Panel: Polish Cinema, Opportunities and Obstacles – Riff

Panel: Polish Cinema, Opportunities and Obstacles 30 September 15:00 Info  (EN) What does the future hold for Polish films? Hear representatives from the film industry discuss how Polish filmmaking has been supported in the past and whether this will change in a new political landscape. HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre will be launched on October 7th […]

Art Without Borders -Riff

Art Without Borders 30 September 19:00 Free! Art Without Borders in cooperation with the NOA project (Nordic Outsider Art) is hosting a panel and film screening of works made by and for the disabled community. A group of outsider and disabled artists from Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland came together to make a collaborative film […]

Ransacked – Riff

Ransacked Pétur Einarsson ISL 2016 / 53 min 3 October 20:30 Tickets  “The Party. The Hangover. Pack of Wolves. The Fight. The Verdict.” In October 2008 Iceland’s banking sector collapsed. ‘Ransacked’ tells how wealth, hedge funds and the economy can affect the lives of normal people like Thorsteinn Theodorsson. Eight years later, the bank has […]

When You Least Expect It -Riff

When You Least Expect It  Mart Kivastik EST/ICE 2016 / 90 min 3 October 18:30 Tickets Viivi and Andu wake up in the same bed one morning, and neither of them has a clue who the other is. The viewers know that Viivi is having worst day ever and that Andu is a nerd. A […]

Girls Film!

Girls Film! Shorts By Children And Teens 3 October 17:00 Free! RIFF held, in collaboration with the city of Reykjavik and Nordbuk the short film course Girls Film! Girls from elementary schools in Reykjavik and girls from the Faroe Islands and Finland took a one week course in short filmmaking. Here you can see the […]

Pale Star – Riff

Pale Star Graeme Maley ICE/GBR 2016 / 80 min 2 October 21:00 Tickets   ‘Pale Star’ is about the possessiveness of love. About how that possession peels back to expose power and control until we can see, in its dark heart, not love but murder. The tragedies of two couples’ lives collide against the dramatic […]

Northern Experience – Riff

Northern Experience Gurwann Tran Van Gie FRA/ICE 2016 / 48 min 2 October 19:00 Tickets What will happen when a brain and a landscape collide? Filming telluric hypnosis sessions, Gurwann Tran Van Gie tried to capture the impact of the Icelandic elements on the psyches of the French writer Thomas Clerc and Icelandic artist Asdis […]

Mellow Mud -Riff

Mellow Mud  Renars Vimba LAT 2016 / 105 min 2 October 17:00 Tickets Loneliness, disillusionment and the experience of first love defines the life of Raya, 17, who lives in a small family house in rural Latvia with her grandmother and her little brother Robis. With no parents, a staggering turn of events shakes up […]

14+ Shorts for Children Riff

14+ Shorts for Children -Riff 2 October 15:00 Tickets   Mother Knows Best  Mikael Bundsen SWE 2016 / 13 min So, he’s gay. This evening he introduced his boyfriend to his mum. He’s fortunate to have such an open-minded mother, not everyone is as lucky, but she thinks it’s best that he doesn’t tell his father […]

12+ Shorts for Children -Riff

12+ Shorts for Children 2 October 13:00 Tickets   Ninnoc Niki Padidar NLD 2015 / 19 min Who am I really behind my smile? And who do the others see when they see me? What’s ‘normal’ anyway? Ninnoc describes her fears and the conflicts that she has to endure at school due to her supposed […]

10+ Shorts for Children- Riff

Shorts for Children +10 1 October 15:00 Price:700 ISK Language: Icelandic dubbing Little Doll Kate Dolan DEU 2016 / 14 min Alex invites Elenore to a slumber party. Alex’s friends are not thrilled when Elenore shows up. There’s some kind of special connection between the two of them. How will Alex act when the other […]

8+ Shorts for Children -Riff

8+ Shorts for Children 1 October 13:00 Price 700ISK Icelandic dubbing Ruby Louise Ní Fhiannachta USA 2013 / 11 min Young Ruby refuses to believe that God exists. Instead, she reads Charles Darwin and angers both her teacher and her mother by declaring that she is an atheist. Behind her beliefs, Ruby carries a secret. […]

6+ Shorts for Children

6+ Shorts for Children 1 October 11:00 Icelandic dubbing Captain Fish  John Banana POL 2014 / 8 min A little girl refuses to eat the fish she is served by her mother and instead takes it back to where it belongs – the far blue sea.   Maa Baa  Ahmad Salehl DEU 2016 / 6 […]

DIY Country -Riff-

Buy Tickets   DIY Country Antony Butts FRA/GBR 2016 / 90 min 30 September 21:30 3 October 15:00 ‘DIY Country’ captures the evolution of the Donetsk People’s Republic in Ukraine for two years, from hopeful and naive beginnings to hate, destruction and infighting. We follow the sinister and at times comical mechanics of a revolution […]

DIY Country -Riff

Buy Tickets   DIY Country Antony Butts FRA/GBR 2016 / 90 min 30 September 21:30 3 October 13:00 ‘DIY Country’ captures the evolution of the Donetsk People’s Republic in Ukraine for two years, from hopeful and naive beginnings to hate, destruction and infighting. We follow the sinister and at times comical mechanics of a revolution […]

Polish Shorts -Riff

Polish Shorts  30 September 17:00 / Total 93 min Object Paulina Skibińska ‘Object’ is a creative and abstract image of an underwater search told from two points of view. The action takes place in the dimensions of two worlds – ice desert and underwater. Creatures Tessa Moult-Milewska ‘Creatures’ is a grotesque love story about Harold […]

Bobby Sands: 66 days – Riff

Buy Tickets Bobby Sands: 66 days Brendan Byrne IRL/GBR 2016 / 105 min 29 September 19:00 Irish Republican Bobby Sands’ hunger strike in 1981 brought the attention of the world to his cause. Sands’ emotive, non-violent protest became a defining moment in 20th century Irish history. His death after 66 days marked a turning point […]

Midnight’s Children – Riff

  Buy Tickets Midnight’s Children  Deepa Mehta CAN/GBR 2012 / 148 min 29 September 15:00   At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital and are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. […]

25 Years Nordic-Baltic Cooperation

25 Years Nordic-Baltic Cooperation Monday 26 September 2016 from 14-16 at the Nordic House In 1991, the three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, regained their independence following the democratic wave that swept across the region. Today, 25 years later, the Nordic-Baltic cooperation is a well-established priority for all the states in question. Livestream: PROGRAMME: […]

Fate and karma, do we have a free will?

Fate and karma, do we have a free will? According to the Grail Message Wednesday 12th October, 8 pm in The Nordic House. Organizer: GRAL-NORDEN Entry fee ISK 500.– Lecture in English – Reading of an excerpt from the Grail Message in Icelandic What are fate and karma? Why those twists of fate which turn our […]

Danish storyhours 25. 9. 2016

Danish storyhours Danish storyhours for danish speaking children Sundays, September 25th, October 30 and November 27th from 14-15

Uncertain Matter – Audio-installation

Uncertain Matter   ‘There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.’ – Jorge Luis Borges-   Uncertain Matter is a narrative driven audio-installation in the greenhouse by Ella Bertilsson (SWE) and Ulla Juske (EST). Open 23.09 and 24.09 from 18:00 – 22:00.  Free entrance! Join us for a moment, enjoy […]

Fest Afrika Reykjavik

Fest Afrika Reykjavik Wednesday 28th of September, 16:30-18:30, at the Nordic House, Reykjavik. Free entrance! The festival begins with a presentation of the festival. The Nordic House Opening ceremony 16.30-18.30 – Cheick Bangoura (Iceland) – Menard Mponda (Finland/Tanzania) – Kiaa Marimba; Marimba orchestra from the Þingey elementary school (Iceland) – Gunn Hernes (Iceland/Norway)  Rest of the […]

Einar Selvik – Concert /SOLD OUT

Einar Selvik Words and Music Concert at The Nordic House – Saturday 24th September – 8.00 p.m.  SOLD OUT! Tickets   2500 ISK  Students 2000 ISK. Einar Selvik is a Norwegian composer, and the main musician and founder of the Norwegian musical constellation Wardruna, a project dedicated to creating musical renditions of different Norse cultural and esoteric […]

I LISTEN TO THE WIND – children’s theater

Buy Tickets I LISTEN TO THE WIND In the Nordic House Sunday 25.09 at 3pm and at 5pm. Tickets sale. The performance is in Icelandic and finish and  45 minutes long. Price 1000 ISK. PLEASE NOTE that the first show starts at 3pm, second show begins at 5pm.  I LISTEN TO THE WIND is a Finnish- Icelandic theatre performance […]

Sigurðar Nordals fyrirlestur

Sigurðar Nordals fyrirlestur Guðmundur Andri Thorsson, rithöfundur og ritstjóri TMM, flytur opinberan fyrirlestur í Norræna húsinu, miðvikudaginn 14. september nk. kl. 17.00, á fæðingardegi dr. Sigurðar Nordals. Fyrirlesturinn nefnist: „Vér lærum ekki til að verða lærðir, heldur til að verða góðir.“ Í fyrirlestrinum beinir Guðmundur Andri sjónum að Sveinbirni Egilssyni rektor (1791–1852), skólastarfi hans og ritstörfum og […]

Stadikvartett – Concert

Stadikvartett – Concert Saturday, September 17th at 20 in the Nordic House- Free entrance! Stadikvartett is a male quartet that was founded in 2011 in Helsinki. The quartet has its roots in the student choirs of Turku. Over the years Stadikvartett has performed among others in The Finnish Institute in Rome (Villa Lante), the Finnish […]

RÖKKVI – Concert

RÖKKVI – We are happy to host Jógvan Joensen and Rógvi Odvørson from Faore Island with an acoustic concert in the Nordic House. Their band [rökkvi] is a new band from Faroes Island witch published their first single in April this year.  Rökkvi will play an acoustic version of the single for the Nordic House guests. The band plays […]

Norwegian storyhour for Norwegian speaking children

Norwegian storyhour for Norwegian speaking children Saturdays, September 10th, October 1st, November 5th, December 3d, from 13-14 in the Nordic House children area.  Children that understand Norwegian are welcome with their parents. Matja Steen leads the storyhour.  Ha det bra!                                 […]

Swedish storyhour *

Swedish storyhour for swedish speaking children in the Nordic House children library, Sunday from 12-14. Swedish storyhours: September 11th, October 16th, November 13th and December 11th.  

Rewritten fairytales – Art In the foyer

 Rewritten fairytales, from an idea to a Work of Art! Hlutverkasetur in collaboration with Art without Borders have organised an exhibition in the Nordic House in Reykjavík. Everyone is welcome to the opening 14. September at 19.00.hrs ( 7.00pm) Hlutverkasetur is a place of rehabilitation for people that have lost their way in life. The […]

ANERSAAQ- Workshop for children

ANERSAAQ- Workshop for children  At the Nordic House children’s library.  September 13th 17 – 18:30. Children age 8 – 14 years old are welcome. Free entrance! Be a part of a great Art project travelling in the North. Join the workshop and send your drawings and homemade slides with our Art-container to Greenland, Denmark and Berlin. Experience what other kids has been […]

ANERSAAQ – Outdoor media installation

ANERSAAQ / ANDI / ÅND – spirit of place – Artist talk 13. september at 8pm Artist talk with Karen Thastum from the group TURA YA  MOYA and initiator of the traveling containerproject. Karen will present parts of her film SERMERSAAQ SAGA telling about „spirit of place“ TINIT in East Greenland. The talk is in English. More […]

What‘s going on in Denmark? LIVESTREAM

What‘s going on in Denmark? Having worked for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation since 2004 Clement Kjersgaard has anchored no less than 14 TV-shows and a number of specials. He also is the founder/publisher of the Danish current affairs magazine RÆSON. He will give a lecture at The Nordic House in Reykjavik on the current and […]

Finnish storyhour

Finnish storyhour Sunday September 4th at 12:00 in the Nordic House Library.  Welcome  

Danish autumn

Danish autumn Visits by Danish authors, artists and researchers, October 12-16, 2016 The festival will be in the Nordic House on 13. & 15. October. Timetable in the Nordic House, October 13 Thursday 13th of October, 17-19h, Nordic House entrance: Art opening with Ole Bundgaard and Sigurður Þóris. Ole sings and plays some tunes with Icelandic […]

Norræna tjaldið á FUNDI FÓLKSINS

Föstudagur, 2. september Kl. 12:00-12:50 Opnun Norræna tjaldsins: Norræn vísnatónlist  Vigdís Hafliðadóttir og Þorgerður Ása Aðalsteinsdóttir eru nýútskrifaðar vísnasöngkonur úr Norræna vísnasöngskólanum í Kungälv í Svíþjóð. Þær flytja gestum Norræna tjaldsins lög af ýmsum toga þar sem lagatextarnir eru flestir á íslensku en nokkrir textar á granntungum okkar slæðast þó með. Kl. 13:00-13:50 Þjóðernishyggja og […]

20th anniversary of the Arctic Council – Presentation of a report on Iceland’s interest in the Arctic

Föstudagur 9. september 2016 13.00-16.00 Norræna húsið, Reykjavík.  Norðurskautsráðið 20 ára – árangur og áskoranir 13.00 – 14.15 Hringborðsumræður: Norðurskautsráðið – starfsemi og verkefni Fundarstjóri: Magnús Jóhannesson framkvæmdastjóri Norðurskautsráðsins Þátttakendur: Árni Þór Sigurðsson, sendiherra norðurslóða, utanríkisráðuneytinu Soffía Guðmundsdóttir, framkvæmdastjóri PAME (vinnuhóps Norðurskautsráðsins um málefni hafsins) Halldór Björnsson, hópstjóri veðurs og loftslags, Veðurstofu Íslands Lára Jóhannsdóttir, […]

Fiskveiðistjórnun og jöfnuður – Færeyingar segja frá- Livestream

Fiskveiðistjórnun og jöfnuður – Færeyingar segja frá Þrír færeyskir ráðherrar á fundi Vinstri-grænna 10. september. Fundurinn fer fram á skandinavísku tungumáli og er opinn öllum, ókeypis.  Livestream: Þrír ráðherrar færeysku landstjórnarinnar, þau Högni Höydal, sjávarútvegsráðherra, Kristina Háfoss, fjármálaráðherra og Siríð Stenberg, innanríkis og velferðarráðherra, eru væntanleg til Íslands helgina 9 – 12 september í boði […]

Mýrin bókmenntahátíð

Mýrin homepage „Mýrin“ or In the Moorland 2016 –  International children‘s literature festival will be held in the Nordic house october 6th – 9th 2016 with authors and scholars from Scandinavia, Europe and USA. The program will consist of both readings, lectures and workshops. Facebook

Open call – Iceland Airwaves Off-venue

Open call! The Nordic House in Reykjavik is accepting applications from artists and musicians for the upcoming Airwaves off-venue concerts, 2nd – 6th November 2016. It´s open for all artists to apply, but we have a special focus on artists living in a Nordic or Baltic countries, or have a Nordic nationality living abroad. Please let […]

Danish storyhours

Danish storyhours for Danish speaking children and their parents. The Nordic House children library, Sunday, August 28, from 14-15. We read, talk and sing together. The storyhour is lead by Susanne Elgum. Danish storyhours Sundays from 14-15, on August 28, September 25, October 30 and November 27.

Meet the Author – Athena Farrokhzad & Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl

Meet the Author  October 4. at 7:30pm.  Free entrance. The program will take place in a Scandinavian languages. Livestream ATHENA FARROKHZAD (1983) is a Swedish poet, literary critic, translator, playwright and teacher of creative writing at Biskops-Arnö folk high school. She was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. In 2013, Athena Farrokhzad published the collection of poems […]

The People’s Meeting

  The People’s Meeting is a vibrant two days festival on society and community, where people meet and discuss matters important to all of us. We will pitch tents in a camp where many different organizations invite to activities. We will experience spirited discussions, music and events. The meeting mostly is in Icelandic but everyone […]

Meet the Author – Carsten Jensen LIVESTREAM

Carsten Jensen

Meet the Author: CARSTEN JENSEN At The Nordic House, september 6. at 7:30pm.  Free entrance. The program will take place in scandinavian languages. Livestream CARSTEN JENSEN (f. 1952) is a Danish author, journalist and debater. He has a degree in literary studies from the University of Copenhagen, and often appears in columns in the major Danish daily […]

The Swedish duo Gursus

Gursus Iceland Tour – aka. the Tour of the Unexpected The Swedish duo Gursus is coming to Iceland!  Take the opportunity to experience this unique folk jazz clash. Buy tickets.  Unexpected meetings. Unexpected stories. Unexpected music. The duo itself is a result of a sudden meeting between a folk fiddler and a jazz saxophonist, all […]