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Copenhague.¡Conoce tu ciudad!
Books & Company is very proud to present our first event in Spanish!
Date: Wednesday February 22, 2012
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
¿Por qué es importante conocer la ciudad dónde vives?
Porque ”ni las casas con finos tejados ni los muros de piedra bien construidos, tampoco los canales ni los muelles hacen la ciudad, sino los hombres capaces de aprovechar su oportunidad”.
Alceo de Militene, poeta griego S.VI a.C.
Ana Merino Siles, entusiasta arquitecta española, que vive y trabaja en Copenhague, nos invita a conocer la ciudad donde vivimos para, de esta manera, llegar a formar parte de ella. Ya no somos turista en la capital de Dinamarca, así que conozcamos nuestra “segunda casa”: nuestra ciudad. Ana Merino también trabaja como guía de la ciudad de Copenhague, por lo que ha tenido la oportunidad de enseñar nuestra maravillosa ciudad a cientos de visitantes.
Hace más de 5.000 años empezaron a establecerse grupos de personas en el territorio que hoy en día conocemos como Copenhague. ¿Por qué aquí? ¿Por qué sigue viviendo gente aquí desde entonces?
Hoy en día la capital de Dinamarca es Copenhague y está ubicada concretamente en este lugar. ¿Por qué?
La ciudad ha pasado en más ochocientos años de ser una aldea a ser la capital un país. ¿Cómo ha ocurrido esto? ¿Quiénes y qué lo han hecho posible?
En esta charla tendremos la oportunidad de reflexionar y tratar todas estas cuestiones. Y además conocer algunas historias curiosas relacionadas con todo ello.
¡Ven a conocer tu ciudad!
About Ana Merino
Hola. Mi nombre es Ana Merino. Nací en Málaga, al sur de España hace 32 años. Cuando cumplí 18 decidí estudiar arquitectura en Madrid. Estudié en la Universidad San Pablo_CEU y en la Politécnica de Madrid, los títulos de Bachelor y Master en Arquitectura. Como estudiante trabajé para diferentes empresas, en un departamento de la universidad y para algunos arquitectos de Málaga como José Gutierrez e Ignacio Dorao. En cuanto terminé mis estudios, empecé a trabajar con el arquitecto y diseñador Pedro Feduchi en Madrid. Trabajé con él un interesantísimo año. Pero entonces concocí a mi pareja y hace dos años me vine a vivir a Copenhague. Aquí he trabajado un año en BIG, con Bjarke Ingels. Después he trabajado como guía de la ciudad en 2011, lo que despertó mi interés y pasión por Copenhague. Ahora trabajo en un proyecto sobre arquitectura y educación_ Architect in Progress. Y todavía no he conseguido acostumbrarme al invierno danés!
Hello. My name is Ana Merino. I was born in Málaga, in the south of Spain 32 years ago. When I turned 18, I decided to study architecture in Madrid. I studied in San Pablo_CEU University and in the Polytechnic University in Madrid, the Bachelor and Master degrees in architecture. As a student, I worked for different companies, in a university department and for some architects in Málaga, as José Gutierrez and Ignacio Dorao. As soon as I finished my education, I started working for the architect and designer Pedro Feduchi in Madrid. I worked for him an interesting year. But then I met my boyfriend and two years ago I moved to Copenhagen. Here I worked one year at BIG, with Bjarke Ingels. Then, later I worked as city guide in 2011, which started my deep interest and passion for Copenhague. Now I work in a project about architecture and education_ Architect in Progress. And I am still not used to the winter in Denmark!
Maternity Worldwide and the future
Date: Wednesday February 29, 2012
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,- It will be possible to make a donation to Maternity Worldwide on the evening of the talk.
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Every day 1000 women die due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth. Maternal mortality is recognized as one of the most urgent challenges globally. World leaders agreed in year 2000 on eight millennium goals to end poverty and the fifth goal was to reduce maternal mortality by three quarters by the year 2015. Despite international commitments almost no progress was noted at midway evaluation in 2007.
Henriette Svarre Nielsen went to the western part of Ethiopia in 2004 to work in a rural hospital as an obstetrician. In that particular region the cause of death for one in seven women was pregnancy and childbirth. The experiences in Ethiopia resulted in six Danish women (with different professions) deciding to found a charity with the aim to reduce maternal mortality using long-range, evidence-based and sustainable methods. Maternity Worldwide (MWW) was established in June 2005. Since then MWW has evolved substantially to an important NGO using an integrated approach working at all possible levels e.g. village, health center, hospital and governmental.
The results speak for themselves with more than 100,000 women having received health education with focus on safe pregnancy and childbirth. 7,000 women have had a safe birth with professional obstetric assistance and 1,200 women have received micro loans to enable cost related to childbirth. MWW has since 2007 in partnership with artists Olafur Eliasson and Tal R successfully used mother’s day to fundraise approximately 1 million DDK yearly. In 2010 Her Royal Highness, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark became official protector for Maternity Worldwide.
Photographer Anne Prytz Schaldemose has visited the projects in Ethiopia both in 2008 and 2011. Sixty selected photos were exhibited in Lauritz Kunsthal May 2009 as part of the mother’s day campaign.
Along with photos by Anne Prytz Schaldemose, Henriette Svarre Nielsen will talk about personal experiences from Ethiopia ranging from clinical stories to how MWWs projects are set up, the challenges of reducing maternal mortality, strategies and hopes for the future. Also the exciting new idea of using mobile/smart phones to save lives in childbirth will be presented.
About Henriette Svarre Nielsen
Born in Copenhagen 1971. Medical Doctor from University of Copenhagen 2001. Specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rigshospitalet. Henriette has handed in her Doctoral Thesis at University of Copenhagen and is the author of 34 scientific articles, of chapters in medical textbooks as well as the Assistent Chief Editor of the scientific journal AOGS
Henriette has worked as an obstetrician in Ethiopia in 2004-2005 after which she took the initiative to in collaboration with 5 other women to establish the charity Maternity Worldwide (MWW) in 2005. She chaired MWW until 2009 and has been an active board member since.
For more on Maternity WorldWide please visit www.maternityworldwide.dk
About Anne Prytz Schaldemose
Born in 1971, Anne was educated as a photographer with Schiller & co, photographer Rigmor Mydtskov and at Copenhagen Technical School’s photography department.
Anne has photographed 5 books for Denmark’s largest publisher Gyldendal – København-folk & kvarterer (The Copenhagen Book), Skagen, Operaen på Dokøen, Glimt af Rom & Islænderen. She is also the author of 4 children’s books as well as several antologies.
Anne has taken pictures for Maternity Worldwide’s campaigne “Save a mother’s life on Mother’s Day”. Photographs are now displayed on the walls of Rigshospitalet, The Midwifery school – among other places.
For more on Anne please visit www.anneprytzschaldemose.dk.
Previous events
Our Kids on the Web
Date: Wednesday January 25, 2012
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 100,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
New research about children’s use of computers/the web/mobile phones is published daily. Néné La Beet will share some of it with you and suggest new and sustainable guidelines for children’s use of the Internet, based on this research.
Prepare to be challenged!
Some of the questions you might be asked on the evening:
Do you set restrictions on your children’s computer use? Why?
Do you know your way around Facebook, Twitter, YouTube?
Do you know what it takes to be really good at computer games?
Does your child have a mobile phone? Maybe even a smartphone? Do they have access to one?
What do you think are “The Dangers of the Internet”?
Many teachers forbid the use of Wikipedia for topical research. Do you? And do you know why your children shouldn’t use it? Has your child’s teacher explained this?
Do you ever use the phrase “I read it on the Internet”? Have you thought how that could be paraphrased in the off-line world? “I read it on a piece of paper”. You wouldn’t say that, would you?
When you teach your child about the Internet, do you explain how to use it or mainly admonish them about what not to do?
About Néné La Beet
Néné La Beet, born in 1959 in Denmark, started her career in the music business, where she co-owned a record company.
She then worked in PR for some years before moving on to the web industry. The last 10+ years she’s been self-employed as a copy-writer and translator. Néné, a librarian, holds a BA in Information Science. Last year, she came home from three years in the UK where she started teaching social media to small businesses and charities. Back in Denmark, she now works as a social media consultant and is an associate consultant with successful PR agency FrontPage and associate teacher at the International Advertising Association’s academy.
The Sense and nonsense about Media training
Date: Wednesday February 1, 2012
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 200,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Join us for an interactive talk on a subject we so often think-and talk- about, but one that we really know so little about, Media training.
They cannot do without it. Politicians, CEO’s, sports heroes, movie stars and even pop stars. Media training is essential to anyone who’s in the spot light. Or is it?
Would John F. Kennedy ever have said “Ich bin ein Berliner” if he had had media training? Would Ronald Reagan have declared war on Russia in front of a microphone if he had been trained? Probably not. Nonetheless media training has long been under attack by purists and journalists alike. Former journalists who are active in media training are considered to be traitors because they are working for the enemy. Politicians and officials are being scolded for spending taxpayer money on expensive training sessions.
So what is media training all about? What happens behind closed doors? Is it worth investing in? Expect the veil to be lifted….. a little bit.
About Hannie Hoekstra
Hannie Hoekstra is trained as a journalist in the Netherlands and worked for more than a quarter century as a current affairs radio- and TV reporter and presenter.
She has traveled the world and interviewed many notable people such as Nelson Mandela, Al Gore, Shimon Peres, Lech Walesa and many others.
In the Netherlands she is known for her tough interviews and interviewees have walked out. The Irish politician Ian Paisley and Austrian right extremist politician Jörg Haider were amongst them.
Only when she was interviewed herself Hoekstra realized what a pitfall something seemingly so simple as a friendly interview can be. After choosing a freelance career in 2003 she also started working as a media trainer for Brain Box, the number one firm in media training in the Netherlands.
Living it Abroad!
Date: Sunday January 22, 2012
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Fee: 850,- (includes a light lunch)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Join Trine Ramlyng and Sidse Stausholm – experienced, internationally certified coaches and facilitators – for their workshop “Living it Abroad!”
“I heard from a survey that the Danes are the happiest people in the world!”
“It’s going to be such an amazing adventure to get to know a new culture!”
“Now I can get to do what I never had time for before!”
Did you have any of these thoughts when the possibility of moving to Denmark as an Expat spouse became reality?
And how are you feeling now? Now that the rose-tinted glasses have come off, the honeymoon period in this new country has ended and the day to day life has begun?
Is it tough and stressful and not necessarily the big exciting adventure you had imagined… The transition can be a 1000 times harder than many realise. Trivial tasks can take up all your time. And the stress can eat away at your self-esteem and happiness. When we leave our home country we also leave much of our identity behind – our career and our network of friends and family just to mention a few. The fact is that the most common reason listed for assignment failure is lack of partner satisfaction! Another fact is that very few companies do enough to support the spouse in this difficult time!
The good news is it doesn’t have to be so hard and you don’t have to go it alone.
What would it take to make 2012 your best year abroad so far?
We want to be your support in making 2012 the year where you take charge – making your experience as Expat spouse enjoyable, productive and satisfying. You only have one life – don’t survive it – live it!
Join us for an interactive/experiential workshop which will leave you going home with:
• Having reclaimed your identity and purpose and knowing what your values are.
• A list of exciting consciously chosen goals and dates by which they need to be done as well
as an ally who can support you and keep you on track.
• Power to prioritize and live your life according to your new goals and letting go of (some
of) the “shoulds”.
• A new network, with whom you can connect authentically, for as long as you want.
If you have any questions or would just like some more information you are more than welcome to contact Trine Ramlyng on +45 22 41 56 16, you can also visit her website ramlyng.net to learn some more about her and read her blog on her time as an Expat-spouse.
About Trine Ramlyng and Sidse Stausholm
Trine Ramlyng, cpcc, acc
Internationally certified Co-active coach and facilitator. After being an expat (England and Canada) for the past 11 years she has just returned to Denmark. Trine is dedicated to helping people cultivate self-awareness and balance and to encouraging them to live to their full and unique potential. Trine coaches expats, women in transition and entrepreneurs. Trine has a background in nursing.
Sidse Stausholm, cpcc
Experienced and internationally certified coach and facilitator. Her expertise is making individuals and teams perform to their full potential using action-accelarating exercises and experiential learning. Sidse coaches executives, teams and expats. Sidse has a background in journalism.
Both Trine Ramlyng and Sidse Stausholm are trained by Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in London and USA, certified coactive coaches and members of the International Coach Federation. Both are also trained facilitators.
Testimonial
“What I originally envisioned, and secretly hoped, was that I would be “led through” this process of coaching by someone who was much wiser than me and who could tell me what the next steps in my life should be. Instead, what I have received through my coaching with Trine is much richer: a firm, yet compassionate sounding board built from our work together, and an amazing set of tools that help to clarify and remind me of my deepest values and personal standards.”
- Beth Award Yoga Instructor and Clutter Clearing Professional, USA
Author Deborah Sherman and her new book The Bedmas Conspiracy – a fun holiday reading
Date: Sunday December 11 2011
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Fee: Free event
Please join us as Canadian author, Deborah Sherman, reads from her newest book, The BEDMAS Conspiracy (ages 8-13). A humourous look into the life of Adam, a grader sixer who is struggling with his grades and having trouble keeping his rock band together.
The reading should provide a chuckle to both kids and their parents. Following the reading, Deborah will discuss and answer questions regarding the writing and editing process and provide insight for all the budding Hemingways and Rowlings in the audience. She will also be available to sign copies of her books.
About Deborah Sherman
Canadian author, Deborah Sherman, wrote her first story in the third grade—the tale of a very cranky little girl. It was, admittedly, a bit autobiographical. Deborah eventually outgrew her moodiness and decided to create humorous stories aimed at readers in the middle years instead.
Her first full length novel for kids, The Triple Chocolate Brownie Genius, was published in 2007 by Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This story of a boy who goes from hero to zero was A Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Awards finalist (US) in the juvenile category and a Canadian Diamond Willow Reader’s Choice Nominee. Her second novel, The BEDMAS Conspiracy was published in the spring of 2011.
Deborah grew up in Toronto, Canada. Before moving to Copenhagen, she spent many years working as an editor and promotions coordinator in a small publishing house. Before moving overseas, she received her Bachelor’s in Education and now works as a teacher in Hellerup.
She is often asked if she likes chocolate brownies. The answer is a definite yes!
Around the world….with 80 Days!
Date: Wednesday November 23 2011
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
An evening with 80 Days and its owners Camilla Levin & Katrine Sevelius Petersen
Are you planning a holiday with your family? Living in Denmark gives you great new opportunities for traveling with your family to new and exciting and perhaps unknown destinations in Europe, Africa, the Gulf and Asia – with none or just a small time difference.
80 days has great experience in working with expats, and we realize that different cultural backgrounds often demand different expectations to a perfect family vacation. Considering the season and school holidays, we have unique knowledge of the best destinations to visit with children, and we are confident that our know-how will inspire you. We will, among other things, offer tips and ideas on how to best travel with both infants, young and older children. Come and meet us at what we hope will be an inspirational evening at Books & Company. We will give a presentation for about 45 minutes and afterwards you will be able to ask questions or have a private chat with us.
About 80 Days
80days tailors trips to individuals, corporations and other specific groups. Our solutions come to life by listening carefully to our clients’ needs, only then do we set out to create the unique trip within your budget. We collaborate only with the best 4 and 5 star hotels, but always at a bargain.
We have been in the business for more than 18 years, and we have traveled and lived all over the world. With our international experience, we have the contacts needed to put together the perfect trip just for you. We can recommend not just the best hotel – we can actually book those elusive rooms with the very best views. Naturally, 80days is a member of the Danish Travel Guarantee Fund.
For more about 80 Days, visit their www.80days.dk/English.
Karen Blixen at Home
Date: Thursday November 10 2011
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
We have the great pleasure of presenting an evening in the company of the famous Danish author Karen Blixen. The journalist and author of the award winning book Karen Blixen at home – Scenes from Rungstedlund, Ebbe Mørk, will speak about his book, Karen Blixen’s life at Rungstedlund, the famous people who came to stay with her and the world she created in this house, where she was born and raised – the home she returned to after those defining years in Africa – years that were immortalized in her book Out of Africa.
As a very special guest star for the evening, we have the great honor of welcoming one of Danish Theatre’s most celebrated actresses, Susse Wold, who will be reading Karen Blixen’s The Ring.
About Ebbe Mørk
Ebbe Mørk is a journalist and writer. He has been affiliated with the major Danish daily newspaper Politiken for more than 40 years. For 20 years he was the paper’s drama and ballet critic and finally columnist and editor of the daily essay (Kroniken). Ebbe Mørk has furthermore celebrated his gastronomic hobby in Politiken as well as several cookbooks. He has written 15 books, including several biographies. His book Karen Blixen at Home (in Danish Karen Blixens Gæstebud) was honoured with The Golden Bookmark Award, and the writer has previously received an award for his journalistic work on France.
About Susse Wold
Susse Wold is one of the leading ladies of Danish Theatre. Her talent has included leading roles in a very versatile repertory. She played Amanda in Noël Cowards ’Private Life’ with her husband Bent Mejding as Eliot more than 700 times and was lovely in Feyeaus French farce ’Occupe-toi d’Amelie’. She starred in the musical ’Chicago’ but also mastered classic roles such as Portia in Shakespeare’s ’The Merchant of Venice’ and ‘Troilus and Cressida’.
At present, Susse Wold has a leading role in an upcoming film by Thomas Vinterberg, director of “The Celebration” (Festen), one of the most successful Danish films in recent years.
Susse Wold has met Karen Blixen personally and appears in the book ’Karen Blixen at Home’.
Achieving success through goal setting – 2-part workshop
Dates: Wednesdays October 5th and 12th, 2011
Times: 19:00 – 21:30
Fee: 600 for both sessions (includes drinks and snacks)
Workshop taught by: International speaker, executive coach and educator Jeneva Patterson
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Most people give up on their goals way too soon and are using goal setting strategies that fail them. In this workshop you’ll learn why our intuitions about why we succeed or fail are usually wrong, and the real pitfalls of goal pursuit. Learn how to set goals for success so that you’re much more likely to achieve what you want. Join us as we explore the latest goal setting and goal achievement research from Heidi Halvorson of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia University Business School. Heidi is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the Huffington Post, and Jeneva recently completed the master’s class with Heidi and will share the same notes and lecture points with you. Participants will be encouraged to set goals during the workshop by using the recommended strategies.
Recommended book
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals by Heidi Grant Halvorson
About Jeneva Patterson
Jeneva is the Founder of The Pula Group, a global consulting firm that helps senior global business leaders levels navigate and benefit from complex, global human systems. Jeneva holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, and a Master’s of Science from American University/National Training Laboratories in Organization Development. She holds a Certificate in Coaching in Medicine and Leadership from Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, and Certificates in Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University.
Jeneva is also a Founding Member of the Institute of Coaching Professional Association at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital and was the Lead Teaching Fellow for Exercising Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she also coached global business and NGO leaders. She is passionate about helping individuals become more fulfilled in all areas of their lives.
Small Acts of Resistance
Date: Thursday October 27, 2011
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Join us for what promises to be a very interesting evening with Steve Crawshaw, Director of Advocacy for Amnesty International and the author of Small Acts of Resistance – stories of more than eighty acts of resistance across the world and spanning two centuries. Small Acts of Resistance celebrates the inspiring ingenuity and awe-inspiring courage of the human spirit and pays tribute to those who have been standing up to say “no”.
Praise for Small Acts of Resistance
“Encouraging us not to be complacent or defeatist, but to recognise how often change appeared impossible, then happened… Powerful…Uplifting.” Hugh Williamson, Financial Times
“Essential Reading”. Eastern Approaches, Economist.com
About Steve Crawshaw
Steve Crawshaw is international advocacy director of Amnesty International. From 2002 to 2010 he worked for Human Rights Watch, first as UK director and then as United Nations advocacy director.
He was a journalist for many years, first with Granada Television in the UK and then joining the Independent at launch in 1986.
He reported for the Independent on the east European revolutions, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the Balkan wars. Other stories included interviewing Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and witnessing the fall of Serb leader Slobodan Milošević.
He is the author of Goodbye to the USSR (Bloomsbury, 1992) and of Easier Fatherland: Germany and the Twenty-First Century (Continuum, 2004).
Find Balance and your true self
2-part workshop
Speaker/facilitator: Gabriella Ohnemus
Dates: Sundays, October 30th & November 13th, 2011
Time: 10 – 17
Fee: 1.100 kr total for both sessions (includes drinks and snacks)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk.
Do you want to reach long-lasting balance in your life?
Find your true values and contentment?
Be a giving person, a good friend, an open-minded listener?
Be able to set clear boundaries and have them respected?
Find balance and your true self addresses these issues and more, with five practical strategies based on virtues like joyfulness, assertiveness and determination. Participants find that The Virtues Project strategies make life more balanced and joyful for themselves and the people surrounding them! Based on the premise that all of us have virtues within and that we can draw them forth by cultivating them helps us to focus on the positive and to get fabulous results.
About Gabriella Ohnemus
Course facilitator Gabriella Ohnemus has a degree in Hotel Management from the Swiss Hotel Management School of Lucerne. She has worked in various hotels in Switzerland, for Tetra Pak in Lausanne as well as run her own companies (travel agency, recruitment agency, recruitment site). Presently, Gabriella works as an Italian teacher among others at Widex. Gabriella has been the Chair of The Virtues Project Denmark since 2008. The aim is to make the project an instrument for multicultural teaching in Danish schools.
The Tudors – fact and fiction
Date: Wednesday September 28th, 2011
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Terrible Tudors? Surely never a dull moment!
The Tudors are extremely popular, especially among the English! But what were they really like? Is it true what has been said about them? That they were spectacular? Obsessed with sex? Full of greed? Never dull?
What is fact and what is fiction?
Lise Lotte Frederiksen will give a talk on The Tudors inspired by history books, television series and novels about some of the more famous Tudors.
Don’t expect an academic evening but rather an entertaining night about one of the most fascinating periods in British history.
Lise Lotte is NOT a historian, but a literature person – and as such she will also try to assess a few of the many books on the market.
About Lise Lotte Frederiksen
Lise Lotte is cand.mag in Danish, Drama and English and a senior lecturer.
Lise Lotte also owns Peter & Ping, a travel agency specialising in city walks in and around Copenhagen as well as literary tours in Denmark and the UK.
2 – part Photography Workshop
Dates: Thursdays September 8th and 15th, 2011
Times: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 500,- for both sessions (includes drinks and snacks)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Basic Creative Camera Workshop
Learn how to use the manual settings on your camera for the picture you mean to take. We will get familiar with shutter speed, aperture and ISO
-their relationship to each other
-how they influence the photograph
We will think through the picture(s) you want to take:
-analyze whether ISO/aperture or shutter speed is a determining factor for a particular photo-op
-composing the photo: zooming in or out and recomposing
We will work through the classic ways to capture such things as:
-sport action
-portraits that allow you to call attention to your subject
-group shots where everyone is in focus
-landscapes
Participants will enjoy optional homework assignments that allow you to further your learning in your spare time.
Participants must have a camera with the possibility for manual settings and a camera manual (many can be googled and downloaded from internet if lost) and be ready to walk outside to take practice shots if time and weather permits.
Participants are welcome to request a topic via email to Books and Company. Topics will be covered if time allows. If time does not allow, there is a possibility of covering topics in a second pair of workshops.
About Leah Meany Kristensen
Leah Kristensen is a former teacher and freelance photographer. She looks forward to making the workshop productive for everyone.
For more on Leah’s work please visit her website.
Transitions – Studies of the Gray Area
A collaborative Art Show featuring Nicole Okumu and Malin Astor
Date: Thursday, May 26th
Time: 17:00 – 19:00
Join us for the opening of “Transitions“- a collaborative exhibition of mixed media (Nicole Okumu) and fashion design (Malin Astor). The artists will present new work inspired by the concept and experience of transitions.
Their Story
Nicole Okumu, an artist from the Bay Area in California and Malin Astor a fashion designer from Sweden met by chance in Copenhagen and quickly discovered a shared interest in expression through art.
As a painter and a fashion designer, their mediums differ greatly, but the combination of painting and fashion design turned out to be an interesting and exciting one. When another shared interest and source of inspiration turned out to be books, it was an easy decision to choose Books & Company as the venue for their exhibition.
Nicole and Malin have inspired each other through their use of colour and form and have even let their art forms “meet” through painted pieces on some of the designs and accessories.
The paintings and designs will be available for purchase on the evening of the art show.
The evening promises to be a wonderful mixture of art, design, books and music – an evening not to be missed and most certainly to be remembered.
About the artists
Nicole Okumu, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, studied in the Bay Area, California
I have had a lifelong fascination with accidental abstractions—groupings of buildings, aerial
landscapes, crumbling walls, and the accidental abstractions found in urban areas.
Underlying all of my paintings are rectangular forms from which I build layers of color fields, bury hidden iconographies, and layer with texture. The symbology and text in my paintings are derived from urban settings, scientific nomenclature, poetry, and nature. As a whole the paintings are evocative of weather worn structures insinuating depths of meaning beyond the surface.
I paint with acrylics on canvas, using processes that include screen-printing, collage and stenciling.
Malin Astor, born in Sweden, studied at the performing arts School in Gotheburg and the Fashion Design Academy in Copenhagen.
I am a former dancer who after many years on stage hung up her ballet shoes and qualified as a designer at the Fashion Design Academy in Copenhagen,
where I graduated in june 2010
It is important to me that I work with high quality materials that can form and reflect the lifestyle and personality of the person wearing them. I find it fascinating that a person’s life can be traced and reflected through their clothing style as it has evolved throughout a lifetime.
The written word is a great source of inspiration to me. “Lost Elsa” the story of a unique woman and her life on a sleepy remote island has thus become an important component in my designs along with many other impressions and trends.
Lost Elsa is a tribute to classic femininity but with a hidden edge to be explored
A balance of traditional elegance with a hint of ’it ’s ok to be me’
Flourish- Martin Seligman’s latest work on Happiness and its Necessary Evolution
Workshop taught by: International speaker, executive coach and educator Jeneva Patterson
Date: Thursday May 12th, 2011
Time: 19:00 – 21:30
Fee: 250 kr (includes drink of your choice)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Happiness as a topic has become a lightning rod in the last few years; lofty and lengthy research studies have focussed on its components, its achievability and its relevance in today’s modern world. Denmark has even found itself labeled the Happiest country on earth.
In this workshop, we’ll begin to explore what the Father of Positive Psychology, Martin Seligman, has to say now that more longitudinal studies have complexified the findings of those research studies. In his new book, Flourish, Seligman explores the five pillars of not happiness, but well-being and its components, as an updated and necessary evolution in the field of Positive Psychology. Seligman now states that he no longer thinks Positive Psychology is about happiness or even about the search for increased life satisfaction through an increase in positive emotional states.
Come learn more about his thesis as well as more about yourself and your own reactions to this new and important update in the world of Happiology, now undergoing more rapid, and per Seligman, critical change.
About Jeneva Patterson
Jeneva heads up The Pula Group, a global consulting firm that advances its clients’ individual and organizational productivity, positivity and performance.
Jeneva Patterson holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, and a Master’s in Organization Development from the AU/NTL program of American University and the National Training Laboratories for Applied Behavioral Science (NTL) of Bethel, Maine.
She holds a Certificate in the Foundations of Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and continues to study Management and Applied Positive Psychology at Harvard University.
Jeneva was a member of a teaching team in Global Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she also coached global business and NGO leaders.
How to make social media work for you, your career or your business
Workshop taught by: Social media consultant Néné La Beet
Dates: Wednesday May 18, 2011
Time: 19:00 – 21:30
Fee: 250,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, etc. won’t go away, but you can get to know them, decide which ones are your true friends and learn to utilise them. Learn how to position yourself to your advantage, no matter if it’s just you as a person, you as a potential employee or you and your business. And learn how to write a good disclaimer on your profile on e.g. Facebook, to avoid lots of grievances.
Once you have registered for the workshop, you may feel free to contact Néné with specific requests.
About Néné La Beet
Néné La Beet, born in 1959 in Denmark, started her career in the music business, where she co-owned a record company.
She then worked in PR for some years before moving on to the web industry. The last 10+ years she’s been self-employed as a copy-writer and translator. She holds a BA in Information Science. Last year, she came home from three years in the UK where she started teaching social media to small businesses and charities. Back in Denmark, she now works as a social media consultant and is an associate consultant with successful PR agency FrontPage and associate teacher at the International Advertising Association’s academy.
Cartoon by David Coverly
Book Launch Party
“I’ll tell you why….I can’t wear those clothes” by Noreen O’Sullivan
Date: Friday, April 8
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Please join us for the exciting launch of I’ll tell you why….I can’t wear those clothes by Noreen O’Sullivan. Finally, a book that helps children, their parents, teachers and others understand and cope with Tactile Defensiveness, a physical condition that renders one overly sensitive to certain touch sensations. 
Here are just a few of the many great reviews the book has already received:
“…..the photos are gorgeous and really capture so much that can not be expressed in words”
“…..the way you explain everything is amazing–not too much info, but not dumbing it down either.”
“I ADORE the fact that it is interactive…”
“There are so many books out there and so much on line for me to read. And of course I understand it, but he doesn’t and your book it a great way for us to sit down and talk about it.”
“I also want to have it out in the house so others will pick it up and it will help them to understand him better. So I’ll stop hearing (not that I listen) tell him to get over it! That is just plain ignorance.”
Being Danish – Professor Richard Jenkins
Date: Monday, April 11
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,-
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Join us for an interesting, illuminating and entertaining evening with Professor Richard Jenkins and his book “Being Danish – Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life”.
Professor Jenkins’ recently published book sheds some much anticipated light on what it means to be Danish. Among the many issues explored in the book are attitudes to the European Union, the symbolism of the Royal house and the flag, the State’s contribution to personal identity, the place of Christianity in “Danishness”, and the impact on Danes of the recent arrival of mainly Islamic immigrants.
The book has been described as a major contribution to the sociology and anthropology of identity and to debates about identity in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe.
About Professor Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield. Trained as a social anthropologist, he has done field research in Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Denmark. 
Among other works, he is the author of social identity (Routledge, 3rd edition 2008), Rethinking Ethnicity (Sage, 2nd edition 2008) and Foundations of Sociology (Palgrave Macmillan 2002).
2 – part Photography Workshop
This workshop is full.
Dates: Thursdays March 31 and April 7, 2011
Times: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 500 for both sessions (includes drinks and snacks)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Basic Creative Camera Workshop
Learn how to use the manual settings on your camera for the picture you mean to take. We will get familiar with shutter speed, aperture and ISO
-their relationship to each other
-how they influence the photograph
We will think through the picture(s) you want to take:
-analyze whether ISO/aperture or shutter speed is a determining factor for a particular photo-op
-composing the photo: zooming in or out and recomposing
We will work through the classic ways to capture such things as:
-sport action
-portraits that allow you to call attention to your subject
-group shots where everyone is in focus
-landscapes
Participants will enjoy optional homework assignments that allow you to further your learning in your spare time.
Participants must have a camera with the possibility for manual settings and a camera manual (many can be googled and downloaded from internet if lost) and be ready to walk outside to take practice shots if time and weather permits.
Participants are welcome to request a topic via email to Books and Company. Topics will be covered if time allows. If time does not allow, there is a possibility of covering topics in a second pair of workshops.
About Leah Meany Kristensen
Leah Kristensen is a former teacher and freelance photographer. She looks forward to making the workshop productive for everyone.
For more on Leah’s work please visit her website.
Finding the best in ourselves and our children
2-part workshop
Speaker/facilitator: Gabriella Ohnemus
Dates: Sundays, May 8 and May 15, 2011
Time: 10 – 17
Fee: 1.100 kr total for both sessions (includes drinks and snacks)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk by April 29, 2011.
Would you like your family members to communicate respectfully and peacefully with one another? Would you like your children to be responsible for their own actions? Is setting clear boundaries with relevant consequences a challenge for you? Are your children learning from their mistakes?
“Finding the best in ourselves and our children” addresses these issues and more, with five practical strategies based on virtues such as respect, caring and honesty. Parents find that The Virtues Project strategies make family life more peaceful and joyful for everyone. Based on the premise that all of us have virtues within and that we as parents can draw them forth from our children helps us to focus on the positive and to get fabulous results.
About Gabriella Ohnemus
Course facilitator Gabriella Ohnemus has a degree in Hotel Management from the Swiss Hotel Management School of Lucerne. She has worked in various hotels in Switzerland, for Tetra Pak in Lausanne as well as run her own companies (travel agency, recruitment agency, recruitment site). Presently, Gabriella works as an Italian teacher among others at Widex. Gabriella has been the Chair of The Virtues Project Denmark since 2008. The aim is to make the project an instrument for multicultural teaching in Danish schools.
Denmark in the 20th Century – the short version
Historian Bo Lidegaard
Date: Wednesday March 9, 2011
Time: 19:00-21:00
Fee: 100 kr. (includes drink)
Based on his recent book “A Short History of Denmark in the 20th Century”, Bo Lidegaard presents an overview of the creation of the modern Danish welfare state and the current society as we know it. The presentation will include an outline of Denmark’s precarious position during the World Wars and the Cold War and will also outline the background for the Danish economy to be one of the most competetive in the world despite high taxes and the huge public sector. In his crisp vision Bo Lidegaard will also explain how Denmark can be seen not as a mix between socialism and capitalism but rather as one of the societies providing most individual freedom to its citizens.
About Bo Lidegaard
Dr. Bo Lidegaard holds a doctorate in Contemporary History from University of Copenhagen and is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School. He has published a number of major works on Denmark and International Relations in the 20th century focussing on the dynamics between security policies and the development of modern welfare state. Alongside with his academic career Ambassador Lidegaard is a senior member of the Danish Foreign Service. Since 2005 he has served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State in the cabinet of the Danish Prime Minister with responsibilities corresponding to those of a National Security Advisor. From 2007 he has headed the team preparing The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 and in recent years he has been deeply involved with international negotiations on climate change and low carbon development strategies
A Christmas Carol
Date: Thursday December 2, 2010
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50 kr (includes a drink and Christmas cake)
Get ready for a wonderful holiday season with the master Christmas storyteller we all know and love, Charles Dickens, and the story of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future.
Why did Dickens write it when he did? How did it become an over night success? Why has it become the one story we associate with Christmas?
AND of course a few of the most famous passages will be read aloud!
Dickens became “the man who invented” Christmas and in just over a year – in February 2012 – Dickensians around the globe will mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth. Lise Lotte Frederiksen has been meeting with Dickens experts in the UK and will also talk about the many celebrations in connection with this anniversary in England and in Denmark, where the Danish branch of the Dickens Fellowship has many projects planned.
About Lise Lotte Frederiksen
Lise Lotte is cand.mag in Danish, Drama and English and a senior lecturer.
Lise Lotte also owns Peter & Ping, a travel agency specialising in city walks in and around Copenhagen as well as literary tours in Denmark and the UK.
Small doses, small people, high stakes?
Speaker: Speaker David Gee, Senior Adviser, Science, Policy, Emerging Issues, Integrated Environmental Assessment, at the European Environment Agency.
Date: Thursday November 4, 2010
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,- kr.
To sign up, please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
There are at least 30,000 largely untested chemicals on the European market and in the products that you buy. So, despite new laws on chemicals that were passed in 2007 – The Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) – the main “guinea pigs” for the safety of these chemicals are you and your children: they are usually more sensitive to the same doses of chemicals than adults are.
Scientific data is increasingly indicating that many of these chemicals in products are harmful, especially to pregnant women, the foetus, infants, and children.
For example, BPA , which is put into dental fillings, CDs, babies bottles, and many other plastic products, is now present in over 90 % of the blood and breast milk of US adults: the position in Europe is likely to be the same.
Luckily, the amounts of these chemicals in humans are usually very low e.g. less than one part in a million, but animal studies show that they are toxic at these and even lower doses.
Join us for an interesting evening of information and discussion.
About David Gee
David was educated in politics and economics and has worked for 36 years at the science/policy interface of occupational and environmental risk assessment & reduction, with UK Trade Unions: with the Environmental Group, Friends of the Earth, where he was Director; and, since December 1995, with the European Environment Agency, an EU environmental information providing body in Copenhagen, where he is Senior Adviser, Science, Policy, Emerging Issues in the Integrated Environmental Assessment Programme.
He has published reports and peer reviewed articles and lectured on several issues, including Scientific Uncertainty; the Precautionary Principle; Environmental Health; Environmental Taxes and Ecological Tax Reform; Clean production/ Eco-efficiency; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Electromagenetic fields etc. He is initiator, co-editor and contributor to the widely cited and used EEA report, “Late Lessons from Early Warnings: the Precautionary Principle 1898-2000” (2001) which is now going into vol 2 (2011)
David is married with four daughters.
Finding the best in ourselves and our children
2-part workshop
Speaker/facilitator: Gabriella Ohnemus
Dates: Sundays, November 7th and 14th 2010
Time: 10 – 17
Fee: 1.100 kr total for both sessions (includes drinks and snacks)
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk by Tuesday November 2, 2010.
Would you like your family members to communicate respectfully and peacefully with one another? Would you like your children to be responsible for their own actions? Is setting clear boundaries with relevant consequences a challenge for you? Are your children learning from their mistakes?
“Finding the best in ourselves and our children” addresses these issues and more, with five practical strategies based on virtues such as respect, caring and honesty. Parents find that The Virtues Project strategies make family life more peaceful and joyful for everyone. Based on the premise that all of us have virtues within and that we as parents can draw them forth from our children helps us to focus on the positive and to get fabulous results.
About Gabriella Ohnemus
Course facilitator Gabriella Ohnemus has a degree in Hotel Management from the Swiss Hotel Management School of Lucerne. She has worked in various hotels in Switzerland, for Tetra Pak in Lausanne as well as run her own companies (travel agency, recruitment agency, recruitment site). Presently, Gabriella works as an Italian teacher at EEC and is responsible for the organic lunch programme EAT at Holberg Skole in Copenhagen. Gabriella has been the Chair of The Virtues Project Denmark since 2008. The aim is to make the project an instrument for multicultural teaching in Danish schools.
Perfectionism and the Learning Mindset
Workshop taught by: International speaker, executive coach and educator Jeneva Patterson
Date: Thursday October 7, 2010
Time: 19:00 – 22:00
Fee: 300,- kr. (includes a drink of your choice )
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
Young children enjoy the daily benefit of making many mistakes on their way to learning the skills they’ll use for a lifetime.
These kids don’t worry about looking silly to an onlooker as they lunge forward on their short legs while learning to walk. Indeed, there isn’t even an exam that awaits them at age 12 months to determine if they are worthy of walking or not. No one cares how many times it takes for them to fall before they master that useful skill.
In fact, while these little kids are falling and getting scraped, the grown ups around them encourage, support and empathize, while getting them back on their feet in order that they finally reap the benefits of effort, failure and success.
Interestingly, on the way to adulthood, some of these same kids continue to learn life’s skills while remaining undaunted by, and even thriving on, the metaphorical stumbling blocks of life.
However, some of those kids end up believing that it’s not just enough to master a skill, they actually have to know the skill before they’ve even learned it. Their mantra is: ‘You’re either born a natural leader or you’re not.’ ‘You’ve can either sing or you can’t.’ ‘You either live happily-ever-after, or you don’t.’
In this workshop we’ll explore the benefits, and practice the skills of, a learning mindset. We will define perfectionism and how it does or does not influence our own lives and our goals and dreams.
About Jeneva Patterson
Jeneva heads up The Pula Group, a global consulting firm that advances its clients’ individual and organizational productivity, positivity and performance.
Jeneva Patterson holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, and a Master’s in Organization Development from the AU/NTL program of American University and the National Training Laboratories for Applied Behavioral Science (NTL) of Bethel, Maine.
She holds a Certificate in the Foundations of Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and continues to study Management and Applied Positive Psychology at Harvard University.
Jeneva was a member of a teaching team in Global Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she also coached global business and NGO leaders.
The Gothic Novel
Speaker Lise Lotte Frederiksen
Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,- kr.
To sign up please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
The Gothic novel is a fascinating genre. Part romance, part horror – fear of darkness and the thrill of the unknown.
Lise Lotte will explore the Gothic novel (and tales) by going through some of the most prolific books written within this tradition. One highlight will be “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Brontë. It was her only novel and remains to this day a challenge to its readers!
The novel, “Jane Eyre”, written by her sister, Charlotte, will be touched upon as well works by Edgar Allan Poe and Hans Christian Andersen.
Surrounded by wild moorlands, the Brontë Sisters created a world of their own, and Emily Brontë’s characters are as untamed as her surroundings! They are steeped in myth, so what is fact and what is fiction?
In her talk, Lise Lotte will deal with the psychological aspects of the Gothic texts, and aim at finding out why it has so many followers – even today! Her talk will be accompanied by pictures and photographs focusing on the Gothic “attraction”.
About Lise Lotte Frederiksen
Lise Lotte is cand.mag in Danish, Drama and English and a senior lecturer.
Lise Lotte also owns Peter & Ping, a travel agency specialising in city walks in and around Copenhagen as well as literary tours in Denmark and the UK.
Book Launch Party
Date: Wednesday May 19
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Books & Company is proud to present the ultimate book for the sweet tooth in all of us!
Mai Knauer has written a cookbook that will satisfy the cravings of even the most demanding cake lover.
Mai decided to put the book together as an homage to cakes, the joy they can bring, how, in an instant, they can put a smile on the face of a child, of girlfriends sharing a cup of tea or a friend who is having a bad day. With Sweet Nothing, the proof truly is in the pudding: it is possible to make a delicious cake with simple, good ingredients, a minimum of kitchen appliances and a loving hand.
With beautiful photos, easy, accessible recipes and simple ingredient lists you can go straight from the book launch at Books & Company to your kitchen and on to the dessert table. A quick look is all it takes for any one of us – from the least to the most experienced baker – to feel convinced that we too can invite friends and family over for a true feast.
Sweet Nothing is in Danish, translation into English is in the works.
Transition time
Workshop taught by: International speaker, executive coach and educator Jeneva Patterson
Date: Thursday, May 20th 2010
Time: 19:00 – 22:00
Fee: 250,- kr. (includes a drink of your choice )
Change happens every day, sometimes it’s big and sometimes it’s small, sometimes it’s welcome, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes you’re just not sure what to make of it: elation?, disappointment?, fear?, excitement? All of the above? School will end for summer, some families may be leaving, some may be staying, jobs will change and evolve, and so on.
This workshop will explore the 3 components of significant change: The Ending, The Neutral Zone and The New Beginning.
Transitions, the enduring and updated book by William Bridges, will guide participants through a step by step approach to the inevitable big changes of our lives. With an emphasis on embracing and deriving lasting meaning from large scale change, we will focus on helping ourselves and our loved ones through these transitions.
About Jeneva Patterson
Jeneva heads up The Pula Group, a global consulting firm that advances its clients’ individual and organizational productivity, positivity and performance.
Jeneva Patterson holds a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, and a Master’s in Organization Development from the AU/NTL program of American University and the National Training Laboratories for Applied Behavioral Science (NTL) of Bethel, Maine.
She holds a Certificate in the Foundations of Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and continues to study Management and Applied Positive Psychology at Harvard University.
Jeneva was a member of a teaching team in Global Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she also coached global business and NGO leaders.
Shakespeare in Venice
Speaker: Lise Lotte Frederiksen
Date: Thursday May 27, 2010
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Fee: 50,- kr (includes drink of your choice)
To sign up, please send an email to signup@booksandcompany.dk
The topic for the evening will be Shakespeare and Venice. Lise Lotte Frederiksen will take her starting point in The Merchant of Venice and later on move on to Othello, another Venice-related play.
How does Shakespeare portray the city – one of the most beautiful in the world? Was he ever there? In what way do the plays reveal Shakespeare as the world’s greatest playwright? Was Shakespeare one or several persons and did he have a sister? So many questions, so many answers.
Are you confused now? Well, you might still be after an evening with Lise Lotte – but on a higher level!
The talk will be accompanied by photographs from Lise Lotte’s literary tour to Venice.
About Lise Lotte Frederiksen
Lise Lotte is cand.mag in Danish, Drama and English and a senior lecturer.
Lise Lotte also owns Peter & Ping, a travel agency specialising in city walks in and around Copenhagen as well as literary tours in Denmark and the UK.
