from Memories of immersion; an immersion in memory, by Victoria Wägner
Turned from a farmhouse into a dance hall and cinema in 1925, Gröna Lid over the following years accommodated Fjällbacka's Christmas functions, auctions, a social space for summer guests to play billiard and read newspapers, and even ignited a significant local amateur theatre movement in the 1930s. In the 1940s it adapted to the growing café culture and started serving food - summer guests were offered coupons for daily lunches, and it became their natural meeting place. Every summer evening, Gröna Lid held activities including film showings, comedy, jazz performances and dances, and was also available for weddings, parties, fitness and dance lessons, and games of chess and bridge all year round. For some time it even housed coffins before burials! In the last decade the building has housed a nightclub, but closed recently and is being turned into flats and shops.
The project will seek to recover the concept of an 'all-activity house', a Folkets Hus ('People's house') to provide a meeting space for locals and bring tourists, summer guests, part-time residents and locals together for cultural and social events.
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