Den Danske Forening Heimdal October 2013

Rush hour at Swedish Goodies (photo: Hanna Hervall)

Medlemsblad Newsletter for the Danish Association Heimdal – Established 1872 THE DANISH ASSOCIATION “HEIMDAL” INC 36 AUSTIN STREET NEWSTEAD QLD 4006 Contact details: 0437 612 913 www.danishclubbrisbane.org

Contributions go to waste. The event took many hours of We would love to share your news and planning, meetings, phone calls to find stories. You are welcome to send emails raffle sponsors and of course many people and other material to the editor for publica- willing to help sell raffle tickets. Thanks to tion. The closing date for the November raffle ticket sellers and buyers, who sold issue is 18 October 2013. We reserve the just over 4,000 tickets this year, which is right to edit or not publish your contribution. Any material published does not necessarily absolutely tremendous. The list of winners reflect the opinion of the Danish Club or the is inside the newsletter. All winners have Editor. been contacted by phone or email and you’re welcome to come in for Café Editor: Lone Schmidt Danmark and pick up your prize. Phone: 0437 612 913 Email: [email protected]

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From the Editor

8 September 2013 – what a day! A fortnight later I’m pretty chuffed to have been part of the Scandinavian Festival again and this year I even got a chance to go outside and see the stalls. How busy it was! It was slightly cooler than last year and with a large shaded seating area where guests could sit and enjoy the entertain- ment, it felt great to be outside. There were long queues and many food stalls sold out, but that’s part and parcel of festivals, as a club we don’t want to have leftovers to WELCOME TO OUR NEW

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Ib & Sue Nielsen, Runcorn Martin & Caren Klavsen, Holland Park West Vibeke & Brett Matthews, Kobble Creek Johnny & Betina Lehnemann, Bulimba Oddur Augustsson, Holland Park

Sally Butler, Thornlands

Bent Jørgensen & Veda Iredale, Tallebudgera Valley

What’s on at the Danish Club?

Café Danmark 27 September 2013 from 6 pm

It’s time to ‘hygge’ and spend some time with new and old friends. The ‘smørrebrød’ menu varies from time to time, but you’ll usually find ‘rullepølse’ (spicy rolled pork), smoked salmon, roast beef, ‘leverpostej’, roast pork and ‘Esrom’ cheese on the menu. And hot dogs. The bar offers Tuborg and Carlsberg beer varieties imported from just for us as well as several Australian brews. If you like a glass of wine with your food, we have a good variety of whites, reds and sparkling on offer. And check out our tempting chocolates, licorice and othergoodies from Denmark!

It’s also an opportunity to buy delicious Danish pastries, rye bread and other specialty breads and organic biscuits direct from Britt’s Danish Delights. Tea offers smallgoods and quality meats from Heinz Meats, the Danish butcher at Woolloongabba, as well as her own goodies including remoulade. Order in advance and pick up at the café.

Legestue / Play Group Every Friday 9.30-11.30 Check their Facebook page for events or ring Tea, Tina or Iben (see details inside the newsletter)

Café Danmark 25 October 2013 from 6 pm

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Danes Worldwide Steen Selmer is the After more than 30 years at SBS, keeping local representative for Danes Worldwide – Danes informed of events in Denmark and contact him via [email protected] Australia, Zanne Mallett is retiring on 4 October 2013. We thank her for her Soren Hoimark is the local contact for dedicated work and interest also in the DABGO and the group meets at the Danish Danish clubs and associations all over the Club on the first Wednesday of the month country. (next date is 2 October 2013 at 6 pm). Visit the DABGO website to join and get Our AGM was held on Saturday 14 more information. September 2013 and the new committee will be the old committee! Come on, we – Beyond The Legend opens need some new committee members! The September 19 – to November 30 committee meets once a month and In Sydney at the Australian National participates in the club’s monthly events. Maritime Museum - It’s interesting, challenging at times and www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u= you can take on as much work as you can 2134 Vikings – Beyond The Legend manage. Talk to Soren or an other committee member, find out more at the Contact details for the Royal Danish next Café Danmark. Consulate in Brisbane Our membership reached the 230 member mark at the end of June last year and now Honorary Consul Lars Kirk we need everyone to renew. Don’t forget to pay your membership fees either by Suite 525, Level 5 Toowong Tower EFT to Suncorp BSB 484-799 Account 9 Sherwood Road 02495 1468 or by cheque. Fees are Toowong QLD 4066 unchanged $40 for single and $60 for family membership. 07 3374 3062 [email protected] Congratulations to Camilla and Brad Dunn on the arrival of Scarlett Maddison Dunn on 31 May 2013. FEEL AT HOME WITH SBS DIGITAL RADIO

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As I mentioned before, our membership list is far from complete with many birthdays missing. Even worse, children born after the initial membership form was completed, aren’t on the list. So I’ll need your help with corrections and additions over the coming months and don’t be surprised if I ask the question. If you absolutely hate the idea of having your birthday advertised, let me know as well. Email [email protected] with any updates you may have. Apologies if your name is not on the list – there’s always next year.

Scandinavian Festival 8 September 2013

The second Scandinavian Festival, this time including the Finnish and Icelandic clubs, happened on 8 September 2013 and what a day it was. We hoped to attract as least as many people as last year and believe that we succeeded with large crowds throughout the day. With a fantastic entertainment programme, more shade and seating and more stalls, it was a huge day both behind the scenes and in the street. Estimates say upwards of 10,000 visitors!

The Heimdal folk dancers kicked off the day with a traditional folk dance display in their colourful national costumes, before Robert Cavallucci, our local MP and assistant minister for Multicultural Affairs Queensland and Tom Ruonala, the Finnish honorary consul, officially

Kurt Christensen was our MC for the day and had put together a varied program including traditional Scandinavian folk music, Steinar Johansen on accordion, The Scandinavian Singers, Finntune, Timo Jarvela and the Finnish Fiddle Group Choir.

Hans Christian Andersen made an appearance for a pantomime of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ by the folk dancers.

The clubs were all busy preparing food in the food stalls and there was a delicious selection of savoury and sweet treats with our Danish baker offering amongst other pastries cinnamon snails, the Norwegian stall served waffles, ScandinaviYum delicious smörgåstårtar and Princess cake (with the green marcipan lid) next door to the Swedish stall with meat balls, lingon jam and potatoes. The Danish club again prepared roast pork sandwiches (flæskestegssandwich) with red cabbage and crispy crackling, hot dogs and æbleskiver. Add to this ice creams cones from Royal Copenhagen, Icelandic kleinur, Finnish dough nuts, chocolate-covered strawberries and home-made lemonade from Entice Me and lots more.

Inside the Danish club house, Heimdal’s smørrebrødsteam worked hard to keep up with the demand for smørrebrød - it was a huge effort – well done!

The bar was pretty busy again this year, but at least we didn’t run out of beer.

There were many new market stalls with interesting and good quality and we had everything from Danish vintage furniture, Hanne’s Christmas decorations, t-shirts, paintings, travel agency, children’s clothing and accessories, jewellery, goodies, a LEGO play centre and Cacycat unique upcycled LEGO jewellery, real estate, photography, opals, t-shirts from Gudrun & Gudrun (Faroe Islands) – and more. Christian Jensen and Phillip Blunt demonstrated spray paint art.

We also had representatives from QLD Floorball and as floorball will be an Olympic sport from Rio 2016, there was a lot of interest from young and old in the game.

Not surprisingly, the Viking village again attracted a huge crowd and their displays were a delight.

At 3 pm we drew the winners in our fabulous raffle with nearly 60 prizes valued at $10,000 and tickets were selling up to the very last minute. Thanks to generous donations we were able to raise the additional funding required to host the Scandinavian Festival through the raffle.

We would like to thank all our sponsors below for their generous donations but also a big thank you to all members who supported the event by buying the raffle tickets and attending on the day.

The feedback we have received has been fantastic – everybody had a great day and enjoyed themselves, and I would like to send a huge thanks to all the volunteers for the day – without you, it would not have been possible – we need a lot of hands on such a day, and if you didn’t participate this year, be sure to join next year’s festival – subject to funding we’ll do it all again next year on Sunday 7 September 2014.

Thanks to our sponsors who provided funding, raffle prizes and lots of help

Queensland Government – Multicultural Affairs Queensland Brisbane City Council – Lord Mayor’s Suburban Initiative Fund Hamilton Ward Councillor David McLachlan

IKEA, dansk vintage, Ecco, Pandora, Nilfisk, Norwex, Scanpan, Underwear of , Jensen Opals, Tupperware, Magnum Pest Control, 66°North, Viking River Cruises, Prestige Lifestyles International, Finnair, Heinz Meats, Black & White Cabs, Swiss Club, Restaurant Le Classic, Marianne Seldon (painter), Hannah Kent (author), Colourful Labels and Images, Hair on Piccadilly, F H Bertling, SBS, Pixmie Kids, Lego, Britt’s Organic, Arla Foods, Entice Me, Brandi Projects, Volvo, Ed’s Hire (thanks for getting that generator started)

Thanks to our volunteers and committee members who worked tirelessly throughout the day

Andy Brodersen (dedicated raffle ticket seller), Carina Nørgaard, Louisa Moloney, Geoff Moloney, Vivianne Reimich, Anna Reimich, Carsten Pedersen (the Gilleleje master of æbleskiver), hot dog expert Flemming Brinkmann, Emma Schmidt, Alice Hall, Birte Schmidt, Aase Brodersen, Andy Johansen, Anna Reimich, Daniel Sørensen, Camilla Nielsen, Leanne Hall, Bill Hall, Kate Neeley, Simon (no nonsense), Allan Jensen, Bettina Jensen, Nicole, Benjamin (du var bare sej), Henning Klinke, Peter Park, Anna Haylock, Kurt Christensen, Emma Yerbury, Leeanne Schmidt, Chloe Schmidt, Mads Jensen, Sebastian Jensen, Simone, Therese Christiansen, Andrew, Christopher, Rasmus, Michael Schmidt, special thanks to Hanna Hervall for photos, Sigrid Madsen (the æbleskive queen), Peter Hansen, Madeleine Hansen, Josephine Hansen, Alan Przybylak, Lise Kopittke, Kirsten Kopittke, Glenda Livingstone, Michelle and the boys (awesome raffle controllers), Jennifer Nielsen, Karel Baum, Natalie Taylor (such dedication), all the folk dancers: Esmee, Lis, Tom , Kurt, Pat, Jytte, Carol, Jim, Jan, Birthe, Hans Jürgen, Gudrun, Allan, John, Marilyn, Elizabeth, Bill, Jennifer, Jan, Lennart and many more who pitched in on the day to help

Photos: Hanna Hervall

Dansk Legegruppe

Vores danske legegruppe mødes hver fredag i Heimdals lokaler fra 9.30 til kl 11.30. Aldersgruppen er fra 0 til 5 år, søskende til yngre børn er selvfølgelig velkommen i ferierne.

Vi starter altid med formiddagskaffe og hjemmebagte boller, efterfølgende varierer aktiviteterne med fri leg, hoppeborg, tegning og sanglege mv. Vi skiftes til at medbringe boller og tilbehør.

Vi betaler $2 hver gang per familie, medlemskab af Playgroup Queensland og den danske klub Heimdal er en betingelse.

Nye medlemmer er meget velkomne til at komme og være med. For yderligere information kontakt: Iben [email protected] 0434 933 953 Tina [email protected] 0403 838 663 Tea [email protected] 3379 1667 / 0419 659 837

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From the 2013 AGM - President’s Report for 2012-13

We started our past year with our latest project, replacing the roof.

Leakages over the years plus asbestos concerns made it a necessity to replace the roof, and we were able to fund this considerable investment ourselves after not succeeding in gaining financial support from various foundations – e.g. Gambling Community Benefit Fund.

The other major project for the year was installation of the maximum 5 Kva solar system allowed to tap into the government solar support scheme, so a year of major investments for the club.

With the project roof completed, we could continue preparations for the celebration of our club’s 140th anniversary.

Having discussed various options, the committee decided to proceed with the celebration together with our Scandinavian cousins and the Scandinavian Festival was underway.

We managed to get support from Queensland Government and it was our local councillor, David McLachlan who made it all possible by pushing through a grant application providing the necessary funding, so a big thank you to David and Brisbane City Council.

The clubs worked hard to sell raffle tickets to generate additional funding in response to donations for our raffle from mainly Danish companies, Scanpan, Pandora, Nilfisk, so we achieved a balanced budget.

The combination of Scandinavian street food and shopping – entertainment and Danish smørrebrød inside the Danish Club was a success, and we were visited by 5- 6,000 people, who all seemed to enjoy the experience immensely.

Our newly appointed Danish ambassador in Canberra, Børge Petersen joined us and participated in the opening ceremony, and it was great to see so many Scandinavians participate in this great community event, which also attracted many Australians, of course.

We also started meetings for the Danish networking organization DABGO at the club – this is a group for Danish business people in Brisbane interested in exchanging experiences, ideas etc with other Danish business people and after a slow start we are gaining some momentum and have had some really great nights discussing the differences in Danish and Australian business culture, opportunities and just having a great chat.

I would like to thank the committee for their efforts over the past year and all are standing for re-election, and also thank you to our membership officer, Birte. Another big thank you goes to Andy Brodersen for being our raffle king. Congratulations to Alan for completing his 10th year on the committee.

Do you need Danish beer, snaps, herring or licorice? We can help you find it.

Price list Beer Lysholm Linie Akvavit 100 cl $ 75 Tuborg ‘Green’ 24x33cl (bottles) $ 55 O P Anderson Akvavit 100 cl $ 65 Tuborg Classic 24x33cl (cans) $ 50 Tuborg Gold 24x33cl (cans) $ 60 Bitters Carlsberg 24x33cl (bottles) $ 30 Gammel Dansk 100 cl $ 65 Dr Nielsens Bitter 70 cl $ 50 Snaps Jubilæum 70 cl $ 55 Other Taffel (Rød Aalborg)100 cl $ 70 Blå Ga-Jol 100 cl $ 55 Taffel (Rød Aalborg) 70 cl $ 50 Cherry Heering 70 cl $ 45 Aalborg Export 70 cl $ 50 Kirsberry 70 cl $ 17

How to order and pay: By email [email protected] By phone 0437 612 913

Payment by EFT to Heimdal’s account at Suncorp BSB 484-799 Account 02495 1468

ONLY AVAILABLE TO MEMBERS OF THE DANISH ASSOCIATION HEIMDAL INC

Herring, fish balls, chocolate, licorice and other goodies – mainly from Denmark

100 g containers / $2.50: VIKING herring (550 g jars) $ 8.00 Toms Saltpastiller Onion Herring, Matjes or Anchovy Spiced Haribo Domino Lykkeberg Fiskeboller 400 g $ 4.00 Haribo Lakridsæg ABBA fish balls (375 g tins) $ 5.00 Carletti Saltlinser Bouillon, lobster sauce or shrimp sauce Carletti Strandgrus AMANDA cod roe (200 g) $ 4.50 Carletti Lakridspinde Hollandske ‘Skulls’ (taste like ‘spejderhagl’)

Haribo Zulu 170 g $ 4.00 Haribo Saltbomber 170 g $ 4.00 Fazer Turkish Peber 150 g $ 3.50 Fazer Skolekridt 140 g $ 4.00 Fazer Salmiakki Mix 180 g $ 4.50 Nougattabletter 75 g $ 2.50 Brystkarameller 75 g $ 2.50 Kongen af Danmark 75 g $ 2.50

From the 2013 AGM - Treasurer’s Report for 2012-13

The result for the past financial year shows a surplus of almost $35,000 on our profit & loss statement. We spent close to $75,000 on the new roof and the solar energy system and our accountants advised us to put these costs in the balance sheet as the roof and solar system will last for many years. We’ll then depreciate it over the next many years rather than come out with a huge loss this financial year.

On the income side, events show a large increase compared to last year, this is the result of the first Scandinavian Festival. Hall hire fees dropped significantly, we lost steady income from two yoga instructors and have not had as many outside party hire as the previous year. Membership fees are up, at the end of this year we hit the 230 member mark, which is very encouraging for the club. Raffle income is up thanks to Andy’s efforts at Café Danmark.

On the expense side, bar costs are huge due to two shipments of beer last year. Other expenditure is steady, very little new equipment purchased in the past financial year.

We received a rate discount of approx. $1,200 from Brisbane City Council, but were again unsuccessful in our application to the QLD Gambling Commission Fund for funding to remove the asbestos roof, update the kitchen and cover the courtyard. We’ll keep applying. The club succeeded in obtaining grants from QLD Government and Brisbane City Council totalling $12,500 for the Scandinavian Festival.

In the main, expenses consisting of fixed costs, including insurance, council rates and water, licence fees and electricity make up approx. 65% of our total expenses.

Our auditors, Wilson Ross Accountants, have completed their audit of the accounts which were published in our September newsletter.

Hanne in her stall

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Kjøge Mini-By (Mini-Town) is situated at Strandvejen 101 on a very attractive 10,000 m² site given to Kjøge Mini-Town by the local council. To the east it faces Køge Bay and to the south Hotel Hvide Hus. There are only a few hundred yards to two attractive camping sites. Electric trains connect Køge with Copenhagen, arriving every twenty minutes outside peak hours. It’s a 10-15 minute walk from the railway and bus station to our mini-town. Buses 108 and 109 stop right outside our entrance. A brief history of Køge

Køge is one of the oldest towns in Likewise during the Swedish Denmark. The town was granted occupation from 1658-60. trading privileges in 1288 by King Erik In spite of these events you can still Menved. At that time the town was see a good number of the original already established and looked almost buildings. as it looks today. The old town is still Among these houses you will notice a situated around the largest town very small half-timbered house which square outside Copenhagen. has an inscription on the wooden The town is built at the mouth of a beam above the entrance door dated river, the banks of which served as a 1527. This is the oldest dated half- harbour in the middle ages. timbered town house in Denmark. Already in 1411, wharfs were built The building of the church, Sct Nicolai, along the northern shore. started about 1250 and lasted for In the 15th and 16th centuries, the about 200 years. Baltic Sea trade was flourishing. In older times, the church tower Some of the buildings from that period served as a lighthouse. You can still are still to be seen. see where the iron basket, facing east, In 1633 a great fire destroyed many of is placed. Here tow dipped in tar was the old houses. lit to guide seamen out in the bay.

To keep for future generations a group, who then instruct the people picture of what Køge looked like in who build the houses, cut the windows 1865, the Kjøge Mini-Town Guild and doors etc. We also have groups decided to build a historically correct who produce bricks and tiles of various model of the town from that year. The types. Their workshop has a kiln town is being built to a scale of 1:10. installed for firing their huge We have chosen the year 1865 for the production. model town because all properties in Three ships are moored in the Køge were surveyed from 1863 to harbour. The yacht ‘De 4 brødre’ of 1865 and an exact map was drawn. Marstal was built in 1794 and was We are given enormous help by the sailing until 1943 between the local archives, Køge Byhistoriske Scandinavian countries and countries Arkiv, which holds a vast selection of bordering the Baltic Sea. The yacht is old drawings, photographs and being built at our own shipyard. descriptions of the old buildings as well as the milieu in the streets. The Kjøge Mini-Town is neither owned nor organisation Friends of the Mini-Town run by the Town Council, but is an build the houses. Members join independent institution supported by various specialist groups. The trust funds, local firms, private historical group goes to the archives individuals and Friends of Kjøge Mini- for information. They pass on their Town. findings to the working drawings

What’s a Kaos Pilot? components are structured around a client assignment or a personal- or a group project. The KaosPilots is a 3 year long alternative business school located in the Latin Quarter of The program is delivered by a core staff and a Århus, Denmark. vast pool of lecturers and partners.

The KaosPilots is in English and accepts 35-37 Pedagogy The pedagogical platform is called international students per year in the ages 21–31, opportunity-based-pedagogy (i.e. to see, and is funded by EU and students' school fees. understand,create and act upon opportunities) The education was in Danish up until August and is rooted in many different approaches such 2005 as the students were from countries with a as reflection over action, appreciative inquiry, Scandinavian language like Denmark, , systems thinking, positive psychology action Sweden or Iceland. learning, coaching and mentoring.

The KaosPilot program teaches in the fields of Working Methods School-work is very much leadership, new business design, process design based on group collaboration and the team uses and project design for challenges in business, various brainstorming techniques to develop society and organizations. The program focuses ideas, mind mapping to document their work and on personal development, value-based energizing games to keep up the working spirit. entrepreneurship, creativity and social innovation. There are no classes or subjects, but the school year is divided into several phases where students The KaosPilot school was founded by Uffe Elbæk focus on one subject for a period of time. in 1991 and nominated by Business Week in 2007 as a top Design School. The KaosPilot program The education takes 3 years and the same team has gone on to inspire schools in countries such as goes through the whole education together. Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands. 1st year - The ToolBox

Academic Focus The KaosPilots curriculum is The first year is focused on methods, theory and approved by EQUIS accredited Aarhus School of practical project work introducing the 3 core Business. areas, Project design (project development and management), Business design (business The school aims to attract and train social development and management) and Process entrepreneurs and creative leaders. design (process management and leadership) to the new students.

2nd year – Process management and International Project management

The second year at the KaosPilots is focused on process design and process management, including the design and facilitation of processes for external customers. In the spring-semester the team goes on a 3-months Outpost in a foreign country, implementing a project for an external customer in another environment.

Structure The curriculum is divided into four 3rd year – Project & Business Design disciplines: Creative Business Design, Creative Leadership Design, Creative Project Design and The third year at the KaosPilots is focused on Creative Process Design. Each discipline is Business Design (entrepreneurship and building divided into 4 components. The components the business plan), individual world practicum build upon all previous components, and not only and the individual project leading to the final the ones within the specific discipline. The exam.