Swedish Center News October 2009 Swedish Cultural Center . Seattle . Washington

We’re Liking Vikings

Our Mission To promote better understanding between the United States and the , with emphasis on Sweden, and to perpetuate Nordic culture and traditions through the teaching, observance, practice and celebration of this culture and its traditions.

he Vikings are coming! Not to plunder and The Nordic Heritage Museum’s Viking-style pillage the Center, but to remind us of our boat, Nordic Spirit, was rowed to Fishermen’s T Terminal for its rechristening on Aug. 30, 100 heritage as seagoing people connected to other years to the day after the Alaska Yukon Pacific cultures. (AYP) Exposition’s Viking boat arrived at the Starting in the ninth century, these traders AYP grounds on Lake Washington. Photo by Jon Halgren. and raiders terrorized Europe with their sudden attacks. Swedish Vikings went east toward Russia Vikings and modern . The Swedish and then south, exchanging their DNA and Cultural Center took note. Starting in October, culture as far south as Italy. (Redheads in every Friday evening through the winter we’ll northern Italy? The Swedish national celebration show segments of a Great Courses DVD titled of an Italian saint, Lucia? Historians say, “Blame The Vikings. the Vikings!”) Vikings from and Den- Attendees can tell us whether a 5:30 start time mark headed south to England and then west— works for these illustrated, college-oriented and eventually became the first Europeans to set lectures. We hope it’s just enough time for you to foot in North America. The Viking period also grab a glass of something from upstairs and come coincided with important changes in Scandina- to the library to enjoy a 30-minute lecture, and/or vian society, from the buildup of the nation of to head upstairs afterward for dinner and a bit of Sweden to the coming of Christianity. socializing. The full series is 36 segments, but you In spite of these Northmen inspiring fear in don’t have to watch them in sequence. earlier centuries, today Viking art and culture The local community offers other Viking fascinate us. Research by the Nordic Heritage opportunities. Nordic Heritage Museum has Museum found that the two areas of greatest refurbished a very old Norwegian fishing boat, interest to Scandinavian Americans are the Continued on p. 2

swedishculturalcenter.org Swedish Cultural Center Hej då, Maggie 1920 Dexter Avenue North Seattle, WA 98109 ome people just stick in your mind. STheir passion, their charm, or their 206-283-1090 Club Business merriment stays with you between the 206-283-1078 Rentals 206-283-2970 FAX times you see them. The Center has lost just such a friend this past month with [email protected] [email protected] the passing of Maggie Berthiaume. www.swedishculturalcenter.org Maggie was born Maj Britt Ferngren in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1924. As a young Office Hours Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. child, she and her mother, Ruth, moved to Bellingham, where Maggie graduated Board of Directors President Karl Larsson from high school. She married Don Vice President Bob Blair Berthiaume and they had two children, Secretary Syrene Forsman Treasurer Don Wahlquist Lynn and Mary, four grandchildren, and Past President Brandon Benson two great-grandchildren. Maggie was Directors Sara Lightle Don Meyers dedicated to Vasa Frihet Chapter #401; Paul Norlen Vännerna Swedish Auxiliary, for which Randy Nelson Erik Pihl she was the chair; and her much-be- Darcey Quinn loved Swedish Cultural Center. She was Susan Ramstead an active volunteer at the SCC for 20 Mark Safstrom Carl Westerdahl years, especially devoted to the pancake breakfast crowd on the first Sunday of the month. Just before her unexpected but peaceful passing, Maggie attended the Vasa District Center Operations Exec. Director R.W. Clay Convention on Saturday evening and served ham on the pancake breakfast line early on Cultural Director Kristine Leander Sunday morning—with her usual warm smile and friendly greeting for all. Maggie, oh, Admin. Assistant Nicole Kuhnau Admin. Assistant Kris Reitan how we’ll miss you! Donations in celebration of Maggie’s life can be made to the Swedish Cultural Center. Auxiliary Vice-chair June Anderson Evanoff VIKINGS Continued from p. 1 Secretary Bonnie Orr Haven’t We Met Before? outfitted it with Viking symbols, and Treasurer Rachel Osterlof here in Seattle would a 17-year-old Sewing Jean Wirch rechristened it the Nordic Spirit. On Saturday, Swedish high school exchange student, Oct. 10, the Leif Erikson International W Swedish Center News newly arrived in town, bump into his local Editor: Kristine Leander Foundation (the group that beautified the librarian from Nacka, a suburb of Stockholm? Copy Editor: Martin Stillion statue of Leif Erikson at Shilshole Bay Marina), At the Swedish Cultural Center, of course! will row the Nordic Spirit from its home in Swedish Center News (USPS 533- Joakim Bosved was still jetlagged and Ballard through the Locks to Shilshole, where 750) is published monthly as part experiencing his first 24 hours in America of yearly membership dues at $5 a Swedish car show will surround the statue. per person, per year, by the Swed- when he got a tour of the Center and saw a SCC members “Red Volvo Ramstad” (Gary ish Cultural Center, 1920 Dexter familiar face. Swedish librarian Maria K. Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98109-2795. Ramstad) and “Volvo Dick” (Dick Libby) Telephone is 206-283-1090. Peri- Norberg was there on her last day in America. are managing the car show from 10 a.m. until odicals postage paid at Seattle, Maria’s trip was made possible by a Washington. Postmaster: send 2 p.m., and everyone is invited! travel grant from the Swedish Library address changes to Swedish Center On Leif Erikson Day, Friday, October 9, News, 1920 Dexter Ave. N., Seattle, Association, and she toured libraries in the WA 98109-2795. the public is invited to a dinner and program Pacific Northwest to study their marketing. Deadline for material for with two illustrated lectures on Viking ships She also visited her American cousins in the the next issue is (see the ad on p. 4). And if you haven’t gotten Oct. 13. Continued on p. 6 your name or your family’s immigrant names Bring articles into the office or fax on the Vikingesque runic stones that sur- SCC President Karl Larsson is on to 206-283-2970. You may also e-mail articles to round the Leif Erikson statue in Ballard, time’s vacation in Europe this month. The [email protected]. running out. With all these opportunities, you “President’s Notes” column will return in too can be a Viking! November.

2 october 2009 Cultural Director’s Notes SCC Announces News about, or in the interest The Third Era in Ethnic Clubs of our members... here’s nothing like being asked to give a speech to help you sharpen your thinking and The Swedish Cultural Center organize your ideas. My talk at the Vasa Order of America’s District Convention banquet T announces 817 member households. two weeks ago in Federal Way gave me the wonderful opportunity to think about ethnic New Members organizations. Here’s what I told the group. Lennart Akerlund Immigrants formed clubs such as the Swedish Club and the Sons of Norway for social Lindsey Albertson & Alex Bailey contact, and also to help each other in sickness and death. In the case of the Swedish Club, Donald Barrett nearly the same group of Swedish immigrant men who started the Club in 1892 also founded Annabelle Allen Kim Barrett-Smith Swedish Hospital, and so the club was intentionally social, while the Sons of Norway (founded Erik Benson in 1895) offered social ties along with health and death benefits. Mary Alice & Joe Benson World War I ushered in a need to hide ethnic roots, immigration slowed after 1920, and Sissel Gassert David & Kathleen Gometz the second era of ethnic clubs began. Bingo and gambling nights, trips to entertainment spots Monica Grafstrom Hinckley across America, and rituals borrowed from American fraternal organizations such as the Mary Hurley Masons were more ultra-American than ethnic. But many of these clubs are dying, while the Ralph Johnson Swedish Cultural Center, of course, is growing. What are we doing right? Linda Dike Killeen & Edward Killeen I believe we’re successfully negotiating the third era, namely retaining our roots of a social Kris Knutsen club, based around Sweden and Swedish culture, but connecting to contemporary Sweden. Beth Kollé Paul & Leanne Larkin Other groups maintain strong loyalties to their home countries and cultures, but it’s often to a Emily Lawrence country or a cultural concept that’s more reminiscent than recent. At the Swedish Cultural Lauren Mattson Center, we are modernizing our facility and our programs, and working to make it a place Susan Mitchell & Harrison Magun where a visitor from Sweden today will feel at home. Ivana Pocrnja The SCC has another strong advantage. After my talk, Vasa’s Grand Lodge Master Rolf Nick Pullen Bergman confided to me that organizations with a network of clubs have a harder time Carolyn Ratley Ginny Redpath modernizing. Some local clubs may think that changes aren’t fast enough, and others may Erin Saarinen think they’re too fast. The Swedish Cultural Center, on the other hand, is nimble. We can Sue Schroder develop new programs and change without checking in with some mother organization. Gary Seale We have only ourselves to be responsible for, and it’s been a major factor in our recent Douglas & Ellen Sellin growth. Erik Stangvik The SCC is not throwing away old Sweden, Swedish antiques, or our genealogy studies, Shawn & Stephen Thornsberry Lois & Svend Toftemark but we are maintaining the same balance that modern Sweden does. Our immigrant past makes Victor von Scheele us strong, but our ties to current Sweden and our future vision make us great.

Deaths Kr i s t i n e Le a n d e r • Cultural Director, Swedish Cultural Center • [email protected] Maggie Berthiaume Gunnar Edling if me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don’ be stingy, baby.” “G New Address? Greta Garbo’s first line in a talking film sets Send your address changes or the stage for SCC’s auction, Sweden Goes to corrections to: Hollywood, on Saturday, April 24. Committees are forming now. If you’d like to be part of the Swedish Cultural Center fun preparing for the auction, contact Cultural Attn: Address Change Director Kristine Leander (kristine@swedishcul- 1920 Dexter Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98109 turalcenter.org) or call the Center to volunteer. If you have donations of Scandinavian items, you Or you can e-mail to can drop them off or call the Center for pickup. [email protected]. Donations, such as Scandinavian antiques or new items, help our auction and get you a tax writeoff. Let us know if we left out your Don’t be stingy, baby! information by mistake. swedishculturalcenter.org 3 Large-scale works by Maria Friberg are on display until Nov. 15 Swedish Photography at the Museum at the Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 NW 67th, Seattle. he Nordic Heritage Museum presents an exhibit of works by the which is then executed by photographers. Her large-scale video works Tcelebrated Swedish artist Maria Friberg. “Most of my work,” says and photos each take up a major portion of a wall at the Museum. Friberg, “revolves around power, masculinity, and man’s relationship to Swedish Cultural Center members are urged to see the exhibit nature. … The men in my images are … trying to find their place in before it ends on Nov. 15. The Museum thanks the Barbro Osher Pro times of turmoil. … Sort of a liberation movement for men.” While she Suecia Foundation, Swedish Council of America, American Scandina- doesn’t actually shoot any of the photographs, Friberg plans each shot, vian Foundation, and Hotel Ändra for their support.

Still Looming PAID ADVERTISEMENT Leif Erikson Plaza celebrates Scandinavian heritage. or a 150-year-old Swedish loom, another month or so doesn’t Fmatter. The group that’s helping to get our loom up and running has been delayed by late summer vacation schedules, but that hasn’t Add your family’s kept visitors from stopping by to admire the loom and give advice. names to the A recent visitor, Ruth Durham, representing our friends over in Ballard, the Leif Erikson Lodge of the Sons of Norway, came to our memorial now! September Kafferep just to see the loom. It wasn’t long before her Don’t miss out! long-standing love of looms took over and she “got behind the wheel,” so to speak. Before we can start on a real project with our LEIF ERIKSON PLAZA loom, however, the threads need to be replaced. It’s a tedious job, Don’t miss the boat. they tell us, but one step at a time and we’ll get there. Members Add Scandinavian immigrant names to the plaques before it’s too late. At Inga and Per Bolang have the rags cut and ready for us to start Leif Erikson Plaza, Shilshole Bay Marina, on a woven rag rug project. We hope to report more loom progress Seattle. To learn how, call 206-778-1081 or e-mail [email protected]. in next month’s newsletter. LEIF ERIKSON DAY DINNER Friday, Oct. 9 You’re invited! Delicious smörgåsbord dinner and program. Olaf Kvamme will describe the 1909 AYP Viking boat, and Jay Haavik will show slides of the inside workings of Oslo’s Viking Ship Museum. 6 p.m. social, 7 p.m. dinner. $25, Leif Erikson Lodge, 2245 NW 57th, Seattle, 98107. RSVP by Oct. 6: 206-783-1274 or e-mail [email protected].

SWEDISH CAR SHOW Saturday, Oct. 10 Nordic Heritage Museum’s Viking boat, Nordic Spirit, will arrive by water. Come see vintage Saabs and Volvos and the arrival of the Nordic Spirit. 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. At Leif Erikson Plaza, Shilshole Bay Marina, 7001 Seaview Ave., Seattle, 98117.

Ruth Durham felt right at home sitting at our new old loom. Fingering parts of the loom, she wondered just whose hands had worn it so smooth to the touch.

4 october 2009 Members & Friends: Members & Secrets of the Log Friends Dinner WEDNESDAY, t the October Members & Friends Oct. 13, 2009 ADinner, we’ll get to hear the inside details about some of the signers of the Social 5:30 p.m. Swedish Building visitors’ log at the AYP Dinner 6:30 p.m. Cost $18 in 1909. Typing team leader Darcey RSVP by noon Oct. 12. Late Quinn will share some of the most Darcey Quinn (right) led the volunteer effort to retype the Swedish Building visitors’ log (left) from the AYP. RSVPs and walk-ins: $22. interesting tales she’s tracked down. First course What about the signer who’s now thought to be a ghost? Or the Norwegian farmer who became famous Limpa från Svedala Bakery in another way? Be there to hear the rest of the story: Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 6:30 p.m. at the SCC. Svedala Bakery’s limpa bread

Scandinavia at the Cinema Blandad grönsallad med citron he Nordic Heritage Museum is pleased to SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall is located at 321 och dill Tpresent the first annual Nordic Lights Film Mercer St. in Seattle. For information, please contact Mixed baby green salad with Festival, Friday through Charlotte Lehmann at lemon dill dressing Sunday, October 23, 24, 206-789-5707, ext. 21, or and 25, with contempo- charlotte@ Second course rary, award-winning nordicmuseum.org. Fläskkotlett froterad med films from , Films will be shown kardemumma med stuvade Finland, , Norway, over three days, with äpplem och lök and Sweden at SIFF Swedish films on Friday Cardamom-rubbed pork chops Cinema at McCaw Hall. evening (Everlasting with sautéed apples and onions Admission will be $7 for Moments) and Saturday When Elvis Came to Visit examines an unlikely Kokt potatis med smör och members and $10 for friendship between the xenophobic Lukas and (My Uncle Loved the guests. All movies are an Iranian immigrant boy named Elvis. Color Yellow, Herds- grädde subtitled. Tickets are woman, and When Elvis Steamed baby red potatoes available through the SIFF Cinema Box Office at Came to Visit). For a complete schedule, visit with butter and cream www.siff.net or by calling 206-464-5830. www.nordicmuseum.org/events.aspx#filmfest. Stuvade grönsaker FIDDLERS THREE: Sautéed vegetables

Traditional tunes Dessert Lingonparfait accompany our Lingonberry parfait Scandinavian dance Take home a loaf of limpa lessons on Tuesday (sourdough rye bread) or and Friday evenings mandelfläta (cardamom bread with almond paste) from at the Swedish Svedala Bakery. At the Members Cultural Center. & Friends dinner, we’ll have about 20 loaves available for Taught by Pat sale. When you RSVP for the McMonagle. For dinner, you can also reserve a loaf or two to purchase and more information, enjoy at home. see p. 8. swedishculturalcenter.org 5 HAVEN’T WE MET Continued from p. 2 area. She met many interesting SCC mem- bers at Happy Hour and would like to interview some of them, because she’s been interested in emigration history since her youth. We may see Joakim Bosved traveled halfway around the world, only to meet her again! Maria Norberg, his hometown Joakim hopes to librarian, at the SCC. We hope Joakim become a pilot someday doesn’t have any overdue books back and is delighted to be in home in Sweden. Seattle with its aviation focus—not to mention the accessibility of sports such as hiking, snowboarding, and so on. If you’d like to invite Joakim to accom- pany your family on an outdoor excursion, or you can share some part of an aviation experience with him, call Cultural Director Kristine Leander at 206-283-1090 to make arrangements.

Don’t miss Happy Hour on Friday, Oct. 23. Have a featured cocktail (perhaps the “Scorpio”?) and dance to “DJ Gort” from 20% off for SCC members! 8 p.m. till midnight. Swing, ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s dance music. Appetizers and dinner available at 6 p.m. Get there early!

Coming Events at the Swedish Cultural Center Every Friday. Swedish Kafé & Fika! Every Friday evening, starting Oct. 2. The Vikings. Smörgås sandwiches, Swedish meatballs, and homemade pastries. Come enjoy a “Great Courses” 30-minute class on the Vikings. DVD Come try out noon food by Svedala Bakery. Kafé from 12 noon on. recorded class taught by Kenneth Harl of Tulane University. Runs all Swedish fika around 3:30. winter, a new class each week. 5:30 p.m. Free. Every Friday. Nordic Happy Hour. Sunday, Oct. 4. Swedish Pancakes. Check www.swedishculturalcenter.org for our menu. Evening food Swedish Cultural Center’s pancake breakfasts are the best. Music and by Swedish chef Ann-Margret varies weekly. Food starts at 6 p.m. dancing by Nordic Reflections, Skandia Kapelle, and Mäd Fiddlu. Drinks at great prices. Always a fantastic view. 5–10:30 p.m. Members $6, general public $8. Children $4. 8 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Every Friday Matinees. Sunday, Oct. 4. Genealogy Session. Scandinavian films with English subtitles. $5 donation. 2 p.m. Come Come at 1 p.m. to learn your own genealogy, or to help others get early for a sandwich or stay later for fika. started! Led by real genealogists. Free to members. Oct. 2: Norwegian film, Ulvesommer (Wolf Summer). Family Tuesday, Oct. 6. The Auxiliary Meets. adventure film. Do you like to sew or enjoy the company of those who do? Join us Oct. 9 & 16: Scandinavian films, titles TBD. for our monthly 10 a.m. sewing and crafts session. Lunch afterward. Oct. 23: Cold Trail. Icelandic film.

Oct. 30: Raja 1918 (The Border 1918). Finnish film. Continued on p. 8

6 october 2009 Hemlandsnytt healthcare reform is sidelining its vote on a climate bill that is needed to persuade other nations—especially the fast-growing economies News from the homeland of India and China—to commit to lowering their greenhouse A column of current Swedish news topics, taken from emissions at the Copenhagen climate summit in December. Swedish news media. Sunken: The fire began in the galley, where the crew had kept a Co m p i l e d b y Gu n n a r Wa l l i n stove burning while they visited a tavern ashore. As the flames Stuff: A writing desk, film cameras, and Golden Globe awards devoured her stern, the Anna Maria sank through the ice in the from the estate of Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman are attract- Stockholm archipelago. Three hundred years later, the Dutch ing huge interest from collectors as they go up for auction in merchant ship rests amid seaweed and algae about 60 feet below the Stockholm. Auction house Bukowskis says the 337 Bergman items surface. The Anna Maria is part of a vast graveyard of ill-fated ships for sale include the chess pieces most probably used in the director’s hidden in the murky waters of the Baltic Sea. Around 20,000 1957 film The Seventh Seal and a 1960s portrait of Bergman by shipwrecks have been found, some dating back to the Viking age. A Irving Penn. Bergman had insisted in his will that the assets be new tourism scheme proposes to offer boat trips to sites of the auctioned to prevent them from being caught up in some “kind of most spectacular wrecks, where visitors can watch live footage emotional hullabaloo.” through cameras on remotely operated vehicles. Victory: Sweden’s Alex Noren held off a determined challenge from Back: On September 12, the space shuttle Discovery landed at Britain’s former winner, Bradley Dredge, to claim his maiden title at Edwards Air Force Base after two weeks in space. On board was the European Masters held recently in Switzerland. A closing Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang, who walked in space and was five-under-par 66 for a 20-under total of 264 left Noren two much excited to experience weightlessness again and look down on strokes better than Dredge. Mother Earth. This is likely his last space voyage, after two trips and Relief: Koenigsegg Group and GM are close to saving Saab. The several space walks. deal includes more concessions from GM to improve Koenigsegg’s Dueling: Apparently not everyone shares the worldwide enthusi- financial calculation, but also new investors who will provide asm for Swedish crime fiction. Recently seven Swedish writers issued enough funds to carry out the purchase. The agreement between a “manifesto for a new literary decade,” decrying recent trends in Koenigsegg and GM was signed in August, but until now, there were Swedish fiction, calling for a return to “pure storytelling,” and significant questions about how the buyer would be able to finance pledging never to write detective novels, even under a pseudonym. the billions required for Saab to survive until it can make its own In response, 32 other writers released their own “manifesto for an money. unlawful literature,” asserting their right to publish any kind of Urgent: Sweden’s environment minister has urged the U.S. Senate fiction they choose. to pass legislation to control greenhouse gases, saying a delay in the vote is impeding negotiations on a new international climate treaty. Opinions expressed are not those of the Swedish Cultural Minister Andreas Carlgren said America’s complex debate over Center.

Executive Director’s Notes Center through volunteering. If that isn’t your thing, here’s another utumn is here, but the weather has been so nice of late I think way to help out while helping yourself. Congress has extended a AI’ll go out on a limb and predict an Indian summer for 2006 charitable donation provision to 2008 and 2009, allowing October. One thing I can guarantee for this month is the availabil- individuals age 70½ or older to take distribution from their IRA ity of flu shots at the pancake breakfast on Sunday, Oct. 4. The asset accounts and donate them to qualified charities. If you shots will be administered in the main floor Viking room by qualify, you can contribute any amount up to $100,000 each year Maxim Health Services. If you have Medicare (Part B), the cost is and not recognize any income or a charitable deduction; however, covered. Just bring your Medicare card and picture identification. this distribution counts toward the required minimum distribution Otherwise the cost is $30. So keep it in mind when you come for for that year of contribution. pancakes this month. By the way, it is never too late to volunteer We’re coming to the end of 2009, when this donation for the pancake breakfasts. provision will end. This is a unique opportunity to benefit the We were all shocked when we learned of the passing of Swedish Cultural Center with your generosity. For more informa- Maggie Berthiaume. I had just talked with Maggie on Sept. 13 at tion, call me on my direct line at 206-794-5244. That’s it for the pancake breakfast. She was a good friend and very loyal now—hope to see you in the Center soon! member of the Center. Goodbye Maggie! I’ll miss you. R.W. Cl a y • Executive Director, Swedish Cultural Center Last month I talked about how members could help the [email protected] swedishculturalcenter.org 7 Coming Events Continued from p. 6 Wednesday, Oct. 21. Icelandic Film. Fridays & Tuesdays, Oct. 9, 13, 16, 20. Scandinavian Dance Lessons. Our monthly Swedish film is, well, Icelandic this month! Cold Trail is a mystery set in Iceland: a Waltz, hambo, schottis, snoa, and polka: tap your reporter discovers that the father he’s never met was toes twice a week and you won’t forget! $60 public, murdered. $5 donation. 7:30 p.m. At the SCC. Also $48 SCC members. Taught by Pat McMonagle. showing Friday, Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22. Saturday, Oct. 10. Meet Freddie! Swedish Car Show Visits Icelandic Explorer. Swedish Cultural Center (and SACC) members are Vintage and restored Saabs and Volvos will be on invited to attend Sounders FC practice at Qwest display at the Leif Erikson statue at the Shilshole Bay Field from 10 a.m. until 12 noon. After practice, Volunteers? Marina, 7001 Seaview Ave. NW, from 10 a.m. until Freddie Ljungberg will address the group. Maybe Our AYP typing 2 p.m. Organized by the Puget Sound chapter of some photos too? This is a benefit for our members project is complete, but Volvo Sports America. Free. Info: 206-778-1081 or and is open only to SCC and SACC members. No we need individuals with [email protected]. The Nordic Heritage guests. We must have your RSVP by Oct. 8. E-mail research capabilities to find Museum’s Viking ship, the Nordic Spirit, will arrive [email protected] or call 206-283- more information about by water at around 11 a.m. some of the signers of the 1090 to say you’ll be there. Saturday, Oct. 10. Rowing for the Museum. 1909 log. Friday, Oct. 23. You’ve heard about raising a paddle at an We would love to have Scandinavian Folkdance. auction? Now you can raise an oar! The Nordic a librarian for several Heritage Museum’s Viking ship, the Nordic Spirit, Music by SkandiaKapell. $8 for SCC members, $10 hours every Friday after- will be at the Swedish car show at Shilshole. For guests. 7:30 p.m. lesson, 8 p.m. dance. noon to help guide library a minimum donation of $100, you can help row users. Several individuals Saturday, Oct. 24. the ship back through the Locks to its home on could each take a different Sounders Tickets Available. the foot of 24th Avenue NW in Ballard. Rowing Friday of the month. Contact the SCC office at 206-283-1090 or e-mail home starts at 2 p.m. Contact Jason, 206-789- We need volunteers to [email protected]. $35 each. 5707 or [email protected]. set up and start the DVD Wednesday, Oct. 28. Finnish Film. player to show films Wednesday, Oct. 14. Book Club. Raja 1918 (The Border 1918). Following the Finnish every Friday, Again, you We’re reading Gösta Berlings Saga by Selma Lagerlöf Civil War, a young officer is sent to the Russian could form a group and (translated by SCC board member Paul Norlen!). border. $5 donation. 7:30 p.m. Will also be shown take turns. 5 p.m. Free. on Friday, Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. We always need help Wednesday, Oct. 14. with pancake break- Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 31 & Nov 1. Members & Friends Dinner. fasts. To help on any of Scandinavian Holiday Bazaar. Darcey Quinn led our project to transcribe the these projects, e-mail info@ Plan now to shop from our Nordic craftspeople and 1909 Swedish Building visitors’ log from the AYP. She swedishculturalcenter.org or vendors. 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. both days. Three floors of wrote an article about the log for the Nordic Heritage call 206-283-1090. Scandinavian food and items. Museum’s historical journal, and she’ll tell us some of the stories she’s unearthed. A fascinating glimpse of Coming Events Rentals available at history. Three-course meal for $18. RSVP by Tuesday, Wednesday, Dec. 9. Lutfisk at Members & Swedish Cultural Center. Oct 13. Late RSVPs and walk-ins $22. RSVP to nicole@ Friends Dinner. 1920 Dexter Ave N., Seattle. swedishculturalcenter.org or 206-283-1090. Social Friday, Dec. 11. Lucia Bal. Call 206-283-1078 or visit hour 5:30, dinner 6:30, program 7:30. Sunday, Dec. 13. Lucia celebration with UW www.swedishculturalcenter. Scandinavian Studies Department. org/Venues/venues.htm. If Wednesday, Oct. 21. Kafferep. Thursday, Dec. 31. New Year’s Eve Party at SCC. you’ve been a member for Join us at our old-fashioned coffee party to enjoy Saturday, April 24. SCC Auction, Sweden Goes at least a year, you get a something homemade from our Swedish bakers! 2 p.m. to Hollywood. discount.

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