SCANDINAVIAN CULTURAL CENTRE

SPECIAL EVENTS 2024


TGIF Dinner and Speaker Series

Date: Friday, April 26th, 2024.

Topic: Sleep in Heavenly Peace

Speaker: Jim Thiessen from "Sleep in Heavenly Peace". At the April TGIF, you can help to raise funds so that no child in Winnipeg sleeps on the floor. Your cash contribution of $5.00 or more will help to achieve this goal. Sleep In Heavenly Peace needs $350.00 to provide a child with a bed. Be part of the solution to provide a child with a bed.

*For more information about the Winnipeg chapter visit: https://shpbeds.ca/chapter/mb-winnipeg/

Doors open: 5:30pm

Dinner: 6:00pm

Speaker: 7:00pm

Reservations are to be sent by email to sccreservations@shaw.ca

Reservations MUST be done by the appropriate deadline: NOON, Wednesday, April 24th, 2024.

Price $28.00 for Adults. You can pay at the door by cash, card or cheque


🐰Easter Brunch🐰 at the Scandinavian Centre

Hosted by the 🇩🇰 Danish Canadian Club - Manitoba 🇩🇰 on March 31st, 2024.

Brunch includes:

*Fresh Fruit Display with a Coconut-Orange Watermelon Salad | Cottage Cheese | Variety of Fresh Salads including field greens, Caesar Slaw with tomatoes, capers, roasted garlic & Parmesan cheese.

*Vine-Ripe Tomato Salad with balsamic dressing topped with feta cheese | Smoked Salmon & Shrimp Loaf | Variety of Smoked Fish Platter | Fresh Bakery Breads

*Eggs Florentine with fresh fennel, spinach and tomatoes | Slow Roasted Leg of Lamb, carved served with minted red wine demi | Hickory Smoked Bacon and Sausages | Caramelized Onion, Smoked Yam & Potato Gratin

*Assortment of Decadent Sweet Treats

Brunch runs from 10:30am-1:00pm. Reservations are to be sent by email to sccreservations@shaw.ca Reservations MUST be done by the appropriate deadline: NOON, Friday, March 29th, 2024.

Please provide your name, number in party (including children +ages) and estimated time of arrival.

Prices are $20.00 for adults, $10.00 for children ages 8-12 and free for kids ages 7 and under. You can pay at the door by cash, card or cheque #Winnipeg


TGIF Dinner & Speaker Series

Date: Friday, March 22, 2024

Topic: Perennial flowers in your garden

Speaker: Nadine Kampen, Master Gardener

Doors open: 5:30pm

Dinner: 6:00pm

Speaker: 7:00pm

Reservations are to be sent by email to sccreservations@shaw.ca and MUST be done by the appropriate deadline: NOON, Wednesday, March 20th, 2024.

Price $28.00 for Adults. You can pay at the door by cash, card or cheque.


TGIF Dinner & Speaker Series

Date: Friday, February 23, 2024

Topic: “Should Louis Riel be nominated the first honorary Premier of Manitoba?”

Speaker: Dr. Ruth Swan, a historian of Indigenous History with a specialty in Manitoba and the Red River Valley. Her partner is Edward A. Jerome who shared his family research with her and gave her permission to use research on his ancestors for her dissertation: "The Crucible: Pembina and the Origins of the Red River Valley Metis"

Doors open: 5:30pm

Dinner: 6:00pm

Speaker: 7:00pm

Reservations are to be sent by email to sccreservations@shaw.ca. Reservations MUST be done by the appropriate deadline: NOON, Wednesday February 21st, 2024.

Price $28.00 for Adults. You can pay at the door by cash, card or cheque.


TGIF Dinner & Speaker SERIES

Date: Friday, January 26th, 2024

Topic: A Viking Legend: The Descendants of Odin

Speaker: Author, Ainsley Bloomer, will speak on the book she has written that fills in missing information on the compilation of old Norse stories and fragments.

Doors open: 5:30pm

Dinner: 6:00pm

Speaker: 7:00pm

Reservations are to be sent by email to sccreservations@shaw.ca & MUST be done by: NOON, Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Prices are $24.00 for adults. You can pay at the door by cash, card or cheque.