For the second year in a row, Graffiti Day is celebrated, on the initiative of, among others, Graffiti Promotion Stockholm.
This year, too, the event will be corona-adapted.
From a dozen Swedish cities - and from Delhi in India - the event is streamed live.
In several places it is also open to the public to try painting.
- The purpose is to give people an opportunity to look into the culture and see this fine community that is on the walls where we see and paint, says Sven from Swedish Graffare podcast, who is also involved in arranging.
Want to discuss the controversial
The purpose is to celebrate graffiti, but also to invite a broader discussion.
- We want to highlight and discuss how to express yourself in the public space.
We want to include the more controversial elements in graffiti, such as tags, which most people see as vandalism, says Sven.
He believes that thorns are the most difficult to make, technically speaking, compared to painting on an open wall in controlled forms.
- A good tag, a good handwriting, is something you have seconds to do and the placements are often stressful as well.
It is a form of calligraphic qualities and it would be fun if more non-initiates could understand the imagery and motivation for why they do it, he says.
"Those in power are in it"
In Helsingborg, the day is celebrated in connection with Gåsebäcksfesten, where you can also take part in other street culture such as breakdance battles.
55 graffiti artists will participate and paint on a 400 meter long wall.
Sven from Svenska graffare podcast is pleased that the municipality is involved and sponsors the festival.
- Graffiti has been met with zero tolerance in Sweden, from the 80s until quite recently.
So I'm glad that those in power are on this train and understand that when you express yourself in this idiom on an open wall, it's no problem.
It is quite decoupled from vandalism, he says.
- I am glad that graffiti has become more widely accepted.