Keep your midsummer vibes going all year long when you create your own paper flower crown with Brackish Water Arts.
Saturday, June 24th | 11am – 1pm
$12; $6 for SCC Members (Limited spaces available. Advanced registration recommended)
In a secluded Icelandic valley sheep farmers Gummi and Kiddi live side by side but have not spoken in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects their ancestral sheep stock, they need to stave off disaster in their own ways. As the authorities close in, the brothers will need to come together to save the special breed of sheep passed down for generations, as well as themselves, from extinction.
93 minutes. In Icelandic 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.
The indigenous, Samí rapper Nils Rune Utsi – aka SlinCraze – lives with his mother in Máze, a nearly abandoned town in the Arctic Highlands of Norway. His dream is to make a living from his music and maybe even become world famous. The only problem is that less than 20.000 people speak his endangered language.
Saturday, June 24th | 2pm | tickets $8 | free for SCC Members
70 min. | In Norwegian and Northern Sámi with English subtitles
“One of the best music docs in 2016” – VICE
ARCTIC SUPERSTAR (2016) – Official trailer from Indie Film on Vimeo.
Drop in for the next installment of our Nordic Kids Series. This month we make paskris. We will decorate branches with brightly colored feathers in a Swedish tradition to bring the sunshine inside and symbolize the coming of spring.
Space is limited. Advanced registration suggested.
Sunday, April 9th | 12:30 pm
Admission $5; Free for SCC Members
Night Tree, though rooted in the Celtic folk tradition, uses Celtic as well as other folk traditions such as Swedish, Jewish and American Folk, Progressive Bluegrass and even the Avant-garde to influence their original works. The Night Tree sound spans the dark resonance of the cello, bari sax, and cajon to the drones of the accordion all the way through the soaring melodies of their duelling fiddles, and their shows combine both traditional and original music. This Boston based folk band has been awarded the New England Conservatory Wildcard Honors Ensemble for 2016-2017.
Listen here: Night Tree
Night Tree is:
Lily Honigberg – violin
Chris Overholser – violin
Zach Mayer – bari and soprano sax, voice
Sunniva Brynnel – accordion and voice
McKinley James – cello
Julian Loida – percussion
Saturday, April 8th | 1 pm
Admission $10; Free for SCC Members
Workshop Description:
Two hours before her concert with Night Tree in the Nordic Hall, accordionist Sunniva Brynnel will lead a tune learning workshop with a focus on traditional Swedish tunes. All instruments are welcome. We encourage you to stay after for lunch at our Kaffestugan and for the Night Tree Concert at 1 pm.
Tuition Price: $25, $20 for SCC Members
Duration: 1 hour
About Sunniva Brynnel:
Born in Uddevalla, Sweden in 1986, Sunniva has led a life dedicated to music. Her studies have taken her from various programs in Sweden to Dublin, Leeds College of Music in England, and now to New England Conservatory in Boston to complete her masters of music in jazz. Having studied world music, pop music, jazz, composition, and Irish/Gaelic singing, Sunniva is involved in a handful of music ensembles with different musical focuses. For more information on those ensembles and Sunniva’s other endeavors please visit her website.
The SCC is pleased to announce that we will be co-presenting Heartstone (HJARTASTEINN) as part of Wicked Queer: Boston LGBT Film Festival shown at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square.
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of Iceland takes back its rights, it’s time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
Join the Finlandia Foundation of Boston for a screening of Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future.
ABOUT THE FILM: American Masters — Eero Saarinen:The Architect Who Saw the Future explores the life and visionary work of Finnish-American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961). Best known for designing National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Mich.), Saarinen also designed New York’s TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University’s Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia’s Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair. His sudden death at age 51 cut short one of the most influential careers in American architecture. more
Sunday, March 26th | 3pm
Admission is FREE. Donations are accepted to continue free programming.
In this real-life Cool Runnings the predominantly white community of the rural Swedish town of Borlänge (whose town slogan is “Nice People”) is confronted by the influx of Somalis who have fled war and come to live in Sweden. Integrating has proven difficult, so entrepreneur Patrik Andersson decides that all the Swedes and Somalis need is something in common to bring them together, and so he encourages them to learn bandy (a cross between ice hockey and soccer) with the goal of becoming the first ever bandy team to represent Somalia at the Bandy World Championships in Irkutsk, Russia, even though they have never skated in their lives!
In Swedish, English, and Somali with subtitles. 90 minutes.
Saturday, March 25th | 1pm| admission $8; FREE for SCC Members
Based on Fredik Backman’s international best-selling novel, Ove is the quintessential angry old man next door. An isolated retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove spends his days enforcing block association rules that only he cares about and visiting his wife’s grave. Enter a boisterous young family next door who accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox while moving in and Ove has a new source of ire. Yet over time an unlikely friendship forms and we learn of Ove’s past happiness and heartbreaks. What emerges is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and the gentle reminder that life is sweeter when it’s shared.
116 minutes. In Swedish 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.
