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Bookmark & shareThe Night Film Festival (Natfilm Festival) takes place over 10 days in March, and features more than 100 Danish and international films in their original languages. The three-day Copenhagen Carnival is held over the Whitsunday weekend (usually late May or early June), filling the streets of the city centre with parades, samba dancing and other organised festivities.
Beach bonfires are lit up all around the country on Midsummer Eve; also called Sankt Hans Aften (23 June), while those who enjoy a good flaring of the nostrils should head for Klampenborg just to the north of Copenhagen for Denmark's most important horse race, the Danish Derby. The Copenhagen Jazz Festival gets toes a-tappin' over 10 days in early July, but if chamber or classical music is more your thing, hang out for the Sommerkoncerter i Vor Frue Kirk (Summer Concerts in Vor Frue Kirk), summer concerts held throughout August.
In late August the Danish capital plays host to the Golden Days in Copenhagen, with art exhibits, poetry readings and theatre focusing on Denmark's 'Golden Age' (1800-50). Christmas is a big celebratory deal around the country and it'll be hard to escape the numerous feel-good community fairs no matter where you are.
Public holidays include New Year's day, Maundy Thursday (Thursday before Easter), Good Friday (Friday before Easter), Easter Monday, Common Prayer Day (fourth Friday after Easter), Ascension Day, Whitsunday (seventh Sunday after Easter), Whitmonday (eighth Monday after Easter), Constitution Day (5 June), Christmas Eve (from noon), Christmas Day and Boxing Day (26 December).
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Those suffering from jazz withdrawal can get their fix from this smaller scale festival (www.vinterjazz.dk) held at various venues through Copenhagen.
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