Scandinavian Community Centre

The Nordic Art & Pho­tog­ra­phy Show and Sale is call­ing for artists of Nordic her­itage or theme to sub­mit art work — entry dead­line is Feb­ru­ary 15, 2011.

Date: Feb 26 & 27, 2011
Time: 11am — 4pm daily
Open­ing Recep­tion: 11:30am Sat­ur­day Feb­ru­ary 26, 2011

For infor­ma­tion, con­tact:
Car­olyn Thauberger — cthauber@interchange.ubc.ca]Email[/email]
Infor­ma­tion and Recep­tion RSVP –info@scandinaviancentre.org] info@scandinaviancentre.org[/email]

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Fash­ion his­to­rian Karin Edberg-Lee brings us a spec­tac­u­lar evening of bridal design — show­cas­ing his­toric views of fash­ion & customs.

If you are inter­ested in fash­ion, a bride-to-be or sim­ply want to come and see how other cul­tures and time peri­ods cel­e­brate wed­dings through fash­ion, this promises to be a feast for the eyes!

Date: Sat­ur­day March 27, 2010
Time: 7pm …

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Join us to cel­e­brate the bicen­ten­nial of Ole Bull, the renowned Nor­we­gian vio­lin­ist and com­poser — His adven­tur­ous life was the inspi­ra­tion for Peer Gynt!

Edvard and Nina Grieg (played by Don Mowatt and Car­olyn Fin­lay) will intro­duce their friend Ole, set­ting the scene for an evening of great Norwegian music.

Event: Teatime at Trold­hau­gen
Date: Sun­day, March 21, 2010
Time: 7:00 …

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“Flam­men” and “Cit­ro­nen” were the code names of two of Denmark’s most renowned resis­tance fight­ers in World War II. Flam­men og Cit­ro­nen (2007) depicts their com­plex char­ac­ters and moral ambi­gu­ity of their exploits.

Mads Bunch (Depart­ment of Cen­tral, East­ern, and North­ern Euro­pean Stud­ies, UBC) iwill be appear­ing at the view­ing to present an intro­duc­tion as well as com­men­tary, pro­vid­ing context …

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