Join a group of families for Norwegian playgroup! Give your kids a chance to speak Norwegian with other children while playing and learning.
Saturday, April 21st | 10:30 – noon | $5 suggested donation per child
Vesterheim, the Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center, brings their folk art school to Massachusetts again! In this workshop you will work on the basics of rosemaling, including the history, the strokes, and how to paint simple scrolls and flowers. This class will focus on the design and layout of three-dimensional square boxes utilizing the basics in rosemaling. You will begin with a candle box and you will be able to go home with a useful decorative item for yourself or as a gift. All materials for the class are included in the registration fee.
Friday, April 13th – Sunday, April 15th from 9am-5pm
Level of Instruction:
Advanced beginner to Intermediate.
Tuition: $243.00 (Vesterheim and Sons of Norway Members) $293.00 Non-members
Register: On the Vesterheim website. This course is sold out, use link to be added to the wait-list.
About the instructor:
Linda Miller has taught rosemaling at Fletcher Farm in Vermont, John Campbell School in North Carolina, several different lodges on the east coast, and for adult education classes in her area.
This is touching a 1950s-set drama about love and a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. Endel Nelis is a young man who leaves Leningrad to escape the secret police. Arriving in Haapsalu, Estonia, he finds work as a teacher and founds a sports club for his students, teaching them his great passion – fencing. But Endel is faced with a hard choice when the children want to participate in a national fencing tournament in Leningrad.
Saturday, April 21st | 1:30 | Free; donations accepted
99 minutes. In Estonian, Russian and Armenian 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.
A 14-year-old girl (Lene Cecilia Sparrok) belonging to the Sami people, a Scandinavian ethnic minority, is subjected to racism and eugenic scrutiny in the 1930s when she is removed from her family and sent to a state-run school that aims to reeducate her into Swedish culture. She must soon choose between new academic opportunities or staying true to her cultural identity, all while weathering the storms of adolescence.
Sami Blood was nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Friday, January 12th | 7:30pm | tickets $8; $4 for SCC Members
run-time of 110 minutes | in Swedish | Sami with English subtitles
Join local opera expert Erika Reitshamer for her next installment of her “Opera is Cool” lecture series. Enjoy a lively discussion of Ingmar Bergman’s 1975 film The Magic Flute (Swedish: Trollflöjten). Using the clips of 1975 Swedish film Reitshamer will give an in-depth explanation of the opera, as well as a peek into the lives Bergman and Mozart as well.
Saturday, January 13th 1pm (90 minutes) | $15; $7 for SCC members
Speaker: Erika Reitshamer, born and educated in Germany, is a passionate and lifelong fan of opera. She was active in the formation of the Boston Lyric Opera Co. more than 35 years ago. As VP of the Boston Wagner Society, she presented lectures, organized concerts, and promoted visiting scholars, She is a board member of the New England Opera Club, a member of the Sudbury Opera Lovers Organization, and teacher of opera appreciation for LLARC at Regis College, Newton Lifelong Education and WISE at Assumption College.
Finlandia Foundation of Boston is thrilled to present Pianist Mackenzie Melemed. Melemed will be performing works by Sibelius, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Grieg, and Puccini and will be joined by soprano Ilona Jokinen.
Sunday, April 22nd | 3pm | $25 purchase tickets here.
Program:
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Finlandia op.26
Jean Sibelius: Våren flyktar hastigt op.13 no. 4 (J. L. Runeberg)
Jean Sibelius: Den första kyssen op. 37 no. 1 (J. L. Runeberg)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949): Allerseelen op. 10 no. 8 (H. von Gilm)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata in F major op. 54
1. In Tempo d’un Menuetto
2. Allegretto
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Jeg elsker dig! op. 5 no. 3 (H. C. Andersen)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924): Si, mi chiamano Mimi (opera La Boheme)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943): Six moments musicaux op. 16
*This film will be screened at The Studio Cinema in Belmont*
The SCC is proud to co-present Swedish/Norwegian/German film What Will They Say as part of the 2018 Belmont World Film Festival. This will also be the New England premiere of the film.
Based extensively on the director’s experience as a teenage daughter of Pakistani immigrants in Norway, the film represents a doomed quest to reconcile two worldviews and cultures that stand in fundamental opposition to each other. Pakistani immigrants living in Norway send their 16 year-old daughter away to live with relatives in Pakistan after she is caught kissing her secret Norwegian boyfriend, only to return to Norway after innocently bringing shame to the family yet again.
Speaker: Dr. Naheed Usmani, Professor of Pediatric Oncology at UMass Medical Center in Worcester, who is responsible for founding a number of Pakistani organizations in the US and Pakistan.
106 minutes. In Norwegian and Urdu with English subtitles.
Monday, April 23rd | 7:30 | Admission $9 – $12 | SCC Members save $2 on advanced tickets
Trailer:
The music of Jepokryddona springs from the Swedish speaking regions of Jeppo in Nykarleby, Ostrobothnia, Finland. In fact, Jeppo is one of the few places in the world where the minuet and the polska remain part of a living tradition of playing and dancing. Jeppo is a source of countless old-style melodies.
Jepokryddona play with a young, fresh touch – but with the same swing and fire as the old fiddlers. Tunes are always learnt by ear. All the arrangements on this recording have been made by Christine Julin-Häggman, the leader of the group.
Saturday, June 16th | 7pm | tickets $15; free for SCC Members
Here’s a list of all the Nordic Christmas Events happening around New England this holiday season:
November:
Saturday, 4th – Evangelical Covenant Church of Attleboro’s Bit o’ Sweden Fall Fair
Saturday, 11th – Sons of Norway Scandinavian Fair (Acton, MA)
Saturday, 11th-12th – Karl’s Sausage Kitchen and European Market Annual Christmas Fair (Peabody, MA)
Saturday, 25th – Birka Lodge of Vasa Order’s Swedish Yule Fair (Hamilton, MA)
December:
Saturday, 2nd – Suomi 100 Holiday Party (Pembroke, MA)
Saturday, 9th – SWEA Yuletide (Boston)
Saturday, 9th – Finnish 100 Year Christmas Celebration (Fitchburg, MA) Saturday, 16th – Winter Concert at Emanuel Lutheran by Scandinavian Women’s Chorus of RI (Warwick, RI) Sunday, 17th – St. Lucia Celebration (Shrewsbury, MA) Sunday, 17th – Julegudstjeneste | Julgudstjänst – Traditional Scandinavian Christmas Service 5pm (Woburn, MA)
Saturday, 23rd – Julegudstjeneste Danish Church Service (Waltham, MA)
Come join us as we showcase The New Land (Nybyggarna, 1972) on November 18. Adapted from The Emigrants book series by Vilhelm Moberg, follow the life of the Nilsson family in mid-1800’s Sweden. We see their struggle as a farming family in Sweden, their eventual move to Minnesota in the United States, and the hardship of making a new place a home. The films are regarded as cinematic masterpieces that more accurately reflect the struggles of immigration. The film received the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Thia films is co-presented with our very own Scandinavian Library as a part of their Northern Lights Nordic Film Series. Watch the trailer here.
Saturday, November 18th | 1pm | Admission $8, $5 for SCC Members
The film is in Swedish with English subtitles. The New Land is 202 minutes. An intermission will be provided halfway through each film. Light refreshments will be provided with lunch for purchase from our Kaffestugan.
