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Icelandic Comedian Appears On Australian TV To Teach Hosts Some Icelandic
When Icelanders head abroad for either work or pleasure, they often find themselves at the mercy of foreign curiosity when it comes to their country and language. Asked to entertain with funny words and repeated rolls of Rs (try to roll that…
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The Sunday Edit: 4 Things To Do In Reykjavík Next Week
If you don’t have any idea what to do during the week without sacrificing too much energy, as always we’ve got your back. From art to music to yoga, here’s a couple of chill things you can do between Monday 26th and Thursday…
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Sónar Reykjavík: The Electronic Extravaganza Begins Tomorrow
The time has finally come! Sónar Reykjavik will be held in Harpa this weekend, and we can’t contain our excitement. After all, as one of our reporters wrote some weeks ago, “to Icelandic electronic music aficionados, the annual Sónar Reykjavík festival is…
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The Sunday Edit: 3 Things To Do In Reykjavík Next Week
If you don’t have any idea what to do during the week without sacrificing too much energy, as always we’ve got your back. From art to music, here’s a couple of chill things you can do between Monday 26th and Thursday 1st…
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The Weekend Edit: 4 Things To Do In Reykjavík This Weekend
If you are tired of waking up early and toddle off to work without a proper breakfast after having hit the snooze button one too many times, don’t despair: the weekend has just begun! Make sure you don’t let it go to…
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Sigur rós Involved In A Lawsuit Over Millions Of ISK Missing From Concert Revenue
The 35 million ISK that went missing from the tickets sale of Sigur rós’ Norður og Niður festival were never paid back, prompting a lawsuit that dragged all parties involved to Reykjavík District Court, Fréttablaðið reports. Breach of contract According to Harpa…
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Scotch On Ice Festival: Fighting Winter Blues One Laugh At A Time
Reykjavík is experiencing one of those rare moments of calm between storms when I meet Icelandic comedian Bylgja Babýlons in a downtown café for a quick chat. As I arrive—five minutes late, as it’s customary in Iceland—she is looking pensively outside the…
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Our Monthly Picks – Festival February
With infinite days of miserable weather ahead and not a whiff of spring flowers to be smelt for the next three months at least (because we’re feeling optimistic), this February seems particularly grim. Yet, any occasion is good enough for Icelanders to…
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Everybody’s Spectacular Festival: Breathing Life Into Performance
“The name has a double meaning. It’s both a reference to the body and to the fact that everybody is spectacular,” says Ásgerdur G. Gunnarsdottir, one of the four artistic directors and the general manager behind the Everybody’s Spectacular festival. “We felt…
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Epic, Glorious, Stupid: Dance For Me In Your Living Room
Since forming in 2013, local Reykjavík performance group Dance For Me, created by British-born Brogan Davison and Icelandic-born Pétur Ármannsson, has been performing across the world, playing shows in Germany, Finland, Italy and Canada, amongst others. But this November they’re staying much…
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Strange Times Ahead: Exploring Time Beyond The Clocks At Sequences Art Festival 2017
Set your alarm for Reykjavík’s own independent biannual arts festival Sequences, which opens for the eighth time on Friday October 6. Launched in 2006 as an offshoot of the city’s vibrant arts scene, this ten-day event will present progressive visual art forms…
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CYCLE Festival: Understanding Icelandic Sovereignty
Iceland’s political history is one that is unique and thought provoking. Coming up on 100 years of independence, Iceland’s vivid culture and past will be showcased in Cycle – Sovereign | Colony (CSC), a lively art project consisting of works by various…
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Creating A Universe: The Electrifying World Of Extreme Chill
“Electronic music is in my DNA”, co-founder of Extreme Chill Festival, Pan Thorarensen, says when asked about the annual electronic music event, which will be celebrating its 8th anniversary for the first time in Reykjavík between July 6 – July 9. After…
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Music News: Night + Day Festival, Iceland Airwaves & Solstafir
The big music news this week was the cancellation of the inaugural Night + Day festival, which was to be curated by The xx and held in the area around the Skógafoss waterfall on the South Coast. The festival raised eyebrows in…
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Beer Ahoy! Colossal 78-Tap Keg Shipping Up To Bjórfestival
First the Americans brought us Costco, now the Maine Brewers’ Guild is sailing in a 40-foot beer container to Iceland. If it was a Friday night at three in the morning, we would probably be hanging over a bar declaring our love for America in…
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Iceland Airwaves Announces Michael Kiwanuka And Sigrid Among 34 New Acts
Fasten your seat belts people, because the Iceland Airwaves festival just added 34 new acts to their already high flying line-up. Soul musician Michael Kiwanuka (UK), Malian desert punks Songhoy Blues (ML), rapper Alvia Islandia (IS), Norwegian rising star Sigrid (IS) and…
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Secret Solstice Trolls Brexit Britain
Cryptic posters have appeared in London, urging Brits to jump ship and flock to “IcelandLovesUK.com”. The posters give nothing away, reading simply “A special price for EU my friend”. Is it a case for Sherlock Holmes? Or perhaps Miss Marple? Maybe, but until…
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The Sun Rises On Ísafjörður: Aldrei fór ég suður festival is back and better than ever
Aldrei fór ég suður (“I never went south,” in English) is an annual music festival in Ísafjörður that’s gone from strength to strength since it began in 2004. In the wilderness of the Westfjords, this remote town of a little under 3,000…
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Photos: List í Ljósi Festival Lights Up Seyðisfjörður
Seyðisfjörður, a small town on the east coast of Iceland, recently celebrated the arrival of the sun after months of long, dark nights. The List í Ljósi Festival, which translates to ‘art by light’ is exactly that. The town is illuminated with…
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Happening Tonight: Cycle Music and Art Festival Begins!
The fluorescent aisles of Bónus aren’t often sought as a sanctuary for creative output that say, a mountaintop at midnight, would provide. But Carolyn Chen—a composer from California—finds the former a sufficient substitute for the latter. On October 28 Chen performs an…
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RIFF Guide: What To See If You’re Into…
The RIFF audience has a lot of decisions to make with a program than spans eleven days and screens over 140 movies. Our trusted cinephile Mark Asch compiled a list of recommendations to guide you on your way. Here is what to see…
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Twenty Years Of Reykholtshátið: A Weekend Of Chamber Music In Borgarfjörður
Reykholt, population sixty, is a tiny village tucked away deep in a valley in Borgarfjörður. It has a long history, and was once a cultural centre of Iceland, but today it’s a very sleepy place, with a few buildings scattered around its…
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What It Takes: Hrönn Marinósdóttir, Founder and Director of RIFF
Twelve years ago, Hrönn Marinósdóttir started RIFF as a school project. For her master’s thesis at Reykjavík University she decided to research what it would take for Reykjavík to host a major international film festival. Three weeks after her graduation, work began…