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September 2023
ULF LINDE: ESSAYS FROM A LIFETIME IN THE ARTS
Join us September 30 for a discussion on the first English-language anthology of writings by Swedish art critic and museum director Ulf Linde: Essays from a Lifetime in the Arts. Curator, critic, and artist Robert Storr will discuss Linde’s career with Kersten Lind Bonnier and Peter Galassi, who edited and translated the book, which will be out on October 3 from Artbook/D.A.P. Ulf Linde (1929-2013) played a key role in the early years of Moderna Museet, where in 1961, he produced the first…
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NORWEGIAN 1 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this beginner's course, you will build your Norwegian vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar skills, while also learning about Norwegian culture and life. By the course's end, you should be able to conduct simple conversations in Norwegian. You will get to practice conversations and reading in class, and there will be a focus on pronunciation, and Norwegian vowels and sounds, which may be new to your ear. Students are…
Find out more »SWEDISH ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! Advanced Intermediate Swedish classes will take place on Tuesday evenings.
Find out more »NORWEGIAN 3 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
Learn Norwegian 3 in hybrid classes this semester from Scandinavia House.
Find out more »KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS® WITH JEFFREY SIEGEL: MOZART AND FRIENDS
The cross-pollination of three musical geniuses produced masterpieces that continue to enthrall after more than two centuries. This upbeat evening features Haydn's Gypsy Rondo, Beethoven's God Save the King, and Mozart's dazzling, infinitely inventive Variations on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star—to name a few! Hailed by the New York Times for "an achievement of a sort seldom heard," internationally acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel returns to Scandinavia House for his ever-popular series of Keyboard Conversations® —a brilliantly polished concert-with-commentary in which captivating remarks precede world-class…
Find out more »NORWEGIAN 1 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this beginner's course, you will build your Norwegian vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar skills, while also learning about Norwegian culture and life. By the course's end, you should be able to conduct simple conversations in Norwegian. You will get to practice conversations and reading in class, and there will be a focus on pronunciation, and Norwegian vowels and sounds, which may be new to your ear. Students are…
Find out more »DRIVING MUM
This fall at Scandinavia House, experience Nordic comedy at its darkest with “Svart Humor”! “If there’s a dead body in Denmark, someone is going to make a joke about it,” director Anders Jensen once said; Nordic comedies are as known for their deadpan, dry wit as for their occasionally noir subject matter, celebrating the “svart/sort” (dark) side of life’s hilarities. On October 4, see Hilmar Oddsson’s “enjoyably dark and dour comedy road movie” (Screen Review), Driving Mum (Iceland, 2022)! When Jon’s (Prostur Leo Gunnarsson)…
Find out more »NORWEGIAN 4 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
Learn Norwegian 4 in hybrid classes this semester from Scandinavia House.
Find out more »SWEDISH INTERMEDIATE 1
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! Intermediate Swedish 1 classes will take place on Thursday evenings.
Find out more »EDVARD MUNCH: TRANSFORMING NATURE
On October 7, join us for the discussion Edvard Munch: Transforming Nature. Jay A. Clarke, who received a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation to conduct research for the current exhibition and publication Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth on view now at the Clark Art Institution through October 15, is Rothman Family Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. In today’s discussion, Clarke will examine how Munch animated nature to bring meaning to his work. Known primarily as a figure painter, Munch’s…
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