Norway House’s 20th Anniversary Party + Fundraising Gala
Wednesday | June 5, 2024 | 5:00 PM
✨ Happy 20th B-Day,
Norway House fam! ✨
YOU’RE INVITED! ✉️
Norway House turns an iconic 20 years old in 2024! 🎈 🥳 🎂 🎁 🎉
As one of our besties, you’re invited to the birthday bash of the year to raise important funds to ensure our nonprofit’s success from now on.
Oh, and don’t forget to bring your baes! We want to ring in our third decade with balloons, champagne, fancy dresses, and, of course, some cake! 👠🎩🤵👗💅🏼
Black Tie Admired, Not Required!
Get it. Magic. Solstice. Fundraiser.
Magical Midtsommer experiences include iconic birthday party games, sumptuous summer drinks, plenty of confetti, and great friends—new and old.
This is obvi a great time to reconnect, develop your local international cultural network, and discover new ways to get involved with Norway House and the greater Norwegian community.
You might be gagged to know that NH is pretty much a member-based thing.
20 years only looks this good because of donations from Norway House stans like you. Don’t sell yourself short—you make it all happen.
Expect major updates from your Norway House team and show off that party drip! Plus, take advantage of some incredible steals from the auctions and be a major part of funding your fave cultural and business nonprofit.
Our job is Norway.
You can influence your Nordic community by becoming a member, making friends, taking names.
Norway House has established that we can deliver. The Queen of Norway opened our expansion in 2022, the Prime Minister and Amy Klobuchar had a groundbreaking fireside chat in 2023, and the King of Norway is an official Royal Patron. Our intercultural community is commemorating 200 years of migration from Norway to the United States for our 21st birthday.
TICKETS
$200 GENERAL REGISTRATION
$175 CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS
Contributing Members are those membership levels priced at $125 and aboveIncludes a three-course dinner, a hosted glass of wine and cash bar, complimentary valet, auctions, birthday games, a program and entertainment, and a party favor from Norway House.
Reception and party games begin at 5:00pm
MENU
All dinners include a glass of wine, a seasonal salad, dessert, and coffee.
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Delicious portobello stuffed with spinach, gouda, and roasted red peppers with a balsamic glaze. Served with asparagus and wild rice. (Vegan, GF)
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Fresh walleye roasted in lemon and pepper served with Chef Francisco’s famous creamy dill sauce, asparagus, and rice pilaf.
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Grilled beef tenderloin with fresh herbs in a mushroom wine sauce served with asparagus and steamed yukon potatoes
PREMIER TABLES — $3500
Premier Tables are our way of offering a special table experience for donors. For $3,500, Premier Table Donors and their guests enjoy first-choice seating (on a first-to-purchase, first-served basis), two bottles of wine, a $2,400 tax-deduction, and an invitation for the purchaser and a guest/partner to the President's Reception at 2:00pm on June 2, 2024 at the Carlyle with Board President Loren Anderson and his wife, MaryAnn. We will reach out to confirm details upon purchase. Premier Table donors will be recognized in the program and from the stage the evening of the Midtsommer Gala, and the tax deduction is considered part of your total giving for the evening. If you have questions, please contact Christina Carleton, CEO at ccarleton@norwayhouse.org.
A SWANKY SOLSTICE
B-DAY FEST
“Midtsommer” is the Norwegian word for the summer solstice when parts of Norway experience the Midnight Sun. A well-known poem by Aslaug Lygre insists, “We shall not sleep away the summer night—she’s too bright for that. Instead, we shall stroll together beneath the trees, heavy with leaves.” The magical Midsummer Sun grants wishes for prosperity and love in the coming year.
The Midtsommer Gala fundraiser truly makes wishes come true!
Our annual fundraiser is celebrated among friends, both old and new. We raise key funds to keep Norway House thriving into the coming year, and we enjoy partying under the Midtsommer Sun Norwegian style! This year’s birthday party for Midtsommer promises to be extra fun and fancy, like no gala you’ve been to before. Help us blow out the candles!
Where were you at when you were 20?
What were you like at 20?
What was your biggest challenge? What was your biggest success?
What would you tell your 20-year-old self?
What does 20 years look like for Norway House?
Send us a picture of yourself at 20!
We’d love to include your answers in our presentation and social media posts for the Midtsommer Gala!
If you’re willing to contribute, answer some or all of these questions by email to our Director of Communications, Ethan Bjelland Hagberg: ebjelland@norwayhouse.org
When I was 20, I spent the summer working at Skogfjorden, a Norwegian youth language camp. My biggest challenge was definitely trying to figure out what to do with my theatre and Scandinavian studies degrees. With just one more year of school, I was applying and auditioning everywhere! I would tell my 20-year-old self to keep hustling and bustling because it will pay off in the end, though young Ethan could maybe have said no to a few things now and then…
I’m so proud of how far Norway House has come in 20 years! I especially love seeing how many new people and families get involved with Gingerbread Wonderland from year to year.
—Ethan Bjelland Hagberg
