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Join a group of families for Norwegian playgroup! Give your kids a chance to speak Norwegian with other children while playing and learning.

Saturday, February 17th | 10:30 – noon | $5 suggested donation per child

Hubert is a shy and introverted graphic designer who hasn’t been too successful when approaching women. When he falls in love with Hanna, he tries to impress her by resorting to mimicking his boss, a notorious womanizer. This tactic works as an ice-breaker, but soon things get out of control, with unforeseen consequences.

Saturday, February 16th | 1:30pm | FREE donations accepted

93 minutes. In Icelandic 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.

After their public showing movies in our film series become part of the Scandinavian Library’s collection of DVDs available for borrowing by Library members.

In 1915 three women drove across the country in an Overland Six automobile, from San Francisco to DC. They carried with them 500,000 signatures on a petition to Congress and President Wilson, demanding an amendment to the US Constitution enfranchising women. In the group were two Swedes from Rhode Island,  Despite their considerable contributions to making the trip happen at all, and with success, because they were immigrants.  As a result, they are often left out of descriptions of this trip.

In 2015 Maine author Anne Gas was so inspired by the story she retraced this famous trip. Join us in the Nordic Hall as Anne retells the story of her great-grandmother and the other important women that took part in the suffrage movement.

Saturday, March 24th | 1pm | $5 suggested donation; free for SCC members

ABOUT ANNE:

Anne B. Gass is Florence Brooks Whitehouse’s great-granddaughter. She is the author of Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, published in 2014. Her article, “Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Vote to Ratify Women’s Suffrage in 1919,” appeared in the Maine History Journal in 2012. Gass lectures regularly on Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine suffrage history at conferences, historical societies, libraries, and for other groups. Along with other volunteers she is helping the Maine State Museum to develop an exhibit in honor of the 100-year anniversary of Maine’s ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

In her professional life, Gass has continued her great-grandmother’s activist tradition. She is the founder and principal of ABG Consulting LLC, a small business devoted to supporting nonprofits, local and state governments, and foundations in their efforts to help people in need build stable, productive lives. Her clients create affordable housing and provide programming for people who are low income, homeless, are refugees, have mental illness, or incarcerated.

Visit the Nordic Hall through January and enjoy NATURE from Near and Afar a photo exhibit by Bruce Hauck.

Bruce Hauck is an amateur photographer specializing in nature, with most of my subjects taken from the New England area, while on vacation, or on safari in Africa. Bruce’s interest in capturing birds started sixteen years ago when I noticed the abundant wildlife activity from his home office window overlooking the Charles River.

On display through January 2018

All pictures here on exhibit are for the benefit of The Scandinavian Cultural Center — 80% will be donated to the Center.

Finlandia Foundation of Boston brings the Finlandia Foundation National Lecturer of the Year, Peter MacKeith, to the Nordic Hall for a special lecture. The lecture traces the emergence, development and ongoing vitality of Finnish cultural identity through a century of significant architecture and design, presenting examples from across the last 100 years, and emphasizing the building of community through public architecture.

Sunday, March 25th | 3pm | this event is free; donations are accepted.

ABOUT PETER: Peter MacKeith is Dean and Professor of Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. For the last 20 years, since receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to Finland in 1990, he has worked as a liaison between the architecture cultures of the United States, Finland, and the Nordic nations, in the fields of education, professional practice, exhibitions, research and publications. Peter served as the Honorary Consul of Finland in St. Louis, Missouri, from 2012 to 2014. He is a member of the Finnish Cultural Institute-New York Advisory Board. In February of 2014 he was recognized by the President of Finland with the insignia of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland.

Pro Arte’s Salon Series concerts offer intimate chamber music performances in unconventional locales.

Program:
Trio in G Major for Flute, Violin, and Cello, Hob. IV:3, London Trio // Haydn
Terzetto, Op. 22 for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano // Theodore Lalliet
First movement from Sonata for Flute, Violin, and Piano, H. 254 // Martinů
Quartetto, TWV 43:G2 // Telemann

Ann Bobo, flute
Nancy Dimock, oboe
Ron Haroutunian, bassoon
Rebecca Plummer, piano
Liana Zaretsky, violin

Sunday, February 4th | 3pm | Tickets $30 with discounts for seniors and students; 50% for SCC Members

Purchase tickets here!

The SCC welcomes you to join us for a screening of Big Time as part of Boston Design Week 2018. Much sought-after Danish architect Bjarke Ingels (one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People) embarks on his most ambitious project yet, NYC’s new World Trade Center, in this energetic documentary.  An intimate insight into the life of a genius innovative mind and his struggle to maintain his own persona while making the world a better place to live.

Saturday, April 7th 7pm | Tickets $5; free to SCC Members

presented as part of:

For fans of Games of Thrones, this movie is a high-stakes adventure set in the Middle Ages in the midst of a great civil war. When a monarch is murdered, two of his loyal soldiers must escape with the infant heir to the throne. With half the kingdom looking to kill the young King, the brave warriors risk life and limb to shepherd him across treacherous snowy mountains to claim his rightful place on the throne.

100 minutes. In Norwegian with English subtitles.

Free; donations accepted.

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.

After their public showing movies in our film series become part of the Scandinavian Library’s collection of DVDs available for borrowing by Library members.

Artist and author of  Live Lagom: Balanced Living, the Swedish Way, Anna Brones joins us for a special papercutting workshop! While teaching the basics of papercutting Anna will  focus on the benefit of crafts/using your hands called “pyssel”.

Papercutting is an art that spans history and cultures, from simple silhouettes to intricate designs. In this class, you will learn the basics of papercutting and how to create your very own papercuts. We will cover everything from paper, finding inspiration and cutting techniques. You will leave class with at least one finished papercut ready for framing.

Sunday, April 8th 2:30 | $40; $20 for SCC members | register here. (space is limited; advanced registration encouraged)

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Join a group of families for Norwegian playgroup! Give your kids a chance to speak Norwegian with other children while playing and learning. This week the group will be showing a movie based on Torbjørn Egner’s books.

Saturday, January 20th | 10:30 – noon | $5 suggested donation per child