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SUMMARY:BUILDING CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House will be closed from Wednesday\, January 1 through Monday\, January 6 for a building upgrade. This includes the Galleries\, the Children’s Center\, Björk Café and Bistro\, and the Shop at Scandinavia House. \nThe Offices at Scandinavia House will be closed on January 1 and will otherwise be open remotely from January 2-3 and January 6. \nWe will reopen with normal hours for all spaces\, including the Children’s Center and Galleries\, on Tuesday\, January 7. \nSee you again in the New Year!
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holiday-closure/2025-01-01/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:BUILDING CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House will be closed from Wednesday\, January 1 through Monday\, January 6 for a building upgrade. This includes the Galleries\, the Children’s Center\, Björk Café and Bistro\, and the Shop at Scandinavia House. \nThe Offices at Scandinavia House will be closed on January 1 and will otherwise be open remotely from January 2-3 and January 6. \nWe will reopen with normal hours for all spaces\, including the Children’s Center and Galleries\, on Tuesday\, January 7. \nSee you again in the New Year!
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holiday-closure/2025-01-02/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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SUMMARY:BUILDING CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House will be closed from Wednesday\, January 1 through Monday\, January 6 for a building upgrade. This includes the Galleries\, the Children’s Center\, Björk Café and Bistro\, and the Shop at Scandinavia House. \nThe Offices at Scandinavia House will be closed on January 1 and will otherwise be open remotely from January 2-3 and January 6. \nWe will reopen with normal hours for all spaces\, including the Children’s Center and Galleries\, on Tuesday\, January 7. \nSee you again in the New Year!
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holiday-closure/2025-01-03/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250104T210000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
CREATED:20231212T210246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T191827Z
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SUMMARY:BUILDING CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House will be closed from Wednesday\, January 1 through Monday\, January 6 for a building upgrade. This includes the Galleries\, the Children’s Center\, Björk Café and Bistro\, and the Shop at Scandinavia House. \nThe Offices at Scandinavia House will be closed on January 1 and will otherwise be open remotely from January 2-3 and January 6. \nWe will reopen with normal hours for all spaces\, including the Children’s Center and Galleries\, on Tuesday\, January 7. \nSee you again in the New Year!
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holiday-closure/2025-01-04/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250105T210000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T191827Z
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SUMMARY:BUILDING CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House will be closed from Wednesday\, January 1 through Monday\, January 6 for a building upgrade. This includes the Galleries\, the Children’s Center\, Björk Café and Bistro\, and the Shop at Scandinavia House. \nThe Offices at Scandinavia House will be closed on January 1 and will otherwise be open remotely from January 2-3 and January 6. \nWe will reopen with normal hours for all spaces\, including the Children’s Center and Galleries\, on Tuesday\, January 7. \nSee you again in the New Year!
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holiday-closure/2025-01-05/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250106T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250106T210000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T191827Z
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SUMMARY:BUILDING CLOSURE
DESCRIPTION:Scandinavia House will be closed from Wednesday\, January 1 through Monday\, January 6 for a building upgrade. This includes the Galleries\, the Children’s Center\, Björk Café and Bistro\, and the Shop at Scandinavia House. \nThe Offices at Scandinavia House will be closed on January 1 and will otherwise be open remotely from January 2-3 and January 6. \nWe will reopen with normal hours for all spaces\, including the Children’s Center and Galleries\, on Tuesday\, January 7. \nSee you again in the New Year!
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/holiday-closure/2025-01-06/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250106T210000
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SUMMARY:NO OTHER LAND
DESCRIPTION:On January 6\, see No Other Land\, a Norwegian-produced\, vérité-style documentary by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors. \nBasel Adra\, a Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta\, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta as soldiers destroy the homes of families — the largest single act of forced transfer carried out in the occupied West Bank. After he crosses paths with Yuval Abraham\, a young Israeli journalist\, the two spend half a decade fighting the expulsion. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel lives under a brutal military occupation\, and Yuval is unrestricted and free. Created during the darkest\, most terrifying times in the region\, No Other Land was filmed by Basel and Yuval alongside two fellow activists — Isareli Rachel Szor and Palestinian Hamdan Ballal. The film is an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice. (Norway & Palestine\, 2024). \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/no-other-land-2/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T210000
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SUMMARY:FOUR OSCAR-SHORTLISTED SHORTS
DESCRIPTION:On January 7\, see a special screening of four Oscar-eligible short films\, presented by The New Yorker! The program will feature “I’m Not a Robot\,” a eligible for Best Live-Action Short\, as well as the Best Documentary Short-shortlisted films “Eternal Father\,” “Incident\,” and “Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr.” Filmmakers will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A and reception. \nI’m Not a Robot | Directed by Victoria Warmerdam \nAfter repeatedly failing CAPTCHA tests\, a music producer named Lara becomes obsessed with a disturbing question: Could she be a robot? \nEternal Father | Directed by Ömer Sami \nAfter starting a family late in life\, Nasar fears he won’t live to see his kids grow up. He decides to be cryonically frozen after death\, hoping they can someday reunite. His family’s dilemma: follow suit or be left behind? As the future eclipses the present\, Nasar must reassess what truly matters. \nIncident | Directed by Bill Morrison  \nThrough a montage of surveillance and police body-camera footage\, a reconstruction of a deadly shooting by a Chicago police officer becomes an investigation into how a narrative begins to take shape in the aftermath. \nSeat 31: Zooey Zephyr | Directed by Kimberly Reed \nAfter Zooey Zephyr’s expulsion from the Montana House of Representatives for defending transgender medical care\, she claims a nearby bench as her “office.” Director Kimberly Reed’s intimate documentary turns this shocking political moment into a nuanced portrait of trans and queer joy. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/four-oscar-nominated-shorts/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250108T173000
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SUMMARY:GALLERY TOUR | NORDIC UTOPIA?
DESCRIPTION:On view from November 26\, 2024 to March 9\, 2025 at Scandinavia House\, Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century looks at the significance of Denmark\, Finland\, Norway\, and Sweden as destinations for African American cultural figures including Ronald Burns\, Doug Crutchfield\, Herb Gentry\, Dexter Gordon\, William Henry Johnson\, Howard Smith and Walter Williams through a range of artifacts\, artworks (music\, paintings\, drawings\, sculpture\, ceramics\, textiles)\, and documentary evidence (photography\, film\, and journalistic writing). In this guided tour by Emily Stoddart\, ASF’s Manager of Exhibitions & Community Programs\, learn about the artists in this exhibition and their works. \nThese 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. \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/gallery-tour-nordic-utopia/2025-01-08/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T203000
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SUMMARY:A WOMAN LOOKS OVER HER SHOULDER
DESCRIPTION:On January 9\, join us for a book talk with Icelandic author Brynja Hjálmsdóttir and ASF Translation Prizewinner Rachel Britton for a discussion on A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder\, out now from Circumference Press! \nIn A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder\, one woman lives in a glass ball that is being shaken by someone else. This book of poems\, however\, is always shaking itself up\, leaping between the extreme and the daily\, the gross and the delicious\, between being scared and being scary. These surreal\, visceral\, and somehow polite poems explore what it can be like to be a woman and to slither through and away from threat to find voice and form and power\, no matter how strange. The apocalyptic utopia we arrive at in this book—The Whore’s City—is a perfect model to move to in one’s head: feminist\, funny\, odd\, and a little disgusting\, all towards transformation. \n“A sly\, refreshing\, and vivid book” (Emily Hunt)\n“A strange and compelling book which relentlessly pokes at and pokes fun at the I/thou dynamic of Women and Men in our culture” (Matthew Rohrer) \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/a-woman-looks-over-her-shoulder/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250109T210000
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SUMMARY:ARMAND
DESCRIPTION:On January 9\, see a special screening of Armand (Norway\, 2024)\, Norway’s official selection for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards! \nElisabeth (Renate Reinsve) arrives at a parent-teacher meeting called on short notice. Her six-year-old son Armand has been accused of something — but that “something” seems unclear. As the principal\, the school nurse\, and another pair of parents become involved\, it’s revealed that a boundary has been crossed between Armand and his best friend. And as they disagree on how to handle it\, the school begins to lose control. A powerful and thought-provoking drama about the complexities of alleged sexual harassment between children\, Armand has been acclaimed as a “vivid\, creepy\, and uncomfortably funny debut” (IndieWire). \n“Resonant and haunting — and should spark plenty of post-screening discussions” (Jonathan Romney\, Screen Daily) \n\nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/armand/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250110T180000
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SUMMARY:NORDIC NOW! NEW NORDIC FOLK
DESCRIPTION:On January 10-11\, join us for NORDIC NOW!\, a two-day program of new Nordic folk music! The program will include three acts — FRÄNDER\, Teho. and Päivi Hirvonen Trio — whose music pushes the boundaries of the Nordic folk genre\, incorporating modern twists and elements of world music. All acts will perform on both days from 3-6 PM. \nFRÄNDER blends Swedish and Estonian folk traditions with a modern twist and a “heavy folk” style\, performing evocative melodies and unique sounds on traditional acoustic instruments. Their latest album\, FRÄNDER II\, has boundaries of folk music and wowed audiences worldwide\, from Scandinavia to Japan to Canada to the U.S. \nFinnish power-fiddle duo Teho. combines Nordic fiddling styles\, jazzy influences and composed\, contemporary folk music with a touch of Finnish madness. Artists Tero Hyväluoma and Esko Järvelä have played together for years in various different projects\, including in the well-known Finnish folk band Frigg. Their debut album was nominated for an Emma Award (a Finnish Grammy). \nPäivi Hirvonen is one of Finland’s emerging international folk music artists and a pioneer in simultaneous violin playing and singing. The themes of her songs range from childlessness and polyamory\, to sorrow and love\, blending diverse roots of folk music and pop culture influences with a touch of gothic mystique. Her live ensemble features Tero Pajunen and Mirva Ormin\, and her third album is set to be released this spring. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nordic-now-new-nordic-folk/2025-01-10/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250111T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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SUMMARY:NORDIC NOW! NEW NORDIC FOLK
DESCRIPTION:On January 10-11\, join us for NORDIC NOW!\, a two-day program of new Nordic folk music! The program will include three acts — FRÄNDER\, Teho. and Päivi Hirvonen Trio — whose music pushes the boundaries of the Nordic folk genre\, incorporating modern twists and elements of world music. All acts will perform on both days from 3-6 PM. \nFRÄNDER blends Swedish and Estonian folk traditions with a modern twist and a “heavy folk” style\, performing evocative melodies and unique sounds on traditional acoustic instruments. Their latest album\, FRÄNDER II\, has boundaries of folk music and wowed audiences worldwide\, from Scandinavia to Japan to Canada to the U.S. \nFinnish power-fiddle duo Teho. combines Nordic fiddling styles\, jazzy influences and composed\, contemporary folk music with a touch of Finnish madness. Artists Tero Hyväluoma and Esko Järvelä have played together for years in various different projects\, including in the well-known Finnish folk band Frigg. Their debut album was nominated for an Emma Award (a Finnish Grammy). \nPäivi Hirvonen is one of Finland’s emerging international folk music artists and a pioneer in simultaneous violin playing and singing. The themes of her songs range from childlessness and polyamory\, to sorrow and love\, blending diverse roots of folk music and pop culture influences with a touch of gothic mystique. Her live ensemble features Tero Pajunen and Mirva Ormin\, and her third album is set to be released this spring. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nordic-now-new-nordic-folk/2025-01-11/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T150000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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SUMMARY:NEW SWEDISH POETRY
DESCRIPTION:Join us on January 14 for a virtual book talk on Katarina Frostenson’s The Space of Time (Songs and Formulae)\, (Threadsuns Press\, October 2024) and Ann Jäderlund’s Lonespeech (Nightboat Books\, May 2024). Frostenson’s translator Brad Harmon and Jäderlund’s translator Johannes Göransson will be joined by moderator Robin Myers for readings and discussions.  \nWinner of the 2016 Nordic Council Literature Prize\, The Space of Time is an unsentimental and smoldering study of the ecological and utopic function of grief. Frostenson seems to speak to the universal orphan lost in the Open\, in the landscape\, in literature\, in bedwarmth\, and in lamentation.  \nIn Lonespeech\, Ann Jäderlund rewires the correspondence between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan into a series of stark\, runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its failures. Forsaking her reputation as a baroque poet\, Jäderlund uses simple words and phrases in favor of an almost childlike simplicity\, giving her poems\, on first glance\, the appearance of parables: mountains\, sunlight\, rivers\, aortas. Upon closer inspection\, the poems glitch\, bend\, and torque into something else\, enigmatic and forceful\, lending them\, as Jäderlund says\, the force of “clear velocity.” \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/new-swedish-poetry/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241210T210025Z
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SUMMARY:YOUR ABSENCE IS DARKNESS | NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! On January 14\, we’ll be discussing award-winning Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Your Absence Is Darkness\, a spellbinding saga about the inhabitants of a rural community on the Snæfellsnes peninsula\, out now in translation by Philip Roughton. \nA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside\, not knowing who he is\, why he’s there or how he arrived\, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man’s cryptic questions\, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze\, and a generation earlier\, a farmer’s wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger\, and a rock musician\, plagued by cosmic loneliness\, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices\,  each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart. \nIncandescent and elemental\, hope-filled and humane\, Your Absence Is Darkness is a comedy about mortality\, music\, and the strange salve of time. \n“Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefánsson’s book\, nor the uniqueness of his prose\, rendered here in a tumblingly beautiful translation by Philip Roughton” (Daniel Mason\, New York Times). \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/your-absence-is-darkness-nordic-book-club-online/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T203000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
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SUMMARY:FANTASTICAL FORM | ADULT ART WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Scandinavia House for a beginner-friendly adult art workshop! Inspired by the work of Scandinavian artists like Eva Hild and late ceramicist Ragnar Kjartansson (1923-89)\, participants will create an abstract clay sculpture imbued with natural and organic forms. Guided by teaching artist Korka\, participants will create art in a relaxed atmosphere. All materials are provided. \nParticipants who have respiratory issues are encouraged to wear masks. Participation is limited to 12 attendees; please register in advance to guarantee attendance. \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/fantastical-form-adult-art-workshop/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250119T193000
DTSTAMP:20260514T111749
CREATED:20260108T183658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T193708Z
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SUMMARY:SWEDISH 1.2 — ENROLLMENT OPEN
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered at Scandinavia House\, held in-person and virtually! This course builds upon Swedish 1.1 or its equivalent. Students will learn sentence structure in sentences with more than one verb\, placement of adverbs\, plural endings\, conjugation of adjectives\, objective and possessive pronouns\, and the past tense. Various cultural aspects will also be highlighted during the course. This class will take place as hybrid learning\, with classes offered at Scandinavia House and online via Zoom. \nThis hybrid class will be held both in-person and via Zoom; in-person attendance for the first four classes is highly recommended. Classes take place on Mondays from 6:00–7:30 PM beginning January 19 through June 15. \nAt the end of the semester students will know: \n• How to structure sentences with more than one verb\n• The conjugation of adjectives\n• The past tense \nAnd be able to: \n• Talk about themselves and what they do in their day \n*Please note that there will be no classes on the following dates:\nFebruary 16 (Presidents’ Day); March 30\, April 6\, and April 13 (Spring Break); May 11 (Mother’s Day Weekend); May 25 (Memorial Day); and June 8.* \nPrerequisite: Swedish 1.1 or equivalent; instructions for remote learning will be emailed upon registration. For questions about language levels\, please contact Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz. Tuition is $675 ($607.50 ASF Members); 22.5 hours total class time. \nEnroll
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-1-2-enrollment-open/2025-01-19/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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SUMMARY:GALLERY TOUR | NORDIC UTOPIA?
DESCRIPTION:On view from November 26\, 2024 to March 9\, 2025 at Scandinavia House\, Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century looks at the significance of Denmark\, Finland\, Norway\, and Sweden as destinations for African American cultural figures including Ronald Burns\, Doug Crutchfield\, Herb Gentry\, Dexter Gordon\, William Henry Johnson\, Howard Smith and Walter Williams through a range of artifacts\, artworks (music\, paintings\, drawings\, sculpture\, ceramics\, textiles)\, and documentary evidence (photography\, film\, and journalistic writing). In this guided tour by Emily Stoddart\, ASF’s Manager of Exhibitions & Community Programs\, learn about the artists in this exhibition and their works. \nThese 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. \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/gallery-tour-nordic-utopia/2025-01-22/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
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