{"id":55434,"date":"2023-03-13T17:41:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/?post_type=event&#038;p=55434"},"modified":"2023-03-15T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T13:48:00","slug":"nordic-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/event\/nordic-day-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Nordic solidarity and the role of culture in a time of war<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Nordic house, The Nordic Association in Iceland and the Nordic Council of Ministers invite you to join Nordic Day in the Nordic house in Reykjav\u00edk on March 23 at 16.00\u201318.15. The day commemorates the Helsinki Agreement, which was signed on March 23, 1962 and forms the basis of Nordic cooperation. The program this year is centered around peace and Nordic solidarity in a time of war, and consists of a panel discussion, speeches from Nordic profiles and cultural inputs<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening speeches &#8211; <strong>Gu\u00f0mundur Ingi Gu\u00f0brandsson, <\/strong>minister for Nordic Cooperation, and <strong>Sabina Westerholm, <\/strong>director of the Nordic house in Reykjav\u00edk.<\/li>\n<li>Panel discussion \u2013 <em>Women in War: The role of culture in a time of war. <\/em>Further description here below.<\/li>\n<li>Speeches \u2013 <strong>Brynd\u00eds Haraldsd\u00f3ttir, <\/strong>Chair of the Icelandic delegation to the Nordic Council, and <strong>P\u00e4r Ahlberger<\/strong>, ambassador of Sweden.<\/li>\n<li>Reading &#8211; <strong>Gu\u00f0ni El\u00edsson<\/strong> talks about and reads from his book <em>Lj\u00f3sgildran<\/em>, which has been nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Address &#8211; <strong>Helgi \u00deorsteinsson<\/strong>, historian and board member of the Nordic Association in Iceland: <em>War and Peace in the Nordics.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Concluding remarks &#8211; <strong>Hrannar Bj\u00f6rn Arnarsson<\/strong>, president of the Nordic Association in Iceland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><u>Women in War: The role of culture in a time of war<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Why listen to the music, go to theatre, write poetry, why look at art, when the war is raging and people are still dying? Poems will not stop missiles. Theatre will not end suffering.<\/p>\n<p>But culture is not powerless.<\/p>\n<p>Through art we establish similarities between past and future, abstract and concrete, we learn to understand and doubt. We learn to see the difference between good and bad in the times of utmost struggle and calamity. Art and culture have a power of depicting war matters for its own sake, communicating the message directly and above the usual human communication channels and propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Meet four women of culture &#8211; an Icelandic-Ukrainian actress Valerie \u00d3sk Elenud\u00f3ttir, an Icelandic poet of Russian origin awarded T\u00f3mas Gu\u00f0mudsson prize Natasha S, Kateryna Mysechko &#8211; a Ukrianian violinist of Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Olena Sheptytska, an urbanist, designer and artist from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>We will talk about the role of culture in the time of war, the power of art to deliver the narratives and educate people, as well as bring comfort and peace in the times of the worst human calamities, such as the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The panel-discussion is moderated by Olga J\u00f3hannesson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nordic solidarity and the role of culture in a time of war The Nordic house, The Nordic Association in Iceland and the Nordic Council of Ministers invite you to join Nordic Day in the Nordic house in Reykjav\u00edk on March 23 at 16.00\u201318.15. The day commemorates the Helsinki Agreement, which was signed on March 23, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":55430,"template":"","event-categories":[7,99],"class_list":["post-55434","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-lecture","event-categories-the-nordic-region-in-focus","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/55434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=55434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}