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EVENTS
Until 20 July
Gimli, MB: Hats: A Reflection of Time
– a travelling exhibit from Daly House
Museum in Brandon featuring 40 hats
from the personal collection of Kaye
Rowe. On from June 3rd. In 1945,
Kaye began writing a column “People
Watching” for the Brandon Daily Sun and
later became the fashion editor. Her forty
year career took her to premier showing
of fashions in Paris, New York and
elsewhere where she met international
press representatives and celebrities.
Kaye’s passion was hats. She assembled
a collection that spanned 100 years and
now a portion of this collection will be
on display at the New Iceland Heritage
Museum for all to enjoy.

Saturday and Sunday 27 and 28 July
Markerville, AB: A Taste of Markerville.
An experiential taste of local producers.
All day.
24 to 28 July
Gimli, MB: Gimli Film Festival. 2013
will showcase the best new films from
Canada’s most promising directors and
an exceptional selection of features,
documentaries and shorts from around
the world. Info: www.gimlifilm.com.
2, 3 and 4 August
Mountain, ND: 114th Annual Deuce
of August Icelandic Celebration. Our
Celebration will always be held on the
weekend preceding the first Monday
in August. This enables visitors to also
attend the Íslendingadagurinn in Gimli on
the first Monday in August. 2012 is the
135th anniversary of the settlement of the
Icelandic Communities in Northeastern
North Dakota. The Deuce of August is a
fun-filled weekend with events for young
and old with a variety of interests. We
celebrate our Icelandic heritage and share
our cultural roots with family, friends and
visitors.
2, 3, 4 and 5 August
Gimli, MB: 123rd Annual Íslend-
ingadagurinn. We hope you will have
the opportunity to visit Gimli during the
weekend, take in some of the events,
and have a wonderful time renewing old
friendships and visiting with family. For
more information and a list of evens visit:
icelandicfestival.com.
3, 4 and 5 August
Edmonton, AB: Heritage Days is held at
Hawryluk Park. Get ready to visit Hawryluk
Park on either of these days and enjoy the
many cultures in Edmonton. Make sure you
visit the Scandinavian Pavilion to enjoy the
various foods. The Icelanders will again be
selling vínarterta and rúllupylsa on brown
bread.
11 to 17 August
Winnipeg, MB: Folklorama Scandinavian
Pavilion, Scandinavian Cultural Centre,
764 Erin St. Join us to experience the
cultural dances, songs and humour of
Scandinavia.
Saturday 28 September
Edmonton, AB: Leif Eiriksson Dinner
Dutch Canadian Centre. More information
on the dinner will be announced later this
summer.
Sunday 29 September
Winnipeg, MB: Come join us for
a delicious Sunday Brunch at the
Scandinavian Centre, 764 Erin St. Hosted
by the Icelandic Canadian Frón. 11 am to
1:30 p.m.
ICELANDIC CLASSES
Wednesdays
Arborg, MB: Meet to speak Icelandic, 3
p.m. Molasopi at Eldhús restaurant at the
Arborg Hotel. No pressure.
Third Thursday
Arborg, MB: Arborg Hotel lounge, 8 p.m.,
Kaffitími for those who want to learn words
or phrases. No pressure.
Gimli, MB: Kaffitími (coffee time) in Gimli
takes place at 3 p.m. each Wednesday,
meeting at Amma’s Tea Room, Waterfront
Centre. No signup and no teacher. Drop ins
welcome; the only fee is the price of your cup
of coffee. There is only one rule: you need
to speak Icelandic in order to participate in
the chat around the table. If you just want to
listen at first that’s fine too.
MUSIC
Icelandic artists US tours
Björk
July 19 – Chicago, IL, Pitchfork Music
Festival
Ólafur Arnalds
July 12 – Los Angeles, CA, Masonic Lodge
at Hollywood Forever
July 13 – Pomona, CA, The Glass House
July 16 – New York, Glasslands Gallery
July 17 – Minneapolis, MN, Cedar Cultural
Center
July 18 – Chicago, IL, Millennium Park
Sigur Rós
September 14 – Rochester Hills, MI, St
Jerome’s Laneway Festival Detroit 2013
Icelandic artists Canadian tours
Björk
July 13 – Ottawa, ON, Ottawa Bluesfest
July 16 – Toronto, ON, Echo Beach at
Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Stereo Hypnosis
July 25 – Toronto, ON, Musideum
September 13 – Burk’s Falls, ON, Harvest
Festival
Other international tour dates: http://
www.icelandmusic.is/live/gigs-
abroad/?sort=country
SPORTS
Friday 2 August
Gimli, MB: The Icelandic Open, in
support of Lögberg-Heimskringla will
be at the Links at the Lake Golf Course.
Registration 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Tee off at
11 a.m., Shot Gun Start. Texas Scramble,
with 2 teams playing at the same time.
Registration $150. Post golf reception.
Register online at www.lh-inc.ca. or
204-284-5686, 1-866-564-2374.
Send information to appear in the Calendar of Events to: catherine@lh-inc.ca.
Please include date, place, time and other particulars.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
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Athletes specializing in
‘finesse’ sports will be lining
up to take part in the Fris-
nok competition, held in the
Gimli Park against the majestic
backdrop, and audible squeals,
of the carnival rides. Under the
stern and watchful eye of Gimli
native Cameron Arnason (the
game’s inventor), participants
will try their skill at launching
a Frisbee with such devastating
force and deadly accuracy that it
will knock an empty beer bottle
off a wooden post to the ground
before opposing team members,
huddled anxiously behind it,
have a chance to catch it as it falls.
While unlikely to be accepted as
an Olympic sport any time soon,
Fris-nok is gaining international
recognition, and it is worthy of
note that tournaments are now
held in Iceland and as far afield
as Australia.
The first Monday in August
being a holiday, the highlight
of every Íslendingadagurinn
is the parade held on that day.
This trooping of the cultural
colours is the kick-off to the
festival’s formal ceremonies and
is eagerly looked forward to by
anyone with a folding chair for
a seat, thermos mug to sip, and
shades through which to behold
the swelling scene.
With a brace of stiffly
strutting Mounties in ceremonial
red serge uniforms at its head,
this august procession counts as
its elder statesmen the venerable
caste of service club veterans
known as the Shriners, an elite
corps of the Masonic Lodge
that lists no less a figure than
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as
an alumnus.
Each year they sit, drive,
march and ride their way, in
strict formation, into the hearts
of all attending with stirring
marches and fervent drum beats,
dominating the parade not only
in numerical terms, but by virtue
of the affection in which they
are held by traditional parade-
watchers and wonderstruck
newcomers alike.
And who wouldn’t warm
to the sight of a cartload of
grown men in turbans, brightly
coloured balloon pants and
curly-toed shoes, intoning on
armour-piercing Oriental reed
instruments a rousing chorus of
When the Saints Go Marching
In, giving out for all the world
to be the legitimate heirs of the
land of the Pharoahs?
The Potentate and his vast
retinue of cup-bearers, all
sporting purple-felt fez caps,
pass by smiling broadly and
waving cordially in open-topped
convertibles, while wide-eyed
spectators attempt to read the
ceremonial titles, worthy of a
Byzantine court, affixed to the
sides of their cars. Their passage
lends an air of imperial grandeur
to the event that the many John
Deere tractors, vintage cars,
and family-reunion hay wagons
interlarding their Egyptian
cavalcade somehow fail to
provide.
But no matter. Their clowns
generously handing out boiled
sweets to every giggling toddler
at roadside give visible shape to
the charitable purpose of their
motto: “A man never stands so
tall as when he stoops to help a
child.”
Given that this storied
squadron boasts few members
with under sixty winters upon
their heads, it is with a heavy
heart that we see their numbers
dwindling with each passing
year. They stand as a monument
to a bygone era that only archival
photographs and the nostalgia-
soaked films of Guy Maddin
will keep alive for posterity.
But when the speeches are
done, and the Viking mock-
combats concluded; after the
sand-castle contest has been
adjudicated and the three-legged
races run and won; after the
clinking toasts of brennivín have
been downed and re-doubled;
after the Icelandic national
anthem sung by Kvennakór
Akureyrar has brought a
quivering tear to the eyes of all,
it is then, late Monday night,
as smoke rises from cottage
hearths and longer shadows fall
from on high, that the value of
this celebration will be known
and appreciated.
For a race whose ancestors
sought only to live in the
good memory of their fellow
warriors, Íslendingadagurinn
allows the Icelandic community
of Manitoba to give itself
the gift of memories fully in
keeping with its past, and fully
meaningful for its future.
Gunnar Ólafson is organizing
the first Reykjavík viking
festival to be held at the Pond in
central Reykjavík in mid-July
Photo : Roman GeRasymenko
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