NORWEGIAN 3 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-10-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! In this intermediate-level course building upon Norwegian 2 (or its equivalent), all four core skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are covered, with an emphasis on conversational Norwegian. Continue to expand your vocabulary and master grammatical structures, while enhancing your conversational abilities, and deepening your cultural knowledge of all things Norwegian, through study of themes related to daily life.
You will get to practice more in-depth conversations in class which will put your grammatical structures to the test, all the while building on your listening, and speaking skills. Focus will be given to pronunciation, Norwegian structure, tone, and flow. Students will have the opportunity to engage in discussion by bringing topics that interest them about Norway into class, including anecdotes, and personal experiences. There will also be weekly at-home assignments, and more, focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as a recommend end-of-semester presentation.
Outside of class, students are encouraged to read Norwegian articles, listen to podcasts and/or audio books, and watch Norwegian shows and movies, weekly.
The required text will be provided via pdf, before the first class.
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SWEDISH ADVANCED BEGINNER 1
2023-10-17 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-10-19 18:10 - 19:10, 2023-10-24 20:00 - 21:00, 2023-10-26 18:10 - 19:10 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! In this course held in-person at Scandinavia House and offered remotely via Zoom, students will continue to perfect their previous learned skills and pronunciation, while also expanding into more complex sentence structure. Furthermore, the students will be asked to express their opinions or beliefs in simple discussions related to Swedish life within the themes studied. The students will be required to read a literary book over the course of the semester.
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NORWEGIAN 1 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-10-18 17:45 - 18:45, 2023-10-31 17:45 - 18:45, 2023-11-01 17:45 - 18:45 | NY
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this fall at Scandinavia House! In this beginner’s course, you will build your Norwegian vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar skills, while also learning about Norwegian culture and life. By the course’s end, you should be able to conduct simple conversations in Norwegian.
You will get to practice conversations and reading in class, and there will be a focus on pronunciation, and Norwegian vowels and sounds, which may be new to your ear. Students are welcome to bring personal experiences, anecdotes, and facts about Norway into class discussions. There will also be at-home assignments focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as an optional end-of-semester presentation.
Outside of class, students are encouraged to watch Norwegian shows, and movies, read simple text, and have Norwegian podcasts on in the background.
The required text will be provided via pdf, before the first class.
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SWEDISH BEGINNER 1
2023-10-18 18:40 - 19:40, 2023-10-23 19:20 - 20:20, 2023-10-25 18:40 - 19:40, 2023-10-30 19:20 - 20:20 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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.
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DAY BY DAY
2023-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This fall at Scandinavia House, experience Nordic comedy at its darkest with “Svart Humor”! “If there’s a dead body in Denmark, someone is going to make a joke about it,” director Anders Jensen once said; Nordic comedies are as known for their deadpan, dry wit as for their occasionally noir subject matter, celebrating the “svart/sort” (dark) side of life’s hilarities.
On October 18, see the Day By Day (Sweden, 2022), the newest film from The 100-Year-Old-Man director Felix Herngren!
In this life-affirming tale about it never being too late to make changes in your life, five very different people come together on a campervan trip from Gothenburg to Switzerland to honor an old man’s last wish.Cross-generation friendships develop, love arrives in twilight years, and life-changing decisions are made.
Nominated for the 2022 Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Sven Wollter).
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NORWEGIAN 4 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this spring at Scandinavia House! Designed for intermediate learners who have taken Norwegian 3 or equivalent, this course continues to expand and refine your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills, enabling grammatically correct conversations, and language structure. A stronger focus will be given to pronunciation, Norwegian structure, tone, and flow.
You will get the opportunity to hone in your knowledge of grammatical structures, thus engaging more confidently in conversations and discussions in class, expanding your vocabulary, and fine-tuning your listening skills. Students are actively encouraged to talk more in-depth about their own experiences in Norwegian.
There will also be weekly at-home assignments, and more, focusing on reading, writing, and grammar, as well as a strongly recommend end-of-semester presentation. Students are strongly encouraged to watch and read Norwegian news, and articles, watch Norwegian shows and movies, and listen to podcasts and audio books, as often as possible, on a weekly basis at a minimum. These classes are conducted in Norwegian, with the occasional English word/sentence.
Please note that in order to take this course, you should be comfortable using the simple past tense and present perfect, and have knowledge of regular and irregular verbs, as well as their irregularities and rules. You should also be able to use indefinite, definite, and plural forms of masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns; conjugate adjectives; and apply intermediate Norwegian sentence structure, including “inversion.”
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SWEDISH BEGINNER 2 — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-10-18 19:50 - 20:50, 2023-10-23 18:10 - 19:10, 2023-10-25 19:50 - 20:50, 2023-10-30 18:10 - 19:10 | 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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GRETA MAGNUSSON GROSSMAN: MODERN DESIGN FROM SWEDEN TO CALIFORNIA
2023-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On October 19, join us for a book talk with Harriet Harriss and Naomi House on Greta Magnusson Grossman: Modern Design from Sweden to California, out now from Lund Humphries! They’ll discuss their definitive book on Swedish designer, whose significant contributions to design and architecture have largely been ignored until recently.
Greta Magnusson Grossman (1906-1999) was a prolific designer working within the male-dominated world of mid-century modern design, whose status and influence has been largely ignored. Grossman was the ultimate polymath — an industrial designer, interior designer and architect working within two fascinating contexts: Scandinavia and North America. This book gives an overview of Grossman’s background and education and the formative years of her career in Sweden, before describing her move to Los Angeles in 1940.
While she is remembered for her work as a product and lighting designer, her work as an interior designer has been almost entirely overlooked.
This book catalogues and emphasizes the significance of her contribution to interior design: making the connections between ideas she tested at the scale of the product within the interior environment. It positions her contribution to interior design in relation to the canon of the genres to which she contributed, her discipline and the emerging canon of women designers — who are only now being recognized, whilst considering her enduring legacy upon the world of design today.
This talk will take place at Scandinavia House.
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SWEDISH INTERMEDIATE 1
2023-10-19 19:20 - 21:00, 2023-10-26 19:20 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
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.
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OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK 2023
2023-10-21 12:00 - 18:00, 2023-10-22 12:00 - 18:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Scandinavia House is delighted to once again be participating in Open House New York! We will be opening our doors for self-guided tours on Saturday and Sunday, October 21 & 22, with special weekend hours both days for our new exhibition Narrative Threads: Works by Eight Nordic Artists.
Explore spaces in the building on a self-guided tour, including the third-floor gallery and the current exhibition, Narrative Threads: Works by Eight Nordic Artists, which presents multi-media artwork by Nordic artists who are distinguished by their innovative use of natural, synthetic, and digital materials (open Saturday & Sunday, 12-6 PM); the lower-level Victor Borge Hall, dedicated to the legendary Danish entertainer, which features films, concerts, and performing arts (Saturday open lobby only, 12-6 PM; Sunday, 1-6 PM); the second floor Volvo Hall event and reception space (Sunday only, 1-6 PM); the interactive Heimbold Family Children’s Playing and Learning Center (Sunday only); and the Halldór Laxness Library (Saturday & Sunday, 12-6 PM). Björk Cafe & Bistro will also be open for dining both days, as well as the Shop at Scandinavia House.

SWEDISH ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE — HYBRID LANGUAGE CLASSES
2023-10-24 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 held both online and in-person at Scandinavia House is aimed 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.
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SAUNA: THE POWER OF DEEP HEAT
2023-10-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
On October 24, join us for a book discussion with author Emma O’Kelly on Sauna: The Power of Deep Heat! With moderator Eero Kilpi (President, the North American Sauna Society), she’ll discuss her book exploring the new wave of sauna culture spreading throughout the world, out September 19 from Welbeck.
Saunas are now being built in unique settings providing tech-free spaces in which to gather, share stories and enjoy nature. The tradition has a rich history, filled with rituals that encourage us to soak up the mental and physical joys of deep heat. Sauna highlights the benefits the sauna brings to body and mind, its connection to nature, its history and mythology and its compatibility with another great invigorator – cold water swimming.
Accompanied by stunning photography by Maija Astikainen, Sauna honors the old, embraces the new, and plunges headlong into the transformative power of steam.
“Smartly written and beautifully illustrated”—Mikkel Aaland, author of Sweat
“An essential guide to a movement reborn, blending modernity and tradition, design and wellness, community and nature”—Sarah Douglas, Editor-in-Chief, Wallpaper* magazine
Special thanks to the North American Sauna Society.
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GALLERY TOUR: NARRATIVE THREADS
2023-10-25 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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THE WOODCUTTER STORY
2023-10-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
This fall at Scandinavia House, experience Nordic comedy at its darkest with “Svart Humor”! “If there’s a dead body in Denmark, someone is going to make a joke about it,” director Anders Jensen once said; Nordic comedies are as known for their deadpan, dry wit as for their occasionally noir subject matter, celebrating the “svart/sort” (dark) side of life’s hilarities.
On October 25, see the Finnish dark comedy The Woodcutter Story (Metsurin Tarina, dir. Mikko Myllylahti, Finland/Netherlands/Denmark/Germany, 2022)! Pepe (Jarkko Lahti ) is a woodcutter in an idyllic small town in northern Finland, who deeply believes in a better tomorrow. Over the span of a couple of days, however, a series of events gradually destroys the quiet and happy life he once had.
But as chaos, and strife, and surreal adventures are repeatedly thrown at him, Pepe remains smiling, optimistic, and determined to the look on the bright side of life. As if he knew a secret to existence that no one else did…
Anchored by a riotously deadpan lead performance and a wild cast of characters (including a child barber, a singing psychic, and a talking fish), this absurd and hilarious fable from The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki writer Mikko Myllylahti is an ode to optimism despite losing everything.
Selected for L’Atelier Cannes in 2019 and labs such as Next Step in 2018, Torino FeatureLab in 2018, Toronto Filmmaker Lab in 2018, Jerusalem Film Lab in 2016 and Berlinale Script Station in 2015.
“A Kaurismäkian variant on Twin Peaks, with a soupçon of Fargo“—Screen International
“The Woodcutter Story might be the most terrifying movie of the year”—The Playlist
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WATERCOLOR WEAVE: ADULT ART WORKSHOP WITH MELKORKA HELGADOTTIR
2023-10-26 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 featured artist Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson, workshop participants will create their own watercolor landscape. Guided by Icelandic teaching artist Melkorka Helgasdottir (also known as Korka), participants will use paint, oil pastels, rubbing alcohol, and more to explore various watercolor techniques in a relaxed atmosphere. All materials are provided.
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GALLERY TOUR: NARRATIVE THREADS WITH MARGRETHE AANESTAD
2023-11-01 17:30 - 18:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
Join us for a Guided Gallery Tour with artist Margrethe Aanestad of Narrative Threads! On view from October 14, 2023 to February 17, 2024 at Scandinavia House, this exhibition 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.
Guided Gallery Tours will take place one Wednesdays throughout the show’s run. In today’s special tour, Margrethe Aanestad, whose works are featured in Narrative Threads, will join Emily Stoddart, ASF’s Manager of Exhibitions & Community Programs, to speak 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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SOLD OUT: THE PROMISED LAND
2023-11-01 18:30 - 21:00 | Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
*THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT*
On November 1, join us for a special screening and film talk of the new epic The Promised Land, selected as Denmark’s contender for Best International Feature for the 2024 Academy Awards, with director Nikolaj Arcel and Mads Mikkelsen! Nikolaj Arcel and Mads Mikkelsen will hold a film talk and Q&A following the screening.
In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) — a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero — sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain a noble title for himself. This beautiful but forbidding area also happens to be under the rule of the merciless Frederik De Schinkel, a preening nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power. Struggling against the elements and local brigands, Kahlen is joined by a couple who has fled the clutches of the rapacious De Schinkel. As this group of misfits begins to build a small community in this inhospitable place, De Schinkel swears vengeance, and the confrontation between him and Kahlen promises to be as violent and intense as these two men. An official selection at Venice International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and others, Niklaj Arcel’s (Oscar®-nominated for A Royal Affair) sweeping film has been hailed as “the kind of ravishing, rousing epic we don’t really get much of anymore” (Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine).
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