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Calendar & Events
CHICAGO Swedish American Museum
5211 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640 Tel: 773-728 8111 | info@samac.org www.swedishamericanmuseum.org May 5 – Sunday 3 pm: Spring concert of the Chicago Swedish Male Chorus. May 11 – Saturday 1:30 pm: Monthly Scandinavian Jam Session with instructors Mary Allsopp and Paul Tyler. May 11 – Saturday 5 pm: Performance of Swedish music by the choir Merula. May 18 – Saturday 10 am: Nordic Family Genealogy Center program, “Will the Real Sven Larsson Please Stand Up.” combined with the Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois. May 19 – Sunday 11 am: Guided tour of the permanent exhibit, “A Dream of America: Swedish Immigration to Chicago,” by curator Veronica Robinson. Jun 7 to 9 – Friday through Sunday: Andersonville Midsommarfest street festival includes presentations of Swedish music and dancing around the majstång in front of the Museum. Continuing through Sunday Jun 23: “Entangled Routes”, an exhibit of sculptures, collages and wood carvings by Corinne Peterson, Tim Klassen and Stephen Klassen.
CLEVELAND Nobel-Monitor #130 V.O.A.
5200 Mayfield Road, Lyndhurst OH 44124 Tel: 216-371-5141 Marty.bergman@sbcglobal.net May 5 – Sunday 2-4 pm: Vasa Voices Spring Concert, in Swedish.
DETROIT Swedish Club of Southeast Mich.
22398 Ruth Street, Farmington Hills, Detroit, MI 48336 | Info: 734-459 0596 www.swedishclub.net April 27 – Saturday 4-9 pm: Valborgmässoafton May 5 – 1-2:30 pm: Buffet May 18 – 2:30 pm: Arpi/Scandia chorus present Spring Concert & Afterglow. Novi Methodist Church, 41671 W. Ten Mile Road, Novi, MI. June 2 – 1-2:30 pm: Swedish Flag Day Observance & Buffet.
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LOS ANGELES SACC-Los Angeles
The Lot 1041 N. Formosa Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 | Tel: 310-622 3616 info@sacc-la.org | www.sacc-la.org Apr 30 – Tuesday: Swedish Spotlight at Newport Beach Film Festival. Continuing through Jul 7: Ernest Cole Photographer – an exhibition from the Hasselblad Foundation at the Fowler Museum.
MILWAUKEE Swedish American Historical Society of Wisconsin
Tel: 414-352 7890 | swedishamericanhistoricalwisc@gmail.com May 11 – Saturday 1:30 pm: Explore Sweden’s Kingdom of Glass at Redemption Lutheran Church, 4057 N Mayfair Road, Wauwatosa
MINNEAPOLIS American Swedish Institute
2600 Park Ave Minneapolis MN 55407 Tel: 612-871 4907 | info@ASImn.org Apr 30 – Tuesday 7-11 pm: Cocktails at the Castle: Bonfires & Birchwood Plaques. Celebrate with bonfires, live music and a “make-your-own birchwood” plaque activity. Through May 26 – Exhibition on Eight Seasons in Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi People.
NEW YORK Scandinavian House: The Nordic Center in North America
58 Park Ave @ 38th Street. New York, NY 10016 | Tel: 212 779 3587 Apr 27 through July 27 Munch|Warhol and the Multiple Image – the exhibition of two of the 20th century’s most prolific and inventive printmakers – Norwegian Edvard Munch and American Andy Warhol. May 16 – Thursday 8 pm: Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Concerts with Lively Commentary – Bach and the Romantics.
PORTLAND New Sweden Cultural Heritage Society
8740 SW Oleson Road, Portland, OR 97223 Tel: 503-617 6826 | info@newsweden.org Apr 30 – Tuesday 7 pm: Valborgsmässoafton
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(Walpurgis), Carter’s: 1470 SW Borland Road, West Linn. May 10 & 11 – 10-5 pm: New Sweden Antique & Garage Sale, 8740 SW Oleson Road, Portland. Proceeds support Trollbacken, a Swedish language and culture camp for children.
SEATTLE Swedish Cultural Center
1920 Dexter Ave N Seattle, WA 98109 Tel: 206-283 1090 info@swedishculturalcenter.org May 5 – Sunday 4 pm: Swedish concert at NHM. “Music from the Heart.” Swedish soprano Lena Moén makes her U.S. debut. May 7 – Tuesday 7 pm: Lecture: Greatest Moments of Finnish Film – Prof. Kimmo Laine from Finland.
OTTAWA Embassy of Sweden Ottawa
377 Dalhousie Street, Suite 305 Ottawa ON K1N 9N8 | Tel: 613-241 2277 www.swedishembassy.ca April 25 – May 5 – HotDocs Film Festival in Toronto featuring 6 Swedish documentaries www.hotdocs.ca May 8 – The Real Group performing in Ottawa www.trgottawa.ca May 10 – The Real Group performing in Toronto www.singtoronto.com May 25 – Svensk Sommargudstjänst på ambassadörens residens i Ottawa, kl. 15.00. Se ambassadens hemsida för mer information. June 1 – Doors Open Ottawa, the official residence of Sweden open to the public.
VANCOUVER Scandinavian Community Centre
6540 Thomas Street, Burnaby, BC V5B 4P9 Tel: 604-294 2777 info@scandinaviancentre.org April 28 – Sunday 6 pm: Celebrate Valborg at Ambleside Beach, West Vancouver. May 25-26 – European Festival at Swangard Stadium, Burnaby BC. Info at www.europeanfestival.ca May 26 – Sunday 4:30 pm: Abra Cadabra, your favourite ABBA tribute group, in concert at the European festival. Concert is included in the Festival ticket price.
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Calgary Organizations
Svenska Skolan i Calgary bedriver undervisning för barn 3-15 år gamla på lördagar kl 9:30-12. Alla barn är välkomna. Undervisningen sker på svenska. Kontakta Svenska Skolan genom Scandinavian center 403-284 2610 eller skicka epost till contact@swedishschool.com. Läs merom vår skola på www.swedishschool.com
BC Organizations Consulate of Sweden
Tuesday 1-5 pm, Friday 10 am-2 pm or by appointment. #1480-1188 West Georgia Street. 604-683 5838
Scandinavian Business Club
meets every second Wednesday of the month. New members welcome. Phone Ben Marklund 604-524 2915. Visit us at www.sbc-bc.ca
The Scandinavian Centre
6540 Thomas Street, Burnaby, B.C. V5B 4P9. 604-294 2777
Svenska Kulturföreningen
Ordförande Monica Olofsson, 604-987 6086. Kassör är Linda Olofsson, 604418 7703 www.swedishculturalsociety.ca Email:swedishculturalsociety. ca@gmail.com
Svenska Skolan en gång i veckan för barn mellan 3 och 14 år. Ordförande Mia Logie 604-725 8431, Administratör Anette Anastacio svenskaskolanvancouver@gmail.com
Sweden House Society
President Robert Toren 604-980 9241, Vice-President Lennart Österlind, Treasurer Ron Spence.
SWEA – Swedish Womens Educational Association. Du, svensktalande kvinna. Kom med i SWEA. Vi träffas en gång i månaden för att ha kul, lära nytt och prata svenska. “Kontakta Alexandra Roos tel:778990 9130, email: vancouver@swea. org eller Pia Hilton tel:604-261 2484 email:sweavanmemb@gmail.com. Besök oss på www.sweavancouver.org
Swedish Canadian Village
Swedish Canadian Manor and Gustav Vasa Place at 1800 Duthie Avenue in Burnaby, B.C. V5A 2R4 604-420 3222 provides retirement apartments, beautiful grounds. Just steps from the bus. Swedish Canadian Resthome Association President Erik Nordholm.
Victoria BC Organizations Swedish Club of Victoria Meetings held third Wednesday of each month at 1110 Hillside Ave. Contact Annabelle Beresford 250-656 9586.
Washington Organizations Nordic Heritage Museum
in Seattle, 3104 N.W. 67th St., Ballard 206-789 5707 Open Tuesday – Saturday 10 am - 4 pm, Monday closed.
Swedish Cultural Center
1920 Dexter Ave., N, Seattle, Wa 98109; Tel: 206-283 1090. Open MonSat. Catering available for all events.
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His Spirit Lives On in Noreliusgården
By Thomas Budd
Simone had purchased the house in Norrbäck a year earlier, but this was my first visit to Sweden. Liberated, as our sons set off on their academic journeys, her true nature – the free, roaming, unshackled, selfdetermining Artemis – shed the cloak of motherhood which had wrapped her in wholly-accepted confinement for so long, and sold her house in Friesland/Holland; originally a village infant school that she had lovingly transformed into a beautiful home for her and the boys. Some time later, through the help of dear friends already living in Sweden, she bought this unusual property that was to become her next project, and in which I now found myself.
As we sat together looking across the meadow and the wooded hills beyond, Simone tells me of the work carried out since purchasing the house, erasing the neglect of the previous reclusive owner. Looking about me, I recognize the magic she weaves: a magic that I had seen displayed in the house we rented in the Quaker village of Jordans, north-west of London where we lived when the children were small, the village from which young William Penn left to make his mark in the New World; again, in Belgium’s medieval town of Bruges, alongside the high-steepled Onze-Lieve-Vrouwe Kerk where we lived when the boys first started school; and later, the house in Holland already mentioned. Her magic lies in this: she does not restructure, does not have the finances for expensive modernizations, does not impose her creativity on the environment, yet she has the gift of revealing a house’s essence and, in the unassuming placement of everyday things, allows it to tell its own story.
Dr. Eric Norelius’ birthplace in Norrbäck, Sweden. Photo credit: Simone van der Zande
And, Simone says, this house does have a story. It was built nearly two hundred years ago and was the birthplace of Eric Norelius who, aged seventeen, left home in 1850 to board ship to the New World. His piety, humility, intellectual capacities and strength of will led him to establish the Vasa Lutheran church in Minnesota. Moreover he initiated the Vasa Children’s Home; laid the foundation for the Gustavus Adolfus College and started the Minnesota Posten (1857-1858), the state’s first Swedish newspaper.
A little later, immersed in the sublime spirituality of Bach’s music, I sit alone gazing out at the landscape, transported by the golden light of the setting sun, thinking of young Eric Norelius looking out on the same scene, peering beyond this homespun beauty towards a beckoning life’s work. There is, here, not only an exquisite silence that is appropriate to the location, but also a stillness, a near-forgotten trace of a remarkable young man’s soul uncovered by the unerring touch of a fellow traveler.
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Dr. Eric Norelius papers, 1851-1916 are contained in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center located on the campus of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
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This inspiring full-colour guide highlights the rich traditions of Swedish furniture and décor. Hardcover 192 pages, with beautiful photographs, size: 8.5”x11”
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The only book you need to master the delicious art of baking and decorating Swedish goodies. Hardcover, 192 pages, with nearly 300 recipes, size: 6” x 8.25”.
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Cornelis Vreeswijk
Spellbinding art by Sweden’s greatest fairytale illustrator, John Bauer, brings the enchanted world of folk-tales to life. Hardcover, 254 pages
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Traditional Cooking
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A “culinary treasure” by popular author Caroline Hofberg. Hardcover, 196 pages, size: 9.5” x 10.9”, 200 full colour photographs will inspire any cooks.
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The best of Scandinavia’s favourite singer on 2 CDs, or purchase a new documentary DVD about Alice Babs for the same price! Double-CD with Swedish Masters of the Accordian plus Swedish text booklet presenting more than 40 recordings from 1906 to 1951. One of the very best concerts ever with Cornelius Vreeswijk. Conny Söderlund on guitar and Owe Gustavsson on base. 2 CDs. 100% linen Växbo Lin Dish-cloth used special weaving technique to make it supple and absorbent. It gets better the more it is used. This hand towel is designed to commemorate the voyage of Ostindiefararen Götheborg to China. Woven by master weaver Ekelund in Sweden.
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