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:
The Scandinavian Library and the SCC are proudly present Autumn Sonata as part of our Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective.
Autumn Sonata (1978) was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans: Ingmar and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca. The grande dame, playing an icy concert pianist, is matched beat for beat in ferocity by the filmmaker’s recurring lead Liv Ullmann, as her eldest daughter. Over the course of a day and a long, painful night that the two spend together after an extended separation, they finally confront the bitter discord of their relationship. This cathartic pas de deux, evocatively shot in burnished harvest colors, ranks among the director’s major dramatic works.
Friday, October 26th | 7pm | Admission $8; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library Members
Join Revels as we celebrate the Nordic cultures and traditions of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their Honorary Consuls. Revels Northern LightsEvent will offer a taste of the music central to the 2018 Nordic Christmas Revels production as well as a chance to bid on fabulous live auction items while enjoying delightful traditional desserts.
Vesterheim has returned to Massachusetts! We will work on the basics of rosemaling, including the history, the strokes, and how to paint simple scrolls and flowers. This is a class without pressure to constantly practice. This class will focus on historical usage of paint in reference to the painting of the period. We will be painting in the Telemark tradition inspired by Sigmund Aarseth on a 12-inch Nordic edge plate. The class projects will employ a progression of shapes and surfaces creating more of a challenge for the painter.
October 12th – 14th (Friday – Sunday) | Sons of Norway members receive member price
The class runs 9am-5pm Friday through Sunday
The Kaffestugan (Scandinavian Cafe) will be open Saturday for open faced sandwiches and pastries, but please bring a lunch and water for other days.
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.
Friday, October 12th – Sunday, October 14th | 9-5pm | $200; SCC Members save $20
Class size is limited to 6. This workshop will sell out.
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.
The Scandinavian Cultural Center is excited to welcome the Max Holm Quartet, a renowned young jazz pianist, to play with his quartet in our Nordic Hall. Max, a Swedish and American dual citizen, is a Presidential Scholar at the Berklee College of Music and a member of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.
Max Holm, piano
Tristan Boyadiev Mitchell, sax
Stefano Battaglia, bass
Julian Gutbrod, drums
Saturday, September 29th | 1pm | Tickets $15; $7 for SCC Members
About Max Holm:
Pianist, Composer and Arranger Max Holm’s album THE INSIDE OF THE OUTSIDE with Grammy winners Jeff Coffin of the Dave Matthews Band, Branford Marsalis and Victor Wooten won 2016 Best Jazz Album of the Year from NIMA (Nashville Independent Music Association). Max toured with the Dave Brubeck Jazz Quintet in 2015-16, as a Brubeck Fellow. He opened for legendary rock band JOURNEY in front of 60,000 people at the Stadium of Fire in Utah. Max has played with Wynton Marsalis, Robin Eubanks, Kirk Whalum and Jon Batiste & Stay Human (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s House Band). Max is adept at many musical genres, and has been a session player on several recordings.. He composed the theme song for a web TV show, the soundtrack for a commercial, and earned his first IMDB credit last year for the movie soundtrack of the WONDERFUL film. He also plays the melodica. Max has been meditating for most of his life. He speaks English and Swedish, and is authorized to work in the European Union, as well as the US. Max is a Presidential Scholar at Berklee College of Music and a member of the prestigious Berklee Global Jazz Institute. More at MaxHolm.com.
