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| 6:30pm | Film:The Brothers/Bröderna
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
A wealthy couple is found dead during a military exercise, murdered in their stately home, and Wallander is under pressure from his superiors in Stockholm to find out who killed them. The emerging evidence seems to point to an act of revenge for a 20-year-old transgression. |
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| 11:00am | Kids:Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
Some of New York’s most famous storytellers bring to life exciting tales of mythical creatures and fantastic adventures from Scandinavia and the far North.
March 13: Stories from Finland & Other Tales with Swedish Ballads told and sung by Johanna Hongell-Darsee |
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| 6:30pm | Lecture:The Viking in the Wheatfield, Lecture & reading with Susan Dworkin
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
New York City author and journalist Susan Dworkin’s newest book takes the reader into the world of Bent Skovmand (1945-2007), a brilliant Danish plant scientist who fought to preserve and expand the world’s wheat supply. For 35 years Skovmand collected, multiplied, and documented the world’s wheat varieties, helping to protect the harvest against mutant plagues and revolutionary climate change. Before his untimely death in 2007, he worked to develop the so-called “Doomsday Vault” on Norway’s Arctic border where nations store their crop seeds under tons of ice and rock as insurance against catastrophe. |
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| 6:30pm | Film & Lecture:Mannequin in Red/Mannekäng i rött Film screening with lecture
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
Directed by Arne Mattsson (1958). A private detective doubling up as a fashion mannequin, a head designer with lesbian inclinations and a mean, wheelchair-based fashion house matron ominously accompanied by a white cat…welcome to the strange world of the couture salon “La Femme,” where the elegant surface soon starts to peel, revealing what’s hidden and repressed underneath. |
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| 6:30pm | Film:The Darkness/Mörkret
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
A child sits alone in a parked car on a deserted road with no adult in sight. Her father has been reported missing, and the mother is in a psychiatric institution, unresponsive and apathetic. Due to Detective Wallander’s failing health, Linda takes the lead in the case. It will touch her deeply as she discovers that the child has been unscrupulously tricked, exploited, and humiliated. Linda has never been so committed to solving a case. |
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| 6:30pm | Film:What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008). Thomas Delauren is an emotionally-stunted children’s entertainer with a divorce looming over him. A strenuous family dinner reunites Thomas with his sister Charlotte who confesses she has important information about their late father that she wishes to divulge at a later time. When Thomas arrives at their scheduled rendezvous point he is met by police officers who deliver the terrible news that his sister drowned while swimming.What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved Knowing that his sister was a strong swimmer, Thomas becomes suspicious of her death and as he is going through her personal affects he discovers documents about their father’s past as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. These documents prove to be dangerous in Thomas’ hands as an attempt is made on his daughter’s life. Dark images, intense clips and haunting music set the mood in this political thriller that raises questions about the increasing presence of surveillance cameras in our society. 99 min. |
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| 6:30pm | Film & Lecture:Smiles of a Summer Night/Sommarnattens leende Film screening with lecture
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
Directed by Ingmar Bergman (1955). The 1956 prize-winning comedy Smiles of a Summer Night ushered in an international audience for director Ingmar Bergman. Set in turn-of-the-century Sweden, four women and four men attempt to juggle the laws of attraction amidst their daily bourgeois life. When a weekend in the country brings them all face to face, the women ally to force the men’s hands in their matters of the heart, exposing their pretensions and insecurities along the way. Chock full of flirtatious propositions and sharp-witted wisdom, Smiles of a Summer Night is one of film history’s great tragicomedies, a bittersweet view of the transience of human carnality. |
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| 7:00pm | Concert:The Music of Schumann & Gade
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
This concert is a special presentation by the Mannes College Piano and Voice Departments, exploring the music of Robert Schumann and Niels Gade, featuring such pieces as Schumann’s Arabesque in C major for piano, op. 18 and Gade’s Violin Sonata. Since 1999, Mannes College of Music has presented a series of year-long music festivals, each with a different unifying theme featuring gifted young artists, distinguished faculty, and renowned guests. |
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| 9:30pm | Concert:Kashmir
Mercury Lounge
Location: Mercury Lounge
Danish rock band Kashmir plays at Mercury Lounge on Thursday, March 25.
This is a unique chance to sample Kashmir’s new album Trespassers. The
album, released on February 1, was recorded at the Jimi Hendrix’ Electric
Lady Studios here in New York. Kashmir has a long history of collaborating
with musical icons, such as David Bowie and Lou Reed, with whom they have
done recordings on previous albums. Since their breakthrough in 1993,
Kashmir has been a household name on the rock scene in Denmark.
$10
For more info visit: http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/ |
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| 6:30pm | Film:The African/Afrikanen
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
Members of the Social Democratic party in Ystad are putting up campaign posters for their candidate, whose fight against anti-immigrant forces and the town’s racial prejudices are his main priorities. When a train rolls into Gdansk, Poland with a dead black man on board, it appears that he was murdered in Ystad, where the train originated. Most of the evidence points to a racially motivated crime, but then the investigation takes an unexpected turn. |
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| 3:00pm | Film:What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved
Scandinavia House
Location: 58 Park Avenue, New York City, NY
Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (2008). Thomas Delauren is an emotionally-stunted children’s entertainer with a divorce looming over him. A strenuous family dinner reunites Thomas with his sister Charlotte who confesses she has important information about their late father that she wishes to divulge at a later time. When Thomas arrives at their scheduled rendezvous point he is met by police officers who deliver the terrible news that his sister drowned while swimming.What No One Knows/Det som ingen ved Knowing that his sister was a strong swimmer, Thomas becomes suspicious of her death and as he is going through her personal affects he discovers documents about their father’s past as an intelligence officer during the Cold War. These documents prove to be dangerous in Thomas’ hands as an attempt is made on his daughter’s life. Dark images, intense clips and haunting music set the mood in this political thriller that raises questions about the increasing presence of surveillance cameras in our society. |
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| 10:30am | Family event: Easter Lunch at the Chocolate Factory
The Danish American Society
Location: Chocopologie Cafe, 12 South Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06854, NY 10002
Please join us for a super delicious real Danish Easter Buffet Lunch provided by the Chocopologie Danish Chef.
This new tradition at DAS is an excellent networking opportunity AND a MUST for foodies interested in celebrating Danish Easter Chocolate right here on US soil! Bring your friends, they will thank you for it later.
And children between 5 and 14 gets to dip their fingers in chocolate and decorate their own Easter Bunny in our chocolate factory class for kids. See below for younger siblings.
For more info visit: http://www.knipschildt.com/flash.html |
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| 6:00pm | Celebration: The Queen's Birthday
The Danish American Society
Location: Danish Consulate General, 885 Second Avenue, 18th floor, New York, NY 10017
April 16, the Queen will be turning 70 and this will be celebrated with a members only lunch at the Consulate General of Denmark. Further details will follow, so for now just save the date! |
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