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SUMMARY:FIKA Supper Club Concert Series: Lyra Baroque Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:The Lyra Baroque Orchestra returns to ASI for a special night of Nordic repertoire! In the second performance of the FIKA Supper Club Concert Series\, experience the rich sound of a full Baroque ensemble playing period music from the Nordic canon in the comfort of ASI’s Larson Hall. \nThe FIKA Supper Club series brings Nordic-inflected folk\, jazz and classical artists to ASI. Optionally\, guests may enjoy extended dinner hours at FIKA Café before the concert\, then step into Larson Hall for a musical treat beginning at 7 pm. Don’t miss these nights of musical and culinary delight! \nAdditional information: \n\nLimited dinner reservations and a cash bar are available from 4-7 pm. To reserve your table\, email fika@asimn.org.\nAdvanced registration recommended. If available\, tickets at the door will increase to $40
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/fika-supper-club-concert-series-lyra-baroque-orchestra/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:November Open Nordic Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the first Thursday of every month for Open Nordic Jam! \n\nHave you ever wanted to play music in the historic Turnblad Mansion? Now’s your chance! Bring your nyckelharpa\, hardingfele\, fiddle\, or any acoustic instrument to ASI’s Open Nordic Jam. This jam is open to musicians of all levels who want to learn and play Nordic folk music. Bring your friends or plan to make new ones here! \nMinnesota has long been known for its rich music scenes—in part due to the many immigrant diasporas that have established themselves in the area. From Nisswa-stämman to the Nordic Roots festival\, to the countless house jams across the state\, Nordic folk music is an important part of Minnesota’s musical identity. Whether you’re a master fiddler or want to learn more about folk music\, this monthly gathering is for you! \nThis jam is facilitated by ASI staff\, but tunes are selected each time by musicians in the room. We will play standards and originals inspired by the folk traditions of Sweden\, Norway\, Finland\, Denmark\, and Iceland. While many musicians may bring traditional instruments\, all acoustic instrumentalists are welcome to participate. If you do not play an instrument\, you can still attend if you respectfully observe and listen. Dancing is encouraged but not required—see you there! No advanced registration required.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/november-open-nordic-jam/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Scandinavian Everyday Book Talk with Nichole Accettola
DESCRIPTION:Welcome back Nichole Accettola to hear about her newest cookbook\, Scandinavian Everyday: Vibrant\, Simple Meals from Northern Europe\, in conversation with Minnesota-based chef and author Amy Thielen. A chef and IACP award-winning author\, Nichole has much to share about how contemporary Scandinavian cuisine offers a simple\, sustainable\, and satisfying approach to cooking and eating at home. In this book talk\, Nichole and Amy will discuss Nichole’s years of living in Denmark\, running Kantine restaurant in San Francisco\, and her journey to becoming a cookbook author\, as well as a few hints for favorite recipes from the book. \n  \nAdditional information: \n\nA Q&A and opportunity for book signing will follow the discussion.\nGuests may also be interested in an opportunity to cook alongside Nichole in an intimate afternoon workshop\nAdvanced registration encouraged\, tickets at the door if available.\n\n  \nAbout the presenters: \nNichole Accettola is a CIA-trained chef with years of experience in both professional kitchens and teaching culinary arts\, abroad in Denmark as well as in the US. As the owner of Kantine\, a Scandinavian-inspired café located in San Francisco\, Nichole showcases her gorgeous pastries\, porridges and jewel-like smørrebrød sandwiches which have garnered glowing reviews from media such as San Francisco Chronicle\, Time Out\, and Eater. \nNichole Accettola is also the author of Scandinavian from Scratch: A Love Letter to the Baking of Denmark\, Norway and Sweden\, an IACP award winning cookbook. Scandinavian from Scratch and Scandinavian Everyday are both available from the ASI Museum Store. \nFollow Nichole on Instagram @nicholeate and keep up with her new book @scandinavianfromscratch \nAmy Thielen is a two-time James Beard Award-winning writer\, cookbook author\, and chef. Her books include The New Midwestern Table\, the memoir Give a Girl a Knife\, and Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others. Her cooking show\, Heartland Table\, ran on Food Network from 2013 to 2015\, and she is currently the host of Ham Radio\, a podcast and live on-air cooking show in partnership with KAXE/KBXE\, Northern Community Radio\, Grand Rapids/Bemidji. Amy lives in Park Rapids\, Minnesota with her husband\, Aaron Spangler\, and their son\, where she is a board member of the Nemeth Art Center. \nFollow Amy on Instagram and Twitter at @amyrosethielen
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/scandinavian-everyday-book-talk-with-nichole-accettola/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
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SUMMARY:Nordic Book Circle
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Nordic literature is full of diverse literary voices\, styles\, and genres. This September 2026 through May 2027 the ASI Nordic Book Circle will gather monthly\, in-person\, to read and discuss a work of Nordic literature in English translation. Our focus this year will be on works of literature written by women authors from across the Nordic world. The works we read will chronologically trace books penned between 1912 and 2020\, and include two winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature; authors from the countries of Sweden\, Norway\, Denmark\, Iceland\, Greenland; various genres; and a range of topics and perspectives. \nIf you love to read and discuss literature and would like to expand your appreciation of literature from various parts of the world (the Nordic world in particular)\, we would love to have you join! Limited to 20 attendees; please register in advance. \n2026-2027 Nordic Book Circle titles\nSeptember: Kristin Lavransdotter\, Book I: The Wreath (1912)\, by Sigrid Undset\, translated from Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally (Penguin Editions\, 336 pages)\, Norway – September 27\, 2026 \nOctober: The Phantom Carriage (1912)\, by Selma Lagerlöf\, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves (Norvik Press\, 124 pages) (Sweden) – October 25\, 2026 \nNovember: Quicksand (1928) by Nella Larsen (Penguin Classics\, 192 pages) (Denmark) – November 22\, 2026 \nDecember: Kallocain (1940)\, Karin Boye\, translated from Swedish by David McDuff (Penguin Classics\, 192 pages) (Sweden) – December 20\, 2026 \nJanuary: Girl Upon Heaven’s Pier (1951)\, by Eeva-Liisa Manner\, translated from Finnish by Terhi Kuusisto (Dalkey Archive Press\, 104 pages) (Finland) – January 31\, 2027 \nFebruary: Nothing to be Rescued (1961)\, by Ásta Sigurðardóttir\, translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich (Nordisk Books\, 192 pages) Iceland – February 28\, 2027 \nMarch: Light\, Grass\, and Letter in April (1962\, 1963\, 1979)\, by Inger Christensen\, translated from Danish by Susanna Nied (New Directions Publishing\, 144 pages) (Denmark) – March 21\, 2027 \nApril: Zombieland (2015)\, by Sørine Steenholdt\, translated from Greenlandic to Danish by Niviaq Korneliussen and from Danish to English by Charlotte Barslund (Norvik Press\, 150 pages) (Greenland) – April 25\, 2027 \nMay: Strega (2020)\, by Johanna Lykke Holm\, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Riverhead Books\, 208 pages) (Sweden) – May 23\, 2027
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/nordic-book-circle-10/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Exhibit G Book Talk with Fady Joudah
DESCRIPTION:Join a reading and conversation with award-winning poet and translator Fady Joudah\, presented by Milkweed Editions and Mizna. \n\nNote: This event is accessible and will include an ASL interpreter. \n\n\n\n\nAbout EXHIBIT G: Fady Joudah writes from the split perspective of a Palestinian American physician caring for the sick while watching the destruction of Gaza from the United States\, a nation complicit in that destruction. He locates the paradox of his position everywhere: in the seed a sparrow eats from his proffered hand; in his writing in English\, the oppressor’s language; in the faces of Palestinian children receiving meals from aid kitchens—a glimpse into what his life could have been\, and what is being lost in a war disproportionately impacting children and their families. Throughout the book\, beauty insists on its survival not only through the Palestinian people\, but also through the nonhuman world in which he takes occasional refuge from the devastation that humanity brings upon itself. \n\nAbout the author: Fady Joudah is the author of […]\, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, and Exhibit G. His other poetic works include: The Earth in the Attic; Alight; Textu\, a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on cellphone character count; Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance; and Tethered to Stars. He has translated several collections of poetry from the Arabic and is the co-editor and co-founder of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. He was a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and has received the Jackson Poetry Prize\, a PEN award\, a Banipal/Times Literary Supplement prize from the UK\, the Griffin Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and the Arab American Book Award. He lives in Houston\, with his wife and kids\, where he practices internal medicine.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/an-evening-with-fady-joudah/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
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SUMMARY:Nordic Book Circle
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary Nordic literature is full of diverse literary voices\, styles\, and genres. This September 2026 through May 2027 the ASI Nordic Book Circle will gather monthly\, in-person\, to read and discuss a work of Nordic literature in English translation. Our focus this year will be on works of literature written by women authors from across the Nordic world. The works we read will chronologically trace books penned between 1912 and 2020\, and include two winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature; authors from the countries of Sweden\, Norway\, Denmark\, Iceland\, Greenland; various genres; and a range of topics and perspectives. \nIf you love to read and discuss literature and would like to expand your appreciation of literature from various parts of the world (the Nordic world in particular)\, we would love to have you join! Limited to 20 attendees; please register in advance. \n2026-2027 Nordic Book Circle titles \nSeptember: Kristin Lavransdotter\, Book I: The Wreath (1912)\, by Sigrid Undset\, translated from Norwegian by Tiina Nunnally (Penguin Editions\, 336 pages)\, Norway – September 27\, 2026 \nOctober: The Phantom Carriage (1912)\, by Selma Lagerlöf\, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves (Norvik Press\, 124 pages) (Sweden) – October 25\, 2026 \nNovember: Quicksand (1928) by Nella Larsen (Penguin Classics\, 192 pages) (Denmark) – November 22\, 2026 \nDecember: Kallocain (1940)\, Karin Boye\, translated from Swedish by David McDuff (Penguin Classics\, 192 pages) (Sweden) – December 20\, 2026 \nJanuary: Girl Upon Heaven’s Pier (1951)\, by Eeva-Liisa Manner\, translated from Finnish by Terhi Kuusisto (Dalkey Archive Press\, 104 pages) (Finland) – January 31\, 2027 \nFebruary: Nothing to be Rescued (1961)\, by Ásta Sigurðardóttir\, translated from Icelandic by Meg Matich (Nordisk Books\, 192 pages) Iceland – February 28\, 2027 \nMarch: Light\, Grass\, and Letter in April (1962\, 1963\, 1979)\, by Inger Christensen\, translated from Danish by Susanna Nied (New Directions Publishing\, 144 pages) (Denmark) – March 21\, 2027 \nApril: Zombieland (2015)\, by Sørine Steenholdt\, translated from Greenlandic to Danish by Niviaq Korneliussen and from Danish to English by Charlotte Barslund (Norvik Press\, 150 pages) (Greenland) – April 25\, 2027 \nMay: Strega (2020)\, by Johanna Lykke Holm\, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Riverhead Books\, 208 pages) (Sweden) – May 23\, 2027
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/nordic-book-circle-11/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Illuminating Immigration in Media: Contemporary Perspectives from Sweden and the Twin Cities
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural Edward and Elizabeth Carlson Sweden Project event will take place on June 4\, 2026\, and feature journalists from The Local Sweden and Sahan Journal in conversation about how immigration issues are covered in Sweden and Minnesota. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain new perspectives on immigration in both the Swedish and US contexts. \nImmigrant communities around the world have specific needs for information not always covered by traditional newspapers and have historically benefitted from news sources dedicated to their distinct experiences. James Savage (The Local Sweden) is joining Andrew Hazzard and Shubhanjana Das (Sahan Journal) in a panel discussion to their experiences working for mission-driven newsrooms covering stories for and about immigrants in Sweden and Minnesota. \nModerated by Fred de Sam Lazaro (Under-Told Stories\, PBS NewsHour)\, the conversation will explore contemporary immigration issues in Sweden and Minnesota and their recent historical context through the lens of journalism\, illuminating how coverage differs in each country and what we can learn from each other. Additionally\, event attendees will hear firsthand about what it’s like being a journalist in each country and working for a newsroom with a specific purpose: to provide essential information for immigrant communities. \nPANELISTS: \nJames Savage is Founder and Publishing Director of The Local\, the biggest source of local news and advice for international professionals/expats in nine European countries. His focus is on building reader revenues and making news sustainable in the 21st century for the benefit of diverse audiences across Europe. He writes about Swedish and European affairs for The Local and is a frequent commentator in Swedish media on British and Swedish affairs. He is chair of the Swedish Magazine Publishers’ Association (Sveriges tidskrifter) and chair of Utgivarna\, which gathers all major Swedish media companies to speak on areas of common interest and promote free speech. He won Sveriges Tidskrifter’s Grand Prize in 2021 for his contributions to the Swedish media industry. James lives in Stockholm and is originally from Lincolnshire\, England. \nAndrew Hazzard is a reporter with Sahan Journal who focuses on climate change and environmental justice issues. After starting his career in daily newspapers in Mississippi and North Dakota\, Andrew returned to Minneapolis where he worked for local publications such as Southwest Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Andrew enjoys travel\, speaks Spanish\, and is a depressed supporter of Minnesota’s professional sports teams. He and his wife live in Minneapolis. \nShubhanjana Das is a reporter at Sahan Journal. She is a journalist from India and previously worked as a reporting fellow at Sahan before stepping into her current role. Before moving to the U.S.\, she spent five years working as an independent journalist in India\, writing for outlets including VICE\, Vogue\, The Indian Express\, and Mongabay. She is a 2026 National Press Foundation fellow and graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2025. \nMODERATOR: \nFred de Sam Lazaro is the founder and executive director of the Under-Told StoriesProject and has served as a correspondent for the PBS NewsHour\, since 1985. He also was a regular contributor and substitute anchor for PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. Fred also has directed films from India and the Democratic Republic of Congo for the acclaimed documentary series\, Wide Angle. Fred has reported from 70 countries with a focus on the myriad issues that underlie poverty and human suffering which are under-reported in the mainstream U.S. media. \nADDITIONAL INFORMATION: \n\nAdvanced registration encouraged\, tickets at the door if available.\nThe American Swedish Institute (ASI) was founded by Swan Turnblad\, a Swedish immigrant to Minnesota who created Svenska Amerikanska Posten\, a Swedish-language newspaper (1885–1940) serving the Swedish immigrant population in Minnesota. Sharing stories of migration\, identity\, and belonging are central to the mission of ASI.\nThe Local Sweden was founded in 2004 to cover Swedish news and essential information in English for immigrants\, frequent visitors\, and others interested in Swedish news and has since expanded to offer coverage in nine European countries.\nSahan Journal was founded in 2019 as a nonprofit digital newsroom dedicated to reporting for immigrants and communities of color in Minnesota.\nThis event is part of the Edward and Elizabeth Carlson Sweden Project\, which provides a lens on contemporary Sweden through conversations with renowned Swedish scholars and leaders.\nFunding comes from a generous gift from Steve and Cathy Carlson in honor of Edward and Elizabeth Carlson.\nAdditional support is provided by Sahan Journal.
URL:https://asimn.org/events-calendar/illuminating-immigration-in-media-contemporary-perspectives-from-sweden-and-the-twin-cities/
LOCATION:American Swedish Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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