Meetings, Events

Feb
13

Regular lodge meetings:

  • Saturday November 1st, lefse day! All levels of experience welcome. Materials supplied.  Valhalla room, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Drop in, stay as long as you like. Bring your own lunch. Coffee/tea/water will be available. The lefse will be sold at the Scan Centre’s Nov. 9th Christmas market.
  • Saturday December 6th, Christmas brunch 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
  • Saturday January 10th, 10 a.m. – noon
  • Saturday February 7th, LUTEFISK DINNER, 4:30 pm. Reserve by prepaying beginning January 10th.

COMING UP

A new kind of wilderness

A very topical Norwegian movie about a family who carved out a simple life and then are suddenly thrown back into more complex one.
Very thought-provoking movie about keeping true to ideals in modern life. Great depiction of family life. Sundance film festival award.
This is the film our lodge is sponsoring for the Calgary European Film Festival running from October 31-November 9. It will screen on Monday, November 3, 6 p.m. at the Globe Theater, 617 8th Ave SW Official trailer  https://www.imdb.com/video/vi223200793/ (CEFF) Recommendations of recent Norwegian films to consider for the future are most welcome. They should be award-winning and not available for streaming.

Christmas Markets!!

Danish Lutheran Church

Saturday November 8th, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM at the Danish Canadian Club, 3112 – 11th Street NE (Austrian Club building)     Come and join in the fun and enjoy a visit with old friends. Shop for Christmas at our Craft Booth, the Christmas Booth, buy Mobiles, Baked goods, and Imported Danish food items, or bid at our small silent Auction.  Choose from open-faced sandwiches or European hotdogs for lunch, or enjoy cake, pastry and other Danish desserts with a cup of coffee. Christmas Lottery, tickets $10 each, draw at 1:30 PM at the bazaar. 1st prize –  $2,000 cash, 2nd prize –  $1,000 cash   Other prizes– sets of 4 tickets for the Spring Dinner & Auction, $50 gift certificate to the Mermaid Inn.   To purchase tickets please call or email Cindy Christopher at 403-512-5253 or pouncer@shaw.ca

Scan Centre Christmas Market

Sunday Nov. 9, 10:30 AM – 3 PM   Where?   739 20th Ave NW Admission $1.00 CASH – Bringing a loonie speeds up access.   A wide variety of unique homemade baking, handmade & Scandinavian crafts, toys, woodworking, knitting, painting, dolls, cards, jewellery, pottery and much more!  Some vendors accept CASH or Cheque only – especially on baking  – some vendors have the square for CREDIT CARDS. Downstairs – (CASH ONLY) Coffee/tea/juice and sweets will be for sale. (Spoiler alert – Icelandic hotdogs too!)

Laft Hus Craft & Bake Sale

Nov. 22, 9 AM-4 PM, Nov. 23 noon-4 PM Where? Heritage Square, 4402 – 47 Ave, Red Deer, log house with sod roof.  Lefse, flatbread, krumkake, rosettes, lace cookies, fattigmann, and more. Gjetost cheese, cooking equipment, beautiful crafts and other Norwegian gift items. New: barcode scanner for faster checkout.

Ski for Light Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2026

Ski for Light Canada brings blind and visually impaired adults together with trained volunteer guides for cross-country skiing, connection, and community. It’s more than a ski trip – it’s a celebration of inclusion and possibility. The lodge will help by rounding up skiers at the airport on January 26th and providing lunch there.

PAST EVENTS

Folk Dance Workshop in Red Deer

Oct 3-5, 2025, Fanatullen hosted another excellent workshop with Mikkel and Ginny

St. Hans Picnic, June 23

North Glenmore Park, from 3 p.m. on. The weather was a little fitful but decent. Lots of upgrades in this park area – new washrooms, a kiosk selling drinks and ice cream, kids’ playground, clear plastic domes for keeping dry if it rains. We visited lots, ate as much as we wanted to, and played some games. (Editor’s note: now that I have the gist of it, Kubb is interesting and fun. Beginner’s luck was on my side…)

Sports Weekend, June 13-15 what a great time it was!

In addition to the Laft Hus Festival events, there was a talk Friday evening about ‘Crossings 200’, a celebration of the arrival of the first organized group of Norwegian settlers. And on Sunday a bus tour on the ‘Scandinavian Trail’ stopped at several places rich in the history of Scandinavian settlement.

Goats on the roof, lundehund dogs, fjord horse, Viking re-enactment, Scandinavian dancers, kubbe game, mobile axe-throwing truck, demonstrations in wood carving, rosemaling painting, hardanger embroidery & lefse making, Crossing 200 exhibit, Norwegian items for sale, food trucks and other vendors.

Syttende Mai 2025

Was celebrated with a parade, games, hot dogs, and ice cream treats on May 17th at the Scandinavian Centre. Threatening clouds but no rain on the parade! This year “Crossings 200” acknowledged the start of organized Norwegian migration to America.

Norwegian treasures

Norwegian sweater    Bunad available The sweater and Rondastakk (Gudbransdal) bunad are available from Cathy Coulson, whose mother traveled to Norway as a young woman and received these Norwegian treasures.  Too special to give to a thrift store! About medium size (12). Contact secretary @sofncalgary.ca for Cathy’s contact info.