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Call for Information for
Nordic Spirit 2012
The Scandinavian Cultural Society
requests your help in obtaining photos and other materials for Nordic Spirit
Festival 2012: The Lives They Left Behind to be held March 31 and April 1at
the Scandinavian Community Centre. Nordic Spirit Festival will illuminate life
and culture in Scandinavian countries from approximately 1850 to 1950.
Scandinavian immigrants to BC brought with them attitudes and artefacts, skills
and memories, and photos from their former lives. The old world may be unfamiliar
to us now, yet it is important to understand, for, like other settlers,
Scandinavians used their past experiences to shape and guide their contributions
to their new country.
Nordic Spirit Festival will
include a photo and artefact display, folk music concert, and talks and participatory
activities such as cooking, crafts, and games. Many offerings will focus on
children and young people as the audience. We need photos, tools and handiwork,
books and letters, and your stories-anything that might illustrate the work, home
life, school, church, or social activities of people in Nordic countries during
this time.
We all have stories to tell.
Please share your family photos and memories with us. Contact Judith Anderson (judithanderson@shaw.ca)
or Carolyn Thauberger, 778-329-6964 or cthauber@interchange.ubc.ca
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