NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN SCANDINAVIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA, Inc Editors: Gerry & Margaret Schueman DECEMBER 2017 . PAGE 1 LUCIA, BAZAAR & MORE Lucia Pageant, 5:30 p.m. (Sanctuary) Bazaar Sales Begin, 6:00 p.m. (Parish Hall) December 9, 2017 Coffee, Glögg, Pepparkakor, Pulla, Kringles 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm Dancing Around the Christmas Tree Visit by Santa (free small child gift bags) St. James’ Episcopal Church Nordic Dancers Performance 11815 Seven Locks Road Potomac, Maryland 20854 Grand Raffle Drawing For Admission Prices see PAGE 8. NorwegianTree Lighting Celebrate Finland's 100th Finnish at Union Station Centennial November 29 at 6:00 p.m. Independence Day Finland 100: Christmas Festival. FREE Concert A Finnish male choir will sing December 6th See PAGE 3. Christmas songs. Enjoy Finnish 1917 - 2017 glögi and gingerbread cookies. The children will meet with Santa Claus who will come all Dec. 24 Annual Nordic the way from Finnish Lapland. Christmas Service There will be holiday handi- See PAGE 8. crafts and fun activities for kids. Everyone is welcome to sing in the karaoke tent. The PAGE CONTENTS December Schedule of Events The Best of European Cinema event is free and open for all, 2 no RSVP needed. Ongoing & Future Events See PAGE 4. 3 Norwegian Tree Lighting Christmas with Choral Arts SWEDISH AMERICAN CULTURAL UNION Norwegian Society’s Juletrefest Traveling Finnish Sauna JANUARY 2018 LUNCHEON 3rd Sat. Holiday Dance Party December 2 - 6, 2017 MARK YOUR CALENDAR for: Monday, January 22, 2018 Drott Lodge Lucia & Christmas For one of the celebrations for Finland’s SPEAKER: Klaus Ottmann, Art Historian Sons of Norway Juletrefest 100 years of Independence, there is a TITLE: "Arctic Hysteria and Scandinavian Pain" The Nordic Dancers Meet traveling Finnish Sauna that left the West See FUTURE EVENTS PAGE 2. Coast in February and arrivies in D.C. on 4 European Union Film Showcase December 2. The Traveling Sauna’s journey 100th Anniv. Republic of Estonia will cover over 10,000 miles. Private Confessions Presented by 5 Icelandic Embassy Exhibit National Theater of Norway Swedish Embassy Exhibits Directed by Liv Ullmann Exhibit: Edvard Munch SCANDINAVIAN Exihibit: Dissent through Legos BAZAARS! Kennedy Center, December 6 - 9 at 8:00 PM Performed in Norwegian with projected English titles. 6 Finland 100 - Centennial Part 10 Fri., Dec. 1, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Step into a deeply personal and heartbreakingly authentic Three Iconic Finns Remain Relevant Sat., Dec. 2, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, world of secrets and explore what keeping those secrets 7 ASA Grants & Scholarships Norwegian Christmas Bazaar, Christ does to one’s relationships. Ingmar Bergman’s powerfully Lutheran Church, 3810 Meredith Dr., Fairfax VA. Learn Finnish Online Free penned 1996 film of the same name delved into the deepest Sophistic Volvo XC90 Seats Dec. 2, 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM, thoughts of his mother, which were revealed to him only 100 Year & Other Double Events after her death through the pages of her diary. Bergman’s Swedish Christmas Bazaar, Saint How to be Finnish in Swedish Lucia at 5:00 PM. House of Sweden, muse, celebrated Norwegian director Liv Ullmann, helmed 2900 K Street NW, Washington DC, the film; she now returns to direct a stage adaptation of the 8 Norwegian Festival & Bazaar flyer [email protected] work, which premiered in Oslo in January 2016 and now Swedish Christmas Bazaar flyer makes its U.S. premiere. The play’s powerful source material ASA Christmas Festival flyer Dec. 9, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM, has been expanded to include the diaries Ingmar himself Nordic Christmas Church flyer ASA Christmas Fest, Saint Lucia kept during the film’s production. The result is a poignant, 5:30 pm (Sanctuary), Bazaar 6:00 pm non-linear series of “confessions” which delve into the (Parish Hall), St. James’ Episcopal The January ASA Program will tell realms of infidelity, family relationships, loneliness, and the how Four Finns contributed to the Church, 11815 Seven Locks Road, Potomac weighty results of keeping secrets deep within. MD. www.scandinvian-dc.org consciousness of what it meant to For ticket info, see SCHEDULE OF EVENTS PAGE 2. be a Finn in the 19th century. ASANCA, Inc. DECEMBER 2017 NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 DECEMBER SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DECEMBER 2017 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat November 29, Norwegian Christmas Tree Lighting at Union Station. See PAGE 3. 1 2 December 1 - 7, 10, 13, 15, 16, AFI European Union Film Showcase. See PAGE 4. 3 6 5 6 7 8 9 December 1 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, Norwegian Bazaar, Sons of Norway. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 December 2 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Christ Lutheran Church, Fairfax VA. See PAGE 8. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 December 2 from 11 am - 4:30 pm, Swedish Christmas Bazaar, Saturday, HOUSE OF SWEDEN, 2900 K st, NW, Washington D.C. The Bazaar has previously been hosted by SWEA only. This year 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 it is now hosted jointly by SWEA, Embassy of Swedish, and House of Sweden. See PAGE 8. December 2 at 6:30/8pm, Mid-Atlantic Norwegian Dancers Party, at Loretta & Memberships ($25): Anne Eason, ASA Treasurer, Tony's, 6807 Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD with our fiddler Loretta Kelley.. For questions 301 8425 Magruder Mill Ct, Bethesda MD 20817-2746. -270-4925. http://mand.fanitull.org. Directions: http://MAND.fanitull.org/Home/directions Address Changes: Martha Wolf, ASA Membership Secretary., 9805 Whetstone Dr., Gaithersburg MD December 3 from 4.00 - 6:00 pm, Adventsgudstjänst med luciatåg, Swedish Church 20886-3122. (no e-mails please). Service, Swedish Church of Washington DC at Augustana Lutheran Church, New Hampshire Ave and Newsletter Inputs: Gerry Schueman, 6916 Lemon V Street NW. Svensk Sunday Mass is in Swedish, officiated by the Rev. Pether Strom Broman, from the Road, McLean, VA 22101-5425, or 703-734-0319, or NY Swedish Church. We celebrate a service with lucia in Augustana Lutheran Church. In connection e-mail to: [email protected]. with the worship service, we receive toys, diapers and hygiene items for donation for the needy in DC. Visit: www.scandinavian-dc.org COME AND ENJOY! Free parking indoors in Reeve´s Government Center on the north side of U Street, between 14th street and 15th Street. Or you can take the Metro Green Line to Cardoza. For more information, please contact Sören Karlsson at 202-640-8709 or send e-mail to: [email protected]. Visit: https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/washingtondc. ONGOING EVENTS Nordic Dancers PAGE 3. December 3 from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Norwegian Society Juletrefest. See PAGE 3. Bot. Icelandic Embassy Exhibit. PAGE 5. December 6, Celebration of 100 Years of Finnish Independence. Swedish Embassy Exhibits. PAGE 5. December 6-9 at 8:00 pm, Private Confessions, Kennedy Center, U.S. premiere! Ingmar Dissent through Legos. PAGE 5. Bergman’s muse, celebrated director Liv Ullmann, expands Bergman's 1996 film into a stage ad- Edvard Munch Exhibit. PAGE 5. aptation of poignant, non-linear series of “confessions” which delve into the realms of infidelity, family relationships, loneliness, and the weighty results of keeping secrets deep within. Recom- mended for age 16 and up. Tickets $19 to $49. www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/XSIOB Wednesday Dec. 6; Thursday Dec. 7; Friday Dec. 8; Saturday Dec. 9; all dates at 8 pm. See PAGE 1. 2018 FUTURE EVENTS Jan. 22 at 12 Noon, SACU Luncheon, December 6 and 13 at 7:30 pm, The Nordic Dancers of Washington DC, Highland View "Arctic Hysteria and Scandinavian Pain." Elementary School, Silver Spring, MD. Newcomers welcome, no experience needed. See PAGE 3. Art historian Klaus Ottmann is the Deputy December 9 at 5:30 pm, ASA Christmas Lucia and Bazaar. See PAGE 1 and 8. Director for Curatorial and Academic Affairs at The Phillips Collection in Washington, December 10 at 3:00 pm, Drott Lodge Lucia and Christmas Program, See PAGE 3. D.C. Dr. Ottmann curated the upcoming Phillips exhibition, "Nordic Impressions: Art December 10 from 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Sons of Norway Juletrefest. See PAGE 3. from Ǻland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and .December 12, at 7:30 pm, Sons of Norway Reading Circle, Location TBD, The Prose Edda is Sweden, 1821-2018." His presentation at one of the most renowned works of Scandinavian literature and our most extensive source for Norse mythol- SACU's lunch will focus on the exhibition, ogy. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, it tells ancient stories of the Norse creation epic which celebrates the dazzling achieve- and recounts the battles that follow as gods, giants, dwarves, and elves struggle for survival Prose Edda is avail- ments of notable 19th- and 20th- century able from Amazon in both Kindle and paperback formats. If you plan to attend, Please RSVP to Christine Nordic artists, such as Sweden's Anders Meloni at [email protected] Zorn, as well as leading artists from other Nordic countries, including Edvard Munch, December 16 from 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Scandia DC 3rd Saturday Holiday Dance Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Vilhelm Party, Greenbelt Community Center Dance Studio, www.scandiadc.org. For details, see PAGE 3. Hammershoj. Dr. Ottmann will also highlight the diversity of Nordic art by discussing December 17 at 5:00 pm, Christmas with Choral Arts, Kennedy Center. See PAGE 3. modern movements involving abstract and December 17 at 1:00 pm, Finnish Lutheran Church, Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran conceptual art, indigenous.