Christiania's 50th birthday parade: photo and video collage

Photo and video collage from Christiania's 50th birthday parade through Copenhagen - September 22 2021. Christianites have staged a symbolic wedding anniversary between “Mrs. Christiania and Mr. Denmark” on the occasion of the freetown's 50th birthday a couple of days later on 26 September. Specialists in political performances as they are, the Christianites have chosen to let the party start with a kaleidoscopic procession through the streets of Copenhagen from Christiania to the Danish parliament, Christiansborg, further on to the Ministry of the Interior and Housing, and finally to the town square, Rådhuspladsen.

Behind the camera:
Agnete Lund Freudendal-Pedersen, Aalborg University -- Copenhagen
Alfred Lund Freudendal-Pedersen, Christianshavns Gymnasium
Anders Lund Hansen, Lund University / Aarhus University

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The project Governing the Narcotic City explores the discourses, imaginaries, practices and consequences of public drug use from the 1970s until the present, with a focus on Western and Central European cities. Partners & Funding The project is being conducted by six teams based in leading European research institutes: Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Open University of the Netherlands, IB Hochschule Berlin, Aarhus University, CNRS Passages, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU).

As part of the HERA research programme Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe, this project has received funding from the H2020-SC6-CULT-COOP-2017 – Understanding Europe – Promoting the European Public And Cultural Space under grant agreement no. 769478. The project Governing the Narcotic City is financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info), which is co-funded by ANR, BMBF/ PT-DLR, DASTI, NWO and The European Community, H2020 Understanding Europe – Promoting the European Public And Cultural Space – under grant agreement no. 769478.