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The Vancouver Swiss Choir Annual Christmas Concert

The Vancouver Swiss Choir presents to you our annual Christmas Concert.

We are pleased to invite you to a treasure of traditional and old favored Christmas music with some original Swiss songs and jodles.

Date:
December 17th, 2015

Where:
All Saints Anglican Church, 7405 Royal Oak Ave, Burnaby

Time:
7:30pm Door opens at 7:00pm

Cost:
$10.00 Ticket at the door

On Flute:
Christina Lips & Sonia Essinger

Director:
Dubravko Pajalic

After the concert we would like to invite you for coffee, tea and treats in the church basement.

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Book reading with Bernadette Calonego “Under Dark Waters”

Book reading with Bernadette Calonego

“Under Dark Waters”

Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 7 p.m.

Alma VanDusen, Lower Level

Central Library, 350 West Georgia St.

Free! Popular! Come early!

Diamonds. Murder. Betrayal. International mystery writer Bernadette Calonego reads from her latest thriller Under Dark Waters. In this suspenseful and intriguing book, Swiss historian Sonya Werner travels to British Columbia’s North in search of answers to her husband’s suspicious death. Swiss-born Bernadette Calonego, a foreign correspondent for European Media in Canada, has gained a growing following in Canada and the U.S.

For more information: or info@vpl.ca

VPL – PLG – Program – Bernadette Calonego Under Dark Waters – Author reading

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Hike in Minnekhada Park and Metzgete

Sunday , October 25th, 2015

We meet at 2.00 pm at the entrance to Minnekhada Park ( en route to the Swiss Canadian Mountain Range Association in Coquitlam ) and stroll through the Park. The hike is classed as “ Nachmittags Spaziergang”, takes about two hours and is rated “ easy to medium “ .

After the hike we head up to the Swiss Canadian Mountain Range and join our Swiss shooters  for their traditional “Metzgete” dinner; always a fun evening.

Let us know your preference: 3 choices

“Blut and/or Leberwuerste”

Ragout for alternate meal

Please order this coming week!! I need to give numbers to the SCMRA so Wuerste can be ordered.

Cost for Dinner: $ 15 per person.
Please, reserve asap with Joe Mueller; Tel # 6047326213 ; e-Mail:josefmueller@shaw.ca

 

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Swiss band “Eluveitie” playing in Vancouver

The Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie will be playing a show on September 22, 2015, at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver! Eluveitie uses traditional folk instruments in their music, such as fiddles, tin whistles, flutes, bagpipes and hurdy-gurdies. The traditional folk tunes in their songs have been drawn from various sources, including traditional Irish reels. While many of their lyrics are in English, some are in the ancient extinct Gaulish language.

Event information can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/378397932369158/

Eluveitie

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Jass Tournament

The Swiss Canadian Mountain Range Association and the Swiss Outdoors Club invite everyone to a Jass-Tournament

Sunday, November 1st at the SCMRA Chalet in Coquitlam.

Sign-in is at 12:00pm and the games begin at 1:00pm sharp.

Donations for prices are welcome.

Costs are first round Handjass $5 and second round Schieber $5. Kitchen & Bar will be open at the Chalet and the dinner can be purchased for $12.

Please make your reservation with Irma Bieri 604-738-8553 (mmueller1@shaw.ca) or Joe Morach 604-581-7065

Help us to purchase the right amount of Food by making dinner reservation!