Sons of Norway

Olympia Norway Day
2025-04-19 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Thurston County Fairgrounds, Lacey, WA, 3054 Carpenter Rd SE, Lacey, WA, 98503, United States
There’s SO MUCH more to Norway than Lutefisk and Lefse! Music, Vikings, Fjord Horses, Norwegian Elkhounds, Giftware, Nordic Cafe, Fantastic Bake Sale, Crafts, Artwork, Genealogy and more. This is an event you won’t want to miss!

Advanced Rosemaling Class
2025-04-25 09:00 - 2025-04-27 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge- 5-314, 317 South Page Street, Stoughton, WI, 53589, United States
Adult Advanced Rosemaling Class
Sons of Norway- Mandt Lodge is hosting an Adult Advanced Rosemaling class for individuals with some experience. The 3 Day Class – April 25 (Friday), April 26 (Saturday) and April 27 (Sunday), 2025. 9:00 AM – 4PM will be held at Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge – 317 Page Street, Stoughton, Wisconsin 53589. Total Class Fees: $155.00 Sons of Norway Members and Seniors (age 55 & over) and $180.00 Non- Sons of Norway Members. Registration form and payment due: April 1, 2025 ($50.00 of this class fee is non-refundable) if student cancels after April 2, 2025 or does not show on the first day without prior arrangements. Andrea Herkert (VGM) will be teaching this class. This class will focus on the Hallingdal style of Rosemaling. Additional information on the project for this class will be sent to students once determined by Andrea. A supply list will be sent out on or before April 2th for this class. If you have any questions, contact Nancy Odalen (608-513-1837-cell or naodalen@charter.net). To learn more about Andrea, visit https://www.rosemalingrenaissance.com/about-andrea-herkert-rosemaling/.

New Land, New Life: 1825-2025
2025-05-01 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Elim Lutheran Church, Robbinsdale, MN, 3978 W Broadway Ave, Robbinsdale, MN, 55422, United States
In this special presentation to commemorate the bicentennial of organized migration from Norway to America, Dr. Moe will first overview the remarkably rich history of our migration during these two centuries, giving special attention to the reasons so many Norwegians left their beautiful homeland for America, and then present and discuss a fascinating range of perspectives on our continuing efforts to preserve and appreciate Norwegian culture here in the United States.

Annual Swedish Pancake Breakfast
2025-05-10 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Fairbanks Lutheran Church – Fairbanks, AK, 1012 Cowles St, Fairbanks, AR, 99701, United States

NordicFest
2025-05-10 11:00 - 2025-05-16 22:00 (America/Chicago) | Snorre Lodge, 301 Davis Ave N, Thief River Falls, MN, United States

Syttende Mai in Spring Grove MN - first Norwegian Settlement in MN
2025-05-14 - 2025-05-18 | Giants of the Earth Heritage Center, 163 W Main, Spring Grove, MN, 55974, United States
Syttende Mai in Spring Grove is not only on Saturday with the noon parade and morning “Running with my Gnomes” followed by a ticketed “Taste of Norway” at Giants of the Earth Heritage Center, but coronation of the 2025 ROYALTY happens with music in the park on Wednesday. Friday about 1:15 hosts a BARNETOGET of kids from the school to Viking Memorial Park where they find a May Pole, snacks, games and music. Full Program will be available on the website – events happen all around town in the far SE MN “Prettu Neat Small Town”

“An Evening about the Art Influence of Ethel Kvalheim”
2025-05-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge- 5-314, 317 South Page Street, Stoughton, WI, 53589, United States
Sons of Norway- Mandt Lodge invites the public to “An Evening about the Art Influence of Ethel Kvalheim” on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 7:00 PM. The lodge is located at 317 South Page Street in Stoughton, WI. Ethal’s son, Gary Kvalheim, will give a presentation on the interest in art at an early age in the life of my mother and myself; the similarities through the years of creating our art; who encouraged and supported us; the influence of my mother’s art on my art; and the various types of art each of us did and why we arrived at the form of art we pursued. Refreshments will be served! Everyone is welcome and no reservations needed! Please contact Darlene Arneson at arnesonfamily5@gmail.com or 608-873-7209 for more information. Mandt Lodge is handicapped accessible with a lift located on the south side of the building. There is parking on the street, public parking lot behind the Stoughton Senior Center, or in the Livsreise parking lot if their building is closed. We always encourage you to bring donations for the Stoughton Food Pantry! The public is always welcome at Mandt Lodge!

SN Mandt Lodge Syttende Mai Events in Stoughton, WI
2025-05-16 14:00 - 2025-05-18 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge- 5-314, 317 South Page Street, Stoughton, WI, 53589, United States
SN Mandt Lodge Syttende Mai Events in Stoughton, WI

Visit us at Sons of Norway- Mandt Lodge during Syttende Mai Weekend – May 16-18, 2025!
Located at 317 South Page Street in Stoughton, WI. Offerings Bake Sales, Bingo, and Sit-Down Dinners!

Bake Sales on Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
Outside Bake Sale Stand at 317 South Page Street (south side of lodge). Open Friday 2pm-7pm; Saturday 10am-5pm, and Sunday 11am-2pm. Norwegian and American baked goods, packages of lefse and donuts, and rømmegrøt.

Sit-Down Inside Meals on Saturday and Sunday:
Syttende Mai luncheon-style meal serving on Saturday, 10am-4pm and Sunday, 11am-2:00pm. Ala carte luncheon buffet including Norwegian and American items. We’ll have varme pølse (wieners in lefse), potatoes, barbeque, meatballs, herring, baked goods, lefse, rømmegrøt, søt suppe (fruit soup), riskrem (rice pudding), cucumber salad, warm red cabbage, and beverages! Complete list of menu items available until we run out! Reservations are not needed for the inside meals. All items are priced individually. We are handicapped accessible with a lift located on the south side of the building. Carry-out containers will be available for the parade on Sunday, if you want to take food home, or eat downtown in the Entertainment Tent (just over the bridge in the back of the lodge)!

Bingo on Saturday Night:
SN Mandt Lodge Bingo at 317 South Page Street- Saturday at 6:00 PM. Join us for an evening of bingo and fun with cash and fabulous free door prizes. Doors open and food will be offered after 5 PM and during the bingo break. We are handicapped accessible with a lift located on the south side of the building. All ages welcome but youth must be accompanied by an adult family member over the age of 18.

Please contact Darlene Arneson at arnesonfamily5@gmail.com or 608-514-4951. “Like us” on Facebook at Sons of Norway StoughtonWI. Visit www.stoughtonwi.com for more details on Syttende Mai!

Syttende Mai Open House at Leif Erikson Lodge 2-001
2025-05-17 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Leif Erikson Hall – Ballard Washington, 2245 NW 57th Street, Seattle, WA, United States
Leif Erikson Lodge is hosting an Open House celebrating Syttende Mai, which features Scandinavian music, food, and an opportunity for organizations to showcase their mission, presence in the Seattle Community. Free and open to the public. Parade is also today-May 17-at 4:00pm.

Syttende Mai Celebration
2025-05-17 11:30 - 17:00 (America/Denver) | Sterne Park – Littleton, Colorado, 2000 W Shepperd Ave, Littleton, CO, United States
Join Fjelldalen Lodge 6-162, Highlands Ranch Colorado in celebrating Syttende Mai on May the 17th at Sterne Park in Littleton Colorado. Our Norwegian Parade starts at 12:00 with the Hot Dog buffet after the parade. Sign up with the flyer at fjelldalen.com/events

Solglyt Lodge Syttende Mai Celebration
2025-05-17 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Greenfield Community Hall, 3803 114 St. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Syttende Mai Minnesota Banquet
2025-05-17 17:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Norway House, 913 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, 55404, United States
Each year Syttende Mai Minnesota hosts a banquet and reception in honor of Norway’s Constitution Day. Join us for this year’s event on Saturday, May 17 from 5-8 p.m. at Norway House in Minneapolis!
Our program will feature St. Olaf College, a world-class higher education institution that was founded by early Norwegian immigrants in Minnesota. As St. Olaf celebrates its 150th Anniversary this year, President Susan Rundell Singer will share its origin story and its deep ties to Norway, as well as how it has evolved while continuing to honor its Norwegian heritage.

Syttende Mai/Open House
2025-05-18 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Arctic Viking Lodge 2-117, 151 Wilderness Dr, Fairbanks, AK, 99712, United States

The Uprooting - Crossings
2025-05-18 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Trinity Lutheran Church – Kalamazoo, MI, 504 S Westnedge Ave, Kalamazoo, MI, 49007, United States
The main part of our Syttende Mai program will be an informal read-through of the play, “The Uprooting” (original title: “About the First Emigration to America – 1825”) by Vigleik Rosseland and translated into English by Kristbørg Eide.

First performed in June 2014 at the Sons of Norway District 1 Convention in Duluth, Minn., we are introducing the play, whose main character is Cleng Peerson, to our lodge members and anyone interested in attending this in-person event. This read-through is in advance of a more formal performance planned to be staged later in the year by actual actors.

Gro Svendsen Lodge Monthly Meeting
2025-06-11 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | WA
This month’s meeting will host a fellowship meal before the meeting at 5:45PM. The Cultural Program will be about Sondre Norheim-Father of Modern Skiing to get our members into the mood for starting our Sports Medal Program. Our temperatures have been above average, so hopefully the thought of snow will cool us off. We will hear some ideas from our Sports Program duo, Randy Nelson and Braxton Dahl.

“Midsommar på Åland: Continuity and Change”
2025-06-11 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge- 5-314, 317 South Page Street, Stoughton, WI, 53589, United States
Sons of Norway- Mandt Lodge invites the public to a program on “Midsommar på Åland: Continuity and Change” on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at 7:00 PM. The lodge is located at 317 South Page Street, Stoughton, WI. Jason M. Schroeder, UW-Madison Scandinavian Studies-Folklore Track, will show film clips of two midsummer locations, one on the main island of the Åland Islands and the other on a remote island in the eastern archipelago of Åland. Between 2016 and 2022, he documented and participated in the groups who run the midsummer celebrations on Åland. Jason will show film clips and discuss the history of Nordic midsummer celebrations and ways that people, locations, and local traditions change these celebrations and mark them as unique to the people and places they occur. Jason M. Schroeder earned a PhD in Scandinavian Studies-Folklore Track at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Currently he is a Community Curator of Upper Midwestern Folklore at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Previously, he taught Swedish at Augustana College and directed the Scandinavian Cultural Center at Pacific Lutheran University. Refreshments will be served! Everyone is welcome and no reservations needed! Please contact Darlene Arneson at arnesonfamily5@gmail.com or 608-873-7209 for more information. Mandt Lodge is handicapped accessible with a lift located on the south side of the building. There is parking on the street, public parking lot behind the Stoughton Senior Center, or in the Livsreise parking lot if their building is closed. We always encourage you to bring donations for the Stoughton Food Pantry! The public is always welcome at Mandt Lodge!

The Ship Restauration 200th Anniversary
2025-08-11 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Resurrection Lutheran Church, 12400 W Cold Spring Rd, New Berlin, WI, 53151
An Invitation to Our Nordic / Scandinavian Friends to Celebrate: The Ship Restauration 200th Anniversary 1825 -2025.
Socialize with Dessert and Coffee at 6:30
​Presentation begins at 7:30pm
On Aug. 11, 2025, our cultural program will feature member Mark Bjorgo and his presentation about the 200th Anniversary of the first organized Norwegian emigration to North America.
On July 4, 1825, a group of 52 Norwegians set sail from Stavanger, Norway on the ship Restauration to make the first organized migration from Norway to North America. Who were these people? What caused them to seek a new life?

Lodge Meeting: Lawrence Moe: 200th Anniversary of Emigration, 1825
2025-08-14 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 2124 Viola Rd NE, Rochester, MN, 55906, United States
This is the Year to Celebrate! We proudly honor our heritage as descendants of the first 50 Norwegians who bravely journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to the USA, a voyage that took three arduous months. Unlike the luxurious cruises of today, they carried their own provisions, packed their few necessities into a family trunk, and endured the cramped conditions of a small ship. We are privileged to hear these incredible stories from Dr. Lawrence Moe, a distinguished professor from the University of Minnesota. With his lifetime of historical expertise, Dr. Moe will share tales that will instill in us a profound respect for the resilience and determination of our ancestors.
website for more information: https://kristiania1-47.org/

Nordic Music Festival
2025-09-06 10:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Lion’s Park, Victoria, MN, 82nd St, Victoria, MN, 55386, United States
Scandia Lodge #1-680 in Waconia, MN, is again planning a Nordic Music Festival at the Lion’s Park in Victoria, MN. The festival will include a wide variety of Nordic dancers, singers, instrumentalist, bands, and more in the main covered pavillion. There will also be two smaller tents which where smaller ensembles will be performing. A group of Nordic Artists and Crafters will be showing their creations and offering them for sale. There will be plenty of good dining avaiable, featuring Danish pastries, Norwegian lefse, and two food trucks providing additional choices. A Viking Village will be set up at the Lion’s Park. A Silent Auction will be held to raise funds for the continuation of this festival.
Best of all, admission to the festival and parking are free.

Scandinavian Day Festival
2025-09-07 10:00 - 17:30 (America/Chicago) | Vasa Park – Illinois, 35W217 Route 31, South Elgin, IL, United States
45th Annual Festival celebrating the cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Featuring entertainment by Libido Funk Circus, Songs from the Kingdom of Denmark by Anita Llerche & Bo Riemer, The Nordic Folk Dancers of Chicago, Leikarringen Heimhug Dancers, and story time by Elsa from Frozen. Morning church service, free pony rides and activities for children, Scandinavian food and beverages and Scandinavian vendors and displays.
Admission $15.00 per person, children 12 and under free, free parking.

Celebration of the Norwegian Immigrant Story
2025-09-21 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | WA
Idun Lodge 5-074 Sons of Norway and the Edvard Grieg Chorus are working together to present an afternoon of stories and songs to support Trinity Lutheran Church in the restoration of Trinity’s pipe organ and sanctuary. The program will include music presented by the Grieg Chorus and celebrations of the Norwegian Immigrants that settled in the Near East Side of Madison. Sons of Norway established Idun Lodge in 1907 and the Grieg chorus began in 1925. Refreshments and displays to follow in the lower level.
All are welcome. Freewill offering to support the organ fund.
Event contact: idunlodgemadison@gmail.com
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church1904 Winnebago St. , Madison, Wisconsin 53704

Fredagstaco - Taco Night
2025-09-25 17:45 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | El Torito Restaurant, 5 Monarch Bay Drive, San Leandro, CA
Join us as we embrace the cozy charm of “fredagstaco,”or Taco Friday (Thursday in the USA), a Scandinavian tradition where tacos are celebrated as the centerpiece of a warm and convivial bonding of people over food!

$35 per person
Includes taco bar with chicken taco, steak taco, Mexican Caesar salad, cheese enchiladas, rice & beans, corn and flour tortillas, lettuce, sour cream, Pico de Gallo, cheese, salsa picante, sweet corn cake, tortilla chips & salsa, chocolate chip cookie, flan for dessert, and soft drink, iced tea, coffee or lemonade.

RSVP kindly requested to:
Aunda Arndt @ aja469@hotmail.com or 925-548-0292

Tree Ornament: Make it, Take it and Norwegian Bingo Night
2025-09-25 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Isanti County Historical Society, 33525 Flanders St. NE, Cambridge, MN, 55008, United States
Looking to make a Norwegian tree ornament for the holidays? Join us as we help you make the perfect, personal ornament. Then join in for some fun as we play Norwegian Bingo. Choose to make a Norwegian tree ornament or play Norwegian Bingo.

200th Anniversary of the Sailing of the Restauration – The Story of the Norwegian Mayflower
2025-09-28 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | WA
4 PM Appetizers and the New Land, New Life display. Trace the saga of Norwegian immigration to Minnesota
5 PM Dinner: Walleye, Baked Potato, Green Beans, Cole Slaw, Dinner Roll. Kransekake.
The Sailing of the Restauration Program by George Olson and music by Project Constellation to follow dinner
Cost: $20. Tickets may be purchased at Luekens North or South in Bemidji through Sept 20.
For info contact: sbensen@paulbunyan.net or visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/bemidjisonsofnorway/

200th Anniversary of the Sailing of the Restauration The Story of the Norwegian Mayflower
2025-09-28 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | WA
200th Anniversary of the Sailing of the Restauration
The Story of the Norwegian Mayflower
September 28, 2025
Bemidji Eagles Club 1270 Neilson Ave SE, Bemidji, MN 56601
4 PM Museum Exhibit: New Land, New Life: Norwegian Immigration to Minnesota, 1825-1925
5 PM Walleye Dinner including baked potato, green beans, cole slaw, dinner roll & kransekake
Following the meal will be:
Program on the sailing of the Restauration. George Olson will tell the story of the Norwegian Mayflower
Music by Project Constellation
Cost is $20. Tickets are on sale August 28 through September 20 and can be purchased at Lueken’s Grocery North or South in Bemidji or by emailing sbensen@paulbunyan.net

Høst Frokost (Norwegian fall breakfast)
2025-10-04 07:30 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Mt. Horeb Community Center, 107 N. Grove Street, Mount Horeb, WI, United States
Norwegian breakfast foods including eggs, heart waffles, herring, smoked salmon, sliced cold meats, smørgrøt, norsk cookies, breads and cheeses. Always plenty of coffee, juice or milk.
Serving from 7:30 to 11:00 AM – Saturday, October 4, 2025
at the Mt. Horeb, WI community center, 107 N. Grove St., Mt. Horeb, WI

Leif Erikson and Norwegian-American Centennial Cantata
2025-10-12 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | WA
Thursday, October 9 at 7 pm
Calvary Lutheran Church, Federal Way (map)
Pre-register here
Friday, October 10 at 7 pm
Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Bellevue (map)
Pre-register here
Sunday, October 12 at 3 pm
Ballard First Lutheran Church, Seattle (map)
Pre-register here

In collaboration with Puget Sound Concert Opera we will be commemorating Crossings 200 with performances of Seattle’s own Norwegian-American immigrant Gerard Tonning’s Norwegian-language opera Leif Erikson alongside F. Melius Christiansen’s Norwegian-American Centennial Cantata, reflecting on 200 years of Norwegian immigration to America.
Gerard Tonning composed Leif Erikson over a century ago and it has not been heard in nearly as long. We are excited to resurrect this beautiful work chronicling the adventures of Norway’s most famous adventurer. Our Composer-in-Residence Steven Luksan has spent years reconstructing this opera from fragments and manuscripts which had been stored in the basement of the University of Washington library. This will be sung in Norwegian and English with English spoken dialogue.
Founder of the Saint Olaf Choir, F. Melius Christiansen’s Norwegian-American Centennial Cantata was composed one-hundred years ago for the centennial of this same immigration celebration. We welcome singers from the community to join us in singing in the chorus of this monumental work. Don’t worry… this one is all in English. All voice types and experiences welcome.
Want to sing with us? Sign up here!
Rehearsals are at Ballard First Lutheran Church:
Wednesday, September 24, 7-9 pm
Monday, September 29, 7-9 pm
Wednesday, October 1, 7-9 pm
Sunday, October 5, 4-6 pm (required)
Tuesday, October 7, 6:30-8 pm Dress Rehearsal (required)
Questions? Email info@nwegriegsociety.org or contact us here.
Featuring:
Micah Parker, baritone as Leif Erikson
Laura Loge, soprano as Gudrid
Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano as Thorbjorg & Tyrker
Terence Mejos, baritone as Halfred, Priest, and Cantata soloist
Karen Dunstan, soprano as Nun & Cantata soloist
John Burkhardt, piano, Music Director, Leif Erikson
The PSCO chorus and chamber ensemble,
Scott Fikse, NWEGS conductor-in-residence & Cantata chorusmaster
Steven Luksan, composer & arranger
Free and open to the public
Donations welcome
These concerts are supported, in part, by the City of Bellevue, 4Culture, and the Sons of Norway Foundation.

New Land, New Life
2025-10-13 08:00 - 2025-10-18 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Thief River Falls Public Library, 102 1st St E, Thief River Falls, MN, 56701, United States
New Land, New Life
October 13 -18, 2025
Thief River Falls Public Library, 102 1st St E, Thief River Falls, MN
Exhibit on Norwegian Immigration to Minnesota, 1825 to 1925. Farm settlements and homesteading, churches and congregations, urban life, folk arts, fine arts, and more.

For additional information on any of the above, contact: auchenpaugh@gmail.com

Historic Nordic Wooden Instruments
2025-10-13 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Northland College Auditorium, 1101 Highway One East, Thief River Falls, MN, 56701, United States
Historic Nordic Wooden Instruments
Monday, October 13, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Northland College Auditorium, 1101 Hwy 1 East, Thief River Falls, MN
Carol Thompson from Maddock, ND has made a number of historic wooden Nordic instruments, including a Psalmodican, Langeleik, Finnish Kantele, Lur, Kuhorn , Mountain Dulcimer, Swedish Nyckelharpa, and Bowed Psaltery, which is not Scandinavian but a more recent type of psaltery or zither that is played with a bow in contrast to being plucked. Thompson will give a presentation on these instruments, their history, the thought process behind the construction, and each instrument’s sounds and songs. Robert “Bud” Larsen, Hardanger fiddle maker from Brainerd, MN, will explain the history and concept of the Hardanger fiddle and the process of making or repairing one. Aubrey Connett, recent graduate of St. Olar who studied the Hardanger fiddle, will not only play several tunes but will explain the many differences in how this fiddle is played compared to a traditional violin. She will demonstrate on both the Hardanger and violin so the audience can see and hear these differences. FREEWILL DONATION.

For additional information on any of the above, contact: auchenpaugh@gmail.com

Synnøve-Nordkap Monthly Lodge Meeting
2025-10-14 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, St. Paul, MN, 1669 Arcade St., St. Paul, MN, MN, 55106, United States
Why is Oct 9 chosen for Leif Erikson Day? Because the ship Restauration, coming from Stavanger, Norway, arrived on October 9.
Join us at our October 14 Lodge Meeting. Our own lodge member, Leif Erickson, was chosen to be “the” Leif Erikson while a teenager for the first Leif Erikson Day. He will present his story, starting with his selection, his experiences in Washington D.C., and
a clip of him speaking at this occasion.
Our meeting will begin at 6 pm with a light supper of potato soup ($5) followed by Leif’s presentation. We meet at Gustavus Adolphus Lutheran Church, 1669 Arcade Street, St. Paul.
