The Scandinavian Cultural Center Presents: A Traditional Wood Fired Sauna Experience.
Got Sauna will be at The Scandinavian Cultural Center — Friday, Saturday, and Sunday January 24-26, 2025.
There are many sessions available each day, starting as early as 10:00am. Choose between 60 minute and 90 minute sessions. The session cost is the same regardless of the number of people in your party. The sauna comfortably accommodates 3 people at once. Ten minutes of each session is allotted for turn over. You are welcome to book available consecutive sessions for a longer sauna experience.
SOLD OUT
Got Sauna will be back in February! So if you are interested in booking a session, click here!
Special Friday Sessions
We are offering sessions on Friday beginning at 4:00pm. Each session is one and a half hours long, 80 minutes of heat.
Sauna Mestari will be on site to provide a full orientation to all participants
Daring souls are invited to experience the thrill of thermal extremes with a dip in the cold plunge tank, or snow angels, if Mother Nature and Ol’ Man Winter cooperate.
Afterwards relax around the fire pit to share stories of sauna adventure while enjoying tasty snacks.
Participants provide their own towels, swimsuits and hydration.
Preregistration is required. A welcome/orientation packet which includes a liability waiver which must be signed by each participant.
If you have specific questions about this event email Mark@Gotsauna.com or go to Got sauna
Ella is Sámi, a member of the indigenous population of Northern Europe. She’s also a pop star and activist who wants to protect the Sámi cultural heritage and the northern ecosystems. In addition to unique nature, the mountains in northern Norway, which is where Ella comes from, also have large copper deposits. When the Norwegian government issues a mining permit for the region and a stunning fjord is threatened by toxic waste, Ella decides to act, joining the front lines of a protest movement. Civil disobedience appears to be the only way to stop the mining. The successful young musician’s activist efforts to gain respect for the planet come into conflict with the interests of the mining companies. The film, set upon the background of Sámi electro-pop, also provides a look at the Sámi community, the history of their forced assimilation, and their will to retain their traditions and natural environment.
Saturday, January 25th | 1pm | $10; $5 for members | tickets
In Norwegian with English subtitles | Documentary | 72 minutes
Join us for an event with award-winning Finnish-American writer, Laura Plummer, as she shares her debut chapbook, A Decade in Gloucester: Reflections on History and Home. A Decade in Gloucester is a collection of poetry and prose about discovering her Finnish roots in Gloucester, and celebrates the city’s Finnish heritage.
The book is available on Lulu in paperback, ebook and PDF formats, and on Amazon for Kindle. I am currently also working on an audiobook version that will be available on Audible, Amazon and iTunes.
LAURA PLUMMER is an award-winning American poet, writer, and filmmaker, born in Massachusetts, USA, and living in Cape Ann since 2014.
Presented as the Library’s January film pick: Loveable (2024)
Loveable is an interpersonal film about a break-up, but also a woman´s opportunity for self-knowledge, growth and having to deal with unconscious and dysfunctional patterns in herself.
While Sigmund is always away on business, Maria juggles her career with childcare and managing the home. Like many other relationships, theirs was also all about love and harmony in the early stages, however, after years of married life, the cracks started to appear. Sigmund is ultimately the one to ask for a divorce, and Maria is forced to confront her greatest fears. While ostensibly a divorce drama, this debut by writer-director Lilja Ingolfsdottir nevertheless takes us further, delivering a multilayered character study of a woman experiencing a crisis that leads her to self-knowledge. Loveable isn’t a story about the quest for true love; on the contrary, it takes a fresh approach to examine contemporary ideas of romance, equality within the relationship, and the power of womanhood.
Directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir, Loveable (Elskling), received its world premiere as part of the Crystal Globe main competition, won an five awards at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. As well as the Special Jury Prize and the Award for Best Actress (for Helga Guren), the film received the Europa Cinemas Label Jury Award, the FIPRESCI Jury Award, and the Ecumenical Jury Award.
Saturday, January 11th | 1pm | $10; $5 for members | Tickets
In Norwegian with English subtitles | Drama | 100 minutes
** PLEASE ONLY SIGN UP IF YOU ARE ABLE TO PREPARE A DISH TO SHARE WITH THE GROUP. THE FUN OF IT IS ABOUT THE PARTCIPATION**
What’s a cookbook club? It’s the idea is that — like a traditional book club — every month you get together as a group. Instead of talking about a book you will make a recipe from a chosen cookbook, bring it in and the group will sample the recipes and discuss the the recipes and the cookbook. If you love to cook or bake, (especially Scandi recipes) and love sharing food with friends this is the perfect place for you!
Each month we will choose a different cookbook from a Scandinavian country and pick out 15-20 recipes for people to choose from. On January 9th, 2025 we will be trying out multiple Icelandic recipes from the Homestyle Icelandic Cooking for American Kitchens by Heidi Herman
The cookbooks we choose are available on amazon to purchase. Icelandic Cookbook
This event is full, but we have two other cookbook club dates coming up: Feb 6th, March 6th
Marty Lehman returns to the Nordic Hall! Former architect, and Scandinavian Charitable Society board member, Marty Lehman, paints buildings, cityscapes, landscape and “all things Swedish.”
Marty graduated from Cornell University’s College of Architecture in 1960, and had a professional career in architecture for nearly 50 years, working in Stockholm, Sweden, Boston ,Cambridge and for 22 years as one of DIGITAL’s corporate architects.
Marty “re-discovered” the joy of watercolor painting. This show represents work done in the past 16 years, featuring his favorite themes… buildings, cityscapes, landscapes, and all things Swedish.
His art will be on display throughout November and December.
During our weekly Kaffestugan we will be celebrating the Swedish tradition of Våffeldagen. Swedes have enjoyed waffles in some form since the 1600’s and they remain popular today. So much so they celebrate them every March! Often covered with cream and jam instead of syrup, these are sure to delight. Come on out for lunch and a waffle or just a waffle on it’s own! We won’t judge. The standard Kaffestugan menu will still be available.
Got Sauna will be at The Scandinavian Cultural Center on Saturday, and Sunday March 15 & 16, 2025.
There are many sessions available each day, starting as early as 10:00am. The session cost is the same regardless of the number of people in your party. The sauna comfortably accommodates 3 people at once. Ten minutes of each session is allotted for turn over. You are welcome to book available consecutive sessions for a longer sauna experience.
Sauna Mestari will be on site to provide a full orientation to all participants.
Daring souls are invited to experience the thrill of thermal extremes with a dip in the cold plunge tank, or snow angels, if Mother Nature and Ol’ Man Winter are still in cahoots.
Afterwards relax around the fire pit to share stories of sauna adventure while enjoying tasty snacks.
Participants provide their own towels, swimsuits and hydration.
Preregistration is required. A welcome/orientation packet which includes a liability waiver which must be signed by each participant.
Sunday, December 8th – (Not Scandinavian, but a great event by an organization we are a proud member of) Celebrate Newton Holiday Craft Fair – Newton South High School (Newton, MA) – 10am – 4pm
Sunday, December 8th – St. Lucia Concert – Scandinavian Cultural Center (Newton, MA) – 4pm
Saturday, December 14th – Jultrefest for Barn (Children’s Christmas Party) Julenisse – Storytelling – Crafts – Refreshments – Singing. Bring a gift with the child’s name on it for each child you bring Information: cultural@norumbegasofn.org – SCC&L (Newton, MA) – 1 – 3pm
Sunday, December 15th – Boston Estonian Society Christmas PartyThe program includes a traditional blood sausage Christmas meal, some traditional Estonian dancing, a performance by Boston Estonian School pupils, and a Christmas raffle. – SCC&L (Newton, MA) – 4 – 7pm
Celebrate Gingerbread cookie day, Pepparkakans dag, with us. Instituted on December 9 in 1996 in Sweden by the company Annas Pepparkakor as a way to promote this Holiday staple.
We’re celebrating by setting up a decorating station where you can decorate your gingerbread cookie ($5 per cookies) with icing and sprinkles.
To really amp up the Holiday spirit we’ll also have traditional rice porridge. Choose if you want it topped with sugar, cinnamon and cold milk or sugar, cinnamon and butter. There will be a hidden almond and whoever finds it gets the prize.
Of course we’ll also have saffron buns, hot glogg and our regular menu.
Saturday, December 14th | 10am – 2pm | while supplies last, no reservations
We will have a few vendors joining us from 10am – 1pm. You may have seen them at our Huldufólk event in September. There will be Katie with Bobo and Buggie which specializes in handcrafted felting, and Trish with her homemade gnomes!
