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THE VÄLLINGBY LIBRARY will now also be open every sunday from April 1. Madeleine Sjöstedt from the Liberal Party put forward that SEK 3 Million will be used to finance the increased availability for 11 Stockholm libraries. (Source: DN.se) By the way a new website for the libraries in Stockholm is under way.

Haruki Murakami is Japan’s most famous contemporary writer. Right now I’m reading a book called Norwegian Wood by Mr Murakami. The book is a story about a young drama student in Tokyo. Murakami’s web page at Random House could be found here.

VERNISSAGE / jh björling

MADE A SHORT ATTENDANCE to the great event of this day, the 13 January, a vernissage at the Art Gallery at Culture House The Stairway, with the local Stockholm West painter Jean Harriet Björling. She has been representated on exhibitions in Sweden and USA.

Citrus the exhibition's theme presenting large paintings mixing different photographical and oil painting techniques, with the common motif – close ups of Citrus shells on dark backgrounds, priced KSEK 7–20 (€ 630–18.000).

Resumé on Jean Harriet Björling at Artist Center KC
The art above at the right shows art from earlier exhibitions.