NEXUS, a research consortium on security and defence issues, is inviting to a seminar on the formation of an Icelandic national security strategy. Monday 23.January at 9:00 pm.
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The legendary west-Nordic jazz-band, Arctic Yggdrasil, will give a concert in the Nordic House January 21st at 20.00. The band celebrates west-Nordic cooperation and will perform with Greenlandic drummer, Miké thomsen. Ticket price: 1000 ISK.
In 2011 the Nordic Culture Fund has granted DKK 23,4 million to 232 intercultural projects working across the Nordic regional borders.
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The Reykjavik Queer Choir first official concert in the Nordic House, Saturday January 7th at 4 pm.
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Icelanders will soon have an excellent opportunity to get a better understanding of Grindadráp, or Pilot Whale Killing, the ancient tradition still very much alive in the Faroes.
From January 14th to February 12th , the Nordic House in Reykjavík is hosting an exhibition with photographs taken during a pilot whale killing which took place on the beach of Tórshavn 23 July 2010.
The library and the exhibition area are open on Dec 27th – 30th from 12-5 pm. Nordic House´s shop and offices open again on January 2nd 2012. The restaurant Dill has normal opening hours over the holidays.
Welcome for a visit during your Christmas vacation!
The Nordic House.
Open lecture with Dr. Riyad al-Maliki, Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, hosted by the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Iceland and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thursday December 15th in the Nordic House.
The Oxbridge society in Iceland in collaboration with the Nordic house is screening the film “Visit to Iceland summer 1935”. The film shows the trip of an Austrian group to Iceland via Copenhagen,
organized by Akademische Reisendienst Österreichs.
Before the movie there will be musical entertainment and it will be possible to by refreshments in Dill restaurant.
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On Saturday, 10 December, the Nordic House will invite to a direct transmission from the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony for literature. The Nobel laureate this year is the Swedish writer Tomas Tranströmer. Mr. Tranströmer was born 15 April 1931 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Event starts at 3.30 PM
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The Greenlandic percussion band Papii will be holding a concert at the Nordic House on Saturday, 10th of December. The band, using a variety of world instruments to mix traditional Greenlandic folk music with modern beats, is a side project of the popular Greenlandic rock band Liima Inui. The concert starts at 19:00 o'clock (7 pm), admission is free.
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The aim of the Nordic participation at COP17 is to contribute with concrete solutions to climate challenges and examples of ways to tackle the climate crisis that may serve as an inspiration for others. You will find more information on the activities of the Nordic Council of Ministers at COP17 on this site along with a range of resources resulting from Nordic cooperation on climate and environment issues.
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A Norwegian Dance Show – December 18 at 20:00 o´clock. In their show Gisela and Orlando's fantastic account of The Beautiful Helena Sissel M. Bjørkli and Erlend Samnøen address the concept of beauty.
The Reykjavik School of Visual Arts arranges exhibitions from the school's Forming, clay and creative composites division under the title „Í upphafi skal endinn skoða” (Know where you're going before starting off). The exhibition opens on December 2 at 17:00 – 19:00 o'clock.
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The Nordic house Christmas calendar is an art event that takes place from 1.- 23. of December. Every day a new artist performs; the event can be music, dance, lecture performance or what ever the artist/speakers comes up with. Before each calendar event we will invite guests to taste Jólaglögg , nordic christmas drink.
“Strangir fletir” is a group exhibition with two participants, Sigurður Þórir and Sigurður Örlygsson. The exhibition opens at the Nordic House on the 26th of November and runs until 9th of January.
The exhibition is open from 12 pm to 5 pm every day except for Mondays.
On the 16.th of nóvember the Icelandic-Scandinavian ISLEX online dictionary will beopened at
the Nordic House. Formal opening will be held at 4-4.30pm, after which light refreshments will be
served. ISLEX will also be holding a conference earlier on the same day starting at 1 pm at the
same place. More information about the conference can be found here
Who will win the Nordic Council Environment Prize?
The theme for the Environment Prize 2012 is biological diversity.
The winner will be rewarded with DKK 350,000.
Anyone can nominate candidates for the prize.
See www.norden.org/miljøprisen
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The Nordic House will be hosting a stand-up night with Zinat Pirzadeh, Ruben Søloft and Anna Svava Knútsdóttir on Friday November 11th at 8 p.m. The programme will be in English. Admission is free.
The Múlinn Jazzclub is announcing their autumn schedule with eight concerts, starting tonight at 9 pm with the jazz-rock band Eyland performing at the Nordic House. All concerts are held at the Nordic House, always at 9 pm, and have an entrance fee of 1.500 ISK. Tickets will be sold at the door.
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hosts a conference about religious tolerance. The conference will take place at the Nordic House on Friday 7th of October at 5 pm. Please click the title above to see the full program. R.S.V.P: Ahmadiyyaiceland@hotmail.com / tel. 551 9423.
The Reykjavik International Literary Festival is one of the major literary events in Iceland and is held bi-annually. The next festival takes place 7-11 September 2011 in the Nordic House and a local theater, Iðnó.
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The Nordic house invites You to a series of lectures about architecture
All lectures are held in the Nordic House on Thursdays at 20:00. The first lecture in the series starts at 1.september and is about the new swimming pool in Hofsós. Thursday 6.october Henning Larsen Architects will be lecturing on sustainable architecture, and on the 17.th of november we end the row of autumn lectures by presenting you the new concert- and conferencehouse „Harpa“.
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Concert with pieces for piano and electronics with Eva Sidén concertpianist, composer and electronics & Jens Hedman composer, electronics. In their piece Lost in a Legend for piano and electronics, Eva Sidén and Jens Hedman started to work with the grand piano in an orchestral way. They record different sounds from the piano which then has been cultivated trough electronics. In the virtuos pianoscore you can hear a lot of playing technics together with strings and resonances. You can also hear concrete sounds from paper together with the poetic grandpiano-sounds.
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