Scandinavian Cultural Center
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Jazz on Tap
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesTap dance and jazz have a long and intertwined history. From the prohibition on musical instruments during the era of slavery, which prompted the enslaved African-Americans to find ingenious ways to use their bodies as percussion instruments, to the early 20th century New York City where Irish and African-American styles of dancing met and enriched…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Backyard Village (2021)
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesWhen Brynja finishes her stay in a health clinic in the village of Hveragerdi, she’s reluctant to return to her life in the capital, so she checks into a small guesthouse. There she meets Mark, a tourist who is also reluctant to leave this nurturing community. Saturday, November 20th | 1:30pm | | $5; tickets…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Book Talk – “For the Love of Cod” with Eric Dregni
ONLINE United KingdomA journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it really one of the happiest countries on Earth? Eric Dregni had his doubts. Years ago…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: “The Men’s Room” Screening
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesA wonderful Norwegian male choir is getting ready to warm up for Black Sabbath and to sing the last verse for their conductor. Every Tuesday, 25 men in their prime get together in a bar in Oslo to sing in a choir and drink beers. They have joked that they have promised to sing at…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: Push (2019) screening
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesWHY CAN’T WE AFFORD TO LIVE IN OUR CITIES? PUSH is a new documentary from award-winning Swedish director Fredrik Gertten, investigating why we can’t afford to live in our own cities anymore. Housing is a fundamental human right, a precondition to a safe and healthy life. But in cities all around the world, having a place…
Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: “Men of Terror” Book Talk
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesBOOK TALK: MEN OF TERROR – A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF VIKING COMBAT A lecture by Dr. William R. Short Viking society revolved around violence, as seen in their myths, poetry, law codes, pictures, and even in their house architecture. One Viking, a man named Fraði, was memorialized on a runestone raised 1000 years ago and…
The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: The Pact
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesSCREENING: THE PACT (2021) presented in conjunction with the Scandinavian Library It’s 1948 and sixty-three-year-old OUT OF AFRICA author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation devastated by syphilis and mourning her lost love until she meets talented thirty-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She offers him a Faustian bargain and promises him…
The Scandi Cultural Center presents THE FANTASTIC ART OF PAPER CUTTING
THE FANTASTIC ART OF PAPER CUTTING Learn to create wonderful paper-cut beings with Danish artist, Torben Jarlstrøm Clausen, via Zoom. Join celebrated Danish paper cutting artist Torben Jarlstrøm Clausen who has had several paper cut workshops in Denmark, Japan, and the US. The paper-cut universe of Torben Jarlstrøm Clausen is inhabited by beings who have previously…
The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents A Book Launch Event
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesBOOK TALK – LAUNCH THING WITH AUTHOR ROWDY GEIRSSON AND FRIENDS Join the Scandinavian Cultural Center on June 11th for the launch-thing of Rowdy Geirsson’s new book, The Scandinavian Aggressors. The event will feature a reading by Geirsson from the book, book signings by him along with Matt Smith and Corwin Ericson, hand-made natural Norse products…
Scandi Cultural Center presents an exhibit with Ann Bausman
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesEXHIBIT: ANN BAUSMAN Ann attributes her love of textiles to her mother who grew up in Finland, a country where beautiful design is greatly revered. She always had a project — an embroidered pillow, a cross-stitch wall-hanging, a traditional Rya rug or a patch on Ann’s favorite pants. When her sons were little she focused…