My home town of Landskrona celebrated 600 years last year and in that context there were several big events in town. One (two ...) was The Landskrona Days - one in the spring and one in the autumn - was such a success bringing the citizens and the entrepeneurs together, that the city decided to continue this arrangement.
May 24, 2014 saw the spring Landskrona Day and of course we took the opportunity to explore what was on offer. Mother Kerstin, father Ulf, uncle Bengt, his grandchildren Noah and Tilia, Inger, Maia and I met up downtown.
Music of all kinds, art, dance, different clubs displaying ... well, whatever they were for, food and drink.
Future moto cross aspirant? She does look like a natural to me ... then again, I might be biased.
Lots of people out and about. The building to the left is the museum, where an exhibition of Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd's Non-Violence collection was on.
A little trivia for whoever wants to know:
The knotted gun -
In 1980 Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd created an artwork, known as “Non violence” or “The knotted gun”, for reasons described as follows:
"When the artist learned that his friend, John Lennon, had been murdered, he became so upset and angry over this senseless death that he went to his studio and started working on the “non-violence” project. “My first sketches in three dimensions were rather rough and simple, but the important thing was that the idea of the knotted barrel was with me from the very start,” he said.
The swedish artist produced different variations of the piece, the most famous being the sculpture installed in 1985 in Malmo/Sweden . It consists of a large replica in bronze of a 45-calibre revolver, the barrel of which is tied into a knot. The gun is cocked, but the knot makes it clear that it will not shoot.
Well, now we have one in Landskrona :-)
In front of the museum is a big empty area previously used for military excercise, but nowadays it is an open space with plantations, pools and space for events. On this day it was an amusement park!
Maia and Tilia in a bumper car, Noah in another one just behind them ... lot's of fun was had!
May 24, 2014 saw the spring Landskrona Day and of course we took the opportunity to explore what was on offer. Mother Kerstin, father Ulf, uncle Bengt, his grandchildren Noah and Tilia, Inger, Maia and I met up downtown.
"Mummy, I want one!"
Sure, have two :-)
Sure, have two :-)
The knotted gun -
In 1980 Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd created an artwork, known as “Non violence” or “The knotted gun”, for reasons described as follows:
"When the artist learned that his friend, John Lennon, had been murdered, he became so upset and angry over this senseless death that he went to his studio and started working on the “non-violence” project. “My first sketches in three dimensions were rather rough and simple, but the important thing was that the idea of the knotted barrel was with me from the very start,” he said.
The swedish artist produced different variations of the piece, the most famous being the sculpture installed in 1985 in Malmo/Sweden . It consists of a large replica in bronze of a 45-calibre revolver, the barrel of which is tied into a knot. The gun is cocked, but the knot makes it clear that it will not shoot.
Well, now we have one in Landskrona :-)
In front of the museum is a big empty area previously used for military excercise, but nowadays it is an open space with plantations, pools and space for events. On this day it was an amusement park!
A robot man scared the ... out of the children ...
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