The Nordic House / September 18th at 19:30 The Nordic House is pleased to present a classical piano concert with guests from the Latvian Academy of Music (JVLMA) as a part of the international project “Crossing Keyboards”. Professors and students from Latvian Academy of Music will guest Iceland Academy of Arts to attend a common […]
Art Auction in Support of Wordquake 18. September 2017, 3.30pm-5pm Sted Remisen på Godsbanen + Livestream via facebook.com/ordskaelv Original art work by highly acclaimed Nordic artists such as Knud Odde (DK), Gabríela Friðriksdóttir (IS), and Patrik Gustavsson (SE). Download catalog with art work on www.ordskaelv.org from the 5th of September. Livestream via facebook.com/ordskaelv Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers swing the hammer […]
The Tangofestival; Tango on Ice will be held in Reykjavík, 21.–24. September 2017 at Iðnó and The Nordic House. The program at The Nordic House will take plays in Salur and Black Box. Further information: http://tango.is/2017/02/28/tango-on-ice-2017-programme/
Open call for Unplugged Airwaves off-venue! The Nordic House in Reykjavik is accepting applications from artists and musicians for the upcoming Airwaves off-venue concerts Friday 5th November 2017. It´s open for all artists to apply, but we have a special focus on artists living in Nordic or Baltic countries, or have a Nordic nationality living abroad. […]
Open call for Unplugged Airwaves off-venue! The Nordic House in Reykjavik is accepting applications from artists and musicians for the upcoming Airwaves off-venue concerts Friday 3rd November 2017. It´s open for all artists to apply, but we have a special focus on artists living in Nordic or Baltic countries or have a Nordic nationality living abroad. […]
Invitation to residents in Reykjavík The Western Nordic Council’s culture evening will be held at The Nordic House on Friday night September 1. at 19:30 – 21:00 The West Nordic Council will hold a Annual General Meeting in Reykjavik, 31 August – 1 September 2017. For that reason, the West Nordic Council holds a cultural […]
Introduction to the music of “A Journey through the Nordic nature” Saturday 26 August at 13:00 – 14:30. Free entrance. The introduction will be in English. Ensemble Sirius are giving a concert at The Nordic House Sunday 27th August, but first they want to invite you for a lectures and workshop. At the workshop, the ensemble […]
Would you like to work as be a trainee at The Nordic House in Iceland? 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 […]
The Norwegians have the parliamentary elections on September 11th. The Nordic Region in Focus invites you to a breakfast meeting on September 4th, 12-1:30 PM to discuss the upcoming election. The main speaker is the Icelandic-Norwegian journalist Mímir Kristjánsson. After there will be a panel debate. The moderator is Bogi Ágústsson, news reporter and President of The […]
Meet the author Sørine Steenholdt at the Nordic House/ Tuesday 5 September at 7.30 p.m. Free entrance. Everybody welcome! The moderator is Heiðrún Ólafsdóttir, who has translated Sørine Steenholdts book Zombiet Nunaat into Icelandic and the interview will be held in Danish. During the break and prior to the event, refreshments are available from AALTO Bistro. […]
Tubling Time with bObles / August 19th 2PM/ Barnahellir / Free / registration bObles is creative play, motor skill development and happy children with their parents. Tumbling Time is an event concept, where we play together and get a better understanding of how we can stimulate and challenge our children’s motor skills. We roll, crawl, […]
Ung Nordisk Musik Ung Nordisk Musik give a free concert Friday August 18th at 8PM. Welcome! Concert 5 Norræna Húsið / Nordic House Martin Andreas Hirsti-Kvam Inner Ear Music for cello, electronics and video Kari Telstad Sundet “We choose to go to the moon” for string quartet, electronics and video Kristofer Svensson Den intimitet som […]
Sigurðar Nordals lecture More information in Icelandic.
Skriftamál einsetumannsins Hinn 16. september verður þess minnst með dagskrá í Norræna húsinu að 22. september verða liðin 150 ár frá fæðingu Sigurjóns Friðjónssonar skálds. Af því tilefni verður bók hans, Skriftamál einsetumannsins, endurútgefin hjá Hinu íslenska bókmenntafélagi. Arnhildur Arnaldsdóttir íslenskufræðingur fjallar um skáldið og verk hans. Lesið verður úr Skriftamálum einsetumannsins og einnig nokkur kvæða […]
Material Conference 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 the ground. We might have unlearned our […]
Danish Story Hour Danish Story Hour for children in the Nordic House Children Library. All children that understand Danish are welcome with their parents. Mira Stenberg Andersen leads the storyhour. Dates: Sunday 27 August, Saturday 30 September, Sunday 29 October and Sunday 19 November.
Danish Story Hour Danish Story Hour for children in the Nordic House Children Library. All children that understand danish are welcome with their parents. Mira Stenberg Andersen leads the storyhour. Dates: Sunday August 27th, Saturday September 30, Sunday October 29th and Sunday November 19th.
Danish Story Hour Danish Story Hour for children in the Nordic House Children Library. All children that understand Danish are welcome with their parents. Mira Stenberg Andersen leads the story hour. Dates: Sunday, August 27th, Saturday, September 30, Sunday, October 29th and Sunday, November 19th.
Danish Story Hour Danish Story Hour for children in the Nordic House Children Library. All children that understand Danish are welcome with their parents. Mira Stenberg Andersen leads the storyhour. Dates: Sunday August 27th, Saturday September 30, Sunday October 29th and Sunday November 19th.
Danish Story Hour Danish Story Hour for children in the Nordic House Children Library. All children that understand danish are welcome with their parents. Mira Stenberg Andersen leads the storyhour. Dates: August 27th, Saturday September 30, October 29th and November 19th.
Danish Story Hour 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 […]
Swedish story hour for Swedish speaking children Swedish story hour for Swedish speaking children (2-12 years) in the Nordic House children library, the second Sunday every month from September – November, from 12-14. Welcome. Dates: 10. September, 8. October and 12. November.
Swedish story hour for Swedish speaking children Swedish story hour for Swedish speaking children (2-12 years) in the Nordic House children library, the second Sunday every month from September – November, from 12-14. Welcome. Dates: 10. September, 8. October and 12. November.
Swedish story hour for Swedish speaking children Swedish story hour for Swedish speaking children (2-12 years) in the Nordic House children library, the second Sunday every month from September – November, from 12-14. Welcome. Dates: 10. September, 8. October and 12. November.
Join us on “Kvöldvaka” at The Nordic House! KVÖLDVAKA is a unique experience to get to know Icelandic culture and folklore through an energetic hour of new and exciting arrangements of Icelandic folk music. KVÖLDVAKA is a theatrical concert that mixes together old Icelandic folk tales and new arrangements of Icelandic folk songs with a modern […]
Join us on “Kvöldvaka” at The Nordic House! KVÖLDVAKA is a unique experience to get to know Icelandic culture and folklore through an energetic hour of new and exciting arrangements of Icelandic folk music. KVÖLDVAKA is a theatrical concert that mixes together old Icelandic folk tales and new arrangements of Icelandic folk songs with a modern […]
Join us on “Kvöldvaka” at The Nordic House! KVÖLDVAKA is a unique experience to get to know Icelandic culture and folklore through an energetic hour of new and exciting arrangements of Icelandic folk music. KVÖLDVAKA is a theatrical concert that mixes together old Icelandic folk tales and new arrangements of Icelandic folk songs with a modern […]
The Nordic House Greenhouse One day Pop-Up Exhibition 11:00-18:00 Discussion with the artists at 16.30-18:00 Northern Bumbling is a joint Nordic art, design, and research network with artists from Iceland, Sweden and Norway. Using the public greenhouse and the surrounding wetlands at the Nordic House as a model for a shared multi-species space, the […]
Exhibition opening at Nauthólsvík beach / June 18th 15:00 / Free and open for all A warm welcome to exhibition opening at Nauthólsvík beach of the Norwegian artist Torild Malmedal’s exhibition Capture the Blue – an exhibition containing sculptures of marble and glass which from June 18th – August 16th will exhibit at Nauthólsvík beach. […]
Workshop for kids / June 27th 13:00-16:00 / Free Do YOU want to play exciting music with other kids at the Nordic House? At this workshop you will meet professional musicians from Norway, presenting a new method that will make you play cool, improvised music in a few hours, even if you have never tried […]
Lecture on VAASTU Welcome to a lecture on Vaastu architecture at the Nordic House June 22 at. 19:30! Traditional Indian architecture for material and spiritual well-being in a modern age Lecturer: Alexandar Simonic, MSc EE, BSc MST, Educated Vaastu advisor. The lecture will be in English For more information 8692159
Join us on “Kvöldvaka” at The Nordic House! KVÖLDVAKA is a unique experience to get to know Icelandic culture and folklore through an energetic hour of new and exciting arrangements of Icelandic folk music. KVÖLDVAKA is a theatrical concert that mixes together old Icelandic folk tales and new arrangements of Icelandic folk songs with a modern […]
Martröð með myglusvepp er nýútkomin bók eftir Stein Kárason um orsakir og afleiðingar af völdum myglusveppa. Af tilefni útgáfunnar verður bókarkynning og fræðsla í Norræna húsinu laugardaginn 10. júní klukkar 13:30. Allir eru velkomnir og aðgangur er ókeypis. Í bókinni eru átta reynslusögur fólks sem glímt hefur við eitrun af völdum myglusveppa, hvernig fólkið brást […]
Exhibition / August 16th – September 16th / free Opening August 16th at 5 pm. Welcome! Five Swedish have collaborated to create this unique exhibition, where the individual works in context with others form a Nordic collage of contrasts, refractions and cohesion. The main idea behind the exhibition is the comic strip, where the story […]
Basic Income and the Nordic Welfare Model – Reykjavik 2017 On August 31st 2017 BIEN Iceland hopes to see you in Reykjavik to participate in a conference with several distinguished speakers where the discussion will focus on how the Universal Basic Income ideology fits in with the Nordic Welfare Model. . Watch the LiveStream here. It […]
Anywhere is home Poetry night at the Nordic House, Wednesday 7 June, 7pm A visit to Iceland by Författarcentrum Väst (”Writers’ centre West”) Gothenburg: Anna Mattson, Axîn Welat, Kristín Bjarnadóttir and Louise Halvardsson from the poetry group PoPP. The theme is home, based on the poets’ experience of living abroad; ”home” could be in Cambodia […]
FUTURE PRACTICE of design and architecture, by Rory Hyde LECTURE + CONVERSATION Nordic House, May 31 (Wed), 20:00-21:30 On May 31 the insightful Rory Hyde will give a lecture about his view on future practice of design and architecture, based on his acclaimed book and years of multifaceted academic and professional research. A special attention […]
Good cities=happy people Good cities are like candy stores. They have something for everyone and lots of it! Alexandria Algard arkitekt og formaður norska arkitektafélagsins heldur fyrirlestur í Norræna húsinu 1. júní kl. 18:00 um borgir og hið manngerða umhverfi. Það má segja að Alexandria sé nokkurskonar rokkstjarna arkitekta í Noregi en auk þess að […]
Workshop / June 2nd 15:00-20:00 / For free and open for all girls Are you a girl, 16 years or older, and do you want to write music? Then this workshop is for you! No matter if you have just started writing music, or you are a experienced composer, you are welcome! Get new ideas […]
This biannual festival has been held since 1985 and is one of the most important literary festivals in Europe. Meet authors, attend readings and seminars or dance with your favorite author at the Literary Ball! Find the whole program here. For more information please visit the Reykjavík International Literary Festival website. Discussions are conducted in English. […]
NonfictioNOW 2017 – Off-Venue: Authors’ Evenings Friday, June 2, 9–11:30 pm Book launch: Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of chronic illness and pain: Heather Taylor Johnson, Fiona Wright, Quinn Eades Readings: – Ariel Gore (The End of Eve; We Were Witches) – Elísabet Jökulsdóttir (The Locksmith’s Advice; Love is a Mess of Nerves: No Dancing […]
Available Wednesdays at 6 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. From June 14th to August 31st A guided tour of The Nordic House will give you an introduction to Nordic cooperation and a unique chance to see rooms in The Nordic House – that are normally not open for the public. The Nordic House is […]
Nordic Welfare Center – CONNECT project Welfare technology has increasingly been on both the political and media agenda during the last five to seven years. Yet despite this great interest and intensive hype, perhaps not as many new solutions have been implemented as might have been expected. The over 1,200 Nordic municipalities have faced challenges […]
NonfictioNOW 2017 – Off-Venue Events Saturday, June 3, 11:40 am–12:20 pm Environment, Memory & Things Artist talk by Leila Philip in connection with the screening of the video installation by Leila Philip and Garth Evans. Sunday, June 4, 1:15–1:45 pm Environment, Memory & Things Talk by Leila Philip on art and environment protection in […]
NonfictioNOW 2017 – Off-Venue Events Screening at the Nordic House: Environment, Memory & Things – a video installation by Leila Philip and Garth Evans. In 2012, Leila Philip and Garth Evans set out to challenge themselves as artists. Philip, an award-winning prose writer, wrote poems. Evans, an internationally renowned sculptor, made watercolors. Water Rising tells […]