Scandinavian Community Centre

Karen Blixen Lec­ture and Doc­u­men­tary
The Scan­di­na­vian writer is pre­sented by Mads Bunch, acclaimed lec­turer in Dan­ish and Scan­di­na­vian Stud­ies at UBC. The pro­gram will include the multi-award win­ning doc­u­men­tary Out of This World, the “story of the incred­i­ble life of Karen Blixen/ Isak Dine­sen − a story just as dra­matic as her own fan­tas­tic tales”. Fol­low the movie name …

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Nordic Spirit Her­itage Images Series: Nor­we­gian Early Immi­grants to BC (200 early pho­tos). Open­ing Recep­tion 11:30 Sat­ur­day March 26.

Date: March 26/27, 2011
Time: 11am — 4pm
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Con­tact: RSVP to Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre, 604 294‑2777 or info@scandinaviancentre.org”>info@scandinaviancentre.org; ques­tions about the pho­tos: Con­tact <a href=“mailto:sonjabusch@hotmail.com]sonjabusch@hotmail.com[/email] 604 522‑4567

Early Nor­we­gians made many valu­able con­tri­bu­tions to the fab­ric of British …

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Date: Sat­ur­day and Sun­day, Feb­ru­ary 26/27, 2011
Time: 11 am to 4 pm, Open­ing Recep­tion 11.30 Sat­ur­day
Loca­tion: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Con­tact: For infor­ma­tion con­tact Car­olyn Thauberger cthauber@interchange.ubc.ca]Email[/email]
Also, infor­ma­tion and recep­tion RSVP:
info@scandinaviancentre.org
This show is spon­sored by The Scan­di­na­vian Cul­tural Soci­ety with sup­port from BC Gam­ing Com­mis­sion and the Dan­ish Cana­dian Com­mu­nity Association.

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Illus­trated pre­sen­ta­tions fea­tur­ing Norse his­to­ri­ans from Reik Félag
Musi­cal inter­ludes with lyre and voice by Sheila Wright

Date: Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 26
Time: 7pm
Place: Scan­di­na­vian Com­mu­nity Cen­tre
Cost: Cof­fee and Admis­sion $10
Con­tact: Car­olyn Thauberger cthauber@interchange.ubc.ca]Email[/email] or 778–329‑6964.

Fea­tured talks

Doug Erik­son: Norse Artis­tic Styles

Doug Erik­son dis­cusses how, Norse art, orna­men­tal and abstract, is con­sid­ered out­stand­ing in achieve­ment and in …

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The Scan­di­na­vian Cul­tural Soci­ety presents a lec­ture by Daniel Lemieux. A 40-minute Pow­er­Point pre­sen­ta­tion about the ship spe­cially designed to sup­port norther RCMP police detachments.

Among other things, the lec­ture describes how police offi­cers con­ducted patrols with Inuit guides, the hard­ships of liv­ing in the North and the dan­gers and dif­fi­cul­ties of mak­ing exten­sive patrols by dog sled.

Date: Sun­day October …

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