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Between Two Sounds: A Book Event with Joonas Sildre
Join us on September 11 for a book talk with Estonian comic artist and illustrator Joonas Sildre on his award-winning graphic novel Between Two Sounds, based on the life of world-famous Estonian composer Arvo Pärt! "Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language" follows the composer's life from his birth in Estonia in 1935 through 1980, when the Soviets forced him to emigrate because of the nonconformist and religious nature of his music. Based on years of research and close collaboration with Arvo Pärt himself, Joonas Sildre paints an atmospheric portrait of a restless artist who does not shy away from confronting state control or his own internal contradictions.
- Sep 11, 2025 7:00 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
Children's Center Reservations
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE SIGNED IN WITH YOUR EMAIL TO ACCESS ALL RESERVATIONS. Reservations for the 2-hour play sessions. ASF Family membership required, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Thursdays and Saturdays, open to the public as well as members. A reservation ticket must be purchased for each participating child, caregivers do not need to purchase tickets for themselves. ASF Family members are limited to 3 reservation tickets per session. All sales are final, no refunds or exchanges. Please sign the ASF Liability Waiver on our website and bring to your first play session.
- Sep 04, 2025 10:00 am
Heimbold Family Children's Playing & Learning CenterTickets Available - Sep 04, 2025 2:30 pm
Heimbold Family Children's Playing & Learning CenterTickets Available - Sep 06, 2025 10:00 am
Heimbold Family Children's Playing & Learning CenterTickets Available - Sep 06, 2025 2:30 pm
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Hilma af Klint's Botanical World
Join us on September 16 for an evening with Dr. Jodi Hauptman (the Richard Roth Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art) and Dr. Lena Struwe (director of the Chrysler Herbarium and Professor at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University) as they discuss Swedish artist Hilma af Klint’s profound engagement with nature.
- Sep 16, 2025 6:30 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
Holiday Concert
Scandinavia House presents a festive in-person concert featuring Scandinavian and American holiday favorites as well as a traditional Saint Lucia procession, replete with traditional gowns and glowing candles! Learn about the history of Lucia, one of the most popular holidays in Sweden, while enjoying music from members of the Swedish community in New York, led by Ingrid Kullberg-Bendz.
- Dec 07, 2025 5:00 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available - Dec 14, 2025 5:00 pm
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Keyboard Conversation: Beloved Nordic Piano Masterpieces
In honor of the 25th Anniversary of Scandinavia House, Mr. Siegel's opening night features music from all-Nordic composers: Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen, Christian Sinding, among others.
- Sep 11, 2025 7:30 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
Keyboard Conversations: (More) Music of Joy and Peace
Mr. Siegel's season closes with the uplifting, smoothing music of J.S. Bach, Edvard Grieg, Robert Schumann, Gioachino Rossini, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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Keyboard Conversations: Beethoven-The Young Genius
Celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven's early period with the passionate Sonata "Pathétique," the high-spirited "Rage over a Lost Penny," the deeply moving "Largo e mesto" from Sonata Op. 10, No. 3, and the exhilarating "Finale" of Sonata Op. 31, No. 3.
- Feb 03, 2026 7:30 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
Keyboard Conversations: The Romantic Music of Chopin
Experience Frédéric Chopin's dreamy nocturnes, charming waltzes, poignant mazurkas, and heroic polonaises--one written when the composer was seven years old!
- Mar 12, 2026 7:30 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
My Seven Mothers: Book Talk with Pernile Ipsen
On November 15, join us for a talk on the memoir "My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement" with Pernille Ipsen! The distinguished author and historian will delve into her collective biography of the seven women who raised her and their lives and politics in the women’s and lesbian movements in Copenhagen in the 1970s, out now from University of Minnesota Press.
- Nov 15, 2025 2:00 pm
Heimbold Family Children's Playing & Learning CenterTickets Available
New Nordic Cinema: Homecoming
Sámi artefacts from the Finnish National Museum are returning home to Sápmi, while the holy drums of the Sámi people are still imprisoned in the basements of museums across Europe. The returning objects symbolise the dignity, identity, history, connection to ancestors and a whole world view that was taken from the Sámi people. Director Suvi West takes the viewer behind the scenes of the museum world to reflect on the spirit of the objects, the inequality of cultures and the colonialist burden of museums.
- Sep 17, 2025 7:00 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
New Nordic Cinema: Hunters on a White Field
Three friends decides to spend a long weekend in a remote cabin, deep within the Swedish woods to go hunting. However, one day all animals vanish without a trace and the forest turns eerily quiet. Obsessed with the idea of hunting, they decide to let the hunt go on, somehow. Director Sarah Gyllenstierna will be present as the screening.
- Nov 12, 2025 7:00 pm
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New Nordic Cinema: Quisling–The Final Days
After five years, the German occupation of Norway ends on 8 May 1945. The rebuilding of the nation can begin, but first the final chapter must be written. In a dark cell at Akershus Fortress sits the man who committed the greatest treason of all: Vidkun Quisling. Now he must be held accountable for his actions and the atrocities that Nazi ideology led to.
- Sep 10, 2025 7:00 pm
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Nordic Textile Takeover
NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER - Pass to all of Saturday's Programs! A pop-up exhibition and symposia celebrating contemporary Nordic Artists Saturday, September 13 Featuring: Isabel Berglund (Denmark), Álfrún Pálmadóttir (Iceland), Ása Bríet (Iceland), Asta Gudmundsdottir (Iceland), Randi Samsonsen (Faroe Islands), Astrid and Kamilla – Threads of Fate (Denmark), Ýr Jóhannsdóttir (Iceland), Högna Sól Thorkelsdóttir (Iceland), Olivia Maj Ballentyne (Sweden), Halla Ármansdottir (Iceland), Juha Vehmaanperä (Finland), Kiyoshi Yamamoto (Norway), Karlssonwilker, Inc. (Iceland/New York). Scandinavia House, in partnership with New York Textile Month, is pleased to present the second iteration of NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER, a weekend exhibition, program, and workshop highlighting contemporary Nordic textiles. Featuring an exhibition in the Scandinavia House gallery, the program includes artist talks and curator walkthrough, a reception, and hands-on workshops. The weekend program will also highlight work from recent textile art graduates from Textilhögskolan Borås. NORDIC TEXTILE TAKEOVER is a Nordic textile collaboration project co-curated by Ragna Froda (ISL/US), Director of New York Textile Month, and Emily Stoddart (CA), manager of exhibitions and community programs at Scandinavia House, New York. Support has been provided by the Icelandic Craft Council. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13: Program Schedule: 2PM: Artist Talk: Randi Samsonsen (Faroe Islands) 2:30PM: Artist Talk: Juha Vehmaanperä (Finland) 3PM: Curator walkthrough of the exhibition in the Scandinavia House Galleries 4-6PM: Reception
- Sep 13, 2025 2:00 pm
Volvo HallTickets Available
North Star Rising: New York Opera Society (NYOS) and Opera Nordfjord celebrate Crossings 200
On October 8, join us for a joyous, musical homage to Norwegian immigration to the United States. “North Star Rising: New York Opera Society (NYOS) and Opera Nordfjord celebrate Crossings 200” explores two centuries of rich transnational exchange through musical selections that honor the past and look to imagine the future.
- Oct 08, 2025 6:30 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
The Craft Knit Club HEL in NYC
Let’s Come Together! Based on the popular Craft Club Hel gatherings in Helsinki, Finnish Textile Artist and Knitwear Designer Juha Vehmaanperä brings their passion for collaborative design learning to New York. Join Juha to learn the hand knitting special techniques wave pattern and tuck stitch. You'll need needles of your preferred size. Two or more yarns that fit the needle size. Feel free to try different varieties of needle and yarn sizes for experimentation! BYOY = Bring Your Own Yarn (and knitting equipment)
- Sep 14, 2025 12:00 pm
Scandinavia House LibraryTickets Available
The Extravagant Bloom Brooch Workshop
Inspired by trend forecaster Li Edelkoort’s prediction that “Extravagant Brooches” are trending we’ll make one ourselves! Join celebrated textile and performance artist Heidi Hankaniemi on a quest to repurpose vintage embroideries and sew a brooch on a backing of industrial felt with a brooch clasp. Materials are provided, but if you have any old embroideries that you think are fitting and you wish to repurpose, please bring those. No sewing skills required.
- Sep 14, 2025 12:00 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
The Hot Dog Workshop
Join celebrated Faroese artist Randi Samsonsen on a crochet journey of the hot dog, a long-beloved NYC staple. There are endless possibilities to use left-over yarns. We are going to play with different gauges, structures, shapes and sizes. Let’s have fun!! To be able to crochet back and forth as minimum is required; if you only know how to knit, Randi will challenge you to knit the hot dog instead. Materials: Please bring left-over yarn, even tiny, small balls of yarn are welcome. It will be so great to see inactive yarns come to use! If you have crochet needs, preferably size 6 or 8, but anything goes. If you have knitting needles, bring them too. Once registered, we will send you instructions on how to crochet the “bun” ahead of time to have more flexibility with creating the wiener and toppings in the class!
- Sep 14, 2025 12:00 pm
Volvo HallTickets Available
The Sámi Problem
Join us on November 4 for a talk with ASF Visiting Lecturer Silje Solheim Karlsen on identity in contemporary Sámi literature! In Norwegian/Sámi author Kathrine Nedrejord’s critically acclaimed novel The Sámi Problem (2024), we meet Marie, who has long hidden her Sámi identity. Through an intense journey in both history and geography, the novel explores what it means to be Sámi – and what it means to be a woman. Dr. Karlsen’s lecture will focus on Nedrejord’s novel, and particularly address existential questions surrounding the process of finding and acknowledging one’s identity.
- Nov 04, 2025 7:00 pm
Scandinavia HouseTickets Available
Writing the World from Copenhagen to New York
Join us on September 19 for a conversation on “Writing the World from Copenhagen to NYC”! This program presents the work of four talented early-career writers who have been selected by faculty at Forfatterskolen, Copenhagen, and the Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, to represent the best of new writing in Danish and English: Sophia Acuña, Christian Fobian, Patricio Hernández Palazuelos and Krista Winther. In cooperation between these two arts institutions, the four Word for Word Exchange Writers have been engaged in a collaborative project of mutual translation. Moderated by Katrine Øgaard Jensen, they will present excerpts from the resulting work here in a multilingual reading and discussion about international 21st-century art-making with writers on the faculty of both institutions.
- Sep 19, 2025 7:00 pm
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About Scandinavia House
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America is the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States. It offers a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavia House offerings include diverse exhibitions and film series, as well as concerts and other performances, readings, lectures, symposia, language courses, and children’s activities.