and light-based works. His many years of practice include children’s art, public works, museums, and international light festivals.

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Thanks to

Ny Carlsbergfondet

Sydhavn Teater

Fællesskabet Bavnehøj

Vestre Kirkegård 

Petri Laakso

Petar Šćulac – Croatia

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About

This is a sculptural light installation where images of metal mesh and hand-processed concrete are illuminated, casting outlines onto the underlying architectural surfaces. The shadows extend the motif with multiple layers and invite reflection on the identity of the place, boundaries and invisible structures, as well as transitions between past and present. The work is part of the EU-supported project IMAGINE PEACE.

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The artist

Peter Šćulac is a Croatian artist who works on combining traditional methods with contemporary materials. His practice explores the invisible structures, both physical and emotional, that shape the relationship between conflict and reconciliation.

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Thanks to

Sydhavn Teater
Fællesskabet Bavnehøj
Vestre Kirkegård