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Nordic Days - Festival of Nordic Culture, 4.-15.10.2010
The festival of Nordic culture takes place in Prague in the first half of October 2010. The Scandinavian House in cooperation with many other partners will welcome the Nordic Days festival there. Everybody interested in Nordic culture can enjoy more than ten cultural events - among them: an exhibition of the young Norwegian artist Anders Grønlien, screenings of the Finnish films based on Arto Paasilinna's novels, a lecture on Greenlandic literature, a discussion on translating Nordic literature into Czech and a lecture on travelling in Iceland. The festival will welcome two great Nordic guests - the Danish writer Erling Jepsen (the film Frygtelig lykkelig / Terribly Happy - awarded at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary 2008 - is based on his novel) and one of the most famous contemporary Swedish writers Per Olov Enquist. In the middle of September the website www.skandinavskydum.cz will launch competitions for free tickets for parts of the festival (theatre performances) and a more detailed festival programme will be announced.
Exhibition of Ilon Wikland's illustrations
The Scandinavian House in cooperation with the Municipal Library of Prague and the Embassy of Estonia and the Embassy of Sweden invites you to the opening of Ilon Wikland's exhibition.
Date: 17th August 2010, 6 pm
Venue: Municipal Library of Prague (Mariánské square 1, Prague 1)
Until 16th September 2010. See the invitation here.
Exhibition Opening: Icelandic Contrasts
Twenty most successful images from a competition of the same name announced by The Scandinavian House and The Club of Icelandic Fanatics.
Monday 31th May, 18:00, Café Nordica, Zlatnická 10, Prague 1
Entrance: voluntary contributions. Until 30. 9. 2010.
Library of the Scandinavian House is closed in summer
The Library of the Scandinavian House is closed from 2nd July to 12th September 2010 (summer holiday).
Loans lent as of 1st June 2010 are automatically prolonged to 13th October 2010. Loans lent before 1st June 2010 must be returned by the end of the term of loan or prolonged via email: please write the number of your library card in the email and send it to knihovna(at)skandinavskydum.cz. It is also possible to agree upon a more suitable term of your library visit in summer individually, just use the same email address.
THE SCANDINAVIAN HOUSE HAS NEW ADDRESS
In July 2009 the Scandinavian House moved to a new office which is located in Prague 6: DEJVICKÁ 3, 160 00 PRAGUE 6. The office is 5 minutes far from the metro stations Dejvická and Hradčanská (line A; a map can be found at the bottom of the article).
The office and the library were reopened on 21st September.
Opening hours: Mon 3 - 8 p.m., Thu 1 - 5 p.m.
We are looking forward to meet in our new office!
Swedish symphonic metal band Therion in the Czech Republic
Therion is going to play in the Czech Republic to times: 5.11.2010 in Zlín at Masters Of Rock Cafe and 26.11.2010 in Prague at KC Vltavská.
With them will play: Loch Vostok (Swe) + Leprous (Nor)
Finnish band Lordi is coming to the Czech Republic
18.11. PRAHA, KC Vltavská
19.11. OSTRAVA, Bonver Arena
The popular Finnish band Lordi is coming to the Czech Republic within its new tour supporting the new album "Babez for Breakfast".
Amorphis in Pilsen in November
Yes, Finnish masters of melancholic melodies are coming to the Czech Republic within their „Forging Europe Tour“. This time the KD Šeříkovka Club in Pilsen is the happy one. It will be unforgettable and atmospheric experience for sure. So mark the date: 19. 11. 2010.
Finnish band Ensiferum at Heidenfest 2010
Viking horns will sound in Prague´s Abaton Club - on 26th September 2010 within the Heidenfest festival:
- Ensiferum from Finland
- German folk-black melodic metalists Equilibrium
- thrash-death Americans Swashbuckle
- folk metalists from The Netherlands, Heidevolk.
The main headliner: Twilight of the Gods (Tribute Band - Nor, Swe, Ire)
Exhibition on Greenland
Exhibition on Greenland in connection with working visit of President of the Parliament of Greenland, Mr. Josef Motzfeldt.
The exhibition will open 6th September at 16:00 with the launch of the book “Stripky gronske kultury” by Ole G. Jepsen.
Venue: Municipal Library (Mariánské nám. 1, Prague 1).
Until 20th September 2010.
Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek & Hilliard Ensemble at Strings of Autumn festival
Sacred music from the 13th to 16th centuries brought alive by vocal quartet and jazz saxophone.
19 September, 7:30 PM, The National Memorial on Vítkov Hill (U Památníku 1900, Prague 3 - Žižkov)
In September this year, Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble release ‘Officium Novum,’ the sequel to their legendary 1994 recording ‘Officium.’ Taking chants, early polyphonic music and renaissance motets as their basic material, Garbarek and the Hilliards forged a sound that mixed reverence for early sacred music with contemporary instrumental virtuosity. ‘Officium’ was a surprise hit album and won plaudits worldwide, the New York Observer describing it as representing ‘the collapse of all existing barriers between classical music and jazz, and between sacred and secular music.’ ...
Norwegian Hanne Hukkelberg is coming to Prague
Get two free tickets for H. Hukkelberg's concert!
Young Norwegian singer Hanne Hukkelberg is coming to Prague and will give her first concert in the Czech Republic on 16th September from 19:30 at Palac Akropolis.
Hanne Hukkelberg (born April 1979) is a singer-songwriter from Kongsberg, Norway. Hukkelberg started singing and playing instruments at the age of 3. In her youth, she was a vocalist covering genres such as jazz, rock and free jazz, and was a member of the influential doom metal band Funeral in high school (in which she contributed vocals on their second album, In Fields of Pestilent Grief).
Her debut album Little Things was released in Norway in 2004 with a subsequent worldwide release in June 2005 by Propeller Recordings and distributed by Sony Music. Little Things is notable for its eclectic array of instruments and its use of found sounds, such as bicycle spokes, dish brushes, wine glasses, and rain. Rykestraße 68 was released in September 2006 and awarded with a Norwegian Grammy. Hukkelberg contributed a song to the soundtrack of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
Date: 16th September 2010, 19:30
Venue: Big Hall, Palác Akropolis (Kubelíkova 1548/27, Prague 3)
Norwegian band Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson in Prague
Date: 16th September 2010 at 8 pm
Venue: Sir Toby’s Hostel (Dělnická 24, Prague)
The Norwegian band Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson will play in Prague on 16th. September from 8 pm at Sir Toby’s as part of their two week European tour.
Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson is a Norwegian post-rock band from Bodø consisting of seven musicians. They started in 2003 and have released two records, Unnoticeable in a Tiny Town, Invisible in the City in 2005 and Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson in 2010, for which they received brilliant critics both in Norway and abroad. This summer they played at one of the biggest music festivals in Norway, Øyafestivalen in Oslo. Their music is characterized as epic pop or post –rock with a sound ranging from tender to brutal combining electronic elements with guitars and jazzy beats.
Nordic films at Fresh Film Fest
25th - 29th August 2010, Prague
Fresh Film Fest is an international film festival. In 5 days more than 150 films will be screened in competitive and non-competitive sections at 7 venues.
You can enjoy these Nordic films at the festival: ...
