Author: Stevie Ward
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Sequences Festival 2008
by Stevie Ward
Exploring Site Specific ArtThe Sequences Festival is an annual independent arts festival established in Reykjavík in 2006. Founded by four…
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The Cinematic Laboratory
by Stevie Ward
Filmmakers experiment with timeSylvain Lavigne from Montreal, along with his two collaborators, Ianic Mathieu and Janick Lavoie, has launched an…
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From Oakland to Iceland
by Stevie Ward
Ragnhildur Magnúsdóttir, is the director of From Oakland to Iceland: A Hip-Hop Homecoming, showing at this year’s Iceland Airwaves festival….
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Rub23
by Stevie Ward
Rub23, the brainchild of Einar Geirsson, is an Umi restaurant situated in the heart of Akureyri. Einar came up with…
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Witch Museum: This Place Will Certainly Cast A Spell On You
by Stevie Ward
The Strandir area in the West Fjords has always been notorious for witchcraft. The Strandagaldur Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft…
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The Birth of the New Icelandic Product
by Stevie Ward
Designers make their mark on foodSecond year product design students from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts have joined hands…
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The Xenophobes Guide To The Icelanders
by Stevie Ward
Xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreigners or foreign places, and the Xenophobes guides are self described as an ‘irreverent…
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Waking Up In Iceland
by Stevie Ward
From the picture to the page, this is a more traditional sort of guide. Travel writing is the preferred method…
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Reykjavik 64…
by Stevie Ward
The title is long, confusing, and the author sounds like a bad ‘new wave’ singer from the 1980’s, but this…
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The Northland Part 2
by Stevie Ward
The Penis MuseumI asked ‘Information’ in Húsavik very politely how to find the Phallological museum. The girl replied very audibly….
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Ten Years of Iceland Airwaves
by Stevie Ward
How is this event different to how it was ten years ago? I don’t think I would have expected to…
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Pride and Prejudice
by Stevie Ward
Gay Pride in ReykjavíkThe gay rights campaign in Iceland has been running since 1978. From an invisible group and an…
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Fabulously Dragged to Rehab
by Stevie Ward
Grapevine explores the Icelandic Drag SceneThe theme for this year’s Icelandic Drag Competition was “Opera Horror” and the Drag Queens…
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Please Yourself with an Elf
by Stevie Ward
Elves are hard to find, but a few years ago elves found Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir. These encounters led to some of…
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Icelandic Ponies
by Stevie Ward
Peering out the window on route to the Snorrastaðir farm, I quip that English horses must be photo shopped, as…
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Fairground in the Family
by Stevie Ward
Taylor made for your funTaylors Funfairs are run by the sixth generation of British Fairground folk. Now in their 18th…