Hallgrimskirkja on fire, swimming and skiing to music, Peter and the Wolf, a Lego wonderland, Voices Off photo exhibition – it’s all on at the Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival.
The Einar Jónsson Museum’s Sculpture Garden is always a magical place to visit, even covered in snow as it is right now.
The annual Dark Music Days Festival kicks off tonight with an opening ceremony and live broadcast radio concert followed by the Opening Concert at Harpa.
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson represented Iceland at the 54th Venice Biennale. Their exhibition Under Deconstruction is now at the National Gallery of Iceland until February 19.
When Iceland lives up to its icy name, dress up and enjoy! Wintery weather in Reykjavik won’t keep you indoors for long…
At the Icelandic Open-Air Folk Museum in Reykjavik yesterday, children rode a horse and cart, played with old-fashioned toys, made Christmas decorations and danced around the Christmas tree.
There’s a lot on in Reykjavik today, from the arrival of Yuletide Lad Gully Gawk, to a St Lucia procession, to a performance by the renowned Reykjavik Wind Quintet.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the ‘Day of Icelandic Language’ without realising there is also a ‘Day of Icelandic Music’ (dagur íslenskrar tónlistar) – tomorrow, December 1. So if you happen to be in Iceland this week, tune your radio to any station at all at 11.15 am tomorrow, and you will hear [...]
It’s impossible to sum up everything Iceland has to offer in the space of a video, but this video does a pretty good job!
