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Menntaskóli Borgarfjarðar Becomes First Upper Secondary School To Implement STEAM Courses
Menntaskóli Borgarfjarðar recently received a grant from the Development Fund for Study Materials to offer a special “STEAM” course, making it the first upper secondary school in the country to do so. [su_pullquote]We are having a summer sale on all our Icelandic…
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Dancing In Darkness: The Icelandic Dance Company Welcomes Winter
Premiering in November at the arts festival Everybody’s Spectacular, The Best of Darkness by Erna Ómarsdóttir and Valdimar Jóhannsson is the final piece in a series of four works exploring the human body’s vulnerability in the absence of light. The pieces were…
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Facebook Deletes Icelandic Artist’s Video Featuring Free Nipples
Following their company policy against female nipples, Facebook recently deleted a video posted online in occasion of a Reykjavik Arts Festival exhibit showing topless young women, RÚV reports. The video belongs to Icelandic artist and student Borghildur Indriðadóttir, whose exhibit DEMONCRAZY shows topless…
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Arts Festival ’16: Grapevine’s Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide
The Reykjavík Arts Festival is a breath of fresh summer air to the city’s cultural scene, bringing together a rich mix of local and imported art, dance and theatre each May. The programme positively bulges with openings, performances and events, and it…
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Opening Today: The Vaka Folk Festival
What would you do if I told you that you could dance, sing, create, and learn about traditional arts from around the world, all in beautiful Northern Iceland? You wouldn’t believe me, right? Well, time to pinch yourself. The Vaka Folk Festival…
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Why Don’t You Kids Just Keep Debating That Airport?
Last week gave a lesson on the utility of noise as an antidote to critical thought and solidarity. 1. The airport: still no noise restrictions Last Thursday, the Progressive party’s members of Alþingi, all but the party’s ministers, officially proposed that organizational…
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Nobody Likes A Balanced Budget
In the coalition’s first few days of government, Minister of Finance Bjarni Benediktsson and Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson proclaimed that the deficit that they’ve inherited—25 billion ISK—is much greater than they had been led to believe it was before the elections.…
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Art In Translation
From May 27 to 29th, around sixty people from twenty-one countries (eruptions permitting) will gather at the Nordic House and the University of Iceland to talk about art, language, globalisation, and…Jerry Seinfeld. What should he sound like dubbed in Norwegian? That’s what…
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The Barbaric Arts
The philosopher Theodor Adorno famously stated in 1949 that writing a poem after Auschwitz was barbaric. He proceeded: “And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today”. With some simplification poetry may be understood as…