Scandinavian Cultural Center
The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: SCREENING: OUT STEALING HORSES (2019)
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesSCREENING: OUT STEALING HORSES (2019) November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned…
The Scandinavian Center presents Syttende Mai Celebration
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesSYTTENDE MAI CELEBRATION Norumbega Lodge #3-506, Sons of Norway presents a family picnic on the front lawn of the SCC in honor of Norway’s national independence day, Syttende Mai (officially observed on May 17). Sons of Norway invites you to join them for a parade and picnic to commemorate this festive occasion. Join in the…
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…
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…
Community Food Pantry Drive
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United States*Please consider participating in the Community Food Pantry Drive now through January 15th in honor of MLK Day. Sponsored by The Rotary Club of Newton and The Village Bank, canned items and other essentials are being collected to benefit Newton Food Pantry, Newton Centre Food Pantry, and the Arabic Baptist Food Pantry. For donation details…
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: “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: 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: 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…
An Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: An Afternoon of Swedish History
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesJoin the Scandinavian Cultural Center for Carolus Rex - An Afternoon of Swedish History Concerning King Charles XII and the Great Northern War. “Were Socrates and Charles the Twelfth of Sweden both present in any company, and Socrates to say, ‘Follow me and hear a lecture on philosophy’ and Charles, laying his hand on his sword,…