When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him – a 13-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their own “Big Game” prize, the unlikely duo must team up to escape their hunters. As anxious Pentagon officials observe the action via satellite feed, it is up to the President and his new side-kick to prove themselves and survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of their lives.
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.
**02.05.16 The show is still on for tonight. The roads should be clear by seven. It will be a cozy night for a lovely concert**
SWEA Boston and the SCC proudly present the 2015 Sigrid Paskells Scholarship award winner, pianist Lana Suran, in her first concert back in the United States after completing a European tour. Suran’s performance will also celebrate the two year anniversary of the installation of our Steinway B.
About Lana Suran
Lana Anikina Suran (b.1992) gave her first public performance at the age of five and is most recently the winner of the 2015 Paskéll Prize for Performing Arts given by SWEA International. She has performed in Alice Tully Hall, Scandinavia House, Steinway Hall, Steinert Hall, Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in the U.S, Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen, Concert Noble in Brussels, Chateau du Lac in Brussels, Teatro Petruzelli and Santuario di Nostra Signora della Rovere in Italy, Wiener Saal and Mozarteum in Salzburg, Salle Cortot in Paris, Grand Hall of Tbilisi Conservatory and all major concert halls in Sweden.
She won the first Steinway Competition in Sweden at the age of eight and received first prize in all major Swedish competitions before turning sixteen, this includes First prize in Peter Jablonski Competition, Swedish Young Soloist and Berlindske Tidendes competition in Copenhagen, Silver medal at the 17th Young Musician International Competition ”Citta di Barletta” and Bronze medal at the Giovanni Talenti International Competition in Italy. During the Summer of 2014, Lana was invited to give a solo recital at Helsingborg Piano Festival in Sweden side by side with pianists Marc André-Hamelin, Haochen Zhang and Peter Jablonski.
She has worked and collaborated with Artists such as, Dmitri Bashkirov, Paul Biss, Aquilles Delle-Vigne, Vladimir Feltsman, Robert Hamilton, Jiri Hlinka, Philip Kawin, Kodály String Quartet, Lang-Lang, Laurence Lesser, Meng-Chieh Liu, Hans Leygraf, Jerome Lowenthal, Maxim Mogilevsky, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Svetlana Navasardian, Haesun Paik, Susan Starr, Peter Takaczs, Per Tengstrand, Jan Wijn, Frank Wibaut, Oxana Yablonskaya and Benjamin Zander.
She is currently studying with Professor Alexander Korsantia at New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
This program was made possible by a grant from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.
Thanks to our co-sponsor
Program:
J.S Bach – Prelude and Fugue in
b flat minor, WTC book I
van Beethoven –
Sonata op.10 no.3 in D Major
Presto
Largo e mesto
Menuetto: Allegro
Rondo: Allegro
-intermission (10/15min)-
Schumann – Fantasie op.17 in C Major
Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen; Im Legenden-Ton
Join us as we kick off our Nordic Kids Series new for 2016! Lindsay will join us at the SCC with an hour long show that will include two Hans Christian Andersen tales told in her own special Puppet Pals way.
Year round, Lindsay brings her Puppet Pals, lovingly crafted, giant hand puppets and marionettes, to child and family audiences across New England. Filled with silliness, crowd participation, and unique, memorable characters, this series of charming and positive short stories will delight the young and the young at heart!
Join the Finlandia Foundation Boston for a screening of 2016 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, The Fencer.
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
Director: Klaus Härö, Finnish with English subtitles.
Movie begins at 4pm in the Nordic Hall. Free admission.
Join us as local virtuosi from Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston as they present works by Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and Scandinavian-American composer and cellist Steven Laven.
FEATURING
Kristina Nilsson, violin
Colin Davis, violin
Anne Black, viola
Steven Laven, cello
Nina’s Journey is a feature film, but with an authentic narrator. We follow Nina and her family during six dramatic years, half of them spent in the Warsaw ghetto. The film tells the story of a young girl coming of age under extreme circumstances: Nina falls in love, goes to parties, and graduates high school – all in the Warsaw ghetto. One could say that, in these horrid times, she is almost living the life of a normal teenager. If it wasn’t for the fact that all those around her are vanishing, one by one. Nina’s Journey is shot in Warsaw, with Polish actors. But it is narrated by the elderly Nina Einhorn herself.
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.
As backdrop to the two tales, Thor Against the Frost Giants and The Mead of Poetry–each a half-hour long tale accompanied with a full score on 12-string guitar and told with character voices and narrative–-he’ll describe the Nine Worlds of Norse belief while playing the Celtic harp.
ideal for ages 6 and up
admission $12. Tickets available at the door. Cash or credit accepted. About Odds
Odds Bodkin, called “a consummate storyteller” by the New York Times, shares two of his favorite Norse myths and delves into how, during the Medieval Warm Period, when Europe’s seas warmed for three hundred years, Scandinavians––Swedes, Norwegians and men of the Danish Mark––ventured far across the world, sometimes raiding, but mostly trading their way all the way to the Caspian Sea.
Tiina Kivijärvi is a versatile violinist and violin teacher. Born in Savonlinna in 1988, she graduated from the Drama and Music Institute of the Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 2012. She continued her studies at Lahti Conservatory, where she completed her diploma in the spring of 2015. Tiina Kivijärvi has been teaching at music schools in Lappeenranta and Asikkala, and is currently a lecturer at the Music Institute of Lappeenranta. Tiina Kivijärvi is active in multiple chamber and popular music ensembles. She also has many years of experience in orchestral work with the Lahti Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Nordea Jean Sibelius Orchestra and others.
Please join us for an Open House. Enjoy delicious clam chowder served piping hot from Legal Sea Foods’ own food truck while listening to the music of pianist Marylynn Goldhaber.
Bring a friend, bring a neighbor, and bring an appetite!
Join the SCC as we screen Strange and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island as part of Boston Design Week. The film documents, Bergen, Norway-based Saunders Architecture, Fogo Island project in which Saunders skillfully designs buildings that pay homage to the traditional white timber houses that dot the Norwegian fjords in the body ultra-modern architecture. The final result achieves a dramatic balance of new (strange) and familiar. Through the flowing, visual narrative viewers of Strange and Familiar will be captivated by the process of this award-winning contemporary Norwegian firm.
admission free with registration; donations accepted
About Odds
