At the meeting of the Consular Ladies Club, the Swedish Honorary Consul General in Houston, Astrid Marklund, had a talk about the history of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize. A prize that is awarded on December 10th every year in Stockholm. Above Image: Swedish Honorary Consul General in Houston, Astrid Marklund and the […]
Category Archives: Past Events
Sweden’s US ambassador visiting Houston
In November 2018 the Swedish Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter came to Houston to visit. Above Image: Karin Olofsdotter and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. Below Image: Swedish company representatives at a meeting with the ambassador at the Swedish Consulate in Houston. Below Image: Karin Olofsdotter meeting with Dr Tony Pena, head of Mexico Center at Baker Institute. Below Image: […]
The Annual Christmas Bazaar
November 9th. – 11th. 2018 Bakery with homemade bread and Christmas cookies. Norwegian store filled with Scandinavian foods. Cafeteria with «Open-faced sandwiches», waffles and cream cakes. A unique shop with Scandinavian Christmas items such as linens, knitwear, Norwegian ”nisser” and handmade decorations. Scandinavian Folk Dance, silent auction and great raffle-prizes. Opening hours: Friday: 11am – […]
Ingmar Bergman Centennial Celebration! (September 2018)
Ingmar Bergman screenings in Austin
Austin Film Society is continuing the Ingmar Bergman Celebration with the following Screenings. For tickets see austinfilm.org Sunday September 9, 2018 at 3.15 pm THE MAGICIAN Sunday September 16, 2018 at 2.00 pm SUMMER WITH MONIKA Sunday September 23, 2018 at 2.00 pm THE SILENCE Sunday September 30, 2018 at 1.30 pm PERSONA Tuesday October […]
Ingmar Bergman Centennial Celebration
Read the Invitation here!
Royal Swedish Ballet
Visit the Dance Salad Festival to see the Royal Swedish Ballet from Stockholm with a pas de deux from a highly acclaimed Mats Ek’s Juliet and Romeo set to music score by P.Tchaikovsky. WHEN: Thursday, Friday and Saturday- March 29, 30 and 31, 2018, 7:30 pm. WHERE: The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts Zilkha […]
SXSW I Austin March 9 – 18, 2018
This year Scandinavian Airlines provided charter flights between Stockholm and Austin, Texas. They also rented a restaurant across the street from the main entrance to the Convention Center. During SXSW it was called SCANDINAVIAN HOUSE. It was a great meeting place for all Scandinavians and events were held there hosted by each Scandinavian country. […]
Lingon & Dill are winners!
Lingon & Dill, won the Desert category at the Houston Rodeo BBQ cookoff. Lingon & Dill is a Swedish team competing in BBQ contests in Europe. This year they were invited to the Houston Rodeo BBQ contest. Other competing International teams were from Australia, Ireland and Japan. The Swedish team won the Desert category with […]
Book Review of “The Sandman” at Murder by the Bookstore
http://www.murderbooks.com/event/lars-kepler Swedish author Lars Kepler will sign and discuss The Sandman (Knopf; $27.95) Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of the critically acclaimed husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Their internationally best-selling Joona Linna series has sold more than ten million copies in forty languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen […]