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MA: Pannukakku Breakfast

The Finnish Center at Saima Park Fitchburg, MA, United States

Enjoy a Pannukakku Breakfast of Finnish oven pancake, Finnish coffee bread, bacon, sausage, fruit, juice, coffee/tea/cocoa, $10. Loaves of coffee bread are also for sale. Artist Karen Kemp and Lark Knits will have tables, plus a Raivaaja Foundation information table. Please bring proof of Covid vaccination, wear a mask when not seated and eating, and […]

WA: Finnish Fanfare Concert

National Nordic Museum Seattle, Washington

Finland's long-standing brass band tradition started with military bands, accompanying kings and czars or leading soldiers as they marched. It quickly evolved, however, into entertainment for the common people at folk dances and hunting parties, and later into the world of jazz. It even followed Finnish immigrants to America. The highly acclaimed Cascadia Brass returns to take us […]

ONLINE: Folktale Beings with Hilary-Joy Virtanen

Learn about "Tonttu, Haltia and other (mostly) helpful household creatures" in this talk by Hilary-Joy Virtanen, assistant professor of Finnish & Nordic Studies at Finlandia University. For a link to the session email info@fasm.us in advance

ONLINE: Nordic Spirit Symposium

From Northern Lights and Winter Nights: A Symposium of Nordic Stories and Culture The 23rd annual Nordic Spirit symposium will be a free, two-day virtual program of live presentations from Scandinavia and the United States on diverse topics including the history of trolls; stories of Finnish immigrant women; the Poetic Edda – stories of Norse […]

ONLINE: Nordic Spirit Symposium

From Northern Lights and Winter Nights: A Symposium of Nordic Stories and Culture The 23rd annual Nordic Spirit symposium will be a free, two-day virtual program of live presentations from Scandinavia and the United States on diverse topics including the history of trolls; stories of Finnish immigrant women; the Poetic Edda – stories of Norse […]

FFN Scholarship Deadline

February 1 is the deadline for 2022 scholarship applications. For information and application, click link below.

FFN Lindfors Law Scholarships

February 1 is the deadline to apply for a 2022 PJC Lindfors Legal Scholarship, for law students in the U.S. and Finland. For details and application, click the link below.

SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE

Click link below for FFN scholarship and law scholarship information; applications must be e-mailed and received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on February 1.

MN: Walking with Sámi 

The Nordic Center Duluth, MN

The Nordic Center in Duluth presents the Walking with Sámi exhibit featuring photographs by Erika Larsen and Sámi artifacts from the collection of the Sámi Cultural Center of North America.