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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL SCREENINGS | THE 2025 SÁMI FILM FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:The Annual Sámi Film Festival returns to Scandinavia House and virtually nationwide! Now in its 7th year\, the festival celebrates the rich storytelling traditions of the Sámi\, an Indigenous people of the northernmost parts of Finland\, Norway\, Sweden\, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia. This year’s program is curated by acclaimed visual artist Matti Aikio\, whose work in sound and video art has captivated audiences across the globe\, and one of 12 artists featured in Arctic Highways\, a 2023 exhibition exploring contemporary art by Indigenous artists from the Arctic. \nAll films in the lineup will screen in-person on February 6 & 8 and virtually from February 7 through 13. The program combines short films and feature films from different eras\, pairing canonical films such as Markku Lehmuskallio’s Skierri with new experimental films\, which defy categorization in genres and resemble video art. Presented annually in partnership with the National Nordic Museum in Seattle\, this year’s festival will also be co-presented with Anchorage Museum\, a significant art\, history\, ethnography\, ecology\, and science museum dedicated to studying and exploring the land\, peoples\, art\, and history of Alaska. \nPROGRAM\nDajan — I say (2024)\nDir. Alice Márja Jektevik\, Kim Saarinen | 4 min.\nA music video consisting of two songs by Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvios\, “Gulan” and “Dajan\,” Dajan — I Say mirrors artist and yoiker Länsman’s personal journey in finding her way back home to Sápmi\, and discovering the strength to say no to things she does not want for herself.  Produced in the border areas on the Finnish and Norwegian side of Sápmi\, around Länsman’s home village Ohcejohka\, the film’s title comes from the northern Saami word “Dajan\,” which directly translates to “I say.” The song invites you to move freely in the world to the beat of your own decisions. \nSkierri – vaivaiskoivujen maa /Skierri – Land of the Dwarf Birches (1982)\nDir. Markku Lehmuskallio | 118 min.\nIn Sápmi\, a reindeer herder follows the traditional cycles of migratory life\, which keep him apart from his home and wife for long periods of time. “Two cultures collide\, the minority culture and the majority one. We try to show another way of thinking in this world\,” said director Markku Lehmuskallio. The director spent a year working with reindeer herders before filming to better understand the Sámi way of life. Skierri was the first Finnish feature film in which the Sámi people speak their language. The music of Erik Satie is combined with the sounds of nature. \nBiegga bieggá /Wind is Winding (2024)\nDir. Jenni Laiti & Lada Suomenrinne | 42 min.\nThey swallow our rivers\, and the valleys turn into one big tear of grief. Yet\, there are beings who gather the grief for a journey\, for what they are carrying the wounded trees and all living beings. Their luggage is full of legacy from the world that is ending\, and they will find the path to a portal when the first snow of the winter falls. The wind blows and leads the voyagers to a utopia\, challenging them with the questions of being. \nPost-Capitalist Architecture TV Part 2 — On Nomadism and Flow (2022) and Part 5 — On the Gumpi (2022)\nDir. Joar Nango & Ken Are Bongo | 37 min. (Part 2) and 40 min. (Part 5)\nAs a prologue to his 2020 exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall\, Joar Nango made three films\, together with Sámi filmmaker Ken Are Bongo\, that explore Sámi architecture in a TV show format. The series was produced by Bergen Kunsthall as part of the official festival program for the Bergen International Festival in May 2020\, which could not be held in a physical form due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. The series was filmed with a mobile TV studio during travels through the northern landscape\, meeting guests for interviews and visiting key architectural sites. \nSámi Bojá (2015)\nDir. Elle Sofe Henriksen | 9 min.\nSámi Bojá is about Mikkel\, a reindeer herder who has the entire responsibility for his family’s herd. He has a tough shell like a Sámi bojá should have\, but internally\, there is chaos. \nMaiílmmittkus (2024)\nDir. Hans Pieski & Arttu Nieminen | 8 min.\nModern technology is often seen as a downfall of sustainable ways of living on the land\, but according to many historians the Sámi have themselves\, at least partly\, embraced and welcomed the technical revolution in the past. What is modern technology’s relationship to the Sámi culture? Is breaking away from technology possible anymore? In this surreal journey into their complex relationship\, various stages of technological development are depicted alongside their impact on Indigenous populations.  \nPurchase Passes \nViewing FAQ \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \n 
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/virtual-screenings-the-2025-sami-film-festival/2025-02-11/
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SUMMARY:NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE | I TALK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On February 11\, we’ll be discussing Norwegian performance artist and playwright Camara Lundestad Joof’s I Talk about It All the Time\, a biting and lyrical memoir about her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. \nWhat does it mean to be Norwegian? Born in Bodø to Norwegian and Gambian parents\, Joof experiences microaggressions that belie the myth of a colorblind contemporary Scandinavia. She wrestles with the fickle palimpsest of memory\, demanding communion with her readers even as she recognizes her own exhaustion in the face of constantly being asked to educate others. “I regularly decide to quit talking to white people about racism\,” writes Joof. Such discussions often feel unproductive\, the occasional spark of hope coming at enormous personal cost. But not talking about it is impossible\, a betrayal of self. The book is a self-examination as well as societal indictment. It is an open challenge to readers\, to hear her as she talks about it\, all the time. \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nordic-book-club-online-i-talk-about-it-all-the-time/
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED — AFROSWEDISH PLACES OF BELONGING
DESCRIPTION:*This event has been postponed; a new date will be announced.* \nJoin us for a book talk with Nana Osei-Kofi\, an ASF Fellow and Professor Emerita of Women\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University\, on her new book AfroSwedish Places of Belonging\, out now from Northwestern University Press. \nThis new work of cultural studies rooted in critical feminist thought grapples with AfroSwedishness in relation to processes and experiences of racialization\, imagination of self\, and notions of belonging\, agency\, and kinship. Nana Osei-Kofi focuses on the function of diverse forms of critical cultural expressions\, paying particular attention to their liberatory public pedagogical potential. Drawing from biographical narratives\, documentary film\, digital Black feminism\, and queer organizing\, Osei-Kofi offers insights into the embodied\, affective\, and experiential processes through which the formation of an emergent AfroSwedish coalitional identity is made possible. \nThrough self-reflexive\, structural\, and community-based forms of exploration that resist binary oppositions\, AfroSwedish Places of Belonging asks what the nomenclature of AfroSwede\, AfroSwedish\, and AfroSwedishness brings into being\, what it makes possible\, and what this means for Swedish society from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. This work brings together two identity categories that have historically been constructed as not only mutually exclusive but oppositional to detail the emergence of AfroSwedishness as a counterhegemonic and coalitional act. AfroSwedishness\, Osei-Kofi argues\, must be understood as a coalitional identity\, one made legible through kinship-based community.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/afroswedish-places-of-belonging/
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