Membership: The Final Frontier
We have a lot to offer our members—in
fact, we offer more than you might realize. In addition to our four
regular membership options, there are now
five levels of premium
membership, each with its own benefits.
You Like This Place? Maybe You Can Help Run It
The Swedish Cultural Center needs to hire an interim operations manager.
If you have strong organizational and leadership skills, maybe this is the job for you.
Sunday, Sept. 12. Pancakes Come to Those Who Wait. Once a year, we serve
our famous pancake breakfast on the second Sunday of the month, not the first.
That month is September, when like everyone else,
we'll be out savoring summer's last rays of sunshine on Labor Day weekend.
We'll postpone the breakfast for a week, then go at it with a vengeance on the 12th.
Music and dancing make it the best
food and entertainment in town. Live music and authentic Swedish pancakes,
ham, lingonberries. $8 guests, $6 SCC members, children 5–12 $4. 8 a.m.
until 1:30 p.m.
P.S. It took us a while to catch on, but apparently blogging about our pancakes
is something of a local obsession. Believe us, these are great pancakes—but
if you don't believe us, perhaps you'll believe
Joey Veltkamp, the Seattle Weekly (not
once but
twice),
FlavBlog,
Culinary Fool, or eight out of nine reviewers at
Yelp.
These Boots Were Made for Climbing the Charts
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have made
a surprising discovery:
Per capita, Sweden is the
most
influential country
in the past 50 years in pop music. Forget what you've heard about both
American cultural hegemony and the
British Invasion: Among 22 countries, Sweden came out on
top when the researchers divided each country's share of
popular music sales worldwide
by its GDP. The study suggests that small countries
are holding their own in the global music market, at least economically speaking.
Meet Our 2010 Scholarship Winners
University students Margaret Berry and Emilia Sternberg will both
further their education with help from the Swedish Cultural Center.
Your donations and bids at our annual auction make it possible.
Are You Needin' News from Sweden?
Hit The Swedish
Wire any time you want to catch up on events between the border
and the Baltic. And for a weekly report on Swedish business, economy,
politics and other news, you can
subscribe to The Swedish Wire’s newsletter.
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Every Friday. Talking about Vikings.
While our Viking film series is on summer hiatus, we've been enjoying lively and
informative discussions, led by Kelly Hughes, our resident Viking expert,
every Friday at 5:30 p.m. If you haven't attended, we invite you to
learn more about Kelly and
peruse a few of his
discussion guides, just to see what you've been missing. We hope to welcome you to a Viking discussion
soon!
Friday, Sept. 10. Crazy for Crayfish!
Our annual Crayfish Celebration is coming up on Sept. 10, 2010, at the Center.
Co-hosted by the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce. Enjoy a generous buffet
with crayfish, as well as snaps songs, dancing, a raffle, and more. SACC and
SCC members $45, non-members $55. To make your reservation, call Lena Powers
at 425-829-2308 by Sept. 5.
Sommelier David LeClaire will pour for our wine tasting event.
Friday, Sept. 17. Happy Hour: Wine Tasting! Whether it rains
or not, David LeClaire will pour. David,
certified sommelier extraordinaire, returns to the SCC for another round of viticulture
among the Vikings. He'll bring a selection of European reds, whites, and roses
guaranteed to make an oenophile smile. Evening hours. $20 members/$25 guests.
Thursday, Sept. 23. Scandinavian Salon. Monthly dinner & conversation
with homestyle Swedish food by chefs Ann-Margret and Malin and musical presentation
by the new director of the Swedish Women’s Chorus, jazz singer Kelley Johnson.
$30 includes the meal and a glass of wine.
Limited seating, so RSVP early: 206-283-1090 or
Social hour 6 p.m.; dinner 7 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 23. SCC Auction: Sweden Goes to Hollywood!
Save the date of Oct. 23 for the SCC’s fund-raising auction, Sweden
Goes to Hollywood. Everyone's invited, and we hope you’ll
dress up in movie star style!
If you'd like to volunteer, donate an item, or help in any other way,
contact the SCC office at 206-283-1090 or
Nov. 6–7. Scandinavian Holiday Bazaar.
Three floors of Scandinavian crafts, gifts, baked goods, music, entertainment, and fun! Smörgås on Saturday,
Swedish pancakes on Sunday. If you would like to have a table at the bazaar, please download an application form.
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Founded in Seattle in 1892 as
the Swedish Club, the Swedish
Cultural Center has grown to become a center of Scandinavian activities
in the Pacific Northwest. Our members are not only Swedes and other
Scandinavians, but people of many cultural backgrounds.
Would you like to receive e-mail about upcoming events at the Swedish
Cultural Center?
and we’ll add you to our e-mail list.
Learn all about our annual auction, coming up on Oct. 23.
Join our community on
Facebook!
Smörgås sandwiches from Svedala Bakery, now on board
at the Friday Kafé.
What’s Cooking at the Club?
Svedala Bakery prepares our smörgås sandwiches, with fresh
bakery-style bread, homemade lox and other tempting toppings. Meanwhile,
chef Ann-Margret Lightle serves up amazing Swedish entrees and desserts
for Happy Hour. Come by the Center for lunch (starting at 12 noon)
or dinner!
Speak Like a Swede
Our Swedish language classes meet
weekly. Several levels of instruction; expert teachers. Call 206-937-0441
for information and to register. $95 ($70 members).
It's Happening Here
Tired of marking your calendar for Swedish Cultural Center events?
Now you don't have to! Just visit our new
Calendar page for another convenient
way to keep up on what's happening. You can still visit our
Events page for details on any
upcoming event. If you know of something we should add,
please
Culinary Kudos
It seems that every time the Swedish Cultural Center is mentioned
in local media, it has something to do with food and drink. Not
that we're complaining. Seattle Metropolitan lauded us for
offering the city's
best Swedish happy hour. The Seattle Weekly found some
nice things to say about our smörgås
sandwiches and gave a blow-by-blow account of our
pea soup challenge, while the P-I reported on our
Swedish meatball cook-off.
Got Viking Books?
To put it mildly, Vikings are underrepresented on the shelves of
the Swedish Cultural Center’s library. Heck, Bluetooth probably
shows up more often in our ears than in our books. (And if you didn't
know that Harald Bluetooth was a Viking king who erected the famous
Jelling rune stones in Denmark, maybe that's because we don't have
enough books about him. But now we're arguing in circles.)
Well, not a moment too soon, we're starting a donation drive. Our
goal is to have 100 Viking books in our library by Leif Erikson
Day, Oct. 9, 2010. Please bring your books to the Center and drop
them off in the office.
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