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Swedish Cultural Events in New York in September
Posted by Susanna at 2:39 PM, Sep 15, 2009 (Comments)
Category: Events
A FASHION SHOW, by House of Organic (www.ekovaruhuset.se/), will be presented at The GreenShows Eco-Fashion Week (www.pr.com/press-release/174432) - the only premier fashion event of its sort in New York City -- on September 16. House of Organic (Ekovaruhuset) is a collective of designers committed to sustainable, socially and environmentally responsible practices, and is led by Swedish designer Johanna Hofring. It is based in Stockholm and Paris as well as on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The invitation-only event features designers such as Anja Hynynen, Maja Gunn, Johanna Hofring, Righteous Fashion and Tor Söderin, Sweden; and Eko-Lab, Kaori Yamazaki, Meiling Chen, and Mika Machida-Whyce, New York.
ROY ANDERSSON, the award-winning Swedish filmmaker, will introduce his life's work at a retrospective film exhibition that runs through September 18 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA). Andersson is one of Sweden's most acclaimed filmmakers and is famous for his visually interesting work with absurd tendencies. His third film "Songs from the Second Floor" won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. His four feature films, his student project from the 1960's as well as commercials and short films are being show at the MoMA (www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/990).
THE MUSICAL "Kristina," based on Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg's series of novels "The Emigrants," and featuring music by Benny Andersson and text by Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA fame, will be presented at concert event at Carnegie Hall in New York September 23-24 (www.kristinathemusical.com/). This U.S. premiere will be performed in English and only for two nights. Previously the musical has attracted a lot of popular and critical acclaim in Sweden and abroad, after opening in Sweden 1995. The performance in New York has a cast of over 30 artists, and the original "Kristina," Helen Sjöholm; English tenor Russell Watson; and the 50-piece American Theatre Orchestra will be part of it.
ON SEPTEMBER 28-29, Swedish electronic music act "Fever Ray" will perform two shows at the Webster Hall in New York (http://feverray.com/). This is part of a North American tour. "Fever Ray" is a solo project by Karin Dreijer Andersson, whose debut album was released earlier this year. She is also part of the Swedish electronic music duo "The Knife," well-known for its album "Silent Shout," which was selected Top Music Album of 2006 by the editors of Pitchfork Media. Fever Ray's album consists of dark textured soundscapes and haunting vocal styles, and is moody, somber and personal.
AN EXHIBITION of 75 remarkably visionary drawings by the Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Hill (1849-1911) will be showcased at Scandinavia House (www.scandinaviahouse.org/) in New York, starting September 30. The art works were produced during the artist's last 30 years, when he suffered from mental illness. Being criticized by his contemporaries, he is now considered an important precursor of such movements as Surrealism, Expressionism, and even Pop art. During the opening reception on September 30, Göran Christenson, director of Malmö Art Museum in Sweden, will give a curator's talk.
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