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Menningarnótt: Our Final Day Of Summer Mania
Where you might find the Grapevine staff on this upcoming Culture Night I’ve heard many describe Menningarnótt as the final day of summer, and, despite what the calendar says, I’d say that’s a spot-on assessment. But it’s also the epitome of the…
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Culture Night Killer Sentenced To Prison
A teenager, aged seventeen, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for murdering Bryndís Klara Birgisdóttir on Culture Night in 2024. He is also convicted of stabbing two other teenagers. The boy confessed in his hearing, which was published on Reykjavík…
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Menningarnótt Is Getting Messy: Is It Spiralling Out Of Control?
My very first visit to Reykjavík fell on Menningarnótt. I landed here without a clue how to pronounce that word correctly, or what it actually meant. But I was immediately drawn to the city. There was so much happening for its size.…
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17-Year-Old Dies After Knife Attack On Culture Night
A 17-year-old has died following a knife attack that occurred during Reykjavík’s annual Menningarnótt (Culture Night) festivities. The incident took place late on August 24 near Skúlagata, where many events and activities were happening. The victim, Bryndís Klara Birgisdóttir, died on the…
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Culture Night Craziness: How To Spend Your Menningarnótt
Have you been yearning for a day of free waffles, street parties, mylar balloons, candy floss and frightened dogs in crowds all over town? You’re in luck pal, because Saturday August 24th is once again time for Menningarnótt (“Culture Night”), Reykjavík’s de…
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Grapevine Events: Culture Night, Swim-in Cinema & So Much More
Can you believe what date it is? How are we already more than halfway through 2023? It seems like yesterday that August still felt like a holiday, the lazy hazy days just lolling away with not a care in the world. But…
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The Icelandic Roundup: The Volcano Is Dead!
She dead! On this week’s episode of the podcast, culture editor Josie Anne and writer Emma Ledbetter discuss the sad demise of the short-lived Meradalir volcano, as well as Culture Night and how to drive in Iceland! Before travelling in Iceland please…
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Culture Night Canceled Due To COVID-19
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and rising cases in Iceland, Culture Night in Reykjavík has been canceled this year. In a meeting of the city’s emergency board this morning, first reported on by Fréttablaðið, the unanimous decision was deemed the most…
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Culture Night Will Be A 10-Day Long Festival
The celebration of Culture Night will be spread out over ten days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, RÚV reports. It will be held from the 13th to the 23rd of August. The City of Reykjavik stated in an announcement that the change…
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News In Brief: End Of August 2015
The end of the summer is upon us, and concluded as per tradition with the festivities at Culture Night, which had a reported 120,000 attendees. That’s almost half the country, so we imagine that any part of Iceland that wasn’t Reykjavík was…
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Sooooooo Yeah. We Should Talk, Culture Night?
My dearest Reykjavíkians, This past weekend was, as many of you don’t remember all too well, the annual celebration of Culture Night. I’d asked around for a few days before the festivities, inquiring as to what Culture Night was all about. No…
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Menningarnótt: Reykjavík’s Playground For The People
You know that dream where you can run a marathon, then eat dozens of free donuts, then go watch a rock concert with a bunch of bikers, followed by a performance of traditional Icelandic 50s music in a barber shop, all capped…
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Weather-Changing Machine Used During Culture Night
The cloud seeding machine that was used earlier this summer was also used during last weekend’s Culture Night celebrations. Nútíminn reports that a cloud seeding machine was brought to Iceland from Britain for the express purpose of keeping last Saturday’s Culture Night…
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Culture Night: No Cars, Free Late-Running Buses
A large swath of downtown Reykjavík will closed to car traffic during this weekend’s Culture Night, but buses will drive later, and for free. As with every year, summer in Reykjavík comes to a semi-official close with Culture Night, a day of…
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1000 Parking Fines On Culture Night
Over 1000 parking tickets were issued on Reykjavík’s annual Culture Night (Menningarnótt) Saturday, reports DV. Culture Night- which saw roughly 100,000 people flock to the city centre to enjoy music, dance and art events – turned out to be a busy night for…
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Editorial: ROCK AND ROLL
One fine mornin’, she puts on a New York station And she couldn’t believe what she heard at all She started dancin’ to that fine, fine music Her life was saved by rock ’n’ roll” Lou Reed: Rock and Roll I´m not…