Buy tickets here Beautiful, fierce and deadly, Hallgerd is not a woman to be taken lightly, ripping through husbands like a falcon through its prey. But has she met her match in Gunnar, a true Viking hero? Katy Cawkwell tells episodes from the great Icelandic Njal’s Saga, offering a fascinating glimpse into pagan society […]
The People’s Meeting LÝSA is a vibrant two days festival on society and community, where people meet and discuss matters important to all of us. The Nordic Region in Focus will pitch tents in a camp with the Norden association and Hello Nordic, where many different organizations invited to activities. We will experience spirited discussions, music, and events. […]
Are you in the middle of a grant application and in need of good advise? The Nordic House offers consultation for people applying for Nordic Culture Point funding and Nordic Culture Fund. The consultation takes place in the Aino room of the Nordic House September 20th at. 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM The consultation is […]
This fall, Bergen Unge Kammerorkester is going on tour to Iceland, the island of volcanic wonders. Our first stop is the Nordic House of Reykjavik on October 7th at 3:30 pm Bergen Unge Kammerorkester (Bergen Youth Chamber Orchestra) hails from the rainy town of Bergen, Norway. Our member pool is varied -some are students at […]
Welcome to the Swedish Children’s Hour! We will meet once a month in the Nordic House. This initiative is brought forth to promote the swedish-talking audience. The content will be varied, from fairy-tales reading and autumn related mini-projects now that we are heading towards colder and darker times. Hope to see you there! Kind Regards, […]
Welcome to the Swedish Children’s Hour! We will meet once a month in the Nordic House. This initiative is brought forth to promote the swedish-talking audience. The content will be varied, from fairy-tales reading and autumn related mini-projects now that we are heading towards colder and darker times. Hope to see you there! Kind Regards, […]
Welcome to the Swedish Children’s Hour! We will meet once a month in the Nordic House. This initiative is brought forth to promote the swedish-talking audience. The content will be varied, from fairy-tales reading and autumn related mini-projects now that we are heading towards colder and darker times. Hope to see you there! Kind Regards, […]
Welcome to the Swedish Children’s Hour! We will meet once a month in the Nordic House. This initiative is brought forth to promote the swedish-talking audience. The content will be varied, from fairy-tales reading and autumn related mini-projects now that we are heading towards colder and darker times. Hope to see you there! Kind Regards, […]
Danish Story Hour in the children’s library at The Nordic House. We will be talking Danish, sing, play and read. All children age 2-7 (approx) are welcome with their parents. Host for the event is Ann-Sofie Gremaud. The event is recurring. Other dates are Sunday 9th of September, Sunday 11th of November and Sunday 2th […]
Welcome to the norwegian childrens group! One saturday every month we meet in the Children’s Library at the Nordic House, where we will sing, read and play, all in norwegian. All norwegian-speaking children are welcome. The host for the event is Matja Steen.
Thursday September 13 from 12:00 to 13:30 at the Nordic House Open seminar hosted by the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland and the EU Delegation to Iceland Disinformation, Media and Democracy At this open seminar Giles Portman will discuss Russian disinformation targeting the EU, its neighbourhood and democratic values […]
Som praktikant i Nordens Hus bliver du en del af et dynamisk team, der arbejder med kulturudveksling mellem Island, Norden og de Baltiske lande i form af samarbejdsprojekter med kulturinstitutioner, enkelte kunstnere og forskere m.m. i hele regionen. Som praktikant i Nordens Hus vil du få solid erfaring med projektudvikling og gennemførelse, samt kommunikation på alle niveauer i den kulturelle sektor og et grundigt indblik […]
Norðurlönd í fókus, Norræna félagið og Halló Norðurlönd standa fyrir dagskrá á samfélagshátíðinni LÝSU á Akureyri um helgina! Dagskráin hefst kl. 11:15 þegar forsætisráðherra Katrín Jakobsdóttir tilkynnir tilnefningar ársins til Umhverfisverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs 2018. FÖSTUDAGUR 7. SEPTEMBER 11:15 – 12:00 HAMRAGIL Tilkynnt um tilnefningar til Umhverfisverðlauna Norðurlandaráðs 2018 Katrín Jakobsdóttir forsætisráðherra tilkynnir opinberlega um tilnefningar til […]
This is an exhibition about our perception of nature. What do we see when it frightens us? A long time ago when people went out at sea in small ships they saw terrible creatures. Sometimes these huge beasts would even attack and eat them. The ones that did manage to survive and made it back […]
Norwegian story hour Norwegian story hour for children in the Nordic House children library, Saturday 8th December. All children that understand Norwegian are welcome along with their parents. Matja Steen leads the group. This event is recurring; other dates are saturday 13th of October, saturday 3th of November and saturday 8th of December.
Sigurðar Nordals lecture The Nordic House, 14th of September. 2018, 17.00 PM Anna Agnarsdóttir, History Professor at University of Iceland, will give a public lecture on the historic role of Iceland in colony times, where England and France considered the world as their playground. Under the name “Islande est peu connue” (Iceland is only little […]
Norwegian story hour for children in the Nordic House children library, Saturday 3th of November. All children that understand Norwegian are welcome along with their parents. Matja Steen leads the group. This event is recurring; other dates are saturday 13th of October, saturday 3th of November and saturday 8th of December.
Norwegian Story Hour Norwegian story hour for children in the Nordic House children library, Saturday 20th of October. All children that understand Norwegian are welcome along with their parents. Matja Steen leads the group. This event is recurring; other dates are Saturday 3th of November and Saturday 8th of December.
Danish Story Hour in the children’s library at The Nordic House. We will be talking Danish, sing, play and read. All children age 2-7 (approx) are welcome with their parents. Host for the event is Ann-Sofie Gremaud. The event is recurring. Dates for now are Sunday 9th of September, Sunday 11th of November and Sunday […]
Danish Story Hour in the children’s library at The Nordic House. We will be talking Danish, sing, play and read. All children age 2-7 (approx) are welcome with their parents. Host for the event is Ann-Sofie Gremaud. The event is recurring. Dates for now are Sunday 9th of September, Sunday 11th of November and Sunday […]
The impact of social innovation on Icelandic society Thursday September 6th from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM in the Nordic House. Open conference organized by Höfða Fridarsetur, Innovation Center of Iceland and Partner Snjallræðis. The event will be in Icelandic. Samfélagsleg nýsköpun – krafa nýrrar kynslóðar? Ragna Sara Jónsdóttir fjallar um mikilvægi […]
Free entrance. The film is in English and discussions will be held in Icelandic. Before the movie light refreshments will be served The problem of plastic pollution is growing exponentially every year; we are producing more than 300 million tons of plastic, half of this is designed for single use, and each year around 8 million tons […]
In collaboration with Vermont College of Fine Arts, the Nordic House invites you to an evening filled with literary nonfiction and creative writing. Entrance is free! Xu Xi: What we write when we say we write “literary nonfiction” When it comes to “literary nonfiction,” what are we really writing and why do we write what […]
A raw tale of Ragnarök and resurrection. About greed and change. The world is about to go under and people call on Völuspá for help. But Völuspá has seen it before. She is tired of the repetition and the people who make the same mistakes over and over again. Why not just surrender to Armageddon […]
Tickets A raw tale of Ragnarök and resurrection. About greed and change. The world is about to go under and people call on Völuspá for help. But Völuspá has seen it before. She is tired of the repetition and the people who make the same mistakes over and over again. Why not just surrender to […]
Poetics of everyday life interacting with a landscape in flux. Spectacular normality in photographing Greenland. The exhibition is conceived around a photograph from the Nordic House art collection by legendary photographer Ivars Silis (b.1940). The colour photograph depicts an everyday situation, where a group of people have camped and gathered for bathing. Despite the normality […]
Tickets The Nordic House invites you to a performance for the whole family, The Shadow on the 15th of September. The performance is shown two times on the 15th of September, at 13.00 and 15.00. The entrance is 500 kr and tickets can be purchased on tix.is, at the Nordic House or on www.nordichouse.is. Language: Icelandic. […]
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Nordic House in Reykjavik, we are happy to invite you to attend a flag raising ceremony accompanied by the Cantoque Ensemble and join us for a morning song. Friday, August 24 at 9:00am-10: 00 am Everyone is welcome Coffee will is served Kind regards Mikkel Harder […]
Tickets It is our pleasure to announce that Tómas R. Einarsson and Eyþór Gunnarson will be playing at the Nordic House again! After the sold-out concert this summer during the Nordic House’s Concert Series, Tómas R. Einarsson and Eyþór Gunnarson return with an extra performance on the 31st of August at 21.00. Tickets are 2500 […]
Tickets The Nordic House invites you to a special concert with Ife Tolentino, Óskar Guðjónsson, Eyþór Gunnarsson and Skúli Sverrisson on the 1st of September at 21.00. The tickets are 2500 kr. and can be purchased on tix.is by following the link above or at the Reception of the Nordic House. Brazilian guitarist, singer and […]
The conference is held on the 24th of August – 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM at Veröld- Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute To create an inspiring debate about the role of the Nordic House in the past, today and in the future… The conference is live-streamed – you can also follow the event on a big screen in […]
Material Conference The Nordic House / 16th November / registration 20+ years of the Web and we are still at the very beginning of understanding and implementing digitization For the first time we are facing a generation that never got to know the offline world. By nature they are riding the wave without ever having touched […]
Hefur þú brennandi áhuga á börnum og barnamenningu? Bókasafn Norræna hússins er einstakt almenningsbókasafn með safnefni á sjö tungumálum, barnabókasafn og artótek með norrænum grafíkverkum. Bókasafnið hóf starfsemi árið 1969, ári eftir að húsið var vígt. Sérstaða safnsins er að þar er eingöngu að finna bókmenntir á norðurlandamálunum eftir norræna höfunda en þó ekki á […]
The Swedish/Icelandic duo consisting of S.hel and Mill will be playing at the Nordic House on the 10th of August at 8pm. Tickets will be available at tix.is and at the door before the concert starts (2000 kr). S.hel (Sævar Helgi) and Mill (Hanna Mia) are Reykjavík-based musicians and students at the Music Department of […]
Meet the Author Sara Stridsberg at the Nordic House Wednesday November the 7th at 19.30. The event is open and free for all. Sara Stridsberg (1972) is a lawyer and has written novels and plays, translated, written articles for the feminist cultural and social journal Bang and has been a member of the Swedish Academy (2016-2018). Stridsberg […]
Meet the Authors Hanne-Vibeke Holst and Kristín Steinsdóttir at the Nordic House Thursday October the 4th at 19.30. The event is open and free for all. In connection with Iceland’s 100th anniversary as an independent state and based on Holst and Steinsdóttir’s own authorhips, focus will be placed on women’s role in literature over time in the […]
Meet the Author Erik Skyum-Nielsen at the Nordic House Wednesday October the 3rd at 19.30. The event is open and free for all. In connection with Iceland’s 100th anniversary as an independent state, this evening will focus on recent Danish and Icelandic fiction. The conversation tonight will, among other things, spread light on similarities and differences regarding […]
Meet the Author Josefine Klougart at the Nordic House Wednesday September the 5th at 19.30. The event is open and free for all. Josefine Klougart (born 1985) studied art history and literature and attended The Danish Writer’s School, where she now teaches. She is the co-founder of the publishing company Forlaget Gladiator, and has also been […]
Concert: Folk Songs from Greenland Pilutaq, a residential institution for girls located in Sisimiut, Greenland, invites all to an afternoon concert on Saturday the 28th of July at 14:00 at the Nordic House. The concert is free and open for all! Every time Pilutaq travels to other countries or towns, they visit culture houses, community centers, and […]
Boðið er til opinnar afmælismálstofu Ögmundar Jónassonar þriðjudaginn þann 17. júlí frá kl. 14-16 í Norræna húsinu. Málstofan fer fram á ensku vegna erlendra gesta og verður spurt: Do we need to reinvent society? Á meðal þátttakenda má nefna Sólveigu Önnu Jónsdóttur, Allyson Pollock og Havin Guenser. Síðar um daginn, kl. 17, er boðið til […]
Tickets Sölvi Kolbeinsson Quartet will perform at the Nordic House on the 22nd of August at 20:00. Tickets are 2000 kr and can be purchased on tix.is or at the Reception of the Nordic House. Sölvi Kolbeinsson is a young musician based in Berlin where he studies at the Jazz Institute Berlin. His quartet is […]
Harpa International Music Academy / Alþjóðlega tónlistarakademían í Hörpu Masterclass and Chamber Music Workshop Free entrance. Everyone is welcome! Judith Ingolfsson is one of Iceland’s best known violinists. She won first prize in the 1998 Indianapolis Violin Competition and has since performed in the world’s best concert halls. Vladimir Stoupel is an exceptionally diverse […]
Harpa International Music Academy / Alþjóðlega tónlistarakademían í Hörpu Sigyn Fossnes: Teaching Talent Seminar and masterclass. Free entrance! Sigyn Fossnes is a prize-winning Norwegian violinist. She has broad experience as a teacher and specializes in teaching young talents at the renowned Barratt-Due Music Institute of Music in Oslo. Many of her students have won […]
Teachers of the Harpa International Music Academy will perform at the Auditorium of the Nordic House on the 10th of July at 8pm. Entrance to the concert is free of charge. Everyone is welcome! The faculty of the Harpa International Music Academy consists of music professors at respected music conservatories, many of whom are also renowned […]
The Children’s Book Flood has sailed into The Nordic House Children’s library Welcome to a new version of the Children’s Book Flood now situated at our lovely children’s library. Closed 11.-12. May because of The Environmental Festival Opening Hours Weekdays 13-17 Weekends 10-17 Free entrance About the exhibition The world of children’s books has a […]
Concert with pianist Mark Damisch at The Nordic House on the 3rd of August (Friday) at 8pm The concert is free of charge and open for all. Donations for Mark Damisch’s charity fund are welcome. Mark Damisch is an American concert pianist who began studying organ at the Evanston Conservatory of Music at the age […]
The choir Vilda Fåglar from Gotland performs at the Nordic House on the 9th of July at 8pm. Vilda Fåglar (eng. Wild Birds) is a choir from Gotland, Sweden, consisting of 13 singers. This summer, they will be touring in Iceland with a musical drama Volund. It is an original piece based on the old stories of […]