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Past Events
January 2007
Jan
12
7:30 pm, Genealogy Presentation: Finding Your Swedish Roots
by Steve Wilson;
followed by Installation of Officers and Welcoming
of New Members, Viking Hall
Tjugondag Knut – The Twentieth Day of
Christmas,
the day when Swedes traditionally take down their
Christmas Trees
Jan 22 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting,
Potluck, Viking Hall
February
Feb 2
7:30 pm, Returning to Sweden, Short film of photos and music
capturing the essence of the people and places of
Sweden,
presented by Liz Sparks, Viking Hall
Feb 17-18 Nordic Spirit Symposium, Thousand
Oaks, CA, 818-788-4552
Feb 26 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting,
Potluck, Viking Hall
March
Mar 2
6:30 pm, Pea Soup and Pancakes,
Entertainment – Hardanger Fiddler, Viking Hall
Mar 17 Spring Rosemaling Workshop, Viking
Hall, 831-464-3310
Paint a beautiful wooden “Welcome Sign” in the
language of your choice.
Mar 26 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting,
Potluck, Viking Hall
Join us in planning for our 2007 Midsummer
Festival.
April
Apr 9 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting
Potluck, Viking Hall
Apr 13
7:30 pm, Celebration of the International Children's Book Month,
presented by our
Librarian Heather Norquist, Viking Hall
Apr 27-29 Golden Gate District Convention
Apr 30
7:30 pm, Valborgsmässoafton/ Vappu – Walpurgis Night, Sunset
Beach
May
May 4
7:30 pm, Quake and Fire of 1906 – A Scandinavian Perspective,
presented by Author
Muriel Beroza and her son Gregory, Professor of
Geophysics at Stanford University, Viking Hall
May 5-6 Norway Day, San Francisco
May 14
6:30pm, General Business & Planning Meeting,
Potluck, Viking Hall
June
June 10
Sweden Day,
Stockton
June 23
SAPL's Midsummer Festival, Sveadal
July
July 21
9am to 4pm at Viking Hall, Rosemaling Workshop, Marley
Wright-Smith, Instructor;
Wooden light switch covers available for painting, or bring your own
painting surface;
Cost $45 (Register by July 10 for $40, additional discount of $5 for
Valhalla or Cultural
Center members), small charge for ready to paint object and brushes if
needed; Call
831-464-3310 to register
August
Aug 13
6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
September
Sept 7
7:30 pm, Kalevala – Finnish Epic Poem, presented by Ellen Moilanen,
Viking Hall
Sept 10 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting
Potluck, Viking Hall
October
Oct 5
7:30 pm, Trolleaften – Troll Night, Viking Hall
Oct 8 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning
Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
Oct 9-14 Høstfest in Minot, North Dakota
Oct 20
9am to 4pm at Viking Hall, Rosemaling Workshop, Marley
Wright-Smith, Instructor;
Cost $45 (Register by Oct 10 for $40, additional discount of $5 for
Valhalla or
Cultural Center members), wooden painting surface will be available, or
bring your
own; small charge for ready to paint object and brushes if needed; Call
831-464-3310
to register.
November
Nov 12 6:30 pm, General Business & Planning Meeting,
Potluck, Viking Hall
Nov 16 6:30 pm, Jul Dinner – Lutefisk and
Meatballs, Viking Hall
December
Dec 1
4:00 pm, Lucia Festival of Light, Zaida Singers, Santa Cruz,
Scandinavian gifts available for purchase at the
Butik
Past 2006 Events
Jan 20 – 7:30pm,
"Ringing in the New - Celebrating the Past"
Installation of new officers – Recognition of 2005
new members - Celebrate anniversaries, Viking Hall
Jan 23 – 6:30pm, General Planning Meeting,
Potluck, Viking Hall
Jan 29 – 2pm-5
pm, Farewell Reception for Olsons, Viking Hall
Feb 3 –
7:30pm, "Danish Immigrants Settling in Salinas
Valley and more" presented
by Danish Lodges of Salinas Valley, Viking Hall
Feb
17-18 – Nordic Spirit Symposium, Thousand Oaks,
CA
Feb 27 – 6:30pm,
General Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
Mar 3 –
6:30pm, Pea Soup and Pancake, Entertainment, Viking Hall
Mar
18 – 9 am-4pm,
Rosemaling Workshop
Mar 27 – 6:30pm,
General Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
Apr 7 – 7:30pm,
Honorary Swedish Consul - Barbro Osher, Viking Hall
Apr 24 – 6:30,
General Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
May 5 – 7:30pm,
Finnish Night at Viking Hal, Anja Miller
May 6-7 – 10am to 5pm, Norway
Day in San Francisco
May 22 – 6:30pm,
General Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
Jun 4 – 11am to 6pm, Midsummer
Festival, Food,
entertainment: "Finnish Kantele Story" with Helen Suomela Tyrrell &
Anja Miller, strolling Scandinavian
musicians, and much more.
Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Kings Village Road, Scotts Valley, CA
95066
Jun 10 – Sweden Day in Stockton
July 15, 9am-4pm,
Rosemaling Workshop, Marley
Wright-Smith, Viking Hall
September 8,
7:30pm, “How the Swedes Settled
Turlock,”
Steve Wilson, Viking Hall
September 25,
6:30pm, General Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking Hall
October 6,
7:30pm, “Guldgubbar: Ancient Scandinavian Art,” Freya, Philip, and
Jane Baer, Viking Hall
October 10–14, Høstfest in Minot,
North Dakota
October 23,
6:30,
General
Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking
Hall
Nov 17 6:30 pm, Jul Dinner, Viking Hall
Nov 27 6:30 pm,
General
Planning Meeting, Potluck, Viking
Hall
Dec 2 4
pm, Lucia Festival of Light, Zaida Singers, First Congregation
Church, 900 High
Street, Santa Cruz
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 Friday,
January 7, 2005 - The San Francisco WORLD'S FAIR of 1915 will came alive Friday, January
7th at Viking Hall in Santa Cruz. Valhalla Scandinavian's monthly community
program featured Dr. James Kaplan, researcher and professor from Minnesota
State University at Moorhead. The emphasis was on the Swedish Pavilion
at the Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The Palace of
Fine Arts in San Francisco is the only remaining building of this huge
Worlds Fair that completely covered the Marina District Members and
friends brought memorabilia from the fair. Two women who attended the
1915 fair were in attendance. There was also be a short video of the
actual dolls made in Stockholm especially for the pavilion. They were
bought by the Hearsts and are now in Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum on
the UC Berkeley campus in Kroeber Hall Library at the University of
California in Berkeley. Dr. Jim Kaplan has done research on the history
of the Swedish Pavilion and told its story. He has studied at the Pavilion
at the Royal Library in Stockholm, the Stockholm Municipal Archives
and the National Archives of Sweden, as well as the remarkable collection
at the archives of the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. He has
found information about the life of the director of the Pavilion, Lieutenant
Richard Bernstrom,---a dramatic and hitherto unknown story of family
turmoil, glorious triumph and a tragic death. This Pavilion was
the first time that the Swedish government worked together with Swedish
Americans on a Worlds Fair Pavilion, and so it marks a sort of reconciliation
between the "black sheep emigrants" and their home country.
The planning, building and running of the Pavilion is a remarkable story
of courage, hard work, cooperation and fellowship. This successful Pavilion
played a dual role of affirming the value of the Swedish Americans to
the American mainstream and showed the homeland that they were worthy
people despite their emigration.
- Wednesday, February 2, 2005
- Installation
of Officers -
Robert H. Peterson, founder of Valhalla Scandinavians in Santa Cruz,
returned
to Viking Hall to install the leadership team of officers
and
committee chairmen, for 2005.
Before a group of some forty members and friends the following people
were
recognized and installed. Left to right: Chuck Olson, retiring chairman;
Bill
Gustavson, auditor; Valerie Pierson, assistant cultural leader; Beverley
Giladett, communication chair; Carol Nisson, assistant corresponding
secretary;
Sandra Lua, recording secretary; Barbara Olson, assistant cultural leader;
Robert
Peterson, Glenn Johnson, chaplain; Madeleine Finn, historian; Ardie
Froid,
treasurer; Vern Sundberg, trustee; Jane Uyematsu, hospitality coordinator;
Marlene Menge, publicity; Maxine Miller, mailing coordinator; Tom Finn,
trustee
and
Dennis Uyematsu, meeting engineer. Not pictured is Suzanne LaFrance,
culinary assistant and Wayne Shada, auditor
- Friday, February 4, 2005 - Valhalla Scandinavians Learn
About Louden Nelson
Franklin Marshall, director of the Children's Museum
in Santa Cruz, spoke at
Valhalla Scandinavians February program. His topic was "Nelson
Louden", the
son of slaves and owned by a Mr. Nelson in the south. It is a
not-so-well-known fact that there were Swedish plantation owners in
the
Southern United
States. It is thought that Nelson Louden's master
was Swedish.
Mr. Marshall presented his research about Nelson Louden, the freed
slave who
appreciated education, though he had none, so willed his estate to the
Santa
Cruz City Schools which was in financial straights at the time. Today
the
former school turned Community Center is known as Nelson Loudon Center.
Presenting, dressed in tophat and tails, the dress of the 1850s, Mr.
Marshall, a black man has been the sole researcher about Mr. Louden.
It is
known
that when the master of the plantation died, his son, who had a secret
friendship
with Nelson, bargained to receive Nelson Louden in the estate settlement.
Then he promised freedom to this young slave boy if he would go to California
with him and work the gold mines along the way and in California. The
two men
worked side-by-side and then their lives were separated as the freed
Nelson
went to Santa Cruz. Louden Nelson made his 'fortune' in those mines.
Cultural Program Leader, Barbara Olson, introduced Mr. Marshall, who
introduced the book he has written about Nelson Louden and is illustrated
by his
wife.
The proceeds have been used to increase educational needs in Santa Cruz.
Mr. Marshall, originally from Tennessee, was invited to the South this
year to
be included in activities for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He is also
collecting cards made by children in Santa Cruz and will be a part of
a
delegation
taking assistance to the people of the Tsunami disaster including the
cards from
children to children.
March 2005
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Friday, March 4 - Pea Soup and Pancakes - This
is the traditional Thursday night meal in Sweden during the winter,
especially during the time of Lent. We serve a special yellow pea soup
and dessert Swedish pancakes with whipped cream and lingonberries. Pea soup is to be served
until it's gone so come on time and enjoy our
annual dinner Leftovers will be sold (if there is such) We'll share
the ABC TV video story: "The Hjemkomst" the homemade Viking
ship that went to sea. $5 members; $7 non-members; $2 kids under
10.
6:30pm, Viking Hall.
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Monday, March 7 - Folk
Dancing Class -
Instructors: Ellen Moilenan and Michael Block
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Monday, March 7 -
World Affairs Council Celebration - Commemorating the birthdays of the UN and Dag Hammarskjöld
World Affairs Council. Reservations: 415-293-4600
5:30
reception; 6:30 presentation, San Francisco
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Monday, March 14 - General Meeting
- At this meeting plans for future events and decisions about
the Cultural Center are made . Come, be a decision maker
6:00pm at Chuck & Barbara Olson's home, 225 #62 Mount Hermon
Road, Scotts Valley. (831-438-4307)
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Monday, March 21 -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructors: Ellen Moilenan and Michael Block
7:30pm, Viking Hall
April 2005
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Friday, April 1 - "The King's Orphan"
- the exhibition has left San Francisco now,
but is the story of the ostensibly illegitimate son of a Swedish
king. The "Orphan King" was well-educated in Sweden and eventually
became an artist.
He traveled Europe, South America, Central America,
Mexico and into California, then New York. He kept a precise diary of
his life including drawings of the places he visited. You'll
see places in our area in the collection.
Even the story about how these pictures are now owned by the California
Pioneers is interesting in itself.
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Saturday.
April 2, - Scandinavian Festival
10 am-4 pm,
St. Ignasius Parish Hall, Sacramento
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Monday. April 4, - General Meeting -
At this meeting plans for future events and decisions about
the Cultural Center are made . Come, be a decision maker
11:30am, Viking Hall
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Monday. April 4, -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructor: Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Monday. April 18, -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructor: Ellen Moilanen
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April 29 - May 1
- Vasa-90th District Covention -
Radisson Hotel, Stockton
May 2005
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Monday, May 2, -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructor: Ellen Moilenan
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Friday, May 6 - Celebrating
Norway's Independence - Norway's Constitution Day
(May 17, 1814) marks the end of the approximately 300 year Danish
rule of Norway, and Norway came under Swedish rule as a result of
the Napoleonic Wars. Swedish rule was more relaxed; Norway had its
own constitution and its own flag, and the Norwegians were rather
independent and didn't pay much attention to the Swedish rule. Today
May 17, is a holiday with flags, parades and celebrations all over
the country.
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Saturday & Sunday, May 7 & 8 -
Norway Day Celebration -
San Francisco
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Monday, May 9 - General Meeting
- At this meeting plans for future events and decisions about
the Cultural Center are made . Come, be a decision maker
11:30am, Viking Hall
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Monday, May
16, -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructor: Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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May 17 - Norway's Constitution Day
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May 18 - 20 - 40th Annual Kingsburg Swedish Festival
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Monday, May
30, -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructor: Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
June 2005
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Saturday, June 4 -
Midsummer Celebration
- Exhibits, demonstrations, music, dancing, ethnic foods,
and making of flower garlands. Decorate the maj stång (midsummer pole) the maj stång will be raised between 2 and 3 pm (can you get a picture of the may pole) with music and dancing around the maj stång. Admission
is $5 general, $4 members, and $1 children under 12
11:30am - 6pm, Scotts Valley Community Center, 360 Kings Village
Road, Scotts Valley
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Sunday, June 5th - Celebrate
Sweden's Flag Day at Stockton's Oak Grove Park with members of the Vasa Order of America, Golden Gate District #12.
Stockton
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Monday,
June 6, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Monday,
June 20, -
Folk Dancing Class -
Instructor: Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Saturday, June 25 - Midsommar
Sveadal
Uvas County Rd, Morgan Hill
July 2005
August 2005
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Monday,
August 1, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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August 4 - 7 Trollebo Swedish Family Camp -
sponsored by
Vasa District #12 & Golden Gate Resort Center
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Monday,
August 15, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Monday,
August 29, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
September 2005
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Monday,
September 5, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Friday, September 9 - To Be Announced - Viking
Hall
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Monday, September 12 - General Meeting
-At this meeting plans for future events and decisions about
the Cultural Center are made . Come, be a decision maker
11:30am, Viking Hall
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Monday,
September 19, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
October 2005
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Monday, October 3 - General Meeting
-At this meeting plans for future events and decisions about
the Cultural Center are made . Come, be a decision maker
11:30am, Viking Hall
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Monday,
October 3, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructos:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Friday, October 7 - Anniversary Celebration
- In conjunction with the Orange Horse Races. Viking Hall, time
TBA.
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October 11 -15 Norst Høstfest - largest
Scandinavian
Festival in the United States.
Minot, ND
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Saturday, October 15
- Rosemaling Class - for info or registration call 831-464-3310.
More details coming soon
9am-4pm, Viking Hall
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Monday,
October 17, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Monday,
October 31, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
November 2005
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Monday, November 14 -
General Meeting and Potluck - At this meeting plans for future events
and decisions about the Cultural Center are made . Come, be
a decision maker
6:30pm, Olson Home - 255 Mt. Hermon Rd. #62, Scotts Valley -
call 831-438-4307 for info
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Friday, November 18 - Annual Jul Dinner with
Røyst (formerly known
as Trolldom)
- a women's quartet from Norway. Also, the announcement of
Lucia 2005
also - Scandinavian BUTIK open for your Jul shopping
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Saturday, November 19 - Scandinavian Botik Open
9am - 3pm, Viking Hall
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Monday,
November 21, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall - (call 831-336-9972 for info and to
confirm)
December 2005
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Friday, December 2 - Sons of Norway Lutfisk Dinner - Nordahl Grieg Hall
Los Gatos
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Saturday, December 3 -
Lucia and the Festival
of Light - pageant – entertainment – butik –
refreshments – dance around the tree – Zaida Singers – “Dram” from
Sweden with nykleharpa
• Call to have your child participate ---
Evelyn Latourette 831-438-0627
• Bring three dozen homemade cookies to
serve at refreshments, please
4pm - First Congregational Church,
900 High St in Santa Cruz -
Map and Directions
$5 general admission, $1 kids
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Monday,
December 5, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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Monday,
December 19, -
Folk Dancing Class - Instructor:
Ellen Moilanen
7:30pm, Viking Hall
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