Bodine, Alison

Bio: Alison Bodine

 

Alison is a peace and social justice activist in Vancouver, Canada. She is the Chair of Vancouver's peace coalition Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO). For the last 12 years MAWO has regularly held public forums, discussions, rallies and petition drives in order to increase public discussion and awareness around issues of war and peace. Alison has frequently represented the peace movement in Canada at conferences and events across the country, in the United States and Latin America, and has led many workshops in high schools and universities.

Originally from the United States, Alison is a graduate of the University of British Columbia and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She currently works as an Electrical Designer at an engineering firm in Burnaby.

 

Alison Bodine spoke to us in November 2015.

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.