British rock legends Jethro Tull will play in concert in the University of Iceland Cinema (Háskólabíó) in Reykjavík on September 11 this year. It is the only small-scale concert the band has announced this year.
The book Icelandic Art Today was released by the Hatje Cantz publishing house in Germany this week. It is a collaboration between the Center for Icelandic Art (CIA) and the National Gallery of Iceland.
The international concert series “Sumartónar í Ellidaárdal” (“Summer Tones in Ellidaárdalur”) will take place for the first time in the Reykjavík Fella- og Hólakirkja church on Thursday evenings at 8 pm in July this summer.
A documentary film crew from the BBC attended two weddings, two naming ceremonies and one coming-of-age ceremony undertaken by Ásatrúarfélagid, the pagan society in Iceland, which honors the Norse gods, at Thingvellir national park on Thursday.
The symposium “Watercolors in Hundred Years” will take place at Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús today. Lectures will be held in Icelandic by art historians Hrafnhildur Schram and Adalsteinn Ingólfsson and artist J.B.K. Ransu.
Meteorologists expect temperatures to exceed 20°C (68°F) in Iceland this weekend for the first time in 2009. The predicted “heat wave” will ensure that the temperature in June will be recorded as above average.
Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Össur Skarphédinsson attended a meeting with his counterparts in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in Hamar, Norway, this week, among other items discussing Iceland’s potential application to the European Union.
Frida Fallan, an expert in the Swedish Central Bank, states in a draft of a letter sent to Lars Nyberg, the bank’s assistant governor, in early December 2008 that the UK, the Netherlands and the European Union should share the Icesave debt load with Iceland.
The 2009 International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress is currently taking place at Hotel Hilton Nordica in Reykjavík. Leaders of international institutions from related fields will speak during the congress, which began on Wednesday.
The Icelandic Confederation of Labor (ASÍ), the Confederation of Icelandic Employers (SA), the government and local authorities signed a stability pact for Iceland after intensive negotiations yesterday.
