Scanity members also practice Scandinavian folk dance as a way of learning culture and art, and we already got the opportunities to show it twice, the first one at UMY on May 26, 2016 and the second one was at Gama Awards on November 30, 2016.
Monthly Archives: June 2017
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Scandinavian Day is held once a year, in 2016 was on October 27-28 at FISIPOL. Scandinavian Day was held after mid term exam and consist of some different events which are Public Lecture, Movie Screening, Language Course, and Expo.
On the first day there was Public Lecture with topic Green Culture in Scandinavia with speaker Mathilde Wichmann (Student from Scandinavia) and Ajeng from PACER. The language course was specifically for Swedish Language, it started since the first day until the last day. The Expo also last for two days and there ware cooking demo (Swedish Meatball), Photobooth spot and photo competition, Live performances, and doorprizes. On the last day, there was also movie screening which played Sweden movie The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared or Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann.
On April 29, 2016 Scanity in colaboration with PACER, Institut Ungu and Penerbit Djaman Baroe held a book launching and discussion “Nora adalah Subversif!” written by Faiza Mardzoeki. The discussion was moderated by Arum Chandra, a lecturer from Faculty of Cultural Science of UGM, with the speakers; Longgina Novadona Bayo, a lecturer from Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, the author Faiza Mardzoeki, Erwan Purwanto and Hilde Solbakken, Minister Counsellot at Royal Norwegian Embassy, Jakarta. These book are adaptation from the first feminist man author Henrik Ibsen.