What Will People Say
Powerful film explores the clash of cultures faced by some Pakistani Norwegians Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. As a New Yorker, I have been surrounded by multiculturalism since I can remember. Everyone in the neighborhood...
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Adaption of Sweet Land onstage in Seattle
From movie to musical Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American When Sweet Land was released in 2005, the independent film written and directed by Ali Selim quickly gained critical acclaim. Set in the Midwest...
When a boat is not just a boat
Faber Navalis, a film by Maurizio Borriello, takes viewers inside a ship’s restoration Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. This film begins with the bangs of a resistant metal workshop door being forcibly opened, just sounds,...
“The Ice Palace”
Tarjei Vesaas’s classic novel is a haunting tale of friendship and secrecy that lasts beyond death Christine Foster Meloni Washington Tarjei Vesaas is widely acknowledged as the greatest Norwegian writer of the 20th century....
Inspired by the Sea: The art of Odd Andersen
Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Odd Andersen is the son of a Norwegian merchant sailor. Like many emigrants from Norway, Andersen’s family settled in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and that is where he was raised. Somewhat...
The American story of a Norsk princess
Documentary tells the story of Princess Märtha, who was popular in the United States Christine Foster Meloni Washington A statue of Crown Princess Märtha stands proudly in front of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in...
EU MEDIA support announced for Norwegian TV series and documentary
Reel News From the Norwegian Film Institute (nfi.no) The €11.4 million Wisting, a TV thriller series staged by Norwegian production company Cinenord Drama, is the first Norwegian project to be granted the maximum €1...
All aboard for art!
Hurtigruten partners with Queen Sonja Print Award to bring art to hybrid ships Hurtigruten Norway When the world’s first hybrid-powered expedition ship, MS Roald Amundsen, embarks on its maiden voyage, every piece of art...
Revisit Mortensen’s “retro” symphony
CD Review Melinda Bargreen Everett, Wash. Fans of symphonic music might imagine there’s not much more to find in Norway besides the works of Edvard Grieg—the one Norwegian composer who always comes reliably to...
Album composed along Pilgrim’s path
Inspired by Norway Eric Stavney Seattle I recently got a hot tip that a Scottish composer named Alexander Chapman Campbell was coming out with an album of pieces he composed while hiking through Norway....
