December 2012 Events Update

Happy Holidays to you all! As the first snow of the season drops here today, here is the latest update on things going on between now and the new year.... 

ICS Members Lunch - Friday 14th December at Rosen Restaurant in the Renaissance Hotel, Malmo. Contact Valerie  for details

Swedish Speakers Lunch - Tuesday 4th December at Atmosfar Restaurant Restaurant at 12.30pm. Contact Corinna for details
  
German Speakers Lunch - Thursday 6th December at Novel Malmo Restaurant at 12.30pm. Contact Jill for details.

French Speakers Dinner - Thursday 13th December at La Grappa Lilla at 18.30pm. Contact Marie for details

English Language Theatre..
The International Theatre Malmo have two performances on 4th December in Malmo and 11th December in Lund. Click on the link for details.  

Photographic Competition... 
Thank you for all the photos that were sent in. Here are all the entries that we received. 

We would like to have more entries for you to choose from for our calenders, so we plan to extend the competition through 2013, our anniversary year and invite you to keep on sending photos in until 30 September 2013. We will put together entries from both years for you to vote for and produce the most popular into a very special calender. 

November 2012 Events

Food, Drink and Talk...

ICS Members lunch.. 16th November at Jonas P. Contact Marie. German Speakers lunch.. Monday 12th November at Radhuskallaren, Malmo. Contact Jill for details. French Speakers Dinner - 15th November at Bastard Mäster  18.30 meetup. Contact Marie for details ICS Members Christmas Party - Saturday 1st December...Would any of you  host this as a "pot luck" party? (i.e. guests bring food to share) Contact Valerie.(see seperate e-mail) Plus.. "Weeknight Dinner Out"  -Monday 10th December at Radhuskallaren at 19.30 . Contact Andrea for details."Weeknight Dinner Out" happens once a month and gives you the chance to meet up and enjoy dinner at a restaurant in Lund or Malmö on a weeknight, combining good food with good company.10th Anniversary Party in 2013....Thank you to all of you who confirmed that they will be able to come to our anniversary event. It is not too late to let Valerie know if you will be able to come.

"Weeknight Dinner Out"  -Monday 10th December at Radhuskallaren at 19.30 . Contact Andrea for details.

"Weeknight Dinner Out" happens once a month and gives you the chance to meet up and enjoy dinner at a restaurant in Lund or Malmö on a weeknight, combining good food with good company.

10th Anniversary Party in 2013.... Thank you to all of you who confirmed that they will be able to come to our anniversary event. It is not too late to let Valery know if you will be able to come.

English Language Theatre in Copenhagen...

Hot on the heals of last months theatrical events, this month sees the Harold Pinter play, "Old Times" presented by the "That Theatre Company". 




Malmo Events in November...

Julinvigning - Christmas lights and late night shopping - 24th November

Lots of Christmas Markets round and about.....more info to follow...........

Photographic Competition...  

In celebration of our 10th year in 2013, we are hoping to produce an ICS calender using photos taken by ICS members. We will need 13 photos in all to make the calender. Sale proceeds will go to a charity supported by ICS. There are two rules for the competion, firstly the photographer must be an ICS member and secondly photos must be in/of Skåne.  

Time is short. Please email your photos (JPEG format) to ICS by 30th November. All entries will be posted on the next blog and you will be able to vote for which ones to include in the calender.       

January Events Update & 2011 review

I cannot start this first blog for ICS without saying why it has been created. In one sentence: to let people in ICS know about things going on in the international club in Skåne.  Please comment and feedback if you have time and hopefully this little blog will grow.


Events for January confirmed by the event organiser are as follows.....


German Speakers Lunch - Monday 16th January starting at 12.20pm. Venue: Rådhuskällaren, Malmö
Contact Jill to confirm your attendance by email to : jill_hilford@yahoo.se or jill.hilford@gmail.com
ICS Members Lunch - Wednesday 18th January starting at 12.00pm. Venue to be confirmed to members by email.
Italian Speakers Dinner - Wednesday 18th January starting at 19.00pm. Venue:  Via Napoli 

RSVP by 17th to Sara Lindgren by email: saraplindgren@gmail.com

2011 Review- Looking Back at the things we did...

A year passes by very quickly and it would be a shame for this year to pass without a brief look back at the places we have been and the things we have done......

Looking for more interesting things to do with young children at an affordable price, the Fun House in Malmo became a regular meet up place for mother & toddlers on top of the regular meet ups in members homes.

You may be wondering...  the photo above is of a plate of sweets... any guesses how they are made?

This photo moves us onto all things food.....

Those with an eye for tasty food experienced some of the delights in Malmö. In no particular order, we were able to enjoy the flavour of fine dining at "dagens" (lunchtime) prices at the following places:  Sture , Malmö Opera Grill, Novel's, Atmosfar  and last but not least HIPP.  The serach goes on to find good food at affordable prices, and restaurants that can give us space. Please drop a comment below if you can recommend any for us to try in 2012.  A new event, "Weeknight Eat Out" started towards the end of the year, good for those members working regular 9 - 5 hours, an idea building on the "Mom's night out" broadened out to include all was inspired by Andrea.

                                             Photo of September's lunch at Novel's Restaurant . Birgit.
Sticking to the lunch theme, but this time for those with a love of language - Swedish, French and German speaker's lunches have combined good food and the chance to keep language skills up to date. The French group took their talents to Copenhagen in September, and also have the energy to meet up informally on a weekly basis at a cafe in Malmö. Thanks to Marie, Jill and Annette.

Book worms were busy last year, Swedish historical novels, travelogues, fact and fiction with titles like: The Emigrant by Vilhelm Moberg,  The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Third Country Kids. All consumed with good quantities of cake and savoury produced by book club members whose taste extends beyond the library. Thanks to Birgit for keeping us in line and setting up a page for the group on facebook to help us keep pace with the reading list!

Fundraising  for other organisations, by ICS members should also be mentioned in this time of reflection.. An incredible art auction of work produced by the Malmö Basement Artists in aid of  Bröstcancerföreningen Malmöhus.  It took place at Kulturcentralen and will hopefully be a regular event. Also....  Hunger Project Members organised a number of fundrasing events including  mini golf, for children and adults, in September and an International Women's Day Celebration at Pia's house.

 

(flyer for MBA fundraising auction)

Italian and Indian Food were on offer to those who joined the Cookery Group this year, Thanks to Sara and Leena for organising / co-ordinating the event. let's hope there are more next year, and maybe more "Meet and Eat" events too. Tanya hosted one of these and very successful it was too. If you are thinking of hosting one, but are worried you don't have enough china etc, ICS have a stock of cutlery and china that you can use.
The "new kid on the block" this year was the Photo group who started to meet at the end of the year, out in the wilds of Hollviken and then taking a trip to the Copenhagen Library to see a new exhibition there. People have turned up with compact cameras and also the latest digital SLRs, pooling what they know and joining in a 365 day challenge.