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SUMMARY:On the Arctic Edge — Artists Explore the Far North
DESCRIPTION:Opening October 21 at Scandinavia House\, On the Arctic Edge — Artists Explore the Far North presents three contemporary photo-based artists whose work traverses the regions of the Arctic Circle to probe themes ranging from time and memory\, to landscape and the built environment\, to science and mythology\, to our changing climate: Marion Belanger\, Clare Benson\, and Steve Giovinco. Each artist is an ASF Fellow having received financial support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation from funds donated by Scandinavian Seminar \nPhotographer and Interdisciplinary artist Clare Benson’s series Until There Is No Sun is a poetic investigation of the Arctic’s duality: the relationships between light and seeing\, earth and sky\, science and ancient myth. Over the span of nearly a year living in the far north of Arctic Sweden\, Benson worked alongside space physicists\, Sami indigenous reindeer herders\, and scientist studying the eyes of Arctic reindeer to capture photographs\, videos\, and collected artifacts\, exploring how weather and time have worn and carved a world that slowly turns its back to the light. Included in the exhibition\, the video work A Thousand Suns is a time-lapse capture of images made by an All-Sky Camera looking up through the roof of the Swedish Institute for Space Physics (IRF) in Kiruna. Photographs on view include her Seasonal Adaptations in the Eyes of Arctic Reindeer\, which portray how Arctic reindeer adapt to extreme changes in sunlight through a shift in their tapetum lucidum\, a mirror-like tissue behind the retina.  \nMarion Belanger photographs the cultural landscape\, particularly where geology and the built environment intersect\, exploring concepts of persistence and change and ways that boundaries demarcate differences. A recipient of awards including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, whose photographs are included in many permanent collections including the Library of Congress\, her series Rift/Fault studies shifting land-based tectonic edges of the North American Continental Plate in Iceland and California.  \nExamining their unpredictable and uncontainable behavior — immune to any human efforts of control — Belanger’s series pairs images from the Mid-Atlantic Rift in Iceland with those captured along the San Andreas Fault\, allowing for a dialogue between the wild and the contained\, the fertile and the barren\, the geologic and the human\, in a way that questions the uneasy relationship between geological force\, and the limits of human enterprise. Published in the 2017 monograph Rift/Fault (Radius Books)\, author and art critic Lucy Lippard writes in her introduction that Belanger “comments on the visible and the invisible\, acknowledgement and denial\, examining\, in the process\, the ‘dangerous disconnect\,’ where so-called ordinary lives play out in the shadows of potential cataclysm.” \nNYC-based fine-art photographer Steve Giovinco’s lyrical night landscapes in the recent series Inertia look at the land\, ice\, and communities of Southern Greenland. An MFA graduate from Yale University School of Art whose work is collected by museums including the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, Giovinco traveled to locations including Narsarsuaq\, a small remote town lying in the shadow of glaciers\, to capture vast scarred landscapes; shrinking icebergs and ice floes; desolate villages; and four hundred-year-old Norse ruins; all marked with minimal traces of human intervention. Photographed through the hours of changing light at dawn\, twilight\, or nighttime the vistas are haunted\, luminous\, magical and at times devastating. \nEach artist is an ASF Fellow having received financial support from the American-Scandinavian Foundation\, which since it began over a century ago has awarded over 5\,500 fellowships and grants to Americans and Scandinavians. This exhibition is made possible due to the generosity of the Inger G. & William B. Ginsberg Support Fund\, the Virginia Barron Tayloe Bequest\, the Bonnier Family Fund for Contemporary Art and the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. \nAbout the Artists\nClare Benson is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of family history\, tradition\, science\, and mythology. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona and her BFA from Central Michigan University. In 2014-15 she was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Arctic Sweden\, where she worked alongside space scientists and indigenous Sami reindeer herders. Her first book The Shepherd’s Daughter was published in 2017 by Photolucida\, in receipt of the Critical Mass Book Award. Benson’s work has been featured in exhibitions\, screenings\, and publications across the U.S. and internationally. \nMarion Belanger is interested in the concepts of persistence and change\, and in the way that boundaries demarcate difference\, particularly in regards to the land. She has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, a John Anson Kittredge Award\, an American Scandinavian Fellowship\, Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships\, and has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony\, at the Atlantic Center for the Arts\, at the Virginia Center for the Arts and at Everglades National Park. \nMarion Belanger earned her MFA from the Yale University School of Art where she was the recipient of both the John Ferguson Weir Award and the Schickle-Collingwood Prize\, and a BFA from the College of Art & Design at Alfred University. Her photographs are included in many permanent collections including the Library of Congress\, the National Gallery of Art\, the Yale University Gallery of Art\, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. \nSteve Giovinco is a New York City-based fine-art photographer\, who focuses on creating images of couples with himself and lyrical night landscapes. His work is collected by many museums\, including the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, has exhibited widely in galleries and received his MFA from Yale University School of Art. His new photo series Inertia looks at the land\, ice and communities in Southern Greenland including the tiny remote town Narsarsuaq\, population 158\, which lies in the shadow of glaciers. \n  \nThis exhibition is made possible due to the generosity of the Inger G. & William B. Ginsberg Support Fund\, the Virginia Barron Tayloe Bequest\, the Bonnier Family Fund for Contemporary Art and the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.
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SUMMARY:Nordic International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House is pleased to present screenings in this year’s Nordic International Film Festival on November 18 & 19 in Victor Borge Hall. Comprised of narrative and documentary features\, as well as short films\, this year’s festival will take place in New York City from November 16-20\, with two days of screenings at our location. \nSCHEDULE \nFEATURE FILMS\nHistorjá – Stitches For Sápmi\nFRI—November 18—6:45 PM\nDir. Thomas Jackson\, Sweden\, 2022. 87 min. In Sami and Swedish with English subtitles \nArtist Britta Marakatt-Labba has for decades depicted the indigenous Samí people’s mythology\, relation to nature and political struggle. Now she is facing one last fight: the battle for her culture against the threats of climate change. Watch trailer. \nRainbow\nFRI—November 18—8:45 PM\nDir. Johannes Pico\, Denmark\, 2022. 100 min. In Danish with English subtitles \nAs a child in a rainbow family\, Molly (Fanny Leander Bornedal) was raised by her two mothers. She never knew her father\, yet feels a great need to find him in order to find herself and her own true identity. On her 18th birthday\, Molly and her best friend\, Tobias (Nikolaj Groth)\, go to a fertility clinic\, hoping to figure out who her biological father is — but when the answer is not as expected\, Molly becomes even more confused as she discovers that her mothers have lied to her. Watch trailer. \nAn Eternity of You and Me\nSAT—November 19—2 PM\nDir. Sanne This\, Denmark\, 2022. 78 min. In Danish with English subtitles \nAlbert and Sanne live in a house with their cat Figaro and chickens in the backyard. More than anything\, they dream of having a child. But a process that should be playful and fun turns into a struggle filled with schedules\, frustrations\, and insecurities; as in the myth of Sisyphus\, Albert and Sanne roll one stone after another up the side of the mountain\, only to see them roll back down just before they reach the top. Sanne wants to talk about her fear and feelings\, but as an engineer\, Albert doesn’t know of any reports that prove that helpful. A musical chamber play told in sweatpants\, An Eternity of You and Me is about relationships\, ingrained gender roles and all the dreams you must bury — or dig up again — once the fox has been around. Watch trailer. \nDOCUMENTARY SHORTS\nSAT—November 19—4 PM\nThe Militiamen\, dir. David Peter Hansen\, USA. 32 min.\nIn the hills of rural Pennsylvania\, the leader of a local militia must prepare his men for the turbulent political landscape of 2020 while at war with his own conscience.\nHaulout\, dir. Maxim Arbugaev and Evgenia Arbugaeva\, UK/Russia. 25 min.\nOn a remote coast of the Siberian Arctic in a wind-battered hut\, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change\, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed. \nAURORA BOREALIS\nSAT—November 19—5:45 PM\nThe Maw\, dir. Patrik Erksson\, Sweden. 15 min.\nWhen a father and son goes fishing\, a woman who joins them in the mist throws them into a fight against the unknown.\nThe Diamond\, dir. Vedran Rupic\, Sweden. 14 min.\nWhile seeking social contact\, lonely and Stefan discovers a diamond in a hole in the ground. When he meets the unusually small Douglas\, he gets an idea.\nUnity of Opposites\, dir. Alfred Hedbratt\, Sweden. 14 min.\nChildhood friends go out to an island camp\, but one of them has invited a new friend and soon tension arises\, in this humorous film about the mechanisms of group dynamics and male friendship.\nWatch trailers. \nNORDIC SHORTS A\nSAT—November 19—6:45 PM\nAnimals\, dir. Joakim Thörn\, Sweden. 14 min.\nIn a modern fable and dark comedy-drama\, a  teenage deer questions the value of humanity after her mother is killed by hunters. Watch trailer.\nMaybe\, dir. Ola Røyseland and Zyna Røyseland\, Norway. 5 min.\nAt closing time at the library\, a conversation between a young librarian and a customer takes an unexpected direction.\nShower Boys\, dir. Christian Zetterberg\, Sweden. 10 min.\nAfter a heated training match with the team\, 12-year-old Viggo and Noel go home to challenge each other’s limits and masculinity.\nMayfly\, dir. Joel Ängeby\, Sweden. 20 min.\nAfter a sudden break up with her girlfriend\, Lisa struggles to gain control in any aspect of her life.\nDouble Cheese\, dir. Martin Jenefeldt\, Sweden. 13 min.\nBest friends Julia and Celine go on a mission to delete some dodgy sex-tapes\, but their ill-conceived plans lead to a quickly escalating situation. \nNORDIC SHORTS B\nSAT—November 19—8:15 PM\nThe Marsh\, dir. Marcus Söderlund\, Sweden. 12 min.\nSociety as we know it is gone\, and in Sweden it is summer — and a state of war. Based on the short story ”Kärret” by Swedish author Jerker Virdborg.\nThe Dinner\, dir. Marco Lawson\, Denmark. 19 min.\nAt a high-end restaurant\, Lars is meeting his son\, Frederik\, and his new in-laws for the very first time in honor of Frederik’s 30th birthday\, but class differences and tension lead to an altercation.\nAdieu\, dir. Charlotte Brodthagen\, Denmark. 34 min.\nNanna and her mother Claudia\, who is suffering from cancer\, go on a weekend long trip with different agendas during the phenomenon known as the “Black Sun.” Watch trailer.
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SUMMARY:Beginner Swedish 1
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this course held both in-person and as remote learning for those completely new to Swedish\, students will learn the very basics of Swedish structure and pronunciation while also discussing cultural aspects of Swedish life. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nStructuring statements and questions\nGreeting people\n\nNumbers and how to tell time \nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about themselves and how they spend their days.\n\nNo prerequisites required. This course will take place in a hybrid format offered in-person at Scandinavia House and via Zoom; instructions for remote learning will be emailed upon registration. For questions about language levels\, please contact Malin Tybahl. Tuition is $499 ($449.10 ASF Members); 15 hours total class time. \n**There will be no class on October 10 (Columbus Day) or October 31 (Halloween)**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/beginner-swedish-1/2022-11-18/
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