Airwaves off venue in The Nordic House Welcome to the Nordic House -Black Box and enjoy an elaborate OFF VENUE program. Admission is free! 13:00-17:00 Vinyl market 13:00 Man In between (ES) 14:00 Heidatrubador 15:00 Svavar Knútur 16:00 Kristín Thora INFO Man in between was born in 2013. Since then, ideas started to come together and songs […]
Airwaves off venue in The Nordic House Welcome to the Nordic House -Black Box and enjoy an elaborate OFF VENUE program. Admission is free! More information on the artists can be found below. Program: 13:00 VIL (IS/DK) 14:00 Einar Indra 15:00 Mikael Lind (IS/SE) 16:00 Hráefni 17:00 Mosi Musik 18:00 Birth Ctrl Info VIL is a new music […]
What´s the deal with Icelandic politics? The Nordic House, 24. October, 7:30pm- 9:00pm Welcome to a FREE event aimed at foreign nationals, residing in Iceland about Icelandic politics, and the parliamentary elections on October 29th. Who are these pirates? Who controls the country: Prime Minister Jóhannsson or President Jóhannesson? What will the Icelandic nation vote […]
Airwaves off venue in The Nordic House Welcome to the Nordic House -Black Box and enjoy an elaborate OFF VENUE program. Admission is free! More information on the artists can be found below. Program: 13:00 I Am Soyuz (SE) 14:00 Heiðrik (FO) 15:00 Small Time Giants (GL) 16:00 Rökkvi (FO) 17:00 VAR 18:00 X-Heart […]
Airwaves off venue in The Nordic House Welcome to the Nordic House -Black Box and enjoy an elaborate OFF VENUE program. Admission is free! More information on the artists can be found below. Program 13:00 Silja Johannesen (FO) 14:00 Magnetosphere 15:00 Ghost of Greenland 16:00 Daníel Hjálmtýsson 17:00 Hinemoa 18:00 Anatomy Of Frank (US) FULL PROGRAM Photo […]
Airwaves off venue in The Nordic House Welcome to the Nordic House -Black Box and enjoy an elaborate OFF VENUE program. Admission is free! More information on the artists can be found below. LIVESTREAM 13:00 SARAJANE (DE) 14:00 Wayward 15:00 Bláskjár 16:00 Omotrack 17:00 Andy Svarthol 18:00 Strange Boy (UK) Photo exhibition in Black Box Enjoy […]
Meet the Author- JOHN AJVIDE LINDQVIST At The Nordic House, November 1. at 7:30pm. Free entrance. The program will take place in scandinavian languages. Moderator is Tinna Ásgeirsdóttir. Since the autumn of 2015, the Nordic House has organized monthly Meet the Author evenings with exciting and relevant Nordic writers. Our goal is to present a wide variety […]
The Panama Papers The Nordic House, Monday 17 October at 16: 00-18: 00. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. Organized by The Pirate Party Speakers: Eva Joly representative of the French Greens in the European Parliament and former advisor to the special prosecutor John Kr. Kristjansson, a journalist with Reykjavik Media. Livestream
The Nordic House is a central literary arena in Reykjavik. The Nordic House has a long tradition of organizing author events with current and exciting Nordic writers in the spring and autumn period. It is our goal to invite a broad spectrum of interesting and relevant authors to talk about their books and their authorship. […]
Swedish storyhour for swedish speaking children in the Nordic House children library, Sunday from 12-14. Swedish storyhours: October 16th, November 13th and December 11th.
The Icelandic Nature Conservation Association organizes a meeting about the environmental policies of Icelandic political parties in connection with the elections on 29 October. Location: The Nordic House Date: Tuesday 18 October at 8 p.m. The political parties will be asked to give their vision on the following issues and questions: 1) Does […]
How can society affect and improve the welfare of young people? Seminar- The Nordic House, October 27. 11.30 am -15.00 pm. The event is mainly in Icelandic. Welcome! Registration: www.nordicwelfare.org/ungs-folks Further infomation: Lidija Kolouh-Söderlund, Project manager, lidija.k-soderlund@nordicwelfare.org Victoria Henriksson, victoria.henriksson@nordicwelfare.org
The Nordic House in Reykjavík seeks a Technician 100% position that speaks both Icelandic and one of the Nordic languages Danish, Norwegian ore Swedish. Ert þú einstaklingurinn sem við leitum að? – Þú hugsar í lausnum og hefur frábæra þjónustulund – Þú getur haldið ótal boltum á lofti í einu – Þú vinnur skipulega og […]
FEARLESS WARRIORS OF THE ROSELAND Concert 14. october 8 pm. The Nordic House Price: 1500 ISK Tickets are sold here Tix.is and by the entrance Born as a collaborative project, Roseland is a place for meetings and possibilities, a landscape where dreams dance as poetry and pictures. At first the 4 core warriors brought their musical backgrounds […]
Classics in the Moorland 25. October 20:00-21:30 Concert Centenaire, Judith Ingolfsson violinist and pianist Vladimir Stoupel, guests from Berlin perform music from latest album by Messiaen and others. Admission fee is ISK 2500, ISK 1500 for senior citizens and disabled; free for students, 25 years old and younger. Tickets are available at the entrance. About […]
Iceland Noir 2016 Iceland Noir is Iceland’s first festival of crime fiction, taking place on Thursday 14th – Saturday 19th November 2016 with two-and-a-half days of interviews and panels at the Nordic House in Reykjavík, and with associated events taking place around the city. Registration Programme Homepage
Gender and finance – investment for the future GARCIA in collaboration with the University of Iceland, Reykjavik city, and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs invite you to a seminar on gender and finance. Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at. 9: 00-13: 00 at The Nordic House. The seminar takes plays in Icelandic and […]
Self Image – World Image Symposium: Lectures and discussions on the diverse self-images and world-images in children’s literature. 08.30–09.00 Registration and coffee 09.00–09.10 Welcome: Eliza Jean Reid First Lady of Iceland and founder of Iceland Writers Retreat. 09.10–09.20 The Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize: Sigurður Ólafsson, director of the Office for […]
Réttarstaða og velferð barna við andlát foreldris Ráðstefna innanríkisráðuneytis og velferðarráðuneytis í samstarfi við Rannsóknastofnun í barna- og fjölskylduvernd við félagsráðgjafardeild Háskóla Íslands Norræna húsið 12. október kl. 09:00–12:00 Fundarstjóri er Anna Rós Jóhannesdóttir, yfirfélagsráðgjafi Landspítalans. Ráðstefnan fer fram á íslensku. Dagskrá 09:00 – 09:10 Setning: Ólöf Nordal, innanríkisráðherra. 09:10 – 09:40 Rannsóknin: Staða barna við andlát […]
Norwegian storyhour for Norwegian speaking children Saturdays, October 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!
Finnish story hour Sunday October 2nd at 12:00 in the Nordic House Library. Welcome.
Wagner company gives a lecture at the Nordic House on Monday, November 20th at 13:00 The lecture is in Icelandic and is open to all, free. Lecture on Tchaikovsky and Grieg at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth When Richard Wagner’s monumental work, ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’, was first performed in its entirety at the first […]
3. – 29. October 2016 INTO THE WIND! CHILDREN´S BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE NORDIC COUNTRIES Into the Wind! is a deliberately diverse exhibition – in reference to the nature of northern Europe with its many contrasts and the region’s deeply anchored visual narrative art, as well as to an unwavering Nordic position: children and young […]
Autumn Plays Sunday, October 16th will be the first concert of new winter season at the 15:15 concert series at the Nordic House. The headline of the event is Autumn Plays, where some of Áskell Masson´s works will be presented. Performers are the fantastic Duo Harpverk and the multitalented Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason, who here demonstrates […]
Deepa Mehta Masterclass 3 October 13:00 Free event!
Shorts from Garðarbæjarskóli 2 Oktober 11:00 Gratis! (EN) This spring RIFF held a short film course for children in elementary schools in Garðabær. The kids learned about directing, screenwriting, cinematography and editing. After that they made their own short films. We are proud to screen these films made by the filmmakers of the future.
In Focus: Faroe Islands And Greenland 1 October 19:00 Tickets Boys Sunniva Sundby FRO / 7 min What does a gang of teenagers do in a cemetery in the middle of summer? Not what you would think. ‘Boys’ gives a glimpse of a youth gang in the Faroe Islands. A Crack Andrias Høgenni […]
Brontis Jodorowsky Masterclass 1 October 17:00 Free entrance In English info
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 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 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 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! 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 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? 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 […]