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Capital Viking April 2016 Capital Viking Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking April 2016 Capital Viking www.norwaydc.org April Meeting: Family Movie Night Friday, April 15, 7 PM Norway House 3846 Meredith Dr. Fairfax, VA 22030 directions Please bring pot luck dishes by 6:45 Non-members, children, all are welcome Join us to watch a popular animated movie with many Norwegian motifs. Licensing restrictions prohib- it us from publicizing the specific movie title outside of our membership. Norwegian references in the film include the wooden houses along Bergen’s waterfront, Oslo’s Akershus Fortress, a clever Fjord Horse, bunads, stave churches, and many Norwegian folk art designs tucked here and there. Please come to enjoy this movie, which will appeal to adults and children alike. Pot luck at 7:00 fol- lowed by the movie. Send questions to [email protected]. Coming in May… Syttende Mai Events! Planning for June… Our Lodge will join the Norwegian Speaker Tim Boyce Embassy and several local Norwegian We anticipate having Tim Boyce -American organizations for two spe- return to the Lodge for our June cial events for Syttende Mai meeting. Tim is the editor of From (Norwegian Constitution Day). If Day to Day, the diary kept by Nor- you’ve never been to a Syttende Mai wegian WWII prisoner of war Odd Family Picnic at Carderock Park in Nansen while he was in a Nazi con- Maryland, put Sunday, May 15 on centration camp. The diary will be your calendar and get ready for a day republished this April by Vanderbilt Norwegian pride. There are bunads, Univ. Press. Meeting date TBA. Odd speeches from the Norwegian Em- Nansen was the son of famed Nor- bassy, live music, hot dogs, pop corn, ice cream, and a wegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nan- parade of flag-waving Norskies. The other event is a deli- sen. See http://timothyjboyce.com. cious and elegant Syttende Mai Gala Dinner on Friday, Tim is a great speaker, with a fasci- May 13. Early bird pricing (Gala only, the Picnic is free) nating story to tell. Updated from extended to 4/1. See flyers at the end of the newsletter his last Lodge visit in 2014. for both events. VOL. 52, NO. 4 PAGE 1 Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking April 2016 in MN Clydes of Tysons, 8332 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA $30 Members, $40 Non-members Lodge Calendar RSVP required to [email protected]. See www.lakselagetdc.org/calendar/ www.norwaydc.org/events Mid-Atlantic Norwegian Dancers All activities are at Norway House unless oth- Sat., April 2, 4:30 PM Hallingspringar Class, 6:30 pot- erwise stated. Directions on page 24 and luck, 8 PM dancing. www.norwaydc.org/directions. 6807 Westmorland Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912 Norwegian-style house party. Live music. Beginners, Genealogy Interest Group watchers, singles/couples welcome. Fiddler is Loretta Sunday, April 10, 2 PM Kelly. Contact Jenny at [email protected] or 301-371-4312. Page 11 http://MAND.fanitull.org Scandia DC—Dancing April Meeting - Movie Night Sat, April 16, 7 pm Friday, April 15, 7 PM Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Dr., Page 1 Greenbelt, MD (dance studio on lower level). Recreational Scand. dance group. Live music. $10. Reading Circle www.scandiadc.info/ or contact Linda Brooks & Ross Tuesday, April 26, 7:30 PM Schipper at [email protected] or 202-333-2826. RSVP to [email protected] for location. Page 3 Am. Scandinavian Assoc. Meeting Mon, April 18, 8 PM Passengers on the American Legion Ship (incl. Nor- Syttende Mai Gala Dinner way’s Crown Princess Märtha) See Page 6. Friday, May 13, 6:30 — 11 PM St. John’s Church Key Bridge Marriott, Wisconsin Ave. & Bradley Blvd., Chevy Chase, MD Rosslyn, VA www.scandinavian-dc.org/Meet-1.htm Page 1 and flyer on page 22 Norwegian Church Service Syttende Mai Family Picnic Sunday, April 20, 3 PM Sunday, May 15, 1 — 3 PM Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley Blvd., Carderock Park on the Potomac Bethesda, MD Easter Celebration. Norwegian language service. Sun- Montgomery Co, MD day School in Norwegian for children during church Page 1 and flyer on page 23 service. Coffee hour after service. All are welcome. Directions Contact Lasse Syversen, 301-641-7908, [email protected] Norw. Language & Conversation Nordic Dancers of Washington, DC Every Wednesday Meets most Wednesdays, 7:30 PM Beginner 6 pm, Interm. 7 pm, Adv. 8 pm. Highland View Elem. School, www.norwaydc.org/language page 20 9010 Providence Ave., Silver Spring, MD Learn Scan. Dances. No partner or experience need- ed. Chris Kalke 301-864-1596, NordicDanc- [email protected], or https://sites.google.com/site/ nordicdancersdc/ Other Area Events Lakselaget Feb. Luncheon Meeting Norwegian Embassy Calendar Check www.norway.org/News_and_events/Event Sat, April 2, 11:30 AM -Calendar/ for events added after the Capital Vi- Rachel Peterson, Program Director of Norway House king is distributed. VOL. 52, NO. 4 PAGE 2 Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking April 2016 April Reading Circle: Petterson'sI Refuse The lodge's Reading Circle will meet at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, April 26 to discuss Per Petterson's I Refuse. This book has been a huge best seller in Norway, and the rights to it have already been sold to sixteen countries. The story begins with the chance encounter of two men who had been boyhood friends. Their friendship had come to an abrupt end thirty-five years earlier. We gradually learn how their lives took very different directions after that. Meeting each other again has a very profound effect on both men. To RSVP and learn the location of this dis- cussion, contact Christine Foster Meloni at 703-922-7142 or [email protected]. All are welcome. Hedda Gabbler at Studio The Last King at Theater 5/11 — 6/19 FilmfestDC in April The Studio Theater will stage a modern adap- This film brings the Birkebeiner story to DC. It tation of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler by Irish play- created a buzz at the Cannes and Berlin film fes- wright Mark O’Rowe. “Hedda Gabler is a tival markets for its director and its stars, Jakob touchstone of modern drama — it’s endlessly Oftebro of Kon-Tiki and Kristofer Hivju of Game fascinating, particularly in this adaptation, of Thrones. www.filmfestdc.org/filmView.cfm? which blows all the dust off and makes the play passID=28. Several other Scandinavian films will strikingly modern.” says Studio’s Artistic Direc- be screened at this festival. Dates and locations tor David Muse. www.studiotheatre.org/plays/ are not available yet, but check the FilmfestDC play-detail/hedda-gabler web site regularly for announcements: www.filmfestdc.org. U Street Music Hall Hosts Two Norwegian Performers Jarle Bernhoft, also known as Bern/hoft, is a singer, instrumentalist, composer and lyricist from Nittedal, Norway who will perform at the U Street Music Hall on Wednesday, May 11. For tickets and a sample of his music visit www.songkick.com/concerts/26377849-bernhoft-at-u-street-music-hall. Bernhoft has three “number one” albums in Norway. Venue location: 1115 U St NW, Washington, DC. For more information call 202-588-1880 or visit www.ustreetmusichall.com. The performance by AURORA is reported to be sold out, but we thought you’d like to know that this 20-year old singer-songwriter from Os, Norway, will be performing at the U Street Music Hall on April 21. Many of the dates on her US tour are already sold out, including New York, San Francisco, Los An- geles, and Chicago. To learn more about this performer visit her web site at www.aurora-music.com/ VOL. 52, NO. 4 PAGE 3 Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking April 2016 Kjell Sandved: An Appreciation By Lodge Member Jeffrey P. Jorgenson Many nature and wildlife lovers in the early- to Art (1953–1955). This book about the natural mid-1900s learned about the mountains, plains, world was also to be full of photographs. In a and deserts, and their associated plants and ani- meeting with the Secretary of the Smithsonian mals, as a result of the Institution in Spring pioneering efforts of 1960, though, undaunted photogra- Sandved learned that phers and the sweep- the museum did not ing panoramas they have an archive of ani- captured. With an eye mal photographs. The for natural beauty at Secretary, however, the landscape scale, offered to let Sandved Ansel Adams, for ex- use an office in the ample, photographed National Museum of the towering mountain Natural History to peaks of Yosemite Na- take his own photo- tional Park and the graphs. First, howev- Sierra Nevada Moun- er, and unknown to tains in California. Eliot the Secretary, Porter did the same Sandved had to learn for the canyons and how to operate a deserts of the U.S. camera and take pho- southwest. Wildlife tographs. photographers of that era likewise began to One day in 1960 while publish, for example, examining the animal dramatic photographs collection at the Na- of migrating African tional Museum of Nat- elephants and wilde- Each letter is a diminutive pattern from a butter- ural History, Sandved beests. These large- fly’s wing, as photographed by Norwegian Kjell noticed in one of the scale images prompted Sandved. © Kjell Sandved. Visit attics a small Havana thousands of people www.butterflyalphabet.com/main/index.php cigar box that con- worldwide to become tained a collection of nature and wildlife conservationists. butterflies. One of the specimens had the letter “F” seemingly woven into the wing of the butter- Nature and wildlife photography entered a new fly. Intrigued, Sandved took a photograph of the phase in the mid-1960s, however, when Norwe- specimen and later posted this image above his gian publisher Kjell Sandved travelled to Wash- desk.
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