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SUMMARY:Swedish Beginner 2
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! In this course for those who are still new to Swedish but have a basic knowledge of sentence structure\, greetings\, times and numbers\, and basic vocabulary\, students will learn sentence structure in sentences with more than one verb\, placement of adverbs\, plural endings\, conjugation of adjectives\, objective and possessive pronnounncs\, 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. \nAt the end of the semester students will know: \n\nHow to structure sentences with more than one verb\nThe conjugation of adjectives\nThe past tense\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about their families and things they’ve done or do\, as well as make future plans and purchase items.\n\nPrerequisite: Beginner Swedish 1 level 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. \n**There will be no class on February 20 & February 27 (winter recess).**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-beginner-2/2023-02-13/
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SUMMARY:Swedish Beginner 1 - Winter
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter 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 Tuesday sessions online only (via Zoom) and Thursday sessions both online and in-person at Scandinavia House. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nStructuring statements and questions\nGreeting people\nNumbers and how to tell time\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about themselves and how they spend their days.\n\nNo 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. \n**There will be no classes from Thursday\, February 16 through Tuesday\, February 28 (winter recess); classes will resume on Thursday\, March 2.**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-beginner-1-winter/2023-02-14/
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SUMMARY:Swedish Advanced Beginner 2
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! In this course offered remotely via Zoom by Scandinavia House\, 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. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nIndirect speech\nReflexive possessive pronouns\nThe future tense\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about their education and future plans\, and retell stories shared with them.\n\nPrerequisite: 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 9 weeks. \n**There will be no classes on February 21 or February 28 (winter recess).**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-advanced-beginner-2/2023-02-14/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230215T183000
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SUMMARY:Swedish Intermediate 3
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter at Scandinavia House! In this course based on conversation and grammar\, students will now deal with finesse and formal language. Instead of expanding our writing\, we will focus on condensing. Discussions will span traditions\, Vikings and lore\, unwritten societal norms\, leadership\, work and family structures as well as poetry. This class will take place online only via Zoom. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nHow adjectives and participles can function as nouns\nSub-class without som or har/hade\, and structure with unstressed objective pronouns\nIdiomatic expressions and the use of her or all\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nDiscuss poetry and literary writings\, various family structures through history and how to conduct work applications and interviews in Sweden.\n\nPrerequisite: Swedish Intermediate 2 or equivalent. Instructions for remote learning will be emailed upon registration. For questions about language levels\, please contact Malin Tybahl. Tuition $499 ($449.10 ASF Members); 15 hours total over 9 weeks. \n**There will be no class on February 15 or February 22 (winter recess).**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-intermediate-3/2023-02-15/
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SUMMARY:Nothing to Laugh About
DESCRIPTION:“Warm\, heartfelt\, and offering surprisingly much to laugh about” — see the touching Norwegian dramedy Nothing to Laugh About /Ingenting å le av (dir. Petter Næss\, Norway\, 2021) this February at Scandinavia House. Successful stand-up comedian Kasper Berntsen has everything a man could ask for: a regular gig at the city’s top comedy club\, a beautiful girlfriend and a fabulous life as a public figure. Until suddenly everything crashes down around him — after losing his comedy gig and girlfriend on the same day\, he’s faced with the worst nightmare imaginable when a doctor informs him that he has incurable cancer. Left with life in shambles\, Kaspar must ask himself: give up or fight on? And in his search for identity he begins to discover new sides of himself — giving new life to his comedy as he uses humor as a disarming and life-giving force. Written by and starring Norwegian comedian Odd-Magnus Williamson (Kon Tiki)\, this heartwarming story explores how to gain newfound self-belief and find laughter again. \n“Nothing to Laugh About takes us on the journey of somebody who\, with nothing to lose\, proceeds to find himself and those aspects of his life most important to him”  (BMA Mag).
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nothing-to-laugh-about/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T185000
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SUMMARY:Swedish Advanced Beginner 1
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nHow to connect main and sub-clauses\nAdverbs denoting position or destination\nThe concept of depiction\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about people\, computers\, food and things done and wished for in the past.\n\nPrerequisite: Swedish Beginner 3 level 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. \n**There will be no classes from Thursday\, February 16 through Monday\, February 27 (winter recess); classes will resume on Thursday\, March 2.**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-advanced-beginner-1/2023-02-16/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230216T190000
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SUMMARY:Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk with author Lisa E. Bloom on her new book Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctica\, out now from Duke University Press! \nIn this new publication\, Bloom considers the ways artists\, filmmakers\, and activists engaged with the Arctic and Antarctic represent our current environmental crises and reconstruct public understandings of them. Bloom engages feminist\, Black\, Indigenous\, and non-Western perspectives to address the exigencies of the experience of the Anthropocene and its attendant Necosystem failures\, rising sea levels\, and climate-led migrations. As opposed to mainstream media depictions of climate change that feature apocalyptic spectacles of distant melting ice and desperate polar bears\, artists such as Katja Aglert\, Subhankar Banerjee\, Joyce Campbell\, Judit Hersko\, Roni Horn\, Isaac Julien\, Zacharias Kunuk\, Connie Samaras\, and activist art collectives take a more complex poetic and political approach. \nIn their films and visual and conceptual art\, these artists link climate change to its social roots in colonialism and capitalism while challenging the suppression of information about environmental destruction and critiquing Western art institutions for their complicity. Bloom’s examination and contextualization of new polar aesthetics makes environmental degradation more legible while demonstrating that our own political agency is central to imagining and constructing a better world. \nBooks will be available for purchase and signing at a discount for attendees. \n“Ever since the publication of Gender on Ice\, Lisa E. Bloom has been one of the most innovative scholars in the field of polar aesthetics and the cultural history of the polar regions… This is a book for dark times\, but it is hopeful\, resilient\, and socially just.” — Klaus Dodds\, Professor of Geopolitics\, Royal Holloway\, University of London \nAbout the Author\nLisa E. Bloom is the author of many feminist books and articles in art history\,  visual culture\, and  cultural studies including her book Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions (University of Minnesota Press\, 1993)\, the first critical feminist and postcolonial cultural studies book on the polar region\, and her anthology With Other Eyes: Looking at Race and Gender in Visual Culture (University of Minnesota Press\, 1999) that demonstrates that feminist\, postcolonial and antiracist concerns can be incorporated into the history of art. \nHer latest book\, Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic (Duke University Press\, 2022) examines aspects of feminist and environmentalist art that conjoins issues routinely kept apart in climate change debates such as the fate of indigenous communities\, resurgent nationalisms\, globalizing capitalism as well as questions of gender\, race\, and persistent postcolonial relations. She has taught and had been a researcher at numerous universities and art schools over the years including the University of California\, Berkeley\, (2018-2022) where she is a scholar-in-residence at the Beatrice Bain Center in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/climate-change-and-the-new-polar-aesthetics/
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SUMMARY:Swedish Beginner 1 - Winter
DESCRIPTION:Learn the Nordic languages in classes offered this winter 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 Tuesday sessions online only (via Zoom) and Thursday sessions both online and in-person at Scandinavia House. \nAt the end of the semester\, students will know: \n\nStructuring statements and questions\nGreeting people\nNumbers and how to tell time\n\nStudents will be able to: \n\nTalk about themselves and how they spend their days.\n\nNo 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. \n**There will be no classes from Thursday\, February 16 through Tuesday\, February 28 (winter recess); classes will resume on Thursday\, March 2.**
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/swedish-beginner-1-winter/2023-02-16/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230218T110000
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SUMMARY:Painting with Wool
DESCRIPTION:Explore the magic of needle felting with a delightful Dala horse image and take your colorwork skills to a new level! Dala horses have been a Swedish icon for centuries\, and this class will take a new spin on the traditional wooden-painted form by recreating the image in wool. During this class held virtually via Zoom\, students will learn how to stretch a felt backing onto an embroidery hoop and keep it tight for ease of use. Plus\, they will learn to transform the beautiful array of hand-dyed roving from the instructor’s farm’s sheep into their own interpretation of the project. Focus will be given to shape creation\, colorwork\, and three-dimensionality. \nAt the end of the class\, the instructor will offer suggestions for using or mounting your finished piece. \nThis is a beginner-friendly course. Bring your creative spirit and love of wool! \nImportant note: This is an online course. Each student must supply their own embroidery hoop as specified in the materials section. \nRequired Tools \nAll students will be mailed a kit containing: \n\nTwo felting needles\nCraft felt backing with transferred design\,\nAmple wool to make the project such that any color could work in any of the design\nElements\n\nYou will need to supply: \n\nFoam work surface (or request one from instructor for $6 extra)\nAn 8-inch embroidery hoop (must be 8-inch)\nScissors\n\nOptional Tools \nNeedle felting multi-tool (or request one from instructor for $16 extra). ASF will contact you upon purchase of ticket to ask if you’d like to purchase the multi-tool or foam to come with your kit. \nAbout the Instructor\nLaura Berlage is a contemporary Renaissance woman living and working on her family’s century-old homestead farm outside Hayward\, WI. From fiber arts to creative writing\, music to storytelling\, she never tires of the magic of transforming idea into form and overlapping narrative and visual. Laura also loves working with the many beautiful natural materials from her farm — especially the wool from her sheep. \nCompleting her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College in 2011\, Laura continues her lifelong passion for learning with mentorships and intensives that offer engaged\, hands-on teaching with small groups to encourage creativity\, imagination\, and expression. Her business is Erindale Tapestry Studio.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/painting-with-wool/
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SUMMARY:Woman\, Captain\, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, February 18\, join us for a talk with Margaret Willson on her book Woman\, Captain\, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain\, out January 21 from Sourcebooks! \nA daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland’s most famous female sea captain who boldly defended men and women alike against injustice—and who also solved one of the country’s most notorious robberies. History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm\, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is an exception\, so notable she defies any expectation. \nCaptain Thurídur\, born in Iceland in 1777\, lived a life that was both controversial and unconventional. Her first time fishing\, on the open unprotected rowboats of her time\, was at age 11. Soon after\, she audaciously began wearing trousers. She later became an acclaimed fishing captain brilliant at weather-reading and sea craft and consistently brought in the largest catches. In the Arctic seas where drownings occurred with terrifying regularity\, she never lost a single crew member. Renowned for her acute powers of observation\, she also solved a notorious crime. \nIn this extremely unequal society\, she used the courts to fight for justice for the abused\, and in her sixties\, embarked on perilous journeys over trackless mountains. Weaving together fastidious research and captivating prose\, author Margaret Willson reveals Captain Thurídur’s fascinating story\, her extraordinary courage\, intelligence\, and personal integrity. Through adventure\, oppression\, joy\, betrayal\, and grief\, Captain Thurídur speaks a universal voice. Here is a woman so ahead of her times she remains modern and inspirational today. Her story can now finally be told. \n“Meticulously researched and evocatively written\, Woman\, Captain\, Rebel provides not only a captivating insight into 19th-century Iceland\, but also introduces readers to the inspirational\, real-life fishing captain Thurídur\, a tough and fiercely independent woman who deserves to be a role model of determination and perseverance for us all.” — Eliza Reid\, internationally bestselling author of Secrets of the Sprakkar \nAbout the Author\nAnthropologist and writer Margaret Willson has traveled extensively\, in Brazil\, Papau New Guinea\, Mongolia\, Australia\, Europe and Iceland. Her eclectic nonacademic jobs have included abalone diving and being a deckhand on fishing boats off the south coast of Tasmania. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and is currently an Affiliate Associate Professor with the Departments of Anthropology and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Washington. \nShe is also a Senior Associate Scientist at the Stefánsson Arctic Institute in Iceland. Her previous books include Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge and Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond. She lives in Seattle with her partner and their cat Mister.
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/woman-captain-rebel-the-extraordinary-true-story-of-a-daring-icelandic-sea-captain/
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