5/27/2010
AmCham Sweden's 18th Annual General Meeting
We are happy to invite you to Millesgården on Thursday May 27. A special exhibition is made for AmCham members with work from Carl Milles years in America. The exhibition is open until June 3rd.
Date: Thursday May 27, 2010
Place: Millesgården, Carl Milles väg 2, Lidingö (getting there..)
"Charities in Sweden, management practices and interaction with Swedish industry"
- Keynote speech by Laurent Leksell, Executive Director of Elekta AB and the Chairman of Stockholm’s City Mission / Stadsmissionen.
“Milles goes to America”
- Presentation by Onita Wass, Director, Millesgården
Guided tour of an exclusive exhibition - made for the AmCham members - with works made by Carl Milles during his twenty years in America. Carl Milles lived there from 1931 to 1951 and in 1946 he became an American citizen.
Milles and his wife returned to Sweden in 1951, and lived at Millesgården, Lidingö every summer until Milles's death in 1955. They spent winters in Rome, where the American Academy had supplied them with a studio. Milles and his wife, Olga, who died in 1967 in Graz, Austria, are buried in a small stone chapel, designed by Milles, at Millesgården.
Program
14.00-14.15 Registration
14.15-14.45 Annual General Meeting; members only
14.45-15.00 Short break; non members are welcome
15.00-17.30 Keynote speech by Laurent Leksell. Presentation and guided tour by
Onita Wass, Millesgården.
Wine tasting in the garden with the American Wine Club
Free of charge
Please register at latest on May 21 through our website or send your binding registration to amcham@chamber.se
If you must cancel, please do so 24 hours before the meeting to avoid no show fee.
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