Lögberg-Heimskringla - 14.07.2006, Side 7

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BURNABY, BC — The
Icelandic Canadian Club of BC
took part in the Scandinavian
Community Centre Midsum-
mer Festival June 16 – 18. The
club’s tent was very well attend-
ed by both children and adults,
reports Gerri McDonald.
“The theme of this year’s
event was Nordic Journeys,”
she says. “We chose to feature
Hrafna Flóki, a discoverer of
Iceland; Guðríður Þorbjar-
nardóttir, a remarkable woman;
Guðríður Símonardóttir, an un-
willing traveller; Vilhjálmur
Stefánsson, Arctic explorer;
and Bjarni Tryggvason, astro-
naut. Tied with this theme was
storytelling about Leifur Hep-
pni. Inga Henrikson read a short
story on Leif the Lucky to the
children as they earned clues for
a ‘passport’ activity.”
Ron Goodman
In this digital age, is there still room for the old-fash-ioned calendar with a pic-
ture at the top and the days of
the month below? The answer
would seem to be yes!
The Icelandic National
League of North America has
been printing and selling such
calendars since 1992, when
they were started by Nelson
Gerard as part of his role as
League historian. Drawing
from Nelson’s extensive collec-
tion of historic portraits of Ice-
landers, as well as photographs
from other groups, the calendar
quickly became a much-wanted
keepsake.
In 2003, when Gwen Mann
of the Leif Eiriksson Icelandic
Club in Calgary was appointed
League historian, she was ex-
cited about the completion of
the League history book and
furthering her interest in ge-
nealogy. She was somewhat
surprised that the historian was
responsible for the production
of the League calendar. In her
usual energetic fashion, she es-
tablished a committee of LEIC
club volunteers and with no
background or experience in
calendar production proceeded
to design and produce the 2006
version, which featured Snorri
participants.
At the 2005 INL of NA
convention in Vatnabyggð, SK,
a list of possible topics was cir-
culated for future calendars and
delegates were invited to priori-
tize their choices. Many topics
such as historic churches, paint-
ings by Canadians of Icelandic
decent and North American
historic sites were among the
favorites. The only unanimous
vote was that the calendar con-
tinue to be produced.
The LEIC calendar com-
mittee consists of Gwen Mann,
Chair; Ron Goodman, Comput-
er Support and the valued con-
tributions of Linda Bjarnason,
Carol Blyth, Bertha Eggertson,
Kelly Flemming, Margret Gep-
pert, Margaret Grisdale, Mavis
Marteinson, Christine Mueller,
Christine Stuart-Smith and Iris
Torfason in photo selection and
design.
This committee selected the
topic of historic sites in North
America for the 2007 calendar
and proceeded to collect suit-
able material.
It takes about 14 months to
develop, design and produce a
high-quality calendar using vol-
unteers. The number of pages
was limited to 28, and the size
was reduced to facilitate mail-
ing in a standard size envelope.
All of the historic photos were
monochrome, so it was decided
that the interior would be print-
ed in black and white, which re-
sulted in a considerable reduc-
tion in printing costs.
As with the 2006 calendar,
the picture selection was based
on topic, geographic location
and quality of print, although
high quality historic prints are
difficult to find. Again, a col-
lage on the back of the calendar
consists of additional photo-
graphs that were not used in the
main body of the calendar.
For each month, a written
description was solicited from
the contributor of the photo,
edited to a common format and
placed below the photo. In the
selection and editing process,
extensive use was made of a
computer-based projection
system, so that all committee
members were focused on re-
viewing the same image and
changes were done as needed
in real time.
The design and production
of the INL calendar helps bind
the various clubs together and
contributes to the preservation
of Icelandic heritage. The rev-
enue received from calendar
sales accounted for over 20%
of the budget of INL of NA in
2005 and the budget for 2006
forecasts nearly 45% of the
INL revenue will come from
calendars.
Future calendars will in-
clude such topics as historic
Icelandic Churches (2008) and
paintings by Canadian artists of
Icelandic descent (2009).
For more information, visit
www.inlofna.org/.
Lögberg-Heimskringla • Föstudagur 14. júlí 2006 • 7
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Inga Henrikson reads the story of Leifur Eiríksson to children attending the festival.
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