**Due to a family emergency this event has been moved to January 12th, 201**
The wildly popular phenomenon of hygge gets a warm American twist with this gifty, illustrated guide from bestselling Danish-American author Stephanie Pedersen.
With their overscheduled lifestyles, Americans can’t always find time for the people and things they love. Enter American Cozy, which uses the Danish phenomenon of hygge—comfort, togetherness, and well-being—to bring coziness and ease to readers’ homes, work, and lives. Join Stephanie in our Nordic Hall to talk about her charming book that explores organization and home décor, entertaining, cooking, creating a happier, more productive work life, de-cluttering, and slowing down.
Saturday, January 12th | 2pm | free with registration
Join Finlandia Foundation of Boston as they welcome Saga Krantz, a former competitive synchronized skater from Finland, and coach of Head coach and choreographer of the Haydenettes synchronized skating team.
Synchronized skating is a popular discipline around the world but especially in the U.S. and in Finland. From its early ” precision skating” days when it resembled a precision dance company such as The Rockettes, it has evolved rapidly around the World! For many years the top positions have been dominated by Finland due to their incredible training system. But at this year’s Worlds in Helsinki Finland (April 2019) you will no doubt see several other countries like Russia, Canada, and U.S. wanting that podium spot. Videos from both past and present events will be shown and a quick look at the today’s training system in synchronized skating will be discussed.
Sunday, March 24th | 4pm | Free; donations welcome to support free programming
MORE ABOUT SAGA: Saga joined the Hayden Synchronized Skating teams in 2005 as the Head Coach of the Haydenettes and Ice Ma-tes. In 2007 she earned the position of Director of Synchro-nized Skating. Saga is actively involved with all the teams in the organization. She is currently the Head Coach of the Haydenettes, Lexettes, and Ice Mates. Saga has led the Haydenettes to six U.S. Synchronized Skating Championship titles and four World Synchronized Skating Championships bronze medals.
Swedish accordionist and singer Sunniva Brynnel with American fiddle player Jenna Moynihan. Together, they will explore a repertoire that is traditionally Swedish, but which has traveled across the Atlantic to reach the North American shores in more recent years. Come and experience what happens when young folk musicians in America picks up a Swedish tune and makes it come alive on this side of the Atlantic!
Saturday, January 5th | 1pm | $15; FREE for SCC Members
Former architect Marty Lehman paints buildings, cityscapes, landscapes and “all things Swedish.” In his third exhibition at the SCC he will feature recent watercolors 2008-2018.
On view November 6th through December. Gallery hours vary.
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 ten years, featuring his favorite themes… buildings, cityscapes, landscapes, and all things Swedish.
Based on a true story, the directorial debut of popular Swedish personalities Filip and Fredrik is an outrageous, unconventional comedy set in the 1980s about an eccentric resident of “the most boring town in Sweden” who decides to put his sleepy hamlet on the map by assembling the world’s longest layer cake.
“The Cake General is a warm, perhaps endearing tribute to people who do things; this hilarious story that stems from reality is also about everything that simmers below the surface in a small Swedish city. ” Jorn Rossing Jensen – Cineuropa
1h 41min ; in Swedish with English subtitles
Saturday, November 23rd | 1pm | $7; free for SCC Members
The Scandinavian Library and the SCC are proudly present Fanny and Alexander (1982) as part of our Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden. Bergman intended Fanny and Alexander as his swan song, and it is the director’s warmest and most autobiographical film, an Academy Award– winning triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional intensity with immense joy and sensuality. Bergman described Fanny and Alexander as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” And in this, the full-length version of his triumphant valediction, his vision is expressed at its fullest.
Saturday, December 15th | 1:30pm | Admission $8; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library Members
The Scandinavian Library and the SCC are proudly present Persona (1966) as part of our Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective.
By the midsixties, Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, he attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by Sven Nykvist, the influential Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.
Saturday, October 27th | 1:30pm | Admission $8; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library Members
Hear some of Boston’s best virtuosi on an intimate scale and join them in lively round-table discussions in comfortable, friendly, and eclectic surroundings.
Dianne Pettipaw, violin
Anne Black, viola with artwork by Anne Black
Arrival Platform Humlet (1908/1910/1912)
Percy Grainger (1882-1961)
for Solo Viola
Sonatina for Violin and Viola (1941)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Décidé
Lent
Vif (Fugue)
Elegy for Solo Viola (1930)
Benjamin Britten(1913-1976)
Soliloquy VI for Solo Viola (2016) David Owens for Anne Black
Duo in G major for Violin and Viola, KV 423 (1783) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sunday, November 4th | 3pm | Tickets $30 with discounts for seniors and students; 50% for SCC Members
Before they were paintings, they were photos. And before they were photos they were family – “my people.” This work began with old family photos from Minnesota, Sweden and Greece, and inspired the large family portraits in this exhibit. Family photographs contain universal lessons of art — light, shadow, composition – but they also reveal uniquely personal details about the lives of the relatives. Just look very very carefully.
Artist: Janet Nyberg Paraschos, a Newton resident, has roots in Minnesota, as a descendant of Swedish immigrants; she is married to a Greek immigrant. She has long been interested in family history. A former writer and editor, in retirement she started taking painting classes while searching for a “lost” branch of her family. She found them, as well as an obsession with old photographs.
MY PEOPLE will be on display September-October 2018 in the Nordic Hall.
The artist’s reception (free) will be Thursday, October 4th from 7-9 pm.
INGMAR BERGMAN’S CINEMA
No name is more synonymous with the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema than Ingmar Bergman, a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. In a career that spanned six decades, Bergman directed dozens of films in an astonishing array of tones, ranging from comedies whose lightness and complexity belie their brooding hearts to groundbreaking formal experiments and excruciatingly intimate explorations of family relationships.
The Scandinavian Library and the SCC are proud to take part of the international celebration of Ingmar Bergman for the centennial with the following films:
