Environmental policies of Icelandic political parties- Livestream

  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?

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

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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

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 – Concert Centenaire

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 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

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 […]

Symposium: Self Image – World Image LIVESTREAM

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

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 – October 1st

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!

Lecture on Tchaikovsky and Grieg at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth

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 […]

Into the Wind! -Exhibition

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 […]

15:15 Concert series “Autumn Plays”

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 […]

Shorts from Garðarbæjarskóli – Riff

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 -Riff

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 […]

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!                                 […]