Scandinavia House

SWEDISH ADVANCED BEGINNER 3
2023-05-07 11:20 - 13:00, 2023-05-14 11:20 - 13:00, 2023-05-21 11:20 - 13:00, 2023-06-04 11:20 - 13:00, 2023-06-11 11:20 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | NY
SUNDAYS—11:20 AM-1 PM (virtual)
April 2 through June 11, 2023
$499 ($449.10 ASF Members)
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! As the student approaches intermediate level in this course held remotely via Zoom, study begins to shift focus to more conversation. This semester the students learn about the body and illnesses, while also working intensely with presentation and how to compare things; introducing definite form superlative, as well as frequency and short answers. Cultural aspects of living, health and work culture will be highlighted during the course.
At the end of the semester, students will know:

Presentation with the verbs stand/ sit /lie
Definite form superlative
Expressions and prepositions for frequency

Students will be able to:

Talk about how they feel physically, explain how they live, describe and compare things, conduct short conversations where there is an exchange of information and give instructions.

Prerequisite: Swedish Advanced Beginner 2 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.
**No classes on April 9 (Easter) or May 28 (Memorial Day Weekend).**

SWEDISH ADVANCED BEGINNER 2
2023-05-08 18:10 - 19:10, 2023-05-11 18:50 - 19:50, 2023-05-15 18:10 - 19:10, 2023-05-18 18:50 - 19:50, 2023-05-22 18:10 - 19:10, 2023-05-25 18:50 - 19:50, 2023-06-01 18:50 - 19:50, 2023-06-05 18:10 - 19:10 and 1 more date | NY
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! In this course offered in-person at Scandinavia House and virtually via Zoom, 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.
At the end of the semester, students will know:

Indirect speech
Reflexive possessive pronouns
The future tense

Students will be able to:

Talk about their education and future plans, and retell stories shared with them.

Prerequisite: 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 8 weeks.
**No class on Monday, May 29 (Memorial Day).**

SWEDISH BEGINNER 1
2023-05-08 19:20 - 20:20, 2023-05-10 20:20 - 21:20, 2023-05-15 19:20 - 20:20, 2023-05-17 20:20 - 21:20, 2023-05-22 19:20 - 20:20, 2023-05-24 20:20 - 21:20, 2023-05-31 20:20 - 21:20, 2023-06-05 19:20 - 20:20 and 1 more date | NY
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered 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 Monday sessions both online and in-person at Scandinavia House and Wednesday sessions online via Zoom.
At the end of the semester, students will know:

Structuring statements and questions
Greeting people
Numbers and how to tell time

Students will be able to:

Talk about themselves and how they spend their days.

No 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.
**No class on Monday, May 29 (Memorial Day)**

SONGS FROM THE LAND OF FIRE AND ICE | AN EVENING OF NORDIC FOLK SONG
2023-05-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us on May 12 for “Songs from the Lands of Fire and Ice: An Evening of Nordic Art Song!” Baritone Colin Levin and composer-pianist Evan Fein present a diverse program of contemporary and classical song, featuring works by Halldór Smárason, Jórunn Viðar, Frederik Österling, Jean Sibelius, and others. This event will take place at Scandinavia House in Victor Borge Hall.

Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius
2023-06-06 18:00 - 19:00 | NY
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 June 6, we’ll be discussing the novel Stolen by Ann-Helén Laestadius, out now in translation by Rachel Willson-Broyles from Simon & Schuster.
Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law. On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsa—daughter of Sámi reindeer herders—sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these “stolen” animals.
Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Sámi’s livelihood, they also hold spiritual significance; attacking a reindeer is an attack on the culture itself.
Ten years later, hatred and threats against the Sámi keep escalating, and more reindeer are tortured and killed in Elsa’s community. Finally, she’s had enough and decides to push back on the apathetic police force—but the hunter comes after her this time, leading to a catastrophic final confrontation.
Based on real events, Ann-Helén Laestadius’s award-winning novel Stolen is part coming-of-age story, part love song to a disappearing natural world, and part electrifying countdown to a dramatic resolution—a searing depiction of a forgotten part of Sweden.
“Nuanced . . . an affecting portrait of the Sámi’s disenfranchisement . . . [and] a family torn apart by cultural tensions” —Publishers Weekly
Ann-Helén Laestadius is an author and journalist from Kiruna, Sweden. She is Sámi and of Tornedalian descent, two of Sweden’s national minorities.
In 2016, Laestadius was awarded the prestigious August Prize for Best Young Adult and Children’s Novel for Ten Past One, for which she was also awarded Norrland’s Literature Prize. Stolen is her first adult novel and was named Sweden’s Book of the Year.

THE FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB: A NOVEL OF ARTIST HILMA AF KLINT
2023-06-13 19:00 | NY
Join us for a talk with authors Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman and M.J. Rose on their new book The Friday Night Club: A Novel of Artist Hilma af Klint and Her Creative Circle, out May 16 from Penguin Random House! The authors will discuss their illuminating historical novel about the groundbreaking Swedish artist af Klint, considered now to be the true creator of abstractionism, and four of her contemporaries.

It’s the early 1900s, and the world belongs to men. The art world in Stockholm, Sweden, is no different, until Hilma af Klint brings together a mysterious group of female painters and writers—Anna, Cornelia, Sigrid, and Mathilda—to form their own emotional and artistic support system. The members of the Friday Night Club find themselves thrust into uncharted territory when Hilma and her best friend, Anna, begin dabbling in the occult, believing that through séances they can channel unseen spirits to help them achieve their potential as artists. “The Five,” as Hilma referred to them, was a group of immensely talented, fascinating women whose lives and work were cast into obscurity… until now.
Over a century later, an associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum, Eben Elliot, brings the Hilma af Klint show to New York where he uncovers questions about the Five and how the modern day art world is funded, which puts him in a precarious position both emotionally and professionally, as he witnesses how history can be manipulated.

With rich characterizations, evocative language, and a seamless narrative, Lundberg, Richman, and Rose bring to life Hilma af Klint and her creative circle, who influenced the course of modern art but whose stories have never been told before.
New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict, says, “Co-authors Sofia Lundberg, Alyson Richman, and M.J. Rose have unearthed the captivating story of the ground-breaking Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, arguably the world’s first abstract artist who may well have inspired male painters like Wassily Kandinksy who typically receive credit for pioneering abstraction. This spell-binding exploration of the life and legacy of a long-forgotten woman and the circle of gifted friends who worked alongside her is a must-read.”
This program will take place in-person at Scandinavia House. Registration is recommended; please sign up at the link above.

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