Story time in Icelandic // 14:00-14:30 Lára Garðarsdóttir reads her book Flökkusaga. The story revolves around two polar bears who are forced to move and must deal with challenging tasks in new areas such as falling into the group.
Everybody Counts // 13:30-14:15 Hurray that we are all different! Everybody Counts, by Kristin Roskifte from Norway, is a fun and lively book where you can count people, follow them and see how their stories intertwine. The book contains many secrets that curious and sharp-eyed readers can discover. A story time in Norwegian.
The amazing solar system // 13:00-13:45 Workshop with Sævar Helgi Bragason where we imagine what it would be like to visit various strange places in our solar system. We draw the places and follow in the footsteps of future astronauts who explore them.
Story time in Estonian // 13:00-13:45 Kertu Sillaste and Indrek Koff read from their works. All Estonian speaking families are encouraged to participate.
Story time in Swedish // 12:45-13:15 Linda Bondestam reads a story in Swedish. All Swedish speaking families are encouraged to participate.
Moomintroll and Little My // 12:15-12:45 Would you like to meet Moomintroll and Little My and even sing and dance with them? They have come here all the way from Finland to meet you. This event is in English.
Moomintroll and Little My // 14:30-14:50 Do you want to meet Moomintroll and Little My, get to hug them and be in a photo with them? They have come all the way from Finland to meet you.
Story time in Finnish // 11:45-12:15 Timo Parvela reads a story in Finnish. All Finnish speaking families are encouraged to participate.
From sound to story // 11:15-12:00 A workshop with Indrek Koff from Estonia, about finding inspiration in sounds. After listening to different sounds, the participants start imagining a character who could produce those sounds and draw it on paper. We will then give the new character life by inventing a story. In English.
Moomintroll, Little My and Moomin valley // 10:45-11:15 Do you want to meet Moomintroll and Little My, get to hug them and be in a photo with them? They have come all the way from Finland to meet you. At 11 o’clock we will get a tour through the magical Moomin valley in the children’s […]
The Latvian school in Iceland // 10:00-11:00 Agnese Vanaga and Anna Vaivare meet the children in the Latvian school in Iceland at the Nordic House. All Latvian speaking families are encouraged to participate. More information on https://latviesuskolina.wordpress.com/
Children’s books of the future // 14:30-15:30 The world is changing and children’s literature must keep up. Will the role of children’s books change in the upcoming decades? Will its importance dwindle? And how will the publication industry evolve to cater to the needs of new readers while minimizing environmental impact? Participants in the seminar […]
Opening Speech // 09:15-09:25 Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson opens the conference. Nature and human being // 09:30-10:30 In this seminar we will discuss how the relation between man and nature is depicted in children’s literature, both new and old. We will also consider the value of using literature to […]
Interview // 12:40-13:00 Moomin Characters Ltd are dedicated to preserving and furthering Tove Jansson’s legacy, but how do they do it? Did you know that Moomins was the first ever TV-program aired in Japan? And is it really true that the character Sophia, in Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book was based upon Tove’s niece, Sophia […]
The Nordic bookworm // 10:45-11:15 The Nordic bookworm (Den nordiska bokslukaren) is a new project to promote reading that provides inroads into the world of Nordic children’s literature. By producing educational support material for current Nordic picture books, the project puts children into contact with the treasure trove that is Nordic literature, with the help […]
The 18th edition of Reykjavík film festival occurs between 30.09.-10.10.2021, and the program includes a plethora of films, events, and activities. The special focus of this year will be on Music in Film and the Netherlands, thus a selection of new, compelling, Dutch films and short films will be screened at Dutch Focus. Undoubtedly, the […]
Welcome to a guided tour in Hvelfing on Good Thursday at 18:00 through the new exhibition TIME MATTER REMAINS TROUBLE. Arnbjörg María Danielsen and Veigar Ölnir Gunnarsson take visitors around the exhibition and give insight to the new works by Icelandic, Finnish and German artists. Artist exhibiting: Alice Creischer Anna Líndal Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir Bjarki […]
Welcome to a guided tour in Hvelfing on Good Thursday at 18:00 through the new exhibition TIME MATTER REMAINS TROUBLE. Arnbjörg María Danielsen and Veigar Ölnir Gunnarsson take visitors around the exhibition and give insight to the new works by Icelandic, Finnish and German artists. Artist exhibiting: Alice Creischer Anna Líndal Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir Bjarki […]
Kidarchy invites adults and children to their bar! At Kidarchy’s bar the children are in charge – the bar is a platform for Kidarchy to experiment with ideas they’ve had in weekly workshops in The Nordic House. This week Kidarchy’s bar will open for the first time and offer cocktails, relaxation, advice and personal conversations […]
Open call: Kidarchy takes the lead in the Nordic House winter 2021-2022 Are you opinionated? Do you have better ideas than the adults around you? Do you like playing? This winter, Kidarchy (Krakkaveldi) will host creative workshops on Thursdays between 3PM and 5PM. We will implement our ideas and create a world where we decide […]
We Will Never Believe That a Species Could Totally Vanish From the Earth – On the Anthropology of Extinction with Gísli Pálsson and Jeppe Sengupta Carstensen from Ny Jord – Tidsskrift for naturkritik. Extinction is, they say, forever. But how do we understand and ultimately grasp particular extinctions from an anthropological point of view? In […]
The annual West Nordic Day will be celebrated in the Nordic House with an exciting debate (in English), which will focus on West Nordic futures seen from Greenlandic and Faroese perspectives. There has been an increasing interest in Arctic and West Nordic co-operation – not least in Iceland – during the recent decades. With […]
– cheers to feeling dirty each time the sun rises – A part of our event in the Nordic House on the West Nordic day we will be screening Faroese movie Skál (2021). Free admission, seats based on first come, first get. The West Nordic Day is held on September 23rd every year to increase […]
As a part off the current art exhibition TIME MATTER REMAINS TROUBLE, showing at Hvelfing, The Nordic house presents Fabrizio Terranova´s portrait Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival. “Fabrizio Terranova’s portrait, Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival, stands on such twofold relation between attention and imagination. It is a humorous, inventive and fundamental artwork, […]
Novel (Danish) Charlotte Weitze: Rosarium, 2021 This three-part family novel follows a sibling couple fleeing into the woods during World War II, a transgender botanist with a fascination for a very special rose and a girl who can live off sunlight because she was born with green grains in her skin. Everyone has the different […]
Troubled Talk is an expanded discursive format and a part of the exhibition TIME MATTER REMAINS TROUBLE. First TROUBLED TALK, Nature, can´t live with or without you, happens Sunday 19th of September in the Auditorium of the Nordic house. Artists, scientists, activists, philosophers, people and animals of different age groups and backgrounds from society at […]
The West Nordic Day 2021 will be celebrated in the Nordic House this year with a varied and compelling program. The purpose of the West Nordic Day is to strengthen and exhibit the co-operation between the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. The program consists of a seminar and screening of the Faroese documentary SKÁL (2021). […]
OUTPOST II – lys:mørke er en konsertutstilling. Elevene ved Myndlistaskóli Mosfellsbæjar har samarbeidet med fire komponist-utøvere fra Norge og Island, og denne kvelden skal de vise frem kunstverkene sine. Temaet de har jobbet med er lys og mørke og hvordan det påvirker livet vårt i nord. Komponist-utøverne vil fremføre musikk komponert med utgangspunkt i elevenes […]
Welcome to Story time in Finnish for children at the Nordic House Children’s Library, with Sophia Jansson, niece of Tove Jansson. The story time is recommended for children age 2-10, but everyone that understands Finnish is welcome to join us. This is a free event for parents and children who want to meet other Finnish […]
Events at The Nordic House Wednesday 8th of September Children’s Program: Read and write with the Moomins The Moomin exhibition offers an interactive way to learn about the alphabet while embarking on a tour of the magical Moomin valley. Together, children and adults can learn about characters and stories from the Moomin valley and explore […]
World famous author, Tove Jansson, and graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietilä, spent 25 summers on the island of Klovharu in the Gulf of Finland. This documentary is based on the Super 8 footage shot by Tuulikki Pietilä and Tove Jansson between 1970 and 1991. The candid and often revealing commentary is written by Tove Jansson. Swedish […]
Welcome to Story time in Swedish for children at the Nordic House Childrens Library, with Sophia Jansson, niece of Tove Jansson. The story time is recommended for children age 2-10, but everyone that understands Swedish is welcome to join us. This is a free event for parents and children who want to meet other Swedish […]
Free workshop for 4-10 year olds Young guests are invited to take part in a conversation, games, reading and craft. The alphabet plays a front role in the exhibition and each letter and picture in the exhibition connects to a feeling and a story. In the workshop we will go through different feelings such as […]
TIME MATTER REMAINS TROUBLE is a new exhibition opening in Hvelfing 18th of September at 17:00
We invite you to an exciting conversation between Sophia Jansson and Gerður Kristný, about Tove Jansson and the Moomins. Followed by a multilingual reading of “Tales from the Moominvalley” from Tove Jansson’s Moomin universe. The reading takes place in the Auditorium in the Nordic House, Iceland, at 16:00 Icelandic time. The event is free, everyone […]
Novel (Danish) Helle Helle: Bob, 2021 Welcome back to Helle’s very special minimalist writing style, where simple sentences are boiled down to the bone without losing meaning, but where you need fill in yourself. The main character from the previous novel De (2018) is here an open-minded narrator who lovingly and insightfully tells about life seen through the eyes […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced children to adjust to a new, different normal, affecting school, hobby activities and life at home. How do they feel that the pandemic has affected their daily lives? What has been the most difficult and what has gone well? Children from the Advisory Group for the Children’s Ombudsman will talk about their well-being during the corona pandemic. In addition, the Children’s Ombudsman, Salvör Nordal, will present results from three nationwide consultations with schools, in which children’s narratives of their well-being during and experience of the pandemic has been collected. The children’s experiences will […]
Earlier this year, a survey was conducted in which 2,200 young people in the Nordic region expressed what they think is most important to do to protect biodiversity. The results have been categorized into 19 demands and have been made public and handed over to Nordic ministers for the environment and climate issues. These demands should […]
Nordjobb, in collaboration with the Nordic Association and the Nordic House in Iceland, will host a seminar as part of Fundur fólksins, 3 September at 13.15 – 14.45 in Gróska, where we will discuss youth employment issues. A diverse assembly of interest groups will join the seminar to discuss youth and student employment issues and […]
How can responsible production and consumption be promoted and improved when it comes to food, clothing, construction, fisheries and more? The debate sheds light on how companies and the public can adopt solutions that support the circular economy and thereby reduce waste for the benefit of the economy, environment and society. Panelists: Ásta S. Fjeldsted, CEO of Krónan Björgvin Sævarsson, CEO of Yorth Group Guðmundur Fertram […]
The Nordic Council Environment Prize 2021 will go to a Nordic initiative that has made a special effort for sustainable food systems. The 8 nominees will be announced by Iceland’s Minister for the Environment Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson and adjudication committee member and environment activist Rakel Garðarsdóttir at the Nordic House in connection to the democracy festival […]
The Icelandic democracy festival, Fundur fólksins, takes place on 3. and 4. September in and around the Nordic House in Reykjavik. During the festival, important political and current themes are discussed and reflected in debates from a Nordic perspective with panel members from different social groups. On Friday the programme will be centered on children and youth, to make […]
In 2019, the Nordic Council of Ministers took a decision to make the Nordic region the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030. Not long after, at the dawn of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic broke out, leading the states to turn inwards and implement measures that widened the gap between the Nordic […]
The Moomin exhibition offers an interactive introduction to the alphabet and a tour of the magical Moomin Valley. Children and adults can get acquainted with characters and stories from the Moomin Valley and discuss different emotions such as disappointment, sadness and the desire for adventure. The exhibition is a collaboration with Moomin Characters.
Today on the 24th of August, the book fair releases their program for this year, in which Nordic literature is one of the three core themes. On behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Nordic House in Reykjavik has curated a program with exciting encounters between Nordic authors to this year’s book fair. […]
Loftslagsverkfallið blæs til þriggja upplýsingafunda í ljósi stöðu loftslagsmála í heiminum. Okkur til halds og trausts verða þrír sérfræðingar í loftslagsmálum og sjálfbærni: -Hafdís Hanna Ægisdóttir, forstöðumaður Stofnunar Sæmundar Fróða um sjálfbæra þróun við HÍ -Halldór Björnsson, formaður Vísindanefndar um loftslagsbreytingar -Halldór Þorgeirsson, formaður Loftslagsráðs Einnig verða erindi frá fjölbreyttum gestum. Fundarstjóri er Tinna Hallgrímsdóttir, […]
Thomas Backman, one of Sweden’s most reputable and talented reed players will take stage with his 4-piece band, giving you a one-of-a-kind musical experience ranging from “widescreen chamber pop” to jazz and electronica. Backman mixes saxophones, clarinets, sparkling synths and haunting hocketing vocals with beautiful lyrics in Swedish and English, resulting in a unique and […]
Novel (Danish) Christina Hesselholdt: Feje blade sammen op mod vinden, 2020 How do you deal with the desperation and grief of our dying world and the abuse of its creatures? How do you live as a (middle) aging with the memory of and longing for the now deceased family members, the voids they have […]
Novel (Danish and Swedish) Caroline Albertine Minor: Hummerens skjold, 2020 Have you been in touch with the other side today? Hummerens skjold (The lobster’s shield) punctures the mouthpiece between the living and the dead and asks what the two “states” can do for each other. The question begins the novel and ends it. Along […]
The band Sycamore Tree consists of Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir and Gunni Hilmarsson and has been active for some time, constantly growing and getting more attention. The album Shelter was released in 2017, and last year the band released the short album Winter Songs, with three songs that have been getting a lot of radio airplay […]