by Noella Noelophile®
(Photo courtesy of Camilla Podowski and SWEA San Francisco, and used with permission.)
Can’t get to Sweden, to experience an authentic Swedish Christmas celebration?
If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, you might completely forget that fact.
(Photo courtesy of Camilla Podowski and SWEA San Francisco, and used with permission.)
This upcoming Saturday, December 6th, the Swedish Women’s Educational Association (San Francisco) will be hosting their thirty-first annual Christmas Fair! And they’ll have games, food, traditional entertainment (be warned, seats for their “Lucia Pageant” go quickly!) and a Swedish Christmas market. (“Pure Swedishness” is how one comment on their Facebook page describes the celebration.)
(Photo courtesy of Camilla Podowski and SWEA San Francisco, and used with permission.)
Camilla Podowski is co-chair of SWEA San Francisco’s Christmas Fair Committee. In early November, she explained the Christmas Fair’s background, previewed this year’s special event, and offered a behind-the-scenes look at what’s involved, in transporting Northern California visitors to pre-Christmas Sweden for a Saturday.
(Photo courtesy of Camilla Podowski and SWEA San Francisco, and used with permission.)
And, as a special bonus, Camilla even suggested a Christmas story you may not have known, by a favorite Swedish author!
SWEA San Francisco’s Swedish Christmas Fair happens at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough Street, between Geary and Ellis, this Saturday, December 6, from 9 am to 4 pm.