Folk Festival
7/5 - 10/5 2009
The program for this year’s festival is ready. Once more we can present a lot of exciting music from Scandinavia, Ireland and England.

Iron Age Market
16/5 – 17/5 2009
Grab the opportunity to go app. 2000 years back in time and see the beautiful village populated again. The market booths will give an insight into Iron Age everyday life.

Fairytale Run 
21/5 2009
The race is one of Denmark’s largest fun runs and it takes place Ascension Day with starting and finishing area around Odense Idrætspark.

Harbour Culture Festival 2009
29/5 – 31/5 2009
Activities and entertainment within leisure and cultural life, sport, athletics and art.

Carl Nielsen International
Clarinet Competition
30/5 - 9/6 2009
The Carl Nielsen International Music Competitions date back to 1980, when the first violin competition was held in Odense, Denmark. Competitions for violin, clarinet and flute alternate and take place every four years.

The Funen Cattle Show
12/6 – 14/6 2009
Animals and agricultural machines – and lots of activities for children.

The Hans Christian Andersen Parade
27/6 – 8/8 + 12/8 - 16/8 2009
Excerpts from Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales performed by children. The parade performs 3 times daily in the “castle” by the Andersen Museum. 

Hans Christian Andersen Festival Plays
22/7 – 15/8 2009
A magical experience in the Funen Village. The festival play this year is a children’s musical based on the fairy tale The Tinderbox. 

Flower Festival
12/8 – 16/8 2009
Every year tens of thousands of flowers transform the city centre into Denmark’s largest flower arrangement. This year the festival is themed on interior decorating.

Opera on Engen (the meadow)
16/8 2009
Odense Symphonic Orchestra invites you to spend an afternoon in the lovely meadow in Fruens Bøge listening to opera of international standards.

Odense International Film Festival
18/8 – 23/8 2009
A string of pearls of both long documentaries and international short films, of which many often does not reach the other cinemas in the country.

Culture Night

4/9 2009
The shops and museums stay open until late. A lot of activities all around the city.

RobotFestival
10/9 - 12/9 2009
The RobotFestival is an annual event that attracts playful, instructive and interactive robots from all over the world.

Day of the Fiord
13/9 2009
Activities on both land, water and in the sky. Round the Fjord.

Hans Christian Andersen Marathon 
21/9 2009
An international run with participants from all around the world.

Music Harvest
3/11 – 7/11 2009
Since the first Music Harvest in 1985, the festival has presented contemporary music from the USA, the former USSR, Great Britain, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Poland, Lithuania the Baltic countries and Denmark.

Odense International Blues Festival 
6/11 - 8/11 2009
Odense International Blues Days offer local and international artists performing on/in a few of Odense’s minor/smaller charming music scenes.

Christmas fair at Møntergården
29/11 – 30/11 and 6/12 – 7/12
The first two weekends in December, the Hans Christian Andersen Christmas Fair is held in Odense, and in connection with that the Møntergård welcomes you to a historic Christmas. Here you can experience the Christmas spirit as in a Danish market town in the 1800s.

Hans Christian Andersen Christmas Market
28/11 – 29/11 and 5/12 – 6/12 2009 
In the old part of town near Hans Christian Andersen’s house in Odense, the historic Christmas fair is held at the end of November and the first weekend of December. The Christmas fair is based on the period of Hans Christian Andersen and of course the famous characters from his fairytales.

Christmas at the Funen Village 12/12 - 13/12 2009
The Funen Village welcomes you to a traditional Christmas event. The village will be shrouded in the aroma of food and the smoke from the wood stoves, and mother will prepare samples of the Christmas food. All guests are invited to taste the Christmas food, cakes, freshly pressed apple juice as well as warm and cold homemade beer.