Visit from the Swedish Church in Melbourne

Per Anders Sandgren - Swedish vicar (kyrkoherde)in Melbourne Church of Sweden,(svenska kyrkan) will come to Wellington for the weekend of the 12-13th June. Same weekend as we are planning our Lucia Celebration - he is delighted he will be able to join in this special event.
Per would also like our members to know that if anyone wishes to have their child Christened/Baptised during that weekend he would be keen to help out. Please let Per-Anders or Tinni know if you have such plans and we will ask him to contact you. Call Tinni on 04-499 9895.
Per Anders will also be holding an evening service at the Lutheran Church in Newtown on the 12th of June (in Swedish). Followed by a dinner out near by. All members welcome (pay your own way). Watch out for time and more details at this page closer to the day. Or contact us at sweden@xtra.co.nz.

Glad Påsk - Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to all of you!
Want to know how to celebrate Easter the Swedish way? Follow this link:
Celebrating-the-Swedish-way/Easter/

Please note there will be no pub night at the first Monday of April as the committee will all be away celebration Easter with family and friends.

The committee will meet the following Monday, but no pub night on that Monday either.

An important item on our agenda for the April meeting is actually our pub nights. If you have any suggestions on how to run these please let us know: committee@sweden.org.nz.

SENZ Food and recipe blog

Missed out on the AGM and Charlotte's Semlor? Or maybe you were there and crave more or those lovely Semlor and/or the green feta dip? Don't despair, on popular demand, the Sweden-New Zealand association has set up a food blog to publish the recipes of those dishes that we can't stop raving about after our gatherings. Click on the Swedish chef and he will take you straight to the SENZ food and recipe blog page. If we are lucky we might even be able to publish the winning meatball recipe on the blog... Keep an eye out!

Welcome to the new committee

Thank you to all of you who came along and turned our general AGM into a nice social gathering. I hope you all enjoyed Charlotte's "Selmor".

At the AGM we managed to accept the new rules and elect a new committee. If you have any questions in regards to the rules please contact committee@sweden.org.nz and we will do our best to try to answer them.

Sadly we say goodbye to one of last years committee members, Pia Clarke, who unfortunately due to other commitments are not able to stay in the committee. We will still be able to meet her as she has offered to still help out on our events. Thank you, Pia, for all you effort during the year.

We welcome our new committee for 2010 (If you want to join the committee, we still have 2 more seats available, please contact:committee@sweden.org.nz):

President: Tinni Lindén

Vice President: Kathleen Forsey

Secretary : Joanna Piatek-Dyer

Treasurer :Marita Appelros

Other Committee members:

Eva Sundin

Charlotte Schorling

Carol Wideberg

Katarina Ejerblad

Helen Lahtinen

Renate Ebner

AGM 2010 (with Semlor!!!) - TODAY (22 March 2010)

Please don't forget to come along to todays AGM with Semlor.
And if you haven't done so yet, please read through our new, updated Rules, attached.

Nat Dunning, Honorary Solicitor for SENZ will co-chair the meeting when discussing the amendments made to our Rules.

Please do come along and hear what we have been up to during the year. This is your chance to meet the committee and bring any ideas you may have forward.

There will be drinks and nibbles before the meeting and after the meeting we will have the Swedish delicatessen Semlor!!

Everyone is welcome!

When: 22 March
Time: 7 p.m
Where: Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace Thorndon Wellington