Finnish – Swedish Heritage
Walentinakören
Thursday, August 11, 2011 - 14:00 - 15:00
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 09:00 - 10:00
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 14:30 - 15:00
Th: Town & Country Room
Fr 9AM : Town & Country Room
Fr 2:30PM: Tori Stage
Finnish-Swedish choir Walentinakören, conducted by Lauri Palin
Lecture: “Finding Ida"
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 09:00 - 10:00
Pacific Salon 7
This discussion is based on the recently published book The Legacy of Ida Lillbroända: Finnish Emigrant to America 1893 by Finnish American author Arlene Sundquist Empie, which has received two national awards for Multicultural Nonfiction and...
Lecture: "Finland's Folk Costumes"
Friday, August 12, 2011 - 15:30 - 16:30
Meeting House/Esquire
Syrene Forsman with the Swedish-Finn Historical Society (SFHS) talks about and displays via Power Point the folk costumes of Finland from Karjala to Åland.
"These demonstrate shared construction of ornamentation techniques. For example,...
Lecture: "Finland's Past and Present"
Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 12:30 - 13:30
Meeting House/Towne
Finnish-Swedish lecturer Bo Kronqvist speaks about the Finland-picture we create, and those people have created through time. Which picture do we want to have and what do we get? How important is this picture?
Movie: Underbara Kvinnor vid Vatten (Amazing Women By the Sea)
Saturday, August 13, 2011 - 15:00 - 16:45
Royal Palm Salon 5
Swedish - Finnish movie
Claes Olsson directed this Finnish comedy adapted from Monika Fagerholm's novel which has been translated into nine languages. Set during the 1960s, the story takes place over three years at Paradise, a summer...
