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CoScan / Confederation of Scandinavian Societies

Posted 2 weeks ago

Message for Norwegians in the UK:

Norwegian Embassy: Citizens' Rights information session - EU Settlement Scheme
Wednesday, 31st March 2021 between 5.00-6.30pm

JOINING INSTRUCTIONS
This meeting will be on Webex which you can access from either your PC browser or via the "Cisco Webex Meetings" app for smartphones.
You can join the meeting by clicking on this link:
eurightsuk.webex.com/eurightsuk/onstage/g.php?MTID=e944e3eaebb8dbe6a0b474fe2cf7ea6da
entering the meeting ID: 181 901 8021
and the password: EUrights

to join over the phone you need to dial this number:
+44-20-7660-8147 United Kingdom (toll)
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CoScan / Confederation of Scandinavian Societies

Posted 3 weeks ago

New Nordic Voices is a new translation programme that finds and translates plays from emerging Nordic playwrights from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland into English. The scheme aims to enable Nordic talent to find an audience overseas, gaining further recognition through the translation of their text.

The playwrights selected are emerging playwrights from each country, who have had some professional experience but whose work has not been translated into English before. They also represent a diverse and multicultural Nordic region, with a strong focus on female voices. Each playwright is mentored by an established translator and receives a full English translation of their play at the end of the programme, which ends in a digital showcase.
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For 4 months the playwrights have worked with their translators to bring these new plays to the UK, in a Showcase Week of contemporary Nordic drama 29 March – 2 April 2021.
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Join our main event Wednesday 31st March 13-15:00 BST (UK time):
Our rehearsed readings of the 5 plays, presented by UK actors and directors, followed by a Zoom Networking Room 15:30-17:00 BST where you can meet the playwrights involved. The showcase week also includes panel discussions on Nordic playwriting, and theatre in translation, as well as masterclasses and audio plays.

www.cutthecordtheatre.com/new-nordic-voices ... See MoreSee Less

NEW NORDIC VOICES | cutthecordtheatre

Line Mørkeby is a renowned Danish playwright. After studying theatre and performance at the University of Copenhagen for four years, she went to the Dramatics programme at Aarhus Theatre, where she f...

CoScan / Confederation of Scandinavian Societies

Posted 4 weeks ago

Anglo-Swedish Society
www.angloswedishsociety.org.uk

24 March 2021 (19:00 - 20:00)

THE SWEDISH PIONEERS
Zoom

The saga of how leaving the birth country led to a ‘velvet revolution’ back in Sweden. How did a Swedish emigration crisis spawn the birth of Swedish Social Democracy? David Goldsmith has a medal (not awarded to him personally), an image of which you can see here, which dates from 1948. It set him wondering “who were these pioneers?” In digging around into the story of the loss of around a third of the population of Sweden between 1850 and 1900, it became clear that there was a massive impact on those left behind, which culminated in a non-violent, ‘velvet revolution’ in Swedish society at the beginning of the 20th century. David will describe the emigration – its causes and consequences, and then Eric Orlowski will explain the down-stream impacts on Sweden in the first part of the 20th Century, with a special focus on the first of the great Swedish “Mount Rushmore (Rushmoreberg)” Statsministers, Karl Hjalmar Branting, and the first glimpse of a Brave New World of Social Democracy dawning in Sweden.
The event is free
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Anglo-Swedish Society

Founded in the aftermath of WWI, the Anglo-Swedish Society was established to foster greater understanding and friendship between Britain and Sweden.

CoScan / Confederation of Scandinavian Societies

Posted 4 weeks ago

Anglo-Danish Society
www.anglo-danishsociety.org.uk

23 March 5pm

An Artist who Fascinates me : Social Zoom Event
Pablo Picasso, Per Kirkeby, Francis Bacon, Michael Kvium, Damian Hirst.....online talk about our favourite artists!
Which artist fascinates you? Who inspires you, brings joy or echoes your mood, outlook or feelings? Pissarro, Hirst, Kvium, Hockney, Ancher, Kirkeby, Jorn, Pollock? Is there a museum or gallery you have visited that you highly recommend? Have the many lockdown ‘Online Visits’ to The Tate, Royal Academy, The National Gallery or the Louisiana Museum kept you going? Let's meet, chat and explore.

This is a FREE event.
Meeting room Anglo-Danish Society. - Join Zoom Meeting
us02web.zoom.us/j/89486335390
Meeting ID: 894 8633 5390

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CoScan / Confederation of Scandinavian Societies

Posted 2 months ago

UK based Martin Beddis, the head coach of the Norway Wheelchair Rugby League team in preparation of the World Cup 2021 is seeking players.

Wheelchair Rugby League, unlike the Paralympic version, can be played by able bodied as well as disabled participants. The teem is seeking players of Norwegian heritage who might be interested in getting involved. Training camps and selection will be held in Norway. However, with enough interest in the UK, sessions can be organised there as well. ... See MoreSee Less

Norway Wheelchair on recruitment drive ahead of RLWC2021

Rugby League in the UK