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St. Urho’s Day Panel Discussion

St. Urho’s Day (March 16) is a holiday of merriment and fun for the Finnish American community, and one that is unique to our diaspora as it has no analogue in Finland.

Over the years, it’s become a popular festivity far beyond the Iron Range where it first began. Every town celebrates it a little differently and has their own specific traditions and lore surrounding its inception. But who really started it, and where? What’s the right way to celebrate? Why grasshoppers?

FACA has convened a panel to discuss the hotly contested origin and history of St. Urho’s Day in Minnesota. We’ll be joined by James (Jimmy) Johnson of Virginia, MN, who is the Honorary Consul of Finland for northern Minnesota, as well as special guests from Finland (MN!), Menagha and other areas where the holiday has had significant cultural influence.

Join us on Zoom and break out your green and purple clothes, look menacingly at a grasshopper, grab a drink and share your stories of how you celebrate this most Finnesotan of holidays!

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FACA Online Program and Membership Meeting

FACA Online Program

April 16th at 7pm – Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara of the University of Washington- Seattle shares on the topic: Väinämöinen goes Instagram – teaching Finnish language and culture in digital spaces

Zoom: 873 560 9519
Passcode: Salmiakki

KAHVIAIKA – Coffee time

FACA will be hosting a Kahvi Aika social hour on Zoom on regular basis for everyone to pop on and have a chat, a cup of coffee and some pulla in the comfort of their own home! Please join us and come say hei, as we’ve surely missed seeing you all.

Use our usual Zoom link and passcode to join.

Next date: April 25 at 2pm

Lukupiiri – FACA Book Club

Our next book club, Lukupiiri, is Saturday April 24 at 2pm CST. This month’s book is The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna, a humorous story about a journalist who changes his life after an encounter with a hare.

Use our usual Zoom link and passcode to join.
Meeting ID: 873 560 9519
Passcode: Salmiakki

Nähdään!

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Finnish Easter Decoration by Marianna Tiainen.

 

Helvi’s Korvapuusti

https://youtu.be/jBsme7Mn1N8

About FACA:

Located in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN), Finnish American Cultural Activities invites you to join us at our programs and activities.

FACA is a non-profit educational organization that offers programs with a rich ethnic flavor: literature, music, travel, food, the immigrant culture, contemporary Finland, and other topics. It is dedicated to preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of Americans of Finnish ancestry.

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FACA schedules meetings and programs on the third Friday of each month from September to May, except for December.

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If St. Paul public schools are cancelled due to bad weather, then a FACA event scheduled for that day will also be cancelled. FACA members may contact any Board member if they have a question about whether an event is cancelled.

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