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Monthly Highlights

Movie group: March – June 2024

Contact: Mary Stewart Burgher (emessbe@yahoo.com) to choose viewing dates, times and cinemas..

Join us for one or all of the movies listed – we always have fun. In general, we list opening dates here, so you know when a film becomes available. Then, interested people jointly choose the date, cinema and time for a showing, though we usually see movies on a weekend. We list the final dates and times chosen for each film on the AWC Denmark Coffeeshop.

If you want to join us, contact Mary Stewart, so you can help choose the date, time and cinema in which to see each film. Tickets are cheaper if we book morning or afternoon shows and/or go to local (and more hyggelige) cinemas like the Park Bio, Gentofte Kino and Valby Kino.

March 2024: Dune, Part 2 and Past Lives

Dune, Part 2

When: Weekend of 8/3–10/3
Dune, Part 2 is a must-see. The movie group loved the first film. The second has much the same fine cast (excluding all the characters killed in Part One but including Timothee Chalamet in the lead) plus additions such as Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh.

Dune: Part Two will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the other Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his father. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee. Find out more about the movie on Rotten Tomatoes

Past Lives

When: Opens 21/3
Critics and audiences are raving about this movie, which tells the story of Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, who are separated after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. The critics consensus on the movie is that: “A remarkable debut for writer-director Celine Song, Past Lives uses the bonds between its sensitively sketched central characters to support trenchant observations on the human condition”.  Find out more about it, including the trailer, on Kino.dk and Rotten Tomatoes.

April: Hammarskjöld

When: opens 18/4
The Swedish film Hammarskjöld is a political drama about the world-famous Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld. Mikael Persbrandt, known from the Oscar-winning Danish film Revenge, plays the lead. The action takes place in 1961, during the Cold War, when Hammarskjöld was the Secretary-General of the United Nations. In a desperate attempt to negotiate a ceasefire in the Congo, he boards a plane. The day Hammerskjöld died is still surrounded by mystery.
Find out more about the movie, including the trailer, on kino.dk.

June 2024: One Life

When: opens 20/6
We jump over a couple of months because many people are very excited to see One Life, a film with a terrific cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Pryce and Johnny Flynn.

Based on the book If It's Not Impossible...: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life tells the incredible, emotional true story of Nicholas Winton, a young London broker who visits Prague in December 1938. In a race against time, Winton convinces Trevor Chadwick and Doreen Warriner of the British Committee for Refugees in Czechoslovakia to rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children before Nazi occupation closes the borders. Fifty years later, Nicky is haunted by the fate of the children he wasn't able to bring to safety in England. It's not until the BBC show That's Life! re-introduces him to some of those he helped rescue that he finally begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he carried – all the while skyrocketing from anonymity to a national hero. Held aloft by outstanding work from a tremendous cast, One Life pays heartwarming tribute to a remarkable humanitarian effort.  Find out more about the movie on Kino.dk and Rotten Tomatoes.

Danish on a Sunday at Cinemateket

Also, you can see classic Danish films with English subtitles on two Sundays per month at 14:15 at Cinemateket (the Danish Film Institute). Tickets can be booked and purchased online. Booked tickets must be picked up no later than 45 minutes before the screening. The movies for March and April are:

  • The Idiot (2023), 10/3
  • Innocence (2022), 31/3
  • Breaking the Waves (1996), 14/4
  • The Ambassador (2011), 28/4.
Danish also means Danish pastry! Before each screening, Cinemateket has a special offer on a coffee with Danish pastry (or a piece of cake) at Restaurant SULT at an extra cost of only DKK 40.

Monthly heart-pillow stuffing party

When: Third Tuesday of every month – 19/3, 16/4, 21/5 and 18/6 at 14:00–16:00
Where: Det Gamle Posthus, Gilleleje Stationsvej 6, Gilleleje (less than 2 minutes’ walk from Gilleleje Station)
Contact: Nancy Friis-Jensen (nfriisjensen@gmail.com)

The Heart Pillow Project is looking for volunteers to stuff pillows with cotton wool and sew them up in Gilleleje. We meet once a month, and offer coffee and cake to speed the work. AWC President Mary Stewart Burgher had lots of fun at the stuffing party in February. Seven people – four stuffers and three finishers – completed over 40 pillows in only two hours. The parties take place on the third Tuesday of each month. If Gilleleje is too far to go, or you’re busy on Tuesdays, consider donating good-quality cloth to make pillow cases or sewing the pillow cases at home.

The Heart Pillow Project was started in 2006 to help ease the pain of breast-cancer patients. The project is financially supported by the Danish Breast Cancer Organization, and hospitals give the pillows to patients free of charge. The pillows are made by 15 volunteer groups (including AWC Denmark since the beginning) throughout Denmark. The project has made about 3,000 pillows per year. See the projected dates for stuffing parties through April 2023 on the AWC events calendar.

Can you sew pillow cases?

Some AWC volunteers are making cases for the heart pillows, and more are much needed. Will you join them, or can you suggest someone else to do so? Contact Mary Stewart Burgher (emessbe@yahoo.com) to get the pattern and instructions.

Café Craft brunch

When: Sat, 10/2, 2/3 at 10:30
Where: Salonen, 222 Østerbrogade (close to Svanemøllen S-train station and all the buses that go there)
Contact: Mary Stewart Burgher (emessbe@yahoo.com) for further info

Café Craft is for people to meet to chat and craft together on a Saturday, while enjoying a cup of coffee (or tea) and brunch at Salonen. Our only goal is to relax and do our crafts – 臨 淋 ✏️  –in good company. Any craft project is welcome! Non-crafters also!

We do good work and have good fun each month. A standard booking for 8 people is made at Salonen. This group is really fun – feel free to join us whether you are currently working on a craft or not.

Historic Days in Copenhagen

The annual Historic Days – a weekend devoted to history and culture – will take place on 9–10 March at Øksnehallen, close to Copenhagen Central Station (trains, S-trains and Metro lines 3 & 4). It offers over 150 events on 6 stages over a total of 75 hours, the vast majority in Danish. Tickets are available only online.

While it’s definitely not an AWC event, several members plan to attend, at least on the 9th. If this sounds like fun to you, buy your ticket and get in touch with Mary Stewart Burgher (30506356; emessbe@yahoo.com), so we can arrange to meet up. If you don’t want to pay to enter Øksnehallen for the talks, shopping opportunities and demonstrations, there will be free historic re-enactors and vehicles outside. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about Danish (and other) history and culture!

Our Secrets Walk: Spring in 3 central Copenhagen parks

When: Fri, 29/3, 10:30
Where: entrance to Østerport Station (train, S-train, Metro lines 3 & 4, buses) next to Expresso House
Contact: Mary Stewart Burgher (3050 6356; emessbe@yahoo.com) so we know you are coming
Even as we put the Chonicle together, we can hear and see spring springing up around us. Join us for an exploration of three parks in central Copenhagen – Østre Anlæg, Kongens Have and H.C. Ørsted Park. Meeting up at Østerport Station, we will cross the street and stroll from one to the next, leaving the hum of traffic behind for greenery, flowers and water (hopefully not falling on our heads). We’ll conclude with refreshments at the delightful café in Ørsted Park.

(If the weather forecast for the 29th is really horrible, we will reschedule!) 

May: Ladywalk 2024

When: Mon, 27/5 at 16:00

Spring will have sprung by May, so we will, tradition tro, join the thousands of women all over Denmark who will take a 7- or 12-km walk to raise money for charities supporting women’s health. The charities we will support in 2024 are the Heart Association, as always, and KIU and OvaCure, which focus on cancer of the female reproductive organs. It costs DKK 185 to sign up, for which you get a nice exercise shirt and a small backpack with snacks and gift certificates. Find out about Ladywalk by looking at the website.

Talk and Tea: SEX IN 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

When: Sat, 23/3, 14:00–16:00
Where: home of Mary Stewart Burgher, Kastelsvej 9, 3-1, 2100 KBH Ø (access from Østerport Station and buses 1A and 23)
Cost: DKK 50 per person (to go to AWC charitable projects)
RSVP: Mary Stewart Burgher (emessbe@yahoo.com, 3050 6356)

The title of this talk may seem improbable, since sex in English Regency and Victorian novels is mostly conspicuous by its absence. But Marlene hopes to show that careful reading reveals many meanings in this apparent absence; prominent among them is the asymmetrical meaning of sexuality to the mainly middle-class men and women who are the characters of these novels. She maintains that the silence enshrouding sexuality reflects a social imperative that is shown by the plots of the novels to be the cause of social and psychological damage and suffering. Marlene will focus especially on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, with some glances at Dickens’s David Copperfield.

Marlene Edelstein is an accomplished English professor, poet and wit (and AWC member). In addition to Marlene’s sparkling talk, we will enjoy afternoon tea/coffee, with many nice goodies, and finish in time for people to beat the darkness home or move on to their evening entertainments. Mark the date in your calendar now.

Get Ready for Great Events in April and May

 April: Frederiksborg Castle, “Images of a Queen”

When: Fri, April 12
Where: Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød
Cost: DKK 90 for adults and DKK 70 for adults over 65
Contact: Mary Stewart Burgher (emessbe@yahoo.com, 3050 6356) so we know you are coming

We will visit Frederiksborg Castle (and park) in April, to see the special exhibition featuring portraits of Queen Margrethe. We’ll combine the Castle visit with lunch in Hillerød and perhaps even a walk in the Castle’s beautiful park or trawling through the town’s many charity/genbrug shops.

Here’s how the Castle website describes the exhibition:
“Frederiksborg commemorates the succession to the throne with an exhibition featuring portraits of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe. Explore Andy Warhol’s iconic glitter-adorned silk screen print portrait of Her Majesty, official portraits such as Rigmor Mydtskov’s photographic portrait from 1972, as well as a wide range of photographs, paintings, and drawings created between 1940 and 2022. From gala events at Fredensborg to gray weather on the beach, Her Majesty is depicted as introspective, dreamy, and creatively expressive. The young heir and Princess Margrethe. Her Majesty in different stages of life and situations.”

May: celebrate AWC’s 90th birthday!

Where: Food Club, Sortedam Dossering 7C, 2200 København N (accessible from Nørreport Station and bus)
When: Wed, 22/5, 18:00–19:30
Cost: DKK 295 for buffet with unlimited food and drinks, including wine and beer
Contact: Mary Stewart Burgher (30506356; emessbe@yahoo.com) to reserve a seat.

AWC Denmark will start its 90th-birthday year in May 2024, and will mark our nine decades of fun, friendship and philanthropy in a variety of ways throughout the year. We kick off our celebration, however, with a delicious and affordable buffet dinner at Food Club, with its beautiful view of the lakes.

More details will be provided in the April Chronicle. Join us to celebrate 90 years of AWC: mark your calendar now!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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