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.
This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a clear-eyed response to the current refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Displaced Syrian Khaled (Sherwan Haji) lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves behind his wife and job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable seafood restaurant. After Khaled is denied asylum, he decides not to return to Aleppo–and the paths of the two men cross fortuitously. As deadpan as the best of the director’s work, and with a deep well of empathy for its down-but-not-out characters (many of them played by members of Kaurismäki’s ever-reliable stock company), The Other Side of Hope is a bittersweet tale of human kindness in the face of official indifference.
Saturday, September 15th | 1:30 | $5 suggested donation
100 minutes. In Finnish, Japanese, Arabic, Swedish 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 our biggest event of the year – the Nordic Food Festival!
5th Annual Food Festival– NORDIC BITES
Enjoy tastes from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland while visiting Nordic vendors, listening to live music and taking part in other foodie fun! Don’t forget the return of everyone’s favorite Vikings! Visit their encampment, listen to their music and watch them fight to the “death.”
General Admission: $20 advance ($25 at door)/$15 SCC Members/ Kids 12 & under: $7
11am-3pm
PERFORMERS:
Luana Jøsvold with traditional Norwegian music on accordion
The SCC is glad to welcome Lo Dagerman, daughter of the famed Swedish author Stig Dagerman, back for a new book launch. Lo Dagerman will present her father’s last novel, Wedding Worries, set in his childhood village of Älvkarleby. It tells the story of the Palm family’s celebration of their young daughter Hildur’s marriage to the older village butcher. The novel begins on the morning of the wedding day with a mysterious knocking on the bride’s window, and ends twenty four hours later after a bacchanalian feast filled with unexpected drama.
Stig Dagerman drew on a memory from the farm where he grew up and the people who populated it. Lo will tell the story behind the novel, and introduce its characters (including one based on her grandfather!). She will use pictures from Dagerman’s Älvkarleby and hopefully also clips from the award-winning Swedish film “Brollopsbesvar” from 1964 with Jarl Kulle & Christina Schollin.
This time my goal was a different type of novel: uncontrolled, wildly colorful and loud – filled by an array of characters … real people who through the power of their authenticity did not lend themselves to simple psychological analysis. – Stig Dagerman on Wedding Worries
Saturday, October 6th | 7 pm | Free with registration
The Scandinavian Library and the SCC are proudly present Scenes from a Marriage as part of our Ingmar Bergman Centennial Retrospective.
Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners. Shot in intense, intimate close-ups by master cinematographer Sven Nykvist and featuring flawless performances, Ingmar Bergman’s emotional X-ray reveals the intense joys and pains of a complex relationship.
Friday, October 19th | 7pm | Admission $8; $5 for SCC and Scandinavian Library Members
