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Exploring Site Specific ArtThe Sequences Festival is an annual independent arts festival established in Reykjavík in 2006. Founded by four…

Filmmakers experiment with timeSylvain Lavigne from Montreal, along with his two collaborators, Ianic Mathieu and Janick Lavoie, has launched an…

Ragnhildur Magnúsdóttir, is the director of From Oakland to Iceland: A Hip-Hop Homecoming, showing at this year’s Iceland Airwaves festival….

Rub23, the brainchild of Einar Geirsson, is an Umi restaurant situated in the heart of Akureyri. Einar came up with…

The Strandir area in the West Fjords has always been notorious for witchcraft. The Strandagaldur Museum of Sorcery and Witchcraft…

Designers make their mark on foodSecond year product design students from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts have joined hands…

Xenophobia is the irrational fear of foreigners or foreign places, and the Xenophobes guides are self described as an ‘irreverent…

From the picture to the page, this is a more traditional sort of guide. Travel writing is the preferred method…

The title is long, confusing, and the author sounds like a bad ‘new wave’ singer from the 1980’s, but this…

The Penis MuseumI asked ‘Information’ in Húsavik very politely how to find the Phallological museum. The girl replied very audibly….

How is this event different to how it was ten years ago? I don’t think I would have expected to…

Gay Pride in ReykjavíkThe gay rights campaign in Iceland has been running since 1978. From an invisible group and an…

Grapevine explores the Icelandic Drag SceneThe theme for this year’s Icelandic Drag Competition was “Opera Horror” and the Drag Queens…

Elves are hard to find, but a few years ago elves found Hallgerður Hallgrímsdóttir. These encounters led to some of…

Peering out the window on route to the Snorrastaðir farm, I quip that English horses must be photo shopped, as…

Taylor made for your funTaylors Funfairs are run by the sixth generation of British Fairground folk. Now in their 18th…