Al Miller will teach first time beginner students how to carve and decorate wooden spoons that can be used as an eating or cooking utensil. The class instruction will focus on the safe way to use hand and machine tools. The decorating and finishing of the spoons will be included.
Teaching methods include; showing samples of different types of spoons and butter/jam spreaders (wood knives), group instruction, individual help and how to sharpen tools.
All tools and equipment are provided for student use by the teacher. 2 spoon blanks and 1 butter/jam spreader are also included, as is a pack of 1/4 sheets of sandpaper. Extra wood blanks and power carving sand paper can be purchased from the teacher.
Saturday, October 12th – Sunday, October 13th | 9-5pm | $200
Class size is limited to 6. This workshop will sell out.
Class cost is $200 for the 2 day class. A $50.00 deposit is required to hold a place for you.
Send the deposit to:
Al 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.
Biography
Al Miller is a retired Industrial Arts teacher who specialized in woodworking and furniture construction. He received Connecticut’s Celebration of Excellence award for his innovative teaching style and has been teaching carving to adults for the past 14 years at the Woodworkers Club, Norwalk, CT. Al started carving in 1989 and has studied in Norway and in the United States at Fletcher Farms and at “Vesterheim” (the Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa) under numerous old world masters (Hans Sandom, Rolf Sogge, Knut Arnensen, Arve Mosand, kuut Arnesen, Alf Stronen, Otar Flaton, Rolf Taraldset and others). Al has won competition ribbons with his carvings in local and national competitions. He received his BS teaching degree from Oswego (NYSUCO), his MS from Central Connecticut State University and has taken 33 credits on the post gradate level.
Denmark has proud traditions, when it comes to playing jazz violin. Svend Asmussen was very loved all over Scandinavia, and even in the US many know of “The Fiddling Viking.” Residing in San Francisco – Danish-born violinist Mads Tolling is making a career in music. Mads has lived in the US since 2000, where he began his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Soon after graduating he was discovered by French Jazz violinist, Jean-Luc Ponty, who recommended him to join bassist Stanley Clarke’s band. This encounter led to eight years of international touring and recording with Clarke. Mads has performed with some of the biggest names in jazz including Ramsey Lewis, Kenny Barron, Chick Corea, Paquito D’Rivera, and he has won two Grammy Awards as part of the string group, Turtle Island Quartet.
Ever since Mads as a 15-year-old called up Svend Asmussen, the two of them have stayed in contact till Svend’s passing last year. Back then Svend told Mads to listen to violinist Stuff Smith, and he soon after donated a large chunk of his music collection to Mads – including many handwritten charts.
Joining Mads Tolling this evening is Danish guitarist Jacob Fischer. Jacob is one of the premiere jazz guitarists in Europe, and many compare him to the great Django Reinhardt. Jacob was a member of Svend Asmussen’s quartet for the last 20 years of Svend’s life, and he is featured on several albums with the quartet. Mads and Jacob connected in 2014, when Mads put a new group together to tour Scandinavia. The two of them have performed over one hundred concerts in Northern Europe and the US.
The program will feature a mix of tunes all the way from Svend’s s collaboration with guitarist Ulrik Neumann back in the 40s and 50s up to his more recent quartet works. Svend’s signature tune “June Night” and the Swe-Danes hit “Scandinavian Shuffle” are on the set list, along with Danish folk tune, “I Skovens Dybe Stille Ro” as well as songs from the Great American Songbook.
Mads Tolling and Jacob Fischer have released an album that will be available on this tour of the US and Canada: Celebrating Svend Asmussen.
Thursday, September 19th | 7pm | $25; $15 for SCC Members
Polarn O. Pyret, the leading brand in Sweden for kids, is holding a Sample Sale at the SCC on Sunday October 6th from 10am to 5pm.
Come scoop up bargains in sizes newborn to age 12 years. All season and styles will be represented.
The brand’s famous and functional Nordic outerwear will also be available in all sizes. Savings up to 75% off original retail and a bunch of Grab ‘em Now Deals! Cash or credit and pls. bring you own bag!
In Composition for a space in between (2015), Bruno Råberg will play accompanying pieces for his daughter, Erika Råberg’s exhibit, Available Light. They will 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.
Saturday, September 14th | 7pm | $15; $7 for SCC Members
The SCC welcomes you to join us for a screening of The Human Shelter as part of Boston Design Week 2019. How do we construct homes in today’s worldwide hotspots which are facing the challenges of climate change, globalization and migration? How do people create shelters and feel at home with others and in their bodies?
Boris Benjamin Bertram’s film The Human Shelter, explores different people’s ways of creating their homes around the globe. In a refugee camp outside Mosul, in a shanty town on the lagoon in Lagos, or in six square meters in the mega-city of Tokyo… The exploring director also visits the Sami reindeer herders in the arctic circle, and NASA’s futuristic Mars habitat in Hawaii, USA. It’s a poetic expedition around four continents. An existential film about how we construct and articulate stories about our homes.
The Human Shelter comprises seven chapters. Every chapter has a shelter with a human story and a poetic performance. Every one of these representations pushes the audience to think about what ‘home ’means to them. To you…
Saturday, September 7th | 1pm | Tickets $5; FREE for SCC members
**This program will be presented in Estonian as part of the Boston Estonian School **
Vanemuine Theater from Tartu, Estonia will present a concert performance for children Help! Opera!? Estonian stage music. The performance will teach us about the history of Estonian stage music. We have a chance to listen to many hits from various Estonian operas, operettas, and musicals.
Sunday, September 8th | 3pm | admission $20 adults, $10 children (16 and under).
The students of the Boston Estonian School free admission.
**This program will be presented in Estonian by the Boston Estonian School**
The Vanemuine Theater will be “Estonian Operetta at Vanemuine”. The performance was premiered in August in Tartu at the 150th anniversary of the Vanemuine Theater.
The most fruitful years in the Estonian operetta history were the years between 1955 and 1970. We don’t talk much about that period now but the operetta music that was composed during these years is very expressive and charming. Merle Jalakas and Jaan Willem Sibul will sing a colorful selection of operetta songs that have been performed at Vanemuine Theater over the years. The pianist is Ele Sonn. We will have a chance to listen to greatest hits – duets and potpourris – from operettas such as “Only a Dream” and “Golden Veal” by Boris Kõrver, “Lights at Home Harbor” and “Jüri from Rummu” by Edgar Arro, “Vacation in Viljandi” and “Following Hermes” by Leo Normet.
Sunday, September 8th | 5:30 | admission $20, $10 children (16 and under)
Join us for for our all new festival– BERSERK – A Viking Festival for All Ages
Visit the two rival Viking encampments on our front lawn. See them work on traditional Viking-era craft, Viking games, combat demonstrations– and don’t miss these rivals as the fight to the “death”
Browse our Nordic vendors, play Kubb and Molkky and even take a traditional Finnish sauna by Abundance Sauna (extra fee). More participants to be announced!
Saturday, September 21st | 11am – 3pm | Tickets: Adults $15 ($20 day of), kids (12 and under) $7 ($10 day of)
in the NORDIC HALL:
12:30 Screening of VINTER RAVN – a short film, set in the Middle Ages, centered on a female Viking warrior. It depicts her struggle for redemption as she is hunted by Christian assassins who seek to wipe out her and her clan. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film maker. Pose with the leather and chain-mail costumes from the set!
1:30 Author Nancy Marie Brown talks about her latest book Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them. The talk will be followed by a brief Q&A and book signing.
ABOUT RACHEL Korean-American violinist who studied with Dorothy DeLay and later Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School Pre-college Division. She has performed as a soloist with the Chicago, St. Louis, Houston and Seattle symphonies; the National Symphony in Washington; the Staatskapelle Berlin; and the Boston Pops.
The Nordic Hall will once again host the Newton Art Association‘s New Member Show during the month of June. Come on out to view the show any day during business hours!
The opening reception will be on Saturday, June 1st from 3-4:30pm. Refreshments will be available and the artists will be in attendance to discuss their work. Admission is free.
About the Newton Art Association:
“The Newton Art Association seeks to encourage the appreciation and expression of fine arts to our membership and the Newton community. We are an organization of over 200 active artists and art enthusiasts, representing all branches of the visual arts, from drawing to sculpture. The majority of members live in Newton, nearby cities, and elsewhere in New England. The Newton Art Association, was founded in 1949 by the late James King Bonnar and a small group of artists who felt that artists needed the support of each other to share ideas, techniques and opportunities to paint together.”
