BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Scandinavia House - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Scandinavia House
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Scandinavia House
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20210314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20211107T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20230312T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20231105T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221021T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260611T123103
CREATED:20221013T184347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T184347Z
UID:10002735-1666353600-1674928800@www.scandinaviahouse.org
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.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/on-the-arctic-edge-artists-explore-the-far-north/
LOCATION:NY
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/exhibition-new-website-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260611T123103
CREATED:20221103T193643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T193643Z
UID:10002746-1673373600-1673380800@www.scandinaviahouse.org
SUMMARY:The Employees by Olga Ravn
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club\, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. On January 10\, we’ll be discussing The Employees by Olga Ravn\, who discussed the novel with us in May 2021 with translator Martin Aitken. \nIn the near-distant future\, millions of kilometers from Earth\, the crew of the Six-Thousand Ship consists of those who were born\, and those who were made; those who will die\, and those who will not. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery\, the crew is perplexed to find itself becoming deeply attached to them\, and human and humanoid employees alike start aching for the same things: warmth and intimacy; loved ones who have passed; shopping and child-rearing; our shared\, far-away Earth\, which now only persists in memory. \nGradually\, the crew members come to see their work in a new light\, and each employee is compelled to ask themselves whether they can carry on as before – and what it means to be truly living. \nStructured as a series of witness statements compiled by a workplace commission\, Ravn’s crackling prose is as chilling as it is moving\, as exhilarating as it is foreboding. Wracked by all kinds of longing\, The Employees probes into what it means to be human\, emotionally and ontologically\, while simultaneously delivering an overdue critique of a life governed by work and the logic of productivity. \n“A powerful and philosophical sci-fi experiment from a near-distant future\, exploring what it means to be human and alive.”– Børsen \nAbout the Author\nOlga Ravn (b. 1986) is a Danish novelist and poet. Her novel Celestine appeared to critical acclaim in 2015. She is also a literary critic and has written for Politiken and several other Danish publications. Alongside Johanne Lykke Holm\, she runs the feminist performance group and writing school Hekseskolen.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-employees-by-olga-ravn/
LOCATION:NY
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Employees_Book_Club-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T181000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T191000
DTSTAMP:20260611T123103
CREATED:20221130T192939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T192939Z
UID:10002762-1673374200-1673377800@www.scandinaviahouse.org
SUMMARY:Swedish Beginner 1 - Winter
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter 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. This class will take place as hybrid learning\, with Tuesday sessions online only (via Zoom) and Thursday sessions both online and in-person at Scandinavia House. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nStructuring statements and questions\nGreeting people\nNumbers and how to tell time\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about themselves and how they spend their days.\n\nNo prerequisites required. 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 over 8 weeks. \n**There will be no classes from Thursday\, February 16 through Tuesday\, February 28 (winter recess); classes will resume on Thursday\, March 2.**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-beginner-1-winter/2023-01-10/
LOCATION:NY
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/lieselotte_van_der_meijs-hurray-8255_2-new-website-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T192000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260611T123103
CREATED:20221130T195457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221130T195457Z
UID:10002802-1673378400-1673384400@www.scandinaviahouse.org
SUMMARY:Swedish Advanced Beginner 2
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! In this course offered remotely via Zoom by Scandinavia House\, students will now be ready to work more in depth with structure in various sub-clauses. They will learn how to use the reflexive possessive pronoun and more specific ways to express future tense while slightly more fact-based texts are introduced. The course also includes cultural elements in regards to social and family life\, as well as education that will be discussed. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nIndirect speech\nReflexive possessive pronouns\nThe future tense\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about their education and future plans\, and retell stories shared with them.\n\nPrerequisite: Swedish Advanced Beginner 1 or equivalent. 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 over 9 weeks. \n**There will be no classes on February 21 or February 28 (winter recess).**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-advanced-beginner-2/2023-01-10/
LOCATION:NY
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/emelie_asplund-celebration-5435-2-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR