Smörgåstårta is a traditional Swedish Sandwich Cake enjoyed year round, especially during special celebrations like Midsommar, birthday parties and weddings.
Our quick & easy homemade Swedish Sandwich Cake features a “savoury icing” made up of mayonnaise and sour cream. The interior is layered with bread slices, shrimp salad, smoked salmon and dill. The Swedish entrée is then topped with sliced vegetables, fresh dill, eggs and lemon slices
The Kaffestugan is celebrating this year as a Mother’s Day/Welcome Spring special event 10am-2pm. Come in and try this delicious Swedish creation!
Saturday, May 13th in the Kaffestugan from 10am-2pm*
**while supplies last. Full menu will also be available for order**
Join us for an afternoon concert with baritone Marcus Johnson.
The program will feature classical as well as Finnish and Swedish heritage.
Saturday, April 15th, 2023 | 1pm | $10; free for SCC members | tickets
ABOUT MARCUS: Marcus Johnson is a baritone classical vocalist, pianist and organist. He graduated from University of Massachusetts with Bachelors Degree of digital media and music at Dartmouth, Ma. He studied voice under the tutelage of doctors Tianxu Xhou and Maryte Bizinkauskas and studied organ privately with Richard Bunbury, AGO Boston Chapter.
Marcus Johnson – House Cantor and Soloist of the First Congregational Church of Fall River. He is also heard on Lunch Time Recitals as Baritone Soloist. Recently, he performed the baritone arias in Handel’s Messiah and the section leader under the direction of Judy Conrad, Music Director and organist.
One hundred years ago, Anders Zorn (1860 – 1920) was among Europe’s most celebrated artists. Kings, presidents, and cultural figures lined up to have their portraits painted by the famous Swede, and his etchings commanded prices higher than those of almost any other artist. Born in the little parish of Mora, situated in the deep forest of Sweden, Zorn soon achieved great international success.
As a portrait painter, he was especially in demand in the United Stat es, where he had a following that not only appreciated his refined, sophisticated style, but was also willing to pay extremely high sums to be painted by him. During his seven trips to America Zorn created one hundred portraits; among the subjects were three presidents: Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, and Theodore Roosevelt. Zorn also became a close friend of the voracious art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner. In 1896, after eight years in Paris, Anders Zorn and his wife Emma (née Lamm) moved home to Sweden and Mora. Her, Zorn devoted himself to subject matters from his native area, pictures that re present a rural culture that seems to be resistant to change.
By virtue of his social standing and his financial resources, Zorn was able to provide inspiration, collect objects and donate money to various projects in the Mora region. He contributed greatly to the preservation of folk culture, to music and dance, woodwork and textile handicrafts. In the Zorn House, the couple’s home in Mora, artistic crafts from Dalarna were boldly mixed with items of great value acquired from abroad: woven tapestries, objects in silver, antique marble sculptures, and paintings by old masters.
Dr. Johan Cederlund, Museum Director at the Zorn Museum, will give a presentation of the works, life, and legacy of Anders Zorn.
Immediately following the talk SWEA Boston will host a reception with coffee and treats.
Dr. Johan Cederlund (born 1963) received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Lund Sweden, and studied at the Centre Ledoux, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.
Formerly Chief Curator of the Uppsala University Art Collections, he is since 2006 Director of the Zorn Museum in Mora, Sweden.
Between 2011 and 2020, he was Adjunct Professor at Uppsala University. He has written several books about eighteenth-century Swedish architecture, i.e. Classical Swedish Architecture 1650-1840 (2007), as well about Sweden’s master painter, Anders Zorn.
Dr. Cederlund has also served as a Royal Chamberlain to the King of Sweden since 2016, where he serves HM The King’s Household, HM The Queens Household, HRH The Crown Princess’s Household, HM The King’s Royal Stables, The Office of Ceremonies and the Royal Household.
Ann Bausman returns to the SCC with a workshop on paper stitching!
Embellish old black and white and colored photographs, postcards, and prints with embroidery to create one-of-a-kind cards, collages, and keepsakes. We’ll look at the work of artists who use this technique, review basic embroidery stitches, and discuss working with patterns and transferring images.
No experience necessary and beginners are welcome.
The instructor will provide needles, an assortment of embroidery thread, a foam backing for piercing the paper, pencils, a variety of papers, photos, postcards, washi tape, as well as paper punches.
*Please bring a pair of scissors suitable for cutting paper, scotch tape, and a bag for transporting items*
Participants may wish to bring personal items that they can embroider, such as postcards and photographs (black and white is best).
Saturday, April 29, 2023 | 10-1 | $40 advanced registration required | register here
ABOUT ANN As a graduate of Tufts University, Ann took numerous art classes at The School of The Museum of Fine Arts. While doing a semester at The American College in Paris she immersed herself in studio art classes through the Parsons School of Design. Ann’s day job is raising funds for a non-profit but she has taught courses on embroidery.
We invite you to join us for a two-day rosemaling workshop led by Sonja Schmidt, in which we will paint a project in the traditional folk art style of Norway.
Beginners are welcome and will be guided through learning stroke technique, color selection and mixing, then moving on to painting a design onto a wood piece in oils, and will be able to take home their very own finished project to display!
Experienced learners may do the project provided or bring their own piece to work on, for a stimulative and interactive session in which we motivate and encourage one another to achieve our creative goals.
The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 22 and 23. The registration fee is $100 and participants will be e-mailed a list of required supplies as well as details on the project. Participants may bring their own painting kits and supplies, but supplies will also be available for purchase for convenience during the class.
Norwegian guitarist and composer Timothy Johnson returns! Tim will play set a of brand new compositions written for the piano/guitar duo format, with the acclaimed Japanese Boston based pianist Hidemi Akaiwa.
Saturday, April 1st, 2023 | 1pm | $15; $7 for SCC members | tickets
Timothy Johnson is a Norwegian guitarist, composer, and educator, based in NYC. He has performed at world-renowned jazz clubs like Dizzy’s Club (NYC), The 55 Bar (NYC) Scullers Jazz (Boston), Smalls (NYC), and at festivals like the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival (Argentina), as well as clubs in Japan and Norway. Additionally he has appeared alongside jazz luminaries Damien Sneed, Melissa Aldana, and Neal Smith, and most recently has also performed in the award winning musical, Once on this Island.
He completed his Bachelors degree at the Berklee College of Music on scholarship, and recently completed his Masters degree at the Manhattan School of Music on scholarship, studying with guitarist Mike Moreno. He has received many prestigious awards along the way, such as the Berklee Jimi Hendrix Award, the NAMM Innovation Award, the Juvenarte composition award, placed runner up in Lee Ritenour’s Dreamcatcher Competition, and most recently was a scholarship/fellowship recipient of the Norway-Amerika Association. He appears on recordings by the award winning composer Eri Chichibu, as well as singer April Varner’s upcoming release, and is currently set to record his debut album later this year.
Hidemi Akaiwa is a Japanese pianist/composer. She started learning piano at the age of three, and as a youth won many classical music competitions. At the age of 30, she shifted from a successful, corporate career to studying jazz music. She was awarded a full scholarship to attend Berklee where she participates in the Global Jazz Institute, the Jazz and Gender Justice Program, and the Planet MicroJam Institute.
*please note these are NOT being shown at the SCC. Check links for details*
We are proud to, once again, participate in the Wicked Queer Film Festival for 2023. This year there are two full length features and a Swedish short in the Nordic selection.
Heartbeast (Finland)
April 6, 9:00 PM – Brattle Theatre
Elina, a 17-year old aspiring rapper, is forced to leave her home country of Finland and move to the South of France when her mother finds a French boyfriend. She is immediately drawn to her new stepsister Sofia, 18, a charismatic ballet dancer who leads a double life full of boys and drugs.
Daddy and the Muscle Academy (Finland)
April 9, 3:00 PM – MFA, Boston
Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world. His provocative erotic drawings have had an enormous influence on gay identity, attitude and self-understanding. This ground-breaking work combines interviews with Tom (prior to his death in 1992) and his leather men acolytes with hundreds of his original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work. We will be conducting a panel discussion post film moderated by Ulysses Thomas, Mr. New England Leather 2022 and joined by Michael Joseph, Hunter O’Hanian, and Cain Berlinger
Wicked Queer: Boston’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival (formerly the Boston LGBT Film Festival) was founded in 1984 by film programmer George Mansour. Wicked Queer is the 4th longest running LGBTQ+ Film Festival in North America and is an all volunteer organization. Our mission is to build community and to celebrate Queer storytelling and filmmaking through the uplifting of voices and stories not yet heard and to present and preserve the vibrancy of our histories.
Wicked Queer is a sponsored project of the Queer Film Institute.
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.
The Renovation (Finnish: Se mieletön remppa) is a 2020 Finnish comedy film about a couple that inherit their dream house, but it soon leads to a catastrophic renovation, where her big dreams and his skills don’t seem to match.
BAND is a comedy of failures, seen through the eyes of three women of “The Post Performance Blues Band” who give themselves only one year to finally become popstars or quit forever. Each on the brink of 40, they find themselves again coming of age, reckoning with their artistic dreams & the meaning of friendship as they juggle the pressures of motherhood. Playing creatively with the documentary form, the film makes meaning out of life’s messiness and finds resilience in rejection. BAND tells a big little story of triumphant sisterhood.
In Icelandic with English subtitles | Directed by Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir
Saturday, March 25th | 1pm | $10; $5 for members of the SCC with | tickets
Dr. Johan Cederlund (born 1963) received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Lund Sweden, and studied at the Centre Ledoux, Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.
