Literature can be fantastic at putting words to grief, meeting it, going through it and living on with it. The librarians at The Nordic House invite you to an afternoon meeting focusing on good and inspiring Nordic books about the price of love: the grief that we all experience along the way in life. The […]
Welcome to a Finnish story hour for children at the Nordic House Children’s Library. We will read from books, play, sing and encourage the children to play and interact in Finnish. The story hour is recommended for children age 2-10, but everyone that understands Finnish is welcome to join us. This is a free […]
Welcome to sögustund in Icelandic for children at the Nordic House Childrens Library. We will read from books and encourage the children to play and interact in Icelandic. The story hour is recommended for children age 2-10, but everyone that understands Icelandic is welcome to join us. This is a free event for […]
Welcome to sögustund in Danish for children at the Nordic House Childrens Library. We will read from books and encourage the children to play and interact in Danish. The story hour is recommended for children age 2-10, but everyone that understands Norwegian is welcome to join us. This is a free event for […]
Welcome to a Swedish story hour for children at the Nordic House Children’s Library. We will read from Swedish books, sing and encourage the children to play and interact in Swedish. The story hour is recommended for children age 2-10, but everyone that understands Swedish is welcome to join us. This is a […]
Baltic Children´s Culture Festival: Glove Troll defeated the Sock Monster Workshop for 5 – 10 year olds. Artist Jurgita Motiejunaite begins the workshop by telling stories of horrible figures and monsters in Lithuanian folk tales. In the workshop children will learn how to make sock dolls and are encouraged to create their own stories about […]
Novel (Danish) Tine Høeg: Tour de chambre, 2020 The author does not use much punctuation in this novel either but leaves line breaks and short sentences as images of thoughts and conversations about life seen through the young writer Asta who lives in college and dates hopeless guys while she is reluctantly fascinated by and […]
Laut is a restaurant where Icelandic nature, ingredients, and Nordic cuisine come together. During the day, Laut offers light refreshments, coffee, and lunch in the cozy surroundings of the Nordic House. In the evenings, it serves an ambitious multi-course tasting menu, with Icelandic ingredients and seafood taking center stage. Laut is run by chef Arnór […]
Baltic Countries’ Children’s Culture Festival: Legend of the Grass Snake May 29 at 13.00-15.00 The story about the grass snake is the core of a well known Lithuanian folk tale which is related to Lithuanian mythology. A grass snake was seen as a house spirit, a holy animal that took care of homes and also […]
Trejdeksnis is a Latvian percussion instrument that consists of a handle with small metal rattles hanging of the edge of the top. The trejdeksnis is used by shaking it, causing the metal discs to jingle. Traditionally they were used as signal instruments—to signal a wedding party’s arrival, for example—and also played to accompany dance music. […]
Baltic Children´s Culture Festival: Live Streamed Concerts – Latvian folksongs performed by young Latvian music students Six music students of musician Ekaterina Vashkevicha play various classical folksongs from Latvia. The students are between 4-10 years old and all have parents from Latvia. It will be their first experience in performing in public except the home […]
W.O.M.E.N or Women Of Multicultural Ethnicity Network in Iceland will be growing the garden in the Nordic House this summer. Growing things in Iceland can be a real challenge. So, we have asked an expert horticulturist to guide us in the process. Jóhanna Borghildur Magnúsdóttir will teach us all about indoor sowing, planting and fertilization. […]
Baltic Countires’ Children’s Culture festival will be held in the Nordic house April 20 to June 14. The Nordic house celebrates children’s culture by presenting Baltic culture in a creative way in collaboration with people with background from the Baltic countries. During the first week of the festival, school groups will be invited to a […]
Translated from Swedish Since its establishment in 1968, the Nordic House has been a central Nordic platform for art, culture, language and public debate in Iceland. We strive to fulfill the Nordic prime ministers’ vision for 2030 that the Nordic region will become the world’s most sustainable and integrated region. In recent years, we have […]
Baltic Children’s Culture festival will be held in the Nordic house April 20 to June 14. The Nordic house celebrates children’s culture by presenting Baltic culture in a creative way in collaboration with people with background from the Baltic countries. During the first week of the festival, school groups will be invited to a collage […]
Novel (Danish) Henning Jensen: Gennem glasvæggen, 2020 The well-known and award-winning actor openly and honestly showcases the darkest and most life-changing experiences of his life: as a 36-year-old, successful but overworked royal actor, he steps through the glass wall of the real world towards the abyss of the mind, while a year of turbulent descent […]
Baltic Children Culture Festival in the Nordic house: Scrap – Scrap- Scrap! Collage exhibition by students of Hólabrekkuskóli. The Nordic house celebrates children culture this year by presenting baltic culture in a creative way. Children aged 6-10 years from Hólabrekkuskóli, friendschool of the Nordic house, are invited to a scrap workshop using pictures of historical […]
The exhibition “Nature in Transition – Shifting Identities” opens 17 April, 2021 The opening will be held throughout the day from 10-17 and due to current covid-regulations there is a 20 person limit in the exhibition space. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Iceland University of the arts (IUA) and the Nordic House in […]
NATURE IN TRANSITION – SHIFTING IDENTITES Í síkvikri mótun: vitund og náttúra Kinaassuseq allanngujasoq – pinngortitaq allanngorartoq Flydende identitet, natur i omformning Flótandi samleiki, náttúra í broyting Nature in transition – Shifting identities Opening 17 April, 2021. Exhibition program The exhibition Nature in Transition – Shifting Identities offers a glimpse into the experiences, reflections and […]
Novel (Danish) Stine Pilgaard: Meter i sekundet, 2020 An entertaining story about a young woman and new mother who, as an appendix to her folk high school teacher-boyfriend in a small Jutland town, is challenged and subtly provoked by the province, its forms of conversation, and habits. The modern big city woman feels overlooked and leftover […]
The concert marks the end of a week of events held to celebrate the Nordic Day 23 March. As a way to honour Nordic culture and music, we are hosting a streamed concert with two Nordic musicians living in Iceland: Tue West (DK) who sings mostly in Danish and GDRN (IS) who sings in […]
Gleðilegan Dag Norðurlanda! Í ár höldum við upp á 50 ára afmæli Norrænu ráðherranefndarinnar. Frá upphafi hefur Norræna ráðherranefndin haft það markmið að allir skuli eiga þess kost að taka þátt í norrænu samstarfi. Í nýju samstarfsáætlun ráðherranefndarinnar í menningarmálum fyrir tímabilið 2021-2024 er markmiðið eftirfarandi: lista- og menningarstarf sem er aðgengilegt öllum á Norðurlöndum […]
The Nordic Day is held annually on 23 March to celebrate Nordic co-operation and showcase its importance. This year the day is celebrated at the Nordic House through various events throughout the week. The light will be shed on Nordic culture and lifestyle through a debate, concert, food, children and youth literature, photo competition and […]
This event focuses on the re-utilization of marine resources in the Arctic with a focus on the concept of “waste to value.” Innovators have found ways to use byproducts of the fishing industry in products that range from advanced biotechnology to nutrition, clothing and cosmetics. Sea resources are crucial in the Arctic, and tissues such […]
SONO Catering will have a pop-up kitchen at MATR during the weekends. SONO Catering is a vegetarian restaurant and foodservice that creates a food experience with in-season ingredients, local herbs, and spices from the Middle East. The menu variates slightly between weekends due to seasonal ingredients. To find older menus and further information go to […]
Novel (Danish) Kirsten Thorup: Indtil vanvid, indtil døden, 2020 A gruesome story of the encounter with madness and death under very special fanatic conditions. Danish Harriet leaves her two small children in Denmark in 1942 to seek relief from her grief as a widow when her husband is shot down over the Eastern Front in […]
What role has culture played in Nordic co-operation since the Council of Ministers was established fifty years ago? What impact has COVID-19 had on cultural life in the Nordic Region? What role will culture play in the Nordic co-operation of the future? Politicians, people from the region, and representatives of cultural life will discuss these […]
Novel (Danish) Iben Mondrup: Tabita, 2020 Five-year-old Tabita and her younger brother are torn up and adopted by business manager Bertel and his wife in the 1960s when the Danish couple after some years of living Greenland moves back to Denmark. The little Greenlandic girl longs terribly for home and finds only comfort in her […]
Introduction evening in the Nordic house Reykjavík about founding the first cohousing community in Iceland, thursday 4th March at 20:30. Kjarnasamfélag Reykjavíkur is working on a pilot project for a sustainable cohousing community in Iceland. Co-housing is defined as “an intentional [housing] community, created and run by its residents”. It is about building strong […]
Good Thursday in the Nordic House On the Good Thursday in the Nordic House will be a artist talk with Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg. The last Thursday of each month is Good Thursday. Museums and exhibition spaces stay open longer and host different events. The Nordic house will participate and host a artist talk […]
Niviaq Korneliussen and Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir will talk together about their authorships. The two authors have several overlapping interests that they will unfold. Niviaq’s latest novel, BLOMSTERDALEN (the flower valley), deals with suicide, sex, and relationships. She first experienced suicide when she was thirteen. She herself will be buried between the high mountains in Tasiilaq, where […]
Ash Day at The Nordic House 17.2.2021 Children who visit the exhibition Eggið on Ash Day (Öskudagur), and who also make a creative figure with the help of an instructor, will receive sweets. Parents and guides are kindly requested to wear face masks. Registration on TIX. Winter holidays – free course for children of all […]
Anne Cathrine Bomann: Agathe, 2019 An aging and unengaged psychiatrist counts the days until his retirement, while humming well-rehearsed comments to his patients on the therapeutic divan. The burned-out psychiatrist is about to fall, as he wakes up from his anxiety about not being able to make a difference, and in particular heal a very […]
The Egg, an interactive children exhibition based on a children’s book with the same name will be open for children of ages 3-8 and their accompanying families. The exhibition is located at the children’s library and material to craft your own fictional character will be available for creative guests. An instructor speaking English, Icelandic and […]
Clay workshop for 8-12 year old where the concept fear is in focus. By making different figures, fictional characters and surroundings that describe the situations we fear, these phenomenoms might loose their affect. Photography and light will be used to document the various stages and in the final day students will collaborate on a terrifying […]
Ari H.G. Yates hosts a stop-motion animation workshop for teenagers from 13 year old and older where clay and other material will be used to bring life to fictional characters. Ari will go through the whole process of filmmaking and teaches methods of creating both storyboard and film script. The theme of the workshop will […]
Monika Fagerholm (1961) is one of the most distinguished Finnish-Swedish authors. She has been described as an innovator of the Swedish language and a groundbreaking, style-forming author. Fagerholm is also known, beyond her authorship, as an active public debater and a mentor for new authors. Fagerholm made her debut with the short story collection Sham […]
Are you curious about Nordic literature, but don’t know where to start? The Nordic House is hosting a book circle in the most beautiful library in Reykjavík where we discuss current Nordic literature. The book circle will be hosted by Sunna Dís Másdóttir, literary critic and a member of the Icelandic selection committee for the […]
The 10th of February, the Nordic House is hosting a literary event where authors discuss and dissect literature as a disruptive force, and how collisions with new words and ideas can send our thoughts down new and unexpected paths. We tend to see interruptions as negative, breaking our focus and disrupting the order we are […]
In collaboration with the Norwegian embassy in Iceland, the Nordic house will screen two Sami films on the Sami national day, Saturday 6th of February. 16:45 Min mors hemmelighet / My mothers secret 18:00 Veiviseren / Ofelas / Pathfinder The event is free of charge. 20 seats available each screening for adults. Children born 2005 […]
Novel (Danish) Dy Plambeck: Til min søster, 2019 A novel about being a woman and being seen and understood – or not. Historian Aya is abandoned by her boyfriend and gives birth to her daughter as she researches a well-known late author’s childhood sweetheart and tries to see and understand her role for his authorship […]
A Guided Visual Tour The Nordic House: A Total Work of Art A guided visual tour of the history, architecture, and culture Manuscript: Guðni TómassonEnglish Voice Over Bjartmar ÞórðarsonDirector: Kristbjörg Kona KristjánsdóttirDirector of Photography and Editor: Blair Alexander MassieProduced by The Nordic House in Reykjavik
Novel (Danish) Hanne Højgaard Viemose: HHV, FRSHWN Dødsknaldet i Amazonas, 2019 A fragmentary and wild novel about Danish Hanne’s experiences, thoughts and a troubled mind in respectively Denmark, the Amazons and Iceland, about her life with the occasionally psychotic Icelandic ex-husband and their amazingly inventive children, about her rough young adult experiences with love in […]