Opening the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society's 2023-2024 season Norwegian Pianist Oda Voltersvik returns with a program exploring the depths of Nordic angst with piano works by Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, and Brian T. Field. She will be joined by cellist Christine Lee for the second half of the program to perform Grieg and Laura Netzel. The Seattle concert will be performed in [...]
Annual Vikingfest held at our lodge meeting place includes Norwegian foods, craft items, lefse demonstrations, bakery goods, Scandinavian merchandise and gift items.
As a fervent hiker, Henrik Ibsen gave name to a concept already deeply rooted in the Norwegian psyche: friluftsliv (free-loofts-leave). Roughly translated as “life in the free air,” the idea is to immerse yourself in nature, resulting in benefits to mind, body and spirit.
