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SUMMARY:DRAWING FROM ART: ICELAND
DESCRIPTION:Learn about Nordic art in this hands-on\, in-person drawing course pairing brief informal lectures on celebrated Nordic artists with guided transcription and drawing exercises. Each 2.5-hour session\, led by artist Charity Baker\, will begin with a 30-minute artist overview\, followed by demonstrations and 1.5 hours of drawing directly from works using graphite\, charcoal\, ink\, or colored pencils. This week\, we’ll turn our focus to Iceland. \nThis adult art workshop will deepen participants’ familiarity with key Scandinavian artists and art movements from 5 countries. Weekly classes can be taken individually or as a complete group to study historic and contemporary Scandinavian approaches to line\, tone\, composition\, and texture. \nThis workshop is part of a 6-session series; you can choose between single tickets or a ticket bundle. All materials are provided. No prior experience is required. (18+) \nPurchase Tickets
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SUMMARY:ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH | NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! Nordic Book Club meets monthly via Zoom to discuss contemporary literature in translation. On October 13 in coordination with West Nordic Film Days\, we’ll read On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen\, a poignant and darkly witty portrait of aging\, memory and multigenerational caretaking from the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English. \nI’m a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman\, mother\, housewife\, and lover doing it all… Now I’m wife\, mother\, grandmother and my mother’s mother. But I still have to satisfy all the demands placed on me. \nSo begins Sólrún Michelsen’s tender and darkly witty exploration of what she considers to be the strange\, remaining leg of life’s journey. Her kids are grown and out of the house and she’s faced with a time that\, for years\, she always seemed to be looking toward—a time when she wasn’t needed by somebody or something. But now\, with her mother’s declining health\, she finds herself revisiting childhood scenes\, family hymns\, and folk songs—revealing a lifetime of love\, duty\, awe\, and regret. She tends to her mother amid the stark rhythms of Faroese life\, waiting for a new nursing home that never arrives\, and confronts the reality of being part of the “army of women” who inherit care. In her grief and private goodbye to her mother\, however\, is also a gorgeous meditation about life\, as translator Marita Thomsen says in her afterword\, “in its ragged mundane glory.” \nA lyrical portrait of caretaking and the invisible labor of motherhood\, On the Other Side Is March is a tribute to caretakers across generational lines\, as well as the the rich oral traditions of singing and storytelling that kept the Faroese language alive centuries before its standard written form. This is the first work of Michelsen’s—a best-selling author of novels\, short stories\, poetry\, and children’s literature—to be published in English. It has been translated by Marita Thomsen. \nOn the Other Side is March is available in paperback and ebook from Bookshop.org\, Amazon.com and other retailers. \nRegister
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/on-the-other-side-is-march-nordic-book-club-online/
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SUMMARY:HOME SWEET HOME | NEW NORDIC CINEMA
DESCRIPTION:On October 14\, see the warmly rendered drama Home Sweet Home! Single mother Sofie starts a new career as a caretaker for the elderly\, only to be humbled by the toll it takes on her physical and mental state\, in this authentic and rewarding glimpse at the uncelebrated world of healthcare workers from director Frelle Petersen. \nWe meet Sofie (Jette Søndergaard) as she begins her new elder-care job in a small Danish city. Each day\, she travels from flat to flat\, helping with bathing\, cooking\, cleaning bed sores\, changing linens\, and—most importantly—just chatting with lonely patients who feel abandoned. The recently divorced Sofie also struggles to raise her taciturn young daughter\, Clara. Sofie’s even temperament is well-suited for her demanding tasks\, but she is also subject to intense pressures of staff shortages and rudeness. When one of her client’s relatives lambastes her for alleged ineptitude\, Sofie begins questioning her ability to maintain intimate connections with patients\, co-workers\, and even her own family. \nPurchase Tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/home-sweet-home-new-nordic-cinema/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films
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SUMMARY:HAMPUS ÖHMAN-FRÖLUND: MOTVALSEN
DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 15 for an unforgettable evening with Hampus Öhman-Frölund as he plays selections from his new solo record\, “Motvalsen”! \n“Motvalsen” (2026) is the first drums / percussion solo record from NYC-based Swedish drummer Hampus Öhman-Frölund. Blending acoustic percussion with electronics\, samples\, and instruments from Sweden\, the album explores his experience of leaving home\, building a life in New York in his mid-twenties\, and finding new ways to engage with his cultural roots in the diaspora. Inspired by the textures and spirit of Scandinavian folk music—without claiming a place within that tradition—Motvalsen presents a deeply personal electro-acoustic meditation on memory\, distance\, and transnational belonging.\n\nPurchase tickets
URL:https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/hampus-ohman-frolund-motvalsen/
LOCATION:Scandinavia House\, 58 Park Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concerts
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SUMMARY:TRANSLATING SCANDINAVIA
DESCRIPTION:On October 17\, please join Scandinavia House and World Poetry Books to hear readings from and discussions of recent Scandinavian literature appearing in English! Translators Martin Aitken\, Larissa Kyzer\, Damion Searls\, and Kira Josefsson will present their translations of celebrated Nordic writers Karl Ove Knausgaard\, Jon Fosse\, Judish Kiros\, and Steinunn G. Helgadóttir\, among others. This program takes place as part of Colloquy: Translators in Conversation\, a live event and radio series hosted by World Poetry Books in New York City. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\nKira Josefsson is a writer and literary translator working between Swedish and English. In her translation\, Judith Kiros’s O was a finalist for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize\, and Johanna Hedman’s The Trio was on the shortlist for the Bernard Shaw Prize. Her two translations of Ia Genberg have been shortlisted and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She lives in New York City\, where she writes on US issues in the Swedish press. She organizes with the National Writers Union. \nLarissa Kyzer is a writer and Icelandic-English literary translator. Her translation work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the European Union Prize for Literature\, the Fulbright Commission\, the American-Scandinavian Foundation\, the Icelandic Literature Center\, Reykjavík UNESCO City of Literature\, and Finland’s Kone Foundation. She is on the steering committee of the National Writers Union’s Literary Translators Division\, on the board of the American Literary Translators Association\, and in the process of launching Great Auk Books\, a micropress dedicated to experimental Icelandic poetry and prose. \nDamion Searls has translated more than a dozen books by Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse\, as well as Victoria Kielland and Dag Solstad from Norwegian and many other modern classics from German\, French\, and Dutch; he is currently co-translating J.P. Heinesen’s The Driftwood Man from Faroese. His own books include the novel Analog Days\, The Mariner’s Mirror\, The Inkblots\, and The Philosophy of Translation. \nMartin Aitken‘s translations from Danish and Norwegian have been widely recognized and include novels by among others Karl Ove Knausgård\, Helle Helle\, Hanne Ørstavik\, and Ida Jessen.\n  \n\nRegister
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