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Syttende Mai — Constitution Day
Midtsommer Gala — 20th Anniversary
Crossings 2025 — 200 Years of Norwegian Immigration to North America
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Ut på tur: Golf Tournament 2024
We invite you all to join our 4th annual golf tournament, a fun, casual outing with Norway House friends. What better way to enjoy the outdoors than over a round of golf!
Upcycle Your Wooden Plates and Bowls With Decorative Carving
Master woodcarver Jock Holmen, "The Norwegian Termite," will teach you the fundamentals of decorative carving while you upgrade wooden bowls and plates that you already have. You can upcycle your wooden household items with decorative details and hide chips or cracks with flourishes.
You will learn how to hold a carving knife, how to make different types of cuts, how to adjust your cuts according to wood grain, and how to finish a piece.
Carving knives and safety gloves are provided. Don't worry if you don't have a bowl that you want to decorate or repaint, Jock can provide that too!
Minnesota Wild Norwegian Community Celebration
We're having a Norwegian Community Celebration on Thursday, April 18 when the Wild take on the Seattle Kraken. Ticket pack offer includes a Minnesota Wild Norwegian scarf. A portion of each ticket pack sold will benefit the Norway House.
2024 Peace Scholars Conference
Six colleges founded by Norwegian-American immigrants in the 19th century came together to sponsor an annual summer Peace Scholars program in Norway, designed to deepen students’ understanding of dialogue and conflict by learning about Norway’s approach to these topics both domestically and abroad.
Students are currently elected through an application and interview process as Peace Scholars—from Augsburg University, Concordia College (Moorhead), Luther College, Pacific Lutheran University, and St. Olaf College—to be awarded a seven-week academic experience including a dialogue-focused pre-week. The Peace Scholars program is an outgrowth of the Noble Peace Prize Forum. The forum was founded in 1988 by the five-college consortium of Augsburg, Augustana (Sioux Falls), Concordia (Moorhead), Luther, and St. Olaf.
The 2024 Peace Scholars conference will include presentations from the 2023 Peace Scholars and a keynote speech: The Rule of Law—The Path to Peace by the Honorable John R. Tunheim, U.S. District Judge for the District of Minnesota. The conference is free and largely open to the public—with a few private engagements—and we welcome you to join us, learn with us, and meet others with a passion and dedication for peace!
Loppet World Cup Viewing Party
The world’s best athletes in cross-country skiing will race in the first World Cup race to be held on U.S. soil in twenty years.
In place of Norway House’s previously scheduled event, we encourage you to check out the action at the Viewing Party our friends at Utepils Brewing are planning!
SOLD OUT: Evergreen Foraging with Maria Wesserle
Join Maria Wesserle, founder of Four Season Foraging, to learn which evergreens to harvest and which to avoid. Together, you will go over the identification of different evergreen species and how to use them. This class will focus on traditional uses as you make pine-infused vinegar, pine switchel, hot tea, juniper salt, and a bit of juniper butter to spread on tasty slices of rye bread. Suggested age 16 and up (those under 18 should be accompanied by an adult.)
Norway's National Parks, a presentation by Per Lykke
Get to know some of the most beautiful natural spaces Norway has to offer with a special presentation on Norway’s 47 national parks. Around 10 percent of Norway is national parkland. Forty of the parks are on the mainland of Norway, and another seven are found on Svalbard. The presentation will have a particular focus on Hardangervidda, Europe’s largest national park at 1,321 sq. mi.
Per Lykke, CEO of Hardangervidda National Park Center in Telemark county will present about some of the most majestic nature anywhere in the world. Per is a lawyer, politician, and an advisor to and champion for Norway House for many years. He has a particular passion for the bonds between the US and Norway, and also World War II history and the story of Rjukan.