2025 Wahlstrom Workshop

Beaver Creek Preserve, Fall Creek, Wisconsin
@ 5:00 pm CST - @ 1:00 pm CST

The Wahlstrom Workshop is February 21–23, 2025, at the Beaver Creek Reserve in Fall Creek, Wisconsin. Gustavus College is hosting this year and we’ll be collaborating ot bring a couple of folk artists! As always, …

Musical Informance by Lyz Jaakola

Play Circle Theater at Memorial Union
@ 4:00 pm CST - 5:30 pm CST

Join Lyz Jaakola—Finnish American Ojibwe musician and 2025 folk-musician-in-residence—for a live informance at the Play Circle Theater at Memorial Union! Lyz Jaakola, Nitaa-Nagamokwe (The lady who knows how to sing), will share traditional and modern Ojibwe-Anishinaabe songs …

Midwinter Folk Fest at the American Swedish Institute

American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
@ 10:00 am CST - @ 4:00 pm CST

We’re excited to be partnering with the American Swedish Institute for their annual Midwinter Folk Fest. We’ll be helping host the Nordic folkways presentations with presentations by our musician-in-residence Lyz Jaakola, as well as Sara …

(Im)migration and the Search for Home

American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
@ 10:15 am CST

In 1913, Signe Aurell moved from Sweden to Minneapolis. She stayed for seven years before moving back to Sweden. While in the US, she published poetry, essays, and translations, all the while joining a thriving …

Midsommar på Åland: Continuity and Change

Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge, Stoughton, Wisconsin
@ 7:00 pm CDT - 8:00 pm CDT

Dr. Jason Schroeder will be presenting “Midsommar på Åland: Continuity and Change” at the Sons of Norway Mandt Lodge. The event is free and open to the public.