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Midsummer in Battery Park

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    Midsummer Celebration Photo: Lena Granefelt/imagebank.sweden.se

On Friday, June 21, the annual Swedish Midsummer Festival will once again take place in Battery Park City on lower Manhattan. At this unique celebration, adults and children come together to picnic in the grass, decorate the midsummer pole, make flower wreaths, play traditional games and dance to authentic fiddle music.

The Swedish Midsummer Festival is co-presented by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy and the Consulate General of Sweden in New York. Food stands will offer delicacies from some of New York's finest Swedish restaurants and food purveyors.

Swedish Midsummer Festival
Friday, June 21, 5-8 pm
Robert F. Wagner Park
Battery Park City in lower Manhattan
Rain or shine

The event is generously sponsored by

IKEA Brooklyn
Investor AB
SEB
Skanska USA Inc.
Swedbank
Swedish Match
Ambassador and Mrs. Lyndon L. Olson Jr.

with additional support from

Eriksen Translations Inc.
The Heimbold Foundation
SWEA International New York Chapter

> Directions at the BPC Parks Conservancy website: www.bpcparks.org

> See photo slideshow from last year's celebration on the Consulate's Flickr page: www.flickr.com/photos/swedennewyork/sets