The United Kingdom Sibelius Society (‘UKSS’) is holding a concert at Burgh House, Hampstead, London at 2 p.m. on Sunday, 8 June 2025. Jenny Stern, piano, and Emmanuel Bach, violin, will perform a wide selection of Sibelius’s music for piano and for violin and piano. Here is the full music programme: Sonatine for Violin and […]
24th June 2025 (11:45 – 14:30) Lincoln’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn Fields WC2A 3TL All four Nordic Societies in England – the Anglo-Danish Society, the Anglo-Finnish Society, the Anglo-Norse Society and the Anglo-Swedish Society – are renewing last year’s successful Nordic Midsummer lunch and invite you to Lincoln’s Inn on Tuesday, 24 June 2025 at 11.45 […]
Finnish designers played a huge part in the ‘Scandinavian Modern’ movement of the 1950s. It was a style that took America and Europe by storm with its cool functionality, natural materials and organic curves. But, lurking behind the scenes, were hidden hands and powerful political projects. It wasn’t just the social democratic urge to change […]
We know the richly storied accounts of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian royalty and nobility dating back over 1000 years to Viking times. But, what about Finland – did the Finns and Finland ever have their own King, or were they fated to ‘make do’ by sharing other people’s sovereigns? Prince Friedrich Karl, Landgraf of Hesse, […]
Vappu-Valborg Lunch on Thursday, 1 May 2025 at The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, 8 South Square, London, WC1R 5ET We will have lunch in the Hall of Gray’s Inn after welcome drinks at the Bridge Bar. We can accommodate up to 25 attendees. The lunch will take place from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. […]
Sophia Jansson will give a talk about her aunt, the legendary Tove Jansson. This event is organised in cooperation with the Embassy of Finland in London, the Finnish Institute and the Anglo-Swedish Society. We are already operating a waiting list for this unsurprisingly popular event.
Our AGM date has now been set with further details to follow nearer to the time to Members of the Society.
Christmas Comes To Moominvalley – evening performance on Friday, 3 January 2025 at Jacksons Lane, 269a Archway Road, London N6 5AA We have made arrangements for a group booking of tickets for Friday, 3 January 2025. There will be an opportunity before the show for a short introduction to Jacksons Lane and after the show […]
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 at 6 p.m. at the Community Hall of St Anne’s Church, Soho, 55 Dean Street, London, W1D 6AF. Film Projection and talk by Kirsten Adkins, a filmmaker based in Glasgow, of her film Singing the Wooden House (30 minutes): A journey to a border zone, in search of a wooden house […]
Traditional Finnish Christmas Lunch on Tuesday, 17 December 2024 from 2 p.m. at the Finnish Church in London, 33 Albion Street, London, SE16 7HZ. This day happens to be the 113th anniversary of the foundation of the Anglo-Finnish Society in 1911. The Anglo-Finnish Society’s Christmas lunch will again be at the Finnish Church in London, […]