Thursday, 28 September 2023 at 3.30 p.m. in the Community Hall, St Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 6AF. This event is organised and hosted jointly with the Anglo-Danish Society. “Nordic Noir” is a crime fiction genre that applies to a type of literature and film or TV drama characterised by plain language, […]
An opportunity to meet the photographer Santeri Tuori at a private view of his exhibition at the Purdy Hicks Gallery, 25 Thurloe Street, London SW7 2LQ, at 3.30pm. The capacity for this event is limited and priority will be given to subscribing members of the Society. Santeri Tuori is one of the most significant artists in […]
Professor David Goldsmith will give us a talk on the Swedish-Russian War of 1808-9 – short, maybe, but not so sweet, and with immense consequences for both Sweden and Finland. The meeting will be at 14.30 in the Allen Room at St Anne’s Church, Soho. The street address is 55 Dean Street, London W1D 6AF. […]
The Anglo-Swedish Society has invited members of our Society to join them for this event when the renowned Finland-Swedish author, Ulla-Lena Lundberg, will talk about her work and give a brief introduction to the Swedish literature of Finland – bigger than you think and livelier than most. For further information see the events page of […]
The strike by RMT and ASLEF on 15 March would have made it difficult for members to get to the venue for the AGM, The meeting will now be held by Zoom.
Since graduating from the Sibelius Academy in 2020, George Parris has remained a semi-permanent resident of Helsinki where he works as a freelance choral conductor, singer, and artistic director. In the UK he has promoted the performance of choral music from the Nordic region, giving talks and through performances with his own group, The Carice […]
Jaakko Nousiainen has been with the Finnish Institute in London for six years and took over as Director in 2021. He will talk to us about the Institute’s recent and forthcoming projects. Booking to attend this event has already closed
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. In 2017 he gave a lecture in Cambridge at “Imagine 2027” a series of 15 public talks on different aspects of inequality and strategies to create a more equal society within 10 years. There he met one of the volunteers, Annika […]
Wood: the Material of the Future – a Zoom talk by Tapani Pahkasalo of Dasos Capital
Special General Meeting to be held on Zoom to consider proposed changes to the Society’s Rules