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Uppsala Hosts Hip-Hop and Table Tennis Festivals

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  • Katarina Cup festival on May 8–9 offers free music and table tennis for youth
  • Artists Jacco, Izza Garra, and Afasi to visit Gottsunda and Gränby
  • Earlier hip-hop days and Spray Your Say event promote community engagement

Sweden's only music and table tennis festival, Katarina Cup, is scheduled for May 8–9, according to multiple reports. The festival aims to provide middle school children from socioeconomically vulnerable areas with free access to music and table tennis, and this year it is organized in collaboration with the Stiftelsen Läxhjälpen. Artists Jacco, Izza Garra, and Afasi (Herbert Munkhammar) will visit Gottsunda and Gränby during the festival, with specific activities including a table tennis tournament and a music workshop with Jacco in Gränby on May 8, and a meeting with Herbert Munkhammar for middle school children in Gottsunda on May 9.

The exact schedule and other planned artists or activities for Katarina Cup have not been disclosed. Earlier, from March 30 to April 1, Uppsala municipality organized hip-hop days at Gottsunda Kulturhus, where residents could try graffiti, learn popping, and hear graffiti artist Pärra von Andreasson discuss the legendary Gottsunda Hip festival, though the specific timing for these days remains unclear. In a separate event, Spray Your Say offers activities such as graffiti, popping, a lecture on Gottsunda's hip-hop history, and a collective graffiti work, with many drop-in activities aimed at everyone aged 10–100 years, according to official sources.

Organized by several municipal operations in Gottsunda, the event focuses on bringing generations together through culture, but details on additional activities, participant numbers, and exact locations for all events are not confirmed.

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