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Activities Members and Guests are Welcome to all Activities. Event fees may vary - Members pay a reduced fee. Reservations required for the Pea Soup, Shrimp Feast, Crayfish Party and Guest Speaker Reception activities. Check the Activities Schedule for date, time and location of each event. Pea Soup Party. The Swedish Royal family eats pea soup on Thursdays. The Swedish Club of Sarasota has a Pea Soup Party every year on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon in late February or early March. The Swedish Club will provide traditional Pea Soup with trimmings and participants bring a dish or dessert to share, like Swedish pancakes and plättar with jam. Lingon berries goes over well! Click here for a link to a Pea Soup recipe! Shrimp Feast. And where do you get Scandinavian Shrimps in Florida? The Swedish Club of Sarasota is sponsoring a, yes Scandinavian Shrimp Party! It's not a picnic event, it's a relaxed Saturday evening event (typically in April) with limited number of guests, get your reservations in early for this winner, feast on shrimps and be with friends! Midsummer Fest. The Swedish Club of Sarasota celebrates Midsummer on a Saturday afternoon, into early evening on the “Midsummer Weekend” in June each year. This is a picnic event where Members and Guests bring typical Midsummer dishes to be shared with everyone. We decorate and raise the traditional May Poole finishing with dances and Swedish music. Crayfish Party. It's not every year we celebrate the fall season with a Crayfish dinner, but when we do, it's with crayfish cooked the Swedish way! Swedish Crisp Bread, Fresh White Bread and Scandinavian Cheese, Herring & Kalles Kaviar. Decorations, atmosphere and Swedish music round off the Event! Typically this is our first event of the fall. Reception: Hosted by the Swedish Club of Sarasota, as a Mid-November evening. Guest Speakers: Recent Guest Speakers have included Ulf Nilson and Lars Henrik Ottoson, both Contributing Editors of Nordstjernan, the oldest Swedish Newspaper in the United States. Ulf Nilson is also a regular columnist in the Swedish Daily Newspaper Expressen. Lars Henrik Ottoson is by many remembered as one of the first reporters of the Swedish National TV and, as the reporter at Yankee Stadium in NY when Ingemar "Ingo" Johansson knocked out Floyd Paterson for the Heavy Weight boxing title in June of 1959. In 2005 we enjoyed the presentation by Stig Dalström. The title of the talk was “Rare Jewels of the Andes”, a slide presentation of various “Rare Jewels”, both botanical and human, encountered during many years of traveling in the Andean cloud forests. A travelogue with anecdotes and artwork as well as orchid and jungle pictures, in a laid-back fashion. Special Entertainment Event - Reception November 14 2007 the Club had the opportunity to present Barbro Svensson or Lill-Babs as her adoring countrymen know her. Yes this was a ‘sold out’ event. More than 120 singing, clapping, and laughing Swedes packed the Community Foundation on a Wednesday night to be entertained by a whirlwind of talent. Lill-Babs managed to turn a plain-vanilla meeting room into a Las Vegas cabaret, mesmerizing the crowd with her heartfelt storytelling, ribald jokes and a mix of tear-jerking ballads and rousing popular hits from a career that spans five decades. Lill-Babs presented familiar tunes such as “Achy Breaky Heart” and “Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.” In all, a sincere, high-energy performance, not to mention the unexpected treat of Benneth Fagerlund’s beautiful harmonies and keyboard accompaniment. It was indeed a very special evening to all who had the opportunity to be part of this event – with much thanks especially to Mick and Hans Johnsson, Swedish Club Members and personal friends of Lill-Babs but also to the Swedish Ladies Group, to SWEA of TampaBay and to the Swedish Club of Sarasota. Photo of Lill-Babs by Ingrid Peterson – And last but not least, Thank You Lill-Babs! for making this stop with us here on the Sun Coast of Florida during your USA visit – We cannot but say “Most Welcome Back” anytime when on this Continent. Lucia Celebration. The Swedish Club of Sarasota presents its annual 'Sankta Lucia' pageant. This is a very traditional event. The club is celebrating Lucia the evening of the second Friday of December. The Friday date is chosen so that many of the participants can attend to other Holiday Celebrations elsewhere in the area. At the conclusion of the pageant, Lucia and her attendants will leave the sanctuary by candlelight --- and the Club will serve cookies and coffee with other goodies, including the traditional 'glögg'.

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