Step into our time machine!Our wonderful experiences from the 2010 Art Shanty Projects have been archived for your journey back through time. Check out our archived links to the right and have a safe trip!
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Meet the links of 2010. There's much to explore. 2010 Schedule and Directions 2010 Gallery 2010 Fun Stuff 2010 Supporters |
The journey to BemidjiJune, 2010.
The Nordic Immersion Art Shanty has made the long awaited journey to Bemidji, where Concordia Language Villages Nordic language sites are located! The shanty arrived on June 6th (along with Pia and Jens) and was joined later in the week by Geitost Julebukken, the goat (chaperoned by Hannah Hansen and Randi Buckley). It is so good to finally have it up here! Hannah, Gorm, and Magna took Geitost Julebukken into town to visit Paul Bunyan and Babe, then brought Geitost on his very first train ride before settling into village life. |
Välkommen! Velkommen! Tervetuloa!
Approximately 3,000 visitors left the Nordic Immersion Village Art Shanty with a new Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, or Finnish identity this year! It was fun to see so many people wearing the nametags we traditionally wear at Concordia Language Villages and to learn about the different kinds of connections that visitors had to the villages and to the countries we represented. This was our first year participating in the Art Shanty Projects and we had a terrific time. Over four weekends (Jan 16 - Feb 7, 2010), we played Kubb and Mölkky, danced to Scandinavian folkmusic and hip-hop, experimented with knitting, collected samples of diversity for our seed-bank, sang songs, did scavenger hunts and bicycle tours, played with reindeer, traveled by kick-sled, and waded through snow, water, and ice. Though you may have missed us on ice this year, there's always a chance to catch up to us in the summer (and other parts of the year)! Visit Concordia Language Villages to learn more about the programs we offer in fifteen different languages. Post/Posti
We received some great postcards while on the ice at Medicine Lake. Click the photo (left) to view some of the post that we received. |
The Nordic Immersion Village Art Shanty brings Scandinavia on Ice to life! We believe that being playful helps us to step out of self-consciousness and into new roles and new languages, so we go to great lengths to make that happen; we dress up like Vikings, herd imaginary reindeer, and choreograph our own dances to Eurovision songs. Visitors are invited to celebrate ‘the Art of Nordic Languages’ with us by picking a name from one of the Nordic countries, learning culturally authentic songs and crafts, and participating in hands-on language classes.
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The Art Shanty Projects is an event organized around the design and construction of ice fishing shanty-like structures, producing engaging projects, art, events and shows on frozen Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN.
If you're a Nordic nut like us, you'll need to have supplies. You may already have a krumkake iron or a pan for making æbleskiver, but what you really need now is some Nordic Immersion Village Art Shanty Swag. We've got hoodies, jackets, water bottles, and even a messenger bag. |