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 …
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Ingmar Bergman Centennial Celebration
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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 …
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A Symposium with 2017 American Nobel Laureates
November 14 at 1 pm in House of Sweden, Washington DC The event will be live streamed and available at: YouTube.com/EmbassyofSweden ASK your questions on Twitter with #SWEnobelUSA Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves” Kip S. Thorne (in attendance), Barry C. Barish, and Rainer Weiss (in attendance) …
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Members of the Swedish Parliament visiting Texas
Members of the Swedish Parliament’s Committee on Social Insurance visited Texas on September 7-8, 2017 to study immigration issues and the US benefits and pension programs. During their day in Austin they met with Mayor Steve Adler and Sally Hernandez, Travis County Sheriff. Swedish parliament members with Sheriff Sally Hernandez in the middle. They …
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The Girl, The Mother and the Demons
Saturday, April 22nd at 7pm All festival screenings will be held at The AMC Studio 30 on Dunvale (2949 Dunvale St. Houston, Texas 770363) South of Westheimer at Dunvale. Read the flyer!
A Man called Ove
Don’t miss Sweden’s selection for Foreign Language Film to 2017 Oscar Nominations. The film is based on the bestseller by Fredrik Backman A MAN CALLED OVE River Oaks Theatre, October 7 – 14, 2016 Screenings at 1.30pm, 4.15pm, 7.00pm and 9.40pm https://www.landmarktheatres.com/houston/river-oaks-theatre/film-info/a-man-called-ove River Oaks Shopping Center, 2009 West Grey, Houston, TX 77019 http://bit.ly/OveTheaters Stepping from …