We are pleased to be co-presenters for the Women’s Shorts being presented as part of Wicked Queer, the 36th Annual LBGTQ+ Film Festival being shown virtually between July 4th and August 2nd.
The Women’s Shorts examine love, break-ups, hook-ups, Fundamentalist Christians, and surprisingly no cats, round out this year’s women’s shorts program. Curated by Katie Shannon.
Included is Sweden’s My World in Yours (Min värld i din). Shams and Stella are in love. Shams hasn’t told Stella that she seeks asylum, nor about Hanine who’s still in Palestine waiting for Shams to help her come to Sweden. Stella works at the Migration office. When Shams has her interview with Swedish Migration Board, Stella shows up as the assistant judge. Shams has to tell the truth to get asylum.
Directed by Jenifer Malmqvist | 2019 | 30 min | Sweden | Swedish with English subtitles
Alarm dispatcher and former police officer Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins.
Saturday, December 21st | 1:30 | Free; $5 suggested donation
85 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles.
Films start at 1:30pm. Refreshments for attendees are served at 1pm. Lunch (not included) is available in the Kaffestugan, which is open until 3pm every Saturday.
Join us for an opening reception for Swedish born, Rhode Island resident, Jens Retlev’s second show at the SCC.
On Display through February | Email Kerry for viewing times
ABOUT JENS: Jens grew up in Sweden surrounded by the most beautiful landscapes in the world, as well as cities with amazing architecture. His father was a painter and an architect, and he was raised to respect and appreciate the beauty around me. Jens came to Rhode Island as a young adult and was drawn to the enchanting coastlines, forests, and mountains in New England.
Jens uses his art to capture his memories of Scandinavia as well as all that what he has experienced, and continues to experience, throughout New England. To him it is a privilege to be an artist, and he strive to use color, texture, and shadows to express his love of and enchantment with the natural world.
When I first started envisioning SMÅ ART, our small works event, it was to be a night meant to be in our beautiful Nordic Hall, bustling with artists and friends. We’d enjoy some wine and treats together and look at an explosion of 8×8 art pieces from artists from across the country. The night would end with a silent auction; guests leaving with a special 8×8 creation that caught not only their eyes, but their heart. Sadly this vision was not destined to happen, but with so many talented and generous artist working on pieces especially for SMÅ ART we knew that we couldn’t let even a global pandemic stop us.
Available Light presents photographs and videos from 2012 – 2017 made on the farm in Värmland, Sweden, that has been in the artist’s family since the early 1600s. A unique sense of place emerges through the slow, careful act of looking through the lens, with resulting images that both document and transform.
On display through November
September 14th at 7pm join us for a companion performance, Composition, as Erika’s father and young cousin play variations on a Swedish folk tune as they move about the farmhouse, a call and response between past and present. A newer companion piece, Lines (2017), explores the fleeting feeling of fall during harvest time. Get tickets here.
ABOUT ERIKA: Erika Råberg (b. 1987, Boston, MA) is a Swedish-American visual artist and writer who uses both still and moving images to explore the subtle relationships built into her surrounding environments, whether on the farm in rural Sweden which has been in her family since the 1600s or in and around Boston, Massachusetts, where mythologies surrounding the founding of the United States provide rich material.
Råberg has shared work widely in Chicago, including at the Elmhurst Art Museum, ACRE, Roman Susan, Chicago Artists Coalition, Sector 2337, High Concept Labs at Mana Contemporary, Filter Photo Festival, Ballroom Projects, and the Swedish American Museum. She has also shared work in New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Tennessee, as well as internationally in Stockholm and London.
She earned her BA in English and Comparative American Studies from Oberlin College in 2009, and lived and worked in Tokyo, Japan for the years following graduation as a Fellow for the Oberlin Shansi Foundation (2009-11). In 2015, she earned her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was a recipient of the James Nelson Raymond fellowship.
Råberg was recently a recipient of a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation as well as a guest artist in Project Studies for Professional Artists at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017-18.
Join us for a coffee tasting of the iconic Norwegian coffee brand Evergood.
Join us in the Kaffestugan for a blind taste test of our current coffee and Evergood. YOU help us decide if its time to make Evergood our new coffee brand!
Saturday, November 30th | 12-2pm in the Kaffestugan
ABOUT EVERGOOD:
It all started back in 1866 when Johan Johannson opened his import business, focusing on coffee, sugar and syrup for the first few years. Back then, raw coffee was sold in sacks to merchants who then sold it on to the end users who roasted and ground the beans themselves. In 1926, the company invested in its first roasting machine, which marked the start of a process where Joh. Johannson, as an importer, gradually took over the process of blending the raw coffee before roasting, grinding and packaging it.
By the mid-1950s, the coffee market was distinguished by coffee importers’ tireless hunt for favorable spot purchases of raw coffee, which often led to major variations in the taste and quality of the coffee that was offered to buyers. This gave Joh. Johannson the idea of marketing a high-quality coffee mixed and blended using the finest types of beans so as to produce predictable taste and quality – every time. The name chosen derived directly from this strategy: EVERGOOD.
Today, the company is a significant European importer of the finest quality coffees from Africa, Asia and South America. No-compromise standards of quality guarantee users some of the finest coffee experiences available anywhere.
We at Joh. Johannson Kaffe strive constantly to deliver the best, tastiest coffee experience. That is why we make stringent demands on every link in the production chain. Good ingredients, the right blend and accurate roasting comprise an art it takes years of experience to master.
Every day, we roast between 70 and 80 tons of top quality coffee beans at our production facility in Oslo, Norway. Once the beans have obtained the right core temperature that helps bring out the fine aroma in the coffee, they are cooled quickly with water, which vaporizes on contact with the hot beans.
When the resulting clouds of steam are blown out of the stacks in the coffee tower, this is a sign that a new batch of beans has been perfectly roasted and is now ready for further refinement. And if the wind is blowing from the right direction, you can pick up a hint of the delightful aroma of freshly roasted coffee beans from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Kenya …
An oil worker has a difficult time relating to his adopted son after his wife dies. In desperation, he takes his son on a trip to Colombia to find his biological mother.
102 minutes. In Norwegian, English, and Spanish with English subtitles.
Films start at 1:30pm. Refreshments for attendees are served at 1pm. Lunch (not included) is available in the Kaffestugan, which is open until 3pm every Saturday.
In this series of infant and mother classes you will be provided with guidance on a variety of topics to make your transition at home with your baby as easy and cozy as possible.
Learn about important infant topics in an atmosphere of hygge (coziness) while we fika with Swedish coffee and pastries. Cozy sweaters and socks are encouraged! The end of each class will be open to discussion and a Q&A session for moms.
Fridays, September 13th – October 18th | 10:30-11:30am | $25 per class (discount for 6 week registration available) **must register in advance**
09/13 – How to have a hygge home and baby
09/20 – Formula/Breastfeeding/Introducing Bottles/Weaning
09/27 – Infant Play and Top Sensory Development Toys
10/04 – Sleep Training Essentials
10/11 – Introducing Solids and Sippy Cups
10/18 – Scandinavian Parenting in a Nutshell–What we can learn from this region as our babies grow
ABOUT KATE: Kathryn “Kate” Leaf Wallace is a Boston nurse with nearly 24 years of infant and childcare experience and owner of Mamma & Bebis, sleep training and infant care consulting agency. She holds a masters degree in healthcare leadership from Brown University, and holds certificates in breastfeeding counseling and childbirth education as well. Kate founded her business to support other mothers around the Scandinavian model of mothers supporting mothers. She enjoys sharing her Swedish heritage any baby knowledge with others over “fika” or coffee and pastry breaks. Kate lives with her husband and daughter Karoline Astrid outside of Boston.
We welcome back master artist Linda Miller for a two-day fall 2019 workshop dedicated to rosemaling a Norwegian style home sign.
Background paint will be supplied. Brushes and palette knives will be offered for sale. The project will be an 8” Nordic basswood bowl to be bought from teacher. A list of student’s supplies will be sent upon registration.
Beginners are welcome. We will be painting welcome signs big and small.
Saturday, October 12th & Sunday, October 13th – 14th | 9am – 5pm | $240 tuition
To register a $50.00 deposit is required to hold a place for you.
Send the deposit to:
Linda Miller
59 Nick Road
Middlebury, CT 06762
The Kaffestugan (Scandinavian Cafe) will be open Saturday, from 11-3, for open faced sandwiches and pastries, but please bring a lunch and water for other days.
ABOUT LINDA: Linda Miller has taught rosemaling at Fletcher Farm in Vermont, John Campbell School in North Carolina, Vesterheim Museum in Iowa and several different Sons of Norway lodges on the east coast, and adult education classes in her area.
ABOUT KATE: Kathryn “Kate” Leaf Wallace is a Boston nurse with nearly 24 years of infant and childcare experience and owner of 
ABOUT LINDA: Linda Miller has taught rosemaling at Fletcher Farm in Vermont, John Campbell School in North Carolina, Vesterheim Museum in Iowa and several different Sons of Norway lodges on the east coast, and adult education classes in her area.