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A guide to fun and interesting Swedish events outside Sweden

CHICAGO Swedish American Museum

5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640 Tel: 773-728 8111 | info@samac.org www.swedishamericanmuseum.org Starting from February 7 the Museum, Gallery and Store are open with special guidelines. The online events are still going ahead as planned. The Museum Store will continue to offer curbside pickup as well as online orders. Ongoing through July 2021 – Exhibition at the Main Gallery – Five local SwedishAmerican artists, Lois Baron, Sharon Bladholm, Jean Cate, Vivian Morrison and Eva Nye, have spent 2020, the “Year of the Woman” and of COVID-19, delving deeper into their art, resulting in this joint exhibition featuring themes of nature, ephemerality, identity, and more.

MINNEAPOLIS American Swedish Institute

2600 Park Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55407 Tel: 612-871 4907 | www.asimn.org Ongoing through July 11, 2021 – The exhibition Papier – Bea Szenfeld and Stina Wirsén unite Bea Szenfeld’s spectacular sculptural paper-fashions with Stina Wirsén’s evocative illustrations.

PHILADEPHIA American Swedish Historical Museum

1900 Pattison Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19145 | Tel: 215-389 1776 | info@americanswedish.org | www.americanswedish.org Reopened to visitors since January 8 with normal operating hours. Apr 23 - May 8 – Support ASHM through our online auction event: Spring Into Auction! Participants will have two weeks to bid on items and experiences on our online auction platform. Additionally auction items will be on view at the museum from April 3rd- May 9th, 2021 Apr 25 – Sun 2pm to 3pm: Springtime Cooking with Amy von Sydow Green. Join Amy this month as she fashions a delicious and colorful spring-inspired salad. Space is limited. $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers. May 7 – Fri 12:15 pm: Virtual Field Trip Friday: Ribe Viking Museum in Denmark.

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PORTLAND Nordic Northwest

Nordia House, 8800 SW Oleson Rd., Portland, OR 97223 | Tel: 503-977 0275 www.nordicnorthwest.org Apr 9 – Fri 7:30pm: Friday Night Lecture Series – Climate Change in the Nordic Countries. Online Live Stream. Admission $5. Free for members.

SEATTLE Swedish Club

1920 Dexter Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98109 Tel: 206-283 1090 | www.swedishclubnw.org info@swedishculturalcenter.org Apr 10 & 11 – Sat & Sun 9am to 3pm: Loppis/Flea Market. We’ll practice social distancing while we hunt bargains. Vendors welcome. Call or email Club for an application. Swedish pancakes available to pre-order for Sunday. For more information: swedishclubnw.org .

National Nordic Museum

2655 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107 Tel: 206-789 5707 | nordic@nordicmuseum.org www.nordicmuseum.org Ongoing through April 18, 2021 – The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch's Photography. Internationally celebrated for his paintings, prints, and watercolors, Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) also took photographs. This exhibition of his photographs, prints, and films emphasizes the artist’s experimentalism, examining his exploration of the camera as an expressive medium.

WASHINGTON, DC Embassy of Sweden

2900 K Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007 Tel: 202-467 2600 | www.swedenabroad.com ambassaden.washington@gov.se The Embassy will remain in a modified telework arrangement, offering limited consular services by appointment only. Phone hours are: Mon-Fri 9 am to 4 pm (closed for lunch 12 to 1 pm), 202-467 2600.

OTTAWA Embassy of Sweden Ottawa

377 Dalhousie Street, Suite 305, Ottawa ON K1N 9NB Tel: 613-241 2277 www.swedishembassy.ca

18 20 22 24 26 To mitigate the effects of the spread of COVID-19 and reduce the outbreak, a temporary ban on entry to the EU via Sweden is in force. The Government has extended the ban of entry to the EU via Sweden until 15 April 2021.

TORONTO Swedish Lutheran Church

25 Old York Mills Rd, North York, ON M2P 1B5 toronto@svenskakyrkan.se Tel: 416 486-0466 Please visit https://www.svenskakyrkan. se/toronto for information about upcoming services.

VANCOUVER Scandinavian Community Centre

6540 Thomas Street, Burnaby, BC V5B 4P9 Tel: 604-294 2777 | info@scancentre.org www.scancentre.org Visit www.scancentre.org. for COVIDupdates.

WINNIPEG Swedish Cultural Assoc of Manitoba Scandinavian Cultural Centre

764 Erin St, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3G 2W4 Tel: 204-774 8047 | www.scandinaviancentre.ca/sweden | Registration by email at svenskclub17@gmail.com Apr 15 – Thur 7 pm: Swedish Cultural Assoc Annual General Meeting Mark your calendars for this very important meeting to voice your suggestions, concerns and ways we can grow our Swedish Assoc in the 2021/22 year. Please register to receive details. Apr 17 – Sat 10 am: Discussion with Author Bengt Hällgren; author of Swedish language textbooks and the study of Swedish genealogy. Join in on this interesting and informative discussion. Please register by April 15th to receive the Zoom invite. Apr 23 – Fri 6 pm: Walpurgis Eve TGIF Dinner To-Go: Although celebrating a little early, Walpurgis (Valborg) Eve marks a foretaste of summer! Enjoy a delicious variety of Swedish dishes freshly prepared. Please register for more details. May 9 – Mother's Day Brunch To-Go; Enjoy a delicious brunch prepared fresh in the SCC kitchen. Details to follow on SCC website.

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BC Organizations Scandinavian Business Club

Monthly meetings feature business speakers. Guests and new members welcome. Call SBC: 604-484-8238. Visit us at www.sbc-bc.ca

Scandinavian Community Centre

Scandinavian Community Centre Beautiful setting for weddings, parties, birthdays, meetings and seminars. 6540 Thomas Street, Burnaby, BC info@scancentre.org Tel: 604-294-2777 www. scancentre.org

Svenska Kulturföreningen

Ordförande Ellen Petersson 604-970 8708. Kassör är Linda Olofsson, 604-418 7703 www.swedishculturalsociety.ca. Email: swedishculturalsociety.ca @gmail.com

Swedish Canadian Village

Beautiful Assisted Living Residence & Senior Subsidized Apartment Buildings Located in Burnaby, BC. Tel: 604-420 1124 Fax# 604-420 1175 www.swedishcanadian.ca Swedish Heritage in BC 1812 Duthie Ave. Burnaby BC. Laila Axen Tel: 604-526 7464. Visit us at www. swedishheritageinbc.org. E-mail: swedishheritagebc@gmail.com

Sweden House Society

President: Rebecca Keckman Vice President: Dorothy Carlson Treasurer: Carole Walkinshaw, Email: swedenhousechair@gmail.com

Swedish Club of Victoria

Dinners, Events and Meetings, for information contact Annabelle Beresford @ 250-656 9586 or Swedish Club of Victoria Facebook.

Nordic Museum has moved to a beautiful, brand-new building! In Seattle, 2655 N.W. Market St., Ballard; 206-789 5707.

Swedish Club

1920 Dexter Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98109; Tel: 206-283 1090. Open Wednesday evenings for supper and games, Friday for lunch and dinner. Pancake breakfasts on

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first Sundays of the month. Rental venue for meeting, parties, etc. www.swedishclubnw.org

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The Snakes and Ladders of Life

By Peter Berlin

In the spring of 1960 – my final year in high school in Sweden – I was preparing myself frantically for my oral exam in front of a panel of outside examiners, ominously known as censors in Swedish. These were university professors who, until 1968, were sent out by the Ministry of Education in Stockholm to schools all over Sweden to oversee studentexamen – high school graduation. The oral exam was the final hurdle before receiving a high school diploma.

While fretting about the grilling by the examiners, I also had to face another panel made up of three military officers. In those days, military service was mandatory in Sweden, and the officers had come to our school to determine where each high school graduate was to serve in the Swedish Armed Forces. My hope was to join the Air Force, because I had been an airplane buff since my earliest childhood.

After a brief medical examination, the officers classified me as unfit for active military service because of a permanent leg injury I had suffered as a child. My grades in foreign languages were good, so they offered me a place at the Army’s tolkskolan – the interpreter training college. That would have meant spending the next two years studying nothing but Russian. Even though the prospect of becoming a highly qualified Swedish spy seemed appealing, I hesitated. They sensed my qualms and eventually excused me from military service altogether.

After spending a gap year in America, I returned to Sweden and applied for admission to the Royal Institute of Technology. Alas, while I was away they had raised the admissions threshold, and my high school grades no longer made the cut. I was advised to boost my grades further by earning additional credits in mathematics at university.

The result was a year of utter loneliness at the University of Lund. But I stuck it out in Lund and obtained the credits needed to enter the Institute. Five years later I had earned my degree in aeronautical engineering and found myself working for Boeing in Seattle. At last, I was building airplanes and had stopped crying over spilled milk.

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