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Hamraborg Festival: Sprawling And Site-Specific
This festival’s fifth iteration is its biggest thus far For the past five summers, Hamraborg Festival has marked the coming of autumn in its celebration of the sprawling hub of Hamraborg in Kópavogur. Starting August 29, boundary-pushing artists will permeate the arterial…
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Just Outside The City Limits
The Kátt á línunni concert series brings the grassroots music scene to Kópavogur “I moved there two or three years ago. Not Hamraborg, but close by, and I’m really content,” says artist, musician, curator, and Kópavogur resident Pétur Eggertsson as we meet…
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Welcome To Hamraborg: “The Only True City In Iceland”
Since its inception in 2021, Hamraborg Festival has been thriving on the fringes. Literally, of course, with its residence in Kópavogur, not Reykjavík. But, also ideologically. This fourth iteration of the festival, spearheaded and curated by Agnes Ársælsdóttir, Jo Pawlowska and Sveinn…
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A Place To Play And Learn
Chronicles of Earth at Kópavogur’s Natural History Museum is hands-on and exciting Over the past few years, articles in the Grapevine and elsewhere have drawn attention to how criminally-overlooked Hamraborg is. This area of Kópavogur, which boasts the Gerðarsafn art museum, Salurinn…
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Police Search For Two Men Following Cash Truck Heist
Two men absconded with roughly 30 million ISK from a cash transport van parked making the rounds in Kópavogur on Tuesday. The thieves left behind money bags which were found scattered in Mosfellsbær later the same day. While security guards collected money…