Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

An 1857 schoolhouse on Norrebro now teaches a different curriculum: four hundred intercultural events a year. Union at Norre Alle 7 - known as VerdensKulturCentret until 2019 - began as Norre Alle Betalingsskole, one of the first buildings on the old Blegdams common, and taught the district's children until 1987. The city converted it to a culture house in 1993, and it has been the beacon of Denmark's intercultural work since: over 20 associations and organisations are members with homes in the house, and many more run regular activities there. The building keeps its school bones - the big first-floor multivenue is even named Aula in a nod to the past - alongside an exercise room, sound studios, meeting rooms and the socio-economic restaurant Send Flere Krydderier, whose kitchen turns the dining room into a genuine neighbourhood canteen with folk dinners on the calendar. The programme is deliberately citizen-built: most content comes as co-creation projects with an intercultural focus - lectures, theatre, spoken word, screenings, exhibitions, festivals like the Oaxaca weekend, reading clubs for cross-cultural women - under the house manifesto that mixing is more beautiful than dividing. The backyard holds the heavyweight tenant: ALICE, the internationally noted venue for global roots, jazz, improv, electronic and experimental music, occupies Union's concert hall and gives the address a national profile in adventurous booking - Copenhagen Jazz Festival programming included. The house opens daily 8:00-23:00, sits two minutes from Sankt Hans Torv with Norreport a short bus hop away, and remains one of the city's easiest doors into culture beyond the mainstream. Room hire is half the house's public life - the Aula, studios and meeting rooms book out to everything from rehearsals to diaspora association meetings - and the location between Sankt Hans Torv and the Panum campus puts it on Norrebro's densest cultural corridor, with Assistens Cemetery and the Ravnsborggade antique strip filling the walk before an evening event.