Woah! We love the excitement.
The 2025 programme is nearly ready, so please check back in for exact updates. The timings below are indicative based on past events. This year’s event will follow a similar structure.
Norwegian Church, 1 St Olav’s Square
Free attendance
11.00 Church Service
12.15 Coffee, waffles and refreshments
12.30 Wreath laying at the King Haakon Statue, music by Regent Brass
12.45 Departure for Southwark Park
Church is open until 16:00
Southwark Park by the Band Stand
Admission Adult 17+ years: £7.50
Admission Student 17+ years: £5
Admission Child 6-16 years: £4
Admission Child 0-5 years: Free
11:00 Park and event open
11:00 Music, games, and entertainment
13:15 Official welcome by Kåre Sivertsen, 17. mai London Committee
13:20 National Anthem «Ja vi elsker», Regent Brass and Olavskoret
13:30 17. mai procession around Southwark Park, start and finish by the Band Stand
14:00 Music, games, and entertainment
17:00 Event closes
Den Norske Klub, Evening Event
4 St James Square, London SW1Y 4JU
Time: 18:30
Dress code: Black tie/bunad
Three course dinner + Champagne
Attendance open for all. £100 per person.
Email to reserve a spot by 15 May
Food for sale
KFUK & Norwegian Church
Proud to serve probably the best waffles in the world, try them for yourself, with or without the brown cheese. And there wouldn’t really be a 17 May without the hot-dogs with ketchup and mustard, chocolate & lots of other Norwegian snacks.
Sapore Vero
Sapore Vero of London will bring an authentic taste of Italy to the day with our artisan wood-fired pizzas on board our fully integrated and iconic black truck. Our hand-produced pizzas bring people together in a way that only something truly special can – and we like to think of what we do as pretty special.
We’ll bring you the complete Sapore Vero experience with our team of pizzaiolos, creating totally authentic Neopolitan-style pizzas with the very best ingredients sourced from all over Italy.
To find out more or book a party for yourself, visit our webpage here or facebook here.
Norwegian Bakers
Norwegian Bakers is back at Southwark Park with all their authentic and amazingly delicious sweet and savoury treats. Jessika and her daughter Anna are the bakers and hail from Alesund, where Jessika trained to the highest standards following timeless traditional methods of baking. You can be sure of tasting the most perfect skoleboller, the kanelboller is as light as air and they bake the most immaculate eplekake. Everything is freshly baked and completely plant-based.
Choir and band
Olavskoret
Olavskoret, the Choir of the Norwegian Church in London, was established in 2012 to enhance the regular worship at the church. Around 16 regular members meet two or three times a month to rehearse a repertoire of SATB anthems, carols and national songs depending on the season. Over the years, the choir has attracted keen amateur, professional and semi-professional singers who are either Norwegian or have a strong interest in Norway.
Olavskoret aims to sing for one service a month at the Norwegian Church and has also performed in Westminster Abbey, St Martin-in-the-Fields Church and with Sissel Kyrkjebø for the ‘baptism’ of MS Viking Sea. The choir is delighted, once again, to be invited to sing in Southwark Park for the 17th May celebrations!
Regent Brass
Regent Brass is a 28-piece brass band based in Chalk Farm, North London. Founded in 1985 to cater for young brass players in Brent that had left the youth set-up, the band has since risen to the upper levels of the brass band scene, currently under Musical Director Alan Duguid, and performing regular concerts of innovative, exciting modern brass band repertoire. The organisation also incorporates Regent Community Brass which was formed in 2012 to provide an outlet for local musicians, both young and old, to get involved with playing with a brass band.