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| Updated - Now January 25 |
We hope you can join us at Fairview Lodge on Thursday, January 25. A free-will donation soup and chili dinner will be provided, including mild and spicy chili, cheeseburger chowder, minestrone, baked potato soup, bread, and desserts.
Following the meal will be a presentation by Jennifer Kovarik, Collection Manager at the Vesterheim Museum:
A Dream of Milk and Honey: Sharing Immigration Stories Through Animation. Learn how Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum used objects and stories in its collection as the basis for an international partnership to create a stop-motion animated film made by students on both sides of the Atlantic. The film project, which included partners in the United States, Norway, and Italy, was part of a larger program to promote conversations about and encourage empathy for enduring opportunities and challenges of immigration world-wide. Over 200 students used 19th century Norwegian immigration stories, objects, and historic photographs from the collections of Vesterheim Museum and cultural organizations in Fredrikstad, Norway, to inspire the film’s storyline, characters, and scenery and to build empathy for contemporary immigrants and migrants in the U.S. and Europe. Learn about the risks and rewards of navigating this collaboration on two different continents in both physical and digital spaces and enjoy viewing the 25-minute film.
Dinner will be served from 5:30-6:15pm with the presentation immediately following.
