Bring your family! Let's celebrate Vappu together in Newton! Vocalist Ilona Jokinen and pianist Martta Desanges will lead a spring sing-along. There will be balloons and face painting for kids, and food and beverage for young and old. The event is free ($5 suggested donation for the buffet).
Join the traditional celebration of spring with a potluck supper and programs for kids and adults at the Finnish Center in Farmington Hills. $15; students and seniors $5; children free.
Celebrate spring and Vappu at The Finnish Center at Saima Park Dinner Dance.
Enjoy Finnish love songs and American favorites with Hannu Makipuro, "the singing barber," and special guest musicians at the Finnish Hall in Canterbury.
Celebrate spring and Suomi 100 at this Finnish Vappu with socializing and fun activities for the kids. Bring your own picnic basket.
Enjoy Finnish love songs and American favorites with Hannu Makipuro, "the singing barber," and special guest musicians at the Finnish Hall in Canterbury.
In Finland, it's Vappu; in Sweden it's Valborg; and in Germany, it's Walpurgisnacht. Regardless of what you call it, April 30 is a day of celebration in the Nordic countries and Europe, and we hope you will join us for our own mini-celebration on the grounds at Fogelbo for food, drink and good company. Please come out to […]
Finnish author Pajtim Statovci offers an in-depth discussion of his debut novel My Cat Yugoslavia (Pantheon, April 2017). My Cat Yugoslavia is a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat.
Finnish chef Sasu Laukkonen will participate in the conference at the Nordic Heritage Museum, with chefs from other Nordic countries. Details TBD.
Finnish American Singers of Michigan perform a program of favorites.