Annual Lucia Festival – Friday December 2, 2011

ANNUAL LUCIA FESTIVAL AT UBC

When: Friday, December 2, 2011

Where: Buchanan D, MASS (Meekson Arts Student Space)

Time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm

Do you like music? Do you like cultural events? Do you like free things? Then look no further!

Welcome to the annual celebration of Lucia, hosted by UBC Scandinavian and Nordic Cultural Association (SNCA). But wait, what is Lucia?

Lucia is a traditional Nordic celebration of light and Saint Lucia, who the holiday is named after. While this holiday traditionally is held on the 13th of December we are celebrating it on the 2nd of December.

Essentially, Lucia is a musical performance. We will sing several Swedish Lucia-songs and serve coffee/tea, gingerbread and lussekatter (a type of sweet saffron bread).

Explore a tradition of another culture and enjoy this completely free performance! Bring your friends, your parents and your grandparents.

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Where – MASS, Buchanan D
When – 2nd December 2011, 5pm
Cost – None, it’s FREE!

If you have any questions please Email us: snca.ubc@gmail.com

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If you want to know more about the Lucia celebration see Wikipedia’s article here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy’s_Day
Or this article from SWEDEN.SE:

http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Traditions/Celebrating-the-Swedish-way/Lucia/

Movie Night

We are showing Aki Kaurismäki’s “The Man Without a Past” on Wednesday, Feb 11 at 5:30pm in Buch D222.

 

“The Man Without a Past” (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) from 2002:

The second part of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Finland” trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track. (from imdb)

Lucia 2008 Continued…

If you missed our Lucia at UBC on Nov. 28th or just want to see it again, please join us at Coquitlam IKEA at 1pm on Dec. 13, 2008.  We will be performing the same Lucia pageant as we did at UBC plus additional Swedish and English Christmas carols.

Pictures from Lucia at UBC will be posted on the Lucia 2008 page shortly (As soon as I have a break from exams)