Friday Fling!

Happy Friday! It's just past 10 am. I'm on the couch, computer on lap, enjoying a cup of steaming hot Colombia Supremo coffee (from Kaffebrenneriet) and home-made oatmeal cookies. Yummy! Nothing like fresh coffee & cookies in the morning - the perfect start to the day!

I'm actually liking the fact that it's Friday again, even though I have to admitt that the days are going by way too fast. It's hard to believe that September will be over in just a few days time!

What's up this weekend? For once, I know I constantly say this, I haven't got any fun or wild activities planned - at all. There's work tomorrow morning + Sunday evening, but otherwise there's nada on my calender. So I'm thiking perhaps I should make time to sew the curtains for my room, a thing I've been plaing on doing like forever. Testing out the tempura-mix I bought a few weeks back at an Asian supermarket also seems like a fab idea ... just need to translate the instructions from Japanese to something understandable (lol).

However, there are quite a few cultural options to take advantage of in Oslo this weekend. Here's my top tips for some weekend fun. Keep on clicking to get the down & low on Oslo:

• Høstutstillingen 2009: This annual exhibition, arranged by Statens kunstustilling, is the main arena for contemporary art in Norway. This year exhibition is the 122nd since it's start in 1882. The works showcased here are picked by a national jury and usually centre around a common theme (though so far I haven't been able to find out what that is, so maybe I'm wrong), and genreally speaking høstutstillingen exhibits a vast range of art forms, such as sculpture, paint, photography, performance, video installations, machinery and more. I know this years exhibition hasn't received glowing reviews, but there's only one way to know and that's by checking it out yourself. I know I'm going to. Check out the pictures from the event here.
• Oslo Open: This biennial artfestival, from Wednesday 23 - Sunday 27th of September, is the fourth festival in a row, where artists living in Oslo open their ateliers to the public. The festival aims to be a meeting place for contemporary art in Oslo, the artist living & working here, and the genreal public. Well worth checking out!
• Costume sale: The Minken Fosheim Childrens Theater is having a costume sale on Saturday at 16:00, so if you're looking for halloween costume, a gown for a ball or just a unique dress for yourself, head on down to Josefinesgate 7 for a bargain (P.S. Cash is king)!
• Nate Lowman's "The Natriot Act" & Rotations #2 (showcasing the museums own collection) also opened at the Astrup Fearley Museum of Modern art on Wednesday. This is one of my favorite museums, so I'm definately heading there sooner than later.
• Movies galore: There's soooo many good movies on the silverscreen these days: Inglorious Bastards (I'm a big Tarantino fan), Jenta som lekte med ilden, Up, District 9, Hangover, Coco avant Chanel, Upperdog... all movies with great reviews, all movies I want to see, but nowhere near having the time to check them all yet. On my to-do-list as of now!
  

Perhaps I'll run into you somewhere in Oslo this weekend!