| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Dear Readers, Kära läsare Welcome to the new Swedish Notes & Events which I hope will be informative and pleasurable to read. This Christmas issue will cover events up to the end of January 2005 including Swedish Lucia Celebrations and From Sweden concerts. If you are a new reader, From Sweden is a celebration of a 350 year old treaty between Britain and Sweden which has grown into the biggest and most ambitious presentation ever in London of Swedish music. For further information, please go to From-Sweden.com:
2005 is a Swedish Design Year. The 2005 Year of Design is organised by Svensk Form, The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, on commission from the Swedish government. Here in England we had an early kick-off this autumn with seven design exhibitions. There are two exhibitions which continue into the New Year: 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Swedish Contemporary Jewellery' and there will be plenty more to come! If you know of anyone who would like to receive this newsletter, please contact Charlotte de Silva at: charlotte.de-silva@foreign.ministry.se. Ha en riktigt God Jul och Gott Nytt År Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Wishes, Johanna Garpe Counsellor for Cultural Affairs 
Swedish Events December – January
Until 15 January 2005 Video exhibition 'New Gravity' Swedish artist Annika Larsson and performance artist Tobias Bernstrup at The Gallery at Sketch. New Gravity is a piece that was shown earlier this year at Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery in Stockholm. The Gallery at Sketch 9 Conduit Street London W1 Tel: 0870 770 6515
3 December – 6 February Winter Wonderland or How to Dress a Cold Platter World famous Swedish design group, Defyra, to create winter show for The Lighthouse Glasgow Tel: 0141 225 8407
3 and 4 December Christian Lindberg in concert with London Mozart Players. With Vernon Handley conducting. Ernest Moeran's Sinfonietta, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat (arr Lindberg), Leopold Mozart's Trombone Concerto, Op 55, Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No 3 in E flat, 'Eroica', Op 55. 3 December: The Anvil, 7.45pm Churchill Way, Basingstoke, Hampshire Box office: 01256 844 244
4 December: Fairfield Concert Hall, 8pm Park Lane, Croydon, Surrey Box office: 020 8688 9291
For full details of all concerts ring: 020 8686 1996 or go to
5 December Family Concert with International Christmas Songs at the Swedish Church. The Swedish Church 6 Harcourt Street London W1 Tel: 020 7723 5681
8, 10, 11, 12 and 14 December Swedish Sankta Lucia Celebrations in the Swedish Churches in London: The Swedish Church, 6 Harcourt Street, London W1: 8 December: 6.30pm and 8pm 11 December: 2pm, 3.30pm, 5pm and 6.30pm 14 December: 6.30pm and 8pm St Paul's Cathedral - supported by From-Sweden.com 10 December, 6.30pm The Swedish Seamen's Church, 120 Lower Road, London SE16 12 December: 6pm Further details and order form:
9 December – 30 December (closed between 20 Dec 2004 – 5 Jan 2005) The Sweet Sickness Group Show with the Swedish artists; Roger Andersson, Nathalie Djurberg, Jens Fänge, Lagombra (Anders Jakobsen), Ylva Ogland, Johan Zetterquist and Ola Åstrand present the other side of today's welfare state. All artists are dealing with issues that in the first place seem to be sweet, innocent and normal but with closer inspection are twisted, not only in a social and aesthetic way but also in a political way, sometimes with disturbing and horrifying results. The Gallery is open Wednesday – Saturday 11-6 and Sunday 12 – 6, or by appointment. Rhodes + Mann 37 Hackney Road Shoreditch London E2 Tel: 020 7729 4372
1 January Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski in New Year on Broadway Concert in Wales. With Mary Carewe (soprano), Karl Daymond (bass). BBC NOW presents a sequence of music ranging from Gypsy and Guys and Dolls, through Bernstein's greatest Broadway hits, to Gershwin's Second Rhapsody. St David's Hall The Hayes Cardiff Box office: 0800 052 1812 or 029 2087 8444
15 January Lukas Moodysson's A Hole in My Heart is opening at cinemas around you. From his debut feature, Fucking Åmål, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson has always pushed boundaries in terms of subject matter, but his most recent, A Hole in My Heart, is by far his most transgressive. Shot under extreme secrecy and set in a dingy suburban apartment, the film features some of the most shocking and unsettling images in recent memory. In some ways, A Hole in My Heart suggests the writings of the Marquis de Sade, especially in its emphasis on the bedlam that erupts when social codes are abandoned entirely. For full details go to:
20 January – 13 August 2005 Swedish artist Måns Wrange is exhibiting in a touring exhibition called Citizens which is part of Art Circuit Touring Exhibitions. Some of the other artists are: Jeff Wall, Ludovic Michaux, Matthieu Laurette, Anna Bella Geiger, Claudia Andujar. The venues are: 20 January – 4 April: Pitshanger Manor Museum, London 23 April – 28 May: City Gallery Leicester 30 June – 13 August: Ormeau Btahs Gallery, Belfast Dates to be confirmed for Tramway, Glasgow Tel: 020 7610 4865
|
 |
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If you have trouble reading this newsletter, click
here |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
