Esteemed movie director and cinematographer, Mikael Salomon, honored DACC SoCal business members with a talk about his life and career. Born in Denmark, Mikael knew early that film photography and moviemaking was his calling. The accompanying picture shows a 20-year old Mikael in 1966 on a roof top in one of his first cinematographer roles in Denmark. It was fascinating for us in the audience to know that Mikael was behind the camera on many of the movies we have experienced in our childhood growing up in Denmark. (more…)
The event held via Zoom started with Lompoc based Vintner, Peter Work of AMPELOS Vineyards introducing their 2019 Viognier, which conveniently had been shipped ahead to each participant. The 20-some guests enjoyed a powerful juicy, lively wine with a hint peach and apricot perfect for the hot summer afternoon in Southern California. Several guests also participated from Denmark where the clock rang 1:00am at the start of the event. After individual introductions with small anecdotes from the Covid-19 quarantine, DACC Vice President, Søren Eilertsen, introduced Henrik Fisker. (more…)
June 17, 2020. DACC Virtual Summer Event by Zoom with Peter & Rebecca Work from Ampelos Vineyard & Cellars who joined us from their ranch in St Rita Hills to introduce their wines and talk about winemaking. We all opened a bottle of Ampelos Rose of Syrah and toasted together. Great, intimate and interactive event. Limited to business members and invited guests.
The 21st SCANDINAVIAN FILM FESTIVAL L.A. (SFFLA) on JANUARY 4TH, 5TH, 11TH, AND 12TH, 2020. See schedule and for tickets: https://www.sffla.net/
START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT— WITH “TOP FILMS FROM THE TOP OF EUROPE” Call it “holiday recovery!” Run away to the movies— at our “home away from home,” The Writers Guild Theater, 135 S. Doheny in Beverly Hills (one block south of Wilshire.) THANK YOU for 21 years of northern “lights, camera, action” with films from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Baltic neighbors Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia!–
SPECIAL EVENT: On Saturday 1/11 at 11 am, screening of the Danish documentary: ” The Dead Soldier” followed by Q&A session with Jacob Panton and pastries from Copenhagen pastry.
DACC Christmas Dinner 2019 Thursday, December 5, 4:30PM – 9:00PM
Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey
The most important event of the year, the annual DACC Christmas Dinner, is upon us and at the same beautiful location, Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey. This is the perfect event to celebrate the season and yuletide, Danish style. Bring your friends and business colleagues. Chef Bent Thomsen treats us to a menu of Danish Christmas delights. Peter Work pours the amazing Ampelos wines, and DJ Star Peter Rank Schrøder promises a musical arrangement that will get us out of the chairs.
Attendance fee includes three-course Danish Christmas dinner menu as well as all beverages (Gløgg, wine, beer, snaps, soda). A vegetarian meal option is available with pre-registration notation
• Business Member table of ten: $950 (must be current business member)
• Individual regular tickets: $115 (open November 1)
• Raffle tickets: $10 per ticket. Pickup at event and must be present to win.
PURCHASE YOUR TABLE NOW [go straight to registration info page]
All purchases are final, i.e. no refunds. Individual sales open November 1 as space allows.
As always, we will feature our popular Christmas raffle with grand prizes to be announced. No refunds. If you want to contribute with a sponsorship, raffle prize or have questions, please contact:
info@daccsocal.com
Group Sales Now Open
Individual sales open November 1 as space allows.
DACC Christmas Dinner 2018 Thursday, December 6, 4:30PM – 9:00PM
Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey
Entertainment by singer, song-writer Sascha Dupont and her “Divine Jazz Trio”.
An event for DACC SoCal Business Members
Please join us for an evening with the CEO of Innovation Center Denmark in Silicon Valley, Søren Juul Jørgensen, who will talk about Danish startups and corporations in Silicon Valley. The event will take place on Thursday, June 1, from 6:00PM to 9:00PM in Santa Monica – dinner and refreshments served. (more…)
1st ever Danish female race car driver in 24 hour Le Mans
1st Female to win a professional, full-season, Sports Car Championship (IMSA, GrandAm, ALMS).
Seven Podium finishes – 1st Sebring, 2nd Monterey, 3rd Detroit, 1st Watkins Glen, 3rd Road America, 3rd COTA, 2nd Petite LeMans.
1st Career Intl Motor Sports Association (IMSA) WeatherTech SportsCar Championship victory – 12 Hours Sebring.
1st Place – Tequila Patron North America Endurance Cup.
1st Place – IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship-GTD cl.
Thursday, February 2, 6:30-9pm.
Cross Campus, 929 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica
Following the recent launch of Henrik Fisker’s new automotive company, Fisker Inc., and the development of a new, all-electric premium vehicle featuring a battery technology that will deliver the world’s longest electric range of any production car previously developed, see the first official image of the vehicle, which highlights its newly-developed butterfly doors for easier egress and ingress. The vehicle will feature a unique composite, carbon fiber and aluminum structure. Due to the car’s innovative structure and proportion, it will boast a larger interior than its closest competitor, with an engaging user experience that brings technology and streaming content into a simple logical order. The car’s 400-mile electric range will allow the driver to enjoy effortless driving without frequent stops for charging.
In the evening of September 13, more than a hundred people turned out at Cross Campus to hear car designer, Henrik Fisker, present on Emotional Design. We also got a chance to hear Henrik discuss his relaunch of Fisker Inc., which was officially announced a week after the event. Journalist, Morten Bay, interviewed Henrik and DACC President, Rene Gross Kœrskov, and Vice President, Soren Eilertsen, thanked with gifts to the car designer.
On September 21, DACC board and business members spent an amazing morning discussing global issues and security in a meeting with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former Danish prime minister and NATO secretary-general. This intimate gathering took place at HBA Design offices in Santa Monica. Mr. Rasmussen was in delightful “humør” introducing and discussing his new book “The Will to Lead – America’s indispensable role in the global fight for freedom“.
DACC board members in attendance pictured with our guest from left to right: Martin Askgard, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Palle Gravesen Jensen, René Gross Kærskov, Søren Eilertsen, and Keld Jensen.
Danish Week is open to ALL with a Danish story from San Diego to Solvang and even extending to our affiliates in Arizona. The inaugural Danish Week will take place on 10-18 September 2016.
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By BIENnews: Ole Henriksen received the Danish American Chamber of Commerce’s “2014 Danish American Innovation Award”. It was an incredible evening with the Danish skin care guru whose advice to the audience was – smell your own farts, do 300 push ups per day and be happy plus a lot of good advice for a great and happy life!
At a DACC event, Henrik Fogh Rasmussen discussed lessons for tomorrow’s business leaders from great statesmen such as Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill as well as great entrepreneurs such as Henry Ford and Steve Jobs. He will also discuss the importance of the United States – and California in particular – for Danish companies aspiring to corporate statesmanship.
Multinational corporations are becoming ever more powerful due to the dynamics of globalization – and this new environment calls for a new kind of corporate leadership, strategy and organization: Corporate Statesmanship. Henrik Fogh Rasmussen (left) can here be seen together with DACC President Palle Gravesen Jensen.
At a successful and inspirational evening, the Danish-American Chamber of Commerce of Southern California awarded Peter Work of Ampelos Cellars the Danish American Innovation Award. The award was presented by Torben Aaskov, Honorary Consul for Denmark in Southern California, and Soren Eilertsen, President of DACC. In attendance to celebrate Peter at the BoConcept store in Santa Monica was James P. Cain, former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, and the actor Kurt Russell.
Danish American Chamber of Commerce of Southern California was proud to announce Henrik Fisker, CEO and automobile designer, Fisker Automotive as the 2009 winner of the Danish American Innovation Award. Henrik Fisker was nominated for his outstanding contribution bringing the innovative, green, environmentally friendly hybrid sports car Karma to market. Henrik Fisker (left) can here be seen with DACC President Soren Eilertsen.
