NSA Programme 2024-25
Meetings, unless otherwise stated, are held in the RoyalNorwegian Consulate, 12 Rutland Square, Edinburgh EH1 2BB.Generally, a charge of £3 will be made at the door.
Tuesday 17 September 2024
SPECIAL VISIT TO THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS COLLECTIONCENTRE AT GRANTON
A rare opportunity to visit some of the Nordic holdings at the NationalMuseums Collection Centre at Granton. Led by Senior Curator, Dr SarahRothwell and colleagues, and specially for NSA, a talk and object viewingsession to see the results of the recent Scandinavian-inspired NorthernModernist Jewellery collecting project, and to learn about a selectionof historic and contemporary Nordic Textiles held in Scotland’s nationalcollection. Booking essential (contact us).
Tuesday 1 October 2024 at 7 for 7:30pm
THE SHETLAND BUS – WITH PUBLISHER KATHY HAY
Where did it travel to, who was the driver, what was the timetableand who were the passengers? The Shetland Bus – a modern sagawhich provides a background to Shetland’s Nordic links, a little of theisland’s history and tales about some astonishing people. A personallook at the topic from veteran of the print & publishing industry, KathyHay, variously based during her long career in Edinburgh, London andAustralia!
Tuesday 5 November 2024 at 7 for 7:30pm
COMMEMORATED IN SCOTLAND – STORIES BEHIND THEGRAVESTONES OF NORWAY’S WWII SERVICE PERSONNEL
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) looks after 187UK gravestones of Norwegian service personnel who died during theSecond World War. Some 70 of these gravestones are located here inScotland – but who do they commemorate and what are their stories?Elaine Edwards, Public Engagement Coordinator with the Commission,answers these questions and more, as we near 85 years since theInvasion of Norway in 1940.
Tuesday 14 January 2025
FOOD & FILM NIGHT
Join us at the Golf Tavern, Bruntsfield, for a screening of the 2017documentary Queen Without Land (Dronningen uten land). Directed byAsgeir Helgestad, the film tells the story of an epic journey made bya struggling polar bear mother and her cubs as the ice melts undertheir paws. An unpretentious and sensitive film about the meetingbetween Frost, a beautiful polar bear mother, and a Norwegian wildlifefilmmaker and the five-year journey since their first encounter in 2013at her arctic home in Svalbard. Booking essential (contact us).
Tuesday 4 February 2025 at 7 for 7:30pm
THREE TRANSLATIONS OF ‘SEPTEMBERKVELD’ BY HALLDISMOREN VESAAS
According to poet and translator Daniel Weissbort, “there are as manyapproaches to poetry translation as there are poetry translators”. Thistalk with translator, poet and researcher Dr Rachel Rankin will illustratethree different approaches to poetry translation – from the relativelyuncreative to the radically creative – using the poem ‘Septemberkveld’by Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907-1995).
Tuesday 4 March 2025 at 7 for 7:30pm
NEITHER HERE NOR THERE : BOTH THIS AND THAT
Haftor Medbøe, Professor of Music and Jazz musician, muses aboutthe complexities of national and cultural identities as experienced bya Norwegian living in Scotland and working in the creative sector asmusician and educator. Drawing on his twin careers as jazz musicianand academic, he explores notions of community and belonging inrelation to personal and creative identities. There will be examplesof film and recorded music illustrating a life lived with ties across seasand borders.
Tuesday 1 April 2025 at 7 for 7:30pm
FRESH IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF NORWEGIAN SINGER, DIARIST& COMPOSER’S WIFE, NINA GRIEG
Join musician & musicologist Dr Sally Garden for a visit to nineteenthcenturyVienna and an intimate insight into the creative partnership ofNina & Edvard Grieg. For 3 weeks in 1896 Nina walked the parks andpavements of the Austrian capital whilst Edvard lay ill, a concert diaryin uproar. Based on Nina’s sole extant dagbok (diary) and Sally’s archiveand field research to decipher its contents, follow in the footsteps ofNorway’s musical heroine for what turns out to be far more than a ‘walkin the park’! (Followed by a short AGM).
Saturday 17 May 2025
NORWAY DAY CELEBRATIONS
National Day celebrations with a hint of the new – details to follow.