The National Day of Norway May 17th 2019 The association of Norwegians in Iceland invites to a celebration of May 17th in the Nordic House with orchestra, parade, national costumes, sausages, ice cream, soda and coffee. A warm welcome to everyone! Program for dagen 10:00 Fossvogur kirkegård og Nauthólsvík Ord for dagen og nedlegging av […]
Reykjavík Fringe is a festival for fringe arts that will take place for the second time the first week of July. 100+ performances will take place around the city and guests can find theatre, dance, children’s shows, circus, cabaret, poetry readings, installations, art exhibitions, stand up comedy and more to enjoy in a 6-day artistic […]
Tickets The Nordic House Concert Series is in its third summer, and as always, our guests can expect a varied program with interesting musicians. This year we present no fewer than four acts from the other Nordic countries together with six Icelandic acts. The concert series has something for everyone; folk music, jazz, classical, and […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
11:30 – 12:00 Simone van der Vlugt and Iain Reid 12:30 – 13:00 Lily King and Hakan Günday 13:00 – 13:30 Roy Jacobsen and Merete Pryds Helle Program
Tickets Icelandic premiere of the Greenlandic film ANORI directed by Pipaluk Kreutzman Jörgensen. Entrance is free and free tickets are available in the link above and on tix.is This modern story – set amongst the incredible Greenlandic landscapes and the intensely crowded New York – takes you on a journey where myth comes to life. […]
Tickets The show for young audience tells the Icelandic/Faroese myth about a beautiful woman who is, in fact, a seal with musical elements: A fisherman watches her dance and hides her sealskin so that she would agree to marry him. They receive a son and live happily until after seven years the woman starts to […]
During the weekend 11-12th of May, The Nordic House invites you to a diverse and informative program for the whole family. The focus will be on repair culture and methods to extend the lifespan of items found in every home – ranging from bicycles to pants and toasters! The aim is to draw attention to […]
Exhibition in Atrium featuring photos and material from Inuuteq Storch‘s archive book project Porcelain Souls (2018) For Porcelain Souls, Storch has gone through his parents’ archives and found photos and letters from their lives in Greenland and Denmark in the 1960s and 80s. The photographs alternate between magnificent sceneries of the Greenlandic landscape as well […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
Tickets The band ADHD are excited to play at the Nordic House concert series, since they haven’t played in the house for a very long time. The program contains new and older songs in all kinds of variations. ADHD released a new album this spring, with the name ADHD7. The album contains 9 brand […]
Tickets Svavar Knútur is an Icelandic troubadour who has made a name for himself both with his own music and his interpretations of classic Icelandic songs. He has gained recognition for how well he manages the interplay between song and instrument – the hallmark of the troubadour – and his narrations between the songs. […]
Tickets Gyða Valtýsdóttir came to prominence with electronic experimentalists múm, an internationally recognised Icelandic band which has reached cult status. She left the band to pursue her studies as a cellist; gaining a twofold Master’s degree from Musik Akademie, Basel, both as a classical player and a free-improvisational one. Both her solo albums, Epicycle and […]
Tickets The double-bass player and composer Tómas R. Einarsson has been a regular part of the Nordic House’s summer program for the last two summers, with a total of four sold out concerts. Last year he performed with Eyþór Gunnarsson on piano, and together they created a touching and relaxing atmosphere that captured the […]
The Nordic House opens the glass doors and invites you to concerts under the luminous Icelandic sky every Sunday afternoon (3 PM) during the summer in our beautiful greenhouse. The Picnic Concert Series presents Icelandic and Nordic artists with music inspired by tradition or experimenting with the newest genres and tendencies. The concerts are free […]
Tickets Einar Scheving is a drummer and composer. He is a key person in the Icelandic music life and has won the Icelandic music prize three times, of which twice for album of the year: Cycles 2007 and Land míns föður 2011. At the Nordic House concert series, Einar will perform with his quartet, which […]
Tickets Ragnheiður Gröndal (vocals & piano) and Guðmundur Pétursson (guitar) have long studied the Icelandic folk music tradition, that appears in the oldest literary tradition of Europe, coming from the cold and isolated island in the far north. At the same time, they deal with a musical tradition that is mostly lost and where very […]
Tickets Mirja Klippel was awarded Songwriter of the Year by Danish Music Awards in 2016 on the basis of her debut-EP ‘Lift Your Lion’ and in autumn 2018 she released her first full-length album, ‘River of Silver’, on the German label Stargazer Records. In recent years, she has toured extensively with guitarist and backing singer […]
Meet the Author Pivinnguaq Mørch at the Nordic House, Wednesday, May 8th 2019 at 19.30 Pivinnguaq Mørch (1993) is one of the new young Greenlandic writers who is really being noticed in the Greenlandic literary world with well-written, thought-provoking and critical books. He leads the readers into a world of which we so far […]
Tickets As a duo, accordionist Geir Draugsvoll and pianist Mette Rasmussen have previously had concerts in Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, France and China. Mostly with Astor Piazzolla on the program, whose varied sound world fits the two instruments particularly well. This has meant that the duo now releases the album Time of Life on the […]
Welcome to The Nordic House. We accept group visits by request. Visits by schools and kindergartens are free of charge. More information available from The Nordic House Mediator of Arts and Culture:Hrafnhildur Gissurardóttir / hrafnhildur@nordichouse.is / 551 7061. Pedagogical activites for children and a gathering place for families at the Nordic house The Nordic house […]
The Reykjavík International Literary Festival will take place this coming April 24-27, the first time the festival has been held in Spring, in recognition of World Book Day. Since 1985, the festival has been held biennially in September. This year‘s agenda is ripe with readings, panels, and lectures, all of which are free and open […]
Tickets Mattias Nilsson has in recent years established himself as one of Sweden’s most personal pianists with his own tonal language and touch. Jan Johansson probably comes to mind to anyone who listens to the sounds that dance between hopefulness and Nordic melancholy, but Nilsson’s colour nuances also extend in other directions. For the first […]
Tickets Teitur Lassen is a multifaceted Faroese composer and singer-songwriter who has toured extensively around the world and worked with some of the more interesting names of today’s music scene – Émilie Simon, Tina Dico, and Ane Brun to name a few. His music is very eclectic, and one of his projects involved writing […]
The house has exhibition areas, a beautiful Nordic library, meeting rooms and a small concert hall as well as one of Reykjavik’s best restaurants. With approximately 100,000 visitors and 150 events per year, The Nordic House does not solely use the venue for its own events but manages it as a public centre for Nordic […]
The Nordic house library invites you and your child (from 3 months to 6 years old) to music lessons. Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, music teacher, singer and violinist leads the lessons for children and their families on March 26th, April 2nd, April 16th and April 30th at 10:15-11:15 AM. The goal of the music lessons is to […]
The Nordic house library invites you and your child (from 3 months to 6 years old) to music lessons. Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, music teacher, singer and violinist leads the lessons for children and their families on March 26th, April 2nd, April 16th and April 30th at 10:15-11:15 AM. The goal of the music lessons is to […]
The Iceland Writers Retreat (www.icelandwritersretreat.com) will take place for the 6th time on April 3-7. It features numerous small-group writing workshops led by renowned authors from around the world. The Featured Authors will be participating in a reading at Nordic House the day before the IWR begins. The reading is free and open to all. […]
The Nordic house library invites you and your child (from 3 months to 6 years old) to music lessons. Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, music teacher, singer and violinist leads the lessons for children and their families on March 26th, April 2nd, April 16th and April 30th at 10:15-11:15 AM. The goal of the music lessons is to […]
A music workshop in connection with The Children’s Culture Festival in the Nordic House on April 11th at 10:15AM. Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, music teacher, singer and violinist leads an open music workshop for children and their families. The goal of the workshop is to introduce nordic folksongs to families and to encourage parents to use songs, […]
Everyone is welcomed to the Nordic House the 2nd of April at 11:00. Where we are revealing which Icelandic books have been nominated for the The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize 2019. Program (expected to last 30 minutes) Information om about The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize 2019. Reveal […]
Opinn fundur á vegum Norðurlanda í fókus og Norræna félagsins þriðjudaginn 2. apríl frá kl. 14 í Norræna húsinu Elections will take place in Finland on 14 April. At this open meeting, the state of politics in Finland will be reviewed. Fyrirlesarar eru: Utanríkis- og varnarmálapólitík í kosningabaráttunni (SE) Ann-Sofie Stude: Sendiherra Finnlands á Íslandi […]
Foreningen Norden, Norden i fokus og Nordens hus inviterer til feiring av Nordens dag på Nordens hus lørdag 23. mars kl. 15.00-17.00 Nordisk samarbeid er 100 år i 2019 og det bør vi feire, alle er hjertelig velkommne å feire sammen med oss! Program: Formann for Foreningen Norden og Nordens hus direktør byr gjester velkommen […]
The Nordic house library invites you and your child (from 3 months to 6 years old) to music lessons. Diljá Sigursveinsdóttir, music teacher, singer and violinist leads the lessons for children and their families on March 26th, April 2nd, April 16th and April 30th at 10:15-11:15 AM. The goal of the music lessons is to […]
The Nordic Region in Focus, The Norwegian Embassy in Iceland and The Ministry for Foreign Affairs invite to a seminar on the occasion of the Day of the Nordic Region, where the topic of the ocean in Nordic co-operation is the focus. The oceans and seas are inseparable from the history, culture, economy and nature […]
Sænsk-Íslensk stuttmynd sem segir sögu samskiptaleysis manna en jafnframt manna og dýra. Af hverju skiljum við ekki hvort annað þó við tölum sama tungumál ? Og hvernig stendur á því að hundurinn sé sá eini sem skilur mig ? Stuttmyndin er samstarfsverkefni ungra listnema á Norðurlöndunum, þátttakendur verkefnisins koma frá Íslandi, Svíþjóð og Finnlandi. Sýningar […]
Nordic Design Competition Last autumn, a competition for sustainable chairs was launched in the Nordic region. The goal was to raise awareness of sustainable design and to encourage design thinking in the climate debate. The five winner chairs can be seen at The Nordic House. Last autumn, The Nordic Council of Ministers’ international branding project, […]