In cooperation with the Icelandic Canadian Club of BC, the Scandinavian Cultural Society is proud to celebrate Leif Erikson Day at the Scandinavian Community Centre in Burnaby, BC on Saturday, 13 October, 2018.
The Festival will take an Icelandic point of view, including:
- Free presentations about Viking history and modern Iceland
- Concert by the Frederiksberg Sogns Pigekor – young women’s choir on tour from Copenhagen
- Concert featuring Nordic Bleu Singers and Spelmanslag folk orchestra: traditional folksongs including several Icelandic favourites
- Dinner with Icelandic flavour ($25)
Program Details
12:00 Exhibits open
1:00 Opening Remarks: Scandinavian Cultural Society President Poul Erik Rasmussen and ICBC President and SCCS Vice President, Norm Eyford. Other dignitaries.
1:15 The Leif Erikson Sagas – readings (readers from Reik Felang Norse Recreation Society)
1:30 Erik Nelson, Nordic Museum Director: Our new Nordic Museum in Seattle
2:15 Honorary Icelandic Consul Glenn Sigurdson with his new book related to the history of Gimli, Manitoba – Vikings on a Prairie Ocean: The saga of a Lake, a People, a Family, and a Man (Google books say this is a wide-ranging autobiography that blends personal memoir, family history, and Icelandic lore.)
3:15 Reception with an Icelandic Flavour
4:00 Frederiksberg Sogns Pigekor from Copenhagen (young women’s choir, Scandinavian music and folk songs
5:15 Bar Open and concert reconvenes with Nordic Bleu singers and Spelmanslag folk orchestra: traditional folksongs including several Icelandic favourites
6:30 Dinner with Icelandic flavour ($25). Tickets at marialakes@yahoo.ca (preferred) or 604 569-9370
7:30 Dr. Donald Gislason, retired UBC musicologist and humourist: Viking heritage: Promises and Problems
Presented by the Scandinavian Cultural Society & the Icelandic Club of BC
Financial support from
City of Burnaby FestivalsBurnaby
Danish Canadian Community Centre
Info: cthauber12@gmail.com
Download the flyer
Leif Erikson Day 2018 poster V2
