Scandinavia House

SWEDISH INTERMEDIATE 1
2024-01-18 19:20 - 21:00, 2024-01-25 19:20 - 21:00, 2024-02-01 19:20 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! In this course held online only, the focus will be primarily on conversation. Students will discuss various subjects brought up in each chapter via the informative texts, with topics spanning subjects such as Swedish cultural and social life, wild animals, historical figures, politics and others. The grammar is overall a comprehensive repetition of the beginner levels, while also introducing a few new things like reflexive pronouns, the present participle and the conditional. Students will be required to read assigned books over the course of the semester. Intermediate 1 runs over three semesters and can be taken in any order.
This class will take place on Thursday evenings (online only).
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SWEDISH BEGINNER 3
2024-01-22 18:10 - 19:10, 2024-01-24 19:50 - 20:50, 2024-01-29 18:10 - 19:10, 2024-01-31 19:50 - 20:50, 2024-02-05 18:10 - 19:10, 2024-02-07 19:50 - 20:50 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this semester at Scandinavia House! This course continues to build on our basic skills by deepening the work with adjective conjugation, prepositions, modality verbs and the past tense, while also introducing another verb tense. Various cultural aspects will be highlighted during the course. Students will also begin to read assigned easy-to-read books over the course of the semester.
This class will take place as hybrid learning on Mondays with classes offered at Scandinavia House and online via Zoom, and online-only on Wednesdays.
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SWEDISH BEGINNER 2
2024-01-22 19:20 - 20:20, 2024-01-24 18:40 - 19:40, 2024-01-29 19:20 - 20:20, 2024-01-31 18:40 - 19:40, 2024-02-05 19:20 - 20:20, 2024-02-07 18:40 - 19:40 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! This course is for those who are still new to Swedish but perhaps have studied some on their own using apps or through other means. Students will have a basic knowledge of sentence structure, greetings, know their numbers, how to tell time and already possess a small but basic vocabulary. This semester the students will move beyond themselves and explore how to buy and order things, talk about what they do in their spare time, and read about an historical figure. Grammatically they will expand into other tenses and learn how adjectives and nouns inform each other. Various facets of Swedish life may be discussed during the course.
This class will take place as hybrid learning on Mondays with classes offered at Scandinavia House and online via Zoom, and online-only on Wednesdays.
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SWEDISH ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE
2024-01-23 18:10 - 19:50, 2024-01-30 18:10 - 19:50, 2024-02-06 18:10 - 19:50 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House! This course is for students who are slightly more advanced in Swedish, and are able to speak the language without too much effort, as well as easily read novels. Students will engage in conversation and discussions, and themes will be of a more philosophical nature, involving global questions and fiction. Grammatically, various structures and conjugations will be reviewed so students can refine their speech and writing. Students will be assigned a book to read during the semester.
This class will take place as hybrid learning on Tuesday evenings with classes offered at Scandinavia House and online via Zoom.
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SWEDISH ADVANCED BEGINNER 2
2024-01-23 20:00 - 21:00, 2024-01-25 18:10 - 19:10, 2024-01-30 20:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-01 18:10 - 19:10, 2024-02-06 20:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-08 18:10 - 19:10 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this semester at Scandinavia House! In Swedish Advanced Beginner 2, 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. Students will read assigned literary books over the course of the semester.
This class will take place as hybrid learning on Tuesdays with classes offered at Scandinavia House and online via Zoom, and online-only on Thursdays.
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GALLERY TOUR: NARRATIVE THREADS
2024-01-24 17:30 - 18:05, 2024-02-07 17:30 - 18:05 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On view from October 14, 2023 to February 17, 2024 at Scandinavia House, Narrative Threads presents multi-media artwork by eight Nordic artists, each distinguished by their innovative use of natural, synthetic, and digital materials. Exploring Nordic craft traditions through a contemporary lens, the works in the exhibition engage with material experimentation and digital technology; textile design, ceramics, stitching, painting, audio recording, and assemblage unleash diverse narrative expressions and perspectives. In this guided tour by Emily Stoddart, ASF’s Manager of Exhibitions & Community Programs, learn about the artists in this exhibition and their works.
These free, 35-minute public tours meet in the Gallery elevator lobby. Gallery tours are subject to change; please check with the Scandinavia House front desk or email info@amscan.org.
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JOYCE CAROL OATES: A BODY IN THE SERVICE OF MIND
2024-01-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for a screening of Joyce Carol Oates: A Body In The Service Of Mind (dir. Stig Björkman; Sweden & USA, 2023)!
Joyce Carol Oates has long been an intensely private person — until now. In Swedish director Stig Björkman’s groundbreaking new documentary, Björkman takes us inside Joyce’s life story, from her working-class childhood in upstate New York to her university years in Syracuse. Get up-close and personal with America’s foremost woman of letters as she reflects on the historical events that left their indelible mark on her work: the 1960s riots in Detroit, the tragic Chappaquiddick incident and the celebrity of Marilyn Monroe. Featuring narration from Oscar-winning actress Laura Dern.
“[Björkman] allows us to bask in the writer’s uncanny presence” (The New York Times)
“An affectionate, delicately composed portrait of one of America’s most fascinating, impactful writers” (The Chicago Reader)

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SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
2024-01-31 19:00 - 21:00
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, winner of the award for Best Documentary at the 2023 European Film Awards, returns to Scandinavia House on January 31! Join us for director Anna Hints’ intimate delve into the cultural tradition of Vana-Võromaa’s smoke saunas in South Estonia (included in UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list) and see how they are unique spaces for healing and community. The film draws inspiration from the smoke saunas’ historical role in childbirth, where women gather to share secrets, connecting family and friends to cleanse the body and — more importantly — the soul, inside a place of peace and contemplation.
This documentary, which was the first Estonian film to win an award for directing at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, captures the essence of the smoke sauna experience with masterful cinematography, evoking Vermeer and Rembrandt. Hints authentically portrays women, delving into themes of trauma, healing, and sisterhood. The film concludes with a runic verse, “Thank You Song for Smoke Sauna,” performed by director Anna Hints and producer Marianne Ostrat, expressing gratitude to the spirit of the smoke sauna, the women in the film, and all those who contributed to bringing Smoke Sauna Sisterhood to life. The film has been selected as Estonia’s contender for next year’s Academy Awards.
“This is a film that records a little-known aspect of a little-known national identity…the visual poetry is magnificent”—(Jonathan Romney, Financial Times)
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VIRTUAL SCREENINGS | THE 2024 SÁMI FILM FESTIVAL
2024-02-08 08:00 - 2024-02-11 23:59
The 6th Annual Sámi Film Festival returns to Scandinavia House this February! This year’s program will include in-person screenings on February 9 & 10 and virtual screenings from February 8 through 11.
Virtual screenings included in the lineup include seven short films, with narrative and documentary subjects spanning topics ranging from traditional ways of life and cultural practices, historical traumas and conflicts in the present day, to alternative universes.
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VIRTUAL FILM LINEUP
Áfruvvá – Mermaid (2022)
Directed by: Marja Helander | 14 min.
The áfruvvá is a Sámi sea-being, the ghost of a drowned person. Yearning for warmth, she emerges from the sea to a world devoid of humans and experiences humanity through an abandoned museum.

The Daughters of the Midnight Sun/Overlander (1985)
Directed by: Ylva Floreman and Peter Östlund | 40 min.
In this film about the Sámi people, the original population of northern Scandinavia, their nomadic life belongs to the past, but for a few short weeks each summer they return to their mountains to live as before. Their women talk about the price they have paid for progress and of their longing back to their traditional way of life, far north of the Polar Circle.

Njuokčamat/The Tongues (2019)
Directed by: Marja Bål Nango and Ingir Ane Bål Nango | 15 min.
When a Sámi woman is attacked by a man during a blizzard on the tundra while she is herding reindeer, her sister senses that something is wrong, and sets off in search for her. Wrapped in fear and confusion, both women will unite in their fight for revenge.
SKÁDJA (2022)
Directed by: Eili Bråstad | 16 min.
A meeting between two women in the forest has a strong impact on them both. Can they overcome their traumas?
Give Us Our Skeletons! (2000)
Directed by: B | 49 min.
This is a film about a man and his lineage, and it is the story of a century pervaded by racism, oppression and the persecution of peoples low down on the list of “noble races.”

Ellos Fovsen
Directed by: Dennis Møller
Ellos Fovsen is about the demonstration against the illegal wind turbines that were set up in Fosen by the Norwegian government, who went above the Supreme Court’s ruling and still had them built, creating an ongoing human rights violation of over 830 days.
Muohtačalmmit/Snowflakes (2022)
Directed by: Hans Pieski and Arttu Nieminen | 9 min.
Muohtačalmmit (Snowfall) is an experimental film about the flow of water as a metaphor for Sámi people in the compression of modern times. The film also deals with the meaning of water as a sacred element, pathway, and daily source of sustenance for the Sámi people, and paints a dystopia of how Sápmi will breathe in the future in the middle of energy and mineral policy pressure.

CHROMA CONSTRUCTION — NARRATIVE THREADS ADULT ART WORKSHOP WITH MELKORKA HELGADOTTIR
2024-02-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us at Scandinavia House for an adult art workshop and tour of our current exhibition, Narrative Threads. Inspired by the work of artist Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir (A.K.A. Shoplifter), workshop participants will create a sculpture. Guided by teaching artist Korka, participants will use armature wire, fabric, and more to create a textile assemblage in a relaxed atmosphere. All materials are provided.
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